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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06
Che Pouseholo.
HINTS.

There is always ONE danger from the
common use of kerosene for lights anG
occasional accidents occur. If a lamp is
dropped or exploded, one of the quickest
remedies is to cover the spreading flame
with a wooden blanket, avoiding cotton.
which would only increase the fire. But
in the confusion of the accident, many
persons in their fright would not think
of the wooden cover unless the matter
were previously impressed on their
minds. Every person, therefore, who
lights a lamp CT has another do it should
look about the room and impress the
mind with what blanket, rug. shawl or
spread, made of wool, could be quickly
caught up and used to stife and extin-
guish the flame. Half the danger of any
accident is cured. when one knows at
once what to do.
If a dwelling ever catches fire. the first
thing, well impressed on the mind pre-
yiously, is to shut every door in passing
through. Leaving doors open allows the
flame quickly to get possession. a neigh
bors' large two-story house was found to
be on fire at midnight. The family. ter
rlfled. ran wildly from room to room.
leaving every door wide open. and in ten
II the whole building was a mass
of flame. and nothing was saved. Had
the doors been kept shut, much of the
furniture might have been secured.
Where wood is burned in stoves and
fireplaces, the combustible SCOT gradually
accumulates in the chimneys. and when
in large mass it is liable to take fire. the
names sweeping out at the top and drop
ping burning SCOT on the single roof.
Many houses are set on fire i'm this wav.
the cause remaining a mystery to the oc-
cupants. The remedy is to examine ey-
cry chimney where wood is burned. once
every month or two, and clean out the
SCOT, or burn it out when the roof is wet
with rain or covered with snow.
The cellars should be kept continuous
ly clean, pure and with healthy air.
and not be allowed to become dirty.
be cleaned at stated times. The
housekeeper should therefore watch
daily to prevent any foreign or impure
from getting possession, the daily
of which would be small. but a
months accumulation would be large.
Oiling latches and hinges about the
house regularly once a week will allow
to shut smoothly and without
creaking, a single drop of kerosene pre-
venting the banging and harsh grating.
disagreeable to all, and detrimental to
the sick.
The following is the regular routine of
work which a skillful housewife
adopted and carried out for FORTY
eight years: Monday, washing; Tues
day, ironing and baking; Wednesday,
and mending; Thursday, extras:
large baking; Saturday, clean
ing and preparing Sunday dinner. A
adherence to this routine becomes
IN easy habit, and saves much thought
labor in making ends meet when de-
from.-1Country Gentleman.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06
A Slight Difference in Accent,

A suburban lady who is very devout,
and whose one weakness is a love for
PROSECUTING, thought that possibly by a
little judicious planting and watering she
might bring into the fold a sheep from
another flock. Returning one day from
witnessing the impressive ceremony of
the departure of a number of missionaries
for a foreign field, she called her faithful
Bridget and poured into her sympathetic
ear the touching tale of the missionaries
and their heaven appointed task. AS she
spoke of the sad separation from families,
some of whom Bridget might have some
knowledge of, she used the word mis-
sionary" emphatically and frequently.
Bridget responded with deep signs and
the swaying of her body to and fro. She
was on her knees beside her mistress and
taking in earnestly every word.
The story had gone on to the end, when
Bridget rose and wiped her eyes. Look
ing innocently at Mrs. x, she asked,
p~laintively:
''An' is it Mr.. Pettesises' machinery
We mean, mum?"-Boston Transcript
Listener"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06
Wound Up the Wood Business,

When l began steamboating. along
back in 1S45, the wood boat business was
a big feature OF river traffic. AT that
time there were no less than seventy-five
boats running that carried nothing but
cordwood, and their owners, with few
exceptions, became opulent. All of the
cordwood then came from along the
banks of the Illinois, upper and lower
Mississippi river, and it required a small
army of men to handle the business.
For many years the receipts did not fall
below 10000 to TO- 900 cords annually.
When coal came into general use it cur
tailed the traffic, and the fact that the
river country was denuded of wood far
back from the river wound up the wood
business, so that now there are not more
than three or four boats engaged in the
traffic Globe Democrat Interview.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06
Inherited from Ancestors.

1t is very unlikely that the constitution
and tendencies inherited from the ances-
try have much to do with long life, of
course leaving all accidents, epidemic dis
eases, ETC., out of account. Hereditary
tendencies include more than mere bodily
form and %toughness of fiber. There are
mental and emotional tendencies which
are equally important in determining the
length OF life to be attained by the pos
SCISSOR. Control over the passions and
the ability to foresee and guard against
consequences are not less important than
the possession of good digestion and q
nervous system perfect in all its parts
Globe Democrat.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06
The Mountains of Jamaica.

No scenery is grand on an empty
stomach. l remember a distinguished
editor in New York asking me one time
what was the best hotel to go to in the
Catskills. recommended the old Noun
tain house because it commanded the
best scenery. Bother the scenery
said he; Il can't live on scenery. Where
Can | get the best dinner" | thought of
that when we were up in the Jamaica
mountains filled up full of emptiness.
The scenery was grand almost beyond
description. but we three New Workers
would gladly have exchanged it all for a
sight of that half way house where we
were to breakfast. William Drysdale in
New York Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06
the Landlord in Cuba,

The proprietario is as hard upon his
Cuban brother as Spain is upon the island.
This landlord lives his little spendthrift
life in the gay capital, only t O become
overwhelmed with debt and in time be
supplanted by other land proprietors.
who, in their turn, dissipate, grind the
tenantry and make way again for others.
Thus the landed aristocracy of Cuba is
constantly passing from opulence to beg
gary. A common expression here illus
trates the quick shifting of fortunes in
commerce as well as in lands: Padre
bodeguero, hijo caballero, nieto pordio
sero!' (''The father a grocer, the son a
gentleman, the grandson a beggar!')-
Edgar l.. Wakeman's Letter.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06

The system of carrying burdens on
snip wagons is receiving attention, and,
1t Is argued, if a vessel can safely carry
a heavy freight over stormy seas, where
half her hull is sometimes out of water.
pounded by the waves that break upon
her decks or drive upon her abeam, toss
ing her in their fury from crest to crest,
and dropping her suddenly into great
''troughs of the sea-" it is idle to suppose
that she cannot safely carry her burden
when lifted gently into a ''cradle," and
borne smoothly and steadily along over
solid rails of steel. 1t is customary to
speak of the sea as a ships native ele-
merit" but no ship was even yet built in
the water.
Ship railways, however, have now
passed beyond the stage of mere scientific
speculation. The air is full of ship rail
way projects for all parts of the globe.
The ship railway over the Chignecto
isthmus is already under contract. A
ship railway has also been SURVEYED
across the Florida peninsula to save the
600 miles of distance around and through
the straits. This, we are assured, is a
most practicable route, and the railway
can be built for one-half the estimated
cost of a ship canal. But the
great work in all this programme,
both as to the magnitude of
its construction and its results, is the
~Tehuantepec ship railway of Capt. Eads,
now in the hands of Capt. E. L. Corthell
as chief engineer. This is a scheme
which is regarded by competent judges
as sound and well planned, though it is
one OF remarkable originality and bold
ness.-London Iron and Steel Trades
Journal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06
v TO

Are you disturbed at night and broken OF
your rest by Il sick child suffering and crying
with pain OF cutting teeth? If so, send at
once and get a bottle of MRS. WINsLOw's
SOOTHING SYRUP FOR CHILDREN T%EETHING.
poor little sufferer Immediately. Depend up
on IL, mothers, there is no mistake about II.
II cures dysentery and diarrhBa, regulates
the stomach and bowels, cures wind collie,
softens the gums, reduces Inflammation, and
gives tone and energy to the whole system.
MRS. WISsLOW's SOOTHING SYRUP FOR CHILL
DREN TEErHING is pleasant to the taste, and
Is the prescription of one OF the oldest and
best female nurses and physicians in the Uni
ted States, aud is tor sale by all druggists
throughout the world. Price 10 cents n bot.
10. 4l-1y
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06
NOTICE.

To all dairymen within IL miles of our
creamery at West Salisbury, we would re.
specially announce that we will, another
season. buy cream raised by the improved
Cooley process, gathering the same at our ex
pehse ana II ourselves, where we
sure permanency, nj the highest market
price paid In Middlebury Tor the best dairy
putter, saving the dairymen the cost OF pack
ages and labor OF making and marketing: the
price 10 be liked once "A month according to
our previous custom, ana pay Tor the same
monthly.
SOFT G IoNES
West salisbury, VT, Dec. II, 1857.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06
FARM FOR SAIL OR RENT.

situated one and n half miles south of New
Haven Center, and one-half mile from Beaver
Glen cheese factory, known as the Holt place,
lately owned and occupied by Elijah l..
EASTMAN, deceased said TO contain two
hundred and sixty acres OF land, with twenty
COWS, two horses, dairy and farming nipple
ments. win be sold ON easy terms. For mr-
Their particulars inquire on premises.
Mr.. l.. l.. CUsHMAN, New Haven, Vt.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06

ME best proof that the Ivory" Soap has xtraordinap ,,
4 merits, and is in good repute with the public is. that it
is SO extensively initiated and cOunterfeited.
These counterfeits resemble the Ivory Soap in apnear-
ance and style OF packing only. They lack the Duritu and
general eTceUence of the genuine.
notice is necessary, as cil1y, injurious and dangeyous
hmhtauOns, H"0te to produce chronic Inflammation of the skin.
are often substituted for the Ivory, because thew nav a
larger profit.
liz price OF n ivory is q S low as is consistent with cost
OF making such a high grade OF pure Soap.
consumers have simply to insist upon HAVING the &c vorv
soap, remembering that if any substitute is offered it is
for the advantage Of the seller.
A WORD OF WARNING
here are many white soaps, each represented to be lust as good as the 'Iyov,.u
my Akt NOI, but like all counterfets lack The peculiar and remarkable Qualities
OF the genuine. Ask for "Ivoy" Soap and insist upon getting it.
Copyright I@,b Proctor & Gamble
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06

A Georgia farmer made 81, 200 off an
acre planted in warermelons. and a
neighboring doctor made 5000 off the
same acre.-[Medical Reporter.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-04-06

A novelty for fashionable luncheons
good appetite .-[Boston Bulletin.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-16

NOTED through It's agency. They sclemnly
announce that Mr.. Clcvelands continuous vio-
lation of his pledges does not deprive him Of
their confidence and support. But that sets
the pretended Civil Service Reformcrs who
support Dir. Cleveland where they really be-
long, In tho free-trade camp; in the attitude
Of men who use Civil Service reform as pre-
tence for their hostility to party which ad-
yocates protection Of home industry.
Finally, the Mugwumps and free-trade indie
pcndents manifest disposition to dance on MIR.
Dlaine's political grave. as they think, and to
boast that their individual hostility has killed
him, and will ill any other candidate who does
not please them. This is not unlikely to in
cline Republicans to inquire whether genuine
Republican can possibly support any candidate
whom they would not assail as Indignantly as
they have assailed Mr.. Blaine. The only Re-
publicans who arc fit for the nomination arc
men who do not believe in sham Civil Service
reform, who do not excuse or defend political
assassination or votc-stcaling and who do adj
vocate with whole hearted carncstncss the pro-
lection of home industry.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-16
INCIDENTS Of TIE STAGE.

Helen Barry IS playing the Esmonds Of Virginia.
which IS a revised version Of the Fatal Letter." In
which she appeared here, at special matnees at tho
Vaudeville Theatre, London. According TO " Tho
Era she has been so successful that extra rows
Of stalls have beon added.
J. NJ. Hin Will give another invitation matinee on
next Tuesday afternoon tho Union square Theatre,
when mscell sneous programme will DO offered.
Heart of Hearts, had Tuesday night the best
house II has far drawn. Ii Is doing so well that
Manager Palmer Is In hurry to decide his next
play.
Frau Raabe appeared last night Dora On
Friday night she will mako her appearance, when
she will 10 tho only time In Die Hagestogen'
Manager Conred will play DR. Klaus" at both matinee
and evening performance on Saturday.
~ c. Goodwin IS attracting largo audiences to
tho Fourteenth Street Theatre, whore he presents hls
double bill, turned Up and Lend Me Five
shillings."
heroine Is being played with great this week
the Grand Opera House. where 1t last season proved
Its attractive powers.
repertoire OF the following favorc operas Monday
and Saturday evenings. Z" Fra Diavoo,h Tuesday and
" Daughter of the Regiment" Wednesday evening, the
only time. EllXIF OF Love" Thursday evening and
Saturday matinee, "Nict0r, the Blue Stocking MI:
Gilmore has booked one week attractions mp to April
g when Bolossy Kralfy will Introduce for the first
Dolores
Mr.. Aronson proposes to tender benefit to tho
The preparations for " Ermnie's" gala night al tho
house February 23 stiil being actively pushed
Tho sale Of seats began yesterday one hour a'er
tho opening not an orchestra chair balcony seat ot
box was left A special matinee OF the popuiAr
operetta Is to be given on wsshing.on's birthday
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-16
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 16. 1873.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

Foreign Russia continues to push her troops
20 the frontier: over half a million men are now
stationed on the Austrian and Rumanian wron-
tiers. - NJ Flourens, Foreign Minister, thinks
1t high time France should fall into line and in
crease her army and naval organization. -
Commoner pyne has been sentenced TO three
months Imprisonment. - Consul Lewis, at
Tangicr, has asked the Government TO send him
man war TO support his demand for the release
of a Moor - The condition of the German
Crown Prince continues 10 improve - MIR.
William O'Brien and MIR. John Dillon reappeared
In the House of Commons yesterday; MIR. Ellis
and Mr. Herbert Gladstone assailed the Govern
ment on its Irish policy.
Congress 10Th branches in session. - Sem
ate: The b air E iucauonal bill was passed by
vote of 80 TO 20. - House: brisk debate
took place over the Urgent Deficiency bill between
Messrs. Randall and Rogers.
DomeStic-A Fishery Convention was signed
by SIX commissioners in Wa ihIngton it does not
affect the questions of tariff of the Rehnng Sea
fisheries. - Mr.. COrbIn testified be ore the
Reading Congressional Committee concerning the
strike. - The Senate in albany voted to
amend the Half-HolIday law limiting its
operation t. three mouths. - The High
License and Health Office bills were favorably
acted on by the Assembly committees. The Collins
with 10, of $25O,O00. - The Convention OF
Republican Clubs in West Virginia favored pro-
lection and the passage of the Blair bill - Tho
Local Option bill in New-Jersev was postponed.
City and Suburban.-A shop keeper and his
wife shot by customer; the woman Will doubt
less die. Judge Lacombe criticised the
Government for its refusal to allo an official
stenognpher in murder trials - futile at
tempt to reorganize the association of fire nsur-
ancc companies. - The Cuban mulatto, Car
donna, who shot two men in a quarrel over his
white wife, was put on trial. - Another vic
tim Of the elevated road accident in Brooklyn
exepcted to die - Frederick Law Olmsted
presented strong reasons why the proposed drive
way for speeding horses in Central Park should
not be constructed. - full list Of entries TO
the American Jockey Club stakes. - young
Eng. shman arr, stcd for swindling several Wall
Street brokers. - Preparations made for the
orchid show 10 open to-day. - Stocks dull
with "a gradual improving tendency and closing
stron.
Inc Weather-Indication for to-day: Slightly
colder an th IL md Eating; G morally fair. lem
peratdre yest-rday IA. CHEST, 80 degrees; lowest,
/ degree; average, II l-S.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-16
A LITTLE LIGHT

The Free Traders and Mugwumps are doing
what they can " make MIR. Biainc an object Of
warm affection to all genuine Republicans. In
the first place, they are plainly showing that
they arc prepared to assail MIR. Sherman, the
Republican who has seemed 10 have the largest
number Of supporters next to Mr.. Blaine, with
INC same malignant spite, the same dishonesty
and foul SANDER. which they have employed
against Mr. Blaine himself. This does not
make Republicans believe in the return of the
Free Traders to the party they betrayed. They
turned traitors, as THE TRIBUNE then declared
not because they had ground Of complaint
against Mr.. Blaine, but because they were
Free Traders, and were determined to stab in
the back any Republican who believed heartily
in protection.
Then the same persons declare, through their
recognized organs that they are and have been
hostile TO the convictions Of the Republican
PARTY on the most vital questions They de-
n,and "the complete abolition Of sectional hos
liIiiies throughout the country" IN the Ian
g,mpe of The New-Yorx Times" which means
surrender to the organized assassination and
ote-stealing of Southern Democrats. and ces-
sation OF protests against these crimes. IL is
waste of time to talk to Republicans Of tho
abandonment of convictions which arc dear to
every honest and patriotic citizen When Re
publicans cease to insist upon free vote and
an honest count for all the people IN every
State, they cease to be Republicans
Next, we have il declared that Mr.. Curtis and
his knot Of professional rcformcrs propose to
stick to the Every hungry and very thirsty"
Democratic party. the " conspiracy for spos."
and to pretend that true reform can be pro-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-16
sTHE BALLOr- BOX ~ THIS STATE.

eTHE BALLOT-BOX ~ THIS STATE
The primary election law has just been put in
operation by the Republicans of Syracuse for
the first time. II would appear to have met
the best expectations, TO have secured fair play
all around and an adequate expression Of tho
wishes of the voters. At only one polling
place was it disregarded. "Some parties in
the Ninth Ward" "The Syracuse Journal
states, "rccklessly OVERRIDE the statute, and.
rcasscIting the methods of violence and wrong
against which the new law was designed to in
tcrpOsc the operation of fair dealing and just
results. suppressed and reversed the decision
of the majority" 1.-THE Journal adds that
ait would be wholesome example were the
yiolatOIs of the law made to pay the penalty
of their crime"
Yes. il would be wholesome example, and
ono as much needed rs wholesome. "Thc
Journal" will do the cause Of popular govern
mcnt an uncommonly good turn by following
up these law breakers until they get their
deserts. If government by the people is worth
preserving in its integrity. justice without
mercy ought to be shown those who in any way
assail the right of suffrage. A sclf-cvident
truth; and YET crimes against the ballot box
brazcn conspiracy was organized in Albany
having for its object the theft OF State Sena-
,orshp. 1t was defeated, and with its faiure
the proceedings against the conspirttors came
TO an end, or at least to halt. The guilty
persons are at large and according to present
appearances the public sentiment which was
aroused against them is to have no other out
come than words. Not only Onondaga and
Albany, but few other counties in the State
at some time in their history have become the
prey OF reporters, ballot-box suffers and the
related enemies OF popular government But
how many of such criminals have been brought
to book? few years ago IN some proceedings
which ultimately fell through Oolling to tho
punishment OF an election fraud in one of our
chief cities q witness testified that he had been
asked To alter an election return on the repre-
sentation Of d prominent "workcr" that no
fraud on the ballot box had ever been pun
ishcd in that city.
Let these Syracuse rascals. and their fellow
,ascals wherever they may show themsclyel
in this State or throughout the country. be
,uthlcssly hunted down The Republican
party eau engage in no more important. no
more legitimate, work. It's principles commit
il to an uncompromising war against treason;