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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18

A well known New Yorker has had
an adventure which discounts by TO-
900 the average conventional parrot
story He was fond of knocking about
i'll out OF the way quarters OF the
world and left ship on the Central
American coast with party OF COM
rades to explore the wilderness. Dur
ing cruise of several months the en-
tire ships company-a merry crew
had devoted their odd hours in sing
ing to q parrot. The sailors had lost
no opportunities, and taught the bird
all the seafaring lingo, and few more
or less elegant explosives besides.
When the exploring party had hidden
the bird and the sailors good-by they
plunged into the heart of the tropical
forest. After twenty-eight miles of
mortal effort they reached their camp
ing place for the night. Just as the
sun was going down they were startled
to hear in the primeval silence a
familiar voice calling down from the
top of tall palm, "Avast there 70,
heave hor
1t was the ships parrot. But before
they could recover their startled senses
the faithful bird, having flown ahead
to prepare this unexpected treat Tor
its chums of the voyage, futtered
down to the top of dead stump near
by and, with shrill call, summoned
thousands of the little green paroquets
of the country. 1t is said that IL 900
of them were counted as they circled
around the great gray African oracle
ON the stump, and finally took their
places on the ground row after row.
The explorers looked on in dumb
amusement. When the feathered as
semblage became quiet the ships par
rot burst into the words of a familiar
song and, to the ineXtinguishable
laughter of the travellers, the conster-
nation of the rest of the tropical world,
and the delight of the festive precen-
tor, the whole of the 1000 paroquets,
with one mighty burst of song, broke
into Nancy Lee."-Ballou's Maya
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18

thony had acquired became of great service
in the survey. England had denied that
there were any highlands on the boundary as
claimed by the United States The testimony
of the barometer and the spirit level could
be disputed but pictures of the country taken
by the Daguerre process were definite proof.
Mr.. Anthony took with him the necessary
apparatus, and made pictures Of the hills,
which were forwarded to the state depart
ment John Bull ON being confronted with
these images, was forced to give up the
point 1t is supposed that this is the first in
stance in which the art of taking pictures by
sunlight was ever used by any government.
Upon the completion Of the survey Mr..
Anthony engaged for a time in the photo
graphic business After a WHILE however,
be gave up the practice of taking photo
graphs, and engaged in the business CT fur
nishing photographers supplies AT this he
made a fortune. The concern is now a
corporation.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18
Railroad Etiquette.

A correspondent of Our Dumb Ami
mails tells the following good stories
of railroad etiquette:
We have Just read an amusing story
of a nervous little man entering a car
with a parcel, around which was a
rubber strap. He began swapping the
strap to the great discomfort of all his
neighbors, regardless of the annoyance
they clearly manifested. The man in
the seat in front of him left the car.
Then he turned over the back and put
his feet on the seat and kept on snap
ping. Presently big German on the
other side got up. walked over, poked
the little man in the ribs with his
finger and said Mammals little baby
shall have plaything. 1t shall have
a little rattle and little doll" The
passengers cheered, and the snapper
got out of the car as quickly as he
could.
This story reminds us of what we
saw on the Boston and Albany rail
road some time since. The car was
full. Two dudes turned the back of a
seat and sat facing each other occu-
plying four seats. Two young ladies
came in. The dudes looked at each
other and laughed, intending to make
the ladies take seats beside them. The
ladies, mortified and blushing, stood
in the aisle In moment a large, stern
looking man, weighing apparently 200
pounds or more, who was seated q
little ways back on the other side,
strobe across the car, seized the dude
facing him by the collar, and sent him
like rocket to the side of his compan-
ion Then turning the back of the
front seat he bowed and said: Ladies,
there's seat for you. The cheering
of the passengers was something worth
going ten miles to hear, and the two
dudes were, for the rest of the trip, as
quiet a couple as one would wish to
see.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18
A People of the Caucasus.

Each community is made up of sew
eral villages, originally consisting
each of members of the same family
or gems, but now including several
families. Members of the same family
pasturage rights have been occasions
of many feuds and vendettas. When a
woman changed hands, or husbands,
the parties concerned could not always
agree on the value in cattle-the Suan-
etians had no money-of the lady ex.
changed. Hence arose assaults Of per-
sons and batteries of towers. The
affairs of the hamlet, so far as they
were not settled by appeals to arms,
were regulated by an assembly of
adult males, in which unanimity was
required for valid decision. The
foreign relations of the Suanetians con-
sisted, for the most part, i'll predatory
excursions into their neighbors' past
ures. They were arrant sheep stealers
and cattle lifters. Strangers met with
no hospitality. On the contrary, it
was the custom to exact a payment
from them for passage, and the custom
still survives in petty demands made
for hating in remote village. The
Suanetians may fairly be described as
reverted pagans. Some Christian rites
fasting III Lent, and the use of the
sign of the cross-they have doubtless
preserved But these survivals seem
to me no more to entitle them to the
name of Christians than our own mid
summer night fires constitute us sun
worshipers. D. w. Freshfeld in
Popular Science Monthly.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18
Digging for Kidd's Gold.

The winter waves have laid bare an
old wreck on Seyen-mile Beach, which
the imaginative people of that charm
ing old island think may be one of the
late Capt. Kidd's fleet Some san
guine souls are devising a scheme to
dig about the old sand preserved skele-
ton on the sly. in hopes they may UNI
earth some of the long sought doub-
looms said to have been buried about
the island by that well renowned
myth, the pirate Kidd. There is evil
dence of some digging during the pre-
vailing moonlit nights. a heap of
romance clusters about the old
weather beaten cedars, sand hills and
valleys of this famous beach.
From Cold Spring inlet to a poin.
off the Sea Breeze hotel there are the
remains Of seven seagoing vessels.
Some Of them yet have tlicir masts
standing, while the hulls that support
them are buried in the sand. Cor.
Philadelphia Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18
He Gave Her a Chance to Choose.

From Brownsburg, Ind, comes the
story 0rue, of course, that a young
lady sent note to a discarded lover
requesting the return of lock of hair
which, in the whilom hours of court
ship, he had clipped from her dainty
tresses. Rumaging his trunk he col
lected a number of locks, culled from
various best girls" during his love
making career, and forwarded them in
a bundle to the girl, inclosing a note
to the effect that he had really forgot
ten which was hers, but she might
select it from those forwarded and re-
turn the rest at her convenience
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18
Science of Digestion.

The fallacy of plain living" is
shown by good authority, which
proves that the stomach never per-
forms its duty SO effectually as when
called to act upon a variety of food,
provided, of course, that the food is
we'll cooked. The popular opinion
now is that a dinner consisting of
three or four varieties of solid food is
more easily digested than the meal
which is confined to one sort only.
The old fashioned notion of a single
joint and a simply made pudding is
pronounced to be fruitful source Of
Indigestion. Upon this subject DIR.
George H. Taylor says in The SAM
tary Era: Ready digested and easily
digested foods are the abomination
of dietetics; they prevent normal
incitation of the digestive organs,
necessary for normal secretions;
they encourage a false notion that nu-
triton can be assured without refer
ence to expenditure or to providing
any use for nutritive material, and
thus are liable to cause unnatural, ir-
regular, manageable increase of the
unstable ingredients of the organism,
which react injuriously upon the di-
gestive secretions, especially those of
the liver. The prevalent recourse to
these presumably enforced methods of
nutrition are, in short a violent and
abnormal reaction against the former
prevalent reign of physic, depletents
and SO called alternatives. These old
methods actually provide modes of
disposing of unused nutritive supplies,
although they be morbid modes. -
Frank Leslie's Newspaper.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18
THE MISSOURI STRIKE.
THE OPERATORS AT BEVlER. MO-,
ADOPT A NEW POLICY.

No More Arbitration-They VIII Deal Only
with the Individual Miner. and the State
Must Protect Them-So Bevicr Is Under
Martial Law-Camp Jamison.
The year closes with a peculiar state Of
affairs in some of the mining regions OF the
United States. The condition at Bcvier,
Macon county Mo-. may be taken as type
of the new development the mine owners
and operators refusing to arbitrate, and in
sisting on and at present receiving full mill
tary protection from the state.
As a natural result Bevier has been under
martial law since early in December. The
men who displaced the strikers are we'll
armed with Winchester rifles; the other side
with everything from toy pistol up to a
double barreled shotgun. 1t is scarcely neces-
sary to add that the strikers are miners from
other states, and not Missourians Of the old
type, for the latter would have had several
corpses to show as the result Of 80 much
shooting.
The facts are briefly as follows. Bevier has
an adult male population Of some 600, all
miners and the men associated with them.
There are seven mines, worked by as many
companies, but the coal seams are the same,
differing somewhat in the ease Of working.
The usual custom has prevailed Of paying
higher rates for mining in winter than in
summer, the change taking place on April
and Sept l. Last winter the miners re,
ceived IS cents per ton, and during the sum
mer 80 cents. On Sept. l nothing was said
about raise, and on the 18th the negotia'
tions began. There was an irreconcilable
difference and general strike Oct. % some
Of the companies agreed to pay "a cents and
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18
How He Rests.

John G. johnson, the distinguished lawyer,
has sl5O,OO0 worth of paintings in his hand
some house on South Broad street. He is
one Of the hardest and steadiest workers at
the bar; for days at time he puts in a solid
seventeen hours day over his cases People
have often wondered what recreation he
ever got. Here is where | get my pleasure, {"
he said to the writer the other night. after a
delightful hour among his paintings. "Often
after a wearisome days work | will drop
everything at midnight, spend fifteen min
utes among my pictures and | am thor
oughly refreshed; my mind is clear Of legal
points. and sleep as readily and soundly -
q farmer Philadelphia Press
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18
RICHARD W. THOMPSON.
THE VETERAN STATESMAN, AND THE
LATE PANAMA CANAL COMPANY.

A Financial Crash-The French Enthusiasm
for De Lesseps-How President Hayes
Naval Secretary Became Involved-His
Political Life-A French Delusien.
The complete collapse of the renowned De
Lesseps Panama canal scheme and the loss
of some $500, 000, 200 In good French money,
have cast a gloom over many hearts in the
United States and over none a deeper, prob
ably, than the venerable ex-Secretary R. W.
Thompson, who was head Of the American
syndicate connected with the French COM
pany. With the engineering part Of the
scheme he had nothing to do, and assumed,
Of course, no responsibility. His first con-
nection with 1t was as secretary Of the navy
to President Hayes That president appointed
Admiral Ammen and Engineer Menocal to
the Interoceanic Canal Congress; but all
other delegates there were overborne or over
persuaded by the Lesseps interest, and so the
Panama plan was adopted. After retiring
from office Secretary Thompson accepted the
position of American agent or attorney.
Hon. R. W. Thompson is one of the rare
instances of political renovation-a man who
attained great prominence under one regime,
retired In what was thought old age to private
life and was called to public life again in
what was to him new generation and under
a totally different regime
A native Of Culpepper county Va, he
moved to Indiana at very early day, and
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18

syllables when he
reached manhood,
he resolutely con-
quered the defect
till he became a
good jury lawyer,
and a really effect
i've orator on the
stump. As late as
1860 English was
almost an unknown
language to him;
his pronunciation
raised a laugh when
he first spoke in
p.u b lie, a n d his
e.~-l1..
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18
Lyman T.. Knapp.
Middlebury
CTATE OF vERMONT--Distr ofAd-

In Probate Court held in Middlebury with
in and tor said district, on the 9th day of
January, \. ID. 1859.
Whereas, Il certain instrument in writing,
under seal, purporting to be the last will and
testament of David +. Boyce, late of Middle
bury, in said District, deceased, having been
this day presented to said Court for Probate,
and duly filed i'm the Registers Office There
tore il is ordered, that all persons interested
in the estate of said deceased, be notified to
appear before said Court, at the Probate OF
fice in Middlebury, in said District, on the
2sth day OF January, A. ID. 1889, at 10 O'Clock
a. m, by publication of this order, three weeks
SUCCESSFULLY previous thereto in the Middle
bury Register, a newspaper printed at Middle
bury, TO show cause, If any they may have,
why said instrument in writing should not
be proved and allowed, rs the last will and
testament of said deceased.
2 LYMAN L. KNAPP, Judge.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18
AN INDIANA VETERAN.
A Soldier and Congressman Suggested for
Commissioner of Pensions.

1t is taken by consent, as they say in legis-
lative bodies, that Indiana is not to have
member of the cabinet, but is to fare well In
the second and third grade offices And for
commissioner of pensions her candidate is the
Hon. James T. Johnston, now representing
the Eighth Terre Hautc, district in congress,
but not reelected
Capt Jim Johnston. "Our JIM" - he is
known at home, is ono of the characters OF
the Wabash valley-known and noted be-
cause he has overcome almost every disad-
vantage youth could have--poverty, ignor-
ance and a defective utterance-by pure
energy and unyielding perseverance. His
speech was 30 INSTRUCTED by suffering that
he practically taught himself to talk after
being admitted to the bar, and though he
could scarcely articulate q word of three
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18

fessor James Rem
lex on the survey
of the northeastern
boundary Of the
U nited States,
which was at the
time in dispute
with Great Britain.
Mr.. Anthony had
been an amateur
workman in the
process then just
introduced by
Daguerre, or max
ing pictures on
a plate by the aid
of sunlight. The
knowledge Mr.. An
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18

their men returned to work; the others would
not go above 60 cents, and brought lot Of
Swedes from Chicago and negroes from other
places and put them in the mines. OF course.
there was an 'unpleasantness"
1t is neither necessary nor possible to de-
eide who was to blame in bringing ON the
big fight, which was preceded by many minor
fights The Swedes came with the idea that
they were to be attacked and must fight at
the first aggression. The largest body Of
them is quartered in an immense building on
the grounds of the company they work for;
they sleep in the upper rooms, cook and eat
on the ground floor, keep their arms in readi-
ness and maintain a strict guard at night
In short, they are an industrial garrison. At
another NINE, the operators having come to
an understanding with the strikers, the
Swedes live at large among the old citizens.
The feature of this case, however, is that
the operators appear to have decided to make
it a test case-to refuse all conference with
the miners except as individuals applying for
employment, and demand protection from
the state And the state has SO far honored
the demand. From fifty to sixty picked
men Of the Kansas City companies Of the
Missouri National guard are kept on duty
constantly at the mines, new squad arriving
as an old one goes home, the changes being
frequent to give the men chance to attend
to business.
Col Milton Moore, Of the Kansas City
troops, is anxious for the men Of Macon
county seat Of the county including Bevier, K
organize militia guard and let his men &c
home; but there is natural suspicion that the
Maconites are little too near to be in severe
earnest against the strikers. Meanwhile the
small company continues to mount guarC
daily at Camp Jamison," as they call thu
old stores in which they are quartered, anc
at night they arrest all suspicious persons
found abroad. Indeed, there is genera
order that no one shall go abroad after 9 p
IN, unless he can show extreme necessity
Visitors to Bevier witness some novelties
An American town under permanent MARTA
law; big ware house, showing some forty
shot holes made during the night battle; ar
armed and garrisoned battalion Of Swedish
miners; some 200 of the strikers sitting abou
the public resorts and talking freely, anc
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18
HOW THE RANSOM WAS PAID.
On the helpless Flemish village

On the helpless Flemish village
Cruel Alva swooped and fell
And the peace OF trade and ti.laGe
Turned to martial clank and yell.
In the town house, tall and handsome,
Stood the great duke, looking down
On the burgers proff'ring rahsom
For the safety Of the town.
Ger his brow gray locks were twining-
For his casque was laid aside,
And his good sword carved and shining
From his sword belt was united.
Prince he seemed of born commanders,
Pride and power each gesture tod,
As he cried "Ye men of Flanders,
Bring me twenty casks OF goldl"
Then upon them fell sadness,
And shadow like pail
While they murmured, "'Tis rank madness
Such a sum from us to call"
And the spokesman of the village
Murmured feebly, Sure you jest"
Answered Alva, Gold or pillage-
Choose whiche'er may suit you bestw
Faint and stunned, they turned despairing,
When arose laugh Of joy
And before their startled staring
In there pranced little boy.
On bis curls the dukes helmet rested,
As his noisy glee he roared.
And his good steed mailed and crested
Was great Alva's mighty swordl
Round about the room he gamboled,
Peeping through the helmet bars;
Now he leaped and now he ambled-
Like Cupid hooking Mars.
Then he stayed his merry prancing
And of Alva's knees caught hold,
Where ray Of sunlight glancing
Turned his sunny curls to gold.
Swift the mother, sorely frightened,
Strove to take the cherub wild,
But the dukes stern features lightened
AS he kept her from the child,
And he drank the pretty prattle-
For the baby knew no fear,
Till his eye, so fierce in battle,
Softened with pearly tear
For a baby rose before him
In fair Spain, ere wars alarms
Thus his fathers sword upbore him
Alva caught the boy in arms,
And the pretty forehead barring,
Cried "a kiss" the child obeyed.
Theu unto those men desparing
Alva said: Your ransom's pal"
Savannah News.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18
The Late Edward Anthony.

Mr. Edward Anthony, who died recently
in New York city, was connected with the
early history of photography in America.
Mr.. Anthony was born in New York. He
was graduated from Columbia college in
1888 with honor, and choosing the profession
of civil engineer, was soon engaged on the
work of building the Croton aqueduct.
While so engaged he joined the party Of Pro-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18
AGAINST THE SALOON.

Tho NAIL AND EXPRESS is the recognized
National organ Of the great AntSaioon Re-
pu' movement 1t believes that the
liquor traffic as it exists to-day in the United
States is the enemy of society, fruitful
source of corruption in politics. the ally of an
archy, school Of crime. and, with its avowed
purpose OF seeking to corruptly control
elections and legislation, is menace to
the public welfare and deserves the condemna-
ton OF all good men.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18

after a preliminary
experience as school
teacher and clerk,
took up the prac-
tice of law and
soon became not
only a leader at
the bar, but one of
the most prominent
and in q u e n ii a |
Wings in the state.
Through all the
stormy times o f
Jackson's secon d
administ r a ii n,
and those of Tyler,
Polk, Taylor and
Fillmore, he fought
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18
Dispersed by Their Creditors.

A fearful riot of the students arises
IN a German town, and no one, not
even the best liked tutor, is able to
pacify them, till professor, hiring a
barouche, takes in all the master tai
Tors of the city and drives them
through the campus, when the mob
disperses as by magic. - Fliegende
Blaetter
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18

Castle Thunder was a Confederate
prison at Richmond during the civil
war, in which civilians who were sus-
pected or known to be in opposition to
the insurgents were confined. The
building was originally tobacco fac
tory, and was burned early in Septem-
Der, 1879.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18

business still going on-after fashion. But
the loss in wages is set at 5000 day, and the
place now ships out but l2O carloads day
while it formerly shipped 200 Still the com
panies insist on testing their rights and on
complete protection by the state, aud the case
naturally excites much interest.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18

William c. Fiske is to resign his seat
in the Stock Exchange and sell the
same to pay claim of $4,000 which
w. G. Fish holds against him.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-01-18
A National Newspaper,
OUR POLITICS.

We believe the Republican party to be the
true instrument of the POLITICAL. FROG
RE>S Of the American people; and holding
that the honest enforcement of its principles is
tie best guarantee Of the national welfare. we
shall support them with all our might; but We
shall always treat opposing parties with con-
sheraton and fair play.
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