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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-29
THE COUNTY COURT.

<The December term of the county court
will open here on Tuesday next with
Judge Munson presiding. These are the
petit Jurors drawn:
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-29

ontpelier-Pavlion Hotel, Tuesday,
Dec. 3.
Middlebury-Addison House, Wednes-
day, Dec. 4.
Burlington-Van Ness House, Thurs
day, Dec. 3.
ES~ Remember the dates, and if sick
do not fail to consult DIR. GAGE, for his
cures in this vicinity are truly wonderful.
47-w2
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-29
EXCURSIONS TO BOSTON.

The Central Vermont has arranged for
a series of excursions to Boston on ac-
count of the Maritime exhibition. Ex-
cursionists can go on Dec. and 6 and re-
turn at any time up to Dec. IL and
they can go Dec. 30 and 81 and return by
Jan. 3, 1890. The fare for the round
trip from Middlebury is $3.50, which
pays also for one admission to the eX-
hibition.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-29


.iddiSOn-Me B. Hurd.
Bridport--Joseph T. Fletcher
BriStOl-J. X. kilbourn, +. B. Palmer.
COrHWdH-MOses > Lee.
FerriSJUrgh-Wm. r. Williams, George Spen
Ger.
GOshen-\athan T. DuttOn.
GrdnrWe-W arren l.. Ford.
HdHcOck-Rollin Flint.
LeiceSter-OrmOn PartlOw.
Lincoin-Wm. II. Hoag, VIM. A. Lee.
Mddlebury-IIarris j. Phillips, VIM. ii
Brewster.
MonktOn-Andrcw y. Ellison
Neir Hdcen-Warren II. Peck. NJ. l.. Taylor
OrceU-John Knox, VI. r. Brown.
PdntOn-Wm. j. COnant.
Ript0R-Frank Gilmore.
.Sdiisbury-Lucius ID. Iceland.
Shorehdm-O. {. Martin, +. +. Stickney.
StdrksbOrO-.John NJ. Layn, Andrew Dillon.
Jergennes-John IL. Donnelly, Leon Pom
eroy.
Udlthdm-Frank ID. Barton.
Weybrdge-A. W. SturteVant.
UhHing-Frank ;. Needham.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-29
CTATE OF vERMONT-District of Ad.
The Probate court tor the district of Addi

The Probate court tor the district of Addi-
son:
To all persons interested in the estate of
VIM. II. Parker, late OF Middlebury, in said
district, deceased. GREETING:
BY the authority of the State OF Vermont,
you are hereby notified to appear before the
said Probate Court, nj the Probate Otiice in
Middlebury in said District, on the 10th day OF
December, A. ID. 1889. at 10 O'Clock, IA. m, to
show cause. II any you have, why the ac-
count of Albert A, Fletcher and Susan A. Par
ker, executors of the estate of said deceased,
should not be allowed, and also why the resi-
due OF said estate should not be distributed
to the parties entitled thereto.
Dated at Middlebury, in said District, this
26th day OF November A. d., 1889.
As JAMES NJ. SLADE, Judge.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-29
BY HIMSELF, PROBABLY.

From the Richford Gazette.
Colonel c. II. Joyce of Rutland is men,
toned as a candidate for congress to
succeed Representative Stewart.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-29
TEAOHERS' INSTiTiITE

County Supervisor of Schools Hassel-
tine announces that Il teachers institute
will be held at Vergennes Dec. II, l3 and
II. Further particulars will be given
next week.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-29

the old First church, made spirited ad-
dress and with the benedction closed
the exercises.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23

his tongue cruelty; and then the
laughter redoubles at his expense. The
combined intoxication of the move
ment and of the cold is at its height
go on more quickly" the voices OF
women say, nervously; and sometimes
a deeper voice murmurs in a lower
tone: why faster? 1t would be bet
ter that we never arrived at the end.
We do arrive, however. The team,
white with foam, stops in front of an
isolated tavern. It is Samarcande or
Tachkent, one of the inns of the sub
ur5s of Petersburg, famous for the
troupes of Bohemians who lodge there
The party hires a room decorated in
any thing but luxurious manner:
four smoky walls, few chairs, and a
table. Champagne is brought and the
Tsiganes appear. The choir is COM
posed of three or four men and eight
or ten women. The men wear on their
bronze faces the expression of the
tranquil dignity of their race. With
their aquiline profiles, their sad
and profound eyes, they seem
like dispossessed kings of Asia.
We would gladly depict the women
in some picturesque Eastern costume,
but the truth compels us to confess
that they are dressed in shabby silk
dresses. the cast-off finery of some ele-
CANT lady. bought at a secondhand
store in the Gostiny Dvor. The olive
colored compilations beneath their
painted cheeks, and the fire of their
eyes beneath their painted eyebrows,
alone betray the Indian origin of these
daughters of the Pariahs. The leader
of the choir tunes his guitar and strikes
up an accompaniment, very slow at
first, and then gradually quicker and
quicker The Bohemian girls sing;
they are seated in a semi-circle,
their bodies and faces motionless.
At the beginning the accent is
cold and restrained. These wom-
en- appear Indifferent to the senti-
ment they are Interpreting, like sibyls
visited by a god whom they do not
feel. But little by little their voices
become animated, and warm into that
cultural trembling which artists of
any other race can never succeed in
initiating. The demon has taken pos
session of the singers; they hurry the
rhythm with furious alterations;
melodies and words are infused with
the same excitement, the languor, the
despair, and the fire of wild passions.
The soul of the old Arrays has accumu-
lated in these songs all the wildness
and melancholy of its nature.-Vi-
comte Eugene Melchior de Vogue. in
Harper's Magazine.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
THE YOUTHFUL LoAFER.
le IL just as Well Represented in the West
as In the East.

1e Ii just as Well Represented In the West
as In the East.
/ have occasion to walk about the
streets so much that without any con-
scious effort find myself classifying
the people whom meet. and dividing
a great many faces and figures into a
small number of types There is one
species in particular which of late has
inspired me with good deal of disgust.
It or he is young man of medium
height and slight frame. with small,
narrow head. a thin. pale face, promi-
nent cheek bones usually, and weak
chin. His dress is of the shabby gen.
teel variety, ranging from new and
fashy slop-shop garments to those
that are old and threadbare. His hat
is invariably a derby, and commonly
placed on one side of his head. He is
very apt to sport aplated watch-chain,
and pointed shoe is one of the objects
of his ambition. There is general
air of reckless abandon about him, his
high collar being very open in front.
his vest cut low, his coat unbuttOned
and his movements slouching and un-
certain.
If the reader recognizes this type.
he will not need to be told that the
young man whom we have in our
mind is commonly out of work, OF
''loafng." as he correctly describes
his state. such being his natural con-
dition. I suspect that there is almost
always some toiling person behind
this gay butterfy-sOme mother.
sister or other relative. who works
hard, and generously but foolishly
supports him. Meanwhile he walks
the streets, sits out on the common in
fine weather, haunts the dime
museums and other like places OF
amusement, and must certainly be de-
ferred to as a connoisseur in fve-cent
cigars. His financial transactions
almost always take the form of small
pool-buying on the result of profess
sional games of baseball. In fact, he
comes out very strongly when the
national game is in progress. and may
be seen hanging on the end of horse
car in great numbers. with the usual
cigar in his mouth, upon those occa-
sions when championship contest is
to take place at the South End.
fear that he is beyond the reach OF
mission Sunday schools, or even of the
Associated Charities; and if any thing
could "set him up physically aid
morally, it would probably he a con-
scription and military service.-Boston
Post
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
JAPANESE SUPERSTITIONS.
Some of the Strange Fancies of Those
Gentle Orientals.

Some of the Strange Fancies of Those
Gentle Orientals.
The household superstitions of Japan
are very numerous. They are harm
less. often exciting laughter; yet so
entrenched are they in the household
that religion, argument. even ridicule
can not destroy them. Some of these
superstitiOns have a moral or educa-
tional purpose, intoxicating lessons of
benevolence, neatness and habits of
cleanliness. A room is never swept
Immediately after the departure of the
inmate for fear of sweeping out the
luck. At marriage ceremony neither
the bride nor the groom wears any
clothing of purple color lest their mar
riage be soon dissolved, purple being
color most liable to fade. If the cup
of medicine is upset by accident during
sure sign of his recovery. This
looks as if the Japanese had
faith in our proverb, Throw physic
to the dogs" There are some curious
ideas in regard to the finger nails.
They must not be cut before starting
ON journey lest disgrace fall upon the
person at his destination. Neither
should they be cut at night. lest cat S
claws should grow out. Children who
throw the parings of the nails into the
fire are in danger of some great calam-
ity. If a piece should fly into the fire
while cutting the person will soon die.
The bowling of dog portends
death. If woman steps over an egg
shell she will go mad; if over razor
it will become dull; if over a whet-
stone it will break. If man should
set his hair ON fire he will go mad.
Children are told if they tell lie an
oni Gmp) will pull out their tongues.
The wholesome terror of the oni,
standing ready to run away with his
tongue, has caused many a Japanese
youth to speak the truth.
The Japanese have a horror of the
darkness; they always keep light
burning to ward off ghosts. The junk
men believe in a ghost who comes to
them and politely asks to borrow a
dipper. The answer decides the fate
of the junkman. If dipper with a
bottom is bestowed upon the ghost. he
uses IL W Uct11 WttSr clOuSA W dh1P
the junk, but if the bottom can be
knocked out and thrown at him he dis
appears. In this last case, the act
must be accompanied by an incanta-
ton. or the ghost turns into sea cap
pa-a many-clawed monster-who will
drag the junk to the bottom.
The Japanese are a gentle. sensitive
race. very much under the influence of
their emotions. Love with them is
serious matter, often one of life or
death. Disappointment in love or de-
sertion frequently ends in suicide.
Sometimes the girl becomes an aveng-
er, and implores the gods to curse or
visit with death the destroyer of her
peace. The passions which thrill and
torment the human soul are as intense
in far-away heather Japan as in those
lands which boast a higher civiliza-
Press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
KEPT WITHIN THE LAW.
Pennies Were Legal Tender When Show


Pennies Were Legal Tender When Showed
Out One at a Time.
The action of that New Jersey bank
in dumping $4,000 in silver on it's floor
in payment of its checks in the hands
of rival institution brings up the
question of legal tenders. Gold has
always been legal tender in the
United States. With brief interval
previous to the passage of the Bland
act silver dollars have been also.
Greenbacks are, but gold and silver
certificates are not, except on customs,
taxes and public dues. National
bank notes are not legal tenders. and
can and have been refused in payment
of debt. Subsidiary coin is legal tender
only in limited quantities.
A gentleman went to the stamp
window of the post-office in a neigh
boring city and called for 100 one
cent stamps. rendering in payment 100
One-cent pieces.
Those are not legal-tender in any
such quantities." growled the stamp
clerk. Il refuse to accept them"
you do, eh?" answered the gentle
man. We'll. give me one stamp" at
the same time showing out penny.
The stamp was forthcoming.
Nov. give me stamp" He got
it.
Another stamp"
Nov another"
''See here" said the clerk, chow
many stamps do you want? You are
keeping twenty people waiting"
''Oh, I always keep within the law"
responded the gentleman, Another
stamp. please. Pennies are not legal
tender in large amounts. Another
stamp"
And he showed Off his pennies and
purchased stamps, one at a time, till he
got his hundred. But the clerk was
cured. Pennies are legal tender at
his window in barrel Washing
ton Post.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
Expensive Oil.

Recently there was sent from Nor
wich, Conn.,, to New York FIVE two
gallon tin cans filed with oil of black
birch, which was manufactured in
Bozrah by John Miner. 1t is worth
$50 gallon, and the five cans con-
tanned los pounds of oil, valued at
$500. or little over S. pound. Black
birch trees do not yield oil as the maple
trees run sap. There is work in get
ting the tender twigs, and labor in the
process of extracting the oil. One
ton of twigs yields just three pounds
of oil. and it took nearly fifty-three
tons of twigs to yield the ten gallons.
This oil is used in giving the winter
green flavor to CONNECTIONS of all kinds
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
COMPOSITION OF GEMS.

The Work Done BY Natures Chemistry in
Forming Precious Stones.
NO" said the chemist, ''the ruby
is not called a ruby because it is red,
for the topaz, which may be yellow or
delicate wine color, and the sapphire,
which is blue, are both rubies. The
humble toiler consoling himself with
his clay tobacco pipe. the potter
molding the plastic clay into shape
upon his magic wheel OR the deliver in
damp slate quarries, probably does not
know that his pipe and his clay and
his brittle slate are of the very SUBJ
stance from which the flaming Orient
al ruby, the mellow topaz and the rich
sapphire are evolved; but such is the
fact. They are among the most beau
tiful of gems, yet are but simple crys-
tails of a silaceous earth-mere bits OF
alumina. The glorious blue light that
turks within the sapphire is the chem
ical action of one grain of iron on every
one hundred grains of alumina- The
red ruby owes it's brightness and hue
to mingling of chronic acid with the
parent clay.
Different from the Oriental topaz
is the topaz from Brazil, which, beau
tiful as it is, is nothing but a COM
pound of silica, Or flint, and alumina.
which also makes the garnet, and
largely compose the Occidental emer-
aid and the beryl stone. These two
stones also contain an earth known as
glucina. so called because of the
sweetness of the salts discovered in it.
The diamond is the king of gems,
a monarch blazing like the sun, and
the opal is it's moonlight queen. Yet.
as every one knows, the diamond is
only chip of coal, and the opal, as
every one does not know, is
simply mingling of silica
and water. But the diamond
is the spiritual evolution of coal, the
realization of its highest being. Ten
parts of water and ninety parts of
silica, combined in the mystic crucible
of nature. form the opal, the water
giving to the gem that shifting,
changeable, irridescent coloring which
is the opars peculiar charm. Who
would imagine that the fire in the
opal is not fire at all. but, of all things,
water! And yet the silica that holds
the radiant moisture captive is the
common flint from which our fore
fathers struck the igniting sparks into
their finder boxes.
but the opal is not the only pre-
cious stone that owes its being to flint.
The amethyst, the cat's-eye. the
Egyptian jasper-all are Oscillations
of the ultimate efforts of natural chem
istry acting on silica What is the
lapis lazuli? A bit of common earth
painted throughout with sulphuret of
sodium. And the torquoise-what
forms it? and how did it receive its
soft, pale blue color? The turquoise
is phosphate of alumina, and copper
in the earth gave it its lovely hue.
Chrysolite is pure silicate of magnesia-
OF the rare decorative stones and mar
bIes, if there were no carbonate of
copper the seeker after malachite
would find his search fruitless, and
the sculptor would sigh in vain for
the matchless Carrara marble if there
were no carbonate of lime. IN. z.
Sun.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
LIFE IN PETERS BURG.
Graphic Description of a Midwiuter Ri
with '.TroiIxa- Isird,.,'

Srsaph:c description of a Midwinter Ride
with "rroilea Birds"
Large four-seated 5 eighs are ordered
from job master famous for the swift
ness OF his horses and the skill of his
drivers. The bells OF the teams tinl<le
at the door; the company enveiop
themselves from head to foot in furs;
the women tie Orenburg shawls over
their faces. Two couples take their
places in each of the vehicles. and. as
may be readily conceived, it is not
chance that generally presides over
this arrangement. but another little
god who is less wise than chance. The
driver gathers in his hands his bundle
of reins. and speaks tenderly to
his horses: Forward, my little
pigeons" The three pigeons start
at full gallop through the empty
streets. twenty degrees below zero.
the air still. the sky black as steel, and
sparkling with golden spots which
glitter over the whiteness of all OBJ
1ects in this limpid atmosphere. The
cold freezes the breath as it issues
from the lips. In few minutes the
boards are converted into stalactites of
ice. The Russian heart bounds with
Joy. Quicker! quicker!' cry the
women, their voices broken. by wild
and joyous laughter. The driver. who
has previously fortified his stomach
with innumerable glasses of brandy.
administers stout blows with his knout
over the backs of his horses, and vet
they are giving the maximum of speed
that can be expected from their limbs.
They too seem to get intoxicated with
their own galloping. The equipage
flies along the quays and crosses the
river; the mean houses of the fau-
bourgs, with their poor little lights,
vanish out of sight behind it
like phantoms. Trees take the
place OF houses the more deeply
we penetrate into the islands; now we
glide over vacant country in absolute
darkness, the tinkling of the bells and
the rippies of laughter alone breaking
the silence that has gathered over the
earth. When the hoofs of the horses
strike the pavement beneath the thin
ner snow, or when they bound over a
projecting block of ice on an arm OF
the Neva, the heavy sleigh jumps and
iolts enough to throw the travellers
out. Woe be to the one who is talk
ting at this moment: he is sure to bite
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
THE MODERN BRAKEMAN.



Changes In the Department and Dress Of
Railroad Employees.
In no one particular has the remark
able advancement in railroad manage
ment during the past twenty years
been SO marked as in the development
Of details affecting the department and
dress of employees. Take the passen-
ger brakeman of to-day as compared
with the brakeman of two score years
ago as an instance.
The modern passenger brakeman is
not an evolution. but new creation.
He is an object of admiration. while
his predecessor of a quarter of century
since was an object of wonder and awe.
The latter was. usually, cOllarless.
uncOuth individual more Or less given
to plug tobacco and profanity. The
badge OF his authority was red hand
kerchief tied loosely around his throat.
Primarily. his occupation was. upon a
given signal. to fling himself in fam
tastic gyrations around the iron brake
wheel, and his contortions upon the
front platform in the discharge of his
duty were at once the wonder and adj
miratiOn of the station loungers of
that period. He was usually distin-
guished by tight-fitting cap with a
peaked visor. His hands were big and
coarse and calloused. There were in
variably grimy circles around his eyes.
When he called out the name of a
station to the occupants of the front
car the people in the rear end of the
train could hear his voice, but the
nearest passenger could not tell what
he said. When he assisted a lady to
alight he helped her down from the
high steps as though she were SO much
containing eggs or crockery amounted
to absolute contempt. His business
was to help run the train.
The passenger brakeman of the pres
emit is a symphony in blue broad-cloth
and brass buttons. He is at once Or
namental and useful. The old iron
brake-wheel still looms up on the front
platform, but he rarely finds it neces-
sary to touch it. He is an object of
envy and of admiration to the small
boy at the Queen Anne station-houses.
1t is his duty and pleasure to cultivate
graceful carriage, and the sharp
swing of the Eastlake coach around a
curve, which causes Farmer Way back
and the woman with a green vail on
her bonnet to clutch the seat in terror,
only provokes from him a sweet, sad
smile of sympathetic commiseration.
He is little less than modern Beau
Brummel in his attention to the ladies
and school girls temporarily entrusted
to his care. while maintaining an air
of condescending dignity toward the
men. When he displays opposite char
cteristics it is an evidence that his
raining has been defective or he has
mistaken his occupation.
Long live the passenger brakeman
of to-day, the courteous. affable. &C
commodating young gentleman who is
worthy the newest style in the way of
railroad uniform that the directors
and their tailor can devise.
But what has become of the aero
batic, awkward, hard-handed brake
man of twenty-five years ago?
He owns the railroad now.-Phila-
delphia Press.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
Poor Peoples Chances

Some years ago city missionary was
crossing one of the parks in New York on
the Sabbath day and said to a lad: What
are you doing here. breaking the Lords
daya You ought to be at church and wor-
Shipping God instead of breaking the Sab
bath in this way" The poor lad in his rags
looked up at the city missionary and said:
''Oh, sir, it's very easy for you to talk that
way. but God knows that we poor chaps
amt got no chance.''
The sentiment seems to be growing that
in the United States the time has arrived
when ''the poor chaps don't have no
chance"
There is some truth in it. The poor are
not shut out from making a livelihood, but
the gulf between riches and poverty con-
tinually grows more difficult to cross. As
the country becomes densely populated
keen business competition decreases the
chances for accommodating wealth by ordi-
nary business methods
But the same conditions vastly improve
the chances for great success to those who
can strike out in new paths, can furnish
something to the world that others can
not
True merit, in commodity or ability. will
win easily and with grand results in this
country, if the masses can be induced to
recognize it. This recognition can only be
accomplished by what are sometimes
sneeringIy alluded to as advertising
methods.
What q marvellous success has attended
the thorough introduction to the world of
the merits Of that wonderful remedy for kid
ney disease-Warner's Safe Cure Hon. h.
81. Warner first came to know of its cura-
tive power by being restored to health from
what the doctors pronounced a fatal kidney
trouble. He concluded the world ought to
know of it and in the ten years since he be-
gan its manufacture he has spent millions
Of dollars in advertising the Safe Cure.
His methods have been ingenious some
times, perhaps, Open to criticism, but they
had a purpose, which has been accomplished
But mark! he never would have secured
four-fold return Of the vast sums thus ex-
pended if the real merit of the remedy had
not been fully proven to the millions of peo-
pie reached by his advertisements.
Ten years of increasing success of War
ner's Safe Cure is due, first, to intelligent
and pleasing advertising, by which the peo-
pie were made acquainted with the remedy.
Second, to the true worth of the remedy.
proved by actual experience, showing it to
be the only specific for kidney disease, and
all diseases growing out of kidney derange-
ments.
Mr.. Warner has something the people
want, tells them so, then proves it to their
Observation-Disclosures follows as matter of
course.