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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-25

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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-25

Gideon Sabin, Jr., of So. Woodbury., a
veteran trapper over 80 years of age, has,
during last fall, caught % muskrats, three
mink, two skunks, one fox and one rae
coon.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-25

The w. r. G. of Bradford have pre-
scented the academy in that town with
a fine flag recently.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-25

Norman Townsend, formerly a well
known and respected citizen of this town
died at Blue Island, III. Dec. 5th.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-12-25

Organized in 1856, under United st"'rS
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21

the United States. DIR. THEODORE L. CUYLER.
1t maintains two mission chapels, has $50
pupils in its Sunday schools and pays salaries
to three clergymen in Brooklyn and to two
missionaries in the south.
Theodore Ledyard Cuyler was born az
Aurora, Cayuga county, n. Y, on Jan. 10,
ls22. He graduated from the College of New
Jersey in 1871 and the Princeton Theological
seminary in 1916 For three years he sup
piled the pulpit of the Presbyterian church
of Burlington, y. j., and in 1919 became pas
tor OF the Third Presbyterian church in Tren-
ton. He went to New York in 1853, ms pas
tor Of the Market Street Reformed church,
and in 1850 assumed his present charge, over
which he has been the only pastor.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21

army and Bruce drifted TO Hannibal, Mo-,
and thence to Oberln, o., where he was edu
Gated
After the war he became a planter in Mis-
slssippi There he was chosen sergeant-at-
arms of the legislature, then a member of the
Mississippi levee board, sheriff of Bolivar
county, county superintendent of education,
and lastly was sent to the United States SEN
nte, where he took his seat on March 4, 1875,
when but 81 years of age.
After the expiration of his term Senator
Bruce became register of the United States
treasury, which office he held till 1885. Since
that time he has been in the lecture field. He
is a very polite man, and made hosts of
friends while he was register of the treasury.
Still more is it a relief to turn away from
war times and find abundant proof that the
conflict is a thing of the far past, in the num-
Der of new men coming to the front. In the
house of representatives at Washington are
a round dozen of members who were in the
primary class Mt school when the war began,
and three times as many too young to know
much about it, Magner of New York. was
born in 1850; Tolliver, Of Iowa, in 1858;
Shively, of Indiana, Fowler, of New Jersey,
and Cheatham, of North Carolina, in 1857;
and a whole platoon of members between
1852 and 1876.
lndianas men are phenomenally young.
Brookshire, of the Eighth district, was born
in 1856, right in the middle of that extremely
heated campaign an so it will not occasion
surprise that his christian name is Elijah
voorhees,. Bynum and Owen were born in
1916, Martin in 1877 and Shively in 1851. 1t
is familiar charge against the south that
she "goes away back" for representative
at any rate to the war; but look at Louisiana's
delegation. Wilkinson was born in 1877,
Blanchard and Boatner in 1S49. Robertson
in 1852 and Price in 1S54-all too late to as.
sumo any responsibility for the war era. Vir-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21

tors who entered glum as oysters emerged
smiling like premiere danseuses. Loud
laughter occasionally came rolling out
the open door. Within half hour nearly
every member of the senate had spent
moment or two in the retiring room. This
was a mystery which reused my curl
osity, and / determined to investigate.
My efforts were rewarded with success;
and, dear reader, what do you think it
was? Something dignifed, important,
statesmanlike: Not much. One of the
senators, whom | shall not name out of
respect for his gray hairs, had Just re-
ceved from a friend in New York vile
paper, purporting to be letter from
solicitors firm in London. informing the
addressee that he had fallen heir to an
estate in England, and just as the inter-
est was fully reused the reader turned the
page, only to come upon "a wretched pic
ture. Human nature is pretty much the
same in the senatorial cloak rooms as out
of it,
These lazy senators who will not re-
ceive cards or notes before o'clock are
aristocrats, and impertinent aristocrats
at that, and am for sweeping them out.
| can't conceive what they are sent to
congress and paid S13 day for and given
private secretaries and committee clerks
and no end of luxuries at the govern
ment expense, unless it is to serve their
constituents and others having business
with government officials. Seeing callers
would certainly be better employment
of time than lounging in the cloak rooms
Al. IL. Il
promotion of social purity would not be
likely to ndorse. When o'clock comes
most of these high and mighty senators
slip down their private starways, which
no outsiders feet are permitted to pro-
fame, to their private lunch rooms in the
senate restaurant to which no man not
a senator is admitted unless at a senator's
invitation. Soon afterward, as a rule,
the senate goes into that fudgy and ridic-
ulous condition known as executive ses-
sion, and when the bell strikes three
times all doors must be closed and every
man Jack OF an American citizen must
make tracks. Even in committee rooms
the same un-American and offensive ex-
clusivcness prevails. Messengers are
stationed at the doors to keep off in
truders, and many of these messengers
seem to think they own the Capitol. At
the door of the room of the committee
on privileges and elections the other day
| asked the guard at the door if the
committee was in session. No. Then
could 90 in to see senator whom 1
| knew to be there. No.
And why not, pray?'
zone of the senators is inside, dictat-
ing, and he does not want to be dis
turbed.'
"But | do not want to see that senator.
| will not speak to him, and will not
disturb him. Surely the committee room
is large enough for three or four of u.s."
'No matter. The senator is debating,
and he does not want to be annoyed"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21

ways ready to do anything for those
whom he likes except make an effort.
A few days ago he was called to the
chair by Vice President Morton. The
presiding officer of the senate is supposed
to be the personificatiOn of dignity. He
is supposed to he the living embodiment
and representative of that quality which
the American house of lords appears to
prize more highly than ability or even
wealth. Imagine the CONSERVATION of
such grave and reverend senators. stick
Iers for all the dignities, as Edmunds,
Ingalls,, Dawes and IIoar. when they
looked up and beheld this senator,
with his two elbows resting on the
vice presidents desk, his head YEARLY
reposing in his hands like lazy
SOCIOLOGY when the teachers back is
turned, Senator Dawes leaned over and
whispered to Elmunds. and st. jerome
scowled and twiddled his fingers under
his nose, as he always does when i'm
mensely pleased or considerably worried.
No doubt the senator was tired, for a
senator was making speech on well
known bill-the same speech which he
had already delivered three or four times
in the senate chamber. Once the anxious
sticklers for senatorial dignity thought
the presiding officer was going to sleep.
He did close his eyes and once he nod
ded, as much as a man can nod when his
jowls are resting firmly in his hands.
If this senator had gone to sleep Ed
munds, IIoar and Ingalls, would have
been angry enough to move his expul-
sion from the senate. They would have
deemed the body disgraced beyond re-
demption except by some summary and
desperate proceedings
This particular senator is always tired.
He is probably the only man in congress
who is never seen walking down Penn
sylvania avenue from the capital. He
always rides Ingalls, says there should
be some sort Of Il tramway in the Capitol
for the accommodation of men like him
who occasionally want to go over to the
house This senator is the man who is
accused of purposely spreading the re-
port three or four years ago that he and
President Cleveland had quarreled, in
order to save himself from being
troubled by officeseekers. He rarely
makes speech. The last one he made,
I am told, he dictated to his stenog-
rapher while lying in bed, as DR.. John
son used to dictate to his amanuensis,
Mr.. Hector.
If he is the LATEST he is not the only
lazy man in the senate. What do you
suppose the great senators are doing be-
tween the hours of II and 2 oclock-the
hours in which the majority of them
will receive neither cards nor notes from
impairment people who would disturb
them? Devising great plans for the well
fare of the country? Preparing eloquent
speeches: Comforting solemnly on mat
tiers of state? Oh, no. Go into the cloak
rooms and there you will find many of
! them taking their ease. Here are easy
chairs, lounges, divans, BARRIERS, servants,
and such lazy lot of senators! They
recline, lean, sit upon their spines, rumi-
nate, converse and smoke. The stories
that are told, the tests that are passed
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21

VIENNA. Jan. 2S.--In travelling over
Europe one meets, as a matter of course
many dishes not often found in Ameri-
can restaurants and hotels, and many
dishes one is familiar with are cooked
and served SO as to be almost as novel as
those entirely new.
In Liverpool l got recipe for York
shire pudding, and this is it: Twenty five
minutes before dishing up your roast
beef, pour out of the pan one-half of the
gravy into dish for future use. Beat
up two or four eggs with as much -four
as will make a light batter, with three
tablespoonfuls, or six, of milk. Lift out
your meat and pour this batter into the
dripping pan. and replace the meat and
bake it the twenty-five minutes. and
serve hot with the meat The pudding
will be light and permeated with tho
taste of the meat and gravy, and is de-
licious.
AT Shoeburyness, at the home of ons
of the officers of the School of Gunnery,
| found this new and savory manner Of
serving cold roast mutton, when it had
been carved until the bone was not sight.
ly, and the slices were too small to send
to the table. For one pound of sliced off
cold mutton take one quart of onions
and fry them until the rank smell is
gone and they are almost half done.
Take one-half pound of stale bread
crumbs, and then put layer of onions,
one of meat and one of crumbs, until
they are all on deep earthen dish, fin
ished with layer of crumbs. OF course,
salt and pepper; then put this in the
oven for good hour, and it is enough
to give one a Coney Island appetite to
smell it, and it is thoroughly good.
There is something in the way of cook
ing the Yarmouth bloaters and kippered
herring that we cannot achieve, and
think it is because our fires are different.
The English toast them down in front of
a fire, not over it, and then put bit of
butter and dust of pepper and you have
a savory morsel which looks and smells
temptingly and is cheap. There also they
roast their meat before the CRATE, instead
of baking it, and though there seems to
be no difference, the meats tastes quite
differently, and all in favor of roasting.
LOUISE DALRYMPLE.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21

round, the mots that are repeated Ger
and DER in that apartment, literally fur
nished with all modern comforts. If
those walls had ears and tongues they
could a tale unfold - but they have
neither. And the servitors, fortunately
for themselves and their masters, are as
discreet as they are obsequious.
One day last week observers from the
galleries would easily see that something
unusual was going on in the cloak rooms
of the senate on the Democratic side.
There was running in and out from
both sides of the chamber Grave sena-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21

And the understrapper, who probably
controls a few votes in some ward in a
close legislative district, actually locked
the door in my face.
All this is cover for laziness. and
laziness in public servants, particularly
when combined with unnecessary exclu-
siveness, is intolerable. In one respect
the senators are more decent in their
laziness than the members of the house.
Senators do not parade their incidence
before the multitude. Go over to the
house of representatives, take a seat in
the gallery, and scan corner of the hall
in the rear of the seats.
There is bright wood fire burning in
an open CRATE. If wood cost $50 a cord
and coal 80 cents a ton, the statesmen
would insist upon warming their shins by
a wood fire. There are easy chairs and
lounges. Every one is occupied. A row
of distinguished men sit on their spines,
with their chairs tilted back and their
feet on the wall. On the lounges recline
other distinguished men, fast asleep.
Some unbutton their collars for comforts
sake, and occasionally some of the states
men from the rural districts take off their
shoes and turn their big feet toward the
fire and sleep and grunt and even snore
in the acme of comfort. And all this in
public, before the eyes of a thousand or
two of spectators in the hall of the house
of the representatives of the people. 1t
is not pretty.
Evidently the doctrine of Congressman
Stockdale, of Mississippi, has many sup
porters in the senate and house. Stock
dale says his idea of heaven is place in
which there is nothing to do, where ex-
istence is state of perpetual inactivity,
where even drawing the breath of eter-
nal life calls for no effort. While roll
calls and speeches and dreary readings a
the clerks desk are going on in the
house hundreds of men sit and doze and
rust and forget good deal of what they
once knew. Laziness is one of the great
evils of public life. lntemperance has
been driven out. Perhaps we shall have
to rouse public sentiment into a crusade
against Incidence.
WALTER WELLMAN.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21
CAREERS OF PUBLIC MEN.
A COMPARISON BETWEEN OLDER
AND YOUNGER POLITICIANS.

General and John Sherman-Springer, of
Illinois-Blanche X. Bruce, the Octoroon
-Brookshire, of Indiana, Mag
ner. of New York, and other Members.
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman com
pleted his SEVENTEEN year on the Sth of Feb
ruary, and one may say that the fire of hi
eye is not dimmed and that his natural force
is not greatly abated He was born Feb
1920, and his brother John. May 10, 1873
both at Lancaster, o. In 1921 their father,
Charles r. Sherman, was appointed judge
of the supreme court of Ohio and served in
that capacity till his death, in 1929. Contra
ry to the usual rule local gossip has nothing
TO tell of any act in young "Cumps" career
which showed the future great general
Quite the contrary, in fact. The first i'm
preston was that the boy would be IA quite
professional man, and the highest place hoped
for by his friends for him was that of a sue
cessful engineer.
The death of the father left the family in
straitened circumstances, and the boys
were soon scattered Tecumseh being reared
by the Hon. Thomas Ewing, who, in 1886,
secured his appointment to West Point. There
the future general was even less perceptible
than at home, and after thirteen years. varied
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21


he determined to adopt both. One of them
died. the other, as Miss Mary Sherman, grew
up to be very pretty young lady, and is the
very apple of her adopted parents eyes,
Long before this he had shown the warmer
side of his nature by taking his mother and
sisters to his home rs soon as he had earned
money enough to make a home. The sisters
were married at his house, and the mother
made it her home till death. His devotion to
his brother, the general, is known to all
still it is Shermanesque in its manner of
working In those dark periods, when Te-
cumseh was savagely denounced las Crazy
Bill" late in 1861, and as something worse in
April and May, 1860, many wondered that
John did not rush openly and ncisily to the
defense He was remarkably still But it
was observed in due time that the right word
had been spoken to the right person and at
the right time, and the general was officially
all right again. To borrow a sly politicians
phrase, the senator might well have said that
he did not "huut ducks with a brass band.
Something occasionally occurs to remind
the people that there are great many Sher
mans in the United States, and that most of
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21

has set the first day
of April, which will
mark the end Of his
thirtieth year in the
pulpit, as the date
of his retirement.
When he stepped
into its pulpit for
the first time the
church had but 40
members. 1t now
has $50 members,
and is the t h ird
+ re ; b vt eria n
church in size in
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21

fornia and else GEN. W. T. SHERMAN.
where had made him acquainted with the
right men and gained him a knowledge of
the country which was in due time of i'm
mense value
1t now seems very strange that Gen. Sher
man should have been IA state officer of Lou
isiana, at the head of her military school,
when the statc seeded and that many of his
closest personal friends should have been Con-
federateS; yet 50 it was, and his case was but
one of many thousands vino had to wrench
asunder the most pleasant ties and Ego with
their states" Stranger still, it was not till
the 18th of May, 1861, that the government
ventured to commission him. He started in
the war as colonel of the Thirteenth regular
infantry. Since the death of Sheridan he is the
sole survivor of those who attained the high
est commands, and long may he live to enjoy
the honor
His brother John attained fame much ear
lier, and has been a public man for thirty
five years. He and William \. Howard, of
Michigan, were the two Republican mem
bers, as Mordecai Oliver was the Democratic
member, of the celebrated congressional com
mittee sent to Investigate" Kansas in 1856
These facts have already caused the public
to partially forget the invaluable service he
rendered to the national finances during the
middle era of his career-let us say from 1863
to 1851; yet it is as a great financier that he
must take rank in history.
BY equally misleading circumstances he
has acquired the reputation of being cold
lacking in magnetism" etc. His domestic
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21

men is oge who came in rather suddenly
the Hon. C. b. Smith, of the Fourth
district sf West Virginia. The contest
of Smith VS.. Jackson was the occa-
sion of the hot fight over Speaker Reeds rul-
ings, and no sooner was it decided than the
new man was sworn in. He has his reputa-
ton yet to make, but the contest preceding
his admission makes him a man of national
interest
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21
Rev. DIR. Theodore l.. Cuyler.

When Rev. DR.. Theodore l.. Cuyler pastor
of the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian church,
in Brooklyn, announced to his congregation
that he intended to retire from the pulpit, ex-
pressions of regret We're heard on all sides
DR.. Cuyler assumed the pastorate of the
church nearly thirty years ago. In fact he
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21

a million and a half dollars to the Centennial
commission and afterwards recovering the
amount for the government 10y taking the
case to the supreme court. His recent set-to
with Speaker Reed is in line with puguacious
methods in legislation. He is a hard fighter
Along with these sketches of the warriors,
civil and military, of the past thirty years, it
is well to present a sketch of one Of the finest
specimens of the race concerning which most
of the fighting was done. The Hon. Blanche
X. Bruce has been slave, student planter,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21

Young Lady evidently much distressed
and embarrassed Fate, | just
know | shall never die a sudden death.
Doctor Fatte-Indeed! my dear young
lady, and what induces you to think
thus?
Young Lady-Because you are now,
and have been for the last five minutes,
sitting upon poor, dear, little Fido, and /
still live.-Cincinnati Chic.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21

state official an Il
United States sena-
tor, and is now ap-
pointed recorder of
deeds for the Dis
trict of Columbia.
He was born a
slave in Prince Ed
ward county, Va,
in 1871. His mas
ter's son gave him
the rudiments of an
e Il u C alton. His
young master. to
whom he had been
given, went into
t h 9 Confederate
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21

The senator was one WILLIAM NJ. SPRINGER
of family of eleven; three of the sons have
become eminent, and at least two of the
daughters have shown talent.
From the veteran commander in the field
and the senate it is a relief 10 turn to vet
eran leader in peace who has had as many
battles as Gen Sherman and is still fighting
all civil battles, however. The reference is
to the gentleman whom 1--WE Illinois folksn
affectionately call bill" Springer. He was
born in 1886 in Sullivan county, Ind.
county which often gave POO Democratic
majority in total of some 4 1000 votes. The
young Springer became thoroughly inocu-
lated and has been fighting the battles of his
party ever since he was of age. His family
moved to Jacksonville, Ills. when he was but
IL years old. He educated himself against
great obstacles, was admitted to the bar in
1850 and ran for the legislature the same year.
After various political successes and defeats
he was in 1874 elected to congress from the
Twelfth Illinois district and has held the
place ever since His most notable congress
sional success was in an amendment granting
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21

Clara Morris does not believe in stage
tears. She says there are no tears but
real ones shed by intensely wrought up
actresses on the stage. When Ellen Terry
plays her most emotional parts she not
only sobs in reality, but the weeping often
becomes uncomfortable, and sometimes
lasts an hour after the play is over.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21

never in the history of the United States
been so large gathering of the distinguished
1urists Of the country. On the stage Of the
Metropolitan opera house, where the celebra-
ton was held, sat many Of the greatest law
yers and judges of the nation, and the ban
quet which followed in the evening was an
occasion never to be forgotten by the partio-
ipants.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21
The supreme Court CentenniaI.

The centennial celebration of the organza-
tion of the supreme court Of the United
States, which took place in New York city
recently, was doubtless the most dignifed of
all the centennial meetings occurring in the
present epoch. There has, indeed, probably
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21

service in the reg
ular army he had
got no higher than
captain in the COM
m issary depart
ment, and so re-
signed Sept. 6, 1853.
But this was the
period in W h i c h
fortune was doing
more for him than
the wisest could
n ave anticipates;
for his service in
various sections of
the south, IN Cali
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-02-21

life is really a very
atfectionate one, as
proved by the tru-
est of all tests
the children love
him. He and Mrs.
Sh "l'Inan had II o
children. They had
of ten talked of
adopting a child.
and being one day
at an orphan asy-
,lum, two little girls,
! daughters of "A poor
Swiss immigrant,
showed SO IN Il C h
fondness for Sena-
Sl,o,,.,o H..