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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-09-04

Sweden is the great matchmaker of the
world, but the industry is conducted on an
enormous scale in the United States and
other countries. The wood used is chiefly
pine, white or yellow. Timber for the pur
pose is cut out in blocks fifteen inches long
long enough to make seven matches
After being freed from the bark the blocks
are put into a machine resembling a turn
ing lathe, with fixed cutting tool by
which a continuous strip of veneer is
turned off precisely the thickness of a
match. While this is being done small
knives separate the sheet of veneer into
seven bands so that seven long ribbons are
produced, the width of each just the length
of the match that is to be.
Next these ribbons are fed more than
100 of them at a time into another ma
chine, though at first they are cut into
6-foot lengths and the knotty parts are re.
moved. This latter contrivance chops
them into match sticks at the rate of thou
sands minute, which are afterward dried
in heated drums that revolve. The sticks
thus prepared are then sifted to remove all
splinters, and the same apparatus that ac-
complishes this purpose arranges them
parallel, so as to be conveniently bundled.
Finally they are dipped in combustible
mixtures, and although this performance
is so elaborate as to render a detailed de
scription undesirable il is performed with
as much quickness as the process which
went before. From the felled tree to the
finished lucifers all is done by machinery,
the boxing only being executed by hand
Washington Star.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-09-04

One of the oldest coored men who hang
around Dyer street looking for a job re-
Gently approached one of the commission
merchants on that street, and after con.
siderable shutting around, exclaimed:
Say, boss, | wants ter ak yer ques.
ton"
"All right, go ahead"
81 kin git my furnicher insured fol
$780,"
"Yes?"
IAN it will only cost me four dollars"
"WellY"
"S'pose, had dat trumpery insured, an
de housen would catch afire and burn up
what would git2"
I'm that case, Sam, you'd get pulled in
and then sent to Cranston for ten or fifteen
years"
"What for?"
For setting the fire. of course"
"Golly, am dat SO? Well, am VERY
much 'blged to yer, an | guess l will save
dat four dollars and left de 800 go. Morn
ing, sab. "-Providence Telegram.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-09-04
A New Name for 1t,

Mr.. Andrew Lang relates this divertine
story; ''In the days Of my childhood friend
of my own was informed by favorite
housemaid that she wished to give warn
ing, as she was going to be married"
Indeed" said the lady, land what Is
your future husbandi"
please IN, he's an askerW
"a WHAT"
IAN asker"
81 don't understand What does he do?"
"Well, IN, he-he goes about the streets,
and If he sees any one coming along that
looks kind newell, he just stops 'em and
asks 'em to give him trihe, and he makes
quite comfortable living that wayl"
"Do you mean a beggar"
well, IN, some people do call it that.
We call it asker. New York Evening
Post.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-09-04
The Night Newspaper Man.

When the feline operetta
On the back yard fence has ceased,
And the barcarolle falsetto
OF the canine is increased:
While the milkman on his rounds
Fills the morn with merry clatter,
And the neghborhood resounds
With his musical can-tata:
While the factory whistles shrek,
And the opening shutters creak,
And the cook within the kitchen 'mongst the
dishes makes a splatter,
Then HE me to my bed,
Draw the covers DER my head,
And in nasalized nocturn perform my OWE
sonata.
New York Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-09-04
The willing Maid.

In quiet grassy glade,
Where the naples cooling shade
Like heavy curtain hung,
There a graceful hammock swayed,
Swung and swayed, swayed and swung
Golden birds of silvery tongue
Fitted in and out among
Leafy hooks, all unafraid;
Fitted in and out and sung,
Played and sung, sung and played.
Had man but thither strayed,
He'd have found a willing maid,
Far removed from fair and young;
Yet she held to hope and prayed,
Chung and prayed, prayed and chung.
Detroit Free Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-09-04
Not Generally Contagious.

Notwithstanding the fact that
there are new diseases coming up every
day, the old ones seem to hold their own
all the same
Tarter-Yes' Well that may be, but
there's one of the old sort that doesn't seem
to affect my out of town customers at all.
Doctor-What is that?
Tarter-The RENTING fever.-Boston
Courier
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-09-04
LIGHT AND AIRY.


Ohe tolnt Assureu'
know not II she's tall or short,
Or fat or wondrous frail;
know not If her face be dark,
Or red, or spectral pale.
know naught of her feet and hands,
Her nose or eyes or hair;
And, what Is more, the truth to tell,
| don't copper care.
In fact, If her CHANGED TO meet
Beneath the MONDAY glow,
From Adams antique moldy self
This maid should not know.
But this positively know
I'll soon be with the dead
If she that old piano bangs
Much longer DER my head.
Boston Courier.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-09-04
Scholastic Item.

Mr.. Manhattan Beach has just been pay
ing number of bills which his hopeful
son, who is student at Yale college. con.
tracted.
81 had no idea," said the old man to his
son, that studying was so expensive"
"Oh, yes, it costs money" replied the
youth, land | didn't study so very much,
either. "-Texas Siftings.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-09-04

How did you like the comedy Not up
to the mark, perhaps, but the authors i'm.
proving"
"In what wayi"
Formerly the audience went to sleep
during the first act and now almost all
wait for the second. "-Fliegende Batter.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-09-04
Old Friends.

"Old friends are bestl" Yet not too odd
For one, do not seek
Within my eager arms TO fold
A form long since antique.
want no painted Pompadour
Flirting at forty-three;
A friend OF twenty-five or four
Is old enough for me.
Harry Romano In Life.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-09-04
Her Little Lamb.

She took her son upon her knee,
And kissed his curls and said, II am
So glad my little boy loves me,
For mother loves her little lamb"
She took her son across her knee;
Alackl She'd caught him in the taml
And eftsoons much convinced was he
That mother loved her little lamm,
indianapolis Journal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-09-04
NIIdsnmmer Meather.

The weather clerk, to have joke,
The seasons into fragments broke;
Took summer heat and winter frost;
Took autumn calm; spring tempest tossed;
Then, having mixed the batch together,
Called it New York midsummer weather.
New York Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-09-04
A Reasonable Superstition.

81 wonder where that storm is that old
Captain Hedges has been prophesying for
so longi"
TITS probably been postponed ON account
of the weather. New York Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-09-04
A Sure Preventative.

Br'er Secall Ito Colonel Gray)-Why.
kn'nul, whaffo' have y got youah panta,
looms on backwards foahi
Colonel G.-Why, you ignowump chile,
to keep dem from baggum in de knees in
co'se.-Chicago Globe.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-09-04

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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-09-04
Central Vt. Railroad.
" EASTERN STANDARD TIME.
COMMENCING AUG. ie. 1891.

Trains will leave Middlebury as follows:
GOING NORTH AND WEST
The morning call., 1891-11-24
THE FIRE RING.

Appointment Of Fire Commissioners is in
such legal muddle that the best thing
should be done without much regard to le-
gality. When no one knows what is legal
or Illegal the time has arrived to act for the
general good of the community. In this
: case the general good of the community re.
:. duires new Board of Fire Commissioners.
The present board is and for years has been
under the control of political bosses. A de-
partment which, in common with our pub
lie schools. should be conducted without re-
gard to politics, has been the worst boss
ridden department in the city. Ii is not of
much use to argue the question whether the
appointing power lies with the Governor or
with the Board OF Supervisors. Let courts
decide as they may, as good an argument
could be made on the other side. There is
one thing upon which we conceive there can
lie little doubt. If the department is al
lowed to remain in the hands OF Grim
minis and Kelly the party that is RESPONSE
sible for that condition of things Will have
an uphill fight to make next year. AS the
Democrats are presumed to be out of power
whatever blame attaches to the management
OF the department will be visited upon the
Republicans. The fact that portion of tie
board are Democrats will cut no figure in
the case. The Democratic minority would
not run the department if the Republican
majority did not run with it.
The morning call., 1891-11-24
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SHIPMENTS BY WATER.

Mr.. Leeds. general manager of the Cali
fornia Traffic Association, has already
discovered that neither the Chicago nor the
st. Louis association can be taken as mod
els in this State. In the former cities it
was question of regulating railroad rates,
while III this, the water routes, which have
been practically closed for some years, m ay
be used as means of bringing a railroad
monopoly to terms. There has been some
apprehension that as Mr.. Leeds is a kind of
railroad expert he would rely upon railroad
means of transportation in the adjustment
of existing difficulties. If competition is
limited to railroads California is under
certain natural disadvantage. There is
large uuproductive region between the ST.
ezra Nevada and Rocky Mountains This
region may be made productive in the fu-
ture. but at present we have TO deal with 1t
as barren. Consequently, the number of
competing railroads CROSSING the continent
will be limited to the number that can be
made profitable by through freight from
California to the East The local traffic.
which affords business for railroads almost
within sight OF each other in the East, cuts
no figure in tho problem as presented on this
Coast. Another matter to consider is that
majority of the stock of any competing road
that may be built will be owned by men
whose interests lie rather in the East than
on this Coast If, therefore, the Traffic
Association is limited in its means of COM
petition TO railroads. 1t may fail to afford the
relief that is expected. But fortunately,
other means are open. independent steam
ship lines may be established between the
port Of San Francisco and Atlantic ports.
While these water routes may never be
made so rapid as land routes. they may. at
prices they can afford. take good deal of
the freight that is now carried by the rail-
roads. While shippers md it profitable to
send goods 10 San Francisco by way of
Europe, there must be an opening for line
Of steamers or sailing vessels connecting Pa
cifc with Atlantic ports. 1t has been the
policy of the railroad companies TO close
these routes up. They have effected COM
binati0ns that raised the rate Of freight by
water so nearly to the rate by land that
shippers have almost ceased to consider
water routes as a means of competition.
Mr.. Leeds evidently has given the PROPOSE
slti0n to open water routes on an independ-
ent basis some consideration. While it is
not practicable to build another transconti-
mental road with Pacific Coast capital. 1t is
entirely within the means of the members
of the Traffic Association TO establish water
lines between this and Eastern ports, ana
also TO connect San Francisco by means of
natural waterways with all parts of the in
terror of this State.
The morning call., 1891-11-24
MILLS AND CRISP,


There is probably some truth in the re-
port that New York will support Mr.. Crisp
of Georgia for Speaker. While this support
does not absolutely secure the election of
Crisp, it places him in respect TO the Speak
ership about in the position New York's
candidate for President will hold in the
coming Democratic National Convention.
The convention may vote against New
York's candidate, but probably will not.
SO the Democrats In the House may vote
against New York's candidate for Speaker.
bat from this time until the meeting of Con-
gress Mr.. Crisp will be considered to have
the best chance. Crisp has always been up-
derstood to be Governor Hills choice for
Speaker in the sense in which Mr.. Mills is
Mr.. Cleveland's choice. Mr.. Cleveland and
Mr. Mills represent the free-trade element
in the Democratic party. Mr.. Hill and Mr..
Crisp the incidental protection element As
Mr.. Cleveland's friends say that there is no
absolute free-traGe element in the party we
will admit that MIR. Cleveland favors tariff
for revenue with only such protection as
may be necessary to provide the revenue the
The morning call., 1891-11-24
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

DR.. Scott, President Harrson's father-in-
law, is 90 years old.
Gladstone was in Parliament q. -, and at
"a vas Lord of the Treasury.
The literary outcome OF Rider Haggard's
flying thirty-day visit to Mexico is to be a
novel, "MonteZuma's Daughter"
Martin Luther had become largely dis
tingushed at q, and at 56 had reached the
topmOst round of his world wide fame.
Mrs. Nina Van Zandt Malato says she
hates anarchy and that her great love was
for August Spies and not for his cause. 9.
Webster was in college at 10, gave evil
dence OF his great future before he was 25,
AND at 80 lie was the peer Of the ablest man
in Congress.
George |. Seney, whose collection of
paintings was sold last year, netting him a
clear profit of $4,000. is said 10 have begun
laying the foundation for new gallery.
Charles Dudley Warner was born in
Plainield, \. j., and a few days ago the
town by official vote resolved to call the
hill on which he was born Warner Hill"
Colonel a. L. Guger, the Ohio member of
the Republican National Committee, said
in 4 recent interview that it was General
Garfeld's intention to adopt policy Of
reciprocity.
Professor Totten, the millennium fend
who sends his lucubrationS from beneath the
shetering elms Of \ ale College, is about to
renew the onslaught In a new series of arii-
Giles entitled The Coming Crisis"
William Pitt entered the ministry at a.
was Chancellor of the Exchequer at %,
Prime Minister at a, aud so continued for
twenty years. and when 80 was the most
powerful uncrowned mead in Europe.
William J. Haines of ST. Louis is a rare
old man of 1913 years, with an experience as
soldier in two wars, as an engineer on an
African slave trader and as Il pioneer loco
motive engineer on the Missouri Pacific Rail-
road.
Miss Lenore Snyder, the young prima
douna who has been so successful in pleas
ing London audiences. is Western lassie
and, like Geraldine Ulmar. Emma Eames and
other noted stage vocalists. is graduate of
q church choir.
Amos A. Parker of Fitzwilliam, n H.,
recently passed the century mark. He is
the oldest living college graduate IN Amer
lea and has been successful editor, law
yer, author and poet. he was an intimate
friend Of the Marquis de Lafayette.
Miss Anna Dickinson is sadly broken in
health, and her mental trouble is not i'm
proving. There is but little in the unhappy
and haggard appearance in the lady to sug-
gest the brilliant-minded and forcibe wO-
man Anna Dickinson was twenty years ago
fivp
The morning call., 1891-11-24
"Nor NECESSARY TO ANrAGoN1zE.,

a San Francisco contemporary publishes
the following paragraph having reference to
the efforts of our merchants and the citizens
<. OF California generally to regulate the trans
poGtatlon of freight to and from tho Eastern
cities:
II VIII probably not be necessary to antagonize
tie railroads. AT all events the California roads
viii doubtless see their interest in giving re
spectiul treatment 10 the complaints aud re-
quests Of the Traffic Association. The interests
ofEhe California roads are inevitably connected
with tile prosperity o. tie state, and powerful
association can have no great difficulty 10 max
Ing them see the advantage of Fighting The
abuses that bear against California producers
Rud shippers.
Such paragraphs as the above will strike
the public as quite out of place. Our citi-
s-Zens have in fact ever since the railroads
. were completed suffered from excessive
freight charges. What ought to have been
profits on cur fruit products have been
nearly all eaten up in excessive freights
The business has been conducted almost
entirely for the benefit OF the men who
manage the railroads. but the orchardists
o., have struggled along in comparative pow
:. erty; lately they have seen that fruit
:must be dried in order to bring in much
:: profits, hence there have been complaints
= Oar merchants. however. have been
:. squeezed beyond endurance. They have,
p: in fact, been hampered by a monopoly
which has aim 81 destroyed their business
: The railroads have not only charged excess
siye freights, but they have combined TO put
tTeigh- from nearly every quarter. They
: q combination even with a Canadian rail-
Toad. We are in fact nearly shut out from
communication with the outside world
81 by water. And what has this been for?
Simply that few men, already rich, may
obtain few more millions. OF course we
Should not antagonize spch interests, but our
citizens would like to live.
The morning call., 1891-11-24

Government needs, while Mr.. Hill would
alton. Precisely how far Mr.. Hill would 60
III adjusting duties no one knows. lie Is
rather shifty politician and in his speeches
avoids exact statements OF principles. lie
differs from Mr.. Cleveland also in the fact
that he realizes that Now York City cannot
elect a President. Perceiying this, he would
shape platform to please other sections of
the country. In party point OF view Mr..
Hills position is stronger than Mr. Cleve-
lands. In straight contest between a
tariff for revenue and protection there can
be little doubt of the result. Protection
would win "hands down." But with enough
protection thrown into the Democratic plat
form to enable Democratic speakers to
claim to be good protectonists in the States
that way inclined, the result would be more
doubtful. Personally either Mr. Mills or
Mr.. Crisp is unobjectionable. Both rank
among public men who have kept their hands
clean. Mr. Crisp is said to possess in a con-
siderable degree the faculty of keeping his
head in moments of excitement. Like
ex-Speaker Reed his mind does its best
work amid contention that would confuse an
average parliamentary leader. The large
majority in the present House will relieve
the Speaker from many of the perplexties
which Speaker Reed dissipated with such
audacity, but there are occasions in all Con-
crosses when an able presiding officer re-
Quiresthe complete use of all his intellectual
rpsolrces
The morning call., 1891-11-24
A CURIOUS CASE.

1t is q curious fact that cases are now
pending in our courts to determine if a
New York shipper desiring to send goods
10 San Francisco may avail himself of a
route which involves an extra COCO miles OF
travel. The first question naturally is.
why a shipper of New York should volur-
tsrily send his shipment 5000 miles out of
the way? Why does he send his goods to
Europe and from Europe to San Francisco?
"A writer in HdrdWare, paper devoted to
the hardware trade, says the object is to
save freight charges. How can there be a
saving of freight charges by adding 5000
miles to the voyage? The Hardware writer
says that the saving in freight by shipping
10 San Francisco by way of Europe has
been fl ON SO to SIG a ton. The writer also
The morning call., 1891-11-24
THE CARP MUST GO.
Lake Merced Now Contains FIT.
teen Hungry Seals.

a. Psladini OF tho Clay-street Mark ct is a
happy man just now, for lie is filling a con-
tract with the Spring Valley Water Com
pany for all the seals he can catch, to be
sent to Lake MERGED.
few days ago a large sea-lon was
dumped into the lake. and his fine work has
been already noted in the number of mutt
lated carp fished out from the shores, and
especially from the neighborhood Of the big
tiume.
1T was the nuisance created by the carp
cungregating at this point that determined
the company to clear them out, and at the
present rate the seals will soon have the
lake to themselves.
Another seal, caught off Point Lobos, was
sent to the lake by Paladini yesterday.
Three or four kinds of seals are now repre-
sented, but this specimen cost the company
more than double the price of the last one.
which was an ordinary sea-lion and not DOS
sess!ng the vitality of the leopard seal, to
which Yesterdays contribution belonged.
1t has already been found that seals are not
particularly partial to a carp diet, but
they pursue and kill the fish, out of
sheer playfulness, presumably, so that the
company's ends are just as well subserved.
There are number of black bass in the
lake. but whether the seals will clear these
out also can only be decided by an autopsy
If one of the fifteen should die. Yester-
days specimen cost the company So
The morning call., 1891-11-24
AMONG THE MINISTER'S,

Discussion by Bap;ists, Methodists and
Presbyterians.
AT the weekly meeting of the Methodist
ministers yesterday morning Rev. DR.. Ii. c.
Benson of Santa Clara read paper on the
subject of Suggestive Inquiries into the
Source of True Church Government" In
brief he argued that true church govern
ment was vested i'll the ministry and not in
the alty
During the discussion that followed some
disagreed with DIR. Benson. expressing the
belief that God had recognized laymen and
had fully equipped them for efficient legisla-
ton in the church.
An elaborate criticism on DR.. Ladd's
book styled congregational Polity" was
read by Rev. II. b. Hutchins, pastor of
Emanuel Church. Sacramento. during the
meeting of the Baptist ministers. The
paper was more of a review Of the work
than n criticism. Several interesting argu-
ments in reference TO the work were heard.
'Prison Sunday" was the subject of a
paper read before the Presbyterian Minis
teral Union by the President Rev. DIR. H.
A. ketchum. He related his experiences
during visits to the State Prisons, and said
it was burning disgrace that so many sa-
looms should be located at San Quentin
Point. The increase of crime was attributed
largely to the influx of low class of for
eignerS.
Rev. Mr.. Woodwork, Secretary of the
California Prison Commission, said that
the lack of paternal training caused crime.
The subject of the discussion refers to the
coming Sabbath. which has been set apart
Tor consideration in the various pulpits, of
crime aud the interests of prisoners.
The morning call., 1891-11-24
CUR WINE PROSPECTS.

A telegram from Chicago announces that
an agent of an English syndicate is on his
way to California, for the purpose OF pur-
chasing vineyard property. 1t is not i'm
probable that there is some truth In this
statement. for where is there such another
opportunity in any portion of the world to
supply England with wine at reasonable
rates? We produce excellent clarets md
white wine already, with such experience
as we have had, and now Congress having
enacted a law which permits the manufac-
ture of sweet wines without paying a tax
for the brandy which is required to fortify
them. an opportunity offers to supply En-
gland with port and other strong wine. equal
10 any furnished by Portugal and Spain and
Madeira. This may prove of great import
ance to California, for we have as yet only
entered upon the experimental stage with
mi,