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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-07

and "ReSt Cure"
The S. Weir-Mitchell Rest-Treatment spec
iality. DR.. willard is IA graduate Of Yale, SO
and Medical Department U. V. NJ, ~. some OF
his permitted references are as follows:
Bishops Atwell, Mo-, Bissel, VT, Davies.
Mich; Presidents Angel, Ann Arbor, Buck
ham, U. V. NJ, Dwight, Yale, ex-President
White, Cornell; Professors Goodrich. Grin
nell, Perkins. Roberts, j. B. Wheeler Wit
thaus, L. V. NJ. DR.. b. J. Andrews, Hon q. G.
B, nedct. Rev. DIR Bliss, ex-senator Ed
munds, Rev. f. Hungerford, ex Minister
Phelps, Hon. Is. b. Smalley, Judge Wales,
Hon. c. W. Woodhouse, Burlington; Drs. Ed
dy, Middlebury, Cavery, Rutland, JENNIE, st.
Adams, Lawton, Brattleboro; Judge Munsons
Manchester; Prot smith. Hanover. \. Drs-
Kellogg, Plattsburgh, Leith, Lancaster, n H.;
G. Z. Thnyer, Boston, Sawyer, Barre, Crisands
Worcester, Mass, Frank Lewis, y. Y, Dennis.
Newark, Nd. j. Rollins Brown, Brooklyn, Cal
| Kins, Springfield; Edmund Clarence Stedmans
Charlton +. Lewis, Rev. Dr. Wilton, Rev.
walls, New York, Rev. Dr. Stafford, Brooklyn
Rev. DR.. Munger, New Haven. Wayne Mo
Veagh, philadelphia. Pr +. T. H. Grimm, Ral-
| timOre, Judges $ Slim-, Washington. Bill
ings, New Orleans. PROT. T.. Collier, Geneva.
| Hon. H. L Robinson, ID. II L. Sterns, Hart
ford C. ana +. II. Russell. nrs. +. w Page.
| G.. +. Stedman, Boston, Rev. VIM. X. Camp
| bell, RoXburN. Rev. j. W. Buckhhm Salems
| Mass, Rev. Theodore Bacon, Essex Junction.
Rev. Dr. Chester Nashville, TENT, Rev. DIR.
| Poor, Philadelphia, Rev. Hiram Bingham
| Honolulu. 5. l., Gen. Harland Norwich Comm
| Gen. q. A. johnson, san Francisco, Rev. DIR.
| H"ugh, Santa Barbara, Albert Emmett Kent
| San Rafael Cal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-04-07

''Prisoner, Go you confess your guiltH
mo, your honor, The words of my. coun-
sci have convinced me Of my innocence. ~
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Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-03-12

Prior had several qualifications for
diplomatic work. Though he must some
times have been hampered by his hum
BILE origin, he never failed TO maintain
the dignity of his official position. His
special knowledge of commerce, his
readiness, his humot, his fiuency in
French, his familiarity with Horace "a
useful accomplishment in the Augustan
age) and even zee visage de bois," as Boil
ingbroke called it, must often have been
of service to him. But Prior's life when
he had the honor Of representing Queen
Anne at the French court was not happy.
His letters during that period show that
he was uneasy about the prospects Of his
party and felt his own position to be in
secure.
In those days, moreover, the British
government was not good paymaster;
generals had sometimes TO find money
from their own pockets TO pay their sol
diers, and ambassadors salaries were
often in arrear. When the crash came
Prior found himself in an unfortunate
plight. He was looked coldly on both by
the new administration and by his own
party. It was stated that he had made
revelations, and it was even supposed
that his indiscretion was the cause Of
Bolingbroke's i'll judged fight. For this
malicious report there is, so far as we
know, no trustworthy foundation.-Lon
don Athen9um.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-03-12

The dog of fashion is an expensive lux
ury in our day. He requires almost as
many belongings as his mistress-elegant
upholstered apartments, satin and velvet
cushions, and bed as good as the house
affords; travelling satchels and mapping
baskets, various garments, table service
and toilet articles, playthings, ribbons,
costly harness and valuable jewelry set
with gems. There is hardly an end to his
possessions Besides this he often has
maid specially devoted to his service. and
he gives luncheon parties. When i'll, he "
attended by the family physician, If he is
either very humane or afraid Of losing pat
ronage.
And when he dies he is buried in a costly
casket and commemorated by marble
monument, though sometimes he is scisn-
tifcally preserved" placed in a ieweled
receptacle too valuable to be buried and
kept on exhibition in the home his death
has made desolate. a dog thus treated has
almost ceased to be dog. lie is product
of fashion and seems hardly to belong to
the race Of doggy" dogs whom we all love
and like to have about s.-Harper's Bazaar.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-03-12
One Form of City Charity.

A grocer complains bitterly because
wealthy patrons of his establishment
send tramps and paupers there with
notes saying, "Mr. B, give this man a
pound of crackers and box of sardines, 1"
OF 1.-THE bearer would like four bundles
of kindling and a pound of coffee. +"
The applicants get the stuff because the
grocer wants to retain the custom of
those who send them and who have not
the slightest intention Of paying for
goods thus given away. Its pretty
cheap charity for these rich people to en-
gage in" says he, but my experience is
that it hurts a rich man worse 10 give
up dollar than it does poor man.
New York Sun.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-03-12
CONTENT.

am 30 happy, dear, when | am near you;
Then with the mad, sad world your course
pursue,
But leave for me a corner to revere you;
am so happy just with love and you.
When that great life that would be earths de-
fender
Receives a thrust from them it would have
spared,
Come, then, and learn, oh, bruised heart strong
and tender,
No lonely joy can equal sorrow shared.
] am not wise, except that adore you,
Nor strong, except that love its strength hath
lent;
But, dear, If all my life upfung before you
Can soften one hard step, am content.
Anna p. Beardsley in Harpers Weekly.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-03-12

The solicitor Of mountain district Of
North Carolina few years back was J.
M. Gudger. On one occasion five col
ored men of unusual blackness Of tint
were on trial. When the case was called,
the judge, noticing the group, inquired,
what have you now, Mr.. SOLICITOR"
Instantly came the reply, "a flush Of
spades, your honor. San Francisco Ar
gonaut.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-03-12
Too Many Entertainments.

Little Daughter-Say, mamma, won't
you take me to Cousin James funerall
Mamma-No, petite. You went TO the
matinee yesterday and party last light.
You mustn't have too many entytsin-
ments at a time. You don't want TO give
yourself up entirely to mirth and frival-
ity.-Texas Siftings.
New-York tribune., 1893-12-10
SOTIPRELS IN THE PARK.
TIE MAN THEY LOVE.

What excessively nervous animal Is capable OF
remaining. upon occasion. as motioniess az ino'o
lith? a chpmunk Il squirrel. You woniu t'hi'
from the way in which squirrel scampers from
you upon the first intimaton Of your approach that
your footfall gives that he was provided with the
most sensitive springs In his body. But now IN
tensey still he stands after he has fled ten or NJ
teen feet. II you watch him noiselcssly he VIII
remain If paralyzed and never bulge until you
do The writer has petrihed chipmunks and squir-
rels by simply gazing at them. without moving
muscle and has finally had to end the spell through
sheer lack of time and patience. IL must be fright
that chains the little creatures to the ground when
they hear a foreign sound; yet everybody knows
that a tame squirrel is one OF the taTlest pets In
the world.
In Central Park, where the squirrels flourish In
a way to put the provcrbia tree TO shame the
same ones that arc thrown into n panic by one man
are the willing friends OF another an elderly soul
who loves to idle among the trees and play with
their ,urry az, ,s apd IN feeds them out of
store OF nuts and other daintteS he carries IN ms
half a dozen squirrels are hopping abou, his arms
and knees At another moment. when he is stand;
one or two viii be contentedly flirting ,ner tails
from his shoulder looking down at the less ad-
new kind of tree and encouraging their com
panions to climb up and taste the fruit mat seems m
the groundlngs hesitate a stranger comes along
the path nearby with perhaps , slightly o, 100 Srd pon
gun only to stop and blink heplessy In the usual
fashion The heroes the shoulders or their
friend will sometimes take what IL nearly a Tying
leap for the trce-trunk. This is one OF the
pretty sights that the man secs who IL fortunate
enough to live near Central Park and can contrive
q walk there in the morning on his way downtown
He sees other picturesque things. 10 say nothing
OF the landscape and the pretty girls taking their
morning galop with their fathers or or an lnstruc,
tor from one Of the riding schools The ducks and
swans are delightful when they are taking their
early bath, and the latter still more so when
thew are asleep on the water with wings tightly
folded and long serpentne necks curled up almost
out of sight They look like elongated snow balls.
In the winter they once IN while get frozen In
over night and you Will see them. half dozen at
time patiently waiting for OF the + trk guard
fans 10 push out in little skin to VIII re the Ice
has caked about them and liberate the with
New-York tribune., 1893-12-10

seventy five feet above the water. aid seven
other bridges have been built for other roads.
But the most extraordinary bridge of all s at
Barton. where the old Brdgcwatcr canal crosses
II. There IS difference OF twenty-cght feet
In the levels OF the two canals at this point
II impossible to bring them to n level.
unless by a most elaborate and costly system of
locks and the smaller one was not high enough
above the larger 10 allow vessels to pass under
II. The engineers therefore decided upon the
novel and daring cNpcdicnt OF a drawbridge In
an aqucduct massive bridge therefore
constructed. with a vast central span turning
on "A pivot in midstrcam Of the lower canal.
When the draw Is opened to allow ships 10 pass.
gates are closed at each end Of this span, and
1t IS then turned just as an ordinary draw
bridge
The most striking feature OF all. however, was
the army Of men employed. varying In number
from / 900 to 5000 These lived In regular viii
lagos. built for them along the line Pleasant.
we'll furnished wooden houses were provided for
the men and their families. and In each village
there chapel. a hospital. a school and
reading-room. with ministers. doctors and teach
ers. all provided by the liberal contractor. 1t
was extraordinary social phenomenon. this
sudden gathering of a myriad of men. many OF
them with families to live and work together
for few years. and then be scattered back
again TO all parts Of the country They were, on
the whole. IA sober. orderly set, with much natural
gcntlema nliness While the work was in prog
ress thousands OF visitors. many OF them ladies'.
visited the scene of operations. and they re-
ceivcd nothing but courteous attention from
the navvies. IT, says an observer. Il lady were
near muddy place the odds great but
that. In careless sort of way. the labOrer threw
plank over the soft ground The missionary
and the harbDrer of the navy tell OF many acts
Of kirdness on his part. II a penness comrade
looking for work appeared among them, his
appeal though unspukcn. was never in vain.
A levy was made to SUI ply him with Immediate
relief ard II II were at all possible the 'ganger'
took him in the ranks. If poor man were
MANNED or killed-as too often happened-an
instant and substantial collection for any one
who might be- dependent upon him was set on
foot
For 600 years Manchester has been the
centre Of textile manufacturing. and has
been the theatre Of the great inventions OF
Kay, Arkwright Crompton. Cartwright and
their fellow laborers. Now IT is surrounded by
a circle of tributary cities. Bolton. oldham.
Stockport. Hyde. Ashton. Maccles;icld. Staly-
bridge-technirally mere towns but really great.
wealthy and populous cities The Town Hall
Of Manchester is the largest municipal building
I'm the world. and one Of the hanlsomest; and
in parks art galleries public libraries and SIM
liar features Manchester takes high rank among
the great cities Of the Old World. Such IL has
come 10 be- as an inland city. To-day 1t be-
comes a seaport. and one OF the four or five
mos, populous In the world. with n future
promise and po,en,iality beyond all reckoning.
New-York tribune., 1893-12-10

tidal, and is twenty-one miles long, extending
from Eastman to little above Warringtoh'
Then huge set of locks raises 1t sixteen ana
half feet and at that level 1t runs seven ana
half miles further. to Irlam. The second set OIL
locks raises it sixteen feet, to the third reach'
which is only two miles long The third locks
at Barton raise it fifteen feet, to the fourth
reach Finally. three and a quarter miles fur-
ther on the fourth locks raise 1t thirteen feet,
to the fifth and last reach, which is only mile
and three-quarters long and which leads to ia
acres of docks artifcially constructed between
Manchester and Stafford. Locks al the Eastman
end will keep the first tidal reach at the level
of the highest spring tides. The minimum depth
of water in the canal will be twenty-six feet,
and It can be increased at any time to twenty
eight. The minimum width at the bottom is 120
and at the top 10 feet. 1t is OF interest to note
that the Suez Canal is only 26 feet deep ana -
feet wide at the bottom, the Amsterdam Canal
% feet deep and SO feet wide and the Corinth
Canal os feet deep and y feet wide The Pam
ANA Canal was intended to be from q to y feet
deem and from ~ to 70 feet wide The Manches-
fer Canal thus ranks in these dimensions as de-
cidedIv the greatest artificial waterway in the
New-York tribune., 1893-12-10

Paper; or perhaps II Is but a reflection OF the
Oriental luxurance amid which he lived so long,
This last it may be which leads him 10 eA'oi
what he calls the poetic passages IN 'his "iau-
stones oratory in which the poetic quality Is al
most wholly wanting.
1t was said Of, or perhaps by Miss Coreiii-and
II by her It NAV we'll enough have been said
no one Of her books had ever
been praised by any journal or critic OF hlgh
standing. Triumphantly because she mas, II this
assertion be true won her way TO the position
she occupies by the unaided efforts OF her own
talents If in truth she is content with her
position or, perchance, proud Of il, this freedom
from obligation to others may add TO her SELL
satisfaction There have been authors before
now who found public, and VerI large pubic
without help from the critics. The penny dread-
fuls and shilling shockers have owed nothing 10
criticism, yet have attained, some OF them an
immense circulation. Few Of them went lower
than Miss Corelli in their search FOR the ma
terials of popularity: few had less In common
with literature: some have had many more read
ers than she; none has helped to gauge more ac-
clIrately the incompetence of the unaided read
ing public to form sound judgment on book
which undertakes to be sensational should
imagine that Miss Core might have formed
her mind and her style upon much reading OF
Archdeacon Farrar.
Among her admirers is another less eminent
ecclesiastic. 1t is probable that the climax OF
modern English criticism has been reached in
the verdict of Canon Wilberforce upon MISS
Corelli's "Barabbas." This is the climax:
"My verdict on 'Barabbas' is that it is very
high-minded and powerful effort to revivify by
the legitimate use of the imagination time
honored history by depolarzing it from the con-
yentionaIty in which ii had become crystallized
Not often has any critic contrived to indicate
so fully in single sentence his literary and crti-
cal and even his scientific qualifications for the
Judgment he announces G.. w. S.
New-York tribune., 1893-12-10

railroad; in a measure. too. for many years To
a little old-fashioned ditch called a canal, now
forgot forever beside the noble stream that
engineering artincc has brought within its
borders.
The Manchester ship canal Is not only thus
a work Of vast importance, but 1t Is almost
entirely unique Unlike the canals of Sucz and
Corinth. and those projected at Nicaragua and
across Schlcswig-Hostcin. II Is no highway Of
commerce from sen II sea. Its purpose IL solely
to convert one inland city into shipping port
Now Amsterdam is port by virtue Of canal.
but 1t was port long before the canal was cut
Newcastle and Glasgow. too. owe their com
mercial greatness to the work OF engineers; but
that work was merely the enlarging Of atural
waterways already long in use. None Of these
set any example to Manchester. as Manchester
Is setting 10 Paris. 10 the quaint old town of
Bruges. and to many other inland capitals that
are now mooting the question OF ship canals
that will make them seaports.
There was. as has been said. an old canal
from Manchester to the Mersey, built first t.
Leigh, as long ago 17Gl II made BY the
Duke OF Bridgewater. To convey coal from his
mines to the factories Of Manchester and Sal
ford. 1t was narrow shallow thing. giving
New-York tribune., 1893-12-10
A SHIPYARD on 4 HILL.
From The Lewiston Journal.


Who would have thought of a shipyard on Charles
ton Hill? True Agassiz said the highlands south
of the St Lawrence the backbone OF the
world. and upon that hypothesis we may suppose 2
time when the sea waves Tapped the hiilsldes OF
Charleston town and ships might reasonably nave
been built there. But our question does not refer
70 any such remote time. IL Is now recalled as an
event In Maine history that Captain Thomas
Bunker. who hid been a seafaring man OF biuenhi
Bay getting tired OF the farm he had cleared on
the Charleston highlands, told his grown-up sons
would only build him a fishing vessel In which ne
might go back to sailing on the blue sea. Ihey
agreed and built II right there IN their own farm-
vard-a nice, taut, handsome ship nfty teet iohg
and of thirty tons burden and painted the name OF
their mother the captains wife. under the sterir-
."The Betsey" This seventy years ago.
One summer morning the voyage TO Bangor was
ber1in The Retsey had been lifted up with jack.
screws and put twelve wheels or trucks sawed
off from a big birch tree. team or twenty yokes
of oxen was attached to the PROV and Colonel Jonn
Dunning was master Of ceremonies. Three days
were occupied getting TO Bangor. and II was an
ovation along the whole route. From far ana near
the people-rnen. women and children-gathered 70
see the 'Betsey" sail by on dry land. The farmers
brought out the mugs of cider 10 treat the red
shirted teamsters. and altogether IL was unique
spectacle The strange team rolled down tnion-st.
In Bangor and straight on across Main-st down 70
the ferry slip. There the trucks were run down 70
the waters edge. and when the tide came IN tiee
"Betsey foated off as jauntily and proudly as !.
she had been n andsman In her life captain
Bunker. says OF his sons. sailed successfully
in this strangely built vessel for twenty years aho
then sold her Her name was changed anu siie
was lost by being wrecked on the Maine Coast onS
four
New-York tribune., 1893-12-10
TRANSIENT ISLANDS ~ TIE PACIFfC

From The San Francisco Examiner.
The Western Pacific Is great place for Islands
that emerge from waves unexpectedly and as sud
denly disappear. Sometimes they up and
stay. but more often they have existence mercy
temporary. -,
marx By which he has been accus'omed 10 get his
bearings. and perhaps the next day he runs MS
vessels upon brand-ncw piece Of territory
that has sprung up out Of the water since he last
came that way The region south OF Japan ~ 80
given to this sort o. eccentrlcty that ships AVOID
1t. Volcanic action Is responsible for such phe-
noInena Reports Of them Will be noted on me
p!lct chart IN every case though they are not
always reliable, because backs OF sleeping whales
and schools OF fishes running along the surface are
frequently mistaken for Islands and shoaiS'
New-York tribune., 1893-12-10
CURED Of HIS DERGCRlTfC Politics.

From The Detroit Free Press
81 w,s aovn in Kentucky not long ago" said the
drummer and met an od man one day in the
store where / had just sold bill OF goods ana
:: You look a good deal Ike my boy, he slid'
:" .yes' said l. He must be quite good-ookng.'
Purity peart boy, said he.
.rhirty-nine. goin' on forty; and used to be
likely in politics but he quii
" Why"
That comes of a man making mistake In
what he s.ea,s How did II happen
well you see he wuZ peart In politics, ana ne
wanted to 20 to the Legislator mgnty pad b.t nc
wuz "A Reoublikn. ana Republikins amt got no
show in Kaintucky. | tod him 50. but he said ne
wuz bound go to Frankfort ef II took ~; 50
at last I says TO him "Jcemes. it's doSgoned sight
shorer FER YOU to git thar By stean' boss than
It is runnn' fer taer Legislator and mighty nign
ns respectable': and by hokey. Jsemes tuck nv adj
vice and went to Frankfort fer ten years Seice
that concluded the o.d man, Jeemes ant ban
kcred much fer politics. ner fer hosses neither.
New-York tribune., 1893-12-10
4 WOMAN TRAMP.
From The visalia (Cal) Delta.

From The Visalia Ca) Delta.
Constable English and Deputy Toomey received
word recently that four five tramps having
a merry old time in Goshen. and they re-
quested 10 go out end arrest the "hobos" They
brought the tramps back to this city and OF
them was woman. who gave her name Mrs.
King she Is a woman about thirty years OF age.
Mrs King said she trying to beat her way TO
Texas where she has relatives. She said that she
and her husband lived in Tacoma but they had
agreed to separate She is not a ad-looking
woman, and appears 10 be very well educated. but
her mode Of travel has given her a vcrnacuar
peculiar to tramps.
She IL dressed In a black alpaca, which looks very
shabby, and has valse In which she states Is
better clothes She beats her way by every posi-
bic means-some times In box cars and often on the
blind baggage OF a passenger train.
New-York tribune., 1893-12-10

world. Each group OF locks consists Of two or
three side by side OF different sizes the largest
in each group being 800 feet long and 10 TO 50
:cet wide. anording room for the largest ocean
steamships The time required for ship to
traverse the entire length Of the canal will be
about ten hours
The engineering problems involved in the
work of construction were noteworthy chiefly
for their magnitude. Nearly 50.00O000 cubic
yards of earth and stone were 10 be eXcavated
more than one-nfth being solid rock. sub
stantal standard gauge railroad was first built
along the entire route on one side. and for nearly
half the way the other side. on this Were
run enormous land drcdgcs." like dredging
scows wheels. From these long arms ex-
tended out the bed Of the canal bearing
endless chains Of shoyels and scoops which,
operated solely by steam power. dug up and
carried away the earth and gravel. For remov-
ing the eXcavatcd matter no less than 10 loco
motives and more than 5000 used
enough To equip an extensive railroad system.
Besides excavating. there was "A vast amount
of building to be done: the locks. walls bridges
etc. In these works nearly 100000 cubic yards
%: concrete used. Four great railroad
bridges cross the canal. at clear height OF