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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-02-01
DEFAMATION OE CHARACTER.

The sultan of Turkey is enjoying a
new sensation. The character of his
government, and by implication his own,
have been assailed. Some unprincipled
people in London, calling themselves
no doubt untruly-Armenians. have
ventured to assert that there have been
some very undesirable massacres in Ar
menia which were perpetrated by Tur-
lish soldiers under the orders of Tur-
kish officials. The painful part of the
business is that a good many people
have actually believed them. Meetings
have been held in more than one Chris
tian country, and several of the govern
ments of Europe have said unpleasant
things on the subject and even gone so
far as to insist upon a formal inquiry
into the whole matter. And the sultan
Is seriously annoyed at the damagir 9
ImputatiOns cast npon the very admira-
BILE system of government which, as he
well knows, prevails, in his dominions.
The longer he thinks of the matter tie
/
faithful evidently feels. just at first he
cOptented himself with obtaining the
usual denials from all parties concerned
that is, of course, all parties accused
! of nassacring Armenians-fOr obvious
reasons the views of the others were not
produced. Strange to say, this did not
give entire satisfaction, and he then pro-
ceeded to invite the nations interested to
send commissioners and take evidence
for themselves. This offer having been
accepted. the sultan has been steadily
growing more angry at the Infamous
SANDER ever since. 1t is surprising also
what a quantity of valuable evidence
has been cropping up in all sorts of un-
expected quarters, all of it tending to
show that there was no massacre, and
that if there had been, it would certainly
have been committed by the Armenians,
while the victims, beyond all doubt,
would have been the long sutlering
soldiers of the yice-regent of the prophet.
1t is wonderful how many people have
been found who had been in the district
and never heard of anybody who had
been harshly treated.
The worst of it is that the very ee-
ments seem to be in league against the
sultan. With singular perversity the
snow has rendered it out of the question
for the commissioners to proceed with
the inquiry. This is, of course, very
trying for the sultan, whose one desire
is 40 doubt to get IA perfectly fair and
unbiased verdict in the affair. Possibly
he may find some little consolation in
the fact that he is being meanwhile tried
and acquitted bya jury consisting of a
few influential newspapers, who propose
to save the commissioners the trouble of
going through the form of taking evil
dence on the spot, or from the people
who may be supposed to know some
thing about it. The progress of this
trial by newspaper correspondence can
not fail to be most gratifying to the
Sublime Porte. One advantage of the
new system of trial is that the court be-
gins to give its verdict from the very
commencement of the trial. This natu--
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-02-01
No. 4Oe.-Geographical Puzzle.
NO. 4os.. Hidden Proverbs.

By taking two words from each sentence
and reading downward two familiar prov
cribs may be found.
l. She is fine child, but she is also
willful.
2. Do not waste those feathers.
g. l cannot make pies as well as She
makes tarts.
f. With very wocful face she OK
claimed, Tho cotton is much too fine. "
8. She said that she did not want the
birds.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-02-01

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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-02-01

Behead quiet and leave money drawer
To destroy and leave indis posed.
A period of time and leave pronoun
To acquire md leave part of the head
Fascination and leave trouble
A mans name and leave celebrated
bOnt.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-02-01

COUGHING LEADS TO CONSUME
TION. Kemps Balsam stops the cough vi
once.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-02-01
Notice of settlement and Application
for Dist hutton.
Estate of Samuel Harlow.

STATE OF VERMONT, In Probate
SODIsrRICr OF ADDISON, 50. Court, held at
Middlebury, in said district on The Both day
OF January, \. ID. 1889.
A. ID. Martin, administrator of the estate of
samuel Harlow, late OF Hancock, in said
district, dect ased, presents his administra
ton account Tor examination and allowance,
and makes application tor a decree of distri-
button and partition OF the estate OF said de
ceased. WhereupOn, it is ordered by said
Court, that said account and said application
be referred to n session thereof, to be ne d
ut the Probate office in said Middlebury on
the 2lst day Ca February, A. ID. ls9j, Tor hearing
ana ueci lion thereon: And, n is further or
dered, that notice hereof be given to all per
sons interested, by publication of the same
three weeks successfully in the Muddlebury
REGISTER "A newspaper published at Middle
bury, previous to sad time appointed for
hearing, that they may appear ut said time
ana place, and show cause, il any they may
have, why saidaccount should not be allowed,
and such decree made.
BY order of court.
Attest, JAMES NJ. SLADE,
D Judge of Probate.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-02-01

Tho center of ten stars and letters rep.
resonts the namo applied to the earliest
authentic history of the creation and tina
events Immediately following the dcluge
Read the points from the center out
ward: From l to ?, the birthplace OF
Alexander; from 3 to 2, Il town of Argoli g,
In Greece, where games were instituted in
honor of Hercules for killing the Nomcan
lion; from to 4, king of Assyra, who.
queen was perhaps even more celebrated
than himself; from to 4, a city founded
by Inachus; from 3 to g. one of the citiol
destroyed by fire from heaven and buried
under the waters of the Dead sea- from T
to &, a city Of Chaldca built by Nimrod;
from to s, the muse of eleginc poetry;
from to s, a country of Africa; from =
to 10, one celebrated for her knowledge 81
magic and poisonous herbs; from to 10,
an article used by the Hebrews for carry.
ing money.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-02-01
Central VT. Railroad.
&" EASTERN " STANDARD TIME.
COMM EkCINC DEG. 9. 1894.
Trains will leave Middlebury as tollows
GOING NORTH AND WEBT.

2.O1 - M NIGHT EXPRESS iron
Wal q LII New York and Boston fol
Montreal, Ogd srsbI rg ano
u" West. Sleeping ca
daily, sunday Included
New York o Montreal
Troy; III d daily, except
sunday, Boston u Mont
real.
O.ZO - ~ LOCAL EXPRESS Bun
O'IO q LII lington, st. lbans, Rouse's
Point, Richfcrd, Waterbury
and Montpelier
1921 p NJ E Td7si Ssr A fddaa from r Hsy
Albany, Springfield and
Boston Tor Burlington,
Montpelier, st. Adams,
Richford, Montreal, Og
densburg and the West
Wagner car to Montreal
and Pullman sleeper Mon.
treal to Chicago without
change. Due ut Chicago
$40 the next night.
O.OO w EXPRESS, IRON New
WV r. LII York, albany and Troy
for Burilne ton, and ST.
Albans.
GOING SOUTH AND EAST
O.EO ~ EXPRESS MAIL, for Bos.
O.O6 q LII tOa, Woy esLer, New Lon
don, 81 ringdeld AM New
YORK; also Troy, Albany
and New York Wagner
Par. or cars to New York
anC Boston.
AuA7 ~ PASSENGER for Rutland
&H 4+ h LII ana intermediate stat Ons.
$40 p m Mi ntsrnod iSG R slsioa. and
1923 p E aaa and Th intdrm ed at E ta
tions, also tor FRO, AHA
ny, New YORK. and Boston
SleeIin cAs through C
Nes York and Boston
Runs daily Sui days includ
ed Montreal 20 New Yorh
via Troy, and daily excep'
Sunday Montreal to BOs
ton.
ADDISON RAILROAD.
Going South-7;3o a n-Mixed train
leaves Ticonderoga for Leicester Junction, al
irving S.55.
Going NoTth-6;35 p n-Mixed train
leaves Leicester Junction, arriving at Tieon
deroga 05
81 Through Ticketsfor Chicago and the est
or sale at the principal stations.
F. W. BALDWIN,
General Superintend
s. W. CUMMINGS,
General Passenger Agent.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-02-01
VITAL TO MANHOOD.

DIR. E. c. VESTS NERVE AND BRAIN TREAT.
MEM, . specific for Hysteria, Dizziness Fits, Neu-
ralgia, Headache, Nervous Prostitution caused By
alcohol or tobacco, Wakefulness, Menta Depression
Sottenlng OF Brain, causing insanity misery decay
death, Premature Old Age, Barrenness, Loss OF
rover IN either sex, 1mpotency, Leucorrhna and all
teinale weaknesses, Involuntary Losses, Sperma-
torlh@a caused by over-exertion of brain Self
abuse, over-Indulgence. months treatment 81,
oforS5, by mail With each order for 6 boxes, with
- VIII send written guarantee to refund If not cured
0uarant, es issued by agent VESTS LIVER PILLS
sour stomach, Dyspepsia and Constipation.
GUARANTEES issued only by
w. IL. SHELDON, Sole Agent
Middlebury. VI.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-02-01

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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-02-01
Key to the Puzzler.

No, 1903 -- Transpositions Asleep
Elapse. Please
No. 39l.-Illustrated Rebus: "Sct not
your candle under II bushel, but on a can.
dlestick"
No 395.-Diamond:
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-03-29
A Little Farm Well TITLED.

hsoiup
Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Perry have a
pigmy farm OF a single acre in Maple
wood, but it is so cultivated that ii
affords them an independent living,
and they are laying by for rainy day
the fruit oil the labor which they do at
odd times for their neighbors. But
every inch OF this model farm garden
is cultivated and made to do its utmost
in producing. The strawberry season
followed by the raspberry crop, and
then 10y blackberries, give them Il long
period when snug moneyed income
is daily experienced. Their hennery
pays its quota of fresh eggs during the
winter season, and throughout the
year they have a small surplus OF
choice vegetables for marketing, while
the Jersey cow which grazes on the
commons. is constant source OF
comfort and profit. 1t is the aggre-
gate of such model little independent
holdings that has made France mex
haustable in wealth, and the hope OF
our own nations best prosperity de-
pends more on the intensive produc-
tiveness of small areas, than upon
financial legislation.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-03-29

Big debts come from big promises.
Little ideas and big successes never
go together.
A careless merchant will have care
less customers.
Leaks in business are like gimlet
holes in a barrel.
A neat store and neatly printed sta
tionery go together.
If excuses had a money value, some
men would be wealthy.
Success is very coy and will remain
only when treated we'll.
Place your confidence upon actua
cash and you don't misplace it.
Some clerks cultivate their mus
taches more carefully than they dt
business sense.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-03-29

millions OF once happy and woodland
born creatures; and the birds suffer
more than any other living thing. The
great electric lights OF the lighthouses
on the coasts and islands slav hundreds
of thousands OF the birds OF the sea and
OF migratory song birds, AS they dash
in headlong flight against the revolv-
ing glare, and fall dead from the shock
on the rocks below. When the tired
flocks OF the air land on some sea-
shore, worn out with fatigue, half dead
with thirst, obliged to seek II days
repose before continuing their flight,
the human brute receives them with
stick and net and gun. There is no
/ hospitality for the winged traveller; if
/ he stOOp to drink, il he pause to rest,
il he plume his rutlled feathers on
tussock of grass, his enemy is down on
him, the two-limbed human brute,
who is more cruel than any bird or
beast OF prey. There is no sympathy
with his courage, o aid to his WEAKNESS
even drop Of dew or wayside seed
is begrudged to him. He must perish
to be ground between the yellow teeth
of peasants, or, perchance, lie dead in
crates. or be skinned, that his pretty
plumage may be worn on the heads OF
female fools. Every rush-covered islet
on a stream, or a lake, or a broad has
its murderous punt shooting. Every
stretch OF waste land or belt of COM
mon wood has the caterer for the
fashions o! women, spreading his tolls
or setting his mirror traps for the
songsters and the swallows. Every
child is brought up to torment and
hunt down the birds. No holiday sea-
side excursion is complete to the city
cad and his flame without wound
ing some winged creature and seeing
it struggle helpless in the surf OF its
native shores. Sometimes, if shot on
the shore and taken in rough hands,
its wings are torn OIL to adorn the Sun
day hat of some 'Arry's girl, and the
bleeding, mutilated body is thrown
back alive into the salt waves.
Science is not the criminal here. |
The offenders are the whole public, OF
nearly all nations, who for greed, for
sport, for dress, or for mere brutal
horseplay, destroy all over the world
the loveliest and the most marvellous
of all the children OF Nature.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-03-29

1t is in the Western States that the
greatest progress in rural improve
ment has been made during the last
ten years. Here one finds illustra-
tions of co operation and enterprise
surprising the more staid East. The
Wyoming Village improvement Socie.
ty is the foremost organization OF its
kind in Ohio. 1t was formed in 1880
at a public meeting where several
spirited addresses were made. The
Mayor OF the village WAS made Presi-
dent, and directory of four women
and four men were appointed. These
were divided into committees on trees,
on sidewalks, on sewerage, on finance,
and on entertainments, concerts and
lectures. Though the population of
the village was only 700, they began
work with thoroughness and enthu-
siasm. Nearly every man and woman
in the village joined the association.
They first undertook one conspicuous
improvement-the enlargement and
adornment of the unsightly grounds OF
the railroad station. They collected
81 200 by subscriptions. the railroad
company added $400 and hauled the
needed gravel and soil without charge
The result is the most attractive sta.
tion-park on this line of railway. In
1881 there were planted in this park
one hundred and eighty-tive trees and
sixty-three shrubs of towering varie.
ties and ilower,beds, all arranged by a
competent landscape gardener. In
1882 seven hundred and seventy trees
were planted along the streets. The
aggregate number OF trees planted by
this association is about four thou.
sand. During its first three years the
society raised, through membership
dues, private subscriptions, entertain
ments and the like, nearly $1,000
The membership fee was $3 for the
first year, and annually thereafter ~
for persons not of age 81 or the plant
ing Of one tree under the direction o
the ree-committee. The society has
secured an efficient street sprinkling
service. The property-holdiers have
laid miles of artificial stone sidewalks
and public-spirited citizens have given
to the village a commodious and ele
CANT hall in which is fine library
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-03-29
Is "a Violent Death Paiutul,Y

Severe injuries TO the body are sell
dom very painful at first. The sever
ity of the nervous shock seems to par.
alyZe the nerve center, where con-
Sciousness OF pain is situated, and in
fatal cases there is often no sense OF
pain, even when death is DELAYED a
day or two. In such cases it NAV be
supposed that the shock not only par
alyzes, but even destroys the nerve
center. 1t may be compared to a
lightning flash along the telegraph
wires, which. although of the same ma.
ture as the electric telegraph current
yet is SO intense as to DESTROY the re-
ceiving instruments, so that no subse
quent messages can be received. In
some fatal injuries the nerve tha,
would carry the pain to the brain i.
destroyed, and such accidents are al
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-03-29

most painless. Our sense of pain is
greatest in the skin and deep wounds
are therefore not more painful than
shallow ones. In surgical operations
the skin incision is often the most
painful part, and those who have been
run through the body say they were
conscious only OF something cold pass
ing through them, with just prick at
the points OF entry and exit Of the
weapon. On the other hand, some
fatal injuries are very painful, espe-
cially those that interfere with breath
ing, such as injuries to the chest and
thrOat.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-03-29
The Life OF a Shoe.
Shoe ard Leather Reporter

According to an intelligent and OBJ
servant member of the trade, the
average purchaser of footwear counts
the life of shoe by the number oI
times it requires resoling and heeling
liza shoe is resoled and heeled twice
the wearer thinks it is a better shoe
than the one which, though giving
longer wear, will hardly bear resoling
and heeling more than once. The
same retailer claims that some manu-
facturers take advantage of thi:
knowledge and put inferior leather in
the soles and heels and thus attain
the apparently impossible feat of in
creasing the reputation of their good'
by using inferior material. 1t is GER
tain, however. that reputable manu-
facturers do not adopt this question:
BILE policy.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-03-29
The Reason Gold Leaves Us,

To begin, whatever money is paid
by Americans to European nations
must be paid in gold. They will not
take our national bank notes. They,
being gold countries, will not take our
silver. Five billion dollars of foreign
capital is invested in this country in
various ways and the best authorities
calculate that the interest, dividends,
profits, ETC., we must pay annually to
Europe amount to at least $3.50 ,00O,-
600. That much gold outflow is ac-
counted for. The exports from this
great country are shipped in foreign
vessels, vessels owned in Europe,
thanks to our obsolete navigation
laws. The money for all freights
must therefore be paid in gold again.
These freight charges foot up annual
ly $l0O,0O0,000 more. We are very
kind to contribute that money each
year to the support of European hotel
and shopkeepers, but the result is that
our government has to borrow back at
a round interest the gold we have
given to Europe. The figures in tbi.
estimate are from paper by Banker
Heidelbach in The Forum and have
been carefully compiled. There il
thus $3.50, ,0OOO 900 that we pay in gold
to Europe. To offset it we have only
our export of grain and food products
for which Europe pays us gold. Last
year the balance OF trade was in oul
favor to the amount of 1864 100000
But the difference between $26i 600,
600 and $3j0,000,OOO is $SG,OOO,OOC
against us. That still remains to bt
paid every year to Europe, and that i:
where the gold goes and why it goes.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-03-29
ELECTRIC TRAINS.
The Practical Method COntempla ted
by Railway Experts.

New York Journal Of Commerce.
Broadly speaking there are tw'
methods of electric railroading. Th'
first and most familiar is by the gener
alton OF electricity at a central power
station, and the sending OF it theme,
to the moving trains through a con.
ductor-a third rail, overhead, on the
surface, or under ground. This is the
"trolley" system, OF which the over.
head conductor is, for obvious reasons,
most in Use. The second method is
the generation OF electricity on the To-
connective itself, using the steam en-
gine to operate a dynamo capable of
furnishing to each car all the electric
power necessary for its propulsion.
This is the only system which has
ever been seriously discussed as appli-
cable to heavy trains and long lines Of
| railroad operated 1T a high rate oi
speed. The steam locomotive, IA
even more marked degree than the
stationary engine, makes enormous
losses in the transmission of the heat
of the boiler into work. There are
piston-rods, cranks, connecting-rOds,
and variety of rigid adjuncts which
can only he put in motion with
continuous reaction and terrible
jerks" There are torsions," trepi-
dations," rolling and galloping mo-
tions, which damage the strongest
cars, hammer, pull out OF place and
disjoint the rails, and shorten the life
alike OF the roadbed and the rolling
stock generally.
BY the intervention OF electricity
the cumbrous and costly locomotive is
transformed into a mere covered plat
form car, bearing steam engine of
sufficient power and dynamo. The
locomotive is mere peripatetic power
station, from which energy is supplied
for direct action on the axles OF each
car of the train. Each Car axle be-
comes itself motor, and into the
whole inert mass is thus infused the
life OF movement. All this was shown
just year ago il France, by what is
known as the Hrilmann engine. An
official trial wa. made OF its capacity
last May in trip from Paris to Nantes,
distance of 35l miles. Comprising
10 cars filled with passengers, the train
made the journey in 80 minutes, a
speed as high as G7 miles an hour hay-
ing been attained on some parts of the
road.
1t is possible that the cost OF an ef.
effective electric locomotive, plus the
cost of equipping each OF eight of our
type OF cars with small dynamo to
take up and transmit to the axles the
electricity received from the engine,
would not be as great as that of one of
the gigantic steam locomotives now
used for the highest speed. Much of
the saving incidental to electric pro-
pulsion would be found in the substi.
tuition OF lighter cars run on smaller
wheels. That means a wholesale re-
construction of the rolling stock before
the full benefits of the new system
could be secured. On the whole,
therefore, the appearance of the cleo
trio locomotive on our trunk lines is
not to be Immediately looked for,
while the development on short roads
OF the kind of traction supplied by the
combination of power stations with
trolley wires is likely to go on un-
checked