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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-12-20

Wlllp lpI NnC''p pIuItu WlNIc lHey llSltu.
Cyuam, Of origin divine, is great
among men. He is the most beautiful,
the strongest, the most beloved He has
wished for gald-he is rich; for land
and titlos--he has them. In war he eX-
terminates and the obscure crowd Of
comhatmts give way before him, lose
their footing, terrified by the supenat.
mal. After Regina, who died for love,
others have adcred him. The eartIi is
illunincd by his brightness. And his
adventures are numbcrless. He has sue
cumhcd successfully to all human temp
tdtions. The seven capital sins are his
best companions; by all his immortal
force. which multiplies the evil tonfold
and prolongs il indefinitely, he surpasses
the worst human culprit. He acknowl-
edges neither fatigue nor repose. He
pauses not.
Sometimes however, he looks upward
and signs Yet the sounds about him
again divert him, and he returns to his
wished for pleasure.
As time passes, bitterness comes. The
immortal boholds death about him. AS
he is human Of heart, so has he loved
unreservcdiy both mistresses and
friends He secs them grow old. sadden
and die. Others he has after them, but
their fate is the same. Alone unchange-
able, he secs them pass away. and each
time that 1t loved being disappears he
suffers AID NCcps.
How l.a1'y rmcs did re suffer and
weep dur y ten human centuries, which
seemed to linn as hardly 50 many days:
And his rar vrdont was Of every hour.
Il ..c>.al l.duut fiji up the gals Of the
past
Ac.C.siio .h,c-. e faces tl:,t he had
met in tic &iui; 81 years two mem
cries haunted hiM. implac&bly--that of
heaven, and also-iuv strange indeed /!
that of Marie, the poor child whom
he had met on that first evening, and
who now, doubt less, had long been dead.
And it was the women who resembled
Marie that he preferred above the others.
Thus, amid noise and connection,
Cvriam existed for century after CEN
tnry. Then, one day, weary of every
thing, envyiug mankind, whose inevita-
BILE escape is death (Which vet may be
advanced by self killing, he drew apart
from the abudes Of civilized men, walk
ing for long time in the solitude of
the fields.
AT twilight, as on the evening of long
ago, he sat him down at the foot of a
hill, in IA corner of deserted road.
Suddenly he saw a poor, barefoot
child coming toward him, leading a
rich flock through the deepening gloom.
With painting breath he watched her as
she drew nigh, and he murmured:
con, earth Oh, earth accursed! Yet
will | pardon thee if this poor child be
by miracle the child of long ago. the
first one met, whose memory-why,
know not-dwells ever in my dream.
For thee have I suffered, oh. earth! I
judged Of men too hardly, though
knew them not. Now, more guilty my
self than all mankind together | absolve
them. Have mercy upou them But the
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-12-20
ANINrERESrlNG WAR BOOK

Army Life in Virginia Letters fronD
the Twelfth Vermont Regiment and Per-
sOnal Experiences of Volunteer Service
in the War for the Union, 1862 3. BY G..
@. Benedict, Burlington, the Free Press.
Association, publishers; PIP. 200. Price,
ST.
Among the books of ths, civil war,
which continue TO- multiply, and still
find readers though "A generation has
passed away since the events they mar.
rate took place, it has been Sound that
not the least interesting are those which
simply describe army scenes ard exper-
fences as they took place before the eyes
vi the writer's at the tme. This volume
belongs to this class of war books. The
letters collected in it were written to the
Free Press ~ its junior editor while he
WAS member of the Twelfth Vermont
regiment. The writertof them nss,de no
attempt to write history He simply
told what he saw, and what the soldiers
of HE regiment and of the Second Yer
mont brigade saw and experienced from
week to week during their term OF ser
! NiNN ~ f1N2-O. tlt IdSb lIllTlN DhEtS are
devoted to the battle of Gettysburg
Many os the details of army life in these
letters of course will have more interest
for the survivors of Stannard 8 Vermont
brigade than for the general reader; but
the Latter if be has any interest in, The
civil war, may find some of them not
altogether tedious reading. The vollsine
is Illustrated by portraits of General
Stannard, Col. Blunt, Lieut.-Col. Farm
ham, Major Kingsley, and staif officers
of the Twelfth regiment; by some camp
scenes. photographed at the time, and
Il picture of the attack OF Stannard :
brilgadp on Ptkett's division. % Getr -
burg, taken from "a drawing by the late
Col. John B. Btchelder, the hstoriosl
and deineatOr of thar battle
Sent post pti'i to any address-by the
Free Press association, Burlington, W..
on receipt of price Only "A snail edi-
ton has been printed, and those desiring
the volume Nh de well to order soon
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horizon IN purple, making it seem more
distant; gla2es the surface Of thcponds,
doubling their depth, and the night
comes, with tho cold.
AT the foot of a hill is a road. A lit
tie girl, barefoot and very poor, is lead
lag a flock, anothcr's flock, along this
road. She is the living image-though
for her there be so little of living-of
misery and Abandonment In her -
short years her hands have grown fee
bier, more weary, even than are those
cf the very aged. But i'll her deep eyes
tie ideal sequences have prolonged
themselves; through days of silence.
doubtless, she has dreamed, and through
the nights, too, under the pale light of
the stars. The understanding of the
lowly is sometimes divine.
Suddenly, i'll the middle of the road,
her dog stops, as if transfixed, and
stands trembling and awestricllen.
Marie, advancing, perceives, in the
shadow of the thicket, a form half OBJ
scured, yet radiantly white, and encir-
cled with an auleole.
The child has prescience of miracle
and is not astonished. She mutely con-
sidels the mysterious being. Yes, it is
az nngel-vith flowing robe, with
abundant locks, with visage severely
pune. such as one sees in the frescoes Oh
TIE walls of churches. But this angel
has only one wing. and his mien is in
e1ahly sad. Putting her hands together,
palm to palm, she speaks to him softly
aud III tones of prayer:
"Oh, beautiful prince of heaven, l
salute you l would serve you. Since
you are come hither, it must be to bring
joy on the earth and | thank you! ~
But the immortal answers with
great sob and then quickly eXcIaims:
"Where am |? On earth, in exile I!
Banishedl Stricken Chastised! 1t is
joy that 1 bring, hast thou said O
daughter of men? A las, behold me !!
What am I?
In the fall ordained to me l have
lost wing No more of heaven, nor
yet am / Of earth Suspense and fear
hold horrible menace for me of things
unknown. On high, it seems, | yester
day declared too hard a Judgment upon
mankind, their passOnS--their vileness,
as it is called-upun crimes whereof l
knew not. So, as punishment fol judg
ment temerarious, the King Of kings,
ahe power supreme, hath sentenced me
to test the terrestrial life, Il prey to
those temptations | erstwhile regarded
as beneath contempt Should | resist
and prove the victor i'll these successive
trials then VIII the azure and the gold,
the Interchangeable armament and its eter-
nal glories, be restored to me. But
should I once fail l must dwell in this
thy world until the final Judgment OF
men. am afraid-cf all things. And
thou-Who ant thou"
Il am only poor, kinlces child, re-
ceived Of charity, who tmmer's sheep
mus guard that | may liyc--scmctimCs
hardly, sometimes we'll, according 90
the wcathcr-jnd who an angel sroing,
knccl to him i'll prayer, that lie Will bear
me hence to heaven
rUi..,. .I... .,,,,,1 ,,.,,.t x-.t I,rJor
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eemed to he in such distress

seemed to be in such distress.
Don't cry. little boy" she said.
soothingly. Dry your eyes and tell
me what the trouble is. Did some of
the big boys hurt you?"
NOM, replied the waif. still sob
Ting.
sisted.
Nom"
Did your father beat you for some
Nom, but he will"
on, that is the trouble, is it?"
"Ycsm."
We'll. it's shame" she exclaimed,
angrily. why will he beat your"
Cause l lost 10 cents"
pa he send you to buy something
"Yes'm"
And you lost it on the way?"
"Yes'm."
on, WELL | guess we can fix that
she said in her kindly way, as she took
dime from her purse and handed IL
10 me boy. Now he won't beat you
win he?"
Nom"
it?" VIZ
Beer"
thought
"Yes'm."
And how did you lose it?"
"Matchin' pennies"
Before she had recovered sufficiently
10 demand the return of her dime the
boy was gone.-Chicago Post
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CHILDREN AS DIscIPI1NAR1ANs

No trait IL better marked In the No.
NAL child than the impulse to suhdect
others to his own disciplinary system
In truth. children are for the most na ~
particularly alert disciplinarians WIth
what amusing severity they are won't
10 lay down the law to Their dolls and
their animal playmates, SUBJECTIVE
them to precisely the same prohibitions
anu punishments as those to which
they stop here. They ensorc ~
the duties Just as sourageousiv
on their human elders
mite OF eighteen months went
up 10 her elder sister. who was crv,ns
men. .e "utso
Gov. .Hoyt tells an excelling story A.
lus.rating Lincoln's interest in MUSCLE
ana MS Involuntary comparison Of
.,lnseiI with any man who showed
9tsa. strength. 1t was In 1859, after
callcoin mad delivered a speech at the
state Agricultural fair of Wisconsin at
M1liwaukee The two men were making
.ne rounds of the exhibits and went
INTO a tent to see strong man. ner-
FORM. He went through the ordinarv
exercises with huge iron balls. tossing
tnehh on MS arms and back: and Mr.
Lincoln, who evidently had never be-
lore seen such thing, watched him
Win interse Interest, calculating under
MS breath every now and then. "Rv
George! BY Georger' When the per-
romance was over Gov. Hoyt. seeing
| MT. Lincoln's interest, asked him to
go up and be introduced to the athlete
| He did SO: and. as he stood hooking
down musingly on the fellow, who was
| very short, and evidently wondering
that a man so much shorter than he
could be so much stronger, he suddenly
broke out with one Of his Quaint
speeches Why" he said, why. /
could lick salt off the top of your hat %
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THE AMERICAN VOICE.

The American voice has won an nm
enViable reputation for It's supposed
disagreeable quality. This reputation
Is in part deserved, for no careful OBJ
server can fall to notice that many of
our people In ordinary conversation
are constantly in error in regard TO
their natural pitch and utterly fall In
purity of tone They speak In either
too high or too low a key, and the
tones are more or less forced into a dis
agreeable mixture OF the nasal-muscu-
lar quality. Apologlsts have attrib-
uted this defect to the nervous temper
| ament of the people and to the disas-
trous effects Of variable climate
But the true explanation is found in
lack of proper training. The Ameri-
| can voice, when properly educated. ia
no less melodious and agreeable than
that of any other nationality.
| Bad quality of voice Is due simply To
bad habit in its use Correct the habit
| and the voice Is changed, and becomes
| what 1t was designed to be by the Gre
ator. 1t is amazing that SO MANY
young men spend, after a long period
or preliminary training, four years in
college and almost an equal period
thereafter in professional schools, and
ly untitled yocally for the successfu,
prosecution OF their life work. And II
is even more amazing that multitudes
fitted by their culture to adorn social
life destroy their chances of success
by lack of vocal training. They
might have been good singers, readers,
or reciters, but for their own neglect.
II a correct system Of vocal physiolo-
gy and technique were engrafted into
our public-school system, there would
be an immense gain 70 the culture OF
the nation. Not all Gre public speak
ers or readers, but Everybody talks.
and -to-oanperse In y.eli5modulated
meiodious voice is an accomplishment
worth striving hard a obtain. Boston
| Ira nacrint ~ ---- W. wa 1917
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nhe afternoon, but instead NJ H.
crowds which formerly made 81 a,ss
cult to walk around. dozens -, ~
clerks were idle, and many OF the nao
PIE seemed to be, like myself. inst loois
ing at things. l heard it rumored on
uay that one of the largest and oldest
estaoilshments had failed. 1t proved 70
oe laise' but everyone said il would ~
long. pelore
Ihere are not so many little extrava-
sances TO be seen. such as flowers car
Iieu ana worn by the women ana
.here are many wearing clothes deci-
uedIy out of style. but showing Tho,
they are of good quality, and no aonb,
are worn by women who formerly kon,
up more with Dame Fashion.
Ihere is one thing that shows no
signs OF hard times, but an Increase IN
size and splendor. 1t Is the band
piano, for the organ has disappeared
rms takes two persons to handle ana
Is drawn around in cart or small
wagon. There is no chance to ignore II
OF pretend you do not hear it. as Won
could when the lowly organ was PLAYED
ny one lone old woman. You
must turn and fly or face the music
IKE man, and pay over your contri-
button. Yesterday we We're given cause
TO be thankful by at least six of these
instruments, and everyone played,
After the Ball." -
!, inc weather is more like April
than November, but no doubt
there is a nice cold wave wait
ing 10 eaten the unwary when least
expected. Tor that is the way 1t always
acts IN TINS part ofthe country l hope
however. mat 1t will delay its coming
un,li ! can hunt up some pretty Christ
mas articles. MONO
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Tho method Of using ia IA follows:
From the box containing the cells l
have limo of wire, DOUBLE Of course,
say, thirty to fifty feet long, slipped ON
nuts, the lamp, which is tied to q
branch of tree Immediately over, say,
twenty feet high, the bait being at the
other end.
i "At about two yards from the bat.
terry there is n connection, i think
called male switch A short line of
wire about three or four feet long
makes tho connection to the fore end
of my rifle; at one end of this short
length there Is female switch to fit
on to the above male one, and at the
other end two small rings are made of
the wires. These rings are fastened
by two big-headed screws to the bed OF
the connection. On nearing the tiger
at the kill aim as nearly in the direc-
ton as 1 can, then slight pressure Of
the thumb makes the electric connec-
ton and the light opens right over the
tiger" u
This scientific sportsman also en-
ployed accumulators, but they did moi
seem TO be adapted to such rough
work. He is now fitting himself with
. battery which may be carried In the
belt like cartridges. =,
Thirty such batteries carried IN thi
cay would, it is estimated, be sufficient
70 provide sixteen-candle power light
This system of night hunting, it ha
been suggested, might well be EN-
ployed in hunting big game In tn
Rockies. ~ d. i
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HOW TO TRAP A TIGER.
Eportsmen in India Make Use at
.ssA the Electric Light. |,
It Is Not Exactly Fair to the Tiger. Bat .
GFeat Thing for the Hunter-A De-
Called Description of How the
Light Is Operated.

Electricity has now been applied to
tiger-hunting, and the sportsman in
the Indian jungle before he pulls the
trigger of his gun touches button,
which throws flood of light upon his
prey. This may rob tiger hunting of
much of its romance, but it is effective,
and thus tar several large, well-dovel-
oped tigers have been gathered in as
result of the clever arrangement.
1t has been found almost impossible
to draw tigers into the opon during the
day near thiclsly settled parts of India.
But at night this is easily accomplished
by placing dead carcass in some con.
venient place, where the hunter may
Ne hidden in ambush. But after the
tiger has scented the blood of the dead
animal and has begun to tear the car
sass it is difficult for the hunter to TAXA
aim without seeing him.
This has now been obviated by hang
ing On electric light directly over tbs
carcass. At the instant that the lighA
IL turned on the tiger is 80 startled b
its appearance that he does not move
Tigers are not in the habit of looking
up, and it takes several seconds before
the animal realizes where the now,
strange light comes from. This pause
which he makes before endeavoring 10
escape, is quite sufficient to enable tho
sportsman to take aim and place .
large, substantial bullet In vital para
Of the tigers badly. 4. a
= Sat present." saws the inventor Il
this system in letter to the Scientific
American, II use battery Of six large
cells filled with sal ammoniac. 1t u
very heavy and cumbersome, and the
Light only q five-candle power lamp
Its recommendations are that the bat
terry is good for the next ten years and
only wants an occasional filling up Of
the cells with water and sometimes Z
little fresh sal ammoniac. As car
only 70 shooting during six months al
the year, this is a great advantage
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THE NORTH POLE.

In the course Of conversation
Prof. L. L. Dyche of the Kansas State
University stated that he had received
an order to go in quest of the North
Pole, and that he had about concluded
to accept it. The young Kansan does
not boast of his ability to accomplish
anything, but there Is, matter OF
course, a vein about his North Pole
talk which carries with 1t the convic-
ton that he will find 1t.
1.-THE sole and fatal obstacle which
has stopped Arctic explorers from find
ing the POLE" said the professor, sis
not cold, but hunger. The explorers
have started out with lunch In their
pockets, as though they were simply
going out for a days run on the BIZ
cycle. There Is no healthier region In
all the world than inside the Arctic
circle. There is no danger from the
| cold. I was within less than 1000 miles
OF the pole last summer, and l sur
l fered no more iron. cold than the peo-
pie of Kansas will durInrs Tn. .~:-, -, 2
winter. There can be no apprec 1a,r,,
| difference between the cold at the p s,i,,'
reached and the cold at the very pan
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nacle of the North Pole.

nacle of the North Pole.
Every Arctic expedition yet set
afoot has simply starved out. 1t is
almost beyond belief how little In the
way OF supplies those fellows who have
been up north took along. Give me
plenty to eat. and l think l can get to
the North Pole as easily as l got with
in 500 miles. Good old-fashioned grub
should be the watchword of the Arctic
explorer.
TEN YEARS PROVISIONS.
81 will start out with provisions
enough to last ten or twelve years.
will take my time, though of course 1
do not propose to spend any such num-
Der of years in making that trip, but
L want provisions enough to establish
well-stocked camps at points not more
than days sledge journey apart.
1T has been the custom of Arctic
explorers to either stick to the water
with their ships until crushed In the
ice-pack, which, of course. is followed
by the loss of most of their provisions,
or to try and mount and traverse the
huge ice mountains of Greenland,
where 1t is next to impossible to carry
provisions. My idea is 20 creep around
the western coast of Greenland, and
never try to cross the mountains.
would establish camps at intervals, in
which | would store great quantities
of provisions, and then move on to
other camps, where l would plant more
provisions.
"As l worked north l would leave
these provision storehouses so thick
that any man who strayed into that
country at any time within the next
ten years would be sure to find plenty
to eat.
II would thus work around the
Greenland coast until the point was
reached for the last grand dash to the
pole by sledge or boat, and then want
none with me but Eskimo-young
Eskimo, who can handle both dogs
| and paddle.
WILL CHOOSE THE WINTER.
81 believe that most of the Arctic
| explorers have made their greatest eff
forts to go north in the summer. Fol
| my part, | shall choose the winter
| The natural means of locomotion III
these parts is sledging, and that !:
| certain to be at its best in winter.
"When Greeley stood on the summit
of the great Greenland ice mountain
he saw a chain OF islands away off ir
the direction of the pole, and l an
convinced that there Is practically 8
| continuous land route from the nortf
coast of Greenland to the region of tho
pole. Possibly that imaginary poin
is also upon an island, and IL so, car
bring back some tangible mementoes
| of the discovery"
The professor does not say who ha:
made him the proposition to search fol
the North Pole. He has already com
menced to arrange his affairs for Thu
long trip, and speaks of 1t as prac
tically decided upon.
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SONGS OF SILENCE.

The poems / shall never write
:, "a sleeping in my heart and brain.
IN horn of the vigils of the night,
~ the souls crucifix of pain.
The love of love, of life, of light
pIend In that wordless, sweet refrain!
They voice the ecstacy of saint
who walks with God in lowly joy;
vi souls that soar, with rapture faint.
whose need of bliss knows no alloy.
"T'hey glorify the martyrs plant
A faith the sword could not destroy
They sing of themes no language knows;
rha heartbreak of the hurrying day;
The mystery of life that flows
In PASSIONS turbid tide away.
~ hey snatch the secret of the rose
The charm that comes and will not stay,
They sing and sing, In heart and brain
Epics of Love and high emprise;
pf glory passed, to live again;
of suns that set and stars that rise
Ger earth redeemed from woe and
pain:
n, poems that are never penned!
ri songs that know no melody!
~ hopes that die! o! loves that end!
In ali the cons yet to be,
shall bard and seer ne'er transcend
The speech of mortal poesy?
Ave, In some starry world afar,
pise incense, chant, and vesper hymn,
In sapphire walled basilica,
1rnon whose al ars vast and dim
Rmrp fiery Goals my lips to scar,
nv touch Of white-winged cherubim.
Then shall my spirit rise and slay
The silence of the darkling years.
And epics of vanished day,
writ with the wine of human tears,
Give place to a diviner lay.
The song of the celestial spheres;-
or Hope and Faith which Love AWAY
Doth sing and sing while heaven hearst
isabel c. Eaton. in the New Bohemia n
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MIsNAMED BENEvoLENCE.

There is kind of benevolence that
Is not benevolence. Mr.. Rockefeller
contributes a few millions to an edu-
cational institution and forthwith in
creases the price of oil to make up the
contribution. The consumers of oil are
the real contributors, though Mr..
Rockefeller gets the credit for being a
very liberal gentleman, and his praises
are sounded near and far. Another
Eastern gentleman of less wealth made
a handsome contribution to church
fund on Sunday and on Monday re-
duced the wages of his workmen to
reimburse himself. His employees ac-
tually made the contribution. Charl-
ties that are bestowed that the givers
may be published as people of great
benevolence are not such as spring
from a desire to do good, but to adver-
tise the givers. The charity that pro-
ceeds from a sincere desire to relieve
suffering and to help the helpless,
without hope or expectation of having
the beneficence blazoned abroad, is true
charity. Rockefeller is entitled to no
credit for the millions he gives to an
educational institution when he levies
tribute on those who are compelled to
buy his oils at an advanced price to re
imburse himself. 1t Is simply forcing
the consumer of oil to minister to his
desire for praise as a man of great
benevolence.-La Crosse Republican
and Leader,