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UNFAVORABLE CONTRAST
AMERICAN AND ENGLISH RAILWAY
SHARES AS INVESTMENTS.
In America 20 Per Cent. of stock Pays
Per Cent. Is Unremunerative.
There is no one single interest in the world

There is no one single interest in the world
as great as that of railways. Including
street railways there are to-day in opera
ton in the world over 45O,O 600 miles of rail-
ways. Should the rate of increase for the
first five years of this decade continue, and
these have not been good railway building
years, the century will close with total
of 10000 miles. an aggregate investment of
over $40 000, 100000. and an army of over five
million employees. Stupendous as such fig
ures are, they simply give the magnitude of
the undertakings for transportation which
have practically been brought into existence
during the last half of the nineteenth CEN
fury. OF this mileage, America will have
more than half. In exact figures, emitting
street railways, which probably aggregate
in the world twenty-five thousand miles, the
,,oi1aaoa stood AZ the cIosa Of 1895 a follows:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-14

IN the UnIted Kingdom the interest OK
no loans nor bonds went by default. The
to interest" and interest ranging from
to per cent. and over was paid on the
loans and debentures, aggregating about
showing, we have about $500, 900. 900 of the
bonds of American railways in default, or
vestments for saving funds. with a few
noted exceptions, the American railway Sc
curftieS cuts no figure. On the other hand,
English railway securities are looked upon
in that country as excellent stocks to buy,
not for speculation, but investment AS
consequence, English railways COM
mand all the necessary capital to carry on
needed Improvement, and employ the full
quota of hands. Here is a comparison OF
the current price of some of the we'll
known English railway stocks with our
own important roads for the week ended
Sept IS 1897. as quoted in Loncon:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-14

The CheerfuI Idiot.

"She has a mobile countenance, don't 20
hink?"
yes. and a Chicago foot"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-14

cure at Woerishofen. in Bavaria next sum
mer The princess went to WoeriShofen
for couple of days when she left Bay
reuth, in order to sc her sister, the Duchess
or Cumberland.
Lord Ashbourne." says the London Illus
trated News, is to be the next viceroy of
Canada 1t seems only the other day that
Lord Ashbourne was rising Irish lawyer
named Gibson in the House of Commons.
His chief qualification for the new post is
charm Of manner which has made him
popular with the most vehement of his po-
htical opponents"
w. S. Gilbert announces to an Edinburgh
interviewer that he will write no more
plays. He says he is disheartened by the
erroneous point of view from which crti-
cism is written, adding: London critics
attack an author as if he were scoundrel
or the worst type and l do not feel dis
posed to put myself forward as a cockshy
for these gentlemen.
DR.. Baumgarten and Father Relic are
engaged in a sharp struggle to determine
which shall be the successor of the late
Father Kneipp in the management of the
Water-cure establishment at Woerishofen
me newspapers, inhabitants and patients
are taking sides in the quarrel and mani
festo signed by 200 patients has just been
published against Father Relic and in sup
port of Baumgarten.
The German soldier Baron Munchausen,
was not the author of the book of travels
named after him. The absurdly exagger-
ated fictions in this book were written by
an expatriated countryman of his named
r. r. Raspe, who published them in Eng
land in 1855. Raspe made the baron the
putative author through becoming acquaint-
ed with the false stories which this officer
related, and for which he became notorious
afrer returning from his adventurous cam
palgns in the Russian service.
fact about the Chicago public library
which may be a surprising and yet inter-
esting item of news to many is that it
claims larger circulation than any other
library in America. According to the last
statement of the librarian, Frederick Fl.
HID who has been with the library twen-
ty-three years almost from it's very start,
the book circulation last year was LII, 404
volumes, divided as follows: Home circua-
ton. main library. 5S4, 455, and in delivery
stations, 63l, 542; reference department, 375,-
i29; patent department Al, 1893; branch read
ing rooms, 1SO,99S; bound newspapers, 6SS7.
The circulation of periodicals for the same
time was S90,0S6 making the total circula-
ton of the reading material of 1861, 400.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-03
STRANGE COINCIDENCE


A son of Jesse James wC|ting for
the son of the man who caused the
outlaws career and life To end so
abruptly is strange state of affairs
yet such was the case.
EX-Gov. Thomas r. Crittenden, of
Missouri, told the story as follows:
Several years ago my son, Thomas
T. Crittenden, Jr., then a real estate
dealer in Kansas City, and now County
Clerk of Jackson county, in which
Kansas City is located, advertised for
boy to work in his Office.
"On the morning following the ad-
vertisement number of boys were on
hand, and my son resorted to kind of
civil service eXpedient-an examine
ton of some nature-to test their mer-
its. The boy whose papers best APP
proved themselves was called forward
and asked for his name.
My name is Jesse James. Jr'
MY son was more than amazed, and
said:
Do you know who l amp
" Yes, sir; you are Gov. Crittenden S
SON
"Well, then, you go home and tell
your mother all about this. and if She
10 WINS I'i NON ~ W 'l IA lVl me dhI
at the wages l offer, come back to-mor-
row morning
Very well, sir; I have got to help
my mother and sister, and I'll be back.
And back he was the next morning
"At this time Mrs Jesse James was
living in the suburbs Of Kansas City
Now. let me tell you what became of
this boy. lie remained with my son
for several years, being honest and
faithful to a degree. and then my son
secured him a position in Armous
pacHng-house in Kansas City. where
he is now employed, respected by every
one and having a number of men UNI
der him. And lie is but twenty yeats
of age"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-03

An advertisement has appeared in
some of the daily papers in which a
cash payment has been offered for un-
cancelled printed postal cards. 1t
seems that many business houses have
occasion to have a large number of
postal cards printed to advertise some
special line of goods or for the use of
some travelling man. For some rea-
son or other the conditions may
change SO that perhaps only half of
the cards are used. Being printed they
cannot be used in any other way, and
the result is that in nine cases out of
ten they are consigned to the waste
basket, as the Government does not re-
deem uncancelled postal cards as it
does stamped envelopes.
a process has been discovered by
which ali of the printed matter may be
removed from the card, leaving it in
the same condition as when bought at
the postoffice. A charge of one-half
cent per card is made for this work; or,
in other words, man sends five hun
bred cards to be made over" The
man who does the work charges $3.50
for his services, and the customer
saves $3.50, as the printed cards were
of no use to him.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-03
RURAL AND
SUBURBAN TOPICS
SYMPTOMS OF MAD DOGS.


How to Know when Your Pet Has the
Rabies.
John p. Haines, Of the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
has written an interesting article about
mad dogs, which is of especial interest
to rural and suburban readers. Among
other things he says:
"First-lt is supposed that a mad
dog breads water. 1t is not so. The
mad dog is very likely to plunge his
head to the eyes in water. though he
cannot swallow it and laps it with
difficulty.
"Second-It is supposed that a mad
dog runs about with evidences of in
tense excitement. 1t is not so. The
mad dog never runs about in agitatiOn;
he never gallops; he is always alone,
usually in q strange place, where he
joys along slowly. If he is approached
by dog or man, he shows no signs Of
excitement, but when the dog or man
is near enough he snaps, and resumes
his solitary trot.
"Third-If dog barks, yelps, whines
or growls, that dog is not mad The
only sound a mad dog is ever k no wn
to emit is a hoarse howl, and that but
seldom. Even blows will not eXtort
an cutlery from mad dog Therefore,
if any dog, under any circumstances,
utters any other sound than that of a
hoarse howl, that dog is not mad.
"Fourth-It is supposed that the
mad dog frOths at the mouth 1t is
not SO. IL dogs jaws are covered
or flecked with white froth that dog
is not mad. Tie surest Of all signs that
a dog is not had is a thick and ropy
brown mucUs clinging to the lips,
which he oNen yainly tries to tear
away with his paws or to wash away
with water.
"Fifth-If your own dog is bitten by
any other dog, watch him carefully.
If he is infected by rabies, you Will
discover signs of it possibly in from
six to ten days. Then he will be rest
less, often getting up only to lie down
again, changing his position inpatient
ly, turning from side to side, and con-
stantly licking or scratching some par
ticular part of his head, limbs or body.
He will be irritable, and inclined to
dash at other animals, and he will
imagines to be near him. He will be
excessively thirsty, tapping water ca
gerly and often. Then there will be
glandular swellings about his jaws and
throat, and he will vainly endeavor
to rid himself of a thick, rOpy mucous
discharge from his mouth and throat.
If he can he will probably stray away
from home and trot slowly and mourn
fully along the highway or across
country, meddling with neither man
nor beast unless they approach him,
and then giving a single snap. The
only exception to his behavior occurs
in ferociOus dogs, which, during the
earlier stages of excitement, may at
tack any living object in sight
what is to be done if you happen
to be bitten by dog that is supposed
to be rabid? The best thing you can
do is just to take a few vapor baths,
as hot as you can bear them. The
perspiration will eliminate any poison
that the bite may have introduced into
your system. Then endeavor to for
get all about it. If you follow this
simple advice, the chances are incalcu-
lably great that you will be perfectly
safe "
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-03
City Boy Versus the Country Lad.

The city boy grows up in a con-
.tracted space. The square upon which
he lives is his world, the little things
Iof earth he despises and he begins to
burn the candle of existence too soon.
For him there is little opportunity
for the display of sterling manhood or
the enjoyment of life in its relation to
nature. The count boy is, from the
first, a child of necessity, and early
learns the lesson of how to make ends
meet. The ways and means of life is
a hard and effective school from which
to graduate. The pupils therein can
not sit down with folded hands and
wait for help, but they must help
themselves, and at once. The broad
fields give scope to the mind and
strength to the heart-the country boy
lis a man at 10, though he does not
know it, ana at 90 he stands a young
giant, while his city cousin is the dys-
Ipeptic victim of vile cigarettes and
bad hours.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-03

Whether in the long run, electricity
has done the solitary bachelor a good
turn is a debatable question, but it
has certainly eased the burden of his
domestic anxieties. While he is dress
ing he connects his electric coffee pot,
and the brewing of his morning bever-
age proceeds forthwith. Meanwhile
his eggs are being cooked in the cleo
trio boiler, or a chop is being done to
a turn on the electric gridiron, which
gives an unmatched flavor to the meat
AS he sits down to the table slices OF
bread are placed in the electric toast
rack and are Drowned before his eyes
II he be an adept of the chatting dish
he can produce the subtlest culinary eff
fects without fear of failure.--The
Chautauquan.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-03
THE HOROSCOPE.
a Free Show Provided Nightly at an
Abattoir in Jersey City.

you may talk about your horo-
scopes, your Kaleidoscope, and kinet-
OscOpes," said the man from Hacken-
sack, but I've discovered the greatest
scope in the country. 1t is q hogo-
scope. Probably you never heard of it.
Lots of people never heard Of it, but
If they want to see il in action let
them 90 over to ex-senator McPher-
sons abattoir in jersey City, any fine
evening, and they'll see it in perfect
working order.
You know the ex-senator is inter-
ested in one of the biggest hog slaugh-
tering establishments in this country.
They do such big business there that
the butchers are compelled to work
night and day. They work by gas
light at night. If you are passing the
abattoir you will see realistic shad-
ow pictures of hog killing. While the
hogs are being killed the reflections of
the killing are thrown back against
the white wall and again reflected out
on the street, SO that while you can't
see the butchers actually killing the
hogs, you can see all the motions they
make and all the motions the hogs
make while being killed
This is what l call the horoscope.
You first see the hog pinioned with
rope and then dragged along on the
hosting derrick. Then you see the
butcher approach him with his knife
and jab him in the throat You see
the hog wriggling, and then you see
the dressers come along and divide
him up into sections, and you are so
fascinated with these shadowgraphs
that you stand there open mouthed be-
fore the abattoir window watching the
same thing occur over again. The
shadOwgraphs grow on you, until final
ly you discover that you have been
standing there an hour, and have seen
pictures of the killing of half a hum
dred hogs. The horoscope is so at
tractive that the next night you bring
a friend around, and he takes in the
free show. People whom | have
brought there have become so infatu-
ated with the horoscope shadow
graphs that now they may be seen
spending two hours nightly opposite
the abattoir windows. New York
Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-03

just as sure as you do the confidence OF
your members and the public is gone.
If a member knowingly or maliciously
reveals any part of the work of the
order, discipline that member sharply.
You had better have muss than that
the discipline and respect of your lodge
should be compromised. If the MEM
Der is of the right kind of stuff he will
acknowledge the justice of the discipline,
will be better member, and will have
more respect for the lodge and its Of
licers than if you had let him go without
notice. Always stand loyal and true to
your home even if there are some things
that don't go quite to suit you. You can
not do the lodge or the cause greater
damage than to be complaining to people
outside about your home. If you follow
the prescription and advice you will re-
gain your health, live to a good old age,
and the good influence of you work will
last to the end of time. But if you per-
sist in the course you have been going
YOU will not live long and the sooner
you die and arc out of the way the bet
ter, for you are disgrace to yourself,
the order and the community in which
you dwell, and the cause and the world
would have been better if you had never
lived. II. l.. NOTT ID, V. G.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-03
HE WON THE BET.
Looked Like a Jay But He Fooled the
Smart Drummer.

Looked Like a Jay But He Fooled the
Smart Drummer.
An uncouth old ranger from the San
Joaquin Valley was making his week
ly trip to Stockton, Cal, the other day,
and CHANGED to be sitting with an i'm.
pertinent drummer in the smOking-car
The old man helped himself to the
matches from the railroad box and
tried to strike one and then another.
You have to scratch them on the
box, uncle" remarked the drummer.
"Oh, | guess | kin strike a match, !"
replied the rancher, as he ripped one
across vanished panel of the car
and broke off the head. The drummer
laughed at his failure and gave him
some more information.
THE only way to light those match
es is to strike them on the box" said
he.
"Oh, l guess l kin scratch 'em most
Ianywheres," and the old man tried one
on the sole of his shoe, another on the
arm of the seat, and still another on
the car floor, while the drummer only
laughed.
Il tell you they are made so that
they wont light unless you scratch
them on the box"
Bet you they will"
IN bet you 81 they won't"
Bet you 500 they will"
"Ill take it,"
The wager was made, the old man
took one of the matches, stood up, and,
hitching his trousers up so as to make
a smooth surface over his broad thigh,
gave the match a deliberate scratch
and it blazed up. Then he deliberately
lighted his pipe and drew down the
stakes.
The smart drummer does not know
that the innocent old rancher pays his
expenses every trip on that trick, for
he has a side of matchbox sewed in
his trousers beneath the tail of his long
shiny coat.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-03

It is mainly by what city people call
petty economies that people living out
side the towns have always made theiI
money. Their business is one that has
Jas many details as that of the retail
merchant to whom every penny is i'm
lportant, as its possession may mean
profit to him, or the failure to possess
lit may mean loss and possible bank
Iruptcy. The farmer, in selling his
products, is obliged to get all he can
SO as to meet his expenses. Yet farm
ers are not at all nggardly. Most Of
what they make over and above eX-
lpenses goes in better methods of liv-
ing, which make prosperity for every
body else.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-03
CANAL TROLLEY SYSTEM.


The principal of the rack railroad,
familiar to the Notwithstanding
public as well as to the engineer. APP
piled to an electric traction system on
canals, is substantially the basis of the
plan which a New York inventor pro-
poses to follow in displacing the ira
ditional canal mule. The practical as
pect of the scheme will become at once
apparent from the sketch. Along the
bank of the canal, supported on piles,
the inventor proposes to lay a rail of
suitable section to support and guide
a small electric locomotive, whose
driving wheel is a spur wheel deriving
motion from the motor proper through
a train of gearing and meshing with a
rack forming part of the rail. Supply
and return currents to and from the
motor go through conductors strung
along the track level on the side oppo-
site the rack, a double trolley being
used. The rack arrangement. as in
steep mountain railroad construction
of course provides for the easy climb
ing of the heavy grade portions along
the canal at locks, without ne
cessitating the use of great weight
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-03
When the Hens PIacne You.

An agricultural editor thus answers
a correspondent who wanted to know
how to keep his suburban neighbours
hens out of his garden: Dear Corre-
spondent-Take a lot Of small, stiff
cards about 1X2 inches; write on them;
Please keep your darned old hens at
home Tie a short string to each
card, with a grain of corn at the other
end of the string, and scatter them
where the hens congregate. When the
hungry biddy gobbles up the grain
that draws the prize, she follows up
the string, slowing it away until she
comes to the card. Then you will see
Iher put out for home, carrying in her
mouth your polite request"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-03

ELECTRIC CANAL BOAT TRACTION SYSTEM.
in the locomotive; in fact, the
extension of the rack along the whole
length of line enables the use of this
principles on the level stretches as
well. so that the tractive power is Sc
cured through the gearing and not
through great adhesive weight The
advantages so secured are obvious-a
minimum weight of locomotive, mini.
mum weight of track, with all that
this implies in reduced cost of con-
Istruction and positive motion. The To-
connective may be controlled either di-
lrectly by an attendant, as shown in the
sketch, or by a man on one of the
boats in tow
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-03

If horses have to work hard. old
oats even at higher prices are cheapest
in the end. The new oats are watery
and laxative. They may even cause
collie in horses hard al work Nothing
IFS more weakening than this. In nu-
TRITON even the old oats are cheapest.
iIf they could be had in winter to feed
with hay, which is always constipating,
new oats would be a good feed. But
"a small amount of OIL meal is better
at that season.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-03
Mrs. Mary Bird. Harrisburg, Pa

Mrs. Mary Bird Harrisburg, Pa,
says, My child is worth millions to me
yet would have lost her by Group had
| not invested twenty-five cents in a
bottle of One Minute Cough Cure" 1t
cures coughs, colds and all throat and
lung troubles. Isaac Stems, Middle
bury; b. G. Peck, or Day Bros, East
Middlebury; c. L. Sowle, West Corn
wall; D. II. Bennett, Bridport; C. b.
Kendall, Shoreham.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-03

One Minute Cough Cure cures quickly.
That's what you want! Isaac Stems,
Middlebury; b. G. Peck or Day Bros.
East Middlebury; G. l.. Sowle, West
Cornwall; d. II. Bennett, Bridport; G,
b. Kendall, Shoreham.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-03

Mrs. Stark, Pleasant Ridge, o., says
"After two doctors gave up my boy to
die, | saved him from Group by using
One Minute Cough Cure" 1t is the
quickest and most certain remedy for
coughs, colds and all throat and lung
troubles. Isaac Stems, Middlebury; b.
G. Peck or Day Bros, East Middlebury +;
C. L. Sowle, West Cornwall; d. II. Ben
net, Bridport; G. B. Kendall, Shoreham.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-12-03
Tnrkey,s Military Law.

Every adult male Mohammedan is
liable to military service, except those
who have had the good fortune to be
born in Constantinople.