Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-01-21

chronic dyspepsia, and spent several
months last fall at Virginia Springs.
The United States ambassador to
Great Britain, Colonel John Hay, and
family will sail from Genoa on the North
German Lloyd steamship Prinz Regent
Luitpold on Jan. % for Egypt, for
tour up the Nile.
a despatch from the City of Mexico
says that four Americans have been ar.
rested there and are vigorously incom-
municado, being suspected of completely
IN robberies of great magnitude. Tie
gang numbers twelve men.
Harry and George McPeek, boys, who
were arrested charged with attempting
to wreck a passenger train on bridge
near st. Charles, Mo-. have made con-
fession. They gave no other reason than
that they wanted to see what the train
would do.
The marble slab manufacturers of the
United States have formed national as
ISOLATION to maintain prices. The Off
GERS are: President, Frederick j. Lantz,
Buffalo, and secretary, Frank 5. Grobe,
New York.
Major Benjamin Butterwoth, com
missioner of patents, who went to
Georgia with a view to recruiting his
health after having been taken seriously
i'll in Ohio, died at 1925 p. m. there on
Sunday.
The official engineers Joint committee
has informed the employers federation
of the withdraw, on behalf of the men,
of the eght-hour demand. This may
bring the great London strike to an
end
1t was announced in Chicago Saturday
that detail of police will guard the re-
cords in the states attorneys Office every
night from this time until verdict is
reached in the Luetgert case.
The Chinese minister of war is quoted
as saying that Port Arthur was coded to
quiet Russia because a war cloud was
looming and all the powers had cast
envous eyes upon Chinese ports.
An inventory of the estate of the late
George NJ. Pullman has been filed in
Chicago. The personal property is esti-
mated at S., 000,0 900 and the real estate at
s. 100000.
concurrent resolution was intro.
duced in the New York assembly last
week proposing woman suffrage amend
ment to the state constitution.
The trial of Sheriff Martin and his
deputies for the shooting of strikers at
Lattimer, Penn, has been set for the
18th inst, at Wilkesbarr
a deposit of natural cement, alleged to
be superior to the imported article, is
said to have been discovered near St.
Helena, Calf.
The president has approved the award
of the Berhing sea commissioners giving
S265, 900 to the illegally arrested pelagic
sealers.
1t has been proposed to equip London
policemen with portable electric batteries
to feed electric lights on their helmets.
Only eighteen of the counterfeit 500
silver certificates have been discovered
by the treasury authorities thus far.
Mrs. James L. Flood, wife of the
millionaire mine owner, died in San
Francisco on Saturday.
The house of representatives. has
ordered second edition of 70, 900 copies
of ''The Horse Book
4 Business Parable.
Once a farmer had one thousand eight
hundred bushels of wheat, which he
sold. not to a single grain merchant, but
to one thousand eight hundred different
dealers, bushel each. a few of them
paid him in cash, but far the greater
number said it was not convenient then.
but would pay later. y few months
passed, and the mans bank account ran
low. allow is this?" he said. "My
one thousand eight hundred bushels of
grain should have kept me in allluence
until another crop is raised, but | have
parted with the grain and have instead
only Il vast number of accounts, so
small and scattered that | cannot get
around and collect 1t fast enough to pay
expenses" So he posted up a public
notice and asked all those who owed
him to pay quickly. But few came.
The rest said, milne is only a small
matter, and | will go and pay, one of
these days forgetting that though
each account was very small, when all
were put together they meant a large
/ sum " eiiC Mtul VI lHuS 4.
the man got to feeling so badly that he
fell out of bed and awoke, and running
to his granary found his one thousand
eight hundred bushels of wheat still
safe there. He had only been dreaming,
and hadn't sold his wheat at all.
Moral-The next day the man went to
the publisher of his paper and said {:
''IIere, sir, is the pay for your paper :;
and when next years subscription is
due you can depend on me to pay it
promptly. | stood in the position of an
editor last night, and | know how it
feels to have ones honestly earned
money scattered all over the country in
small amounts. Exchange.
why President Dole Comes.
- Loren a. Thurston, formerly Hawaiian
minister to the United States and at
present in Washington as the island re-
public's representative in behalf of the
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