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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-08-05
An OLD Trnth Wen PIT.

Naval Constructor Hobson remem-
bered Lord Wolseley's advice: "If
you want to get on in war do your
best to get killed City Of Mexico
Herald
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-08-05

able; but as soon as l would put my
feet on the floor, the pains would
come back.
Every one thought it was impossi-
bic for me to get well. Twas paying 81
per day for doctors visits and IS cents
a day for medicine. Imade up my mind
to try Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. 1t has effected complete cure
for me, and l have all the faith in the
world in it. What a blessing to wo-
man it is.'-MRs. JENNIE L. SMITH, No.
324 kaufman St., Philadelphia, Pa.
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A LETTER TO WOMEN.

4 few words from Mrs Smith, OF
Philadelphia ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
the ella IN that Lydia L. Pinkhams
Vegetable Compound is woman's ever
reliable friend. .-~
Il cannot praise Lydia f. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound too highly.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-08-05

UNION LODGE, NO. ,, F. AND A. NJ.
Charles j. Matthew's ". ".
Regular communications the first Monday
evening of each month.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-08-05

ADDISON ENCANiPMENT, NO. %, I. o. OF.
/. +. MelleR, {. p; II, 4. Peck, Scribe.
Meetings second and fourth Mondays o
each month.
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LAKE DUNMoRE LODGE, NO. Il, I. o. OF o. F.
III. mint. ". g., Il. ". Ballinetine, y g.,
IT, /. Cddy, Rec. Sec; &. 4. IOuft, Per. Sec.
Meetings every Friday evening at 80
o'clock. Degree work every meeting. Hall
in Dyer's block.
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M1DDLEBURY COUNCIL, NO. IA, R. AND S. Nj.
j. VI. Cheney, T. l. ".
Stated assemblies the second Tuesday even
ing of each month.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-08-05

GREEN MOUNTAIN LODGE, no. s74, X. OF H.
j. 2. Kingsley, Dictator.
Regular meetings the first and third Friday
evenings OF each month.
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POTTER CHAPTER, NO. %, r. A. NJ.
Ed,card II. Martin, Z. II. p.
Stated convocations the third Tuesday even
ing of each month.
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MI. CALVARY CoMAANDERY, NO. l, X. T.
Sir ". n. Bre,cster, Z. c.
Regular conclaves the fourth Wednesday Of
each month.
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BAPTIST.
M ETHODlST.
REV. j. G. GOODNG, PASTOR.
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
REV. j. NJ. GELOT, PASTOR.

Summer Arrangement.
Every Sunday Icy 10y mass mass at 8 80 a. m
sunday school after high mass.
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WI. p. Russell POST, NO. 50, G. A. R.
T. c. Wells, Commander; VIM. Latimer. S.
V. G.; James Nj. Tracy, 5. V. c.; W. l.. Cady,
Adjt.
Regular meetings the second and fourth
Wednesday evenings of each month.
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MOOsLAMo TRIBE, no. IA, I. o. OF r. vi.
4. II. Ldng,1Orthg, Sdchem; ". II. Gilbert,
Chief of Records.
Councils second and fourth Thursdays OF
each moon.
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weeks | was
bed suffer-
ing with in
hauuuation
Gndconges-
ton of the
Ovaries. |
had a dis (
charge all
the time.
Whenlying
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the time, n
felt quite
comfort
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THE CHURCHES.
S. STEPHENS.

HOLY EUCHARIST
First Sunday in month toAso -,
and High Festivals, q" IL
Other sundays, 80 a. IN.
Other Holy Days 200 a, IN.
MORNING PRAYER.
First Sunday i'm month, 10 700 a. m.
Other Sundays, with Sermon, l0:45 a. IN.
Daily, Advent and Lent 800 a. IN.
EVENING PRAYER.
SUNDAYS, with Sermon, 700 p. m.
Fridays, with Instruction, 80 p. m.
Daily, Advent and Lent 4 80 p. IN.
SUNDAY SCHOOL, 10 100 a. IN.
The Rector is at the church every morning
after nine o'clock
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CONGREGATIONAL
REV. A. W. DICKENS, PASTOR.
Sunday services, 10 45 a. m; 80 p. m.
Sabbath school, II 100 m.
Thursday, conference meeting, 1870 p. m.
T.. p s. G. e., Sundays, sop. m.
BAPTIST.
REV. A. b. POTTER, PASTOR.
Sunday Services, 10 as a. M; 80 p. IN.
Sunday school, IL 100 m.
Experimenting, THU sday, 7;3Op.m
Y s. s. c. E., Sundays, 100 p. m.
Seatsree.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-13
LIVES lM BOSTON With H@ TEACHER, NEAR AElEM NEggER

Tommy Stringer is the kind of boy
who would sing merrily at his work if
he could, but that is one Of the few
things that are out of the range of his
accomplishments. In lieu Of it, his come
ly face shines with joy and satisfaction
when he takes a piece of wood in one
hand and tool IL the other and be-
gins to fashion some simple article of
Use or ornament
Tom is deaf and blind, and his means
Of communicating, with other people are
confined almost wholly to the use Of the
manual alphabet, N Nevertheless, he has
been attending the Lloyd School in Bos-
ton for the past year, where he is
taught with ordinary pupils, most Of
whom he exceis iii the neatness and Sac-
curacy Of his work. He goes twice a
week. being accompanied from the Kin
dergarteis Tor the Blind, in Jamaica
Plain, by}his teacher, Miss Conley. who
is his companion, confdante. interpreter
and protector, as we'll as teacher.
These days are as good as holidays to
Tom. He never has to be reminded Of
them or coaxed or, scolded into going.
The trip in itself is an event fraught
with as much interest as if he could
see the sights along the way and hear
the cries and the music Of the street;
and, in a way, Tom does see and hear
more than MAN. a boy would in pass
kpoy I1ror. tI1a ma 1ni1ta
How many people are in the carr"
he spells with his inquisitive little fin
gers into the palm Of his teachers hand.
'What kind Of lady sits next to me?
and what does she wear? What street
are we on now? Are the buildings high
or low? What is there in the shop win
dows?"
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-13

draw the sinners to them by rakes and
throw them into the pool. In the fore
ground a devil crowds the souls
among them a king and hishop-into
a kettle with his pitchfork, and near
him a monster drives a nail into some
sinners breast. On the other side is a
huge kettle in which the damned
among them an emperor and a. pope
are boiled. High up sits Lucifer, a six
armed, horned devil, with a trident in
one hand.
A frightful picture of the serpents at
tacking a sinner is found in manu-
script in the royal library at Dresden,
having a red tint in the original Civ
ing it a hellish glare. Dante and his
guide Virgil, are up on a rock watch-
ing the scene described in canto Xxx XY,a+
An illumination of Cerberus and. the
"hell hounds" taken from unique
manuscript in the Vatican library, writ
ten early in the 18th century, IS also a.
remarkable piece of monastic art The
clouds, ice and water are all depicted
with Infinite care and according to
Dante's vision:
when that great worm Cerberus saw
Wide opened he his mouths and showed
his fangs.
No limb of his did he keep quiet,
MY leader, opening wide his hands, took
earth,
And with full fists threw it into the
ravenous throats
AS the dog that barking Graves quiet
when his food he bites,
And is intent and fights only to devopr
it,
Such became those filthy faces Of de-
mon Cerberus,
So laundering at the souls,
That they would fain be deaf"
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-13

tines day came around they sent their
sweethearts little gifts, behaving with
as much freedom as the strict customs
Of those days allowed.
From that time on the custom of OBJ
serving Saint Valentines day has
grown, and now this gift day is almost
a holiday 1t Is celebrated in the social
world by gatherings and in the trade
world by a great variety of pretty tok-
ems offered for personal gifts.
And so Saint Valentine is not forgot
ten, though many hundred years have
passed since then.
1t would be impossible to tell how the
custom of, honoring Saint Valentine will
change in the next hundred years. To-
day you see the shops decked out with
pretty tokens, satin trifies and all sorts
of sweet smelling gifts. There are
verse books written also for the day,
and the windows are filled with trit1es,
costly and otherwise.
The etiquette of Saint Valentine
gift has somewhat changed in the last
thousand years. At the beginning of
the ninth century valentine was a
proposal Of marriage, and consisted of
a herd Of cattle for the very wealthy
swain and a slain sheepfor the poor one.
Lovers in the warm countries sent g1fts
of wine and in the Orient they sent
perfumes, IoF CneTe is Ho county "
which the fame of Saint Valentine has
not Travelled.
The most popular gift today is a
figure picture. There is no handsomer
token than a box upon which a pretty
girl stands with arms outstretched Jug
Cling hearts and money-bags.
In looking. upon her valentine gifts
the maiden of Valentines day, 1898, can
not do better than pick a moral from
the fame of Saint Valentine. He chose
love as his theme and lives forever
in the heart, while unworthy Croesus
and his wealthy Roman associates, who
looked upon gold not wisely but too
greedily, are held afar off as objects of
scorn. Harry Germaine.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-13
A PAYING BUSINESS.
How Beggars in New York Ply Their Pro-
fession.
CFrom the New York SUM

(From the New York sum-
Court Officers Grosjean and Hayes of
the jefferson market police court are
detailed to arrest professional beggars.
In the year during which they have
been assigned to this work and which
ended on Wednesday last, they have ar
rested 460 beggars, panhandlers and i'm
posters.
''Too ready an ear is bent to their ap-
peals,' said Grosjean. Take, for in
stance the case of Daniel Shea, who is
known as the king Of beggars. He was
arrested by me last Wednesday and sent
to the workhouse by Magistrate Flam-
mer. He is said to own a tenement house
and to have fair sized bank account.
Owing to the difficulty of catching him
in the act of soliciting aims he has been
dubbed the king That man has been a
professional beggar for the last thirty
years, and has been arrested only four
times. He served in the late war, and
has been a heggar' ever since.
ut must be paying business. John
Morris, new handaagsit for he is only
, "a years old, has his left leg missing be
low the knee. He solicits aims on Sixth
avenue, between Fourteenth and Six
teenth streets When l arrested him he
offered to give me $40 down if I would
let him off, and to pay me 81 a day for
the privilege Of begging on Sixth ave-
nue.. He told me that he averaged $40 a
day. Not a bad business.
"a man named Osgood is one Of the
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-13
DANTE's HE'LL.
A Picture Taken from a Monkish
Manuscript,
Sample of the Many Medieval Iustra-
tions of "The Inferno" Revealed
by a Learned. German.

Next to the Bible, no book has passed
through as many editions, has been
more thought over and worked over,
than Dantes Divine Comedy" During
the middle ages, it stood side by side
with the Bible in the libraries of the
monks, and was copied and, recopied by
their tireless fingers and Illuminated by
their artistic skill.
1t is easy to explain this monastio de-
votion when we know that Dante wrote
his great poems in the faith that the
history of the world had been directed
from the beginning toward the redemp-
tion of the elect; the Roman empire was
foreordained and established for this
end; it was to prepare the way for the
establishment of the Roman Church.
Is it any wonder. then, that the monks
were eager to illustrate his graphic de-
scriptions, especially of the Inferno, and
hold them up for the delight (?) of the
world?
QUEER MONKISH ILLUSTRATIONS.
A learned German, Prof. Ludwig Volk-
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-13

sandwiches the beggar walks along. I'M
til he sees an ash BARREL into which he
throws them. When he sees sonneT one
coming he fishes them out, and r. the
passerby, nine times out Of Ten, gives
them money. That is one Of the best
lodges to work upon the sympathies
of the charitable. Oh I tell you it Is
a very lucrative business; but it is rob-
bing the deserving ones People have
no idea what a. large sum is given out
daily to the undeserving in this man.
ner'
Addison G.. Jerome, special agent Of
the Charity Organization Society, also
told of some interesting cases brought
to his notice. There is one man, he
says, with a false leg, which he dis
cards in the daytime, and begS on
Sixth avenue. At night, putting on his
leg, he wears dress suit and attends
the theatre, sitting always in an or
chestra seat. He has been seen at Del
monico's, Another beggar lives on the
east side and has a whole floor nicely
furnished. His family were ignorant of
the fact that he was, a fbeggar until he
was arrested. He is now serving his
third term on the island. There is a
woman who works a very successful
trick. She goes from door to door ask
| ing the servants to contribute money to
enable her to insert an advertisement
| in the newspapers as a cook. She was
arrested at Thirty-fourth street and
Madison avenue after having stopped in
| all the houses in Madison avenue be-
tween there and Twenty-third street.
| When Mathew Bowland, who is Ia1ne
/ and fakes blindness by wearing blue
glasses, was arrested, $3.50, a gold watch
and chain, and a valuable locket were
found upon him. He worked the stores
along Sixth avenue.
Professional begging. Mr.. Jerome
says, is decreasing yearly, possibly ow-
| ing to the police surveillance, or the
decrease may be owing to the increased
number of licensed or legitimate beg
gars, against whom it is so hard to OBJ
tain evidence of begging. They are the
ones who sell pencils, grind organs, and
play the fiddle.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-13

Valentines originated with the saint
after whom they were named, They be-
gar nearly eighteen hundred years ago,
when Saint Valentine was alive, and
have continued ever since, taking diff
ferent forms in the different ages.
Valentine was priest in the days of
the Emperor Claudius. He was good,
kind priest and treated the common peo-
pie with much consideration. Above all
he was gentle to them when they came
to him about matters of the heart and
more than once he brought together
couples -estranged by harsh word. In
this way Valentine came to be greatly
loved
In those days the emperor was lord
of all; and little did he like it when 9TH
ers became favorites of the people. Con
sequently Claudius, when he saw Val
entine walk through the streets with a
crowd of people following and praising
him, became very jealous, and sent
word tc the priest that he must leave
the city of Rome.
But Valentine had no intention of go
ing He meant to stay and work there
as long as the Lord spared him, and
when he prayed nightly to his God in
the heavens he prayed for the people
VINO suffered so much from the oppres-
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-13

mann, has just made a careful search
among the manuscripts mouldering in
the libraries of Europe, bringing to light
many strange and striking illustrations
accompanying Dante's works as copied
by the old monks.
In the library of the Vatican, Prof.
Volkmann found picture accompany
ing the twelfth canto of the Inferno, in
which the Centaur Nessus, Virgil,
Dantes guide through the lower regions,
and Dante himself, appear. This is
Dante's description:
''On with the trusty escort moved we,
Along the crimson boiling edge,
That boiled the while shrieking aloud,
Under it saw l men sunk to the brow,
And the great Centaur said;
'Tyrants these, given to blood and pill
lage
Here weep they their pitiless offenses.
Here Alexander and that cruel Diony-
sius,
who caused to Sicily most woful years
Then turned 1 to the poet. Said ne,
Let him now be first and second
Farther along the Centaur stopped,
Above some issuing to the throat
Out Of that boiling stream.
Then saw folk holding above the tide
Their head, even their chest.
Thus more and more shallow grew the
blood
Till it cooked only the feet"
MEDIEVAL PICTURE OF HE'LL
In the National Library at Paris was
discovered manuscript written in the
14th century, and in it scene from hell,
corresponding only to the general tenor
of the Inferno" In it the devils stand
on a mountain in the background and
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-13
HIS INTEREST IN MECHANICS

cleverest of them all. He works all the
swell hotels ON Broadway and Fifth
avenue. and tells the guests a tale of
woe about having just lost his wife, and
won't the kind gentleman just give me
a dollar or two to bury her| have
known him to make $15 in one night
working that game. He is said to own
a comfortable home in New Jersey. The
last time I arrested him he had just
asked man for 81. and when accused
him of it he said:
You are mistaken. didn't ask him
for 50: L asked him for two doughnuts.'
"Then there is an Italian, who works
Fifth and Sixth avenue on crutches.
The last time I arrested him he had $114
in his pockets and a bank book showing
that he had $1,000 deposited to his credit
in one of the city banks. He is said to
own double-decked tenement house on
Baxter street, while he lives very COM
fortably with his family near by.
h'Another man, arrested innumerable
times is John Douain, who carries
three signs under his coat. With the
sign, Please help the blind he will
stand for an hour or two on corner.
When he tires of that he substitutes the
sign, Am deaf and dumb and enters
steeesg wfleredhe set5iculates IN an rstph
pealing manner so cleverly that he
meets with great success. At night,
when the deception cannot be so well
noted, he doubles his hand up under his
| sleeve and, twisting his leg as though
crippled, hobbies along Broadway, bear
! ing the sign, Please help poor Grip
pie He also makes much money.
"a very good trick to win sympathy
is imported from Paris Obtaining some
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-13

sion of the emperor.
And so the popularity of Valentine
grew.
When Claudius saw that his COM
mand had no effect except to make the
people like the priest the more, he de-
termined to do away with him. He or
dered him to be put to death, and one
fine day, when the people arose and
sought for him he was gone. He had
been beheaded by order Of the emperor.
Then the people were very sad.
"He is gone, but we can observe his
birthday" they said. And so when the
anniversary of his birth came around
they met secretly and gave each other
little gifts. They called them valentines,
and the young women, in token of love
for him and each other, took the gar
ters off their knees and exchanged
them, garter for garter.
After ten years they canonized Valen-
tine and placed mis- name along with
those of the saints. And ever after that,
when the day came around, they called
it Saint Valentines day
Now, during his lifetime Saint Valen-
tine had been very happy in love affairs,
and had always assisted those who
were in love troubles. Consequently the
young men grieved for him as much
as the young women, and when Valen-
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-13
is FOR MECHANICS, AND lis AM EXCELLENT CARPENTER,

faucet taken apart. The matron called
up the little blind boys and questioned
them about it, but one and all denied
knowing anything about it. Finally she
thought of Tom. He cheerfully confessed
that he was the author Of the act and
produced the missing pieces of the fau-
Get from among his playthings,
The matron endeavored to impress
him with the sense of having done
wrong, and told him that he ought to
do all he could to repair the mischief he
had done He responded to this appeal
with prompt alacrity. and to her sur
prise replaced the pieces In their proper
relative positions with the celerity and
deftness of a skilled workman.
on the lot adjoining where Tom lives
a new building is being erected, by the
kindergarten, and he has followed the
course Of its construction with the keen
est interest and enjoyment As. soon as
lessons. are over he wants to go at once
to the new house. and he knows as well
as any one of the worl0men' Just what
sort of materials have been used and
how they have been put together.
His highest ambition at present, how
ever, is to travel. This desire was m
spired by the tales that were told him
by two Of the teachers from the kinder
garten who took a trip to the Pacific
coast last summer He manifested the
greatest interest in the places they had
visited, and wanted to know about all
the things that they had seen that diff
fered from his own experience and sur
roundings Among other things, they
told him that they had travelled 5000
miles since they had seen him last.
"Well." Tom observed calmly, when
I am a young man, twenty years Of age,
T will travel 5000 miles,
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-13

These questions go on from the time
he starts until he arrives at his destina-
ton. He knows the route so thoroughly
that he can make diagram of it in the
sand me uses for his geography lessons,
naming the streets over which he passes
without mistake, and could doubtless
find his way alone if it were safe to
trust him without protection on the
crowded streets.
HIS SKILL WITH TOOLS.
He uses the same kind of tools in his
woodwork that the other boys do, ex-
cept that his rule has to have raised
figures on It, and in marking off he
uses an awl instead OF lead pencil.
Tom is neat, orderly. careful and exact
in his work. and rarely makes blunder
Of any kind, His intuitions are so keen
and his two senses of touch and smell,
upon which he depends, are 80 highly
developed that he can detect the slight
est variation from the model. If his
work does not match the rule and
square perfectly, he is miserable.
Tom is most successful driver of
nails. Every blow of the hammer falls
with unerTing aim full upon the head
of the nail, and he can send it through
the tninnest piece Of wood without split
ting it. Seeing boys who smash their
fingers and splinter the wood in their
endeayor to drive nails. look ON in won
der at Toms feat
simply constructed little stool, on which
he used only saw, hammer and nails.
Since then he has made a score Of ar
ticles, including boxes and other knick-
nacks suitable for Christmas presents
for his friends. One of his most am
bilious efforts, and one in which he
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-13

I manifested the greatest interest, was a
bird house, in making which he used
IL different tools.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-13
WONDERFUL BLIND BOY I'M THE W0RlDa

manifested the greatest interest, was a
bird house, in making which he used
IL different tools.
ACUTE SENSE OF SMELL
When Tom is in doubt about the kind
of wood he is handling, he helps out his
fingers by smelling the wood, and by
this sense alone is able to distinguish
eight different varieties. He is not only
painstaking and careful in his work, but
keeps an accurate and systematic record
Of all that he does, describing each ar
ticle that he makes and setting down the
length of time he was occupied on it and
other. details.
His mechanical bent finds expression
even in the summer vacation, which he
passes on a farm. He spends a consid-
cradle part of his time in fitting up con-
trivances which require skill and pa
tience. Last summer he rugged up an ele-
vator in the barn without assistance or
direction from any one, getting the
materials, consisting of. rope, pulleys,
blocks and chain, together himself, and
so adjusting them that he could pull
himself up and let himself down again.
He is extremely active and venturesome,
but seldom gets hurt. He climbs trees
as nimbly as any other twelve-year-old
boy, and has been discovered on the
roof of the house measuring the chim-
neys and making other Investigations to
satisfy his curiosity.
HIS INTEREST IN MECHANICS.
One of the first indications that Tom
ever gave of his mechanical ability was
in Connection with a mischievous prank
at the kindergarten few years ago. 1t
was discovered that the water had been
turned on in the dressing-room and the