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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-03-03

Dancing is not violent exercise as
practiced to-day, yet it brings in play
all the muscles. Ancient doctors rec
commended it as a cure for spleen, va
pors and melancholic affections" as
we'll as agues, jaundice and rheuma-
tism. 1t is a mild form of exercise,
which if INDUCED in moderately can
not but do good as well as make one
graceful.
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millionaire Hermit.

A Swiss paper relates that near the
Beatushohle, on the lake of Thun, an
eccentric hermit has built cottage in
which he dwells, shut off from all the
world, his food being brought to him
by a servant. He is a wellknown mil
lionaire of Basic, afflicted with the
mania that some one intends to poison
him.
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Chinese Economics.

Beef is never seen at a Chinese ia
BILE, oxen and COWS capable of working
the plough being accounted too valu-
able to the farmer to be consigned to
the butcher, Very severe penalties are
attached to the slaughter of these ami
mails, the punishment for the first Of
tense being 100 strokes with a bam-
hOO
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Very Infinm IN BILE.

Probably the most inflammable
among substances which are not spon-
taneously infiammable is phosphuret-
ted hydrogen (PH3). The heat of
thin glass tube containing boiling wa
ter is quite sufficient to ignite this gas.
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HorseIess Mail Wagons.

Motor wagons for delivering mails
are the latest thing In England. and are
proving so successful that the expert
ment is to be continued on large scale
both in London and in the provincial
Towns.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-03-03
A vienna Custom.

No married man In Vienna is allow
ed to go up in lalloon without the
formal consent of his wife and chill
dren.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-03-03

LAKE DUNMORE LODGE, NO. II, /. o. OF o. p.
II. l.. mint, N. g.; Il. " B0Hiaetine, Y. g.;
". /. Cddy, Rec. Sec: C. +. IOUtt, Per. Sec.
Meetings every Friday evening at 7 80
o'clock. Degree work every meeting. Hall
in DXer's block.
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ADDISON ENCAMPMEST, NO. y, I. o. OF.
l.. T.. Meiten, c. p; II. 4. Peck, Scribe.
Meetings second and fourth Mondays of
each month
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-03-03
PIRIT OF THE PRESS
ACTS AND OPINIONS GATHERED
FROM CONTEMPORARIES.

He IMMORAL ETHICS OF A PROF GSSION.
There was a hearing at Albany last
eek. 1t was on bill which seeks
erelv to compel great corporations to
by their fair share of taxes in return
pr the privilege of using the streets
hat belong to the people for the pur-
bse of making money in enormous
mounts for themselves. 1t was con-
Est of popular right against grab-all
reed.
Grab-all greed was represented by the
blest lawyers of our time. as it always
in such cases. They had been hired for
honey to oppose the right and advocate
he wrong, to bubble, to equivocate. to
blit hairs, to exercise all their ingenuity
bd prostitute their great learning to the
Prvice of wrong.
And all this Is but n'illustration. 1t
as in fulfilment of what is called the
ethics of the legal profession"
That ethics authorizes the lawyer to
spouse any cause, however wrong it
hay he, and to oppose any cause, how
ver right it may be, if only he is paid
is fees. Worse still. it binds him to
hrn his fees by promoting his clients
|lterest to the best of his ability, and at
nv sacrifice of truth and Justice and the
public welfare.
/ There is no such "ethics" in any other
Profession. The doctor is sworn to
'ountenance no malpractice, and is
liable to be sent to state prison if he
|oes. And what would he thought OF
he newspaper that should hold itself
eady to advocate or oppose any public
policy or private scheme accordingly as
d WA hired and paid to do the one thing
pr the other?
TO the lawyer only is it permitted to
bire himself TO the advocacy of whatever
fause he may be employed to plead.
| Upon him only does professional
|'ethics" lay the obligation of serving
bis employer in utter disregard of right.
ustice and public morality.
Is there no remedy? Is there no body
bf lawyers strong enough to reform the
|mmPasurably immoral "ethics" of a
profession which has more to do than
hnv other with the making and the en-.
lorcPment of law?-New York World.
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DEMOCRACY AND THE LARGER ARMY.
The founders of the republic saw in a
tanding army one of its graveSt dangers,
Ind the Frenchman De TOcqueville under
|ook to demonstrate some wears later
hat their fears were well grounded.
lie showed that an army under a mon
irchy was far less dangerous and dis
FurMng element to the state than an army
Under democracy. For among aristo-
ratic nations. where birth is a source of
rank, the same inequality exists in the
army as in the nation. The officer is a
noble, the soldier a serf Grades of rank
n the army are fixed as hard and fast as
n society. and these grades are filled as a
rule not from those next below, but from
he corresponding social orders of nobili-
ev. Thus ambition is stifled in the alb
sence of any chance of rising from grade
10 grade. and discomfort is made hope
.ess. The officers occupy elevated ranks
in society and can regard their army
positions AS mere appendage to their
social position, and wars are not so much
needed by them to secure distinction,
property or power, for of these they al
ready possess some abundance.
In democracy, however, the army Of
fcer can aspire to any grade in the
service with some hope of success. Ad-
vancement means everything to him
more pay. more distinction, more power
but peace brings few changes and
narrows the supply of commissions.
War increases the number of commissions
and shakes up matters generally. 1t is
TO war that the army of a democracy
must look for the changes that can satisfy
in any degree the ambitions of its mem
bers or allay their discomfort. And
only, as in our own case in the past,
where the army has been kept down to
an insignificant fraction of the whole
population, can it fail to become source
of constant danger and disturbance, as liz
the republic of France.
Admiral Sampson recently said thai
our increased area, through the acquisi
ton of distant islands, has increased oul
liability to war by 100 per cent. We
may add that the proposed four-folt
increase in the regular army will further
increase our liability to war. And VIZ
are already engaged in war as con
sequence of the one just ended. VIVA
this must mean for democratic govern
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GREEN MOUNTAIN LODGE, NO. S74. K. OF h.
J. 7. Kingsley, Dictator.
Regular meetings the first and third Friday
evenings OF each month.
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MOOsLAMO TRIBE, Nc. IA, l. o. R.M.
4. II. Langporthy, Sachem; W. II. GILBERT
Chief OF Records.
Councils second and fourth Thursdays OF
each moon.
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UNION LODGE, no. 2, F. AND A. NJ.
Charles j. AdtthecS, ". ".
Regular communications the first Monday
evening of each month.
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POTTER CHAPTER, 40. %, r. A. NJ.
Ed,Cdrd II. Martin, Z. II. p.
Stated conversations the third Tuesday even.
ing of each month.
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MIDDLEBURY COUNCIL, no. IA, R. AND s. n.
j. W. Cheney, T. l. ".
Stated assemblies the second Tuesday even
ing of each month.
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THE CHUROHES.
BAPTIST,

BAPTIST.
REV. A. b. POTTER, PASTOR.
sunday Services, 10 As a. M; 80 p. m.
iunday school, IL 100 IN,
'rayer meeting, THU sday, 7 30 pm
?. s. :. C. E., Sundays. 100 p. m.
Seatsiree.
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ROMAN CATHOLIC.
REV. J. NJ. GELoT. PASTOR.
Summer Arrangement
very Sunday; Low mass at 8; 80 a m
" High mass at 10 a. m.
nuday school after high mass
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WIN. p. Russell POST, NO. SO, G. I. R.
DR.. f. p. Russell, Commander; w. w. Mar
tin. S. VIC; w. j. Rose, J. V. c.; W. L. Cady,
Adjt.
Regular meetings the second and fourth
Wednesday evenings OF each month.
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MT. CALVARY CoMMANDERY, NO. l, X. T.
Sir Daniel c. Noble, z. C.
Regular conclaves the fourth Wednesday o
each month.
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Then Use DR.. Greene'S Nervura-It
Gave Me Health and Strength.

Beauty is the dover
and the gift is priceless.
beauty lies in having a clear
eyes and vivacitv of express
who are in good health.
who are gradually but sure
of beauty Their health
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THE FRATERNITlES.

THE FRATERNlTlEs.
LAKE DUNMoRE LODGE, NO. II, l. o. OF o. p.
II. L. Hunt N. g.; Il. ". BaHiaetine, y. g.;
". l.. Cady, Rec. Sec; c. E. loutt, Per. Sec.
Meetings every Friday evening at 80
o'clock. Degree work every meeting. Hail
in Dyer's block.
ADDISON ENCAMPMEST, NO. 81, I. O.o.F.
l.. f. Meiten, c. r.; II. 4. Peck, Scribe
Meetings second and fourth Mondays OF
each month.
UNION LODGE, no. ?. F. AND A. NJ.
Charles j. Mrtthe,eS, ". ".
Regular communications the first Monday
evening of each month.
POTTER CHAPTER, 80. %, r. A. NJ.
Ed,card II. Martin, z. H. p.
Stated conversations the third Tuesday even
ing of each month.
MIDDLEBURY COUNCIL, 40 IA, R. AND s.h
j. W. Cheney, T. I'm
Stated assemblies the second Tuesday even
ing of each month.
MT. CALVARY CoMMANDERY, NO. l, X. t.
Sir Daniel c. Noble, z. C.
Regular conclaves the fourth Wednesday OF
each month.
WIN. p. Russell POST, NO. SO, G. Z. R.
Dr.. p. Russell, Commander; W. W. Mar
tin, S. V. e.. w. j. Rose, J. V. c.; W. l.. Cady,
Adjt.
Regular meetings the second and fourth
Wednesday evenings OF each month.
CAMP A. 8. TRACY. 8. OF v.
C. p. Rich, Captain.
Regular meeting the second and fourth FRI
day evenings of each month.
GREEN MOUNTAIN LODGE, NO. s74. X. OF n.
J. 7. Kingsley Dictator.
! Regular meetings the first and third Friday
evenings of each month
MOOsLAMO TRIBE, NO IA, 4. o. OF RIM.
4. II. Langporthy, Sachem; w. Fl. Gilbert
Chief OF Records
| Councils second and fourth Thursdays OF
each moon.
THE CHURoHEs.
CONGREGATIONAL.
REV. A. W. DICKENS, PASTOR.
sunday services, 10 AS a. M; 80 .. m.
| sabbath school, IL 100 m.
| Thu 'sday, conference meeting, 7:3O p. m.
Z. P 6. C. e.. Sundays, 6:3Op. m.
BAPTIST.
REV. A. b. POTTER, PASTOR.
| sunday Services, 10 As a. M; 80 p m.
sunday school, IL Dom.
'rayer meeting THU sday, 730p.m
| ?. s. :. C. E., Sundays. 100 p. m.
! Seatsfree.
METHODIST.
REv I q GnnDTNG PAaTnR
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HESITATION.

An Oriental ruler had an officer
whose title was the Discourager Of Hes
itancy This gentleman was armed
with a we'll constructed and exceed
ingly sharp scimitar, and he stood by
the side of those to whom the ruler pro-
pounded conundrume. and if they did
MT answer promptly he did his official
work with neatness and dispatch. New
Haven needs a Discourager of Hest
fancy. II it had one that fagpole
would have been up long ago, and
several other things would also have
been done.
Let us be thankful that though New
Haven has not the Oriental Discourage
er of Hesitancy she has the Oriental
one-man power. This is progress. Per-
maps by and by she will also have the
much-needed officer with the exceed
ingly sharp scimitar.
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EVIDENT.

Not Fast.-"He has run through all
he had" Fast horses, | suppose "
SLOW, / believe" Detroit Journal
II am not satisfied with the new min
lister" said the old-fashloned deacon;
his sermons are too short" II could
stand that" said the liberal brother,
IF they were not so narrow" Gwen
that might be overlooked" said the
third, studious one, but they are
hopelessly shallow" Then they voted
to make change. Brooklyn Life.
Sour-faced woman-~You get right
out of here or I'll call my husband
Tramp-Y'r husband amt at home.
Sour-faced woman-How do you
know he amt?
Tramp-Tve alters noticed num-
that when man is married to a wo-
man like you, he never is at home ex-
cept at meal time,-New York Weekly.
The answers to-correspondents editor
was taking a day off when this question
came in: Il am engaged to Kate Muir
ply, but my former fiancee Kate Doc
ley, threatens to sue me for breach of
promise. Can you advise me how to
extricate myself from this difficulty?"
The financial editor and the football
critic We're responsible for the answer,
which read: 1T would appear that you
have already extra Katet1 yourself."--
Baltimore American.
Johnny, somewhat over three years
old, was having a fine time with his
little express wagon, levying contribu-
tons upon his aunt, who watched him
running back and forth, until the sweet
little face and rosy mouth uplifted to
her as he delivered his packages We're
irresistible. kiss me, Johnny" she
said. as she paid him his pennies,
But the little fellow drew himself up
In indignant refusal.
"Yadies don't kiss 'xpressmen!" he
scornfully, and marched off
mphant.--Harper's Bazaar.
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DIR, ABBOTT CRITICISED.

| An English Editors Sharp Remarks
Upon His Missions Address at the
Congregational Council.
The proceedings of the International
Congregational council at Boston, the
details of which have now come to
hand. disclose as remarka BILE an attack
ON Christian missions as any opponent
of Christianity could have wished. The
attack came from no less person than
DR.. Lyman Abbott, lately the successor
| of Henry Ward Beecher in the pulpit of
Plymouth church, Brooklyn Doubtless
| DR.. Abbott would dlsclaim the idea of
having attacked missions, yet this is
what his words amounted to, if they
have any meaning at all, and they seem
| to have been applauded by about one
half of the lay and clerical delegates
present. The subject which called forht
this remarkable utterance was the rela-
ton between the civilized and non-civ-
ilized peoples. subject which has
naturally taken a foremost place in
American interests as a result of Pres
ident McKinleys policy in the Pacific.
That policy has divided the American
churches as sharply as the nation at
large. On the one hand, men like Bish-
op Potter denounced it as violating eve
ry law, human and divine. On the 9TH
er hand, men like DR.. Abbott seem to
find in 1t a providential meaning of
enlightenment to "the heather" and to
those Catholics whom he regards as but
little advanced beyond heathenism.
The starting portions of DR.. Abbott's
address were that, in the first place. he
minimized in strong language the ac
tual results of missions, and in the sec
ond place said that the Christian Cos
pei, which he processes to believe, was
of no use in barbarous lands until the
ground had been well plowed by the
sword. In short, poor Cetawayos IA
nous saying about the combination of
the soldier, the trader and the mission
airy stands confirmed and apologized for
by the ex-pastor of Plymouth church.
Missions said Dr. Abbott, may
save some individual lives, and will
emancipate some fragments of some
tribes, but as far as the illumination of
Africa is concerned, the mission sta
tons are like glowworms in the mid
night darkness of a great meadow If
Africa is to be redeemed first must go
the law, ard after that the Gospel"
by law Dr. Abbott gave 1t fully to be
understood what he meant-mlitary
conquest. THE army is a necessary
means of enforcing obedience to law
he declared, and, in fact bis whole ar
gument was that so-called Christian
nations should send their troops into
barbarous lands for the purpose of en-
forcing law (their law on the native
races should shoot down those who re-
sist, and then should offer the Gospel of
peace and love to the survivors.
One would like to have had one of the
early apostles or martyrs who faced
death in the arena. and who obeyed lit
orally the command not to resist evil,
present at that meeting at Boston, with
this curious doctrine laid down and
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LET Us MOURN IND GET GOOD.

Columbia 5: Yale 0.
President Hadley said in his inaug-
ural address: I refer to something far
more widespread, which still remains u
menace to American college athletics
the whole system of regarding athletic
achievement as a sort of advertisement
of ones prowess, and of valuing sue
cess for its own sake rather than for
the sake of the honor which
comes in achieving 1t by hon
orable methods. rejoice in Yale's vic
tories. / mourn in her defeats; but
mourn still more whenever l see a
Yale man who regards athletics as a
sort of competitive means for pushing
the university ahead of some rival.
This is professionalism of the most
subtle and therefore most dangerous
sort. / know that the condition of ath-
letic discipline in a college makes
difference in it's attractiveness to a
large and desirable class of young
men, and rightly SO. Whether a VIC
tory or series of victories makes such
a difference, and increases the num-
bers that attend the university, l do
not know and ! do not care to know.
The man who allows his mind to dwell
on such a question, if he is not tempt
ed to violate the ethics of amateur
sport. is at any rate playing with
in dangerous and repre-
hensible way.
Let us mourn, and while mourning
let us improve the opportunity to real
ize that victory isn't the main thing III
athletics. Also let us not allow our
minds to dwell on what an advertise
ment for a university victory or
series of victories il. What's the use of
rushing into temptation in the face of
5 to 0?
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THE THREATENED TOWNS.
Sketch of Kimberley, Where Rhodes is
in Danger, and of Northern Nata


Sketch OF Kimberley, Where Rhodes is
in Danger, and of Northern Natal
Points Of Attack.
A correspondent who has visited all
the threatened towns on the frontier
between the British possessions and
the Boer States writes to us as fol-
lows:
Kimberley, SAT miles from Cape
Town and about 230 south of Mafeking
on the railway, is well known as the
center of the diamond industry, pos
sessing the great mines known as
Kimberley and De Beers, and sbeing
practically the controlling center for
the diamond industry of the whole
world AT the last census it's popula-
ton was about $4,000, of whom rather
less than one-half We're whites 1t has
a number of hotels, as well as hos
pital and a sanatofium, a public libra
~ containing one of the best collec-
tions of books in South Africa, a club,
a Masonic temple a park, with cricket
and football fields; Anglican, Wesle-
yam, Presbyterian, and Roman Catho-
lie churches; trans, cabs, and a couple
of daily newspapers. A short distance
away is Beanconsfeld, practically a.
suburb, with a poulation of 10000 half
whites around the mines of Du Tolts
Pan and Bulifontein. At Kimberley
the diamond imnes and De Beers Off
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with the applauding Christians present,
and to have heard his comment on
such views Of the means by which the
Gospel Of Christ was to be propagated
among men. 1t sounds more like Islam
than Christianity; in point Of fact II IS
the doctrine Of Islam--conVerSion by
the aid OF the sword and the secular
power. We are glad to say for the nom
or of the Christian church In general,
and of the English people in particular
that an admirable antidote to this start
ling heresy was provided by DR.. Mack
email, one of the most eminent OF the
English delegates, whose excellent al
dress on war should be circulated
broadcast among all Christians OF
intended to be counterblast to DR..
Abbott, but this address was so in a
highly effective degree. DR.. Mackennal
is under no illusion as to any immediate
reign of peace. So long, he truly says,
as the mass of men are more brute
than really human, SO long as nations
are nominally Christian, but nothing
more, so long will war be permanent
possibility. But, at the same time, 1t
Is horror the sum of all villainles,
with no redeemng feature. 1t does
not moralize men, it degrades them,
stirring up, as it does, all morality.
Lying, theft, murder are not only per-
United in war, they are even classed as
virtues If only they are performed ac-
cording to the rules. How reconcile
such brute relics of the APE and tiger
in human nature with the plain COM
fn n
to him, to pray for ones prosecutor, to
live in peace and love with all man
kind? The answer is that there Is no
reconciling of such opposite doctrines.
We know the difficult problem of apply
ing the loftiest ideals of life In such
world as ours, the clash of opposing
ideas of life, the life Of the primeval
man with his instincts for self-preser-
walton with those of the divine man
with his instincts for love and sacrifice
of self, and we do not in the least UNI
derrate this difficulty,
But assuredly, II the counsels of DIR.
Abbott are to prevail. and we are to
take the Moslem creed for our guidance,
If we are never to think of the Gospel
until we have unsheathed the sword,
llHGIF we may do wen dDdiluOli tllS lly II
ocritical farce Of Christian missions al
together, admit that the Christian ideal
is too good for this world, and come
down to hard legal compulsion and to
military rule as the final embodiment
of the civilization we are propagating
the world over.
But is DR.. Abbotts view true? Are
missions an entire failure? Is it posi-
BILE to approach the barbarian on other
than legal and military grounds? The
answer Is clear. Wherever the true
Gospel of respect for humanity has been
carried by Christian teachers it has
succeeded. Look at PENIS dealings
with the Indian tribes. While DR.. Abb
bolts Puritan ancestors were killing
Indians in New England Penn was
making just and fair treaties with his
Indians in Pennsylvania. Which was
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warmth, but they increase greatly the
richness of the garment. When hand
some fur cuffs are added and the cloak
is handsomely lined, It gives almost the
impression of an all fur cloak. Then
the fur adds to the expense nightly.
Dainty shoulder capes all lace, en-
broidery, frills and soft color will al
ways be useuful numbers in the roper
toire of wraps. Lace and fur just now
give the right touch. Indeed, since these
dainty wraps are hardly more than a
touch anyhow, lace and fur with bit
of sillken foundation to hold them to-
gether constitute the wrap. Some of
them are hardly more than a lace boa,
with a flounce or so to fal about the
throat and shoulders. Now and then
lace shoulder cape all soft fluff1ness
to the eye will show substantial lin
ing. Sometimes there is an unsuspect-
ed interlining Of cozy flannel. Such
shoulder cape laid over bare neck will
not take from the delicate elaborateness
of the costume, and yet will guard the
wearer completely against draught.
FLORETTE.
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The Old Rnoks.

They are gray with the gray of ages
Borrowed. and begged and sold,
Thumb marked of saints and sages
In the scholarly days of old.
Rose leaves prest for Il lover
Rest In their pages dim,
Though silent centuries cover
All that IS left of him.
And | feel, in the library's shadows,
With this ghostly company,
The breath of forgotten meadows
And the centuries over me!
And when twilight bells are calling
When the day with its strifes is DER
There are ghostly footsteps falling
Faint on the library floor.
Singers, and saints, and sages--
In the fame of name we trust,
But Time will cover our pages,
As even our tomb with dust.
For here. In the llbrary's shadows,
Where the famed and fameless be,
! roam in forgotten meadows,
With the centuries over me,
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