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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-29

Manila, Sept 26.-The monitor Mon
terey. the cruiser Charleston and the
gunboats Concord and Zafiro lombard
ed OlongapO for six hours. The town
caught fire from the shells and was
consumed. Two hundred and fifty ma
rines and hlueiackets landed and We're
fired on 10y the natives, who used
siXtecn-ccntimeter Krupp gun, the
shells of which were loaded with gun
cotton. One American was wounded.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-29

Charleston. S. c.. Sept. 27.-Warrants
have been sworn out by Vice Consul
White, acting for the Government
of Norway. against Anderson and
Thomas. the Norwegian sailors from
the bark Drot. who. according to their
own story. killed and ate companion
while drifting in mid-ocean on raft.
The men are still very sick, and the
warrants were not served. but guard
was placed over them. They will be
sent to Norway as soon as able to
travel.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-29

Owego. N. Y, Sept. 26.-At the Tioga
County Democratic Convention Harry
B. Winters of Smithboro was nominal
ed for Member of the Assembly. Mr.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-29

Hamilton, Ohio, Sept. 25.-Although
the formal opening of the Republican
campaign has not made its appearance
in Akron, Senator Foraker really fired
the first gun ut the Emancipation cele-
bration, on the Butler County fair
grounds. The feature of his address
was Il strong declaration for expansion
and an exhaustive argument on the
trust question. in which he declared
that the tariff Is not responsible for the
formation of trusts and defended them
where they are conducted as legaliZed
bodies.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-09-29

Two Englishmen Escape From the
Filipino Lines and Convey News
to General Otis-Natives Strip the
Wrecked Warship of Nearly all
Her Guns.
The Worthington advance., 1899-12-22
MULES FOR THE FARM.
They Are More Hardy Than Horses,
Can Do More Work and Re-
uuire Less Care.

An exchange is asking its readers for
answers to the question, which would
be the most profitable to the farmer
during term of ten years, pair of
mules or pair of mares, which should
produce ten pairs, and probably might
produce and raise five or more pairs of
colts in that time? Something would
depend upon the success in raising good
colts, and something upon whether the
owner could SO plan as to spare the
work of his mares, or make it very
light for about three months ina year,
but the suggestion of such topic for
discussion seems of itself strong argu-
ment in favor of the mule team on
the farm. If it requires the raising of
colts to balance the account, our east
ern farmers, who seldom breed their
mares if they have them, and often
greatly prefer geldings, would find
mules more profitable. If there is no
increase from them, they lose no time
on that account; they are more hardy
than the horse, will last much longer,
as a mule 30 years old is more often
seen than horse of Is, and they can
be kept more cheaply. We honestly be-
lieve mule will do as much work as
a horse every day at one-half the ex-
pense for food, and will be in as good
condition after 20 years of labor as the
horse is after ten years if given equally
good care in other ways.-American
Cultivator.
The Worthington advance., 1899-12-22
1@Raa1R5''>
MODEL HOG HOUSE.

utes. / have two doors that slide MP
or down in each stall. one that lets the
sow out of doors and the other one
leads to the feeding alley. These slid
ing doors are "a inches wide and 3S
inches high. BY having doors to feed
ing alley You can use the alley for slop-
ping little pigs. and also give them ex-
ercise long before they can be turned
out to grass. I have holes bored in the
sliding doors and use wooden pin. I
can raise the doc. any height desired
and let in the big or the little pig. The
floors should be sloped three inches.
The feeding alley is six feet wide. One
of my reighbors has a cistern dug in
his feeding alley for watering purposes.
I have a corncrib eight feet from the
feeding alley. I use seven-inch cedar
posts to put the sills on and set them
three feet deep and four feet apart I
planked up on the inside of the posts all
around to keep out the hogs. etc. This
building is two feet above the ground"
The Worthington advance., 1899-12-22
FRANCIS BRAKES ROMANCE.
Unique Story of the Great Sea Fight
Which II a Tradition in
DevOnshire.

Of all the curious stories told of IA
nous sea fighters and their loves, per-
haps one of the most unique is that con-
cerning Sir Francis Drake, the story
to this day being tradition in Devon
shire. brakes first wife was Mary
Newman. After her death he married
Elizabeth, daughter and sole heiress of
Sir Sydenham of Combe-Sydenham,
Devonshire.
So marvellous had been the adven-
lures and successes of the great admiral
that he was credited with the power of
working miracles. AS the Devon story
runs, when Sir Francis left home for
one of his voyages, he told his wife that
if he did not return within seven years,
according to some versions, ten accord
ing to others, she might conclude he
was dead and marry again. During
these years Lady Drake was true to
her absent husband, though assailed by
many suitors; but after the term ex-
pired she accepted an offer.
One Of brakes ministering spirits,
whose charge it was to convey to him
any intelligence in which he was con-
cerned, brought him the news of his
wife's intentions. He loaded a cannon
Immediately and fired it down through
the globe on one side and up on the
other with so true an aim that It made
it's way into the church between the
two parties most concerned, just as :Ae
marriage service was beginning.
1T comes from Drake!" cried the
wife; ''he is alive, and there will be
neither troth nor ring between thea
and me."-N. Y. Herald.
The Worthington advance., 1899-12-22
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THEY PASS NE az.

They pass me by, these friends Of nina.
NV plod along my humble way.
see their lifted faces shine
~ With high ambitions lofty raw
q They mount with purpose fair and strong
10 heights that fail my dazzled sight.
40 place OF power. to peaks Of song,
10 upper realms Of heavenly ligh.
r.. They pass me by.
They pass me by with kindly word,
with hands outhed to help me climb,
The pulses Of my life are stirred
With Aspirations song sublime.
1ney cheer me on with friendly smile,
And their examples shining star,
And yet between us all the while
r. The mists of purple distance are
They pass me by!
They pass me by! they pass me by!
Thank God that some may reach the
crest!
And while they rise to glory.
Build in the vale my humble nest.
God knows no thought of envy stirs
The heart that cannot with them rise,
p%Fld yet-and yet-my heart demurs
rs And ceaseless,y in yearning cries:
They pass me by!''
But some day, when the angel Death
Unlocks the prison house for me,
I, too, shall catch the Heavenly breath
or higher raptures yet to be:
And as l soar on eager wing
To taste the joys for which pray,
My voice shall from the summit ring,
And nevermore in sorrow say:
''They pass me by!'
George Edward Day. in N. Y. Observer.
The Worthington advance., 1899-12-22
Too Much DrOne Comb.

Bees left to themselves are likely to
build to much drone comb, says the
Farmers Voice. This is not built for
the purpose by the bees, as they build
it for storing honey in, but if not filled
the queen will fill it next spring with
drone eggs and the hive will be over
stocked with the idlers. The way to pre-
vent this is to use all foundation comb
worker size and then the queen will fill
it with worker eggs and the colony
will be built up when Matching begins
in the spring. If there is too much
drone comb in the hive remove it and
replace with worker comb. BY doing
this the supply of drones is easily reg
ulated by the apiarist, and the bees be-
come more profitable than they would
be If left to their own devices.
The Worthington advance., 1899-12-22

According to the report of the COM
missioner of labor the value of the
annual products of the slaughtering
and meat packing was next in value
to that of the textile manufacturers
in 1890, textiles of all kinds amount
ing to $722 100000 and meats or meat
products being s5ss,ooo, 900, while -four
and milling products were $4,000. 900.
These figures will probably be much
increased in the next census report,
or were increased last year, when this
country exported s156, ,ooo. 900 worth of
meat beside the live animals. Truly
the live stock interest is a large one
for this country.
The Worthington advance., 1899-12-22
pure Breeds and proNt-

It is fact we'll recognized that no
branch Of the live stock business suits
the masses of people better than fowl
raising. It is paying vocation. and is
adapted to the young as we'll as the ole,
and to all sections of the country. Prime
poultry is desirable in every pouIterer's
beginning. The wisest methods are
those learned by experience and with
small hocks at the start pure-bred
stock costs more at the start, but once
established in the breeders yard its
beauty, prolificacy and the consequent
value of all the specimens produced
from the original breeding-birds more
than make up for the extra outIay spent
in the outset in producing the very best
stock that money can buy.-Farm and
Fireside.
The Worthington advance., 1899-12-22
Exception to the Rule.

II want you TO remember that one
Of the principal lessons taught by Chris
tianity, my dear children, is to love our
enemies"
"You don't want to alluz love yer en-.
emies, does yer?" asked one of the BOYS
of the Sunday school class.
eyes, Jimmie; there's no exception to
the beautiful rule.''
"Well, yer told us t'othe' day that
whisky wuz our enemy"
The embarrassment of, the teacher
WIS relieved by the appearance upon
the scene of gentleman. who had vol.
un1eered to come to Sunday school that
day to talk to the pupils about the
Nervousness of marital plurality among
the Mohammedans of Sulu.-Detsoii
Free Press. )
The Worthington advance., 1899-12-22
What the Dog Got.

A very curious circumstance hap
pened at Clinton in fox hunt re-
Gently. The dogs were hard on the
heels of fox, when the fox darted
into a hole, out some obstruction i'm
peded its passage and it only entered
far enough to conceal its body, leav-
ing the end of it's bushy tail sticking
out of the hole. When the men came
near they saw one of the dogs tear
ing across the field with the "brush'
in it's mouth and the fox flying in
another direction, with nothing left
of its beautiful tail but the skinned
stump. The dog had literally pulled
off the hide, and having obtained the
brush retired from the contest. Sew
eral shots were fired at the fox, but
failed to bring him down.-Hartford
Courant.
The Worthington advance., 1899-12-22
BOsTON's LONE F1sHERwoMAN
She Fishes Day After Day, Not for
Pleasure, But for Fish, and
She Gets Them.

Boston has lone fisherwoman. The
many hundreds of passengers on the
ferries for some time have seen her sit
ting, man fashion, on the end of an East
Boston wharf holding fishing line ex-
pectantly in her hand and with her eyes
fixed on the water directly beneath
her. She scarcely ever looks up and
seems Indifferent to the stares of the
people on the passing boats.
She enjoys the distinction of being
the only woman among the many fish
ermen who fringe the edges of Boston's
wharves from sunrise until sunset. She
comes to the wharf almost daily at an
early hour with, a small basket. She
does not go home to dinner, but eats a
light luncheon which she brings with
her. Fishing is by no means simply a
pleasure with her. To a reporter she
said her fishing partly supported her.
self and her two little children.
II am not ashamed of my occupa-
tion," she went on to say. "All kinds of
weather finds me on the wharf. In the
morning take care of the house and
send the children to school, and then I
come down on the wharf and fish. I
never suffer any annoyance. The men
who cast their lines from the wharf
treat me with the greatest respect.
''How much do I get for my fish -?
Well, that depends. Sometimes I get
as high as three cents apiece for good
sized founders. My neighbors are my
best customers
The conversation was interrupted by
a slight shivering of the line. A quick
jerk, a series of hand-over-hand mo-
tions and presently big founder was
thrown upon the wharf. With much
skill the fisherwoman pulled the hook
from the gills of the founder and threw
the fish into the partly filed basket.
Business is pretty good to-day" she
said, with a smile. ''Everything, you
know, depends upon luck in this busi-
ness. I have sat here some days for
hours without getting as much as a
nibble, while those sitting beside me
pulled in plenty of fish.
"Wet weather does not frighten me in
the least. In fact, I enjoy it, for the
fish bite better.
Il would advise very poor persons to
take to fishing. With a bent hook and
two cents worth of line one can get
enough fish for food. Boston harbor 10
filled with several kinds of fish, and
they are good eating. Fish bite at all
hours, so one need not be afraid of the
store closing. Nobody owns the ocean,
and as long as the wharfnger doesn't
get cross the fishermen should be con-
tented."-Boston Herald.
The Worthington advance., 1899-12-22
Feed Corn with judgment.

Corn should be fed with judgment.
Old corn is better than new and there
is loss in the crib while waiting for
prices to "a up, as corn dries some the
older it gets. Corn that is smutty or
moldy should not be put in the crib,
as it is injurious to all kinds of stock,
producing a disease styled by some
as stomach staggers." If smutty
corn is placed in the crib with sound
corn there is possibility of the sound
corn being affected. The same rule
applies to corn fodder; use only that
which is clean and free from blemish.
When cattle refuse certain kinds of
corn fodder the chances are that there
is something wrong with it.-Prairie
Farmer.
The Worthington advance., 1899-12-22

HANDY FATTENING COOP.
EsIk7:3fsHE1

or wire netting. The pen is kept dark
except when the fowls are eating. This
Is accomplished by hanging a thick
covering like quilt or bundles of
stalks. The pen is SO dark they move
about but little between meals. At
feeding time the curtain is lifted and
they are fed all they will eat, but no
more. A pan of sweet skinned milk is
kept before them and the pen floor is
clean and supplied with fresh bedding.
Discourage scratching and growing all
that is possible. A growing bird fat
tens slowly, if at all. Light encourages
Growing. The corn is fed in pans or
scattered, and the curtain is dropped
as soon as it is eaten. Cut green bone
and meat whet the appetite and should
be given every third day.-American
Agriculturist.
The Worthington advance., 1899-12-22
PERSONAL AND 1MpFRsoNAL

A 13-year-old girl who led her
seventh grade class in the Boston
schools failed when asked to name the
New England states.
Paralysis of the mouth, resulting
from the chewing-gum habit, has
caused schoolgirl in Wabash, Ind.
to renounce this practice.
The postmaster of small town in
eastern Massachusetts, resigned the
other day, and before nightfall six
candidates were actively in the field
canvassing for the appointment to
succeed him.
A newspaper report of a wedding
in Missouri town closes with this
candid statement: "They were mar
ried at the home of the brides par
ents, where they will remain until the
groom gets a job"
A Scotchman who let's bicycles ON
hire photographs every customer as
he starts for a ride and hands him a
portrait when he returns. The por-
is doing good business.
"A lady in Baltimore was so attract.
ed to pet monkey that when it shut.
fled off this mortal coil she gave a
bang-up funeral. There were six pail.
bearers, four carriages for the mourn.
ers and several floral designs, one OF
them being an "empty chair"
Gen. Sir William. Penn Symons, who
died in the hands of the Beers at
Dundee, owed his second name to the
circumstance that his grandmother
was one Agnes Penn, who, according
to her memorial tablet, was "a linea1
descendant of the excellent William
Penn, and inherited many of his pious
and amiable qualities.''
In 1854 Rt.-Hon. Joseph Chamber.
lain, the man who at the present mo-
ment has the eyes of all England--
and President Kruger-upon him,
went to Birmingham. He took with
him a letter to the parents of the
late Sir Thomas Martineau, which
read: "Please be kind and see as
much as you can of poor Joe,' for he
knows nobody in Birmingham" It
was not long before he reversed the
tables and everybody knew "poor
Joe."
The Worthington advance., 1899-12-22

House-cIeaning- In most homes comes
but once o year--in the spring but it comes
twice year for the North Western Linn
tied Trains. Twice q year both these fa-
nous trains are run into the shops for
thorough overhauIing and cleaning. and
such o cleaning rs they receive. Every biz
OF woodwork. nickel and bfass IN rubbed
and polished, alI the mattresses and springs
are made over, the uphosSfeFing is done
over, new paint and varnisI1. and many
skilled mechanics finally turn out two
brand new trains. In fact. the daily clean
ing these trains receive in Minneapolis and
Chicago n much more thorough than the
most tidy housewife gives her home
These two famous trains OF the North
Western Line have just received their an
nual house-cleaning and are fresher bright
er and finer than they ever were They
run every night betwecn Minneapolis. Sc
Paul and Chicago-one going. one coming
and still are worthy the comnaon and
well deserved opinion TINT they are the
most comfortable. elegant and easy riiin e
trains in the world
The Worthington advance., 1899-12-22
THE WrANI1No COLTS
That VIII Command Good Prices
In the Market

The time is at hand when the colts
dropped last spring will, as a rule, be
weaned, and as the Iatter-day demand
for work horses lays great stress on
weight the management of the colts
from now until grass comes again is of
the highest Importance, because the de-
sired weights cannot be made without
feed nor by allowing the colt to rough
1t through the winter as best It may
on frosted grass, poor hay. cornstaIks
and strawstacks. Given the start of
the right kind of breeding, and some
thing more is wanted during the colts
first winter to produce horse that will
bring money On the market, for if left
to shift for itself even the best bred colt
will in this way sustain an injury from
which no after care will enable il to
recover. The colt ought to be brought
up to weaving time with such training
as to self-feeding that it will miss the
milk of the dam as little as possible. In
deed, to grow a colt as it should be
grown, the mothers milk is not suffi-
cient for the colt longer than for the
first three months of its life; supple
menting the milk with meals or grain
should begin then or even earlier. so
that by weaving time it will be about
ready to wean itself without any inter-
ruption of thrift. After that feed grain
pretty we'll up to the maximum of its
power to clean up, and let it consist
largely of oats. Good. we1I-bred hogs
and cattle give the farmer higher
price for his corn than he can obtain for
it in any other way, and there is no way
by which he can get better price for
his oats than to feed it to well-bred
draught colt. There is something about
oats that makes it fill the bill as horse
feed as no other grain does. and three
or four quarts day is none too much
during the first winter and until the
youngster can go on grass in the spring.
There ought to be plenty of opportunity
for and encouragement to exercise. too.
for it is well-muscled animal that is
to be raised. At the same time. without
coddling the colt. it should be made
comfortable and not exposed to the
storms that occur every winter. There
is happy mean between the hothouse
product on the one hand and the gaunt,
MISUNDERSTANDING colt on the
other, and the owner of a good colt
ought to find it and work to it.-Home-
stead.
The Worthington advance., 1899-12-22

Two hours later the question was
settled for him. They overlook Tom
driving in and surprised him greatly.
He had never received the doctors let
ter saying he was coming, and of course
Maud's advent was surprise.
Explanations passed on both sides,
and Maud's shaken nerves began to
quiet down. Mrs. Burridge put her to
bed as soon as they reached the camp,
and the doctor sent up dose Of bro
mide.
Two days later Miss Teresa Holland
arrived. Her mothers advice had been:
"Go up to camp and look after Maud
yourself" Teresa found Maud very
well taken care of when she arrived.
She was swinging in Toms hammock,
while DR.. Aldrich read aloud.
The girls stayed two weeks and
brought new and happy change into
camp, Teresa finding plenty to admire
in old trees and rocks, developed into a
very pleasant companion, and she could
out-tramp any of them.
Maud was a good deal changed by her
unhappy experience. She started quick
ly if any unexpected sound was heard,
and she never went out Of sight Of some
of the campers. This being her condi-
tion, DR.. Aldrich found it necessary to
look after her very carefully.
One night, near the end of their stay,
Maud and the doctor were strolling on
the shore not far from the cabin, and
both were strangely silent. Finally
Maud spoke in low and intense voice:
"Supposing, doctor, you hadn't been
there? Tom would never have heard
me. He wasn't watching the train at
all.''
1t was the first time he had let her
talk of her fright, for it agitated her.
II was thinking of another supposi:
tion," he said. "supposing you should
60 back to Chicago, as you have planned
to do, next month, what blank you
would leave behind you! Then, again,
suppose you should let me join you
therein the fall, and suppose you should
come back with me and let me take
care of you always. I love you, Maud"
he finished, simply.
SWELL" she answered, 'supposing ]
should" ."-Boston Globe.
The Worthington advance., 1899-12-22
Meat and Grain for Hens.

When meat is given It IS not necessary
to allow much grain. For instance, if
meat is fed at noon it will only be neces-
sary to scatter q few handfuls of oats
in each pen to keep the inmates at
work. When a hen becomes too fat
she will lay soft-shelled eggs. When
plenty of meat is to be had as one of the
cheapestarticles of food greater guam
tity of oats may be given. Wheat is
the best all-round food, and with the
waste of the farm, in conjunction with
meat and the hot morning meal, and
exercise, will bring an abundance of
eggs.-Farm and Fireside.