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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-02-09
The EOrtniyhtly Club

met with Mrs. j. II. Stewart Mond, !
when the following program was reu-
dered
symphony MOP, Beethoven
| Adagio and Allegro,
Mrs. Mcliilton and Mrs. Henckels.
2 Larghetto,
Miss Pinney and Mr.. hite.
Allegro Motto,
Mrs Stewart and Miss.Blsbee.
Piano, "Please Do" Chadwick
Miss Cushman.
Piano. Idyn, Mcdowell
Mrs. McGilton.
Song. Selected,
Mrs. Beadell.
Piano, MenuettO, Tours
Mrs. Miner and Miss Fletcher.
Song, "Once on a summer Morning." Nevin
Mrs. Howes.
Song. Deserted" Mcdowell
Mrs. Hill.
Glee, Song OF the Triton, Molloy
Mrs. Beadell. Mrs. Miner,
Mrs Stewart, Mrs. Dickens.
The club will meet Feb. 10 with
Mrs. McGilton; composer, Schumann.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-02-09
Celebrated Her Ninetieth birthday.

On Monday evening, Feb. ., there was
pleasant gathering at the home of Mrs.
Loyal Remele on South street. it being
her ninetieth anniversary; and although
the severe storm prevented friends from a
distance being present, quite number
came To pay homage to the venerable
lady, aud congratulate her upon her
long and useful life. She is the only
surviving member of large family.
Very few reach such an advanced age,
but time has dealt gently with her, and
although somewhat infirm physically,
mentally she is wonderful woman.
During the day children who had learned
to love her came to off.r tht ir little
words of cheer, and in the evening older
ones followed. Refreshments were
served, and after ample justice had been
done to the edibles prepared, the hours
were interspersed with singing and
recitations, and reading by a friend who
had penned few original thoughts a.
a tribute of esteem and friendship
Many tokens of love were left, with kind
words and wishes for many more sud
pleasant gatherings. 4
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-02-09
LOCAL NOTICES.

(Notices under this head ten cents per line
hrst insertion; five cents per line succeeding
insertions Count seven words to lne.)
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-02-09
Social UIatters.

THE WEATHER AT BREAD LOAF.
FOR WEEK ENDING WEDNESDAY, FEB I, 1900.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-02-09
FIRST TO COME

Will lind most sizes. Every
pair is taken from our reg
ular stock and discounted to
make easiest selling.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-02-09

TIE WEATHER IN MlDDLEBURY,
FOR WEEK ENDING WEDNESDAY, FEB. :, 1900
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-02-06
DO YOU WANT A CALENDAR3

The biggest-and best-calendar ever issued
by any American railroad is now being distrib-
uted by the Burlington Route.
1t has twelve sheets, one for each month of
the year. On each sheet is a striking illustration
of some feature of the Buriington's service or OF
the territory reached by its lines-the govern
ment fast mail running at full speed; tourist
car on its way to California; engine 1891, the
largest passenger engine in the world; library
car; compartment sleeper the Burlington
station at Omaha; a dining car; monster freight
train; Estes Park, Colo, the plunge bath at Hot
Springs, S. D., Yellowstone Falls, etc.
The drawings from which the pictures were
made are by Louis Braunhold, of Chicago and
cost several hundred dollars.
The size of the calendar is % 2s.
The dates are in big type which can be read
at a distance of 80 feet For business offices the
Burlington calendar is simply invaluable.
Purchased in large quantities, the calendars
cost the Burlington Route p cts. apiece. With
postage, packing, ETC., they represent an in
vestment of about 80 cts. Our price is 25 cts
10 cts less than cost. Write for one. Stamps
will do. II it is not satisfactory, send it back
and your money will be promptly refunded.
]. FRANCIS,
General Passenger Agent Omaha, Neb.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-02-06
Republican Opportunities.

Municipal elections will be held
in a number of Colorado cities and
towns the coming spring, and the
course to be pursued by the sever
al parties is already being dis
cussed among their respective lead
ers, and in the press. Ordinarily
politics is of little consequence in
local elections. The average voter
is inclined to support the men he
knows and trusts regardless of any
party affiliations. This plan gen.
orally, though not always, results
in the election of the best men.
1t tends to act as a brake on regu-
lar party organizations, compelling
them to nominate their best men.
But this is not an ordinary year in
Colorado politics. 1t is year in
which the Republican party must
direct its efforts to the redemption
of the state from Democratic and
fusion misrule. There is every
reason to believe that the party
will be successful in the contest, if
sagacity and firmness are evinced.
With this end in view, the PILOT
seconds the Denver Times in urg-
ing straight Republican tickets in
the coming municipal campaigns.
Clean Republican tickets should
be nominated in every town and
city in the state and the voters ap-
pealed to to support them in the
interest of better government and
a wiser and more economical eX-
penditure of public funds. The
party should, as has been its Gus
tom in the past, appeal to the best
sentiment of the community. No
desirable gain can be made by sur
rendering to corruption or truck
ling TO vice.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-02-06
The Right OF Free Speech.

Senator Pettigrew and several
other senators who are promoting
treason and encouraging the enc
mics of the United States by exer-
cising, or rather abusing, the right
of free speech in the national SEN
ate and elsewhere, differ more in
kind than in quality from the
Chicago anarchists. That the
right of free speech exists is un-
deniable and it is a privilege most
essential to the protection of our
political freedom, but the right of
free speech never carries with it
the exemption from responsibility
for ones own utterances. There
are laws against libel, laws against
SANDER, and, as the Chicago an
archists found out, laws against
melting to murder and riot. 1t is
probable that there is no law that
can be enforced against the act of
a senator who desires to instigate
and encourage war against his own
country, but public sentiment can
make itself felt and there is little
doubt as to what his colleagues in
the senate and the American peo-
Pile outside of it think of Senator
Pettigrew. A representative of the
people who wilfully and deliberate
ly tries to circulate falsehoods con-
cerning his own government and
in the face Of denials of govern
ment officials worthy of all conf
dence is pretty much of a des-
picable sort of an American. There
are a number of individuals and
newspapers of the same calibre as
Pettigrew scattered throughout the
nation, who turn almost green with
envy because of the splendid
successes achieved hy our present
American administration.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-02-06

Advertising is a demonstrated
success, says the South Denver
Citizen. A business man recently
died in Chicago who had amassed
SIS, 100000, most of which he as
cribed to liberal advertising, Many
of the small merchants envy and
growl at the big department stores.
They do business because they
advertise, and advertise continu-
ously and Systematically. They
have bargains, and they tell all
about them. Money expended for
advertising is as necessary as
money paid for insurance, clerk
hire or store rent.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-02-06

1t is too early in the season to
begin to speculate on the possible
results of mining this year, bat it
is not difficult to find abundant
reasons why mining will be carried
on in a greater degree in this sec
ton the coming summer than for
ten years past. The advantages
which the open winter has given
the miners is sufficient of itself,
but the increased force in the way
of new and improved machinery
in several of the older mines and
the renewal of work on scores of
good propositions gives double
assurance of an extraordinary
amount of work. One of the most
gratifying phases Of the local min
ing situation is the fact that the
inquiry for property is unprece-
dented and almost without excep-
ton by people who contemplate
buying or leasing for practical pur-
poses,
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-02-06

European intervention in the
Anglo -Boer war seems to have be-
come a probability. There is nc
Disgusting the fact that the Lon
don press and the British public
are aware of the imminence of in
reference, and the preparation of
the navy to respond to orders for
mobilization is the best evidence
of the fact. The attitude of Russia
in Persia and the intention of
France to spend $20o,oo0,oO0 on
her navy are moves of Importance
on the international chessboard,
and indicate the strong desire of
the jealous powers to checkmate
England in her game of coloni-
cation.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-02-06
A Small Man And A Great Man.

BY accusing the Kentucky Re
publicans of murder Colonel Bryan
exhibited the qualities of a cheap
demagogue, q narrowness and n
contemplate partisanship which
have no place in man fitted for
president of this country. The
bitterness against Goebel was not
confined to the Republicans. The
anti-Goebel Democrats were the
most virulent in their attacks upon
him. And in addition to the exist.
ing political enimosity there was a
vindictive personal feeling against
him resultant from his killing
OF Sanford, whose friends vowed
revenge. In view of these facts it
is reasonable to assume that the
killing of Goebel was the act of an
individual and not political con-
spiracy. On the other hand, in
his attitude towards the deplorable
situation in Kentucky, President
Mckinley has again shown himself
to be the broad-minded and great
man he really is-a man large
enough to view the matter without
partisan prejudice. Although he
knew Taylor was elected by ma
jority of the voters, he resisted
all Republican opportunities to
send federal troops to assist the
governor in maintaining his rights,
realizing that such action would
be an abuse of his power. 1t is
very evident what Bryan would
have done had he been president.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-02-06

Wisconsin has a new law which
requires the public registration OF
all lobbyists, list of bills they
oppose or promote, and list of
the corporations or individuals by
whom they are employed. A law
of this kind in operation in Wash
ington would be the proper thing.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-02-06

The interests Of all western
Colorado demand the erection of
the proposed smelter at Grand
Junction, even though the project
be strongly opposed by a combi-
nation of trusts. That Grand
junction as a smelling point must
eventually come is an assured fact,
and the enterprise now on foot for
this purpose is being so definitely
determined by capitalists, energy
and self-controlled interests that it
will only be a short time before
Grand junction will be the natural
smelling point of all the western
! slope country. Mine owners who
ee overburdened by the exorbitant
freight rates to outside points
would find a market at Grand
junction whereby great many
more mines would be producing,
adding much wealth to the output
of the mining industry.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-02-06

Senator Teller, who is not radi-
cal in his views either way on the
expansion question, says that when
'the war in the Philippines is ended
we stand committed, in the eyes of
the world, to give the people Of
those islands self-government. A
great many expansionists endorse
that idea of Senator Teller's, but
neither he nor they mean thereby
that the United States should sur
render control of the Philippines,
but taat their people should enjoy
self-government as it is enjoyed 10y
the Canadians and Australians.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-02-06

The sole issue in the Kentucky
dispute is in regard to the election
law of that state and the statute
governing contests. In the con-
sultation between the attorneys
representing both sides, looking to
an agreement whereby the dispute
may be judicially determined, the
Democrats insist that the state
courts shall be the final arbiter,
whereas the Republicans want an
appeal from the Kentucky court of
appeals to the Supreme court of the
United States.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-02-06

At the present time popular
interest seems to be about equally
divided between the war in Ken
lucky, in the Transvaal and in the
Philippines.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-02-06

Many trusting souls who are
learning French preparatory to
visiting the Paris exposition will
be shocked next summer at the
singular inability of the Parisians
to understand their own language,
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-02-06
EDITORIAL. COMMENT.

Aguinaldo's government is re-
'duced to low ebb in its finances,
but he keeps his capital in con-
slant circulation
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-02-06

\ AT present the people who skate
on thin ice are vying with the
young women who tempt death by
wearing cefluloid ornaments in
their hair.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-02-06

The coal production OF the
Smith-Anthracite mine during the
month of January was 5556 tons.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-02-06
State Ore SaTnpGDg co
Denver, Colo.

Denver, Colo.
We buy Gold, Silver, Lead, Cop
per, Bismuth, Uranium, Wolfram
ite, Cobalt, Molybdenite, and Anti
mony ores.
We have modern mills for sampi
ling ore. We also test ores for the
new processes of reduction.
Our long experience in the mar
ket enables us to pay the highest
cash prices for all marketable ores.
Write for our reference Book. ="
Send analysis of your ore for prices
and information.
BALLY g. NONN/G, Managers.
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Philippine Lieut. hal Sayr M Forh Infantry


Perhaps the forces 81 sheol were testing
some N their artillery. for IL 81 was artu-
Terry they used on that day there were
many thousand more E@eces brought into
action during the outbreak that followed
Friday midnight was marked BY a trem-
cling of the earth ana a rstiling OF the
buildings. Then came distant rumlItne
rOuna, faint and uncertain at fra. but
gradually drawing nearer With sound
such as might BE- made by the rnvriad
hosts q he'll massing 20 DO battle VITA
the universe. OT0hey came. cavalry in
fautry and artillery. the sound Of eli arms
mlngilng into one mighty continuous
roar I thought I could distinguish Inc
gall0p 81 the horses and the rattle on the
wheels Of gun and caisson az the artillery
dashed into position and unlimbcred. the
sound ~ this time might have been called
deafening, but the action had not vet
commenced fash. followed by a crash
which rose far above the existing roar
and the fire seemed 20 open all along the
line. Siege guns, field guns and mount
an guns. Hotchkiss Maxims and Gatllngs
Krag, Martini and Mauser rifles and car
bines, manned by 100000 demons. could
not have created a more terrific fusilIade
or a grander and more swe-inspiring spet-
tacle than that. The flashes Of flame be-
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a shroud extending from the earth 70 tho
heavens Through the pail % smoke an
occasional fash Of fame Vas pcrceptible,
followed by triokiing stream OF red lava
down the side Of the great mountain,
Vow ana then great balls a Are saot
upwards for hundreds ~ feet and fen
again 20 roll DOWN the mountain side
Hour by hour the volcanic fury IN
creased. until about ? clock IN the after
noon tho climax for the day was reached
a cloud u ashes and cinaers shot from the
crater and fell over the surrounding coln.
Try. The eruption commenced TO suhslde.
The tire flashes became less frequent. and
gradually stopped altogether The smoke
5ecame less dense and black until IL az
reared that only steam wac Issuing from
the crater. Night fell. and all seemed
quiet around the volcano.
At daybreak Friday morning the erau-
ton bad apparently ceased. The sky had
cleared laying bare the entire mountain
from base TO summit. and only slight
volume Of steam could be seen curling
gracefully from the crater Mayor. the
terrible. was as quiet as a lamb. Herds
of ponies AMI water buffalo returned to
the < zing grounds from which they had
fed H. terror. the inhabitants started
back from the hills. beyond which they
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-06

HAT kind of man is John w.
Gates, the new figure in Wall
street. chairman of the Amerf-
can steel and Wire Company,
who manipulates 1000 shares
of his own companys stock,
who plays poker for tens OF thousands?
If all reports be true. says the New York
World. the inspiration TO raid the stock
market came to this Caglostro of finance
while the champagne bubbles were rising
in the glass before him, while he and
some of his friends were chatting in the
cafe of the Waldorf-Astoria on Thursday
afternoon two weeks ago. Around the
table with him. It is said, were Louis V.
Bell. a Tammany broker, and Edward
Wasserman. known In Wall street as a
daring bull operator
When these gentlemen sat down to drink
one anothers health there was every rea-
son to suppose the wire and steel indus
tries were Furnishing; the most trust
worthy experts Of the trade were sure of
a steady and profitable market.
When Mr.. Gates and his friends had fin
ished the bottle they saw through the
bottoms Of their empty glasses the prices
of iron and steel declining with frightful
rapidity.
For they had planned bear raid and
had already begun to work out the details
of the campaign that startled the financial
and shocked the industrial world.
So bad was the business in Mr. Gates
minds eye that he shut down twelve of
his company's mills. Thousands of men
were thrown out of work, but when the
great bear squeezes the workman must
grunt and bear 1t.
Interviews with Mr. Gates were pub
llshed which cheerfully told that the steel
business was going to the "demnition
bow vows" These interviews were really
most remarkable utterances.
Mr.. Gates, the head of a combine capt.
talized at 500 10000 stated without emo
ton or remorse that the policy of his COM
pany had invited disaster. that 1t had
blindy overproduced and that war Of
prices was imminent.
This between the lines. Of course.
If not this, Mr.. Gates made official state
ments to favor stock-jobblng opera
tons.
Down went the price of American Steel
and Wire preferred stock from IS to 70.
and on the 5000 shares he had jockeyed
Mr. Gates made 100000.
Down went the price of Amerit an Steel
and Wire common stock from 65 to Al,
and on the 5000 shares he had sold short
Mr.. Gates made 81, 10000.
100000 plus 81, 10000 equals $l.62o,000
On the inspiration the champagne bub-
bles brought TO him, Mr. Gates made
enough to pay three months wages to
each of the 10000 men he threw out of
work when he closed his mills.
Mr.. Gates might be called the Creature
of Inspiration. The thought of the or
ganiZation of the American Steel and Wire
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said to be very fond of the American
game, and it is said will back an inferior
hand TO a point that would make the hair
of the ordinary poker player stand on end.
They play tigers in the West, which are
composed of seven high, deuce low, and
no pair The tiger beats a flush. and
tiger flush beats a straight flush, which
is the highest hand in the deck in the
game as played in the East. II Is said
that Mr.. Gates with a "bobtail' flush
once made Chicago merchant prince lay
down q tiger" flush when there was $780,
600 in the pot" The merchant believed
that Gates had a tiger flush, too, and
that his middle cards were higher than
those he held Mr. Gates Ia one of the
best amateur billiard players in Chicago.
He can handle cue almost with as mut h
skill as some of the professionals.
There are few side lights to be obtained
in Wall street on Mr. Gates career He
is such a new figure comparatively in the
street" that the anectotal side of him
has not been revealed TO any great extent
to his friends. He ~ said. however, to be-
iovial and n good fellow" among his in
Inmates. He Is approachable. affable and
democratic, but he doesn't take a large
toterie of friends into his confidence. The
public has discovered this at some cost
during the last week.
Gates in his business capacity az presi-
dent Of the Illinois Steel Company. re-
ceived whole lot of undesirable notoriety
and brought his name and something of
his personality prominently before the
public for a time. 1t arose through an
order he issued that the thousands OF en-
ployes at his steel mills in South Chicago
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should be carried on the pay rolls NOT Nv
names but by numbers. and that ea,h
man should wear a numbered badge a.
tag as a mark of Identification. That sayA
people a hint OF what Gates thought a.
the ho~ny-handed son of toll There was
a great outcry of protest against the Man
OF treating the workmen like convistx
But II was John w. Gates pant and ths
rules for it's government We're made Nv
him. And his rules went" with the en-
ployes.
Gates Is hard man to find He nts
about the country like commercial tray
e,er. His runs back and forth between
Chicago and New York are as frequent as
the trips of Commissioner General PEEK
across the ocean last year. Nearly every
week he spends a day or two In New
York and on his way home drops down to
Washington, where he has a circle Of
intimates and satellites among the sena-
tors for his trust IL a mighty one and his
lobby IL expensive He makes his trips
to New York In order that he may not BE-
obliged 10 trust business to clerks or asso-
ciates. He wants to do 1t all himself II
n deal Is on foot or II he wants TO inau.
gurate one he considers no one can do the
fine work so successfully as he. II tho
..heavy' men of Wall street are 10 b
seen. If only for an hours chat, he makes
the thousand mile trip and sees them him
self. Then he knows positively what they
said and no third party knows anything
about II.
He has made sl5.00O.0O0 in about eight
years. Few business men, even In these
days of giant combines, can say y
much.
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branchcs-that Is, teach what we call tho
bread and batter subjects Ike short
hand. Fronch. German and bookkeeping.
But the evening municipal schools that
have been started and the practically free
coiytechnics have taken most Of that
away from us. and were NOT altogether
sorry. either FOR the work is being well
done and we have been given a chance
10 specialize IN The way OF education too,
So AZ the C'oruhil branch. IN the city. We
give training for the Bankcrs Institute.
whose ccrtihcate Is valuable Tor any
Young man who wishes tn CONNIE himself
with n banking or brokerace arm In the
Alaerscate street branch among the ship
pers. exporters and importers. We train
young men for the Chamber OF Commerce,
and here at Exeter hall we prepare them
for c.vl service examinations. Were hav-
Ing such great success in each or these
lines that we snail branch out still
further"
Especial arrangements have been made
for the crowds Of Ameris ans who are
coming over al the Anglo American y. NJ.
G A at No 100 Rue Moutmartre In Paris,
where a register % APARTMENTS 8iu 70
X pit and the principal French and English
paI,e.s viii lie found on file
CURTIS BROWN.