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Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-24
NEW ORLEANS IS HUsTL1NG.
Is Now Second in Rank as an Export ing Port of the United States,
 DispIacing Boston.

A special from Washington to the New York Tribune says that study of the figures of the bureau of statis- tics, giving the exports through the various ports of the United States in the fiscal year 1900, shows that in that year and the months which have fol- lowed New Orleans has taken second rank as an exporting port, and has dis placed Boston in its position as the second exporting city of the coun- try. The heavy exportations of cot ton and the high price at which it is exported have largely increased the value of the exports through the southern ports, while it is not i'm probable that the Galveston disaster may have resulted in temporarily di- yerting to New Orleans some of the business which otherwise would have gone through Galveston. The ex- ports from New Orleans in the fiscal year 1900 were S115,S5s,764, the high est figures in the history of the port, except 1892, and an increase of $2S,- 100000 over the fiscal year 1899. In the nine months of the fiscal year 1901 the exports from New Orleans were $122,234,669, securing for that city a clear and undisputed title to the rank of second in the list of American eM port cities.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-24
 IN A LITERARY WAY.

Every year relatives of Robert Louise Stevenson in Scotland send a crown and cross of heather from that country, which is placed on his grave in Samoa.
 Rev. c. M. Sheldon, author of ''In His Steps, is reported to have decid- ed to test his Christian theater'' idea with dramatic version of his story Edward Blake"
 It was bound to come. A London publisher has issued volume of "Lover's Replies to an Enblishwom- 'Iover's Replies to an Englishwom- ans Love Letters.''
 Sir Thomas Lipton, the London tea merchant and yachtsman, offers a re ward of $250 for the best essay in Erse on Brian Boru. A similar prize will be given for the best essay writ ten in English on "The Early Insti- tutions of Ireland" The Irish Lit erary Society of London is to be ar bitter.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-24
cOREAN TRADE.
Shows Satisfactory Grovvth-Amerf- cans Prominent In the Develop
 ment of the Country.
ent.

No reports upon the trade of Corea have been published for the last seven sears, according to Consul General AL !en, at Seoul, in a communication to .he state department. MT. Allen, therefore, submits report compiled by himself, which sets forth the prin- .ipal facts relating to Corea's com merce with the rest of the world, and estimates of the value of Americas trade with that empire.
 The total trade of Corea for 1900, including native imports and goods reexported is set down at SIS 3,690,213. The net importation was valued at S6, $50 926. The chief item of Ameri- can imports was kerosene, which was valued last year at $s96,s15. Next in order, in this connection, comes min ing supplies, of which at least $15o,00o was imported from the United States last year. American imports into Corea, the consul general states, have more than doubled in the past year, and the trade is growing. Corea's total exportation in 1900 amounted to $4,701, ,054.
 Americans are shown to be promi- nent in the trade and development of Corea. especially in regard to the rail- road and mining enterprises. Rela- tive to the currency of the empire, MT. Allen says: "Corea is greatly in need of money, yet no encouragement is given to the people to develop their excellent natural resources"
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-24
HANLEY'S BOLD RIDE
Brought Recalcitrant Mule Back
 to Army Camp.
And by This Act of GaIlantry Saved Maj. Reno's Column from Being Exterminated by Bloodthirsty
 Indian Fiends.

When some American mules in South Africa stampeded with the British field guns and putsthe Englishmen in rather bad plight in the face of the enemy people said that it was the American mules way of showing sym pathy with the Boer cause. The thing was spoken of and written about ev- anywhere as being the first instance where the mule, though his back al. ways has had to bear much obloquy, ever came within an ace of being re- sponsible for the defeat of an army. People who wrote and talked about the affair evidently had never heard of how a Missouri mule came near being battalion on the Little Big Horn con. temporaneously with the annihilation of Custer and his band few miles be- yond. An ugly, vicious, branded Mis- souri mule did his level best on that awful day to aid the Indians in exter- minating the whites, and, what's more, if it hadn't been for an Irish sergeant, Richard J. Hanley, recently retired, the Missouri mule would have sue ceeded
 It was in the red month of June, 1876, says the Chicago RecordHerald, when Reno's column after separating from Custer struck the river of the Little Big Horn. The gallant major, whose valor in war was much greater, as sub sequent events proved, than his dis cretion in love, was attacked by a tre- mendous force of Indians. There wasn't over and above much ammuni- tion with Reno's outfit. As a sailor would say: "They had been flying light" and with the exception of what the men had in their belts the bulk of the bullet supply was on the back of an ornery Missouri mule, chosen for the job of carrying it because of his prodigious size and strength.
 The long-eared ammunition bearer was with the pack train to the right
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-24

and rear of the squadron which was lying facing the enemy along the edge of the wood. A Sioux bullet went over the head of the skirmishers, and with a far-reaching trajectory tore an ounce of flesh out of the, pack mules flank. It instantly snapped it's tether, broke like a set of fours from right to rear, and clearing the obstacles of it's right ful lords and masters to the front made straight on a wild gallopNfor the heart of the outlying masses of the Indians. When within about 100 yards of the place for which it was headed the mule struck a bit of bunch grass which was to it's liking, and it then and there started to graze. On it's back in the ammunition9 cases lay that which meant the safety of Reno's forces. To reach the animal any man of the command must cross an open plain swept by thousand rifles. There was moment of consultation among the officers, and a desperate plan for the recapture of the mule was being discussed, when one of the soldiers saw far over to the right, just above the grass, the slowly moving head of a white man who was crawling toward the stampeded animal. The word was passed along the line and volley after volley from the whites kept the atten- tion of the enemy directed away from the mule and from that solitary sol- dier who was worming his way toward it. Discovery for him meant capture and death. On he went, while between shots the eyes of his every comrade sought him. He was within 25 yards of the mule. Then he stood straight up, dashed forward, vaulted onto the creature's back, and digging deep the spurs he started the animal back on Q gallop as wild as that by which it had fled. There was yell from the reds. A hundred rifles were emptied at the flying beast and it's dauntless rider. Sergt. Richard J. Hanley, who was astride that gigantic Missouri mule, as it went through that hailstorm, got never a wound, though his chances of escaping unhurt were only one in a thousand. The mule was saved, but, as a trooper put it afterward, tsthe crit ter brought back as much lead in it's hide as it did in it's pack.''
 Perhaps Richard J. Hanley, sergeant, retired, is the only man on record who wears a medal of honor for riding a mule, though that operation even in peaceful times is not always devoid Of danger
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-24
Woes of the Editor.

A Colorado editor has been com pelled to apologize to Miss Tampico Pruden, because his proof readers permitted it to go in as Tapioca Puddin'. An editor never knows, cx- claims the Chicago Record-Herald, where trouble is going to rise next.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-24
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-11-01

There is disease prevailing in this
country most dangerous because so decep-
tive. Many sudden deaths are caused by
it-heart disease, pneumonia, heart failure
or apoplexy are often the result of kidney
disease. If kidney trouble is allowed to ad-
vance the kidney poisoned blood will attack
the vital organs, or the kidneys themselves
break down and waste away cell by cell.
Then the richness Of the blood-the aibumen
leaks out and the sufferer has Bright's
Disease, the worst form of kidney trouble.
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root the new dis
covery is the true specific for kidney, bladder
and urinary troubles. It has cured thousands
Of apparently hopeless cases, after all other
efforts have failed. At druggists in fifty-cent
and dollar sizes. A sample bottle sent free
by mail, also book telling about Swamp
Root and its wonderful cures. Address
Dr.. Kimer g, Co., Binghamton. N. Y. and
mention this paper
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-11-01
Not the Same Wife.

The old gentleman had returned to
the home of his boyhood for the first
time in ten years or more and, as on
the last occasions, he had written land
wife" after his name on the hotel reg
lister. OF course the keeper Of the hotel
was glad to see him and grasped him
warmly by the hand.
"Ain't grown a day older than when
you was here last" he said.
"No?" said the old gentleman half in
Quiringly.
mot day." returned the tavern
keeper emphatically. "Your wife seems
to have changed more'n you"
"YesW
"Oh, yes. Leastways she does to me.
Looks thinner than when you was here
last"
"Indeed2"
Eyes. She amt near so f1eshy rs she
was, accordin to my recollection. Seems
like she's taller, too, an her haid don't
look Just the same to me, an-an"-
"And," put in the old gentleman soft
ly, "she's not the same wife, you know"
-Tit-Bits.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-11-01
IN The WINTER.
(Benson's Plaster Is Pains Master

For coughs and colds Benson's Porous
Plasters are an incomparably better rem
edy than any other-external or internal.
Their medicinal properties enter the skin
and 90 straight to the seat Of tho disease.
They relieve and cure seated" cold
without disturbing the system or upsetting
the stomach. Cough mixtures often nau-
seate. Benson's Plasters are medicinal in
the highest degree, and quickest TO act.
Placed on the chest or back or on both
at once in serious cases, the good effect is
feltimpediately. The congestion yields, the
cough abates and the breathing improves
Lung or bronchial affections or kidney
disease, are cured with the least possible
suffering and loss of time.
Benson's Plasters are immeasurably su-
perior to Belladonna, Strengthening, Cap
sicum or any other combination in plaster
form. They are also preferable to oint-
ments, liniments and salves
Benson's Plasters have received Jtifty,fue
highest aioards over all competitors; and
more than 5000 physicians and druggists
have declared them to be one of the few
Trustworthy household remedies. For sale
by all druggists, or We will prepay postage
on any number ordered in the United
States on receipt of 25c. each.
BE sure you get the genuine. Accept no
imitation or substitute.
6esbury 4 johnson, Mfg. Chemists, MI.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-11-01
Combination Diving.

The Swedes delight in Combination
diving" and two men will perform.
many clever feats together. One Of the
most grotesQue of these is when one
nan stands upright on the springboarc
and tightly clasps another mans body
round the waist, holding him head
downward and putting his own head
through the mans legs. When the up
Eight man springs from the board, he
throws his legs into the air so that the
Two men, clasping the other tightly
found the waist turn a somerSault, and
when they reach the water the man
who started upside down arrives feet
foremost.
The handspring dive is a very effect
I'VE speciality of Swedish swimmers.
The performer takes off from the div
ing board with hands instead of feet,
turning his body in order to descend
feet foremost on somersaulting TO ar
rive head downward. Very graceful
also is the back dive, in which the
spring is made backward, the body
turning toward the springboard. Dou-
BILE somersault dives are made from
platforms 80 or 80 feet high, the diver
making two turns in the air and enter
ing the water feet foremost.-Peter-
sons Magazine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-11-01
A Youthful Promoter.

A horseman had an amusing expert
ence near the speedway a few days
ago. He called to an idle newsboy to
hold his horse while he made call on
a client. On leaving the house he was
surprised to see another boy in charge
of the horse. So he asked:
FLOWS this? You are not the boy
left my horse with"
mo. sir. jist spekilated and bought
him of the other boy for 10 cents. He
said as how you were only worth q
nickel, and / says you were good for
quarter. Seer"
The boy got the quarter and went
around the corner, where the first boy
was waiting under an open window in
the home of the horseman's friend.
"That's the way ter work the swells,"
said the young Spectator to his COM
panion. "Ef you had staid, he woulder
coughed up a dime. The bluff made
him ershamed to hand over less than
the two bits. You gets II cents, and l
keep the extry cent for permotin dis
scheme. SeeY'-New York Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-11-01
THE PROLIFIC FLY.
To Lessen the Pest All Organic Ref
use should he Buried.

Flies multiply at a prodigious rate.
Given temperature sufficiently high
to hatch eggs, their numbers are only
limited by the amount of food avail
able for them. Linneus is credited
with saying that three meat flies. by
reason of their rapid multiplication,
would consume dead horse quicker
than would lion, and the fact that
certain diptera having some outward
semblance to the honeybee lay their
eggs in the dead carcasses of animals
probably led Samson and Virgil to
make erroneous statements with re-
gard to the genesis of honey and the
manufacture of bees. The breeding Of
"gentles" for ground bait Is an indus
try the practices of which could prob
ably give much information as to the
nicely of choice exercised by flies in
selecting material for feeding and egg
laying. According TO Packard. the
house fly makes selection of horse dung
by preference for ovipositing, and as
each female lays about 120 eggs and
the cycle of changes from egg to fly is
completed in less than three weeks it
seems probable that female fly might
have some 25,000,000 descendants in
the course of hot summer. Other va
rieties of flies multiply, 1 believe, still
more rapidly.
AS flies multiply upon and in organic
refuse of every kind, it is obvious that
the sooner such refuse is placed where
it cannot serve for the breeding and
Matching of flies the more likely is the
plague of flies to be lessened. The
most commonly available method for
the bestowal of organic refuse is bur
ial. The egg laying of flies in dead
carcasses commences at the very in
slant of death or even before death in
the case of enfeebled animals.-Lancet
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-11-01

would secure the dam from an overflow.
On the east end of the wasteway is a
dirt embankment $50 feet wide. The
dam when completed will be, at its great
eat width, $50 feet at the bottom and ID
feet at the top.
The water for the immense reservoir
which the dam will make Is to be fur
nished by East creek and numerous
small brooks in the mountains about the
meadows. The basin holds 00,000,000
cubic feet of water. How long 1t will
take to obtain this amount depends some
what on the weather and season of the
year. The engineers have estimated,
hover, that at the height which the
streams have been In the last three
weeks not over two months would be
needed to bring the water to the requir-
ed level They also reckon that If no
other water enters the basin for a year
there will be a sufficient supply to fur
nish 1000 horsepower for "a hours each
working day of that time. The streams
are always high in the spring and sum-
mer, and the average precipitation in
this section is such that no trouble will
be experienced in keeping the basin as
full as desired.
The company is arranging to furnish
from 5000 to 1000 horse power when the
reservoir and power stations are COM
pleted.
The water from East creek is at pres
ent kept back by means of Golfer dam.
There are two steel tubes, four feet in
diameter, running through the large
dam beneath the gate house. These
serve as outlets for the water, which
then follows the bed of East creek to Il
small wooden dam formerly used by ii.
l.. lIoag in connection with his power
house at East Pittsford. These proper
ties have been acquired by the Chitten-
den Power company and the power
house aud dam will be used by them
until new and larger power house near
the city waterwOrks, about a mile south
of East Pittsford, is built.
The difference in the altitude at the
East Pittsford mill and the meadows is
700 feet. The dam il about 400 feet
above the level of the sea.
There are about $50 men employed at
the dam by the Adams Construction
company of Niagara Falls, n. Y the
contractors. The men have temporary
slab huts in which they do their cooking
and there is a large central cabin for the
sleeping quarters. There are barns, of
fees, tool and engine houses scattered
aholt the dam, making a temporary set
tlement there Of some little size.
The workmen have been busy day and
night up 10 within few days, but the
night shift has been discontinued. The
core wall will be finished during the
next two weeks and the entire structure
will be ready to retain water before
July ], 1902
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-11-01
G. N. BARN ES,
Of Waterbury, VT, says of

"DR. DAVID KEN NEDY'S
FAVORITE REMEDY" II have
suffered" writes Mr.. Barnes.
untold agony from kidney
disease in its worst form for years
and was obliged to give up work
entirely. J. heard of DR.. David
Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, and
since I began it's use I have been
able to return to my work. have
not been as well in years, as since
began using Favorite Remedy. I
have known other cases where it
has done great good ana recon-
mend 1T whenever opportunity
offers"
When the kidneys, bladder, liver and
blood are diseased, many other troubles
follow in their wake. Some of them are
rheumatism, scrOfula, eczema, consti-
patton, dyspepsia, biliousness, nervous
prostratiOn, headache and general de-
bility. All these are cured by Favorite
Remedy because 1t cures the cause of
them.
Women who think they have female
troubles and weakness are often mis-
taken. Their ailments are caused by
disOrdered kidneys, bladder and liver.
Favorite Remedy will cure them Just as
1t has thousands of others,
DIR. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy
is the only kidney medicine that does not
constipate and is entirely free from
dangerous or harmful drugs.
n your are not already convinced that
FavOrite Remedy is the medicine you
need, you may have trial bottle sent
you by mail, absolutely free, by sending
your address to the DR.. David Kennedy
Corporation, Roundout, N. Y, and
mentioning this paper.
DIR. David KeDnedy's Favorite Remedy
Is for sale by all druggists, at Sl.00 a
bottle, or bottles for $5 .0O-less than
cent dose.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-11-01
MISTAKES TO AVOID.

An English paper gives what it terms
thirteen mistakes of life"
1t is n great mistake to set up our
own standard of right and wrong and
judge people accordingly.
To measure the enjoyment of others
by our own.
To expect uniformity of opinion in
this world.
To look for judgment and experience
in youth.
To endeavor to mold all dispositions
alike.
To look for perfection in our own ac-
tons.
To worry ourselves and others with
what cannot be remedied.
Not to yield in immaterial matters.
Not to alleviate all that needs allevia-
ton as far as lies in our power.
Not to make allowances for the mfr
mites of others.
To consider everything impossible
that we cannot perform.
To believe only what our finite minds
can grasp.
To expect to be able to understand
everything.
Books Received in October by Ladies'
Library.
ART AND POETRY.
4Ol4 Mumford, Oriental Rugs.
1855 Philips IIerod.
1886 Rossetti, Poems
i0iI steven on, Poems.
4o5s Arnold, Matthew, Poems.
40j9 Coleridge Poems.
BIOGRAPHY.
1853 Bulinch, Life ana Letters
40Sl Steinmann, Botticell.
TRAVEL.
1890 Brooks First Across the Continent.
FICTION.
il7i Bachelor, D'ri and |.
AS Burnett, The Making of Il Warehouses
4i7G Caine, The Eternal City.
Az Castle, The secret orchard.
ii7s Croy, TaIry Thou Till Come.
4479 rockingham, The Turn of the Road.
ALSO Gorky, Foma Gordyeeff.
4tsl Parker, The Right of Way.
4ls2 Lack, The White Cottage.
iis3 Boon and Brown, Eastover Court House
ASA Cable, The Cavalier.
Ass Kiphng, Kim.
4is6 Moore, Sister Teresa.
AS Orzeskzo. The Argonauts.
JUVENILE.
45l7 Fraser, Mooswa.
t5ls Harris, Uncle Remus.
45l9 WIggin, The Story of Patsy.
452O Bowman, Lewis Carroll.
452l Fraser, The Ou'casts.
432a johnson, The Worlds DISCOVERIES
MISCELLANEOUS.
1922 Souvestre, An Attic Philosopher in Paris
1928 tiske. Life Everlasting.
1891 Long Secrets of the Woods.
Haxx ,an how Halt two
1926 Roosevelt, The Wilderness Hunter.
1897 Wyckoff, A Day with Tramp.
The association wishes to acknowledge
with thanks Life and Letters of Charles
Bulfinch, Architect" the gift of his heirs
to the library.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-11-01
THE ALPHABET'S MEETING.
The alphabet met and said that "they

The alphabet met and said that they
Were not arranged in proper way"
A had stood at the head too long;
It was not right; it was utterly wrong,
"For you all know and can plainly SEQ
That place belongs to me-" said G.
"You take the head. indeed" said j;
''That place is meant for my dear X"
tut, tut, tutl Well. we'll. WE'LL
I'll stand there myself them" said l.
"Excuse us. please. we think that we
Have word to say" said d, g. D.
"suppose you have" said F as he
Softly whispered a word to E.
"who'll prevent, I'd like to know,
Standing head N, N or or"
"we've listened In silence to all Of you
And now will head you." said and Q
"Our impression is. you had better try,"
Then angrily spoke both II and !.
"How rude and coarsel" said r, s, T.
THE airs OF somei' said U and v.
"Would drive one mad" said W. X. Y, z.
But. after all, the letters still stand
A at the head, at the foot l..
Brooklyn Eagle.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-11-01
A Retlary.

A retiary was the name Of Roman
gladiator armed in peculiar way. He
was furnished with trident and net.
with no more covering than a short tu-
mic, and with these implements he en-
deavored to entangle and dispatch his
adversary. who was called a secutor
from seoul, to follow and was armed
with a helmet, shield and a sword.
The name Of the first Is pronounced as
If spelled re-shi-a-ry. the accent ON the
first syllable.