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It Is probable that the man to whom Verdi would prefer to hand his seepter Is the quiet, scholarly young Italian whom MT. Grau invited to see the production of his La Tosca" at the Metropolitan opera house. More than to all the other young Italian composers, Italy owes to Giacomo Puccini the current impulse of new methods and fresh forms. After the first night of "Boheme" all the "has beens" of the operatic stage-tenors, so- pranos, and baritines who had passed in- to oblivion-went home and studied the parts of Rudolfo, of Mimi, and of Sehau- nard. Here was Verdi over again, mas ter of vocal melody, a composer who un- derstood the human voice, whose inspir- ing phrases were balm to the tired throat The tenors wanted to put statue of Puccini in the Milan gallery, and prob ably would have carried their point if the passes had not protested on the score that the young composer had neglected them.
 Ruggiero LeoncavaIio Is fortunate fin being poet as we'll as a composer, and competent to write his own libretti. But in his setting of Murgers "Vie de Bo- heme," this fact failed to give him any advantage over Puccini Where he failee of pronounced success, the latter pro- duced an admitted classic. Since "I Pagfi- accf, in fact, Leoncavalio has done nothing to establish confidence in his fu- ture.
 Umberto Giordano, though barely thirty years old, already has to his credit An drea Chenier," of which New York au- diences have signified their high approvali ''Mala Vita" Regina Dias," and "F'e-
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2AMNAe AagNewooA.
''The Helen ksiiar of Iowa."

-4 owA has as ward of the State a
 girl whose condition Is quite as
 pathetic as was that of TTeilen S Keiiar and Laura Brldgeman, but who. like those two women, has trl- umphed over the cruelty of fate. This young woman is binnie Haguewood, who has been deaf dumb and blind since an attack of scarlet fever when she was eighteen months old. She is now a years of age, and in spite of her inflrmities, she reads and writes and is thoroughly we'll informed on almost all the subjects upon which people endowed with all their senses ordinarily converse. Her school life has only occupied a period of five years. Two years of that time have been spent at the South Dakota School for the Deaf. The rest of that time she has been a pupil at the Iowa College for the Blind.
 By a special act of the Iowa Legislature a sufficient sum was appropriated for her education, and Miss Mcdonald, primary teacher In the college, has for two years given almost all of her time to the train Ing of Miss Haguewood.
 The girl had for the first fifteen years been permitted to grow up without the slightest effort being made to teach her anything. She had done nothing In all that time but sit quiet in her room, sec ing nothing, hearing nothing, speaking te no one, her mind a perfect blank
 When she first entered the blind school she was little more than many of the dumb beasts. She had fits of unreasoning anger, and 1t seemed impossible te stir the slumbering mind within her to any action.
 But Miss Mcdonald worked for weary weeks and months, at first hardly with out results and afterwards with the slightest exhibition of any intelligence on the part of the pupil. But finally when Miss Haguewood had been taught to read and to appreciate some of the things that lay In the great world all about her, and that K was possible for her to know about them by patience and work, she became exceedingly docile and eager to learn, and since then her progress has been rapid. Her course of study at pres ent Is reading, spelling, typewriting Eng fish composition, language geography, United States history and mathematics.
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OerM's Successors
eIAceme MINkowskv IN MuNsEY

dora'-with one exception legitimate sue cesses. He has proved his quality, and is sure to figure in the next decades fierce competition for the laurels of the world of opera.
 Pietro Mascagni, with his straining for theatrical effects. his borrowings from Russia, from Turkey and from untutored savages; with his intermezzos behind cur tains and his violin and cello solos on the roofs, has courted and won the stig ma among the serious-minded as being q mountebank. Mascagni has been severely rebuked by audiences of his own country rnen-even by those who went Into rap lures over 'Cavalieria." He has recently produced a new opera, "Le Masehere." Neither must we forget Isider de Lara. Though an Engnshman, still he belongs to young Italy, where he studied and where his first works have received their baptism before respecting listeners Prob ably his ''Moina''-over which his own eountrymen are not enthusiastic-wili be given here before the close of the present season. It is a fine, even a niaSterly, com position But his "Messaline" seems like iy to beeome-tae great triumph of his career.
 Italian composers of the new genera ton have challenged the criticism of their ceuntrymen by carrying the modern op- era form to extremes, enrichins the in- strumental body of their work at the ex- pense of the vocal part. In some in- stances 1t would almost appear that they conceived the flute, the oboe or the vio- loncello to be the dramatic character in- stead of the singer on the stage. This tendency has laid them open to the charge of lack of familiarity with the human instrument and of meledie ster- ility.
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ing wind and drenching rain had ceased and a mild spring morning had dawned on the field of desolation.
 The scythe-shaped cloud first ap- peared about o'clock over the central portion of the city, black, dangerous, fearful. The point of the blade then swung around to the west, majectic in its movements because of the mag niflcent distance it traversed. Then 1t bent in towards the south, exactly as a scythe Is swung, in a huge curve. Suddenly the point darJed to the earth. Whirling, it struck in Avenue l, at Fourteenth street Trees, houses and barns flew up in sections, as if an ex- plosion had occurred where the tor nado touched.
 The deadly point of that blade pressed in along one side of the ave nue directly in line with a chain of residences. In a moment those resi- dences were disjointed, the timbers rising and falling m the grasp of the tornado like chaff before draft. For nearly a mile it moved them down and scattered their remnants in it's path.
 The ground is rolling in this dis lrlct, and at each hill or elevation the tornado defected upwards, overleap- ing buildings at the summits, only to form again above and dart down on the opposite sides with renewed fury, apparently maddened at the escape of the few homes on the hills.
 Thus it continued to the city limits in the South Highlands, then across the fields and groves of trees until it struck Avondale, Gate City and Iron dale. Then the terrific scythe-blade broke itself against the chain of solid old mountains, and the tornado was oyer.
The age-herald., 1901-03-31

As a usual thing no one, either In high or low degree, marries without being in possession or in promise of certain in- come be it large or small.
 And then, far too frequently. the new husband regards that income as altogeth- CT his own, and not his wife's at alL and however generously he may be disposed to dole 1t out for her use and benefit, 1t is still a dole. And, moreover, If by any chance the wife has an income of her own of any amount, 1t Is an exceedingly rare case when the husband does not tell her how to spend it, or leaves her at liberty to be saving or extravagant, as she will.
 But if he is a wise man, perhaps only If he is just man, and allowing that she brings nothing to the common store but heart and brain and hand, the husband will go over with his newly married wife, step by step, the true story of his hold ings and his hopes, and then will say to her. she understanding, prompting, agree ing:
 I've can afford so much for this; so much I keep for myself so much is yours for your private and personal expendi- ture."
 If his wife is not intelligent enough to be trusted thus far, then he must take the penalty of having chosen the foolish virgin. But, all the same, something Is due to the foolish one.
 It is unnecessary to go over the ground that Is familiar, or that ought to be- and which is certainly self-evident, that the wife earns in her housekeeping and governessing cares alone all that in or dinary cases she Is likely to receive; for there are further considerations of as much weight
 If one loves another how can he be will Ing to subject the person to the humilia- ton of asking for every penny she needs?
 How can he put her in the position of a beggar? How can he suffer her feelings to be rasped every day of her life by that consciousness of lnferiority that the possession of no spending money must give?
 Yet many rich mans wife. the enemy
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SHORT STORIES
 OF THE DAY
First Charge Was Pleasant One.

First Charge Was Pleasant One.
 James D. Reid, the veteran telegrapher who had the distinction of giving Andrew Carnegie his first job as messenger boy, is still living. In Success for April MT. Reid recalls the incident, which occurred fifty years ago in the Atlantic and Ohio telegraph office in Pittsburg, as follows:
 ''He was so determined that I became interested in him at once. He seemed to have determination written on his face. His eagerness to work and learn were very noticeable. Before he had been with me a month he asked to be taught teleg- raphy. When consented he spent all his spare time in practice. transmitting and receiving by sound. and not by tape. He was the third operator in the United States to read the Morse signals by sound." SF
 This, In MT, canegie's mind. was his best move liter long and successful years Mir Car1egie wrote of his change:
 My entranf into the telegraph office
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Scythe-shaped.

Correspondence of the Atlanta News.
 Those who witnessed the destruc- tion declare that the deadly cloud was shaped, not like funnel, but more like a gigantic scythe. Had 1t been real blade of steel. driven by ire sistible force, its pathway could not have been strewn with more complete demolition than that which Birming- ham looked upon today. after the howl
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SPECIAL oNE-WAY. Second Class CoIonists' Excursion To
 California.

The Alabama Great Southern Railroad will sell one-way second class colonists' tickets to San Francisco, Los Angeles. San Diego and intermediate points, from Birmingham, Ala. at the rate of S30. 3k Dates of sale March 4. Il, IS. 25, April | 8, 16, 22, 29. 1901. Particulars and informa- tion cheerfully furnished on application. J. C. LUSK. Travelling Passenger Agent,
 2-27-tf 2019 First avenue.
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Contrasting Views.

From the Washington Star. Some gentle natures welcome spring For vernal beauty's sake, And some denounce it as a time
 When various germs awake.
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The Celtic Philosopher.

From the Philadelphia Press.
 Jones (sympathetically)-So now you have to wear a wooden leg. Too bad! too bad!
 ! Mike-Sure, it's only wan bad, an not so bad at thot, fur if the cars run over me agin any time 'tis an even chance they'll take off the wooden leg.
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Diplomacy.

From Moonshine.
 Mamma, l wish you'd let cook put up my lunch instead of doin' it yourself" Its no trouble, my dear"
 'I know" '"T'hen why"
 "'Cause she's got a better appetite than you an she puts more in."
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Heel and Toe.

From the Chicago News.
 They were reading the old mans will. You are the sole heir" said the attor- ney, addressing the daughter.
 The local wit chucked and said: Who got his heel?'
 'fI did,' spoke up Perry Rosette. ''I used to call on his daughter.''
The age-herald., 1901-03-31

For straight whiskies go to Dunker's Saloon, 2O8-21O N. 2Oth street. between 2d and 3rd avenues. Our leading brands: Sam Clay, Paris Club, Peacock, $1.O0 per quart.
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statu Quo.
From the Philadelr

From the Philadelphia Press.
 Mrs. Pettit-Whenever I express a de- sire for anything my husband never ob- jects.
 Mrs. Ig. Nord-Same with me. can ex- press the desire as often as I please-it never disturbs him.
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An IncurabIe Stage of EIoeutIon.

One day a young woman dressed in the heighth of fashion, and with a most self satisfied air, called MT. Evarts out of the Senate for an interview in the marble room. She explained her visit as due to a desire to benefit his children. MT. Evarts was all attention in an instant, relates the New York Post.
 T should like an engagement to in struct and entertain the younger mem bers of your family she went on My friends tell me that I am very clever, and I am accustomed to recite for hours ev- cry day.
 ''It may be said to have become chron- ic." suggested MT. Evarts, sympatheti- cally.
 T suppose so," the elocutionist an- swered with enthusiasm.
 We'll" commended the Senator, dream fly, it has always been the practice of our family to mix benevolence with our
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=: Shs WvEe's AMowaMce =:
BY HARRIET PRESCOTT sPoFFoRD.

of her ignorant neighbors, is, through this very habit of her over-careful hus- band, a cringing beggar in her soul?
 But if putting aside the question of love, and of her own qualification, he de- sires her to have a good and saving in- huence upon his children, he may well ask if she will exercise as much as she might, while they see her treated as an inferior matter of responsibility and Judg- ment?
 Is the mother thus treated and consid- cred likely to grow more or less wise, as time passes OH and finds her still an almoner and not a partner?
 Your children, after all. are your dear est possessions, I suppose?" asked the confidential friend of a wealthy man. "You value them far more than your moneyP'
 Infinitely morer' was the somewhat wonderful reply.
 "You trust them almost entirely to the care of your wife, do you not?"
 "Oh certainly"
 And yet" said the astute friend, you cannot trust her with a check book! You can trust her with your children, but not with your money"
 But altogether apart from any effect upon the children a certain consideration is due to the wife herself in this business. Peace and content are imperative condi- tons in the creation and continuance of home and its harmonies. and the wife who does not that her feelings have been spared, her dignity and self-respect taken into account, her health and good estate provided for. whether as by right or by privilege, will always be in a con- dition of fermenting, if unspoken, re- volt.
 The matter of the wife's allowance may seem a trivial concern and a trite ques- ton of discussion, but it is a preliminary soon settled. And if. in founding home, 1t Is allowed to remain unsettled, it Is sure to prove, except in the case of the most gelatinous of women. that little rift within the lute which, sooner or later, will one day make the music mute
 The genius sealed in his jar, or in An stey's Brass Bottle" was a small affair when comfortably established within, but big enough to darken the whole sky when let loose upon the world, and a domestic difference bears a strong resemblance to him In this respect
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business whenever we can. but we have td, exercise some discretion in doing this We had a hursemaid once who becattie lame, and coachman who was badly de- formed by an accident In both cases tho misfortune occurred after the parties had entered our service, 80 that we felt bound in Christian, charity to retain them for the rest of their days. But I should hardly feel justified in closing contract with a governess whom I knew! at the time of making the engagement, to be in an advanced stage of eioeution. prob ably incurabie'
 MT: Mckinley Stirred In the Bread.
 'I went down into my kitchen the. other day" said a literary woman who keeps house to writer in the Washington Post, and there found my old colored cook busily stirring up bread. She didn't hear me come in, but I overheard her saying to herself as she stirred:
 MT Mckinley, MT. Mckinley, Mir. Mckinley
 What on earth are you saying that for, auntie?' asked. What has MT. Mo- Kinley done?'
 He amt done nothin' at all, Miss Jane;' she answered, but he certainly Is a. mighty smart man
 But persisted, what has that to do with your calling his name?'
 s' Law, Miss Jane said she anybody kin see you ain'e no cook. Eff stirs in a smart man, the bread Is shore to come. I was just stlrrin' in Mir Mckinley so's to make this were bread come light
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Good Toys for Sunday.

Charles R. Flint, the promoter, has a quaint Yankee humer which is as well developed today as in his school years, relates Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. In the Polytechnic Institute the mark ings were on the basis of 100 and were bulletined monthly. One day a group of boys were looking at the new bulletin, on which one of the hopeless dullards of the class was marked 66.
 Flint said, slowlyi
 "Sixty-six; that's the very number of our year, and I hope when we get to '99 Jack will receive that flgurel'
 Once sanctimonious person remarked: {:
 Children should never be allowed to play with toys on Sundayl'
 May they not play with religious toys? he remarked.
 There are no religious toys, sirl''
 Excuse me, there are!''
 What are they then, sir?"
 z"Noahs arks,"
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was a transition from darkness to light, from firing a small engine in a dirty eel lar to a clean office where there were books and papers. That was paradise to me, and I bless the stars that sent me to be messenger In a telegraph office."
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hH1I1AM its treated without pain or confinement. Cure guaran- teed or pay. B. Fl. VEAL,
 HI lAHl Man'gr Lithia Springs Sam itarium, Box 8, Austell, Ga.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-09-13

Moses Dudley of East Middlebury was
before Justice of the Peace Fred NJ. Foote
on Friday last, charged with obtaining
liquor at the town agency under false
pretenses. The respondent in this case
was discharged. Ira LaFleur defended.
Ford Mathewson of Ripton was before
Justice of the Peace Fred NJ. Foote on
Tuesday, charged with selling cider,
States Attorney Donoway prosecuted
and Ira LaFleur defended the respond
emit Mathewson pleaded guilty to one
offence, and was fined $40 and costs.
Louis LaFrance, an engineer on one of
the local freights, was arrested Monday
morning by o. p. Moore and brought
before Justice of the Peace A. \. Fetch
err. The engineer was charged with
holding the crossing at the depot for a
longer space of time than the law allows.
The case was adjourned until next Mon
day morning, and Mr.. LaFrance fur
nished the required amount of bail.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-09-13
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

Robert p. Pinney, clerk in Beckwith
& Co.'S dry goods department, is spend
ing his vacation with his sister, Mrs.
George Bessett, in Burlington.
Prof. and Mrs. 4. l.. James. who have
been spending the summer with Mrs,
Janes's mother, Mrs. Mary Tilden,
returned home Friday morning.
DR.. W. A. Dewey and family of Ann
Arbor, Mich, who have been spending
the summer with Mrs. +. f. Dewey,
returned home Friday morning,
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will hold their meeting at Judge
Weeks's with Mrs. Dyer on Wednesday
afternoon, the 18th, at 3 o'clock
Miss Elizebeth O'Connor of New
Haven, Conn, returned home Friday
morning, after a two weeks visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. George Champagne.
Carl Durant of Brandon, While tending
one of l.. Cults horses, was bitten on his
right arm by the animal. a doctor was
called and the wound was dressed.
Urlel ID. Twitchell, long time resident
of this town, died at his home on College
Hill Wednesday morning. A full ac-
count will appear In our next issue.
Mrs. Joseph A. Peck, who has been
spending the past three weeks with hef
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Brewster,
returned to New York Friday noon.
Mrs. W. w. Chapman and son, Lyle
Barber, have returned from Lake Dun.
more, where they spent the summer, and
have opened their house on Seminary
street.
Mrs. j. b. Johnson, Paul b. johnson
and Miss Flora l.. p Johnson of Wash
ington, ID. c., with Miss K. Mae Crane
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-09-13
Estate of Wyman A. Hildreth.
Notice to Sell Real Estate.

CTATE OF VERMONT, lprono.o Co,r,
SDIsTRIcT OF ADDISON, SIS. rioo"'e 0our''
BE it remembered. that at a session OF the
Probate Court, holden at Middlebury, within
and for said District, on the 9th. day OF Sept.
ember, y. ID. 1901.
Present; Hon. W. II. Bliss, Judge.
Whereas, Charles l.. Stay administrator of
Wylnan Hildrcth, late of orwell, in said dis
trict, deceased. has this day presented to said
court his petition in writing, setting forth
that II will be necessary to sell ali of the
real estate of said deceased, for the payment
of the debts ana charges OF Administration;
and also that it will be beneficial for all
parties interested therein to sell the whole of
the real estate of said deceased, described as
follows to wit Farm of Isl acres, good two
story house, good barn, all in good repair,
farm well watered. situated one and one
quarter miles west of orwell village; acre
land with large barn, suitable for Il livery or
training stable, good well OF water on prem
ises, centrally located in Orwell village, and
the elm making application TO said court for
license to make such sale.
1t i ordered, that all persons Interested IN
the estate of said deceased be notified TO APP
pear before said Court, at the probate office
In Middebury, in said district, ON the IN
day of October,.A. II. 1901, by publication or
this order three weeks slcce ssiNely previous
thereto, in the Middlebury Register, news
paper printed at Middlebury, Vt, TO show
cause, If any they may have, why SAID license
should not be grated
81 ADELAIDE +. STOWE, Register.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-09-13
LETTER TO Hon. j. w. STEWART

Dear Sir; Congressman Belden, of
Syracuse, painted his Thousand-lslands
cottage in % with Devoe; and painted it
again in 80 with the same, of course.
Takes so gallons.
"What does it last only seven years :"
Depends on what you paint for. No
one can tell how long job of paint is
going to last in any particular case. The
paint may last ten years and the color
five.
\ summer cottage is painted for color,
of course; it is also painted to keep out
water, to keep it from rotting.
Seven year is good long time for
paint to look fresh-depends on the color
though; some colors last longer than
others. Three is too long for some of
the prettiest cOlors. Nothing pays bet
ter, in building house, than good Job
of paint; and nothing pays better, in
keeping 1t up, than repainting as soon as
the paint shows signs of impairment. But
this is to keep it sound. For the looks,
you may paint it whenever the freshness
is off. It's matter of color; not OF
paint. Yours truly,
AZ f. w. DEvOE 4 Co.
T.. S. A, Calhoun & Son sell our
paint In your section.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-09-13
Estate of Emily NJ. Clarke.

~TATE OF VERMONT, Be II remem-
.oDIsTRICT OF ADDISON, IS. bered, that at a
session of the Probate Court holden AT Mid
dlebury, within and for said District, on the
18th day of September, \. ID. 1901.
Present W. Ii. BLISS, Judge.
Whereas, a certain instrument in writing
purporting to be the last will and testament
OF Emily NJ. Clark, late of orwell, in said dis.
trict, dece ased, having been this day pre-
sented TO said Court of Probate, and duly
filed in the Registers Office Therefore, II Is
ordered that all persons interested in the
estate of said deceased to be notified TO APP
pear before said Court, at the Probate ONCE
In Middlebury, in said District, on the eth
day of October, \. D. 1901, by publication of
this order, three weeks successfully previous
thereto, in the Middle bury Register, a news
paper printed at Middlebury aforesaid, to
show cause II any they may have, why said
instrument in writing should not be proved
and allowed, as the last will and testament of
the said deceased. 81 W. ii. BLISS. Judge.