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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-04
In the School of Work,

Charles a. Dana of the New York
Sun was n man of extensive learning
and attached great Importance to col
iege training, but was quick to recog-
nlze the value of the practical educa-
ton that man of good parts may pick
up in this workaday world outside OF
university walls.
A young man went to The Sun office
one day and asked to see the editor in
chief. He would not be rebuffed by the
subordinates and after some delay was
admitted. He stated his business with
out moments loss of time.
"Mr. Dana" he said, 81 believe l
could be of some use on this paper, and
want you to give me trial. If you
don't find me of any use, you needn't
pay me any salary, and if you do
shall want a good salary. If l don't
find my proper groove in a month, you
can drop me out"
Mr. Dana looked him over.
Young man." he said, Il like your
looks. Lave you ever attended any in
stitution of learning?'
Yes, sir. | am graduate of two
newspaper offices, one country week
ly and the other a daily paper in a city
of 100000 inhabitants.'
T'll take you. Go and report to the
managing editor
And Mr.. Dana turned again to his
work.-Iouth's Companion.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-04
TOT CAUSES NIGH ALARM.

zone night my brothers baby was
taken with Group" writes Mrs. j. c.
Snider of Crittenden, Ky, "it seemed it
would strangle before we could get a
doctor, so we gave it DIR. Kings New
Discovery, which gave quick relief and
permanently cured it. We always keep
1t in the house to protect our children
from Group and Whoopng Cough. 1t
cured me of chronic bronchial trouble
Lung troubles. SOC and Sl.OO. Trial
bottles free at DR.. w. ii. Sheldon's drug
store.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-04
Estate of Charles j. Bump,

STATE OF VERMONT lie 1t reinem-
- DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SIS. bered, That at
a session of the Probate Court, holden at
Middlebury, within and for the District of
Addison, on the 3lst day of August, A. d. 1901.
Present: W Ii. Bliss, Judge.
whereas, n certain instrument in writing,
under seal, purpoTting to be the last viii and
testament of Charles j. Bump, late of
salisbury, in said district, deceased, having
been this day presented to said court for pro-
bate, and duly led in the Registers ONCE ::
Therefore it is ordered that all persons in
terested in the estate of sand deceased, be
notified to appear before said court at the
Probate Once in Middlebury, in said district
on the 2lst day of October, A. ID. 1901, at ten
O'Clock a. m. by the publication of this order,
three weeks successfully previous thereto,
in the Middlebury Register newspaper
printed at Middlebury, To show cause, If any
they may have, why said instrument in writ
ing should not be proved and allowed, as the
last will and testament of the said deceased.
y true record,
80 W. II. BLISS, Judge
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-04
Estate of Charles j. Rich.
Notice of Settlement.

CTATE OF VERMONT, &C The probate
- DISTRICT OF ADDISON, 90 court for the
District CT Addison:
To all persons interested in the estate OF
Charles J. Rich, late of Whiting, in said
District, deceased. GREETING
By the authority of the state of Vermont,
you are hereby notified TO appear before the
said probate court, at the probate Office in
Middlebury, in said district, on the 18th day
of October, A. ID. 1901, at 10 O'Clock a m, to
show cause, il any you have, why the account
of Albert A. Fletcher, administrator of
the estate of said deceased, should not be
allowed, and also why the residue of said
estate should not be distributed to the
parties entitled thereto.
Dated at Middlebury, IN said district this
10th day of September, A. ID. 1901.
81 FRANK W. THOMAS Register.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-04
A TYPICAL SOUTH AFRICAN STORE

O. r. Larson, of Bay Villa, Sundays
River, Cape Colony, conducts store
typical of South Africa, at which can be
purchased anything from the proverbial
"needle TO an anchor" This store is
situated in valley nine miles from the
nearest railway station and about twenty.
five miles from the nearest town. Mr..
Larson says; ~ am favored with the
custom of farmers within a radlous of
thirty miles. to many of whom | have
supplied Chamberlain's remedies. All
testify to their value in household where
doctors advice is almost out of the
question. Within one mile of nv store
the population is perhaps sixty. OF
these, within the past twelve months, no
less than fourteen have been cured by
Chamberlaln's Cough Remedy. This
must surely be record" For sale by
DIR. ID. A. Bisbee.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-04
STRICKEN WITH PARALYSIS.

Henderson Grimett, of this place, wa
stricken with partial paralysis and com
pletely lost the use of one arm and side
After being treated by an eminent ply
stefan for quite while without relief
my wife recommended Chamberlain:
Pain Balm, and after using two bottle,
of It he is almost entirely cured.-Geo
X. MCDONALD, Man, Logan county, w
Va. Several other very remarkable cure,
of partial paralysis have been effected by
the use of this linament. Ii is mos
widely known. however, as a cure fol
rheumatism, sprains and bruises. Sole
by DR.. ID. A. Bisbee.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-04
Tennessee's wealth of Oak Timber.

One of Tennessee's richest fields of
natural resources is in its forests. Most
of her timbered land is as yet virgin,
and at the top of the list of the varie-
ties to be found is oak. That tree is
one of the most valuable that ever
grew, and this state is more than usu-
ally rich in it.
Oak timber is practically indestructi-
BILE when not exposed to the elements
of the atmosphere. l mean that oak
timber can be submerged in the ground
or buried in the water, where the at
mosphere does not affect it, and it will
last for so many years that the man
who had put it there is dead and for
gotten by the time it has decayed.
1t is a growing fayorite and deserv-
eddy So in many ways of manufacture
Ing furniture and in finishing fine
houses. The price on it is always firm,
and every now and then it makes a
squirt and climbs up point from which
il never will fall. If the forests of this
tree to be found in Tennessee today are
here 90 years from now, this will be
one of the richest states in the Union
Knoxville Sentinel.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-04
Ten cents will buy trial size ,

Ten cents will buy trial size of
Ely's Cream Balm; enough to convince
you that it is the greatest of remedies for
nasal catarrh or cold in the head. Full
size 30 cents. All druggists. We mail it.
ELY BROS, Sc Warren ST., New York.
l53 Second Street, Albany, n. Y.
Messrs. ELY BROS. Il suffered greatly
with catarrh and tried different remedies
without effect. After using one bottle of
your Cream Balm | found relief and |
cannot praise too highly such remedy.
Sept. %, 1899. Miss CORA WILLARD.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-04
A WOMAN SAYS.

"The first bottle of the nelc medicine,
Calcura Solvent, set up my nerves like
tuning a fiddle. began to get good
sleep. After that felt hungry and when
| smelt breakfast | wasn't long getting
down stairs. | picked up weight and
strength, and no wonder believe in DR..
David Kennedy, of Kennedy Row, Kings
ton, n. Y" All druggists 81 90.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-04

Has been rudely defined by some cynic
as oslops and sweets" And after all
there's more truth than poetry in the
definition. Ice cream and cake may
satisfy the palate, but they are far from
satisfying to the stomach, which requires
that food be nutritious first and nice
sfterward. By careless eating women
pave the way for stomach wtrouble,n
and its kindred miseries.
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov-
cry is confidently commended as a
cure for diseases of the stomach and
other organs of digestion and nutrition.
BY curing diseases which prevent the
assimilation of food it enables the body
to be built up and strengthened in the
only way known to nature by food
digested and assimilated.
sFor twelve long months I suffered untold
misery" writes Mrs. Molie Colgate, of Ran
dolph, Charlotte Co., Va. Mo tongue could ex-
press the pain that I endured before COM
Ineneed taking DR.. Pierces medicine I was
not able to do anything at ALL Could not eat
anything except bread and tea-or if l did the
top Of my head hurt SO il seemed il would kill
me; with all that could do it would burn like
fire. But now, since using your Golden Med
ioal Discovery and 'Favorite Prescription,
can eat little of almost anything l want, and
can do a good days work as well as anybody
can. Am better than have been for years"
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure
sick headache.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-04

Lewis Ockerman, Goshen, Ind: "De-
Wits Little Early Risers never bend me
double like other pills, but do their work
thoroughly and make me feel like
boy" Certain, thorough, gentle. ID. A.
Blsbee's drug store.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-04
A MIDDLeBuRY WOMAN ASKS

"haye you floor paint that will last two
weeks" Yes, we have Devoe's; it has a
beautiful gloss and will wear two years
If properly applied. A. CALHOUN & Son.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-04

The physicians of Hardwick have is
sued statement to the effect that the
water used by that village is unfit for
drinking purposes.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-04
business CARDS.

EDMUND w. BURKE,
ATTORNEY AND COUNsELLOR.AT LAW.
Battell Block, Middlebury, Vt.
COLLECTIONS 4 SPECIALITY.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-04

Mrs. Hannah Savage Woolson, aged
81 years and eight months, died Sept. 81
at the residence of her daughter, Mrs.
Adna Brown, in Springfield.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-04

G. II. Bundy of South Walpoe raised
eighty-two bushels of potatoes on three,
quarters Of an acre of ground.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-04
OLIVER LAKE HOUSE,
LEICESTER, VT.
FRANK CHANDLER, Prop'r.

An exceedingly pleasing sum mer resort
with very reasonable prices. Telephone
connection with Brandon. +. o. address
Brandon, Vermont.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-04
Women Must
Sleep.
Avoid Nervous ProsfrafI0n.

If you are dangerously sick what is
the first duty of your physician He
quiets the nervous system, he deadens
the pain, and you sleep we'll
You ought to know that when you
ceased to be regular in your courses,
grow irritable without cause. and
pass sleepless nights. there is serious
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-04

The Hon. klttredge Haskins was the
speaker at the Hardwick fair.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Madison Fuller of Putney
celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of
their marriage last week.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-10-04

A. A. Atwood of Randolph has in his
possession a Quaker Bible 12G years old,
the property of his cousin in Shoreham.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-13
Indianapolis News.
For Destroying Grasshoppers.

For Destroying Grasshoppsrs.
By all odds the best method for de-
stroying grasshoppers after they be-
come half grown is the use of the
hopper dozer," or kerosene pan, which
Is shown herewith. This is made of
stovepipe iron by turning up the sides
and ends about four inches so as to
make long, fiat pan about four inches
in depth. This is then mounted on
runners varying in height according to
requirements. On the frame back of
the pan is stretched a piece of cloth to
prevent the insects from jumping over
the pan. When ready to begin work,
the pan is partially filed with water,
and some coal oil is added If the
ground is level. no crosspieces are nee
essary, but if the pan issto be used on
sloping ground it should be made as in
dicated in the Illustration to prevent
the oil and water from running to one
end. The height of the runners will
necessarily vary from two to eight OF
ten inches, according to the crop to be
protected and the age of the insects to
be captured. The machine may be OF
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-13
GREAT RIVER OF SIBERIA.
Floating Down the Amour Is the Ex-
perience of Lifetime.

Floating Down the Amour Is the Ex-
perience of a Lifetime.
A traveller in Siberia had the novel
experience of floating down one of the
greatest rivers in the world-the Amour
which Is practically unknown to
geographers as yet. ''At Khabaroffsk,"
he says, though we were more than
500 miles from Its mouth, it was fully
mile and a half wide and flowed in a
strong, full current, which fact we real
lied for many day thereafter as we
made our slow and toilsome way
against it. The Amour is one of the
few greatest rivers of the world. In
length it is equaled by no river in Eu-
rope and is surpassed only by the
Yang-tse-Kiang and Yenisei in Asia, by
the Nile and Congo in Africa and by the
Amazon and Mckenzie in America,
though it we reckon the Mississippi
and Missouri as one river it is longer
than any of them except the Nile. Its
water is somewhat muddy at Vladivos-
took, but nothing like the consistency
of the Mississippi at st. Louis. 1t can
not be said to be both food and drink
As we ascend its swift current it con-
stantly grows clearer, until 1000 miles
further up it is about the color of white
wine and is sweet and wholesome to
the taste.
sIts shores are still in their virgin
greenery. For hundreds of miles at a
time one sees not cultivated field,
though doubtless some such titled land
lies back from the river and out of
sight Great wood piles for the use of
the frequent river steamers are the
most common objects that show the
hand of man, but even these are often
in desperately lonely spots, so that one
can scarcely believe that they were ever
visited by human beings. And yet all
this immense river basin of 10000
square miles is apparently fertile and
.habitable and when we saw it is was
glowing in rich and brilliant verdure
Surely the world is not yet overpeopled
while such lordly domain is waiting
for the ploW and the reaper"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-13
The Colorado Beetle.

Inc NOlOTaQO DeeCkes
If those who desire to kill the beetles
and slugs ON their potato and tomato
vines would their paris green
with an equal amount of slaked lime,
or one pound of it to two pounds of
land plaster, and dust the vines with
the mixture wnen they are little
damp from dew or rain, they would de-
stroy the insects better than they do by
spraying with the paris green in water.
The poison would not wash off as cas-
lily in shower, and it would be easy to
tell when it washed off, without wait
ing to learn it by seeing the vines half
eaten up and no slugs killed. The lime
or plaster would, like the lime in Bor-
deaux mixture, prevent injury to the
foliage, and they are also supposed to
have some effect in preventing blight.
In the days before the Colorado beetle
came around almost every farmer used
to put plaster on his pototo and squash
vines, first to keep off the little striped
squash or cucumber bug, next to pre-
vent blight, and not least because it
was supposed to attract moisture to the
hill. Probably the fact was that 1t abb
sorbed some of the ammonia that was
nure in the hill," which most of them
used for growing potatoes, and they
used to talk about growing "a peck in
a hilP' then, but we never saw such a
hill
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-13
Homemade MIX Cooler.

On every dairy farm. large or small,
there should be some arrangement
made for cooling the milk. The Illus
tration shows a homemade milk cool
er which has been in operation on a
large dairy farm for several years. The
size can be varied according to circunl-
stances. A shoys the little box In
which the ice is placed. This is hinged
at the end SO that the cover can be
thrown entirely back and not Interfere
In any way with the person who is
putting in the Ice. B shows the height
in the box to which the water can go
before it reaches the overflow pipe
which goes out of the box into a
trough, shown at G, and thence is car
ried to any point desired. This over
flow pipe is a piece of rubber hose.
The larger box in which the cans of
milk are set has cover on either side
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-13
General Farm Notes.

=
Dig out the peach tree borers and jar
the curculio.
Bone is the thing to use on peach
trees every time, says one grower.
In orchards badly infested with can
kerworm late spraying with some form
of arsenic, which is most safely used in
bordeaux mixture, may do good il the
worm is still feeding.
Cultivate the sweet potato ridges af-
ter rains to break the crust and keep
the soil mellow. Making the ridges
narrow the last cultivation will cause
them to mature early.
For field culture for the canneries
good strong tomato plants should be
ready for the field from the middle to
the latter part of June, the time which
they are usually set in New Jersey and
Maryland.
A great deal depends upon how wat
er is put on. If you begin your irriga-
ton before it is very dry, you don't
need so much water, but if you let your
ground get very dry and then put on
your water you need great deal more
of it.
often on the farm, harvest or thrash
ing hands find it impossible to be at
home for dinner. and it is a yexing
problem how to haul dinner en- the
wagon without jolting it into a mush.
If the dinner bucket is placed in
grain sack, and each end of the sack is
hooked or fastened in some way under
the hay rigging. so that the sack will
hang loosely, swing back and forth.
the dinner will jar very little. though
carried on the wagon all the forenoon.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-13
Alfalfa for Horses.

Concerning the action of alfalfa hay
on horses, farmer says in Breeders
Gazette: For more than fifteen years
I have had experience in raising horses
from birth to sale, from youth to age,
on alfalfa pasture and hay, except may
be giving them some variety in winter.
consisting of corn fodder and straw.
All animals and man like variety in
diet. l feed no grain except to horses
in harness, and my horses are noted for
their size, strength and beauty. l sold
two Percheron colts in March. 3 and a
years old, weighing 1,700 and 1900
pounds, that did not know the taste of
grain. l have wintered horses from
the city, as many as twenty five at
times, exclusively on alfalfa to the per-
feet satisfaction of the owners. have
never noticed nor known any injurious
effect from well-cured, good hay cut
at first bloom.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-13

Money e arning for Little Folks.
4 1t may be a help to- those who are
teaching little people to earn and save
an important lesson-to read the fol-
lowing list of ways in which children
have earned money, as compiled by the
.Congregationalist:
Washing windows.
Picking apples and other fruits.
Raking up leaves.
Doing errands.
Picking over raisins.
Wedding in the garden and the paths.
Picking up pins at a cent dozen.
Raising vegetables.
Caring for animals.
Washing and wiping dishes.
Ironing.
Singing for the old folks.
Hemming papa's handkerchiefs J. :
busting.
Beating rugs and mats.
Stoning cherries.
Making and selling paper pillows.
Gathering and selling wild flowers,
autumn leaves, etc.
Mend1ng.
Caring for the baby.
Hemming towels, etc.
Waiting on grandpa and grandma.
Reading aloud.
Caring for the table silver.
Making and selling lamp-lighters and
n-holders.
Self-denial of candy, sugar, butter,
of,
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-13
NeiRhbors.

NeiRhbors.
Jacky and jamie live side by side;
They're neighbors close in cozy way,
And oh, what pleasure they have indoors
Or out in the street at play!
All, deary me! If they'd always agree,
What fun they could have in their play!
For Jacky and jamie keep "house' and
'.school,"
And sometimes they set up store and
trade:
But once in while things don't go right,
And they quarrel then, Pm afraid.
Yes, deary me! These two disagree
And quarrel at times, I'm afraid.
Then they play apart for the morning
through,
And never a neighbor's word they say;
But they don't seem happy-I wonder
why
And it isn't pleasant day.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-13
Got the lob.


A young man who Is now well up
the list of high-salaried officers of q
big manufacturing company said sew
eral days ago that he owed his first
opportunity to show his ability to the
fact that he was not afraid to soil his
clothes. He was one of half dozen
young men just graduated from scien-
tffic schools who entered the shops Of
this company as students.
They were expected to show that
they were practical workmen, but most
of them preferred theory to practice.
The manager Of the company was a
aself-taught man, and he didn't take
much stock in scientific schools.
The young man who has succeeded
took his measure accurately, and, put
ting on old clothes, went to work in
the shops. Whether by accident or de-
sign he was noticed by the manager
one day stretched out on his back un-
der heavy casting, with hammer
and cold chisel in his hand working
away as If he had no higher ambition.
A week later the manager summoned
him to the Office.
"Didn't see you under the casting
several days ago?" he asked.
Eyes"
''Well, find that we have vacancy
on our staff now, and you may fill it If
you choose"
The young man did choose, and his
progress has been rapid. He does
not have to soil his clothes now to
prove his ability.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-13
Evolution of the App1e.

Apples are new in the economy of the
worlds use and taste. At the begin
ming of the last century few varieties
were known, and we can go back in
history to a time when all apples were
little, sour and puckery-crab apples
and nothing else. The crab apple was
and is in its wildness nothing but a
rosebush. Away back in time the wild
rose, with its pretty blossoms that turn
to little red balls, apple favored. and
the thorny crab had the same grand
mother.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-13

to learn the weight these floating pa.
pers can carry. One day while was
experimenting with them rather care
iessiy placed large wooden spool ON
one of the half-sheets, expecting, of
course, to see the paper go to the bot
tom Immediately. This did not happen,
however, and my aroused curiosity
prompted me to add greater weight.
Recklessly laid my four-bladed PEN
knife on top of the spool; to my aston
ishment the paper still remained float
ing; and even when placed on more
freight, in the shape of four one-cent
pieces, it obstinately refused to sink
Woman's Home Companion.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-13
A HOPPER DoZER.

any length desired up to sixteen or
eighteen feet. If small, it can be
drawn by hand, but when larger a
horse or two is desirable. When full,
the insects can be removed, little
more oil added and the machine start
ed afresh. In this way a number of
bushels of hoppers can be captured and
destroyed in single day. The cost of
running this machine is trifing and the
remedy very effectual. : Nebraska
Farmer.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-13
AnI1.-Exnre.ael Idea,

How much is that employe short?"
inquired the commercial acquaintance.
''Shortr' echoed the bank director.
Were the ones who are short He is
away ahead of the game. Washing
ton Star.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-13
Proof Positive

Briggs-Bertler is an ass, that's what
he is. He is always on the wrong side
of every question.
Harleigh-But he says the same
thing of you.
Briggs-Well, and doesn't that prove
what say of him Boston Transcript.