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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-30
WHAT A TALE TELLS.

If that mirror of yours shows a
wretched, sallow complexion, a aun-
diced look, moth patches and blotches
on the skin, it's liver trouble; but DR..
Kings New Life Pills regulate the
liver, purify the blood, give clear skin,
rosy cheeks, rich complexion. Only
25c at DR.. w. H. Sheldon's drug store.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-30

Eruptions, cuts, burns, scalds and
sores of all kinds quickly healed by De-
Wits Witch Hazel Salve. Certain cure
for piles. Beware of Counterfeits. Be
sure you get the original-DeWitt's
ID. \. Bisbee's drug store.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-30

Helen Potts Hall, who claims the en-
tire estate of the late George Francis
Gilman, the millionaire tea merchant, OBJ
tanned from Justice MacLean in the SUI
preme court decree of absolute divorce
from her husband. BlaFeiy Had.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-30

The West River Water-power COM
pany is seriously contemplating the
building of its dam at West Dummerston
the present season.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-30

If the action of your bowels is not
easy and regular serious complications
must be the final result DeWitt's Little
Early Risers will remove this danger.
Safe, pleasant and effective. ID. A. Bis
bees drug store.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-30

Tuesday and Wednesday were cele-
brated as the hundredth anniversary of
Methodist preaching in Barnard.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-30

1t is rumored that the town of Jamaica
is contemplating putting in an electric
light plant.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-30
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AL.
druggists refund the money II 1t fails to cure.
Z. W. Groves signature is on each box. 25c.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-30

An Ogdensburg boy was killed Mon
day by taking hold of live electric wire.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-30

1t is announced that the Car will visit
Emperor William as we'll as France.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-30

UO11r iSt hon
inc IL may in.
d,1ce others to
avail th q m
selves Of he
benefit of vo,,r
valuable rem
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-30
OLIVER LAKE HOUSE,
LEICESTER, VT.
FRANK CHANDLER. Prop'r.

An exceedingly pleasing sum mer resort
with very reasonable prices. Telephone
connection with Brandon. r. o. address
Brandon, Vermont.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-30

Stops the Cough and Works OF the Cold
Laxative Bromo.Quinine Tablets cure a
cold In one day. No cure, no pay. Price 25c.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-30

The Miller family of Williston held a
family reunion and picnic last Saturday
The age-herald., 1901-12-25
Christmas and the Christmas Spirit


 It is not likely that Santa Claus made his rounds in the early hours of this morning in a sleigh drawn by reindeers. There is considerable moisture in the streets, but Santa Claus carried heavy loads this year, and sleighing in the mud is not a favorable means of locomotion. Nor is it probable that he used reindeers, for reindeers are very scarce in this part of the country. The truth is, Santa Claus Is progressive, and there is good reason to believe that he went from house to house early this morn. ing a chaffeur in rubber-tired wagon of the period, piled high of course with gifts chiefly for the little folks. This is, 1t Is true, conjecture, for no one saw him, he is so sly in his eomings and goings.
 But really we need not trouble our selves so much over his outfit as over the spirit of his visits. Did he visit the poor and friendless this year? If he did motif he overlooked any-it Is not too late to supplement his la bors. It should be remembered that the necessaries of life were never so high as they are this year-at least not in peace times. Did Santa Claus visit the little boy or girl who cannot go to school because of the want of shoes or other needful articles of wear and comfort and health? Did Santa Claus remember the naked, and the hungry, and the stricken? For that is the true Christmas spirit-the commem- oration of the birth of the Saviour of the world in gifts to the poor, the needy, the stricken Whoever relieves want and misery on this day keeps the day worthily; whoever does hot do this misses the essence and spirit of the day, and is himself the loser.
The age-herald., 1901-12-25
Profitable Real Estate.

Few investments pay so well as real estate in large cities,' remarked New York merchant at the Hillman
 Real estate almost any where in New York, Washington city and Chicago ad- vances in price steadily. Thousands of fortunes are made in New York and Chi cago on the rise in the value of dirt. One of the notable real estate transactions in New York recently was the sale of the Broadway Tabernacle, located at the cor ner of Thirty fourth street and Sixth ave- nue, for $1, 300. GOO. The ground Is 100 feet by 15O feet The church building is to be pulled down and twenty-story hotel is to take its place.
 ''The Broadway Tabernacle organiza- ton belongs to the sisterhood of the Con- gregational denomination It Is one of the historic institutions of New York. dating back, as it does, nearly seventy years. For many years 1t had its place of wor- ship on Broadway. The present site was bought in 1857. If the money which the site and building cost had been put out at interest it would have totaled today about 1875, 900. The unearned increment of near ly million dollars gives the congregation great joy The trustees have picked out a good site on which a new tabernacle will be erected and after ground and build- ings are paved for the church will have lareg surplus to invest"
The age-herald., 1901-12-25
uNDERWooD's AMENDMENT.

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 Representative Underwood may not se- cure the repeal of the fifteenth amend States during the present session of con- gress, but it will be repealed before many years Public sentiment is gradually ri- pening in that direction and as the north ern people better understand southern conditions they, too. will come to view the matter as 1t really is.
 The north may not be ready to assist in repeating the fifteenth amendment. The votes of that section who have not trav- eled in the south are not well enough informed to favor the repeal of any law having a direct bearing upon the negro question. They are disposed to regard the negro us badly abused citizen and until that impression is removed the joint resolution introduced by Mir. Underwood will not pass
 But the time is not far distant when both the fourteenth and fifteenth amend ments will be repealed. The south alone Is affected by those amendments and the new constitutions in the southern states practically repael the amendments to the federal constitution. Under those circumstances 1t would be vastly better to have the two sections agree to repeal the i'll advised amendments and leave southern ballot conditions to the people who know best how to handle them.
The age-herald., 1901-12-25
IF oKLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Well spoken, with good accent and good discretion.
 --hanIet.
Departure of tho Cold Wave.

By far the best gift of this Christ mas time comes to all alike-the end ing of the great December cold wave. It pinched and inconyenienoed every body, and everybody Is glad that it has departed. It brought distress and suffering and losses in it's train, and it was felt from one side of the coun- try, across the broad expanse, to the other All sections were afflicted by it, and all sections are glad today to be relieved from it.
 It did not at any time equal In se- verity and frigidity one or two days in the historic cold wave of February, 1899, but it approximated that wave altogether too closely to be comfortable. In duration 1t excelled perhaps all pre-. vious cold waves in the South since records have been kept. During nine full days its grip was scarcely loos- ened at all. One wave succeeded an- other until it seemed as if it's temper ature and piercing winds had become chronic, and Alabama had exchanged places with Assiniboia. It is now pla3n, however, that the impressions of those days were mistakes. Ala bama is herself again. She is as sunny and as balmy and enjoyable as ever before.
 The damage dong. fin this State is more due to cheap construction and especially to cheap plumbing than to anything else. The broken pipes were not properly placed and contrived at the outset, and the houses in which people could not keep warm during the cold wave were not built against prolonged low temperatures. If one is to be comfortable in cold waves construction of habitations must be improved. Houses full of cracks and orevices from the ground floor up can not be kept warm in such weather as : We have recently experienced.
 The damage to sweet potatoes, to sugar cane, to oranges, Is in the aggre- gate large, but no such disaster has occurred as did in that of 1895 in Elorida. The truck farmers escaped ] harm because their crops were not fully started, and 1t Is believed nc orange trees were killed. The extent of tn damage to cane in Louisiana is as yet undetermined. All in all, this section escaped with comparatively few losses. and now that the weather is unusually fine and promising the December wave will soon be forgotten.
The age-herald., 1901-12-25
Maclay's Grand Stand Play.

The Maclay incident has become acute. and he demands trial under the civil service laws. President Roose- welt is, or at any rate was, a great civil service reformer, and he knows that not even a President can sum marily dismiss an employe who holds a position in the civil service The historian declines to be dismissed. He insists that he is protected by civil service rules from dismissal unless it can be shown that he is incapable or inefficient in the work assigned him. As he is classed as a '1aborer" on the government payroll it is not likely that he can be forced out as an incapable. President Roosevelt and Historian Maclay must fight out this battle as best they can, with Secretary Long as an intermediary.
 The public are chiefly interested in the manner In which Maclay's book, purporting to be a history of the United States navy, came to be used at Annapolis as n text book. In this book there are many islanders of Ad- miral Schley, the vilest one relating to his honor and courage at Santiago. What is needed is a trial that will plainly show how such a book was forced upon the naval cadets and it's use continued until the Schley trial and verdict upset it and drove it out. if indeed it has been driven out. The entire relations of the book and An napolis should be ventilated. Maclay is a vi1lifier who does not deserve pub. lie attention. His refusal to obey the request for his resignation transmitted through Rear Admiral Barker, com. mander of the navy yard at Brooklyn, is probably an attempt on his part to gain more free advertising for the pur- pose of selling more books, and as such it should be treated. But the people desire to know in what way
The age-herald., 1901-12-25
Handel's Great oratorlo.

"This will be the first Christmas sea- son in six years that Birmingham has not been treated to Handers grand ora torio. The Messiah" said promin- ent music lover.
 'Mr Guckenberger. following the ex- ample of Boston and other centres of culture. has given this oratorio every year since he established himself in this city. The first two performances were in St. Mary s-on-the- Highlands, the third was in Seals Hal the fourth was in o'Brfen's opera house and the fifth and last was in the First Methodist Church. Tn 1898 Mir. Guctenberger not only gave the Messiah In Birmingham. but in Pratt City .oo.
 ''I have heard no explanation of MT. Guckenberger failure to have the Mes sIah' this Christmas. His audiences were appreciative and usually quite large Per haps the omission of the oratorio this season is due to the fact that MT. Guck- enberger is buster than ever with festi- val rehearsals and choir work. MUSIC lovers will certainly regret not being able to hear those beautiful and up- lifting solos, Every Valley I Know that My Redeemer Liveth,' He Was Dispised and Rejected, Why Do the Nations so Fhriously Rage Together and those stirring choruses, For Unto Us a Child is Born Behold the Lamb of God Worthy Is the Lamb. and 'Halleluiah.'
 "The Messiah has been decidedly educative in our musical circles, and as matter of sentiment, if for no other reason. it should be sung every year in Christmas week"
The age-herald., 1901-12-25
MODELS FOR WRITERS.

From the Kansas City Star.
 For clearness read Macaulay.
 For logic read Burke and Bacon.
 For action read Homer and Scott.
 For condolences read Bacon and Pope.
 For sublimity of conception read Milton. For vivacity read Stevenson and Kip ling.
 For imagination read Shakespeare and Job. For' common sense read Benjamin Franklin.
 For elegance read Virgil, Milton and Arnold.
 For smoothness read Addison and flaw thorne. For simplicity read Burns, Whittier and Bunyan. For interest in common things read Jane Austin. For humor read Chaucef, Cervantes and Mark Twain. For the study of human nature read Shakespeare and George Eliot. For choice of individual words read Keats, Tennyson and Emerson. For loving and patient observations of rature read Thoreau and Walton.
The age-herald., 1901-12-25
- @as---------------- CHRISTMAS Ar WASHINGTON.
All of the White Messengers and Pc
 Iicemen Given Turkey.

Washington, December A.-Eighty- seven big turkeys were distributed to the White House policemen messengers, ushers, servants, gardners and stable men today with the compliments of the President. Each turkey had Oh 1t a card bearing the seasons compliments. The distribution was the largest ever made at the White House.
 Express wagons, mall carriers and messengers bore numerous packages to the White House today-presents to the Roosevelt family from friends and admirers throughout the country.
 The programme at the White House tomorrow will follow the custom of the family in former years. There will be no Christmas tree, as a tree has never been a part of the celebration of Christi mas in the Roosevelt family. The chil- dren, however, all hang up their stock ings, and they will arise early tomor- row to visit them and ascertain what Santa Claus has left for them. Later in the morning the children will assemble in the library, there to receive gifts from their father and mother. In the afternoon the Roosevelt juveniles will go to their uncle and aunt, Captain cowies, to see a pretty Christmas tree and re- ceive other presents. The Christmas dih- ner will be served at 7.30, and only the family will be present
 On Thursday, if the weather permits, 1t is probable that the Roosevelt fam fly, including the President will go down the Potomac river on cruise. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., is going on a hunting trip with Dr. Rixey, and is very anxious that his father should accompany him. The President Is inclined to do 50, If public business will permit Even if the Presi- dent cannot go, it is the present in- tention of Mrs. Roosevelt to accompany Dr. Rixey ands Theodore, Jr.
The age-herald., 1901-12-25
A WELCOME TO ALEXANDRA.

By Alfred Tennyson. -.f Sea kings daughters from over the sea
 Alexandra! Saxon and Norman and Dane are we, But all of us Danes in our welcome oi
 thee.
 Alexandra! Welcome her. thunders of fort and of Welcome her, laundering cheer. of ths
 street! tsH Welcome her. ali things youthful and
 sweet,
 Scatter the blossom under her feet. Break, happy land, into earlier flowers! Make music. o bird, in the new-budded
 bowers! Blazon your notices of blessing and
 prayer!
 Welcome her. welcome her, all that is
 ours! Marble. o bugIe. and trumpet, blarei Utter your jubilee. steeple and spirei Clash, ye bells. in the merry March airt Flash, ye cities, in rivers of fire! Rush to the roof, sudden rocket. and
 higher
 Melt into stars for the lands desirel < Roll and rejoice. jubilant voice, Roll as a ground-swell dashed on the
 strand; Roar as the sea when he welcomes the
 land,
 And welcome her. welcome the lands de-
 sire, 54 The sea kings daughter as happy as fair, Blissful bride of a blissful heir; Bride of the heir of the kings of the sea- o joy to the people and joy to the throne, Come to us. love us and make us your
 own;
 For Saxon or Dane or Norman we, Teuton or Celt, or whatever we be, We are each all Dane in our welcome to
 thee. E.
 Alexandra! Sea kings daughter from over the ssas ,
The age-herald., 1901-12-25
CIandestine Masons.

"The officers of the Masonic Grand Lodge of New York are dealing promptly and strenuously with the clandestine Ma sons who are trying to establish a rival Grand Lodge in that State" said an old past master.
 ''The clandestines hail from Ohio. They claim to be regular, but no respectable Mason admits their claim. Itlis the most high-handed enterprise in the Masonic world that has ever come to my notice. The clandestine fellows offer to give the degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason for s15, when the minimum fee in New York city is $50. Many men have been duped by item, but it will not be long, l think, before the grand officers will drive the degres ped- dlers out of the State. It Is alleged that the rivals of the regular body were ex- pelled in Ohio on account of Cereauism." :"
The age-herald., 1901-12-25
Many Were Late.

"Years ago persons sending Christmas presents by mail or express endeavored to start their packages so as to have them delivered on the evening of the 24th. but in recent years the rule has been to give the presents an early start, and the recipients get them two or three days ahead of time," said an express clerk yesterday.
 "But in spite of the new rule of getting gifts off early many persons are behind, and their gifts will not be delivered until several days after Christmas. We had a great rush of out going Christmas freight up to noon today. Holiday packages poured In on us. While all the parcels will be started on their way before night, few of them will reach their destination on Christmas. Some of them have long distances to go, and will not be delivered before next week. The recipients will charge the delay to the congested holiday traffic."
The age-herald., 1901-12-25
AGENTS OF THE coNFEDERAcY

From the Springfield Republican.
 The Captain Tessier, who has lately died at Glasgow. played a considerable part during the Civil War as an agent of the Confederate Government in fitting out cruisers abroad to prey on northern commerce. He operated both in England and France, fitting out number of cor vettes for serving under the Confederate flag, and he was also probably the agent who equipped the Alabama for her cele- brated career as a commerce destroyer The chief naval agent of the Confeder- acy at Liverpool was Capt. James D. Bullock, the uncle of President Roose- welt, and Capt. Tressier evidently co-op- erated with him.
The age-herald., 1901-12-25

The gain in gross. earnings of the Southern roads in October exceeded seven per cent. Tn gross earnings of these roads averaged in October $15,
 507 mile, and the net earnings $5,- SIP. There is no boom element in the earnings of Southern roads. The o,,t ton crop was not heavy; the move- ment of lumber and iron was not ex ceptiunal, and there was nothing iI tke October business that does not pertain to steady growth and steady prosperity. When the railroads are busy, lacking in fact sufficient power and cars, we may know ttat the co,n. try they serve is prosperous, but T. is not an unhealthy prosperity. It is net an artificial prosperity carried be. ycnd real demands and good senss
 The degree of prosperity that We have promises to tarry with us long time.
The age-herald., 1901-12-25
Not Ended,

From the San Francisco Bulletin.
 "Ah!' sighed the would-be suicide There Is where all my troubles come to an endr' and he sprang into the deep wa- ters of the bay.
 He was mistaken.
 For the life preseryer hit him in the neck and he saw a million stars The deckhand made a pass at him with B boathook and ripped a small-sized cre- vase from his waistband to his collar done. Then they hauled him to the har- Dor hospital after which he was arrested fined $10 and roasted by the judge and kicked along the corridor toward tho door, A dog bit him as he departed
 ''Alas!' he sobbed, ''it Is more troubJ< to die than to live!''
 So he didn't.
 Which teaches us, my children, that the Pat Grove style of self-effacement is much to be preferred besides being much cleaner and more respectable and making no muss and scandal among our neigh. bors. =
The age-herald., 1901-12-25
RICH MAN ACCUSED.
Case of Lee and earvin, Charged With
 Cattle Stealing, Goes to Jury.

Helena, Mont, December 24.-The trial of Robert Lee and Sam Garvin, two Yellowstone County cattlemen, on a charge of stealing Crow Indian cat tie, which has been going on in the United States Court almost two weeks. was completed this afternoon, when the case was given to the jury.
 The government claims that these men deliberately drove several hun dred cattle from the Crow reservation to place called Garvin's Basin on the edge of Wyoming, where they altered the brands. The case has attracted widespread attention. Both of the ac. cpsed are rich.
The age-herald., 1901-12-25
CHRISTMAS IN PARIS.
Usual Outdoor Festivities Marrcd By
 Rain. .i

Paris, December 24-The Christmas toy fair held along the boulevards of Paris presented its customary aspect this year. The many booths were attraetively deo- ly marred the usual street enthusiasm.
 The midnight masses in the churches were we'll attended while jewellers filled the safes and restaurants.
 Mime. Loubet, wife of the President presented Christmas gifts to the servants employed in the Elysee palace and their children. She afterwards attended the fete of Alsace-Lorraine, held in the Win ter Circus, where toys and clothing were distributed from the great Christmas tree to coco children of indigent exiles from the lost provinces.
The age-herald., 1901-12-25

with favor throughout the entire coun- try.
 In speaking of work in New York and the chances young men have for making successes. he saids
 New York Is the best place in the United States for young men to win for tunes. Opportunities abound in every line of endeavor, and any young fellow from the South with grit and ability can make his way quicker than anywhere else in . the world. A man may have to go hum gry for time, but 1T he is above the or- dinary 1t Is found out In short while and he is rewarded.
 My advice to young men is, go East, go hungry for time. If necessary, and then reap the harvest that must come to all with ability. determination and nerve to stick out. In no other city do South ern men meet with the same general rec ognition as in New York;
 MT Pickens will return to Birmingham for two days next week and will then go back to New York.
The age-herald., 1901-12-25
Local Cotton.

"very little wagon cotton comes to Bir- mingham Christmas week, but 1t will come in freely again next week." said a prominent cotton factor yesterday.
 'The farmers are in fine 1humor over the good prices whio.- cotton brings. The crop directly tributary to Birmingham promised early in the fall to be larger than usual but the twist wind did great damage and reduced the yield by several thousand bales. As it is, our wagon crop will hardly amount to more than fourteen or fifteen thousand bales"
The age-herald., 1901-12-25
About Persons.


 R. L. Grooms of Selma is at the Hill- man.
 II. D. Eastman and J. I. A. Huff of Chicago are at the Florence. E. T. Holmes of Macon. Ga, is regis tered at the IIillnan. F. B. Calaille of Spokane Falls. Wash, is stopping at the Florence. R. E. Walker of New York is at the Hillman. ,l J. B. Cox of Lexington. Ky, is at the Florence. 1eEsF Harry Falk of New York is stopping at the Hillman. f4-lz .5s .#7ss Charles M. Martin of Patton, Ala, is at the Hillman.
 L. A. Yealy of Cnllman is at the Flor ence.
 s. Softer of New York is at the Morris. W. B. Custer of Monroe, Mich, is stop ping at the Morris.
 s. J. Morgan of Blooton Is at the Morris.