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New-York tribune., 1901-12-15

tices that are suitable for gifts are shown IN a
fascinating variety. ., -.
Not only the choicest china and the richest cut cut
glass are displayed but also statuettes in marble
and bronze paques. pedestals. hall clocks. cande-
Iabra and finally paintings and water coIors oy
well known artists.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-15
"THE DEAR OLD SAINT"

The merits and demerits of Santa Claus were the
cause OF animated discussion at the Civitas
Club Of Brooklyn, last week Many entertaining
papers were read and the consensus of opinion
seemed 10 be that THE dear old saint should al
ways remain joyous reality TO the wee ones.
CiIfford Tuttle chairman of the day.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-15
r,psT BUBJNSTEIN CONCERT.

The first subscription concert Of the season by
the Rubinstein Club will be given at the Waldorf
Astoria on Tuesday evening. December IL
The Rubinsten Club is composed Of women
voices and has just entered its fifteenth season
New-York tribune., 1901-12-15

TEACHING PRESENCE OF MIND
Children who are taught at the public schools
are often better fitted for the emergencies Of life
New-York tribune., 1901-12-15
NO. 2IS FIFTH-AvE.

than those who have received more expensive eou-
cation" said recently. Take the fire
drill for instance: how many times It has pre-
vented panic among the pupils by the instructive
self-control it has taught and although it is not
likely that such specific emergencies would arise IN
private and smaller establishments. still the pres
ence of mind Il creates and the knowledge OF the
value OF calm action would be useful in any crisis
II is good plan fit children for emergencies OF
every kind The knowledge may or may not be re-
CURED but if 1t is needed all it is needed very
badly indeed
"A mother of q large family know living on
Long Island Sound has invented what she calls
practical danger catechism, wherein the proper
action TO be taken in Of every possible emerg
ency is taught by question and answer. and: where
possible, illustrated by practical example Ihe
upsettng of boat and saving people from crown
ing and escaping from the third story wlnqows IN
case of fire are particularly liked by the children.
who one and all have learned to take an unexpected
ducking into the deep sea with perfect equaninity
or 10 slide down ropes from the top OF the house
ike monkeys .,.
They may never need the knowledge, said their
mother but like the doorplate that Mrs Parting
ton bought at the auction. 1t is good thing 10
have in the house.
New-York tribune., 1901-12-15
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faction Fur garments made order. remodeed. redyed
into fashionable styles. at moderate prices
New-York tribune., 1901-12-15
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14

Thomas Fleming Day, editor of the
sporting paper Rudder in London, has
expressed the opinion that Shamrock IL.
is outclassed. He says In a cable from
England Before meeting with the
unfortunate accident Shamrock II. was
admitted to be disappointment by those
concerned in her designing and building,
and she was credited with beng failure
by all competent Judges who had seen
her sail. | have no hesitancy in pro.
nouncing her failure. | do not think
that in the shape | saw her she could
beat Defender, and admitting that with
paper tuning up she could be made lC
minutes better, which | doubt, she
would then only be equal to Columbia
1t is claimed here, and | do not know
upon what grounds, that Shamrock |. Is
sailing better than she did off Sandy
Hook two years ago. | fail TO see that
she is doing any better, but of course ii
is impossible to make any comparison
as there is no known standard to com.
pare the boat with. But if she is, it dis.
proves the favorite contention of yacht
ing men on this side that they are pre-
vented from winning the cup by the fact
that the British yacht has to cross the
sea and is unshaped and strained by the
passage. If Shamrock |. sails better
after making two passages across the
! western ocean than she did after making
one, the statement so frequently made II
proven to be absurd. No alterations
have been made in Shamr ock l., and he
sails are not nearly AS good as the one
she carried when after the cup two year
ago. | always held that she was a re
markably fast reaching boat, but poo
craft to windward, and still hold tn,
opinion, and as she can hold the new
boat to windward and beat her reaching
1t proves that whether she is sailing bet
ter or worse than she did in 1899, tn,
new boat in no match for the Columbia.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14
A Cat, Extraordinary Lean.

In the latter part of 1850, at time
when tie Washington monument had
reached a height of 160 feet, an adven-
turous and patriotic cat assembled the
interior of the shaft by means Of the
ropes and tubing. When the workmen
arrived at the upper landing the next
morning and began to prepare for the
days work, pussy took fright and,
springing TO the outer edge, took
header" of 100 feet to the hard earth
below. In the descent, which was
watched closely by twoscore of men,
the cat spread herself out like flying
squirrel and alighted on all fours. Aft
err turning over on the soil a few times
il a dazed manner she prepared to
leave the grounds.
She had got almost beyond the shad-
ow of the monument when n dog be-
longing to one of the workmen pounced
upon her and killed her, she, of course,
not being in her best running trim after
performing such an extraordinary feat.
One of the men procured the body of
the dead feline, smoothed out her silky
coat and turned the remains over to a
representative of the Smithsonian in
stitution, who mounted the skin and
placed it under n glass case. The label
on the case tells this wonderful story
in few words: This cat on Sept. %,
1850, jumped from the top Of Washing
toms monument and lived"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14
Abolition of the Ducking Stool

The most noteworthy of all the in
struments designed for the correction
of Ewes offending daughters was the
ducking STOOL known as the tumbrel
and the trebuchet. A post, across
which was transverse beam turning
on a swivel and with a chair at one
end, was set up on the edge of pond.
Into the chair the woman was chained,
turned toward the water-a muddy or
filthy pond was usually chosen for this
purpose when available-and ducked
half a dozen times, or, if the water in
famed her instead of acting as damp
err. she was let down times innumera-
BILE until she was exhausted and well
nigh drowned.
From the frequency with which we
find it mentioned in old local and coun-
ty histories, in church wardens' and
chamberlains' accounts and by the pc.
cts Gay, for one, has description of
the process in his third pastoral, The
| Shepherds Week. we shall probably
not be wrong in concluding that at on,
time this institution was kept up all
over the country. In Liverpool. ac-
cording to The Gentleman's Magazine
for 1903, 1t was not formally abolished
until 1776.-London Graphic.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14
Away With the Smoke!

There was a time when smoke was
n necessary accompaniment to an in
dustrial city.
Invention has met this affliction, and
it can now be converted into fresh
power. 1t may take little money for
the big smokestacks to be corralled,
but wash bills could be saved by it..
The clouds of smoke settling over the
city every night bring the question Of
Eoiled curtains home to every house
keeper.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14
HE WAS SMALL,
The story of n Little Boy who Wns
willing and Faithful.

willing and Faithful.
The Sunday school evangelist tells
the following interesting story:
a. few years ago a large drug firm in
New York city advertised forSa boy.
Next day the store was thronged with
applicants, among them q queer look
ing little fellow, accompanied by a wo-
man, who proved to be his aunt, in
lieu of faithless parents, by whom he
had been abandoned. Looking at this
waif the advertiser said
Cant take him; places all full. Be-
sides, he Is too SMALL
81 know he is small" said the wo
man, but he is willing and faithful"
There was a twinkling in the boys
eyes which made the merchant think
again. A partner in the firm vOlun-
teered the remark that he did not see
what they wanted with such boy; he
wasn't bigger than a pint of cider
But after consultation the boy was
set to work.
\ few days later call was made on
the boys in the store for some one to
stay all night. The prompt response
with the reluctance of others. In the
middle of the night the merchant
looked in to see if all was right in the
store and presently discovered the
youthful protege busy scissoring
labels.
what are you doingY he said. 81
did not tell you to work nights"
II know you did not tell me to, but
thought might as well be doing some
thing"
In the morning the cashier got orders
to double that boys wages, for he is
willing"
Only a few weeks elapsed before a
show of wild beasts passed through
the street and, very naturally, al
hands in the store rushed to witness
the spectacle. \ thief saw his oppor
tunity and entered at the rear door tC
seize something, but in twinklinl
found himself firmly clutched by the
diminutive clerk aforesaid and after 6
struggle was captured. Not only was
n robbery prevented, but valuable arti
Giles taken from other stores were re
covered. When asked why he state
behind to watch when all others qui
their work, he replied:
"You told me never to leave tn
store when others were absent, and
thought I'd stay"
orders were Immediately given ono
more, Double that boys wages, for b.
: is willing and faithful"
/ Today that boy is a member of tn
firm.-American Boy.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14
Our Busy Weather Men.

The May weather of the year has
passed into record, like the civil war, as
1.-THE late npleasantness." June is treat
ing US more nearly as we deserve. We
are prepared, therefore, to listen with
courtesy and patience to what the chief
weather man has to say to us. He says
1t all In little pamphlet fresh from the
official press at Washington.
He tells us that weather prophesy Is
not the guess of one man, but deduction
from the guesses of nearly 200 men.
The reason, then, why pouring rain
follows the flair tomorrow" forecast
many time may be that too many
prophets have spoiled the prediction
This, however, is matter perhaps mol
fair to dwell on.
The daily weather reports from lS(
scattered observers go TO Washington
are studied by experts, the results as
sorted out are sent to 1000 principal dis
tributing points, and by further distri
button the forecasts reach $4,000 places
Then the rest of us get them. Thi:
guesswork is scientific and makes large
contract. 1t would catch the righ
weather If anything could. But it Is MOI
all of the Weather Bureaus job.
There are storm signals and frost sig
nails and high-water signals and hurri
cane signals to 20 out in all directions
for farmers, sailors and men of all out
door interests. In January, 1896, cold
wave bulletins from the bureau saved
$780, 900 worth of property. In Febru
ary, 1901, frost warnings in Florida saved
100000. Flood warnings In 1897 sayet
Sl5,000,000 in the lower Mississippi Val
ley. Raisins In California and merchan
disc wherever a great river runs hav'
been saved by rain and food forecast
and innumerable mariners have beef
warned In time not to 90 to sea.
Altogether, the weather men hav,
every excuse of usefulness for thei
being, and need not apologize for al
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14
Estate of Charlotte f. Smith.
Notice of SettIpment

CTATE OF VERMONT, ! The Probate
= DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SIS. Court for the
District of Addison.
To all persons interested in the estate of
Charlotte Il. Smith, late of Middlebury. in
said district, deceased. GREETING:
By the authority of the State of Vermont,
you are hereby notified to appear before the
said probate court, al the probate office in
MlddleDury, in said district, on the Sth day
OF July, \. ID. 1901, at lQ O'Clock a. m, to
show cause, If any you haHe, WY the account
OF Frank l.. Correll administrator of the
estate OF said deceased, should not be al
lowed, and also why the residue OF said es-
tate should not be distributed TO the parties
entitled thereto.
Dated at Middlebury in said district, this
18th day of June, A. d. 1901.
"a ADELAIDE E. STOWE, Register.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14
Instrument of Adoption.

Q TATE OF VERMONT, ip,o.o.o Goo.
0DIsTRIcr OF ADDISON, SIS. PROBATE Court
Be 1t remembered, that at Middlebury this
10th day of May, a. ID. 1901, Mildred Rich
mond of Burlington, in the county of Chit
tenden and state of Vermont, a MINOR, l.
hereby adopted and made heir.at.law of Her.
bert NJ. Freegard ana Josephine Freegard
husband and wife, of Weybridge, in the
county of Addison and state of Vermont, and
said adopted person shall hereafter bear the
name of Mabel l.. Freegard.
HERBERT FREEGARD, l.. 5.
JOSEPHINE tREEGARD, l.. 5.
MARY +. q. MINER, l.. ;.
Pres. Home for Destitute hildren
Burlington, Vt.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14
Buffalo EXPOSITION,

\ meeting of the friends of the Morgan
horse is TO be held at Bread Loaf Thurs.
day, June p, to complete plans for the
exhibition of this very popular breed of
horses at the Pan-American Exposition
at Buffalo, which has offered handsome
line of premiums for this family. Gov.
Stickney, eX-Gov. Page, president of the
Vermont Horse Breeders association.
eX-GOv. Stewart. Gen. Mccullough of
Bennington, Senator Proctor of Proctor,
Hon. p. w. Clement of Rutland, Gen.
W. y. w. Ripley of Mendon, eX.Gov.
Ormsbee of Brandon, DR.. W. ). Webb
of Shelburne, eX.Gov. Woodbury. of
Burlington, eX-Gov. Smith of st. Adams,
Hon. y. w. Fisk of Isle LaMotte, Sena.
tor W. p. Dillingham; of Waterbury, f.
II. Hoffman, Esq of Lyndon. Gen. W.
w. Grout of Barton, Hon. w. II. Dubois
of Randolph, Hon. II. T. Cults, vice.
president Of Morgan Horse Breeders
association, Z. {. Ryder, Esq, secretary,
and other distinguished citizens of the
state are expected TO be present.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14
Estate of Louis German.
VOtice of settlement.

CTA1E Of VERMONT, ! The probate
oDIsrRIcr OF ADDISON, IS. ! court for the
district of Addison:
To all persons interested in the estate of
Louis German. late of Salisbury, in sail dis.
trict, 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 LIST day
OF July, A. d. 1901. at 10 o'clock a. m, to
show cause, If any you have, why the account
of Frank c. Dyer, executor 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
l2th day of June, A. ID. 1901.
"a ADELAIDE T.. STOWE, Register.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14

An American has made a great deal
Of money by training two beautiful
white horses to dive into the water
from a great height. He travels and
exhibits his horses. and people gladly
pay to see them. This is all very Won
derful, but on Puget sound there is a
plain, homely, bony, brown horse who
never was trained to do anything in his
life, but who does just as wonderful
things and thinks nothing of it.
Bonys owner is a rancher, who lives
boats stop once a week for vegetables
to be taken to the city. The rancher
can make more money by taking his
own produce to the city and peddling it
on the streets than by shipping it to
the wholesale men, so he keeps his
wagon in the city, and when the boats
stop at his island he loads on Bony and
his vegetables. When the boat reaches
the city dock, Bony shows of what he
is made. While the gangplank is all
right for the passengers and the vege-
tables, Bony cannot go ashore that
way. He is led to the edge of the boat,
his master speaks to him, and into the
deep, cold water of Puget sound he
plunges. He is entirely out of sight for
so long you begin to wonder if he will
ever come up. But presently his head
appears above the water, and he swims
in a straight line for the shore. There
he stands till his master comes up TO
him, bitches him to the cart, packs in
his load and drives off to make his de-
livariac
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14

Just a few years more and the scien-
fists will have deprived humanity of the
last of its natural foods. Now the po-
tato must go, for Washington savant
has discovered "solanin," a deadly poi
son, in the tuber. Only to think of the
millions of people who have died since
Sir Francis Drake discovered and intro
duced the potato. And we all thought
they died natural deaths
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14
GRADED SCHOOL NOTES.

Elos Ray spent Sunday at his home
In Orwell.
School closed today for the summer
vacation of eleven weeks.
Grace Hammond and Gordon Nc
Quivey spent Saturday In Ripton.
William Eells has been unable to at
tend school this week on account of
i'll health.
William Eells, Edward Peet and Lucy
James spent Sunday at their homes in
Cornwall.
Only few of the pupils have attended
school all this week on account of
examinations.
The senior class was entertained by
the Junior class at Harold Biras last
Tuesday evening.
Miss Mcmahon has been awarded the
valedictory of the class of 1901 and Miss
Bump salutatory.
The graduation class will not follow
their exercises by dance this year, as
they have in the past.
Miss Smith, preceptress of the high
school. has resigned her position and
will not return next year.
A game of base ball was played on the
college campus Tuesday afternoon, be-
tween the high school and grammar
school ball teams, the former winning
by a score of 10 to /.
OF the prizes offered to the Virgil
class, Miss Mcmahon won the first for a
good English translation and Miss
Moore the second; and Miss Bump the
one for Latin prose. la the Cicero class,
Harold Bird won the prize for Latin
prose.
A game of baseball will be played on
the college campus Saturday afternoon
at p. m. between the Middlebury high
school and Proctor high school ball teams.
a good game is expected. Middlebury
high school won before by a score
of 20 to 6.
\ very interesting game of baseball
was played on the college campus last
Saturday between the Middlebury high
school ball team and Edmunds high
school of Burlington, the latter winning
by score of 80 to ). The Burlington
boys runs we're made mostly through
: errors and bases on balls. The feature
of the game was the catch of long fly
made by Packard, right fielder for tbs
Burllngtons. Following was the score
by innings:
a ) o
) E. II. S..............O u , IL O-S
Batteries-Smith, Cushman and Fisher TO
NJ. Ii, 5. and Peck, Fisher and O'Brien TO
III 5. return game will be played il
Burlington June 10.
The following rhetorical programme
, was rendered iI the high school Monday
: afternoon: Defamation, "The Ladde
, of st. Augustine" Agnes Norton, O4
. composition, "Some Natural Curiosltie
5 of Vermont" Frank Reese, 'O3; declam
5 alton. Vision of Sir Launfal," Harry
Youtt, Oh; composition, early Troubles
: of Vermont" George Duff, Oh; decam
alton, Fables of the Fair" Harold
r Deane, Oh; composition, "AgricuIture,
e Gordon McQuivey, '03; defamation
v ''Two Angels" Miss Twitchel, '03
I, composition. MARY, Queen of Scots,
: Miss Ruth Dow, '03; defamation, -
e Skeleton in Armor," Elos Ray. '04
defamation, Leap Year Mishaps," Mis-
Ida Stickney, '03.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14
A British transport with 900 Boer pris-
oners will arrive at Hamilton, Bermuda,
July 3.
LETTER TO HENRY F. JOY.

Dear Sir: 1t takes 5000 gallons of paint
for the two big hotels at Coney Island
Manhattan and Oriental. They are paint
ed once in three years with Devoe lead
and zinc.
Why so often? Three reasons ~ sea
air cuts paint; (2) sand in the wind cuts
paint; (3) hotels, especially pleasure
hotels, want freshness and color as much
as protection. Once in three years is
often enough and not too often 10 paint
a hotel on a windy sand beach.
How long do you think lead and oil
would last there? One year. Is there
anything for you in this?
Yours truly,
2S F. w. DEvoE & Co.
p. S. A. Calhoun & Son sell our paint
In your section.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14

1t is thorough disappointment that
at the last moment the Boston yacht
Independence should be forced out of the
cup races. If the British challenger
should by any chance win the cupand fail
to meet the Independence, there is large
and growing class of spOrtsmen who
will attribute the shifting" of the trophy
to the very small calibre of the New
York Yacht clubs racing committee.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14

Street trees, properly planted and
Jared for, work a remarkable change
In the value Of residential property.
Any one with doubts on this subject
should look Anto the history of Wash
ington, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Buff
falo and other cities where a compre-
hensive system of street planting has
been carried into effect.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14

There has been held biennial session
of the Improved Order of Heptasophs in
Boston this week. The same old sophs
prevail in Middlebury, and they do not
confine their sessions to once every two
wears nor their number to seven.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14

Having so long supplied the United
States with fireworks for the celebration
of the Fourth of July, it is only natural
that China should undertake TO fill the re-
mainder of the days program. WI
Ting Fang will deliver the Grafton of the
day at Independence Hall, Philadelphia.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14

Perhaps the reason why so much pub
licity has been given this week to the
item concerning the Chicago canary bird
that whistles yankee DOODLE" is that
patriotism of the stripe indicated by that
tune is becoming somewhat exceptional
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14
CTATE OF VERMONT,

And personally appeared at Burlington this
10th day of June, \. ID. 1901, Mary f. q. Miner,
President or the Home for Destitute Children
and acknowledged the foregoing instrument
by 1t sealed and subscribed TO be the free act
and deed of said Home for Destitute Children
and her own free act and deed.
q MARCELLUS \. BINGHAM,
Judge of the Chittenden Probate District.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14

There certainly is nothing wrong
about the proposition that Germany and
Holland, the European kin of the Beers,
should offer mediation in the South
African war. No other nations haye as
strong inducements.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14

Last week we did not hear much about
the other races at EPSON Downs. because
of the magnificence of the victories in
the Derby and the Oaks. But it is Just
as we'll to note that of the "a races run,
Americans won l3. An unlucky number
for the British.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14

j. Pierpont Morgans physician has
warned him to be careful of his diet.
No wonder, considering the miscellan-
eous assortment of properties he has
"gobbled.'
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-14
FRIDAY, JUNE IA, 1901.

Judging from the large importation of
fireworks into this country from China,
the Chinese already have begun retalia-
tory proceedings.