Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-28

VINO was surely an IDEAL RenlleUd1 III
that " ord means exactly what it says
gentle man.
An accurate and lust de finition of a gen
tleman certainly cannot be given by
swapping a line between men who have
and men who have not had college
education. Scholars are not all gentle
men nor unscholarly men all Doors. The
great DR.. johnson was at once a marvel
of learning and of bad manners. Carlyle
was college man and rare scholar too
but the most illterate peasant could
hardly have been more churlish in mis-
treatment of other people.
Webster's definition of the word "gen-
| tleman" is brief and to the point: zone
OF gentle or refined manners a well-bred
man." And after telling of the class
distinctions denoted by the word in Eng
land Webster adds: "ln the United
States the term is applied to men of edu-
cation and good breeding of every occu-
patton" He does not say linen of col
lege education" but simply and broadly,
"men of education and good breeding"
By which obviously he meant that the
man whose mind, morals and manners
combine to give him gentle and lovable
character-just, considerable and kindly
in thought, word and deeds a gentle
man, in the United States at least,
whether he is the product of college or
common school, or simply of self-educa-
ton and seld-discipllne. - New York
World.
DIR EXPORT TRADE IN HORSES.
Thirty-five million dollars is a large
amount of money to be invested in horses
by one country during a period of only
six years. but according to recent Eng
glish statistics, that sum represents the
value of the horses exported by the
United States to Great Britain from 1895
to 1901, And this has no reference to
our shipments of mules to the United
Kingdom, which, from September, $780,
to December. 1901. aggregated in value
over SG,00O,OOO. During the single year
ending with June, 1901, England received
from this county the record breaking
total of 20 600 horses. and our entire eX
ports of horses for that year amounted
TO nearly $1,000, 900. These figures are
all the more remarkable considering that
about ten years ago, or in 1891, the ex-
ports of horses from the United States
amounted to less than Sl,000,O00.
These expectations began on large
scale in 1895. when over 10000 horses
were sent to England. From that time
on the shipments increased until, in 1901,
the record was as follows: South Africa,
1906; Great Britain, 22.G9S; Canada,
ho DI
pines. 1873; Japan. 1886: British Column
bia, 795; and the British West Indies,
1919. Since 1895 Great Britain alone has
received from the United States an av-
erage of 10000 horses annually. Our
exports have included trotters, PAGERS,
roadsters, runners, draught horses, and,
in fact, horses of all sorts which were
capable .either of rendering immediate
service or of being used advantageously
for breeding purposes.
Our expectation of trotting horses
during the last ten years has been es-
pecially notable. There is scarcely a
country in Europe which has failed to
appreciate the superior qualities of the
American bred trOtter. Germany. France.
Russia and Austria all have been large
buyers of American thoroughbreds, and,
In many instances, American trainers
have been selected to superintend the
stables of these foreign purchasers.
Conspicuous among the buyers of our
stations and mares has been Russia,
which has secured such valuable animals
as Baron Rogers, , :09l Edger, 2:1G4;
Nominee, 2:l74; and Bayreuth. :2O4.
Russia has found our stations to be of
immense value for breeding purposes in
conjunction! with the native mares of
that country. Comparatively few Amer
lean trotters are being exported to
France, owing 70 the custom duties re.
stricting the importation of horses to
that country. and also TO the French reg
ulations prohibiting their use.
| The demand for American PAGERS Is al
most wholly confined to England, and
this demand never has been very active
On the racetracks of Italy and Denmark,
and even of Australia and New Zealand,
are to be found representatives of the
American thoroughhreds, and in those
countries as well as elsewhere the sterl-
ing qualities of these animals have been
| Observation-Disclosures York Sun.
Marble 0uarries to b. Reopened.
/ The Orville marble quarries, situated
about one half mile north of Clarendon
Springs, have been leased for twenty
years by j. +. Burke and Jewett =. Cain
of Rutland, and W. b. Butler and Il. l..
Willis of Plttsfield. They will begin
/ operations at the qusrries about May |
under the name of the Orville Marble
| QuarryiDg company. The lessees own
and control several acres of marble land
adjoining The Orville property which has
not been operated for several years. The
| OrViile deposit was discovered about 1913
and later when the property came into
the hands of William f. Barnes, the
! nlOneer marble mNn of Ncrmnnt hp CON.