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The following marriage license
sinbe last report:
Frank Plaek and Miss Mary
Godsek.
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You never heard or any one using
Foley's Honey aud Tar and not
being satisfied -~ For sale by II, w.
FeArfA.
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Foley's Honey aud Tar contains
10 opiates and can safely be given
10 children. $50 For sale by r. W.
Fearis,
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Chicago, his, account Summer
Institute Meeting. Tickets on sale
June Is, II, u, "A. Round trip rate
$20.35 return limit Sept. II.
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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
EGGPLANT.
Popular varieties-How to start ana
Push Along Plants.

What better eggplant can there be
desired than our Improved New York
Purple? Surely the fruit is large
enough. The specimen from which
selected seed last fall was simply i'm
mense, weighing over ten pounds.
And when we give to the plant the
right kind of soil-warm and very rich
and good cultivation it develops into
a nice little bush that will give doz-
en- or two of fine eggs during the sea-
son. For the extreme north probably
the earlier smaller fruted sorts, such
as Early Long Purple, may be more
desirable. 1t is chiefly matter of
getting the plants started reasonably
early and of pushing them right along
by good care and feeding TO their
fruiting stage. l prefer strictly fresh
seed or that that is at least not over
a year old. 1t soon loses its germinat-
ing power, and in order to make 1t
terminate promptly it needs a warm
place.
The soil in the fiat, box or pot should
be quite fibrous and very rich. In a
warm hotbed seed will terminate in
ten days time and the plants make
good progress, so as to be ready for
the first transplanting in three or four
weeks. My plan is to sow broadcast
in flats and set the flats for week or
more upon a bed of heating horse ma
nure (mostly clear droppings) or upon
the hot water pipes under the benches.
The bed of horse manure, prepared as
for a mushroom bed, but with the ma
nure not packed quite so solidly, is the
better device, as it keeps the soil in
the fiat moist much longer than in flats
placed upon the heating pipes.
When the young plants begin to ap,
pear above ground, the flats are placed
upon the bench in the light and the
plants kept in good growth right along
When two true leaves have appeared
l transplant promptly, setting each
plant separately into small flowerpot
or one of the wooden plant boxes foul
to four and one-half cube) offered al
about 1925 for 1000 in the fiat by fruit
basket firms. l prefer the plant boxes
for small or modest operations, al
though for growing elephants on O
large commercial scale small flower
pots take less room, cost little more
than the plant boxes and will last fol
years, while the wooden plant boXe!
are one season affairs only, concludes
r. II. Greiner in Farm and Fireside.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
ROADS OF AMERICA.
Progress In the Building of High
ways In the Country.

The influence of the mechanical steed
on our civilization is best exemplified
in the growth and improvement of the
country highways, which, in country
that stretches between two oceans and
includes within its boundary nearly all
the climates and physical characters
tics of mighty continent, have been
slowly evolved from the almost indis-
tinguishable trail of the pioneer set
tiers into roads of high engineering
skill and achievement, says Gunton's
Magazine. The American country
roads have Jagged in the develop
ment of the nations material growth
and expansion until within the past
few years. With the exception of
the few old postroads, established in
colonial days, when the stagecoach
was the only vehicle for comfortable
travel, there were not more than two
or three country highways of passable
physical condition, summer and winter,
score of years ago in the United
| States.
Military roads were the earliest in ex-
istence in all countries, and the protec-
tive necessity of having different parts
of the empire Joined together by high
ways over which an army could be
quickly moved inspired most of the
great engineering feats in roadbuild-
/ ing of the past. This factor had little
or no influence in American Industrial
life. Our boundaries did not abut
those of powerful nations with whom
| tphf
sequently no thought Of establishing
lines of Notifications, connected by
military highways, ever entered the
! heads of our most warlike legislators or
presidents. Military roads were not
, features Of our national development,
and, though potent factors in the
growth Of many European states, they
I were almost nil in American history.
The modern roadbuilding movement
bile, but it must be said that it was
rather the conditions Of the times,
which were ripe for the change, that
made the popularity of these mechanic
al steeds. Railroad construction had
almost reached its limit, important
trunk lines were already paralleling
each other so that they cut disastrously
into each others profits, and the most
important parts of the country were
Joined together by the ribbons of steel.
Railroad stocks were declining in val
ne, profits were becoming reduced, and
capital was chary of investing in new
enterprises Of this character.
What the country needed was more
feeders-country roads leading from
farms, mines and producing lands. For
months in the year the great agricul-
tural sections were shut off from the
railroads by almost impossible country
roads. Mills and manufacturing plants
located on streams or water that fur
nish excellent motive power could not
market their products in winter. The
logging camps and the mining compa-
MES were likewise helpless in winter.
Thus for good portion of the year the
country commerce was paralyzed and
the producing centers were cut off from
the world.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11

Some results obtained in cross breed
sng corn. dwarf lima beans, tomatoes,
eggplant, cucumbers and satisfy are
noted by Professor Halsted of New
Jersey. With the lima beans the cross
was made between Henderson and
Burpee varieties, the idea being to COM
bine the prolificacy of the former with
the large size and good quality of the
Batter. The Burpee was used as the
mother plant in each instance. The
crossed plants were remarkably vigor-
GUS and productive. Some closely APP
preached the Henderson and others the
Burpee. 1t is believed that by further
crossing or inbreeding profitable new
sorts may be secured A hybrid was
also obtained by crossing the ordinary
cultivated satisfy, having violet purple
flowers, with the wild species, having
yellow flowers, which promises to be
more resistant TO blight and mold than
the ordinary satisfy.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11

BAKE AND sPUD FOR BLACKBERRY VINES
rake. The singletree faces the front Of
the rake next the horse, which is har-
messed to the machine far enough from
the rake to admit of dumping its accu-
mutations occasionally. This impro-
vised rake enabled me to do the work
of twenty men with forks and rakes.
1t takes stout pair of arms to hold
and dump the rake, but it does the
work quickly and well. l have no
doubt that it will answer in raking out
grape and tree trimmings quite as well,
says a Rural New Yorker correspond
ent
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
SENATOR EARLE'S SCHEME
How He Would Secure Good Roads
In This Country.

The unique figure in the good roads
world" is State Senator Earle of De-
troit. He was at one time connected
with the department of good roads in
quiries at Washington as an expert,
which office he was obliged to relin-
Quish upon his election to the senate.
He has a scheme which if put into
practice would soon bring the millen-
NAL dawn of good roads, says the Phil
adelphia North American. In explain
ing his scheme he said:
First, l would have the government
make good road maps Of each county
in the United States, showing all the
public highways. l would have bad
roads printed in red, fairly good ones
in blue and the improved roads in black.
These would be published in pocket
form and sold for cents each at all
postoffices. This would in effect COM
pei every farmer to see to it that his
road was improved, for he would soon
see the advantage Of having his farm
located on one of the improved roads.
Second, l would levy tax of so
cents year on every vehicle in the
land. This alone would yield an an.
nual revenue of several millions. II
would furnish all the funds necessary
for the purpose. The tax would be q
trif1e and would be cheerfully paid by
most people so long as it was to be de-
voted to the betterment of highways
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11

Quite a plumber of communities In
Colorado are putting in private tele-
phone lines this spring by utilizing the
common wire fences, and the scheme is
proving eminently successful, says
Denver Field and Farm. The cost Of
construction is very small, as fence
wire is used just as the farmer stapled
1T to the posts. Where break occurs
it is necessary to put in stay brace by
wrapping with small wire. At cross
road or gate post should be placed on
each side of the road high enough to
allow any kind of vehicle to pass un-
der, and in this way the wire can be
carried across. 1t should be tightly
wrapped to the fence wire at each post,
and where connected all rust should be
fited off.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
SOME WRITER'S.

Locke is said to have spent over six
years in the preparation of his essay,
"On the Human Understanding"
Lamartine, the great French poet,
was happily married and received
great aid from his wife in all his I'M
dertakings
The great Dante was married to a
exile he had no desire to see her, al
though she was the mother Of his six
children.
Wolfe is said to have written "The
Burial Of Sir John Moore" in one even
ing directly after news had been
brought of the defeat at Coruna and
the death of the gallant British officer.
A friend of the late Walter Besant
relates that the novelist always kept
on his desk before him a list of the
characters of the novel he happened to
be at work on, their relationship and
appearance.
Hans Christian Andersen formed his
style by narrating his stories to vari-
GUS groups of children before he wrote
them down. His one thought was to
become famous, and he was very care
full not to make any enemies.
Dickens says in the introduction to
"David Copperfeld' that he spent two
years in the composition of that novel
He did not usually require so long q
time, many Of his novels being finish
ed in less than year and most Of his
shorter stories in few days.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
DISTILLED WATER.
II Is the Purest. Best and Only Alb
solutely safe Water.


Boil a gallon of water until there is
but quart left, and the quart will
contain all the impurities of the gal
lon and be nearly four times as i'm
pure as before. Continue the boiling,
and all the mpurities-animal, vege-
table and mineral, except the gases
thrown off-will be reduced to one sol
Id mass. The water which is evapO-
rated and passed off as steam is very
nearly pure. But, you will say, it kills
the dangerous germs. We will sup
pose it does, but their remains furnish
material for bacterial life to feed up
on. Do you relish the idea of eating
in food or drinking their dead and de-
composing bodies, which poison the
water by their decomposition? The
fact is scientific investigation has prov
ed that boiling only kills the feeblest,
the least injurious, germs.
Try simple experiment. Put un-
boiled city water in one bottle and the
same that has been boiled for half an
hour or more in another, cork tightly
and keep in the sun or in a warm place
for o week or longer and note the diff
ference. The unboiled water will show
marked depreciation in looks, taste
and smell, but that which has been
boiled will be so much worse in these
respects that no one would think of
using it. In comparison with these
you can submit properly sealed bot
tie of pure distilled water to the same
conditions. and at the end of a year 1t
will be found to be as pure, sweet and
perfect as when first bottled.
The purest and best and the only abb
solutely safe water to use for drink
ing and the preparation of all foods
and artificial drinks is that produced
[ by distillatiOn, but the most imperfect
one produces water far superior in
purity and heathfulness to the very
best spring waters under their most
! favorable conditions. The nearest ap-
proach to it in purity is rainwater,
which is distilled water of nature
own production, when collected on
clean surfaces, in uninhabited sections
where the air Is pure and uncontami-
mated by smoke, dust, city and factory
gases, etc.-Sanitarian.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
POWER ON THE FARM.
Experience With the Gasoline En-
gine-Some of It's Good Points.


Eine-Some of It's Good Points.
All things considered, the gasoline
engine is the cheapest and most salts
factory power we have ever had any
thing to do with, says an American
CultivatOr correspondent. Six years
ago we purchased a six horse gasoline
engine to run our fodder husker and
shredder. bone grinder. feed mill and
cutting box. 1t has given perfect sat
isfaction in every way. In the first
place, it is not so dangerous as the
steam engine. There is no liability of
explosion or fire. With the steam en-
CINE it was always considerable trOu-
BILE to move it out of the barn and in
place to be operated, and then we were
always in fear when there was any
wind that spark might set the barn
on fire. Then water had to be hauled
and the boiler filled, and in winter time
it all had to be emptied out to keep
boiler and pipes from bursting. Wood
had to be prepared or coal bought, and
while in operation it required one man,
and he somewhat of an expert, to op-
crate the same.
With the gasoline engine no expert or
even hand is required to run it. 1t
may be kept as we do ours, in the barn
all the while, and there Is no danger
whatever of fire. The gasoline is cheap
err fuel than wood or coal necessary to
operate a steam engine. No prepare.
tons are necessary to start up your
machinery. At any time you can have
your engine running at full speed two
or three minutes after you enter the
barn. When you stop, you are at no
trouble or expense.
The greatest advantage in having a
gasoline engine is that it enables the
farmer to do his husking and grinding
without having to hire any other than
the regular farm hands. If we are
husking and shredding fodder, we send
two hands to the field to load couple
Of wagons; these are brought to the
barn, the engine Is started and these
loads are run through. Then we shut
down while the wagons are being load
ed again, and all this stopping and
starting do not incur any additional
expense. The gasoline engine is a serv-
iceable machine as well. In operating
ours now for six years it has never cost
us Il cent for repairs.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
The Value of Good Roads.

Good roads, like good streets. make
habitation along them most desirable.
They economic time and force in
transportation of products, reduce wear
and tear on horses, harness and vehi-
cles and enhance the market value of
real estate. They raise the value of
farm lands and farm products and tend
to beautify the country through which
they pass. They facilitate rural mail
delivery and are potent aid to educa-
ton, religion and sociability. Charles
Sumner once said, "The road and the
schoolmaster are the two most impor.
tant agents in advancing civilization"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
TOBACCO PLANT BED.
How Northern Grower Would
Make It-Insect Pests.

Make It-Insect Pests.
The plant bed used by northern to-
bacco growers is not really o hotbed,
but a cold frame, and is constructed as
follows, says a correspondent Of Farm
and Fireside:
Select piece of fertile ground as free
from weed seed as possible, about five
feet wide and the desired length.
Around this construct a frame of one
finch boards, ten or twelve inches wide,
sinking them couple of inches in the
ground, leaving eight or ten inches
above the surface. Then, commencing
about two and half feet from either
end, drive a row of stakes four or five
feet apart through the center of the
bed, letting them stand about six or
eight inches higher than the boards
around the edge Nail strip one by
two inches along on top of the stakes
and cover the frame with good heavy
muslin. Sew loops along the edge of
muslin about one foot apart. These
loops can be hooked over nails driven
fin the sides of the boards. This con-
struction will give all the protection
necessary for the plants.
The soil should be made perfectly
fine and smooth on top. Sow the seed
broadcast. Sow slightly thicker if you
set with Il transplanter than if set by
hand. so that the plants will grow
higher and have a longer stem. The
bed must be kept free from weeds.
BY making the bed narrow it allows
one 10 reach the center from the edge
of the bed. Care must be taken to
keep the plants sufficiently moist. but
too much water will rot them. If you
wish to hurry the growth, water the
plants with manure water, chicken ma
nure being as good as any.
If feas get in the bed, they can be
disposed of by scattering cOrnmeal
mixed with paris green over the bed
When the plants get large enough to
transplant. they should be hardened
by removing the cover on nice days
leaving it off more and more until the
plants are ready to use. About forty
feet length of bed is not too much ar
acre. If enough plants are not fur
nished at the first pulling, the bee
should be at once thoroughly soaked
with water and covered with canvas
to bring on the small plants remaining
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
A VALUABLE MEDICINE
For Coughs and Colds In Children.

81 have not the slightest hesitancy In
recommending Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy to all who are suffering from
coughs or colds" says Chas. NJ. Cramer,
ESQ a well known watch maker of Co
lombo, Ceylon. 1T has been some two
years since the city dispensary first
called my attention to this valuable
medicine aud | have repeatedly used it
and it has always been beneficial. 1t has
cured me quickly of all chest colds. 1t
is especially effective for children and
seldom takes more than one bottle to
cure them of hoarseness. | have per-
suaded many to try this valuable medi-
cine, and they are all as well pleased as
myself over the results" For sale by
DR.. ID. A. Bisbee.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
Fifty Fowls Enough For the Farm

On nearly all farms, except where
special attention is given to poultry
culture, l would say keep fifty fowls
of one variety and no more. See that
these are good ones and try each year
to improve on them by bringing in
some fresh blood from good strain
and by keeping over only the best of
what you have raised yourself. After
following this plan for a few days l
am sure you will not return to the old
way of Overstocking the place with
scrub fowls. See to it that the poultry
house is kept clean, the hens fed regu.
larly and as far as possible all the
waste of the family table, the dairy
and the field is turned into eggs and
meat.-Cor. Poultry Monthly.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
He KEPT HIS LEG,

Twelve years ago j. w. Sullivan OF
Hartford, Conn.,, scratched his leg with
a rusty wire. Inflammation and blood
poisoning set in. For two years he
suffered intensely. Then the best doctors
urged amputation, "but," he writes, 81
used one bottle of Electric Bitters and
l-2 boxes of BucKlen's Arnica Salve
and nv leg was sound and well as ever
For Eruptions, Eczema, letter, Salt
Rheum, Sores and all blood disorders
Electric Bitters has no rival on earth
Try them. DR.. w. II. Sheldon will
guarantee satisfaction or refund money
Only 80 cents.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
Sprouted Tohacco Seed.

The utmost care is required directly
after the sowing of the sprouted tobac-
co seed. The sprouted seed is one of
the most tender germs in existence.
Not for some days should the freshly
sprouted seed be allowed to have full
sunlight under the glass. Growers
should remember that frost does not
kill tobacco seed, while a few rays of
hot sunshine will surely do so.-New
England Homestead.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
Glass Street III Paris.

There has just been opened to the
public of Paris a new street paved
with blocks made by a new glass proc
many, it affordssan excellent foothold
and promises to be without dust and
not absorb waste. By the process the
inventor is enabled to use all kinds of
glass debris.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
THE GRIP MAY COME

or it may not. When it does 1t COM
monty attacks those who are already
low with indigestion, liver trouble and
impure blood. Fortify against 1t by
getting rid of these disorders through
the cure of the ne,o medicine, Calcura
Solvent. 1t puts the stomach right and
gives strength to resist these rowing
epidemics. Discovered by DR.. David
Kennedy, of Kennedy Row Kingston,
N v
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11

In the cities and towns throughout
Canada asphalt and vitrifed brick
have been adopted as the standard
pavements, macadam on the leading
county highways and gravel for the
minor roads.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11
FARM AND GARDEN.
HANDY IMPLEMENTS.

Continuance For Dragging Out Dead
wood and spud For Berry Canes.
For dragging out the dead wood and
canes l use contrivance made from
an old horse rake. (See the figure)
The bar to which the teeth are fastened
was sawed obliquely across leaving as
many teeth as would fit in between the
rows in raking. A pair of old buggy
shafts with the singletree left on and
nailed or bolted to the bar answered
for handles with which to guide the
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11

RU-TER-BA acts at once upon stub.
born cases of dyspepsia, indigestion,
biliousness and liver complaints.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11

There is no question that the surest
and sanest influence that can come into
the life of man or woman is that which
is brought therein by child.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11

This will remind you that the pain
of strains, bruises and sprains, common
incidents of active outdoor life, is drawn
from aching bodies by Perry Davis
Painkiller, as a magnet draws bits Of
iron from sand.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11

1t is actually getting to be fact that
the American mechanic is the only man
in America who has time to enjoy the
company of his wife and child.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11

In the $50 high schools of Missouri
1900 pupils are enrolled.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-04-11

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h a ppin e S s.
How incon-
ceivably great
is the parents
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-09-04
DATE SET FOR EPW0RTH
LEAGUE CONVENTION
VIII Be Held September 20 and go at
Wesley Chapel

The twelfth annual convention Of the
District Of Columbia Epworth League
VIII be held September % and 90 at
Wesley Chapel At a meeting of the
beard of control, presided over BY Mr..
E s La Fetra, last evening. at the
Offices of the American University Park
Company, in TenIeytowr. a tentative
program was arranged. Department
conferences and addresses by promi-
nent Epworthians viii be made on the
first evening. and Oh the next the bust
ness Of the convention VIII be transact
ed.
The board CT control will meet again
on September L at Wesley Chapel. At
this meeting an amendment to the con
stitution viii be offered. making the
missionary officer a member OF the cab
met to be elected at the annual con
TentiOn instead OF being appointed bv
the vice president Of the league