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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07
AN ANECDOTE OF WHITMAN,
How the Poet Was Trying to Cheer
Up FriendIess Boy.

One day was stopped on Washing
ton street, says j. T. Trowbridge in
The Atlantic, by a friend who made
this startling announcements: "Walt
Whitman is in town. | have Just seen
himw When asked where, he replied:
AT the stereotype foundry just around
the corner. Come along. I'll take you
to him." The author of Leaves of
Grass" had loomed SO large in my
Imagination as to seem almost super
human, and l was filed with some
such feeling of wonder and astonish-
ment as if had been invited to meet
Socrates or King Solomon.
We found a large, gray haired and
gray bearded, plainly dressed man,
reading proof sheets at desk in a lit
tie dingy office. with a lank, unwhole-
some looking lad at his elbow listlessly
watching him. The man was Whit
man, and the proofs were those of his
new edition. There was scarcity of
chairs, and Whitman, rising to receive
us, offered me his, but we all remained
standing except the sickly looking lad,
who kept his seat until Whitman turn
ed to him and said: you'd better 20
now. I'll see you this evening" After
he had gone out Whitman explained:
HE is friendless boy l found at my
boarding place. am trying to cheer
him up and strengthen him with my
magnetism" practical but curiously
prosaic illustration of these powerful
lines in the early poems:
To any one dying thither / speed and
twist the knob of the door.
/ seize the descending man; 1 raise him
with resstless will
Every room of the house do fill with an
armed force, lovers Of one, bafiiers
of graves
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07

A good many farmers seem exercised
nowadays over soy beans. The YER
mont Experiment station has receided a
number of letters of enquiry lately on
this subject. Whether these queries are
born of seed catalog advertising or news
paper notices does not appear, but GER
tainly the public interest is awakened.
The soy (soja) bean is legumnous
plant or nitrogen gatherer of japanese
origin. 1t has grown here some fifteen
years. Some varieties run to foliage,
some to seed. The bean is used in oriental
lands as human food, but in this country
the entire plant is grown and used as
cattle forage or as cover crop and green
manure. Some of the larger varieties
produce fair amounts of forage which is
relatively rich in protein and well relish
ed. The Vermont station has grown the
crop in small way for several years. Its
officers do not, however, feel like recon-
mending Its general adoption in this
state. Seldom if ever can an amount of
food be found equal to that which may
be produced in the corn crop with an
equal expenditure of time, effort and
money. The forage from the soy bean
is richer, but the quality gain is more
than offset by the quantity loss as COM
pared with corn. 1t is readily planted
and is handled throughout the growing
season much as is corn, but is less easily
harvested. 1t may be fed green as a
soling crop or ensiled alone or with
corn. 1t may be planted in the row with
corn with fair prospect of success. In
deed on good soil this is perhaps as good
a way to grow it as any, while burial in
the slo with the corn is its fit and appro-
pirate end. The United States Depart
ment of Agriculture has issued a farmers
bulletin on soy beans which discusses
the plant, its growth, harvest and feed
ing value. The bulletin may be had for
the asking. But when all Is said it is
felt that Vermont is too far north for
soy beans. If tried at all they should be
grown in small way at first. For Yer
mont, corn is king, and clover queen.
Alfalfa, for the man who will put the
time, energy, patience and money into it
is the ace, but the soy bean ranks hardly
higher than the eight spot.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07

The Sabbath as a religious institu-
ton is far older than the Pentateuchal
legislation. 1t, too, can be traced back
to Babylonian prototype, not, how
ever, as day of rest from labor, but
as kind of atonement day, when by
various rites and by observing GER
tain restricted regulations the anger
of the gods could be appeased On
this old institution the Hebrews in
grated their religious ideas and pro-
duced the unique institution of n day
observed as a respite from the week s
toll and which, from being an "inaus-
picious" occasion, dies ir9, is viewed
as delight. professor Jastrow in
Independent.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07
HORSES OF VENICE,
Actual Count Increases the Number
to Fifteen.

1t is popular joke to say that there
are but six horses in Venice, four over
the portico of st. Marks cathedral and
two bronze animals of heroic size, one
bestrode by Victor Emmanuel and the
other by General Coleone. But this is
mistake. There are four other
horses, also of bronze, in the Church
of st. John and St Paul. and quite a
number of plaster and marble in the
different public buildings making alto
gether at least fifteen or sixteen. Rus
kin and other competent critics have
declared the statue of Colleonc to be
the best equestrian monument ever
cast in bronze. 1t was designed and
cast by Andrea Verrocchio, painter,
sculptor, jeveler, engravcr, poet and
musician, man of infinite genius,
whose greatest fame lies in the fact
that he was the instructor of the great
est artists of all centuries-NIichael
Angelo, Raphael and Leonardo da Vim
CT. The statue of Victor Emmanuel is
not so highly thought of.
The horses on the top of st. Marks
are famous and have had trying ex-
perience. They date back to the pre-
historic age and are supposed to be the
work of a Greek artist named Lyssip-
pus and designed for a sculptured char
lot. They were taken to Rome during
the empire and first used as ornaments
upon a triumphal arch erected by Nero
and afterward by Trajan. The EN-
peror Constantine took them from
Rome to Constantinople, where the
Doge Dandolo seized them as loot and
brought them to Venice. When Napo-
leon entered the city in 1897, he had
them taken down from the roof of the
cathedral and shipped them in wagons
over the Alps to Paris. They served
as ornaments upon the triumphal arch
in the Place du Carrousel till 1915,
when Emperor Francis l. of Austria
redeemed them, and they were replac-
ed, at his expense, where they now
stand. These ponderous animals are
of pure copper, and each weighs about
two tons. They were formerly gilded,
but the gold has been worn off by the
weather, and the verdigris which has
accumulated upon the copper gives
them rich green tint.-William e. Cur
tbs in Chicago Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07
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nedy's Favorite Remedy have b, en- sent
absolutely free postpaid to poor sufferers
from Bright's disease, gravel, stone in
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In the back, female weakness and pain
full menses.
If you have any of these diseases your
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Favorite Remedy will absolutely cure
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cured. He writes us under date of Feb
ruary %, 1900
81 took your Favorite Remedy for kidney
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IN the small of my back and Kidney trouble
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Two doses 1t has cured me of my troubles
ana recommend ii to my friends"
WIN. J. SCHUYLER
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07
Making Errors.

A Massachusetts business firm prints
this paragraph at the top of its letter
heads: "Errors-we make them; so does
every one. We will cheerfully correct
them If you will write to us. Try to
write good naturally if you can, but
write to us anyway. Do not complain
to some one else first or let the matter
pass, We want the first opportunity to
make right any injustice that we may
do" The little sermon deserves a wide
audience. Few people have not had &C.
casion at some time in their lives to re-
greet the sending of harsh or hasty
note of complaint. 1t may be necessary
to assert ones rights in subsequent let
tiers, but there is no better rule of cor
respondence than to make the first one
good natured-Youth's Companion.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07
TRIAL BOTTLE FREE!

By special arrangement with the DR..
David Kennedy Corporation the readers
of the Middlebury REGISTER are enabled
to obtain trial bottle of this wonderful
medicine and a pamphlet of valuable
medical advice absolutely free, postpaid,
by simply sending their full postoffice
address to the DIR. DAVID KENNEDY
CORPORATION. Rondout, N. Y, and
mentioning having seen this generous
offer in the Middlebury REGISTER. The
publishers of this paper guarantee the
genuneness of this liberal offer.
Over 1000 hospitals use Favorite Rem
edy exclusively in cases of kidney, liver
and bladder trouble. Doctors every
where prescribe it.
Favorite Remedy is sold by all drug
gists or direct, S1.00 bottle, bottles
for $500.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07

Did you ever visit sugar orchard in Vermont or New
Hampshire when the sap of the sugar maple had COM
menced and the annual harvest had begun?
1t the oies combination of sport and business magin
be for in many communities young and old hasten to the
sugar camps with the guso that they show when
vted to a midsummer picnic.
The sap of the sugar maple, which is boiled down to
make the luscious srup without which buckwheat cakes
misnomers begins flow toward the last of February
the first of March. The skilfuy tapped,
the sap collected in little troughs fixed trunks
and afterwad transferred to hogsheads barrels and
oted to the camp by of pungs'or sledges.
Here at the camp the busy sugarers. Huge kettles
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07
OUR PRESIDENTS.
Only One Impeachment and but Two
Resolutions of Censure.


Andrew Johnson was the only presi-
dent of the United States ever i'm
peached, and on the trial before the
senate he was acquitted, the vote in
favor Of conviction barely falling short
of the necessary two-thirds.
Two resolutions of censure on the
president have been passed, once by
the senate and once by the house, on
occasions when the hostile majority
was not large enough either to pass
measures over the presidents veto or
to impeach him.
The first was passed by the senate on
March IS, 1884, censurng President
Andrew Jackson for alleged violation
of the constitution and laws by his re-
moval of the government deposits from
the United States bank. The majority
of the senate was opposed to Jackson
in his war upon that bank, and this
vote of censure was the only thing
they could do about it. Jackson pro-
tested against this resolution as a
charge to answer which no opportunity
could be afforded him. The senate re-
fused to receive the protest. Finally,
on Jan. 49, 1887, the resolution of CEN
sure was expunged from the journal
of the senate.
The second resolution of censure was
in report adopted by the house from
the house committee to which Presi-
dent John Tyler's message vetoing the
tariff bill of 1912 mad been referred.
This report censured the president for
alleged improper use of the veto power.
Tyler protested against this, as Jack
son had done before him, but he had,
as member of the senate, voted
against receiving Jackson's protest,
and in answer to his protest the house
sent him a copy of the senate resolu-
ton on the former occasion.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07
HUMAN HEAD HUNTERS.
The Savayes of Polynesia Still Ply
This Horrible Trade.

In the scarce known islands of the
Pacific sea - New Guinea, Borneo,
Ceram, Gilolo and others too numer-
GUS to mention-man still exAs in the
primeval state, and that most horrible
of practices, head hunting. is still in
dulged in in spite of all efforts of vari-
GUS governments and missions as well
as philanthropic societies who have
come in contact with the people.
Just as the scalp lock on the belt of
the young buck Indian was n token of
manhood, so the CORY head impaled on
n tall pole over the hut of the would be
young warrior Papuan or Dayak, pro-
claims to all the prowess of the youth,
henceforth Il man and eligible for the
council and the wooing of the maidcns.
1t is immaterial how tine trophy be OBJ
tanned, whether by ambuscade or in
fair battle. Generally it is the former.
The candidate for martial honors sim
ply waits his chance by night in some
neighboring village as craftily and pa
tiently as n leopard on the prowl. the
kris or Il poisoned arrow does the work
swiftly and silently, and the severed
head has ample time to cool before the
deed is discovered and calls for retri-
button.
Thus an incessant vendetta and car
mage go on, and only by living in in
accessible forests and strongly stock
AIDED places is it possible at all for
the tribes to save themselves from an
initiation. OF the vast island CONT
nent of New Guinea the western or
Dutch part is the worst looked after,
and 1t often happens that numerous
raiding parties in their great war ca
noes come swooping down the coast
before the northwest monsoon and
carry death and desolation into the
comparatively quiet British portion
around the mighty Fly river, opposite
Torres strait By the time the news
Is carried to Thursday island and the
gunboat starts away in pursuit it is
generally too late, and the marauders
have vanished.
The writer was present once at the
capture of war party, and forty
eight heads were taken from the ca
noes. Hanging and deportation to Pc
udl ScTNlluue seem 10 De Dut q slight
deterrent for the terror recurs almost
as regularly as a plague of locusts.
These Papuans are a hardy, warlike
people and expert bowmen, and they
rely on their skill with this potent
weapon solely, using their clubs for
the dispatch of. wounded foes.
The Dayaks of Borneo and their
neighbors, on the other hand are in
favor of the "sumpitan" or blowpipe,
shooting little diminutive but very cum
ningly poisoned arrows The "sumpi-
tam has often Il spear head attached
to the outer end, like a bayonet on q
musket. For close fighting they rely
on the dreaded "parang," a heavy, hol-
low ground broadsword about two feet
long, with the handle often carved of
ivory and ornamented with gold and
pearls, the wooden scabbard covered
with human skin and hair.
They count him a poor warrior who
cannot sever a head clean with one
blow delivered backhanded. Even in
mountainous part of the Malay PENN
sula, north of Malacca, in the Dind-
ings and Hegri Sembilan, there is to
this day remnant tribe of head hunt
erS called the Sa-Ki.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07
Proved His Love.

"Are you sure it is really and truly
loveT' she asked.
Positive" answered the practical
young man who had just proposed. Il
tested it,"
"Tested it?"
Eyes. | doctored myself for indiges-
ton for two weeks before definitely de-
Gliding just what the symptoms meant"
Chicago Post
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07

sizze and steam roaring fires and it is fine art to
strip of the proper consistency and sugar of
right granuation without catchlng" burning the
treacly of weescented aud sweet-tatng srup Any
who has made moasses tany knows the difficulty
sometimes experienced in preventing kettle of
moasses from bunngimagne the trouble experienced in
boiling hundreds of gallons of strip.
From the accompanying photographs which were
taken in sugar camp in New Hampshire, good Idea
be gained of of the methods employed in gathering
and transporting the valuable sap In the larger picture
shown sledge, drawn by two patient oxen, and upon
this primitive form of conveyance rests hugh receptacle
for the sap.-Boston journal New Era Magazine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07

We ofier One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. J.CHENEY x CO., Props. Toledo, O.
We the undersigned, have known +. j.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business trans.
actions, and financially able to carry out any
obligation made by their firm.
WEST Il TRAUX, Wholesale Druggists. Toledo.
o. WALDING, kINNAN Il MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists. Toledo, O.
Hairs Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur.
faces OF the system. Price, 75c. per bottle
Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07

have heard my grandmother say
she had cured many a scald head by
taking pure pine tar and enough lard
to make an ointment when melted to-
gether so the tar won't stick, then keep
the head as clean as possible and oil
with the ointment. She said she had
seen it cure heads when the matter had
eaten seams in the neck.-Detroit Free
Press
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07
Cnmnensnfinn

Mrs. Jones-How do you like your
new cook. Mrs. Brown?
Mrs. Brown-Well, I'll tell you. She
is perfect failure Mt cooking, but,
then, there are always compensations.
She cooks so wretchedly. in fact, that
she can't eat her own cooking. 1t real
ly is quite a saving, you know.-Boston
TRANSCRIPT
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07
WORKING "a Hours A DAY.

There's no rest for those tireless little
workers-Dr. Kings New Life Pills.
Millions are always busy, curing Torpid
Liver, Jaundice. Billiousness, Fever and
Aoue. Thew Danish Sick Headache,
drive out Marlaris. Never grippe or
weaken. Small, taste nice, work wonders.
Try them. 25c at w. ii. Sheldon's.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07
supply Practically InexhaustibIe.

Don't you ever run out of material
for plays" asked the admiring friend.
Great Scott, no" exclaimed the pro-
life writer of burlesque operas. Look
at this pile of blank paper and all these
writing implements, will you?"-Ex-
change.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07
A LOOphOle Omen.

you're a fraud, srr' cried the indig-
nant patient. You guaranteed your
medicine to cure after everything else
failed. and
"Well, my dear SIR" replied the fake
medicine man, probably you haven't
tried everything philadelphia
Press
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07
announcement.

Toni don't think I'll ever get up
enough courage to ask you to marry
me. You know faint heart never won
fair lady,"
Belle (blushing)-B-but I'm bru-
Dstte.-Philadelph Record.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07

It's folly to suffer from that horrible
plague of the night, itching piles,
Doan's Ointment cures, quickly and per-
manently. At any drug store, 80 cents.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07

We have never had as great troubles
In the daytime as We have imagined
when lying awake at nights.-Atchison
Globe.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07

OF all money transactions In England
OF per cent are done by checks and
only 3 per cent by notes and gold.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07

There is a cave on the Jorend ford
Norway, from which at every change
of the weather flashes Of lightning Is.
sue.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund the money II 1t fails to cure.
K. W. Groves signature is on each box. CSC.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07

Character is perfectly well educated
Withdrawals.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-03-07

A switch in time saves the child from
the cat-o'-nine.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23

Office Chief Quartermaster, Denver,
Colo. June l6. 1902 Sealed proposals
in triplicate will be received here AMI
al office of Quaartermaster at each pest
named below until IL a m. July 81,
1872. for furnishing Forage and Straw
at Forts Apache. Grant, Huachuca. A.
T.: Forts Bayard and Wingate, n. NJ.
Forts Douglas and Duchesne. Utah;
Forts D. A. Russell. Mackenzie and
Washable. Wyo.: Forts Logan and
Denver. Colo. and fuel forage and
straw at Whipple Barracks. Arizona,
durin gthe fiscal year ending June So
1903 Proposals for quantities less
than the whole required. or for de}v-
cry Il points other than those named
viii te entertaied. u. S. reserves
right to accept or reject any or all bids
or any part thereof. Information fur
nished on application here or at Office;
Of respective post quartermasters
Envelopes to be marked Proposals fol
Fuel. Forage and Straw"
J.W. POPE, Chief @. NJ.
6 .2t-23-24-25; 7:18-19.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23
p,ur., Name. Of Edible Elsa.

A few days ago was asked oy Ior.
eigner, why do you say two herrings,
and two soles' and not two Gods ana
two salmonsY" do not think my
answer was very satisfactory, out the
question suggested the thought thar
there are several cases in which II
would be difficult to say whether there
IL ANYTHING like a consensus OF opinion
os TO whether a plural form OF tue
name If a usA Is admissible. We all
sp,ak of soleS, behring's, sprats. lam
prpvs and anchoyics, the singular form
never, | believe. doing service for tue
mural No one. think, says mackef'
els. Gods. saImous, ttouts, Dreams
sbads, carps. plaiccs basses, barbels.
sturgeon, perch, mullet, pike, turbot'
unny and skate have not unusually
the plural form in "s.
Fishermen aud hshmonccrs are In
clircd tn avoid the plural form In some
instances where it is employed by tue
mn Iority of educated people. In some
eases there is considerable uncertainty
This have ascertained by means or
fair number of tests. Among them are
earns. shads tcnChes. Compilers o'
English grammars, so far ~ my expe
rjcnce goes. IN treating OF plural forms
~ nouns make no note OF the names oi
fish which do not vary in the plural =
Notes and Queries.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23
rhaeLcray "a. "a Snowman.

In Thackeray's ease the justification
of artificial names, If II be right ia
SPEAK of Justification. lies In this, that
with all the solid reality Of the life por'
traycd We are never allowed to lose
sight of the author and his art in por-
traiturc. He is ever at hand so under
line the snohhery or laugh of the pa
thos. There Is q strong strain of the
sat.rist in him. aud satire ia akin to al
lcsory. Therr is even u strain OF the
caricaiuri~t ready to emerge in tue
midst of his nohlcst art,
he is especially fond of putting on
the airs and graces OF the Snowman.
His preface to Vanity Fair" Is headed
Before the curtain. and this great
novel OF real life concludes with Come.
children, let Us shut mp the bo& and
the puppets. for our play IL played
cut And We accept Thackeray' =
showman's humor Blaekwood's Mag
azlne.
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23
what We owe to cecka.Atinx.

The now disfeputabie amusement OF
cockhghling. which was onre rcspec-
table enough 10 divide With seholaF-
ship and archery the attention OF
Roger Ascham. has provided the Ian
guage with "erestfalien.' ''iu high
feather and Shakespeare over
crow tcf. to crow over, To show the
white feather is from the sa me
source. since white feathers in game
cocks tail are sigu OF impure breed
ing Ofte9 the origin of such words
or phrases has been quite forsotteu
but when traced diseloses their tru,
character at ONCE. Fair play" fs still
rerogni8e,f as ftgure from gambling
but foul play" DOW specialized +
murder is hardly felt as a netaphoi
at all. Open Court
The Tucson citizen., 1902-06-23
Kettle Rrtssmen.

Perhaps tbs most remarkable bridges
In the world are the kettle bridges. of
which Cossack soldiers are expert
builders The materials of whtch they
are constructed are the soldiers Iance-
and cooking kettles. Seven or eight
lances are passed under the hsnjles OF
number of kettles and fastened by
means-of ropes to form raft. A sutfi-
cient number of these RATS. each of
hicl. will bear weight of half a ton
are fastened together and In the space
OF an hour bridge iS formed on which
an army may cross with confidence
and safety