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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-05
Mrs. F. E.
LOCKWOOD
RURAL FREE DELIVERY.
Maintenance of National Service
Would Cost Not Less Than S2i,-
100000 Per Year.

The officials of the post office de.
partment look forward now to the eX-
tension of rural free delivery
throughout the entire United States.
They have made their estimates as
to what it will cost to deliver letters
on every American farm or planta-
ton in the sparsely settled and thick.
ly settled parts of the country. The
cost will not be tritling. TO deliver
every rural American his mail will
take about 24,OOO,0OO a year. Should
the present service be extended at
the rate of 1900 routes year I'M
til the 100000 square miles of terri
tory yet to be covered have been
taken care of, there will be for sew
eral years an annual deficit in postal
revenues of from $S,OOO,OOO to S10,-
100000. This deficit will it is assert
ed, disappear gradually as the rev.
enues increase by reason of the i'm.
proved postal facilities.
Not many years ago rural free de-
livery was a questionable sort of ex-
pertinent. The farmers, for whose
benefit it was intended. did not in all
quarters take kindly to it. They are
not eager seekers after novelties. and
the idea of abandoning the CUSTOM
airy trip to the village post Office for
mail, trip which gave them Il well
come opportunity to gossip with
neighbors and discuss crops and elec-
tions. was not altogether attractive
tn hnp nttt i,t f,,1 Ir-
now the advantages of the new de-
parture. There is an increasing pres
sure for the establishment of rural
routes. and the representative of a
country district who cannot secure
something in this line for his con-
stituents runs the risk of losing his
popularity.
So strong is the pressure for rural
free delivery that the post Office de-
partment officials are not dealing
with a remote question when they
prepare estimates of the gross cost
of a complete rural service. But
while the cost will be large it will
not brighten americans. Indeed, they
are in the habit Of looking unmoved
on much larger appropria atoms for
far less useful purposes.
1t may well be that when the let
ter carrier makes his trips to every
farmers gate the farmers will make
more extensive use of the mails
than they do now, and that the rev.
enues of the department will expand
as they have in the past whenever
better facilities have been provided.
Even if this were not to be the case.
the general welfare" will be pro-
NOTED by an expenditure which
brings the farmers of the United
States into closer touch with the
busy world from which most of them
are so far removed.-Chicago Trib-
une.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-05
County Uews.
ADDISON.


Mrs. Helen Smith is visiting Mrs. George
Roscoe at present.
Miss Mabel Palmer is spending few days
in Bridport this week.
Our representative, S. E. Smith, went to the
Capital on Monday last.
Miss Helena Palmer is the guest OF Miss
Mary Wilmarth this week.
Mrs. Cora Mclean is staying with her
sister, Mrs. Hallack, in Waltham this week.
School began in the Wlmarth district on
Monday last with Miss Frances Spaulding as
teacher.
Henry Fisher is quite sick at the home of
his brother, c. S. Fisher. DR.. Willard, of
Nergennes, attends him.
Mr.. and Mrs s. w. Smith went to Bellows
Falls on Wednesday last to visit their son, DIR.
Melvin Smith and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Owen have returned
from Randolph, where they went to spend the
Thanksgiving vacation with relatives.
Miss Hattie Mclean returned to Wey
bridge on Monday, where she has position
as teacher in one of the schools there.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. A. Smith returned from
Richford on Monday last after spending
week with Mr.. and Mrs. +. f. Guley, who
reside there.
MIR. and Mrs. +. a. Norton, who have been
spending the past week with Mrs. Norton's
parents in East Berkshire returned home on
Tuesday last.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-05
WHITING.

Mrs c. \. Pond of Brandon, spent Sunday
at Clinton Masons.
Sanford Kelsey of Bristol, was at his home
on Thanksgiving day.
Mrs Kate Ketcham is slowly recovering
from an attack of bronchitis.
c. H. Ketcham and wife, of Brandon, were
at their sisters Thanksgiving.
Fred Baker of Wyoming, came here last
Monday with two carloads of Western horses.
Miss Matte Robinson of Ticonderoga, n.
V, spent Thanksgiving at Mrs. Kate Ket-
CHAINS
Robert Ketcham was home from Saxtons
River, during Thanksgiving recess. He re-
turned to school Monday.
The Rev. II. II. Whites family, moved
Monday. They intend to visit their relatives
in Irasburgh before going to East IIardwick,
their future home.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-05
CREAM HILL.

Miss Carrie Conn returned from Townline
Sunday
Mrs. Jane Farnsworth is visiting friends in
this vicinity.
Datus Rice and Raymond Fitch of Bridport
were here Tuesday.
Abbott and Mabel Fuller, who recently
visited their grandmother, Mrs Jane Fuller,
have returned to Rutland.
Sunday morning services will be resumed at
All Saints chapel on Dec 7, at 10 AS, with
George Mead as lay reader.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-05
GRANVILLE.

Oliver Kerr visited friends in town last
week.
Grace Abel was home from Roxbury last
week.
Mrs. Luther Chattleton was in Randolph
Tuesday.
Frank Huntley returned home from North
field Sunday.
Mrs. Martha Maynard has gone to Burling-
ton for the winter.
Mrs. Nancy Blair and James Erwin of
Waitsfield were at James Blair's two days this
week.
Flora A. Sawyer returned home last week
from Rochester where she has been working
for some time.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-05

Z. !. Hewitt and daughter spent Thanks
giving with relatives in Burlington
Miss. Blanch Grecnough was guest Of
friends at Middlebury over Sunday.
Mrs. Loretta phair, is visiting her daughter
Mrs. G.. X. Prince at Hartford Conn.
Mrs. John Williamson of Benson is visiting
her son Charles Williamson and family.
Rev. Fir. ]. j. Boyle of East Dorset was the
guest of Rev. Fir. ID. +. Coffey last week.
Frank Van Ornain wife, of WaIonsburgh
\. Y. are visiting John Tatro and family.
Mrs. A. y. Johns and daughter of Burling-
ton are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. f. +. Ellison.
The Catholic Bazaar closed last Saturday
evening. The fair was success financially.
Mrs. G.. f.. Cady of Pawlet, spent Thanks
giving with her parents d. +. Meader and
wife.
W. +. Daggett of Proctor, was the guest OF
his parents b. Daggett and wife over Thanks
giving.
Rev. w. A. Kenze at the Baptist church
on Sunday evening gave the story "The price
of Africa"
Mrs. Ardie Hill and daughter visited her
parents X. Del ong and wife at Huntington
Center last week.
w. n. McGee's granite shop near the depot
is crowded with work, and the employees have
to labor evenings.
w. II. Ridley and wife, who were guests Of
Mrs. n. f. Rider on Thanksgiving, returned
to Burlington Monday.
III. CDr;ro Mater comDapV have
placed hydrant at the corner of Pine street
and Taylor avenue.
John Mcintyre of Bethel and Edward
George of Randolph, were guests of ]. c.,
Emerson last week.
Mrs. J. Battershal who has been in town
several months returned to her home at Troy
\. y. on Saturday.
Mrs. Rosa James of Lincoln has bought,
the Patno place on West street, and expects to
move here in the near future.
Joseph Sayary, has rented room in the
O'Neil block where he is to open barber
shop as soon as repairs are complete
w. +. Butterdeld has sold his hotel at Lin
coin to ]. a. Colby for $4,000, buying the
Colby farm for $4,000. Mr.. Colby expects
to run the hotel.
County examiner T. Z. Boyce, held an ex-
animation on Friday and Saturday of last
week when twenty persons presented them
selves for examination.
Miss Jennie Lawrence is to lead the Chris
tan Endeavor meeting at the Baptist church
on Sunday evening, and Mrs. Charles Lamay
the Epworth League at the Methodist church.
f. b. Patterson, f. w. Smith and c. Z.
IIanchott, of Burlington, who formerly resided
here, expect to 90 to Mt. Clemens Mich. on
Thursday They go to take the baths for
rheumatism.
The Outlook club will meet with Mrs.
Wilson on the 9TH inst, subject "French
Women in National Life" Eleanor OF
Aquitaine" Mrs, IIassaltine "Joan of Arc
Mrs. Nash, "Glimses of Joan of Arc" Schiller
Miss Graves, "Madam dc Maintenon" Miss
Sumner, "Women of the French Salons
Miss Beach, Quotations from French authors
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-05
BRISTOL.

f. c, Marsh was in town Thanksgiving day
John Orvis went to Burling ton on business
Saturday.
b. Dugget went to Boston Monday on a
business trip.
w. NJ. Needham, has a position with the
Bristol railroad.
Col. \. +. Dunshee has gone to New York
on business trip.
Representative w. w. Rider went to Mont
pelier on Tuesday.
Joseph Patno has moved to b. c. Sargent
home on West street.
Mrs. II. P. Bates of Brooklyn, N.Y. is visit
ing her son Levi Bates.
Rev. w. a. Kenzie is to assist IN revival
work at Addison next week.
Mrs. John Geary has moved to w. f.
Hawkes. place on East street.
p NJ. Clifford has bought the marble bust
ness of Charles W. u unshee.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-05
6 M uv.~

This signature is on every box of the genuine
Laxative BrOmO=Quinine Tablets
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-05
SAILS BURY.

Mrs. w. NJ. Yale is quite sick.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Con-
ant Monday.
Miss May Patterson, of Monkton, is guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. II. S. Stone.
Ned Wainwright and Wesley Clapper have
gone to Rochester for few days.
Most of the schools in town began Mon
day. Many of the old teachers returned for
this term.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-05
w EfDS

Consumption is a human
weed fourishing best in weak
lungs. Like other weeds it's
easily destroyed while young;
when old, sometimes i'm
possible.
Strengthen the lungs as you
would weak land and the
weeds will disappear.
The best lung fertilizer is
SCOTS Emulsion. Salt pork
IS good too, but it is very hard
to digest.
The time to treat consump-
ton is when you begin trying
to hide it from yourself.
Others see it, you won't.
Don't wait until you can't
deceive yourself any longer.
Begin with the first thought
to take SCOTS Emulsion. If
it isn't really consumption 50
much the better; you will soon
forget it and be better for the
treatment. If it is consump-
ton you can't expect to be
cured at once, but if you will
begin in time and will be
rigidly regular in your treat
mcnt you will win.
SCOTS Emulsion, fresh air,
rest all you can, eat all you
can, that's the treatment and
that's the best treatment.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-05
The Wizard.

He can't go forth and say TO men
You shall do that or this"
He can't with one stroke OF a pen
Send millions woe or bliss,
But he can reach with little hands
And sweetly smile at me,
AnG | forget that Sorrow stands
Where Gladness ought to be.
He can't by saying Eyes" or mo"
Cause idle wheels to turn;
He cannot give to millions woe
Or lessen their concern:
But he can tWine two little arms
Around my neck, and |
Forget that wealth possesses charms,
And gladdened, cease to sigh.
S. T.. kiser, In Chicago Record Herald
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-05
Mrs. F. e.
LOCKWOOD
Estate of James O'ConnOr.

The undersigned, having been appointed
by the Hon. Probate Court for the District of
Addison commissioners, to receive, examine
ana adjust all claims against the estate OF
James O'Connor, late of Middlebury, in said
District. deceased, and all claims exhibited
in offset thereto. hereby give notice that we
VIII meet for the purposes aforesaid at his
late residence on the 10th dav of December
ana lith day of May next, from 10 O'Clock n.
IN. until O'Clock p. m, each of said days,
ana that six months from the I'D day of No
Vember. a. ID. 1902, Is the time limited by said
Court for said creditors to present their
claims TO us for examination ana allowance.
Dated nj Middlebury this LIST day of Deem
Der, \. ID 1902.
+. j. MATHEEWWSs, Commissioners.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-05
WEYBRIDGE HILL.

Remember the Christmas sale at the Con-
gregational church vestry next Friday evening
Dec. IL. No admittance fee. All are cor
daily invited.
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How to Keep Two Good judges I'm
the Court OF Appeals.

Judge JOHN CLINTON GRAY of this city
il one of the seven Judges OF the Court
Of Appeals elected as such by the people
of the State upon general ticket. His
term expires this year and he is a candi-
date for reelection. No one has ever
questioned his eminent fitness for the
place he adorns. 1t has been the custom
Of both the great political parties TO unite
in the denomination of Judges who have
served acceptaby in the Court of Appeals.
The Republicans ought 10 have observed
that excellent custom this year in tho
case of Judge GRAY. Instead of doing
40 they have put in the field against him
WILLIAM T.. WERNER of Rochester.
Judge WERNER is a Justice of the Su-
prcme Court in the Rochester district.
Under the Constitution the Governor is
empowered to designate justices of the
Supreme Court when the Court Of
Appeals is ovcrburdcned with judicial
business, and to make them for the
time being Associate Judges of the
Court of Appeals Judge WERNER is in
precisely that position to-day. He is act
ing as an Associate Judge Of the Court
Of Appeals, under appointment by the
Governor. So il Mr.. Justice CULLEN of
Brooklyn. If Judge GRAY is elected and
Judge WERNER is defeated, Judge WEIR
NER will still be left where he is. He
will remain Judge of the Court of APP
peals, and probably for a long time, as
there il little present prospect that the
court will dispense with the aid which
il now receives from the Supreme Court
Justices sitting there by appointment.
The only way, therefore, to keep these
two Judges in the very places which
they now occupy in the public service
is to vote for JOHN CLINTON GRAY for
Judge Of the Court of Appeals.
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judge evil. Here is a person who has
been good and sober citizen from birth.
and yet just as soon az Westfield man
accuses him of being drunk in public
once all his neighbors esteem him as a
drunkard and sot. One drunk doesn't
make a drunkard; and n lifelong good
reputation must be too strong to fall
dowr at breath of Islander. There must
he souc other injury which the jury will
be expected to take into account. The
post Of Representative is described in
the writ as an Office Of profit Ac-
cording 10 a news article in the Boston
Journal tho salary of member Of tho
Maine Legislature il $3.50 a year and the
mileage fees between Blaine and Augusta
would he only 81. So the journal as
suineS that the damages of 81. O0o are as
sumed To be assessed for loss of political
prestige If this were true. the action
would I've of "A new and important kind.
but IL it true' Political prestige is
too vague a term to I've computed in
terms of money Mr. RAMSEY would
have put in an itemized bill il he had
been estimating his political loss. A
man who begins by being member of
the Legislature has n right II believe
that he will end as President, after II
good many wears of service in Congress.
Isis salary as President for four years
would be- 100000. As Representative
in Congress, il would be 5000 year.
Clearly, Mr. RAMSEY would have Jut
the damages at s2jo, 600 or more if he had
taken his political prestige into con-
sheraton
The fact is that the Maine people are
very sensitive about liquor prohibition.
IL is known that there is II good deal Of
rum in the State, but the citizen who
shows that there is a good deal Of that for
hidden staple in him not only brings
discredit upon himself, but insults II
hallowcd DlrGo institution. II is tho
unwri,ten law that sober and reputable
Maine citizens who want to fill them
selves with that which protiteth not
shall 90 10 Boston for few DAYS To
charge man with being publicly drunk
lcse-ma iestv, high old crime, fine
parricidc suicide and stimulation, as
Mrs. MALAPRoP puts il. That is why
Mr., RAMSEY has To rehabilitate himself
in the estimation of Mars Hill. He
doesn't need vindication.' but the
insult to the prohibtory law must be-
paid for.
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especially. Right at our doors, he said,
we have those whom we can reach, and
experience in Philadelphia has demon
strated that we can reach them Then
he went on to speak Of New York as
in peculiar need Of evangelization. He
said he was informed that in the borough
Of Manhattan only o per cent. OF the
population belong to evangclistic churches
and in Brooklyn only 10 per cent.
Why IL the percentage Of membership
of the evangelical churches so small?
II is because of the religious infdelity
and indifference of so many Pro,estants.
To revive the old faith among these de-
sertcrs and straGglers is a task To which
this Presbyterian movement will do well
to confine itself. Without going beyond
il the evangelists will find more work to
do than they can hope to accomplish
thoroughly
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The budget.

By the So ,9Gj 900 saved to the city Of
New York by the practical abolition of
the State tax, the city budget for 1903 is
reduced from the figures of 1902 by 81 800. =
600. Had the same appropriations that
were made for 1902 been made for 1903
s. ,tG5 900 more would have been saved
to the taxpayers; but with every incen-
tive to economy, and after patient ex-
animation and careful adjustment of
all the items of the budget. Mayor Low
and his colleagues have been unable to
prevent the appropriations for munich
pal purposes from rising by practically
two and half millions of dollars.
No one will quarrel with the disposition
of the money. Schools, hospitals, street
cleaning and other departments all re-
ceived larger appropriations When the
budget for 1872 was made up, THE Sun
said that this was Neutrality-suspicious.
dollar city. SO il seems.
The Mayors remarks about the tax
rate are not of consequence. When the
assessed valuations are known, tho tax
rate Will be Of interest. Until then the
main fact is that 81 500, 600 less will be
raised by taxation next year than this.
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4 veteran Congressman

In ono of the Congress districts Of
New York candidate is running for
Congress for the seventeenth time, and
he is the nominee of the party which
nominated him for the same Office in
1894 and has elected him fifteen times
since.
The Republicans of the Twenty-first
Congress district, under the new ap-
portionment. including the counties Of
Duchess, Columbia, Putnam and Greene,
have nominated for the eighteenth timc
Gen. JOHN HENRY KENHAM, Among
the veterans in New York politics, Con.
KETCHAM, as "a candidate for elective
office. now stands almost alone, though
I'm years he is not old, for his age is only
20 years.
Gen. kFTCHAM was born at Dover,
Plains, Duchess county in 1892 and there
he still lives. He began his political career
as Town Supervisor in 1854. or before the
establishment of the Republican party.
of which he has since continuously been
member. During the first two years
of the Civil War Mr.. KFTCHAM was a
member of the State Senate from the
Duchess district He became Colonel
Of the l5Oth New York Volunteers and
served until the close of the war, resigning
IA Brigadier-General in 1855.
While away in the field he was elected
a Member of Congress. He was elected
successfully for four terms, was then
for three years District Commissioner
in Washington. was reelected 10 the
Forty-ffth Congress and served for eight
terms successfully. OF the Fifty-third
and Fifty-fourth Congresses he was not
a member, but he was reelected To the
Fifty-fifth and has been a member of
every Congress since Now he il
candidate for the Fifty-eighth. Gen.
KETCHAM has met defeat only once in
1872, and during his long period Of SER
vice all his nominations to elective Office
have been from Duchess
When last candidate for Congress,
Gen. KETCHAM had no Democratic OPP
position. The Democrats Of his neigh
borhood have at no time in recent years
seriously opposed him. and many Of
them usually vote for the General .
when he il a candidate.
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From Hs N,r Orleans mos-Dcmocrdt
Judge 4 VI Aucon OF the Second City
Criminal Court was confronted with a deli
cate aud puzzling question Yesterday morn
Ing in the cas-" of Frank Klein. German
merchant
l. spaghetti IA dangerous WEAPON? That
WAS the question. Mrs. kiefer charged that
the merchant assaulted her with a bunch of
spa ghetti, and the corpus d" iicti was clearly
proven. Judge Aucoin. for the benefit and
guidance of jurists throughout the land. held
that spa ghetti was not a dangerous weapon.
but that despite this fact ar assault with
spa gha,ti could be made. and the pcrson 20
Offending was anienable tothe law The sam" a =
II the weapon used had been a bludgcon or
meat AK.
The testimony showed that Mrs. kieier
sent to kl.m'- plsC. for five cents worth
OF spa ghetti TINT when she received II She
considered II spoiled and sent II back. and
instead of getting her money refunded sh"
says abuses were hearrd upon her through
her Wo-Ncuy ger Then the lady called on Tin"
grocer in t-r-on. The merchant. II l. Rl.R, Il,
az some point during the hbylouic 'olloduy
threw the spaghetti i'll tn" hdy'- face and
threatened to throw a weight AT her.
The Court Thought this fact was clearly
established. Spaghetti l. not dangerous
weapon. said the Court, hut the dtf"nds mt
i guilty OF the assault and Will b" held for
sentence oct u.
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Three Women Pront From, the Coal strike

To ms Epl1oE or THE SrN--Sr. Com
corning the coal strike, every condition Of
life has its compensation.
While IN Pittsburg "a few days ago | met
three ladies who are engaged IN "A business
that will help 20 solve the fuel and some
OF her questions in domestic economy. These
women are supplying hot cooked meals to
families In that city. The business * 20
unique and interesting that | made careful
inquiries into it, plan and scope Of operations.
II these plans are generally adopted II will
L. zen the consumption of fuel for cooking
PURPOSES by at least nine-tcnthS IL will also
s.tt le the veN.d question Of domestic servants.
In this estab i,hment one skilled cook. with
assistance and one fire, does cooking for
twenty to fifty families by an ingenious device.
N. invention of a Connecticut gentleman.
which keep, the food not Tor six to eight
hours without artificial heat. ard without
dat"rioratine IN quality. flavor or juicines>
IL will lo-sen tn" number OF domestic SER
wants 10 this extent. and a. the COOKING l.
done by expert, the food will be Of better
quality of selection and more properly cooked
than We have ever had before.
has c>ta hl-hcd and conducted an instiru ion
In one OF III" Western states similar TO the
one noN being started in Pitt burg, and i
ma king \ handsome profit. ! md also that
vice. are being e-tablsh IN other cities
throughout tho New England, Middle and
Western States, and they aver they can
furnish better article of food at about or a
little below the price now paid by III" aVer1 4"
house holder. ~ wing the householder the cot
OF cook and the eAl-n-e Of fuel. Decides
furnishing food properly cooked, aud II u n.y.
experience OF twenty years eNten'iE" travel
that there are very few hotels or restaurants
or private families that h1Ne food properly
CoOkCd-iNut l., cooked % NJ 20 rrodN'" -"
best results in nourlsmnc and AT, ,fy.he III"
want OF III" human system. IRA MuWLEN.
MpI,NlSlOMN, y y. oct -