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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09
The Servant Question.

The domestic servant question con-
tinues to agitate the public mind. Ac-
cording to reports Mrs. Russell Sage Of
New York thinks she has solved the
problem. When asked how she kept
her servants, she answered: Il treat them
well. There would be little in the SER
want problem if our families We're more
domestic, and if the mistress of the home
took more interest in its everyday affairs.
Kindness means simply little con-
sideratiOn for the feelings of the servant,
comfortable quarters and good food.
The mistress who does this need have
little to fear about keeping her servants. -
This leads the editor of the Rutland
News who no doubt has had experience,
to say thing or two. He starts out by
saying that the majority of domestic
servants are not worth keeping anyway.
This is the language of a man who has
himself been obliged to wipe dishes and
clean the kitchen floor. 1t is the ex-
preston of one who has secured. Con-
timing the Rutland editor says: "What-
ever the cause or the remedy, it is a fact
that the calling of the domestic servant
in this country has been and is now
haphazard one. The majority of girls
who do housework have no training in
their business, know little about cooking
and not much more about the other
duties expected of them. To most of
them, being a domestic is merely a
makeshift. They expect to get married
sooner or later, and they are reckless
and Independent. They are not over
particular about doing their work to suit
their mistresses. They resent efforts to
teach them, and often quit in huff.
The result is that the country is full of
incompetents, whom nobody wants to
keep longer than few weeks. Mrs.
Sage viii have to try again IN solving
the servant problem.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09

scholarship in the University of Ver-
mont and another in Amherst college,
for the benefit of needy and worthy
young men.
He began his business life as news
boy on the old Vermont Central railroad.
He learned telegraphy and was one of
the early operators on the Vermont q
Boston line-siX years after the first
Geographic message was sent. In 1862
he was banker in Toronto, Canada.
In 1868 he married, at Toronto, Miss
Martha L. Morse. In 1864, he was APP
pointed United States consul at Toronto,
serving at the time when that city was
Confederate headquarters for sympa-
thizing plotters against the Union, and
was instrumental in causing the arrest
of Kennedy the chief of the gang which
was conspiring to burn the city of New
York, who was afterwards convicted as
a spy and hanged.
In 1865, Col Kimball began the bust
ness of banking in New York, under the
firm name of r. j. Kimball & Co. He
went down in the financial crash of
1872, and settling with his creditors at
twenty-five cents on the dollar. Nine
years later he summoned them to a
| banquet, and each creditor found under
his plate check for the remainder of
his debt, with six per cent interest for
the full time it had remained unpaid.
Col. Kimball was jealous of his iden-
tity as Vermonter. In 1887 he built in
Randolph, the town of his birth, the
country home known as Montague
Place, and became a legal citizen of Ver-
mont, a citizenship he has ever since
maintained, exercising all his rights as
citizen of Vermont at every election.
His state and town had recognized his
good citizenship and devotion to their
interests by according him official sta
ton. He was member of Gov. w. p
Dillingham's staff and represented Ran
dolph in the General Assembly in
1S90-'91.
During the war with Spain he con-
tributed generously to the relief of YER
mont soldiers in camp at Fort Ethan
Allen and at Chickamauga, and made a
formal offer to the governor to equip, at
his own expense, company at Ran
dolph.
His latest and browning contribution
to the welfare of his native town was
the Kimball Library building, COM
pleted and dedicated early in the current
year.
The family circle broken by death in
cluded, besides the parents, two daugh-
tiers, Misses Clara and Annie, and one
son, William Eugene, the latter having
entered the banking firm founded by his
father, and from whose active manage
ment he had retired
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09

Would there were more men like
Judge Seneca Haselton on the bench,
there would be less lynchings. In fixing
the bail for one of the alleged rape
fiends in Washington county court last
week at $4,000, he said the case should
have speedy trial. If the respondent
is innocent he is entitled to have his
innocence proved without delay, and if
he is guilty the state demands that he
be tried without unnecessary delay.
The court said it knew nothing about
the facts in the case and did not desire
to at this time, but the gravity of the
crime charged in the indictment war
ranted fixing bail at that figure.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09

1t is good time now, while we are all
aglow with admiration at Brattleboro's
example in trying to enforce the law
against selling liquor to minors, for
somebody to start a crusade against the
general state disregard of the law against
selling tobacco to minors. Both laws
are worthy of respect and attention,
since they seek to keep clean and vigor
GUS the growing young manhood of the
state.-Ludlow Tribune.
That is the right talk. The law
against selling cigarettes and tobacco to
minors is daily violated in every large
town in Vermont Enforce the law.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09
NOTE AND COMMENT.

During the canvass for the repeal of
the prOhibitory law the st. Adams Mes
senger used as a local argument that the
substitution of license law would in
sure new Weldon hotel. A recent
effort to secure the new building seems
to have been as much of failure as
former attempts. This is theory from
the st. Adams contemporary which
worked out better in type than is has
thus far in actual results. Mortified
News.
OF course it failed, License or no
license never figured largely in that or
any similar project. If there is business
in sight for another hotel in st. Adams
it will be built: if there is not, capital
cannot be interested. A barroom is not
an indispensable adjunct to a good
summer hotel. People do not leave
their city homes to seek bars in YER
mont when there are hundreds of them
at home. They come for other things,
rest, recreation, pleasure and a change
from city life. st. Adams needs a good
hotel conducted on lines that will make
it popular with summer visitors. St.
Adams has manifold attractions for such
people, but another bar would not be
one.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09

The Montpelier Argus and Patriot is
busy trying to stir up strife in the Re-
publican party so its party may profit
thereby. This is good party politics, but
it will not succeed. The Republicans
will name some good man for governor
and there will be no fight next year.
much as our Democratic friends want
one. That man will be elected. too, by
the largest majority ever given any
candidate for governor in Vermont.
Don't forget this.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09
MIR. AND MRS. ]. o. AT
FINDER date of January 10, 1897, DIR.
~ Hartman received the following

INDER date or January III, 1897, Dr.
~ Hartman received the following
letter:
"My wife had been suffering from a
complication of diseases for the past %
years.
"Her case had baffled the skill of some
of the most noted physicians. One of
her worst troubles was chronic consti-
patton of several years. standing.
"She also was passing through that
most critical period in the life of u
woman-change of life. In June, 1895,
l wrote to you about her case. You adj
vised q course of Peruna and Manaiin,
which we at once commenced, and have
to say it completely cured her. She
firmly believes that she would have been
dead only for these wonderful remedies.
"About the same time L wrote you
about my own case of catarrh, which
had been of 25 years. standing. At times
was almost past going. 1 commenced
to use Peruna according to your instruc-
tons and continued its use for about a
year, and it has completely cured me.
"Your remedies do all that you claim
for them, and even more. CafarrL
cannot exist where Peruna Is taken
according to directions. Success to
you and your remedies"
John o. Atkinson.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09
Gifts, Gifts, Gifts?

Our good friends who have acquired
the tag, trademark and soap wrapper
habit will appreciate the following from
the Atchison Globe: "Atchison people
will be interested in the newly furnished
home of Silas Juliper Bilderson on
North Ninth street. The society repor-
ter, at the special invitation of Mrs. Cy,
called at the Bilderson home this morn
ing and made note of the swell outfit
First there was the swell colonial carved
front china closet. 1t is a beauty, having
been bought with $4,000 tobacco tags
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09

When a man invites his friend to take
a drink it is proper for them to insist
that he order his first so that they may
get their cue whether to order a five or
ten cent drink. This applies to the soda
fountain as well as to the bar.-Benning-
ton Banner.
Did you not know creating" was
forbidden under the new license law:
Is it so common in Benningto that it
eXcites no comment: If so Bennington
needs license commissioners like those
at Brattleboro.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09

1t is difficult in the form of fiction to
deal with problems like the temptations
of young lawyer with any degree of
success, but Frederick Walworth, in his
story Horton against Packard, which
appears in The Cosmopolitan, for Octo-
Der, has succeeded in doing so. The
other stories in this number are equally
divided between love and humor, the
stories of Seumas MacNlanus and Her
man Knickerbocker Viele are light in
tone and funny throughout, while Tom
Masson's little love-tale admirably sets
off the deeper and more sombre "Story
of Matrimony." The Cosmopolitan, Irv-
ington, n. Y.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09
TT" Brea a Ike S U % Cold S.

The use of Seventy seven" DR..
Humphreys famous Specific, breaks up
Colds that hang on and do not yield to
other treatment, thus preventing cold
running into Grip, Catarrh, Inflammat-
ion of the Lungs and other serious
diseases.
"Seventy-seven" is put in a small
bottle of pleasant pellets-fits the vest
pocket-easy to carry. At all Druggists,
25c. DIR. Humphreys Manual mailed
free on application.
Humphreys Medicine Co., Cor. Will
liam q John sts., New York.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09

The leading article in the October
number of McClure's Magazine is en-
titled Chicago: Half Free and Fighting
On" being one of the interesting series
on municipalities by Lincoln Steffens
John Lafarge writes of "Corot, Rosseau
and Millett," the paper being accom-
panied by illustrations in tint, and in
addition to other articles there are six
complete illustrated stories, besides in
stalments of Henry Harland's pros
pero," S. S. Mcclure company, al East
9th street, New York, n. y.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09

The Bixby farm in Ludlow has just
been sold and the news item says it is
100 years old and has never been mort
gagged That is a good record for so old
this county.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09

Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish the New York :
Newport society leader thinks Mrs.
Roosevelt looks as though she dressed on
$500 year-EXchange
The great American people will love
and respect her all the more for this.
The Roosevelts seem to have incurred
the hatred of all the aristocratic snobbs
and trust magnates and their wives in
the country, but have won the love,
esteem and confidence of the common
people.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09

On the face of the returns from the
town clerks and listers just completed,
there are 10000 more acres of land in
Vermont than there were last year.
The acreage of the cores has increased
1880. We will leave it to our readers
to explain how Vermont can swell up in
this way without any legislative enact
ment. Rutland Herald
That is easy. During the great up
heaval last year everything was changed
even the mountain line was lost and it is
not to be wondered at that when the
listers came to take an account of stock
they found that even the good old state
had increased her acres. a good many
politicians increased" achers."
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09

The wintergreen and peppermint
essence drunk is again with us after a
brief vacation. Two such cases of in
toxication have appeared in the Mont
pelier city court recently. Both were
old boozers, who could get nothing ex-
cept water to drink under either license
or prohibition.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09

1t is a fact worthy of noting, that
Rutland railroad preferred is being
picked up in the market as fast as
offered by some one who knows its real
value. During the late big slump in
stocks it did not go below $35 per
share.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09

Did you notice that the automobile
that made mile in 1.01 at Providence,
r. l., was driven by man named Can
non? 1t was "cannon ball limited"
Limited to almost 60 miles an hour.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09

1t is rumored that Burlington is soon
to have strictly first-class new hotel,
one that will make that city as popular
as a summer resort as Bluff Point.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09

The democracy of New York city had
a real old fashioned convention last week
and Tammany won the fight naming
General Mcclellan for mayor over the
party.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09
ATKINSON, INDEPENDENCE, MO.

IJONS hOt
In letter dated January !, 1900, Mr..
Atkinson says, after five years. expe-
rience with Peruna:
81 viii ever continue TO speak a good
word for Peruna. In my rounds as
travelling man I am a walking adver-
Hsemenf for Peruna and have induced
many people during the past year to
use Peruna with the most satisfactory
results. lam still cured of Cafarrt,."
John o. Atkinson,
Box 272, Independence, Mo.
When old age comes on, catarrhal dis
eases come also. Systemic catarrh is al
most universal in old people.
This explains why Peruna has become
so Indispensable to old people. Peruna
is their safeguard. Peruna is the only
remedy yet devised that meets these
cases exactly.
Such cases cannot be treated locally;
nothing but an effective systemic rem.
edy could cure them. This is exactly
what Peruna is.
If you do not receive prompt and sat
isfactory results from the use of Peruna,
write at once to DR.. Hartman, giving a
full statement of your case and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable adj
vice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Colum bus,
Ohio.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09

The number of polls in Vermont shows
a considerable decrease during the past
year owing to the act of the Legislature
of 1902 in exempting old soldiers from
paying poll tax.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09

The republicans of the old Bay State
have wisely renominated Governor
Bates and the entire state ticket. Massa
chusetts has had many good governors
but none ADLER or better than Governor
Rates
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09

Benedict Arnold still lives in every
community. He will live as long as
human nature lasts. -Morrisville News
and Citizen.
Right you are. You will find him
running down his town and village,
telling everyone, especially strangers
what dull place it is; poor water, high
taxes, numskulls for officials, lots of
sickness, etc, etc. He is a man born
with that tired feeling" so he is always
on hand to talk to the stranger who is
prospecting for an opening for business,
or home
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09

Five cases of rape or attempted rape
in Washington county lately are enough
to stir any law-loving community. The
last miscreant was quickly indicted, but
the trivial matter of catching him is as
yet unattended to- Randolph Herald.
Had the court at Wilmington, Del.
acted with equal celebrity that state
would have been spared the disgrace of
a lynching.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09

Washington, N. j., women have
formed league and are going to paint
their own houses to escape the price
exactions of the painters union. That's
the only way to get ahead of the trust
do without the work or the product it
monopolizes. 1t takes pluck and de-
termination sometimes to do this, but it
wins the battle.-Ludlow Tribune.
That is the only way the people can
escape any trust monopoly. whether
of capital or labor. Use just the smallest
amount of its goods you possibly can.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09
I'LL Stuffed Up

That the condition of many sufferers
from catarrh, especially in the morning.
Great difficulty is experienced in clear
ing the head and throat.
No wonder catarrh causes headache,
impairs the taste, smell and hearing,
polutes the breath, deranges the stom-
ach and affects the appetite.
To cure catarrh, treatment must be
Alternative and tonic.
Il was afflicted with catarrh. l took
medicines of different kinds, giving each
a fair trial but gradually grew worse until
/ could hardly hear, taste or smell. | then
concluded to try Hoods Sarsaparilla, and
after taking five bottles | was cured and
have not had any return OF the disease
since" EUGENE FORBES, Lebanon. Kan.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09

All parties who wish to con-
meet with the Village Water
System before May I, 1904,
must make application soon so
that the work can be completed
before the ground freezes up.
WATER COMMISSIONERS.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09
WATER TAX
Due Oct. l to 16.

The following resolution is
the vote of the taxpayers of
the village of Middlebury:
During the months of March
and September the collector
shall publish in the Middlebury
Register and post in the post
office a notice stating when
and where he will receive the
water tax. Fifteen days shall
be allowed for the payment Of
said tax; at the expiration of
that time the commissioners
shall shut off the water
from the premises of all per-
sons whose tax is unpaid.
All such taxes that are not
paid when time limit expires
the above resolutions will be
enforced.
In compliance with the above
vote ! will be at my store office
every week day from Oct. I
to 10, to receive said taxes :;
office hours, s to 10 a. M, and
to 6 p. m.
A u
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09
Hoods JdrS0pdriil0

Cures catarrh-it soothes and strength
ems the mucous membrane and builds
up the whole system.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09
Real Estate List Gains.

Jesse A. Harvey, assistant secretary
of state, has concluded making out his
report of the tax figures of the state of
Vermont, and the comparison with the
figures of a year ago show that the
number of polls is less, the valuation of
real estate is several millions larger and
that of personal property over one mil
lion less.
1908. 1902.
Polls 175,2S6 11S.71S
Real estate, acres 5,2S1,SSS 5,207 ,309
Appraisal Sl25.35O,29s 1920, S3l ,O09
Personal prop. S40,724, Alp Sal 1856, 1856
One per cent. 81 800 .Gl6.49 $1,627 ,s74 GA
List for state
Taxes S1,s35, 9O2,49 81 500, 592 GA
The list of polls by counties for the
years 1902 and 1908 is;
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09

Deposits made during the first four business
days of the month draw interest from the
first. IL made afterward interest will COM
mence the first of the following month.
Interest will be credited to depositors Jam
nary and July |, compromising twice year.
There are no stockholders in this bank. All
earnings, less expenses, belong to depositors.
The rate of interest depends upon the earn
ings but the law fixes the rate that any saw
ings bank in the State can pay at not to ex-
coed three and one half per cent per annum,
until its surplus reaches ten per cent OF its de-
posts, when special dividend is provided
for.
All taxes IN this State are paid by the bank
on deposits OF 81 900 or less. Deposits are re-
ceived in sums from 81 to $4,000, and no inter-
est will be paid on any sum lin excess of this
amount, except on deposits by widows
orphans, administrators, executors, guar
dams, charitable or religious institutions or
on trust funds deposited by order OF the
court.
No money loaned to any officer or trustee OF
the bank.
CHARLES Z. SMITH. President
FREDERICK w, WARD Treasurer.
nc &. ISHAM.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-10-09
c. A. PIPER,

Collector for Water Commissioners.
Middlebury, Vt, sept, 2 1903.
The labor world., 1903-09-05

ter-state commerce must furnish it's
service or supply its goods at Flower
rates wherever, by any combination
competition is prevented, than where
competition is left free.
8. If necessary, the state itself can
enter the industrial field as producer
and restore the force of competition to
It's former supremacy. by becoming it.
sell a. competitor Of. the great trusts.
the report was moi. allowed to pass
~ y a any such shap though there: was
when It's reading was ended.
Among other things It said that .'the
Standard Oil company has taken by
contract or by force the business of ten
thousand corporations and merchants
IN all parts of the union." 1t also drew
attention to the ambition of the ship
ping trust, and limited that no one
knew but what in the next ten years
new Morgan might arise who would
absorb everything, becoming the only
employer, the only producer and the
only distributor.
The report was referred back to the
committee with instructions to report
remedies for illegal combination which
threaten commercial Intercourse.
The labor world., 1903-09-05
MiTcHELL's BOOK,

Indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 3.--'Un1on-
ism in America, the book, on which
President John Mitchell Of the United
Mine Workers has been engaged for
several months, and which he expect
ed to complete, in the course of the
present vacation, will be ready for
the printers some time In September
and will be given to the public by the
first Of the year.. :.
While it is a history Of un1onism
from its first inception in the United
States to the present time, and nee
sarily a defense Of trades unions, it is
said to be without bias, ana those VINO
are looking for q TRADE against cap
ital and anything Of a radical nature
will be dtsappoint ted. The author re-
fers to- Preside dent Roosevelt. ii compl,-
'mentary terms sin connect ion. with the
ettlement of.the, Anti nracite trike= and
miners count him q
debt s11e Sgra tit,ld
The labor world., 1903-09-05
END OF LABOR UNION TRIALS,

Unless my Judgment is at fault and
my faith unfounded, labor unions will
soon have passed through their period
of trial and tribulation, and will emerge
on bright and sun1it plain, where
true American character, the fruit of
American individual liberty will Illus
trate the worth of our institutions.
Purging themselves Of every anti
social and unworthy element. recog-
nizing in others the rights they claim
for themselves, with malice toward
none and charity toward all, subordin-
ate to law; with full sense of their
responsibilities as American citizens,
and making their appeal to the public
opinion of the country, as our fathers
made, their appeal, they will be held in
the time to come, by employer and EN-
ployed. as powerful coadjutors in the
maintenance of American ideals Of free
government among men. y:*=
I am encouraged in all this by the re-
cent experience of the manner: in which
those engaged in your great dominant
industry have IN the main, received the
award Of the arbitrat ion tribunal 81 81
which they agreed toa stand Mine
workers, well 8. .empl loyers, whose hose,
deiiln1'earsncss Vere submits arbltra-