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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04
An Unbiased Opinion.

The high licensed, local option substi-
tute for prohibition in the state of
Vermont has not been working in har-
mony with the predictions or to the
satisfaction of these who advocated the
change. 1t seems to be generally adj
mitted that there has been a great in
crease of drunkenness, of disorder and
crime and of violations of the liquor laws.
The champions of license have been put
upon the defensive and the prohibitionists
are manifesting a feeling of vindication
which strives in vain to express itself
with due soberness. Spring field, Mass.
Republican.
The Republican does not depend upon
the Vermont papers for its news but
has the most reliable special cores
pondents in this state of any of the great
daily newspapers. The Republican has
been an advocate of license, but it is
fair enough to admit that there ha.
been great increase in drunkenness
of disorder and crime and of violations
of the liquor laws" There is no ques
ton but the law is failure and the
people will have to adopt better system
for regulating the liquor traffic.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04
This in verm ont.

On the evening of Aug. 10 Mrs.
Lorenzo S. Spear was driving from
Chelsea to her home in Vershire when
she was attacked by an unknown man
at the point where road leads to the
farm last inhabited by Homer Alger.
The man smashed the lantern, jumped
into the wagon, and tried at the same
time to turn the horse up the side road
and to cover Mrs. Spears mouth SO that
she could not call for help. He did
not succeed in turning the horse and
fierce struggle ensued, during
which the wagon moved on some four
teen rods. Mrs. Spears strength was
finally exhausted and she was dragged
from the wagon. At this point Smith
Taylor's dog began to bark and Mr.. Taylor
came out of his house with lantern to
see what the dog was barking at. Think
ing help was coming, the man decamped
and Mrs. Spear succeeded in reaching
home. Her health is infirm and she has
been recovering but slowly from the
shock. No arrest has been made as yet
as identification of the wretch is not Ger
tain
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04
Relief
From Headache and
Neuralgia
In a Few Minutes
After Taking
DR.. Miles Anti=Pain Pills.
DIR. Miles Anti-Pain Pills.
Chronic Case Cured.

Il cannot speak to highly OF your remedies
and will always tell my friends how much
they have done for my husband and myself
for sudden attacks of headaches, neuralgia
and rheumatic pains. There is nothing
equal to DR.. Miles Anti-Pain Pills. They
are simply splendid and give relietin fifteen
or twenty minutes. | used to be subject to
attacks of headache, which had become
chronic, and took course of Nervine and
Nerve and Liver Pills in connection with the
Anti-Pain Pills. The result Is | now nave
very little trouble in that way. MY husband
has also taken these remedies and praises
them very highly. We always have some OF
both kinds OF pills in the house, and do not
feel that we could get along without them
Mrs. KATE X. JOHNSON, McClellandsville,
Delaware.
There are many reasons why you should
take Dr. Miles Anti-Pain Pills, but the best
reason is that they will give you almost instant
relief from headache or other pain. In cases
of chronic headache, when the sufferer knows
an attack is coming on, a Pain Pill will usu-
ally prevent it entirely. In cases of extreme
nervous exhaustion, when the brain is too
tired and the body too nervous to rest, an
Anti. Pain Pill will sooth the nerves so that
sleep may come. They never fail, yet con-
tain no opiates and are non-laxative.
All druggists sell and guarantee DR.. Miles
Anti-Pan Pills. They are non-la xative; con-
tain no opiates, never sold in bulk, IS doses,
IS cents. DR.. Miles Medical Co.. Elkhart, Ind.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04

have had a chance for fair trial in the
short time intervening and that at least
another two years should be given be-
fore it is summoned to the public tribun-
al for judgment. In our opinion, this
matter will work itself out. If the
voters are generally satisfied to give it
more time, the efforts of the press and
the politicians to make it an issue will
fail, if they are put forth next year. On
the other hand, if license gives a poor
account of itself and promises nothing
better if continued, the people will be
quite ready to unload it at the very
first opportunity, and they would be
quite right in so doing. If mistake
has been made, and the voters are SC
convinced, it would be inconceivably
stupid to pursue in wrong when a chance
was offered for rectification.-Ran
Herald.
The people will not allow the politi-
clans to sde-track this great issue. The
country can settle the presidency and
settle it right, and Vermont will settle
the liquor question right, and so il
will stay settled in 1904. Don't forge
this.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04

day, and wants to know that there is a
telephone within stones throw that
will connect him with his distant home
at a moments notice, in case of an
emergency. He is not a subject for
extortion on the part of his landlord at
any time, but for all these privileges he
expects and is willing to pay literally.
What better proposition can be asked
for!
Every town in the state would be
fortunate if it had summer hotel that
would accommodate from 100 to 300
guests of this kind, under experienced
management 1t could begin the season
early and keep at it almost until the
ground was white with snow. Such an
enterprise in itself would go long way
in making a small town prosperous.
Vermonters can do nothing better fol
the state than encourage just these
kinds of enterprises.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04
Stenoeraphers and Typewriters
Wanted

The United States civil service COM
mission will hold a stenography and
typewriting examination at Burlington
on Monday, October II. The commits
sion reports a continual demand for
competent men stenographers and type
writers for the government service, and
the examination will be held to fill
vacancies as they occur in the federal
service in Burlington and Washington,
d. c., as we'll as in the Philippine ser
vice. Most of those appointed will be
assigned TO Washington. The entrance
salary will range from $40 to 81 200 a
year. A large number of stenographers
and typewriters are, however, required
for the Philippine service, where the
entrance salary is $1,000 to l,40O a
year.
Accurate stenographers and type
writers are required who can write at
least 35 words a minute in typewriting,
and so words a minute in stenography.
Certifications are made in regular order
according to relative standing, those
with the highest ratings being the first
appointed Stenographers over 20 years
of age may be examined for the United
States service, while the age limits for
the Philippine service are IL to 40.
Those who are between 20 and 40 years
of age may file applications for both
services.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04
Miss PeIton's Summer Recital
Tour a Success.

Miss Katharine Pelton, the New York
singer, who has for several summers
made her home in Middlebury, has Just
returned from a concert tour at some of
the larger summer resorts in New
Hampshire and Vermont.
The average summer concert COM
pany fails because it cannot compete in
artistic merit with entertainments heard
by cultivated persons in the winter, but
the reception given to these artists has
proved that there will always be sue
cess for such an entertainment.
Miss Pelton gave song recital pro-
gramme, with a selection from opera,
and has had the assistance IN solos,
operate numbers and duets of Louis F.
Haslanger, baritone, also of New York
city.
The accompaniment were beautifully
played by Miss Emelyn Tilden, who has
Just resigned her position as superintend
ent of music in the State Normal schools,
in order to study music and accompany
professionally in New York city.
The recitals We're under the business
direction of E. l.. Sunderland, of Middle
bury college.
They gave most successful concerts at
such hotels as The Waumbeh and Maple
wood, in New Hampshire, and Bread
Loaf Inn, Hyde's and the Prospect
house, in Vermont and were every
where received with enthusiasm. book
ing dates all through the states for next
summer, and making engagements for
recitals at the city homes of prominent
society women.
These artists will be heard in Burling,
ton, Rutland and Middlebury before
returning to New York.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04

Marvin A. Mcclure, who is serving a
sentence in the House of Correction
without labor for his connection with
the Rutland Merchants National bank
defalcations, wants "a pardon. So does
Cashier Lewis and Assistant Ketcham of
the wrecked Farmers National bank of
Nergennes (both of whom are confined
without labor: so does every thief in
Windsor who is confined with hard
labor for stealing one tenth or one
hundredth part as much as these gentle
men of leisure. The people will not
stand much more of this pardoning
business. They demand one law fol
both rich and poor, and no pardons
unless the person convicted is afterwards
proved to be innocent.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04
The Farmer Boy.

The farmer is the moral backbone of
the country. Not only this, but from
the farms come the young men who
make the prominent citizens in the
large cities. Investigation made some
time ago revealed the fact that nine out
of ten of the very successful business
and professional men in Boston We're
reared as boys on the farms of Maine
Vermont or New Hampshire. Many of
them, when they came to Boston, were
perhaps awkward, and lacked certain
social graces compared with the city
dude, but they possessed intelligence,
pluck and moral worth that lifted them
eventually into positions of wealth and
influence.
The reasons why the boy from the
farm makes the successful man in our
cities are these, we believe. First, the
farmers boy is brought up to work, and
labor becomes second nature to him.
spend, and thus is taught the value of
money, a great and very valuable lesson.
Third, his life being somewhat isolated,
he is thrown upon his own resources,
and this leads to reflection and observa-
ton.
Thus we say, says the Walden Citizen,
give us a farm to bring up boy, for he
is taught these three great lessons
work, observation, and the value OF
money.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04
THE STATE.

John j. Burgess, one of st. Adams
Oldest and most respected citizens, died
August 30, aged SO.
BY the failure of L. J. Sanderson the
farmers of Franklin will lose from 500
to $1,000. lie owned the local creamery.
The commissioners have tested about
5000 head of cattle since January 1,
and found only about Z per cent. dis
eased.
The high price of cotton has caused
one of the mills at Bennington to close
and the others will do so soon if the cor
ner in cotton is not broken.
The 10th annual convention of the
Universalists of Vermont and Province
of Quebec, is being held at Lyndonvlle
this week, Aug. 81, and Sept /, 2 and 3.
John Belorele and Joseph Kenetsney,
of West Rutland, were killed in the
Sherman quarry Saturday by a big
block of marble falling on them. Both
were 90 and unmarried.
Rev. l.. H. Elliott, secretary of the
Vermont Bible society, has issued call
to the churches and Sunday schools to
make special collections on the second
Sunday in September for the benefit of
the society.
| EX-OOV. Oan1uel II. f1nRrpe Ol I1dTU-
ford, secretary of the Third Vermont
Regiment association, has sent out
notices of the 18th annual meeting of the
association at Grand Army hall in st.
Johnsbury, Sept. 10.
The officers of the Transfers Union of
Burlington have spent more money than
they have received and it is charged that
the books have been kept so that no ore
can make out how the union stands.
Over 100 have left the union in short
time.
An unknown man was struck at Pow
nal the afternoon of Aug. 26, by train
and fatally injured. He was taken
aboard the train and carried to North
Adams, Mass, and to the hospital, where
he died soon after reaching there, never
having regained consciousness.
Two petitions in bankruptcy have beer
filed, those of John NJ. Burt of Enosburgh
who has liabilities of Sl395 and assets OF
$500, of which $500 are claimed exempt
and of w. w. S. Browne, bicycle
dealer of st. Johnsbury, who has liabili
ties of 60 and assets of $2742, OF
which $300are claimed exempt.
The last game of the Northern League
) was played at st. Adams Saturday anc
ended in disgraceful exhibition by the
local team that was beaten by Platts
, burgh, 12 to I. At Rutland Friday there
was free fight with the umpire, whC
gave both games to Plattsburgh. The
final standing of the clubs was:
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04
Go Ahead and Do Business,

Go ahead and do business" That is
the advice which the president of one of
the largest banks in New York city is
giving his mercantile customers. 1t is
good advice for the whole country. 1t
is all that is needed if acted upon to
continue the great era of prosperity this
country has enjoyed during the past few
years. just because Wall street has
had panic and some of the water has
been squeezed out of the stocks. espe-
cially the trust stocks, there is not the
slightest reason for the country to be
alarmed. General business conditions
continue exceptionally good. The
earnings of the railroads, the best bar
ometer of business, have invariably
increased
1t is a time, therefore, when business
men can proceed with increased con-
fidence. 1t is time for action, not mere
caution. This does not mean return to
speculative infation-that would, indeed,
be harmful. But it is time TO dc
business. Horace Greeley said that the
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04

Had Sir Thomas Upton sailed the
Shamrock under the Stars and Stripes
instead of the Union Jack, there are few
indeed that would not have wished him
success. He is true sportsman. He is
an honest man. What a contrast there
is between Upton and the syndicate
who own the Reliance? The people will
not soon forget how Tom Lawson was
treated last year, or the jockeying that
attended the Reliance trial races. Lip
ton would never have been guilty Of
such things.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04
Books Mis- ing.

As result of an investigation now go
ing on into the financial condition of the
Federal Union of Burlington, No. 1929,
saws the Free Press, sc. E. Jones, the
financial secretary, who has been so
prominent in union affairs in Burlington,
is being much criticized and the matter
may have to be adjusted in court. Claims
were made that dues had been paid in
that had never been placed in the hands
of the treasurer and an investigation was
begun which, it is said, shows that over
$1,000 in dues have been paid in that
have not been turned over to the treas
urer by Mr. Jones, whe received all
money for the organization.
Mr.. Jones was the man who started
unonism ON its career in Burlington.
Owing to his persistence, the union
forces have been increased from about
$50 to over 5000, embracing something
like thirty separate unions and central
body. When affairs of Importance to
the municipality came up, Mr.. Jones was
the man consulted as to the wishes OF
organized labor and he has been appoint
ed on committees to confer III regard to
propositions submitted to the voters OF
the city He was instrumental in organ
izing the State federation and Is its first
vice president
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04

way to resume was to resume. so the
way to do business is to do it. Nothing
will better restore confidence and
continue the activities of the country
than for the bankers and merchants to
edo business
There is every prospect of enormous
crops througout the country, with the
exception of corn, and there is even
stronger prospects that Europe will
want all we can spare at higher prices.
There will be no reaction in business If
every one will go ahead and do bust
ness.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04
The st. Adams Messenger Indignantly

The St. Adams Messenger Indignantly
denies the charge that plain DRINKS
have been tried in that city for breach
of the peace, instead of intoxication.
This paper based its remarks upon what
it found in the news columns of the
Burlington papers, and what travelling
men stated were facts. That DRINKS are
tried for breach of the peace instead of
intoxication is a notorious fact in Bel
lows Falls and other towns, and we are
glad to know that ST. Adams is not
guilty of this perversion of the law
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04
why Not?

A correspondent sends to The News
the following: "a farmer near here got
drunk and went home, struck at his
wife with a chair. and hit his children
with a board" That's a pretty weak
'item." Why should the name of such
miserable skunk be suppressed: He
deserves special mention so that even the
yellow dog may avoid him by taking
the other side of the et.-Rutland
News
This is good advice to the correspond
ents. The people who take newspapers
have right to know the facts. That is
what they pay for, and it is the mission
of newspaper to print the news. If
you do not want your name to figure in
the police court news, let rum alone.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04

Vermont stands well with this admin
istration at Washington. Charles Ii.
Darling, of Bennington, is winning new
laurels as assistant secretary of war;
E. H. Thorpe, the former editor of the
Register, is the head of the rural free
delivery system of the post office depart
ment, and Charles H. Robb, of Bellows
Falls, is the attorney of the post office
department. Vermont is proud of these
Young men.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04
NOTE AND COMMENT .
Merit Won Promotion.

The efforts of President Roosevelt to
force the promotion of his friend, Gen.
Wood, over the heads of his seniors is
not Just the thing the people are
looking for from Roosevelt.-Swanton
Courier,
Not because he is a friend but because
he deserves promotion, is the reason he
has been nominated by the President
and why he will be confirmed. Gen.
Wood is man who has done and is
doing things that make history
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04
Review of Reviews for Sc pte m Der.

"King Cotton" is as real force today
as he ever has been. The whole world
has followed the state of the cotton
market during the past summer with the
keenest interest. \ recent newspaper
interview with Secretary Wilson, of the
Department of Agriculture, emphasized
the importance of cotton-growing as an
American industry, considered wholly
apart from the speculative side of the
matter. In the September Review of
Reviews, Richard II. Edmonds, of Balti-
more, one of the foremost authorities on
American cotton, gives important statis-
teal data showing the relative rank
attained by our Southern states in this
industry, and throwing much light on
the changed conditions that have been
developed since the Civil War. The
article is Illustrated from photographs of
actual scenes in the Cotton Belt, show
ing the crop at every stage of growth
and manipulation, from the field to the
warehouse and the hold of the ocean
vessel,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04

Frank E. Howe is fast making the
Bennington Banner and Reformer indis-
pensable to the people of that town and
county. Not content with greatly i'm
proving it since he purchased and con-
sOlidated the two papers, he has been
issuing extras containing handsomely
illustrated sketches of the attractions,
advantages and possibilities of the differ
ent towns in his field The Banner and
Reformer of August p consisted of
twelve pages, four of which We're
printed on fine book paper, and contain
ing well written descriptive articles on
North Bennington, Arlington and South
Salisbury Such enterprise helps both
the paper and the people.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04
Make the Penalty Fit the Crime.

There is certainly one point on which
the Gazette can agree with those who
advocate lynch law for the rape fiend,
and that is that our Vermont statutes do
not impose a sufficiently severe sentence
on those convicted of this british act
If any crime deserves a death penalty
this does. -Hardwick Gazette.
Make the penalty to fit the crime, and
let the courts administer justice swift
and sure, and there will be no lynching
anywhere.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04

The cod liver oil people have adopted
Standard Oil tactics and have advanced
prices from $22 to $3.50 per barrel.-St.
Johnsbury Republican.
Eat plain food, take plenty of exercise
open, go to bed early, and you will need
no cod liver oil. That is the way to
bust this trust.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04
Mrs. x. Schneider, 24O9 Thirty-seventh
Place. Chicago. ILL. writes:

Mrs. x. Schneider, 24o9 Thirty-seventh
Place, Chicago, ILL.,, writes:
eater taking several remedies
without result, began I'm January,
1902, to take your valuable remedy,
Peruna. was complete wreck.
Had palpifafion of the heart, cold
hands and feet, female weakness, no
appetite, trembling, sinking feeling
nearly all the time. You said I was
suffering with systemic Cafarrh, and I
believe that I received your help In
the nick of time. followed your
directions carefully and can say to-day
that am well again. IcannOf thank
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be your debtor. Ihave already recon-
nended Peruna to my friends and
neighbors and they ali praise ii. !
wish that all suffering women would
try II. testify this according to the
truth. "---Mrs. X. Schneider.
Mrs. Fanny Klavadatscher, of Sum-
mitsville, N. Y, writes as follows:
"For three months / suffered with
pain in the back and in the region of the
kidneys, and dull, pressing sensation
in the abdomen, and other symptoms of
pelvic catarrh.
" But after taking two bottles of Peru
ma am entirely well, better than ever
Mrs. Fanny Klavadatscher.
Send for "Health and Beauty" writ
ten especially for women by DR.. S. B.
Hartman, President Hartman Sanitar.
ium, Columbus, Ohio.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04

The appointment of Hon. Henry Z.
Ide, of st. Johnsbury, as vice governor
of the Philippines to succeed Gen. Luke
Wright, made governor general in place
of Governor Taft, appointed secretary of
war to succeed Secretary Root, is one
that will please all Vermonters
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04
The Remedy.

Prohibition was farce and the town
agency system a curse. So say many
people in Vermont. The second class
feature of the license law is a worse
curse, while the fifth class section is
fully as bad in many towns. Bristol
Herald
The remedy is for the state to sell by
its own sworn officers.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04
Uhdt are HumOrS?
Hoods CdrSdpdrill0

The international yacht races have
demonstrated two things: that Ameri-
cans can build the best ships and that
Americans are the best sailors. "Brit-
ain" no longer ''rules the sea-"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04

Tom. L. johnson, mayor of Cleveland,
was last week nominated for governor
of Ohio and the Kansas City platform
re-affirmed by the Ohio Democratic con-
vention. Nebraska Democrats have also
declared for the Kansas City platform.
1t is evident that William j. Bryan is
vet power in the Democratic party and
can control its destiny.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04

1t is becoming more and more clearly
established that under the existing Ii
cense law a big increase in drunkenness
and disorder will be the regular thing
Bellows Falls Times.
This is a simple statement of fact to
which every unprecedented travelling man
will bear witness.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1903-09-04

We notice disposition on the part of
most of the license press, and even
among some papers formerly opposed to
this system, to depreciate the raising of
license as an issue next year. The claim
is made that the new system will not