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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25

gatherings, in the interests of their
towns, and all who are interested in road
improvement are invited to attend.
Much is said and written about the
need and desirability of good roads. A
great deal of this discourse is "words,
words"-sheer buncombe part of the
assets of politicians seeking personal
advancement, or of sections trying to
breach the treasury of the national
government to get funds for work the
States should themselves take exclusively
in hand, by their own agents, paid for
by their own money, says the Daily
journal.
Vermont has State highway COM
missioner to whom the expenditure of
the State highway tax can be intrusted
with full confidence that it will be well
and iudiciously expended.
The question of road improvement is
an important one in all its aspects,
whether of practical construction and
administration of financial aid. or the
sources and expenditure of such assis-
tance,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25
New State Hospital BuiIdina.

At the last session of the legislature an
appropriation of $4,000 was made for
the construction of building to provide
for segregation of the tubercular pa
tients. The trustees have adopted GER
tain plans which have been, in turn,
approved by the state board of super
visorS for the insane. In view of the
limited amount of the appropriation it
was found impossible to make provi-
sion at this time for other than male
patients. The plans provide for two
story building, or two wards, for male
patients, the same to be erected at the
rear of the present buildings and in
direct communication with them. Pro-
vision is made for 90 patients. The
wards will be thoroughly heated and
ventilated by what is generally known
as the fan system, there being two fans,
one to force the heated air through the
ventilating flues, the other, placed at
the top of the building, to extract the
foul air, thus insuring very complete
ventilation. The building will be so
located so as to have healthful and
attractive southwest exposure. The
structure itself will be brick veneer in
construction.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25
New Jersey and Monaco.

How do the reputable citizens of New
Jersey enjoy the stigma cast upon their
State as 1.-The Mother of Trusts"-some
of which are merely illegal, others
boldly larcenous?
Monaco is the gambling resort of
Europe because it has no citizenship, no
public sentiment. A tiny patch of
neutral SOIL nearly all of whose few peo-
pie derive a living directly or indirectly
from the gambling tables, it tolerates a
nuisance which the great nations
France, Germany and Great Britain
have long ago ceased to permit. Public
opinion fOrbids them to permit it.
Yet the Monaco game by the side of
some of those chartered in New Jersey
is merciful. 1t gives man a chance to
save his car fare home. The "kitty'
claims only three or four per cent. of the
stakes
OF the corporations chartered in New
Jersey some are quite proper. Some,
like the late unlamented merger, are
illegal. pirate craft of finance, chartered
with Jersey letters of marque to prey
upon the peaceful commerce of other
States.
Others are pure steals, like the Ship
Building Trust and the Franklin Svndi-
cate, organized to get for the men be-
hind the game all the stakes of foolish
Investors who think they are buying
something, not gambling.-New York
World
Yet Mr.. Clement, when a member of
the State Senate, introduced a bill more
liberal than the New Jersey corporation
law for the very purpose of attracting
this business to Vermont. 1t failed to
pass. He called attention to this when
he spoke in Middlebury and said Yer
mont might have received a million
dollars year from this source that
could have been used to build good
roads. Does Vermont want the money
and reputation New Jersey is getting?
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25
County Road MEETING.

The State Highway commissioner has
notified the town road commissioners of
this county to meet at Middebury, at
the Addison, Tuesday. March Goth when
he will hold good roads meeting.
Among the speakers already secured
for this meeting is Prof. j. w. Votery,
the great good roads expert of this
country who will speak in the forenoon.
In the afternoon State Commissioner
Sanford will explain the kind of road
building that each town must do to
entitle it to receive State aid. He will
give the specification and explain the
methods, and answer all questions that
may be asked 1t is needless to say that
this will be one of the most important
meetings of the season. Not only every
road commissioner, but every citizen
interested in good roads should attend
this meeting.
The road commissioners are expected
to take part in the discussions and they
should come cooked and primed' for
business. If it is impossible for COM
missioner to attend the meeting in his
own county, he should go to the meet
ing of some other county. Selectmen
are especially requested to come to these
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25

Like Curtis Jadwin in 1.-THE Pit"
David j. Sully, the cotton king, was
cornered and ruined last Friday. He was
literally buried under an avalanche of
cotton. His losses are placed at S6000,-
900, and there are no mourners, except
few deluded spectators who followed
his lead. The whole world is glad that
Sully has failed. His success was a
greater financial menace to the world
than the Russian-Japan war. He forced
the price of cotton to a figure that com
PEELED the mills of Europe and America
to close, in whole or in part, throwing
thousands out of work and causing I'M
told suffering. He forced the whole
world to pay him tribute through the
great increase in the price of cotton
goods caused entirely 10y the high price
of cotton. If the South does not lose its
hold on the markets of the world by the
development of new cotton growing
fields in other lands the United States
will be fortunate indeed. Spectators
like Sully, like Letter, Harper, etc, who
attempt to corner the necessities of life
and extract tribute from the poor should
be treated as outlaws. They are more
to be feared than the outlaws who hold
up train and rob its passengers, as they
hold up the people of the whole world.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25
Where is my Child To-night7

The daily papers last week contained
this item: ELLA Freeman, 16, of
Winooski, ran away from home with a
Mrs. Ladue, and was located in Man
chester, N. H., and induced to return
home by the police"
1t excited little notice, because such
cases are altogether too common. There
are few villages or cities in the State in
which this case might not have occurred.
Parents do not know where their
children spend their evenings in too
many cases. If they do not return by
nine or ten o'clock they think they are
staying with some friend and hardly
give the matter second thought. Is it
any wonder that the police of the great
cities are continually rescuing young
girls from a life of infamy?
Where is your daughter tonight? Do
not think she is in no danger? She is
unless you know. where she is every
night; whose company she is in and
what she is learning on the streets, or in
school.
If she goes down to hell because you
did not know or care, you are more to
blame than she, because you know the
ways Of the world and she does not
Make your home attractive to your
children, so they will want to stay in it,
and above all things know where
your children are nights.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25
Veteran STAGE Driver Dead.

Frank G. Nutting, the well known
stage driver, died in Bakersfield March
16 aged 70 years. He made his regular
trip March IL. Mr.. Nutting began his
career as stage driver in 1S49, when IS
years old. His first stage route was be-
tween Hyde Park and Montpelier. He
next drove between Hyde Park and
Stanstead, Que. He drove on the old
plank road between st. Adams and
Richford nine years. He had driven the
stage between st. Adams and Bakers
field AZ years. During the last 55 years
of his life he was stage driver So years
and farmer for the other two.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25
HORSE NOTES.
News of General and Local Interest to
Horsemen.

HOrsemen.
Our readers are requested to send to "Grif-
fin" p. o. Box 6S4, Middlebury, any news OF
deaths, sales, foaling, perform ances, etc, OF
noted in this department, which will be main
tained with view to making IL of interest
both local and widespread.
Many thought, few years ago, that,
by this time, the three-in-fve system
of racing would be supplanted. or nearly
so, by dashes, but it is fact that the
latter style seems to be losing, rather
than gaining, in favor. Brilliant, but
erratic, Murray Howe has continued
them to some extent at the Memphis
track, but elsewhere they have been like
the fabulous angels visits.
Walter Snyder, the capable secretary
of the Detroit track, says on this sub
ject:
1.-THE horses could not stand the strain
of dash racing any easier than the heat
uous while it lasted and, more important
still, the wear and tear of the animals,
while enroute between the points where
the meetings are held is really the great
est call on endurance to which a harness
horse has to be subjected. Some horses
take shipping easier than others, but for
the greater part of the trotters and
PAGERS the days and nights on the rail
way trains are times of anxiety and
torture.
Suppose that the dash system be
adopted generally, the racing placed on
basis where races will be on the plan
in vogue on the running tracks, the pro-
gramme being slit up into dashes of
from three-eighths of mile to the mile
and upwards. The system of handicap
ping on the basis of mile records will be
an obvious injustice, as there are lots of
horses that would be able to go the half
in tremendous shape, without stamina
enough to get a mile mark that would
put them on anything like a relative
footing with the other horses. What
could you do with them? The advocates
of the time handicaps will probably say
handicap them by their records in the
short distance events
Immediately you find yourself in
deep water. A record of past perform.
ances will be necessary that would put
the data in use at the running tracks tc
shame, and opportunities for tricky
work are Immediately apparent. Train
ers would be able to race their charges
on either side of the distance set fol
some big stake at which they would be
pointed.
"a horse designed for killing in some
three-quarter mile event could be raced
in the five and seven furlongs races fol-
years if necessary, winning money right
along, but steering clear of a record al
the distance which it is designed to senC
him. When the time comes for the
race he will be a green performer al
the distance, without a record, and will
be able to face the starter, an experl
enced race horse competing with g
bunch of presumably untried per
formers"
The strongest opposition to the sub
stitution of dash races, in my opinion
will be found with the betting element
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25
a Temperance Sermon.

The mystery which surrounded the
disappearance of Mrs. Arthur Alexander
from her home on Mason street, st.
Adams, on the evening of the 9TH inst
was cleared March l6 by the finding
of her body frozen stiff, near stone
wall and about 100 rods from her home.
The board of selectmen of the town of
st. Adams and Health Officer George
Dunsmore, acting as a coroners jury,
held an investigation over the body and
found that death had resulted from
natural causes.
In the searches which have been made
for Mrs. Alexander several strips from
her clothing as well as strands of her
hair had been found in the barbed wire
fence which crossed Stevens brook near
the point where she was found. and it is
supposed that the woman, who was
undoubtedly under the the influence of
liquor at the time she disappeared, had
wandered into the brook and been swept
down stream against the fence, which
caught and held her. She clambered
out and probably started for home, but
in her bewildered state, took the wrong
direction, and becoming exhausted, fell
down between two large stones and sue
cumbed to exposure. 1t is probable that
the light snow which fell soon after her
disappearance covered over enough of her
body to render it indistinguishable from
the rocks between which she fell. as
searching parties have passed repeatedly
within few feet of where the BODY lay.
Mrs. Alexander was "a years old and is
survived by her husband.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25

ant attorney general of the United States.
Mr. Robb has been acting attorney
general for the post office department
since April, and has filled the Office with
ability. His work in connection with
the prosecution of frauds and conspira-
cies in that department being specially
effective. He is a young man with a
clean and creditable record as lawyer.
He held the office of states attorney of
Windham county and the esteem of all
his wide circle of clients and acquaint-
ances before he went to Washington.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25

The Vermont Expert ment Station at
Burlington is now mailing a SO page
bulletin on the maple sap flow. 1t is
nicely illustrated and discussed the
causes and variations in flow and does
something towards solving many Of the
sugar makers problems. Every sugar
maker should have this bulletin. 1t
may be obtained without charge for the
asking. A postal card addressed to the
Experiment Station, Burlington, VT,
asking for bulletin 105 is sufficient.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25
WEEDS

Consumption is a human
weed fourishing best in weak
lungs. Like other weeds its
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. III
it isn't really consumption so
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, 1904-03-25

In looking over the State papers we
note that within the past weeks there
have been two first class funerals in this
State over the remains of persons who
were caught walking on the railroad.
This favorite pastime inevitably results
in trouble if PERSISTED in long enough.
Counting ties is not a healthy exercise
and should be avoided.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25

1t is evident that the Republican party
cannot nominate Hon. j. L. Martin for
governor without injuring the feelings
of the st. Adams Messenger. Mortified
News.
That paper does seem to have bad
case of feelings" and the Republican
State committee should prescribe for it
before the case is hopeless.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25
HAPPY, HEALTHY CHILDREN.

Any child can take Little Early Risers
with perfect safely. They are harmless,
never grippe or sicken, and yet they are
so certain in results that robust constitu-
tions requiring drastic means are never
disappointed. They cannot fail to per-
form their mission and everyone who
uses DeWitt's Little Early Risers prefer
them to all other pills. They cure bill
business. Sold by Milford R. Burt.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25

Hazing will not be a popular pastime
at the Montpelier Seminary, especially
where mixture of feathers and tar is
used. The Washington county court
says such fun is worth $1,000. net cash
per victim.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25

Nearly score of persons have crossed
"the great divide" this month who
were over 80 years old, and three who
were over 100 years old. Still some
people think the climate of Vermont is
bad.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25

The Hardwick Gazette says sarcasti-
cally, "Abolish capital punishment so
our Washington county friends can
turn themselves loose without the fear
of a rope tickling their necks."
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25

Several town clerks have interviewed
the editor during the past week on the
dog question. If you have a poor,
measley cur that you want to get rid of
without becoming a hangman, forget to
take out license before April 1st and
the town will do the rest.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25

The people of Caledonia county take
politics pretty seriously, when fully ex-
posed. There are no less than six can
didates for some of the little county
offices already in the field, and the back
towns are still snow bound.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25

Stiles, the humorist of the Springfield
Reporter, says; Have you noticed
when you meet doctor he says, "How
are your A newspaper man inquiries
"What do you know" But lawyer
hits you on the back and CALCULATES,
"What have you got? and the preacher
asks, "Where are you going?'
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25

Some tracks this year will try the
three-heat-plan, every heat a race, which
has worked well at Charter Oak Park.
1t possesses some good features. Every
race ends at the close of the third heat.
Ten per cent of each purse is reserved
for the horse standing best in the sum-
mary at the end of three heats, and in
case of a tie the horse winning the
fastest heat takes the extra 10 per cent.
After deducting the 10 per cent, the
remainder of the purse is divided into
three equal amounts, and each heat is a
race, the money being divided into 60, %
and 10 per cent. For instance, in a
$4,000 purse. The entrance,is $3.50. $500
is set aside for the horse standing best in
the summary, leaving $500 to be con-
tended for in each of the three heats.
The horse winning each heat gets 5000,
second horse 1915, and third horse 1925.
Thus any animal that is as good as third
in any heat very nearly RECEIVERS his
entrance money, while horse winning
all three heats receives $4,000 of the
$4,000 purse. 1t would prevent long
drawn out races to adopt this plan.
GRIFFIN"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25

Judging by the comments of the State
press the popular candidate for governor
this year must be man of strict integ-
rity, pre-eminent ability and without
ga barrel or political life preserver."
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25

A town correspondent of the Rutland
News in noting a tenth wedding ami
versary celebration says that the ten
years bridegroom was presented a
beautiful secretary" His wife is
certainly very tolerant if she does not
object to having beautiful secretary"
in the family.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25

Bennington has lots of politics to the
square inch, as measured on the official
ballot that was three feet two inches
long.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25
Verm ont's Fire Tax.

Some interesting figures are obtained
from the insurance commissioners re-
port for 1904. The table for fire losses
by counties in 1908 is as follows:
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25
S0,302,17O.S6

TRUSTEES.
CHARLES p. SMITH, HENRY GREENE,
j. l.. BARsTOw, A q. PIERCE,
WILLARD CRANE, HENRY WELLS,
Il. W. WARD.
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 l, 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
tngs 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,
ur til its surplus reaches ten per cent OF its de-
posts, when a special dividend is provided
Tor.
All taxes in this State are paid by the bank
on deposits OF 1000 or less. Deposits are re-
ceived in sums from 81 to 81 900, and no inter-
est will be paid on any sum in excess OF this
amount, except on deposits by widows,
orphans, administrators, executors. guar
dians. 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 P. SMITH. President
FREDERICK W. WARD Treasurer.
Il. 3. ISHAh. Asst Treas.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25

What shall the platform be? Oh,
what shall the platform be-e-e:-Hard-
wick Gazette.
Ask the st. Adams Messenger.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25

Congratulations to Charles II. Robb,
the bright young Bellows Falls attorney,
who has just been promoted to be assist
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25
March
April May

There is a best time for doing
everything-that is, time when a
thing can be done to the best adj
vantage, most easily and most eff
fectively. Now is the best time
for purifying your blood. Why ?
Because your system is now trying
to purify it-you know this by the
pimples and other eruptions that
have come on your face and body.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25

Mortified wants water and will have
a first class system of water works in
stalled this year
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25
Hoods JdrsdpdriUd
and Pills

Are the medicines to take-they do
the work thoroughly and agreeably
and never fail to do it.
Hoods are the medicines you
have always heard recommended.
81 cannot recommend Hoods Sarsaparilla
too highly as a spring medicine. When we
take it in the spring we all feel better through
the summer" Mrs. S. II. NEAL. McCrays, Pa.
Hoods SarsaparllIa promises to
cure and keeps the promise.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25

Vermont needs few more John
Senters for States attorneys.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25

Lyman Redmond, of Baltimore, de-
clares on oath that when Maud S. trotted
in 2.0S4, at Cleveland, she drew high
wheeler, roller-bearing, Godfrey sulky.
This seems to knock the legs from under
the Bonner contention.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25

R. L. Hemenway, of Bridport, returned
last Friday from trip to Missouri where
he purchased, for a small syndicate, a
Jack, black in color, and Is hands in
height, very large for such an animal.
1t cost about $500, and is the first Jack
to come to this county. Bred to our
ordinary mares, the product will be
the hardy, long-suffering, but recalci-
trant mule, which is rara avis in this
region. Jack are sure foal-getters, and
good repeaters, so if the notion strikes
farmers favorably we may expect in a
few years to see plenty of mules in the
streets of our village, and the farms of
Addison County.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-03-25

Under the three-in-five system. if they
start wrong in 1.-THE box" they have a
chance to get out, but dash will burn
the money up at once. Many times l
have known people, by iudicious hedg-
ing, to place themselves so that they
would be ahead no matter which horse
won-have done it myself in fact and
have also known people to get so fixed
that they must lose in any event, but it
is this kind of speculf ton that is the life
of the sport to numbers.