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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01
SHOOTING STARS.
a Nuisance.

'Why is Smartly so unpopular?"
HE is one of these people who come
around every day and tell you it isn't the
heat that causes the discomfort but the
humidity"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01
The Point of View.

Did your play fail because it was bad?"
My dear sir" answered Mr.. storming-
ton Barnes, mo play fails because it IS bad
Failure is invariably due to lack of In
telligent appreciation on the part of the
public.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01
His Halo on Straight.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Other railways may be guilty of doing
unseenly things, but Mr.. Baer's Is good
little railway, with certificate to that eff
feet from it's Sunday school teacher.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01

The surest way to obtain a meat inspec-
ton system that will really inspect is to
let the public know just how bad the con-
ditions actually are.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01

Ena's first experience as a queen in Spain
is not calculated to make her think less
fondly OF the peace and quiet Of old Eng
land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01

An electric wire DETECTED the bomb
thrown at King Alfonso and his bride and
saved their lives. There Is some slight
merit In overhead conductors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01
The Degree Habit.

From the Rochester Herald.
The degree factories are getting ready for
the annual output of tributes to the moder-
ately famous. 1t IS an interesting season
of the year
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01

Hail las big as half dollars" has fallen
at Atlantic City. A half dollar does not
look so very big at a seaside resort.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01

'Evr'y once in a while said Uncle Eben,
II hears speech dat reminds me of some
birds, whole heap O feathers an mighty
little meat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01

Yesterdays display of lightning in this
city suggests that there is danger when so
many presidential rods are reared in tho
same neighborhood.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01

No one viii deny that the money of the
beef trust magnate is subject to the sus-
picion of being tainted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01

Yesterdays experience IN Madrid will con-
vince many plain people that it is better
to be two-spot than a king
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01
Fortune.

II there be such thing as luck,
1t still obeys this rule.
1t benefits the wise mans pluck
While 1t betrays the fool.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01

Isthmian canal, railroad rate regulation,
statehood. beef inspection, business ses-
sion indeed-if the business is all transacted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01

The more unsavory the contents OF that
official beef report the more necessary its
publication becomes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01

Jupiter Pluvius is apparently in a spas
modic mood this season
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01
Standpatters.

From the indianapolis News.
In way, too. the packers are also pretty
enthusiastic for a standpat and let-weIl-
enough-alone policy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01

OIn order to avoid delays ON account OF
personal absence, letters TO THE sTAH
should not be addressed to any individual
connected with the ONCE, but simply TO
TIE STAR, or TO the Editorial or Bust
ness DEPARTMENTS, according to tenor or
purpose.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01

The Delaware legislature Is not in such
a great hurry about electing senator after
all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01
Would Be Only Four.

From the PHILADELPHIA North American.
1t is said that there Is movement in ..the
four hundred 10 ostracise Divorces. Coz
Ing to cut of the ciphers. as It were.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01

The steam piano has one virtue, at all
tune Is short
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01

All the world loves a lover-except an
anarchist
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01
Belts as Worn in Paris Today, soc t
Silver Bags,
Among them are sample pieces worth up to ST
o8c to $I.o8.

These imported bags have the fish
scale mesh with massive but artistic
frame. They will be best appre-
ciated after being seen. Three sizes.
CSC to s19S instead of $3.50 to $3.50.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01

From the Newark Advertiser.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-01

England's famous Jet is again
smiled upon by Dame Fashion.
Short Neck Chaflls-Long Carved
Bead Chains-Crosses-N Fes-
toons-Dog Collarsi-Brooch Pins
Belt Buckles-Haif Barrettes and
ornaments-Bracelets sets.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22
GAME DOGS DON'T EAT GAME
Remarkable Instance Of the Influence
of Heredity in Lower
Life.

The setter ate the mutton chop
greedily, but he would have none of
the partridge bones, says the New Or
leans Times-Democrat
"A good game dog" said his master,
cant eat game. It's taste is repug-
nant to him. This is a remarkable
instance of the influence of heredity.
Game dogs have been trained for
many generations not to eat the game
the birds and rabbits, and what not
which they bring back to their mas.
tiers in their mouths. They have been
trained to consider that the eating
OF such game would be disgrace and
an objectionable sin, the same as bank
clerks have been trained to consider
thet the pocketing of few dollars
from the millions they annually han
die would be disgrace and a sin.
And the result in the game dogs
case has been that this moral abhor-
renee of game suggested to them by
their masters has been transmitted, in
its passage down from one generation
to another, into an actual physical
adherence. In the matter of game
thanks to heredity, game dogs now
are never tempted. They can't sin. u
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22
SHUT UP BY FREMONTER.
One of the Incidents of Campaign
That Was Full of Elk
citement.

1t was in the midst of the Fremont
campaign, and the old story that the
Pathfinder had killed lot OF cows to
keep his explorers from starving was
turned against the would-be president,
says Judges Magazine of Fun. Fair
field was the speaker at Fawle's
Grove, near Moscoe, southern Michi'
gan. Midway in his address the
speaker had pictured the raising OF
the stars and stripes on Fremont
park. when an old Democrat thought
to check the spell of eloquence and
yelled out:
what about them cOws?"
No attention was paid to it, and
again the farmer cried out;
Tell us about them cows! Tell us
about them cows! We want them
cows"
Fairfield turned half-face to the in
truder and said:
HAS any farmer present got new
mich COW? If so, for heavens sake,
drive her up and let that critter suck"
The applause lasted many minutes.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22
PAID FOR OLD THEFT.
Linen Stolen Twenty-Three Years
Ago Gets Upon Woman's
Conscience.


A remarkable case of the goadipg
of a guilty conscience is that of a
woman now living on the Pacific coast.
but who 20 years ago was a resident
of this locality, doing her trading in
the village of Warsaw, says a Warsaw
IN. " correspondent of the Buffalo
Times.
On the occasion of one of Thomas
S. Glovers dry goods sales days, which
at that time were quite an event to
the bargain hunters, woman, whose
name for obvious reasons is withheld,
was in the store, which was crowded.
During the rush a roll of table linen
was pushed from the counter to the
floor. 1t fell just in front of her.
She stopped down, picked it up and,
unobserved, secreted it and left the
store. Mr.. Glover received a penitent
letter from the woman the other day
IN which she states the circumstances
and time and incloses the price OF the
goods, with interest upon the same,
stating the anguish she has expert
enced
Her letter closes as follows: Now,
Mr.. Glover, 1 have confessed all. If
you can and will forgive me, and it
is not too much trouble, will you write
me saying: I forgive you? Peni-
tently YOURS"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22
DATE AND RICE EXPERTS.
Arabians and Burmese Who Can Dis
tinguish Between Many Kinds
with Ease.

There's date experts in the Sa-
hara," said the sailor; men that can
distinguish the 81 varieties of the
date as easy and accurate as you or
me could distinguish the various vege-
tables.
LAS l steered my desert ship from
Biskra to Touggourt last winter, |
learned lot about dates I'd thought,
the same as you, that there was only
one kind. l found, by crinus, that
there was 70 kinds. And the Arab
expert, the date merchant, he could
tell them 79 kinds apart with ease.
"All the worlds dates comes from
the Sahara. They grow in the oasis.
The date palms need just little wa
ter, along with the hottest kind Of a
hot sun-a desert sun. The varieties
of the date is amazin'. | know myself
nine varieties.
It's the same with rice in Burmah.
The best rice comes from Burmah.
and there's 1902 kinds of it, which
the Burmese rice grower has no diff
ficulty in differentiatin'."
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22
CHEAP VISIT TO ENGLAND.
Atlantic and Back for
Small Sum.

There is only one unforgetable va
cation-a trip to England, through
England, and home again. says Ooun-
try Life in America. Nine weeks of
travel can be had for 1925, and this
easy price includes the full expenses
OF both ocean voyages. Bicycle clothes
and flannel shirts make up one prop
er costume. The ordinary sack suit
with long trousers is equally service
able. The luggage for walking will
be carried In cloth-covered india rub
Der knapsack. This is light, portable,
and rainproof. II the traveller makes
his way by bicycle, he should nearly
limit his luggage to the dimensions of
a diamond frame case. The slight
overflow will be made into a thin bun
die strapped to the handle bars, or to
the frame behind the saddle. A
stripped wheel is essential, guard
and bell and brake being of the light
est. The ocean trip is made in the
second cabin of one of the lines plying
between New York and Glasgow-the
cost is $50 single and $50 for the round
trip. The food is not poor, and there
is abundance of deck room The time
from dock to dock is ten and one-half
days. so the total time on water is p
days, and on land six weeks.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22
GOT HIS TOOTH BEAR.
G. M. Robbins of Hancock Got g
Two-Year-OId on Thursday
of Last Week.

Charles NJ. Robbins of Hancock, bet
ter known as Robbins, the veteran bear
hunter" brought to Hancock village
last week Thursday a fine specimen of a
two-year-old black bear, captured that
day in a trap on Braintree mountain.
The bear which was sold at the local
meat market. makes the Tooth bear cap
tured by Mr.. Robbins during the past 80
years. Since he caught his first bear, 80
years ago, he has averaged two each year,
skipping several years and making a
banner catch of six bears one year. He
has had all kinds OF experiences with
bears. The largest bear captured weighed
Ais pounds and the best price he ever re-
ceived was S45 Mr.. Robbins killed six
with gun, having captured "a in traps.
Skill in setting the traps accounts for his
success. He says, ''you must, in the
first get into bear territory, and / get
the best results where traps are set in
water and baited with mutton" He
caught his first bear when he was %
years old and it has been his ambition to
catch 100. During the past month he
has captured three bears, making his
full quota. Although 10 years old, he
has returned to the mountains to take
up his seven traps, having resolved not
to do any more trapping for bears unfit
the bounty is restored.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22
TAKE PORTABLE HOUSES.
Iron Homes Now Go as Part of the
Equipment CT Camping
Parties.

Chicago is not only furnishing the
thousand and one resorts in Michigan
and Wisconsin with people enough to
afford a living but it is sending to
lake and mountain the portable houses
to live in, says the News. Nowadays
when Chicagoan makes ready to go
away on his vacation, literally he may
fold up an iron house and steal away
where there is nothing but forests
and fish. He may almost put his
cabin in his suit case.
A Ravenswood man is at work on
the portable cabins. The frames Of
the cabins are made of angle bars,
and the sides and the roof are of cor
rugated galvanized iron. Some Of the
iron houses are planned with six
rooms and a latticed porch. They
weigh from ton up and cost from
S126 to $500. They are screwed to-
gcther on the grassy sward to see
that every part fits all right. and then
they are taken apart and shipped in
the knockdown. The other day one
OF the Chicago iron cabins was shipped
out to the Grand Canyon of the Colo
RADIO, and another will be set up on
one Of the mountain sides of Estes
park, Colorado. Each cabin is fitted
with a good floor and other con-
veniences. II an owner becomes
weary Of a locality he may take down
his house and move away with it.
One Of these cabins is veritable bomb
proof, indeed it is bear proof, for no
specimen of the bruin tribe would be
able to eat his way into one.
Some of the cabins are fitted with
wooden sides, but whether they are Of
iron or wood they have windows and
good-fitting doors.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22
ODD BITS OF INFORMATION

The Hawaiians are the worlds best
swimmers.
A frog cannot breathe with its
mouth open
Japanese children are taught to
write with both hands.
An elephant will carry a load of
5000 pounds with ease. -
Quakers are very healthy; their av-
erage longevity being 81 years.
The English school Of water-color
painting is the best in the world. -
The turbot lays 100000 eggs a
year-11 1893, 800 more than the best
hen. 49,.
certain jail in Mexico consists of
an oak tree with chain and staple at
tachment.
Dried currants, fed regularly to
horses, give them phenomenal strength
and endurance.
At Quito, the only city directly on
the equator. the sun rises and sets al
ways at the same hour-six o'clock.
The Russians have the best teeth
an excellence which. they impute ito
the regular chewing of sunfiower seed.
Bees, beavers, elephant and crows
Danish OF put TO death such members
of their communities as arc lazy or
wicked.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

George Westinghouse, the inventor
of the air brake, has been described as
"a hundred horsepower man"
Mayor Schmitz, of San Francisco,
when first elected three years ago was
leader Of an orchestra in a theater.
Mayor Ekers of Montreal, is adj
dressed personally as your worship"
and in the third person as his wor-
ship"
Twenty-Five years ago Secretary Taft
was law reporter for the Cincinnati
Commercial.
President Diaz returned from hunt
ing trip the other day with three
mountain. cats and II deer. Mexico's
president is only rs.
Ambassador Whitelaw Reid sent a
check from London recently for the
Miami university library fund, in
honor of the fftieth anniversary of
his graduation in June.
Former United States Senator PET
fer, Of Kansas, has not disappeared.
He is only in retirement compiling a
summary Of the Congressional Rec
ord from its beginning, classified by
topics
Asher Kinds, parliamentary clerk in
the house Of representatives, who
keeps the speaker straight and who is
the greatest parliamentary sharp in
the country, comes from Maine.
Bob Taylor, the ex-governor Of Ten
nessee, who has just won a United
States senatorship at his party's pri-
maries, was the author of the remark
about Mason and Dixon's line that it
was the line Of demarcation between
hot biscuit and cold bread"
Former Congressman Jefferson M
Levy, Of New York, has received re-
production of Paul du Bots statue,
Military Fortitude," presented by
france last September. II is in return
for the statue of Thomas Jefferson,
presented by him TO the French nation
al museum at Algiers.
Judge ]. T. Fleming, of Oklahoma,
is unique. He served in the confeder.
ate army, voted the first time in his
life for Grant, and the last time for
Harrison. He believes that every union
soldier should be paid pension of $50
month, inasmuch as they saved the
greatest union of states on earth.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22

The Republican First District Con-
gressional convention which was held
in this place on Tuesday has passed into
history as one of the most unanimous
gatherings of men chronicled in many
a decade and it could not be otherwise
from the plain fact that the business
of the convention was the nomination
of Hon. D. j. Foster to succeed him
self in Congress from this district. His
constituents were not only perfectly
willing to honor him with another term
in Congress but anxious to do so aid
where men are Of one mind there is
no chance for anything but unanimity.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22
THE NUMBERS OF HOUSES
Great Difficulty Sometimes Expe-
rienced at Night in Decipher-
ing Them.

In view of the fact that so many
houses have been remembered, owing
to the change of the names of streets ;,
said physician to a Washington Star
reporter, at is timely to suggest that
some effective way should be devised
to require property owners to display
conspicuously in all instances the
street number of their houses.
I'm visiting patients, especially at
night, the physicians of this city ex-
perience a great deal of annoyance in
this respect, and no doubt it is an
inconvenience experienced by the gen.
eral public as we'll One would i'm.
agine that self-interest would cause
house owners to number their prem
Uses plainly and to keep the figures
in good condition by repainting when
ever necessary, but such is not the
case in surprisingly large number
Of dwellings. Owners should be re-
quired to letter the numbers of their
houses without exception on the glass
transoms over the front door to the
end that the numbers may be easily
distinguished by night as we'll as by
day. 1t is often difiicult to locate q
particular house on a block at night
except by running the houses along,
taking the one which displays its
number on the glass over the door
as a guide. In other cases the little
square tin pieces bearing the house
number tackled over the doorways are
so weather worn that they cannot be
distinguished even in the daytime. II
there is an ordinance or police regula
ton covering this point it is now a
good time to resurrect 1t and put 1t
into force
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22

While the dominant party in Vermont
politics may smile at the Socialistic
movement in this State it behooves that
party to study the principles as outlined
in the platform adopted at Bellows Falls
last week. The square deal" is by no
means a copyrighted product of the
Socialist party, nor is it campaign slo-
gan. 1t is the cry of populace irrespec-
tive of party and championed by that
leader of leaders, our President, is bound
to come, and will come within a few
short years.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22

Middleburv has demonstrated that she
is entitled to place in the list of towns
and cities eligible to bid for the holding
of political and other conventions. This
week she has entertained delegates to
two conventions, the Congressional and
County, and her hotel Accommodations
have been ample. The committee of ar
rangements for each meeting were men
that knew their business and the result
was that our visitors left with praises for
all concerned.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22

With all that has been said and
written concerning the New Russia
it is hard work to make the Jews
believe that a new dispensation is at
hand so long as such atrocious deeds
are enacted as are daily taking place.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22
Team Hit on CROSSING.

A team of horses owned by Frank
Rice and driven by Chester Grant, was
struck by the east-bound Richford train
shortly after noon Friday at a crossing
a few rods from the Sheldon station.
One horse was killed and the other badly
bruised and cut, while the driver es-
capped almost unscathed. 1t appears
that the driver of the team, Mr.. Grant,
is quite deaf and did not hear the signals
made by the engine for the crossing and
drove on just as the train reached the
spot.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22
BRIDPoRT.
Allen Barnett is critically ill.

Allen Barnett is critically ill.
The schools in town closed Friday.
DR.. and Mrs. Colvin are at 7. w.
Fletchers.
Miss Hoffman of Willisboro N. Y, is a
guest of Mrs. F. z. Towner.
William Dukett attended the Masonic
meeting at Burlington last week.
Quite number from town attended
the funeral of Mrs. r. ii. Preble of
Shoreham Saturday.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22

The Republican State Convention did
not prove the bonanza to Montpelier
hotel keepers that the meetings of 1902
and 1904 did. However legislative ses-
sion is due shortly and the landlords will
get their innings.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22
Hoods SarsapariIIa

In usual liquid form or in chocolated
tablets known as Sarsatabs. 100 doses ST..
Nasal and other local forms OF catarrh
are relieved by Catarrlets, which allay in
Illumination and deodorize discharge. SOC.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22

Governor Guild should be commended
and not criticised for his stand in the
final chapter of the Tucker case. When
the highest courts of the State of Massa-
chusetts render their decision it must
be obeyed and while sentimeDtalists may
deplore the result the chief executive
should not attempt to thwart the ends
Of Justice.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22
TOLD OF THE TOTS.

The father of four-year-old Bessie
is a travelling man, and during his alb
sence recently a new baby arrived.
Upon his return home few days later
Bessie met him at the door and ex-
claimed: "Oh, papa, you can't guess
who was born while you were away"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22
J. w. GREEN, Jr., Special Agent, Mddebury.

Union services were held at the Con-
gregational church last Sunday in observ-
aHce of "Children's Day."
The strawberry and ice cream social
held at Masonic hall for the benefit of
the NJ. E. church last Friday evening
was success socially and financially.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22

Mothers lose their dread for that
terrible second summer" when they have
DR.. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry
in the house. Natures specific for
bowel complaints of every sort.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22

Is a constitutional disease originating in
impure blood and requiring constitutional
treatment acting through and purifying the
blood for it's radical and permanent cure.
The greatest constitutional remedy is
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22
Uncle Eben.

Some men," said Uncle Eben,
"doesn' show no strength of charac-
ter whatever, 'ceppin' when dey
makes up DER minds to be good
Washington Star.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22

Little eight-year-old Ida, attracted
by its bright binding. selected from the
library copy of Pope's Essay of
Man" to read. After a diligent effort
TO understand it she replaced the book
saying to her mother: at may be
easy on man, but it's hard on chill
qren." ...,7,. ..sp-,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-22

"Noah's wife," said boy in an ex-
animation, was called Joan Of Arc. "
Water" wrote another, lis composed
of two gases, oxygen and combrigen."
Lava" replied a third youth, sis
what the barber puts on your face. "
"A blizzard insisted another child,
is the inside of a fowl"