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MOMKTON RIDGE.

The superintendent of the New York
yearly meeting OF Friends, the Rev j..
IAndley Spcer. of Poughkeepsie, Will
hold meetings. here in the church Tues
day and Wednesday evenings OF this
week.-In the Sunday school last Sun
day the following young ladies were
chosen as a committee on Christmas ex-
ercises: Daisy Russell, Pearl Cox. lii
Ian 'ratro, and Sophia Shepard. with
Mrs. Lizzie Miles ard Mrs. Edith Rem
frew as advisory members OF the commit
tee.-Mrs. Carrie Ray of Bristol is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Burley Bidwell.-
William Masters has Just finished nine
months OF farm work Cor Charles Hoag.
During the nine months he never lost
a days work.-The subject Of the Chris
tan lCndeavor meeting next Sunday
evening is How the Bible Condemns In
temperance, Hab 2:5-15. Leader, Mrs.
Lizzie Miles.
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FOR SALE.

LARGE DYNAMO for sale. with equip
ment. n perfect condition for imme-
date use, Any che with water power
or steam IN. could light village. o. large
hotel Free Press Asso.. Burlington.
as, dawtf
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\ YOUNG GIRL wanted for light second
work Apply 371 Main street Burling-
ton. VI. 13,wtf
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WANTED.

HORSESHOER wanted at once FOR
sharpening and longer If needed. Ad
dress S. p. Degree, Hinesburgh, VT.
73,6t&20, vat.
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SINGLE MAN wasted at once on milk
route, must be good mixer and Of
good habits. Address with reference. S.
u. Newell Bristol, Conn. 269 6t&wit
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ATTENDANTS wanted at the Taunton
lnsa:.e hospital Wages per month; men
s20, women s16 including board. lodging
and washing. Address j. +. Brown NJ.
D.. Supt.. Drawer D.. Taunton. Mass.
S2.d&tf
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TWO GOOD MEN wanted TO work at the
meat business, must understand the
business and come recommended. APP
ply Denlson Bros, Claremont. n. II.
264 ct &l9 w2t.
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ORWELL.

Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. l.. Abbott had their
baby. Harold Mark, baptized SW,iaY
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FARM for sale in north part of Essex.
Address s., Essex Center. VT. 1awSt
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village will vote to bring a suit against
Denniston n Co., tho contractors, and tbs
Aetna Indemnity company. either or both,
to recover damages for failing to complete
the water works.--About five inches Ut
snow fell here Monday night ana tuesday.
The meeting Of the outlook club moth
ers meeting for November IA has been
postponed one week.--The funeral or Mrs.
Nancy Conn was hold from her late home
Wednesday afternoon. The Rev. w. 8. Be-
zanson offlciated. Burial was IN Green
wood cemetery.-C. NJ. Burnham went to
South Woodbury. Wednesday afternoon,
called there by the illness OF his brother,
Harry.-Mrs. J. w. Johnson has been VS.
fling relatives in Huntington this week.
Tho Rev and Mrs. p. r. Bosworth and
children have been visiting in East Mid
dlebury the past week.
WEYBRIDGE. q,
Miss Ethel Abee of Melrose, Mass
was the guest OF Miss Grace Gilbert last
week.--Mr. and Mrs. John Dodge OF
West Rutland were the guests or
friends in town last week-Joseph 30
gon died at his home near the monu-
ment last Friday morning after long
and painful Illness. Funeral services
were held at st. Mary's Catholic Church
in Middlebury on Monday. Mr.. Bogar
was Il veteran OF the civil war ana a
worthy citizen. He leaves one son and
four daughters.--Mr Eliza Fields and
George Newton OF Ferrisburgh and Ca
son Newton and Mrs. Annet walker
of Waupun. Wis, where guests or MIR.
and Mrs. w. II. Hall last week.-Con-
munon services at the Congregational
Church were postponed until next sun
day. The Rev. Ernest Sunderland, who
has acceptably supplied the pulpit dur
ing the summer and fall, closed his la
tors at Deacon Samuel James Miss
to Chicago University TO resume his
| studes.--Mrs. NJ. II. Roberts and Miss
Charlotte Roberts OF oregon. are visl-
tors at Deacon Samuel James.-Mss
Jane Sturtevant il seriously Ill. the other
sick are slightly better.-Mrs. Lotto
Wymans OF Mddlebury Is the guest of
Mr., and Mrs. w. j. Newton.
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CAPT. CHAPLEC .MATHCON -

become of the schooner. But the night
grew older and older and the cold pene-
trated through their oilskins. Occa-
,tionally the youth swore.
Finally the morning came, The fog
was so thick that the light of day made
only the 'merest impression on the dark
brownish coloring of the atmosphere.
Atfrstthe nearby horizon was blackish
green; hours later it was a murky green,
. and in the late afternoonit was a curious
mixture of brown and yellow. So the
world of the oceanic lake and the dory
and the two men was very hideous and
chastity. The younger mans face was
pallid and wrinkled. The older man
still sat silently in the stern, with both
ewes wide open and grave. -
Hemmeon complained Of hunger and
thirst. He kept looking across the UNI
dulating lake, asking fretfully if the fog
would ever lift. He said that the cook
ouxthe schooner was probably getting a
feed ready, and he remarked that the
feed would go mighty welE He felt Of
his stomach, and then he asked the old
err man if he. too, was pretty hungry.
"Well, / could eat" saidt Matheso9n,
grimIy. "But keep your ears open for
the fog horn. and don't think of grub.
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boat rose on a Boiling wave, no saw

boat rose on a boiling wave, he saw
other schooneru. Each time he waved
his slicker in a frenzy and yelled un-
I'll his dry throat refused him utter
ance, but the men Of the vessels never
saw the lone dory and its corpselike
cargo.
Just before shutdown that night the
trawlers saw a steamer, and once more
they went through the mockery Of wav-
ing their garments and trying to shout.
The steamer was beyond the limits OF
their world. Still Matheson urged tina.
they were in the path of commerce,
and he told the youth that they would
probably be sighted on the morrow.
Hemmeon huddled In the bow of the
dory and raved all during the evening
Tries to Kill Companion.
toward midnight he began again ID
talk of his home and to tell his par
ents OF the cruelty of a man named
Matheson. The latter tried to quiet
him, but the mad youth glared out OF
burning eyes and threatened to Kill
him. After a time he crept along the
bottom of the boat and fumbled about
In the water until he found the pitch
fork. And then he sprang up and
stood over the cider man, brandishing
the pitchfork. Matheson moved quick
ly also. He tried to seize the youths
wrist. Hemmeon laughed and jumped
backward, nearly swamping the boa.
Matheson pleaded with bis friend. The
youth screamed with laughter and, be-
fore the laugh ended, made a sudden
plunge with the pitchfork. Once Math-
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CHURCH

Joseph Nix, the Wesleyan reformer,
took 3,845 signatures to the pledge In
a nine days gospel temperance meet
ing recently held in Bradford. Eng
land.
Rev. Sylvester Horne has q billiard
room at Whitefield tabernacle, London.
says the Rams Horn. and he says it
has been the best recruiting ground
for his church.
Rev. Mr.. Rowell OF Porter, I. r,
Yields the sledge In his blacksmith
shop on week days and attends to his
ministerial duties on Sundays. He re-
Gently married Anna Gardner and Sam
Acre in his blacksmith shop, not even
stopping long enough to wash his face.
Father Boulet, a venerable Orego1
priest, blessed with an abundance OF
this worlds goods, has decided to dis
pose of some of his wealth by building
churches. He is now building a church
at Blaine, in that state, and has offered
the Catholics of Lyndon to erect ono
there, provided only that they secure
the site. d.
Father F. Ramsey, after 40 years OF
labor in the wilds of Ashantiland, At
RIGA, is spending a brief vacation in the
United States. One of his experiences
was when he was captured by the
Ashantis. who, while they allowed him.
self and family freedom during the
day, bound him In irons every night.
Mr.. Ramsey still carries his shackles
about with him on his travels.
Rev. Robert Hurley is the only Con-
gregational minister who is a member
of that famous London club, the Athe-
naeum, and he is also a F. r.. s. 1t Is
curious to reflect that whereas he has
made a worldwide reputation as .
mathematician, he showed but little
aptitude for mathematics as a boy, and
was IA before he really knew his null
duplication table.
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turbulent sea that he. couldn't give
much attention to the youth, and then,
above the waNling of the. wind and the
water, he heard a disorderly clamor.
And once in awhile. the youth reached
forward and grabbed him by the arm
and demanded his supper. He accused
Matheson of keeping his food from
him. 80 =. =.
During the night the storm tossed the
dory about like a piece of w~reckage.
Sometimes it amused itself by delug.
ing it's occupants, and once, when
Hemmeon wasss standing Electrically
IN the bow and expostulating with his
companion, a wave descended upon
the boat and careened it so far that
the raving boy lost his balance and
.toppled over the side. Mathewson
jumped for him and caught him by
the collar of his jacket, and, when
the next wave came along, he yanked
Ktm into the boat again. The young
man was no longer delirious; he was
as limp as a dead man. His face was
pallid and %parboiled.
The old man stopped down and felt
of the family beating heart, and then
he rose and looked around for his
oars. He,saw one Of them on the
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ESQ., missed the wrist and barely
lodged the prongs of the fork. Thu
next time he gripped the mad youth
wrist and wrenched the pitchforh
away.
Hemmeon, in struggling to regain it
staggered and fell overheard. The older
man leaped for him just in time again
to catch the tail of his smock, but tbs
wet garment slipped out of his grasp
and the lunatic went down into the
brine. Matheson clutched for his COM
paniOn frantically, and at last caught
him by the hair of the head. He was
barely able to drag him into the boat
again. The effort left Matheson ex
hausted. For a long time the youth
again lay in the bottom of the dOry
like a corpse, and his friend thought he
was a corpse, but he couldn't try to re-
vive him because another wave came
into the boat and compelled him to re
sumo bailing.
Presently his arched figure Suddenly
Strengthened. His naggard eyes
opened wide and stared tensely into
the night. Far off to the starboard he
thought he observed a change in the
blackness. Gradually the misty yellow
reflection became a number of twink
ling stars, and later a continuous. dis
charge of sparks issued from the CEN
ter of the radiance. The trawler shout
ed to the still figure in the bottom OF
the dory:
Its a steamer! She's bearin' down
on u.s." -
At once he reached for. the fork and
repeated his frenzied. signaling. The
steamer came nearer and nearer, but
at last she approached. no more, but
began to recede. Then Matheson con-
eluded to. signal no longer, he sat
down in the boat and .sobbed tear
lessly. e .~.~.
The youth revived during the night
and sang and swore. Matheson
bailed and steered the boat and kept
the fork close beside him. The older
man was alternately discouraged and
hopeful. He felt certain that the dory
was in the path of commerce. He told
the lunatic that they would see more
schooners. :. -, -: III. :
Men Finally Rescued.
In the morning on the horizon ap-
peared two steamers and three schoon-
ers, but they continued on their way
unseeing. Yet at last, when Mathe-
son figured out that the day must be
Saturday, he detected still another
sail. He couldn't see very plainly,
but he told the youth in the bottom
of the boat that it was a fishing
schooner. After a time he began to
believe that she was drifting in a
course similar to his own. He made
out a number Of small boats around
her like a flock of busy chickens.
Later he saw the boats spread out and
ramble hither and thither. SO he
struggled to his feet and held up his
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AWFUL EXPERIENCE OF a FISH
ERMAN OFF COAST OF
NOVA SCOTIA.
FIVE DAYS WITHOUT FOOD OR WATER
Mind of Youthful Companion Gives Way
Captain Matheson Prevents Murder
and Suicide Until They Are
Finally Rescued.

We ought to hear that thing by and by.
And maybe the fog will blow away"
On the Boundless Ocean.
To the younger man it was incom-
prehensible what had become of the
QuOnnapowitt. He had thought she
lay to the westward, but the longer
he gaZed at the ~exasperating western
horizon the less he thought of his
original theory. At first he suggested
that they row in that direction. But
the older man argued that because
the breeze came from the northeast,
and because the schooner had prOba-
bly, changed her position during the
preceding "a hours, they ought to row
southwesterly, with the wind. He told
the young man that that course would
undoubtedly lead them into a fleet of
fishing smacks Or into the path of
scented.
The older man advised him to take
the bars and row, and added that he
would relieve him after a half hour.
The younger man finally became
very weary and hungry and sleepy.
Now and then his head dropped on his
breast and lay there until the man in
the stern prodded him roughly with
an oar, wnereupon the young man
slowly aWOke and showed much an
ger. Sometimes his friend spoke to
him b%rusouely and sometimes he
pleaded with him. The young man
continued to complain. He said he
was hungry enough to eat leather. He
wished to eat some of the remaining
fish in the bottom Of the boat. The
older man ordered him to leave them
alone, and. to make certain that he
complied, he picked them up, one by
one, and threw them overheard. The
young man said he had already eaten
one, and when the other man scolded
him he laughed loudly.
Youths Mind Deserts Him.
But by and by the laugh became
a Shrek and the complaints incoher-
ent. To check the delirium, the older
man splashed cold water on the burn
ing face. These illustrations restored
his friend to temporary sanity. But
presently the older man was so busy
trying to manipulate the dory in the
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HalifaX.-Afloat on the limitless ex-
n of ocean off Browns banks, the
Nova Scotia fishing ground, for over 100
hours in a little dory, and with a COM
panion crazed through lack of food and
drink, such was the awful situation
experienced by Charles Matheson, a
Boston fisherman, recently.
Matheson with Frederick Hemmeon,
a youthful Nova Scotian, had left the
gone trawling. When they finally filled
their dory near shutdown and were
about to return, their vessel was no.
where in sight. They studied the rim
of the universe with great care, but they
could not see her. So far as they were
concerned she did not exist.
So the younger man threw out the IN
Choir and made himself restful in the
bow and watched the waves undulating
lazily out of the clouds of mist, into the
small world, and then into the mists
again.
A moment later he said he guessed he
would doze awhile, since there were no
signs of the schooner.
Keep awake" answered the older
man sharply. You'll take cold If you
sleep in this dampness."
But HemmeOn protested that he would
sleep only a short time. The other man
commanded him to sprinkle some water
on his face and swing his arms vigorous.
ly. The older man had been to sea during
the past 80 years; the younger man only
three years. So the latter Obediently
sprinkled his face with the cold brine
and exercised, and presently he said he
was wide awake again.
The First Night.
Hemmeon said the fog was growing
thicker. The older man corrected him
with considerable sternness. He said
night was coming. He told the younger
man to swing his arms whenever he fel
drowsy and cold. Several times during
the early part of the evening the youth
rose in the bow and exercised; later, he
lay still so long that his dory mate
grabbed an oar and prodded him and
ordered him peremptorily to keep
awake.
Always they listened for the foghorn,
and the youth often wondered what had
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signal for the last time and waved II
to and fro.
Then he saw the tther dOrymen
wave something back and steer their
boats toward him. The stimulating
influence Of, their acknowledgment
was so great that he leaped on the
maudlin figure in the bow and tried
to ous him to a realization OF the
most wonderful event in the world.
The youth answered him with faint
incoherence. The boy was very pal
lid.
Later, on board the Flora 8. Nick
erson, the older rescued trawler drank
endless quantities of water. Eventu-
ally he said to his u =
"What day Of the week is it,"
They answered.: "Saturday-Satur-
day afternoon. When were you lost
in the fog?",
He answered: "On Tuesday,
don't remember what year"
The other fishermen counted rapid
ly on their fingers, and then they
gasped:
"One hundred and two hours
God!"
In a nearby bunk the pallid youth
babled continuously. When they
brought him into Boston the other
day and sent him to the hospital he
was still babbling.
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GRAND. TO LIVE
And the Last Laugh Is Always the
Best.

"Six months ago I would. have
laughed at the. idea that there could
be anything better. for a table bever-
age than Coffee" writes an Ohio WON.
an-"now 1 laugh to know there is.P
Since childhood; drank coffee as
freely as any other. member, Of the
family. The result was a puny, sick
ly girl, and as. !, grew into. woman.
hood l ( did not gain in health, but was
afflicted with Heart trouble, a. weak
and disordered stomach, hwrecked
nerves and a. general breaking down.
till last winter at the age OF SO. I
seemed to be on the verge of con-
sumption. My friends greeted me
with How bad you look! What a ter.
rible color!' and this was not: very
comforting. go, -;
"The doctors and patent medicines
did me absolutely no good. / was
thoroughly discouraged.
Then I gave up coffee and COM
menced Postum Food Coffee. At first
I didn't like it,e.but' after a few trials
and following 1.-THE directions. .exactly.
It, was grand: It was refreshing and
satisfying. In q couple Of weeks / 40
ticed a great. change. I became
stronger, my brain grew clearer, l ws.3
not troubled with f~orgetfulness as In
coffee times my power of endurance
was more than doubled. The heart
trouble and indigestion disappeared
and my nerves became steady aud
strong.
II began to take an interest In
about me. Homework and
home-making became q pleasure. My
friends have marveled at the change
and when they inquire what. brought
It about, / answer Postum Food Cof-
fee, and nothing else in the world"
Name given. by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
There's a. reason. Read the little
book, THE Road"to Wellvills." q
pkgs.
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fumed, and at last began to talk abou.
his home in Nova Scotia, and car
ried on a long conversation with his
mother and father. He told then
that he had gone out fishing with {:
man named Matheson, and that thl;
man, by reason of some enmity fol
| him, had eaten all the food and drunk
all the water in the boat. He said
that he suffered so much from hun
ger and thirst that he finally wished
to Jump into the sea. WhereupOn he
stood up and screamed a long de-
nunciation to the man with the board
and bucket, and, when Matheson or.
dered him to sit down, flung himself
over the side Of the boat.
The older man dropped his board
and bucket and jumped for the luna
tic. The latter fell into the water,
but his friend had him firmly by the
tail of his smock and dragged him
back into the dory. For a long time
the youth lay apparently dead. Mathe-
son tried to revive him, but the fire.
quent deluges of water interrupted
him. He bailed automatically for tie
remainder of the night.
In the morning the storm lessened,
but the waves still tumbled over one
another in a threatening manner, so
that the older man busted himself in
steering the boat and in bailing.
Vessel Is Sighted.
Chnrflu oftpr noon tho orpotnro in
the bottom of the boat wriggled to life
again and moaned fitfully. This was
r%eassuring to the older man, and he
looked again from horizon to horizon.
And after a time, when the dOry rose
on the crest of a wave, he thought
he saw a speck in the distance, He
watched it intently, and finally con-
cluded, with a feeling of great joy, tina:
it was a schooner of ONE sort. So
he jumped for the pitchfork and took
off his jacket, forgetful of the January
wind, and raised the crude signal in
a frantic name :
The vessel seemed to approach them:
then it remained in it's relative posi-
ton for an apparently interminable
time. 1t remained there so long thai
even the older man lost patience and
began to cream. The feverish youth
gradually co~mprehended the unusual
excitement and regained sufficient con-
seriousness to join in the cries for sue
cor. Together the two men stood up
in the uncertain dory and waved Their
apparel to the far-off vessel, ami
yelled until their parched lips. split
and the blood ran down their chins.
The vessel eventually disappeared in
the far-off east.
Then the youth sank down in the
bottom of the dory and resumed his
raving denunciation of his compan-
ion. The latter sat with bowed head
and s~r a long time gave way to his
emotions. 1t was his first break
down.. Later in the day when the
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RUSSIAN "

Roguery is the last Of trades.
Without cheating. no trading.
Every fox praises his own tail.
A debt Is adorned by payment.
Every little frog is great in his own
bog. :j' +t.!.i. --,
Trust in God. but do not stumble your.
self. "
Be praised not for your ancestors, but
for your virtues.
If God doesn't forsake US the pigs
will not take us. -:
The deeper you hide anything the
sooner you find it.
Go after two wolves and you will
not catch even one.
Send a pig to dinner and he will put
his feet on the table. go
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crest OF q wave; he couldn't see the
other two. and then he worked desper.
ately. From the bottom of the dory
he tore off a batter board and used
1t for a rudder. 1t was a very crude
affair, but it sufficed to control the
dory after a fashion.
After many hours the mound OF OIL
skins In the bottom OF the dory moved
restlessly, and eventually the head of
a nan appeared from the debris and
a weak voice inquired what had hap
pened. The active figure in the stern
replied briefly, and urged the youth
to busy himself with the bailing
bucket. Hemmeon worked for half an
hour, and then began to talk and talk,
always incoherently. Chiefly he &C.
cused the other man of withholding
his food from him. He pleaded and
stOrmed and threatened. And thus
the night grew older and older and
gray morning dawned.
The sea was ribboned with foam.
The older man in the dory examined
1t for a long time, and his ayes sank
further and further in their sockets.
He listened to the younger man i'm
passively and made no answers to his
charges. This silence melted the mad
youth to greater frenzy. But the in
dustrious man with the batter board,
to steer with a board and bail
out the boat and to forget constant in
ternal disturbance. forgot the lunatic.
Mad Youth Attempts Suicide.
All the afternoon and early evening
of this day the youth sputtered and