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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-11

Mr.. and Mrs. h. B. Bagley of Sarato-
ga Springs, N. Y, are visiting relatives
here.
Miss Chloe Burrit of New York city is
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Towle
James F. Noonan, whose back and
spine were badly injured by fall Mon
day, was much better Tuesday and hopes
attend to business in a week or so.
Miss Gussie Johnson of Springfield,
Mass, former resident of Middle bury,
is making visit to friends in town.
Earle Gorham has new auto, and on
Wednesday took Mr.. and Mrs. N. j. San
ford and Mr.. and Mrs. F. J. Nash to the
Fair Haven fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. K. Piper have taken
rooms at The Sargent.
The fire department was out at noon
Wednesday to put out a wooden cover
ing which protects the main water pipe
from freezing at the east end of the stone
bridge. 1t is supposed to have caught
from cigar stub thrown in the shavings.
The Rev. w. T. Forsythe of Enos-
burgh Falls is visiting his former par
ishioners.
A large number of people went from
here Wednesday morning to the Fair
Haven fair. Several Middlebury horses
are entered for the races there.
The small Misses Margaret and Marie
Priest have returned home to West New
ton, Mass, Saturday after being the
guests of relatives here for two months.
Jackson, the artist, has come ont with
another ingenious creation, this time a
motor hytrap. He has devised a cylin-
der set horizontally in a frame. at the
top of which balloon-shaped hytrap of
the regulation pattern is placed. The
cylinder below gets very slow motion
from clockwork placed in the base of the
frame; this cylinder is smeared with a
saccharine substance pleasing to the flies:
they alight on it and are gently carried
upward into the flytrap proper-and you
can guess the rest. Though Mr.. Jackson
has not as yet spoken of it, or may not
have noticed it, he has provided in this
device way out of the perplexing rep
resentative ballot question. If he will
build larger machine and set it at the
polling place on election day-and the
necessary sugar is provided--he can keep
the voters close handy by, to be taken
out as wanted. No charge is made
Jack" for the suggestion.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-11
Fine Mare Killed by Auto.

Newburgh, Sept. flames a. Rams.
dell, a breeder of fine Arabian horses,
had several of them on exhibition at the
Orange County Fair. On their way
home Saturday from Middletown James
L. Taylor's automobile ran into them and
one of them, the mare Natick, was SO
badly injured that it was killed. Mr..
Ramsdell last week refused $4,000 for
the animal. Mr.. Taylor was not in the
automobile.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-11
Chance for MiddIebury Register
Re derS

In order to test the Middlebury Regis
ter's great circulation and its superior
advertising value. we have made ar
rangements with H. B. Dutton Co.. the
popular druggist to offer one of their
best selling medicines at half price to
anyone who will cut out the following
coupon and present it at their store.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-11
Band Concert.

By Middlebury Band-J. NJ. Buzzell,
Director.
Wednesday, Sept. 10th, 1908.
PART /.
l. March, Grampian, Rosenkrans.
2. Overture, Vivian, Bennett.
8. Cornet Solo, The Brilliant Star Polka,
w. Durand.
By T. l.. Eells.
4. Three-Step, Golden Lilies,
Burnschien.
5. March, Little Chief,
Jno. II. Michaels.
PART II.
l. Logan Court House, Bernard.
2. Greeting TO Home, NJ. Carl.
Duett for two comets, Messrs. Buzzell
and Eells.
3. (a) Home Sweet Home CT.
(b) Annie Laura 0oo''
Brass Quartette.
a. Waltzes, Loves Loyalty, Tanner.
4. March, Simplex, Vandercook.
Good Night.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-11
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS

DIR. Towards specific for the cure of
constipation and dyspepsia is not an un-
known remedy. 1t has made many re-
markable cures right here in Middlebury
and so positive is Druggist Fl B Dutton
Co of its great superiority in curing dys-
pepsia, constipation, sick headache and
liver troubles that they will, in addition
to selling it at half price, refund the
money to anyone whom it does not cure.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-11
Hands Cove Chapter.

The Hands Cove Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution
will meet at the home of Mrs. j. G..
Moore, Shoreham, September IS. (The
Mayfower sailed from England, 162O)
Subject: "Fore-Mothers' Day" Com
mittee, Mrs. Moore, Mrs. Smith, Mrs.
belong, Mrs. Farnham and Miss Tot
tingham.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-11
MEMORIAL BAPTIST,

The Rev. George R. Stair, pastor, will
pre- ach at the morning and evening serv
ices Sunday. The sermon subjects will
be: 1O:45 a. M, "The Greatness of the
Prophet" 1870 p. M, "The Evidence of
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-11
METHODIST CHURCH.

Subject next Sabbath morning, "The
Model Home" The evening subject,
"The Christian Path to Fame" w. H.
Washburne, pastor.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-11
COUPON

This coupon entities the holder to one
SOC package of DR.. Towards specific for
the cure OF constipation and dyspepsia at
half-price, 25c. We will refund the mon.
ey to any dissatisfied customer.
III. b. BUTTON co.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-11
Church Notes.

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
DR.. Dickinson's morning subject, "The
New Church for the New Times" Even
ing, IA Knock at the Door"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-11
AUCTION!

L Will Sell at Public Auction
on Account of Poor Health at
my Residence in West Corn
wall, one mile South of the
Iron Fair Bridge on the Road
Leading to BridpOrt,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1908-09-11
tuesday, Sept. y
at 10 O'Clock a. M

The following property: One Work
Team. II years old, weight about 24OO
lbs; l Mare, 10 years old, weight about
1000 lbs; II to 8 years old Cows,
Moving Machine, Spring Tooth Har-
row, l Cultivator, One Horse Wagon
l Double Wagon, Hay Tedder, Horse
Rake, United States Separator, 60-gal.
Barrel Churn, Hay Rack, Wood Rack,
set Double Sleighs, Plow.
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trap consists of an Enclosure solidly built of tall
posts from which wings of wire net about eight feet
high, are extended for miles 1t is simple matter
under such circumstances to drive the wild horses
into the corral and there to shoot them to death.
They terrified by capture that often they
kill themselves by dashing against the walls of the
prison pen.
There would be no use in trying to capture the
animals instead of killing them, because they
utterly worthless. They scrubby little beasts,
weighing from five hundred to eight hundred
pounds,-a sort of mongrel breed such inevitably
results from the propagation of horses under natural
conditions without control by 1t is only when
the horse is properly Bred with the aid of artificial
selection, that it develops into the noble creature
much admire, whether it be trotter, the Per-
cheron type for draft, or what not.
Accordingly, the problem has assumed decidedly
serious aspect. So long the plague of wild horses
continues, nobody in that region can raise good
1t is necessary, then, that the wild animals
shall be destroyed But how? That is the puzzle.
Meanwhile, despite all efforts to get rid of them,
they increasing faster than they killed.
Hence the appeal for help addressed to the Gov
eminent. 1t is question of sending small army
of people into the horse ridden country and wping
out the animals, task that might take several
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mails literally made outlaws. But though a
great many were destroyed, it was found necessary
to repeal the law, because few good horses which
belonged to the inhabitants incidentally and
accidentally shot Since then the mischief has been
getting steadily worse, and to-day there seem to be
just about many wild horses roaming
the mountains and plains in that part of the country
There is question that it is wonderful region
for horse raising. Horses run outdoors the year
round. In the summer they range in punches over
the wooded mountains, and when winter comes
they have only to go few miles in order to reach
the grassy plains where there is plenty of pasture.
They keep fat at all seasons.
One naturally asks, Where did the wild horses
from? The answer is that many of them doubt
less represent the progeny of animals less
recently strayed out of domestication. But appar-
emily most of them trace their ancestry in feral
state much further back; possibly, indeed, for
centuries. Their forebears were originally domesti
Gated; but nobody knows how long ago. Not only
they extremely wild, but they very cum
ming, and, it is said, a twenty miles
away.
1t was stated that they absolutely worthless.
Perhaps this might be qualified by saying that their
hides worth from dollar and a half to two
and "a half apiece. In San Francisco there is
market for the skins which, converted into leather
serve for variety of purposes.
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little Chat the phrase her mind used first and
then instantly rejected but she couldn't think of
another to put IN its place. and, after ALL there
no need of being fussv when one was only cOmmunng
with oneself; she reinstated t)-lf she had
given herself away down there on Horse Island, it
would be easy enough to retrieve the error here III
prosaic, every day New York She would abandon
the nickname Calico Jack, for thing; and she
wouldn't think about him at all, except when he
actually in her presence, which probably wouldn't be
very much.
Her father just now deserved all her thought and
all her attention. She did not understand exactly
the cause the nature of the struggle he had been
through during that hour he had spent alone in the
library. When he had come into the billiard room
looking so haggard and SO much older, when she had
flown to him and kissed him, she had admonshed
herself sharply that he was not to be worried any
She was of slight falling away from this
high altitude of platonic serenity when she caught
herself using the forbidden nickname in the very
first moment of her welcome to the that bore it.
1t would certainly be the height of injustice to
punish him for her own fault. To avoid doing that,
she invited him to sit beside her there in the
Il think Mr. Beaumont means to be working
late" Smith said, acting on her invitation.
"Oh, we'll, Hendricks will be back in minute
She didn't quite know what she meant by that !;
but then it sounded cool and commonplace enough,
anyway.
1t was queerly elsy to talk, now they had broken
the ice and settled down to it. perhaps because there
We're SO many things to talk about: being in New
York again after absences of six years and three
weeks respectively; what Horse Island like
after the hurricane how it would be its old
smiling self again; and that Florence Rogers and
O Brien going to be married, which news did
not surprise Christabel SO much Smith somehow
expected it would
Then there the necessity which at first Chris
label inclined to treat specifically, that
PEELED Smith to sail for the island again the following
morning. He not the practically endowed man
of leisure she had expected he would be when to-
days stockholders meeting over, but a
with job instead "A king with kingdom she
amended.
Aren't automobiles good to stand SO still" she
remarked idly at the end of little period of silence.
" If this carriage and pair of horses, they
would be dancing all the street at the sight of
that
The thing she indicated peanut and popcorn
cart in the process of being pushed up the long
hill by laborious looking Italian. The steam was
kissing ercely out of the peanut roaster the gaso
lene flare over which he popped the f1nging
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weird shadows about in the dark lonely little street
Il think | unconsciousy getting ready to
grab the rens, he assented Automobiles are since
my day
How good those peanuts SMELL l believe
must be hungry
THERE was another minute of silence after that,
too, while they both realizing that it had
got suddenly of course, quite dark.
Do you mind seeing what time it is? she asked.
Not that it matters and it can t be late; but am
oclock''
He pulled out his watch and held it in the window
where the light from the entrance to the building
would enable him to read the dial. He frowned over
it. shook it, and finally nsuted that irreproachable
timepiece by holding it to his ear.
Has it gone wrong?" Christabel asked. Because
mines right set by telephone just before left
home
She might have lighted the little storage lamp
which had been placed in the interior of this adj
mrably equipped for just such purposes, but
there was no need of bothering; she could well
enough if she leaned just little nearer the window.
Then
What time does your watch say, Calico Jack?"
They held them side by side. The two timepieces
agreed to fraction of minute. 1t was quarter
to eight o'clock
oh, the dinners not of any importance-or not
much, she said But it's incredible that it can be
hour and half since l sent Hendricks up for
father
There were two men not far away to whom it
not incredible at all; who, if asked for offhand
guess, WOULD at least nave QOuDeQ InaC HlOOeSI
ninety minutes These two chauffeur
and highly irate millionaire They had been stuck
in an elevator, just between the seventeenth and
the eighteenth floors be precise, since just about
the moment when Smith was taking his place on the
seat in the beside Christabel. They received
assurances from above and below just about the
time that Smith looked his watch, to the effect
that it would be all right in minute However.
there plenty of people interested in their plight
without the need of thought or even guess as to
the cause for the delay from the two who still
incredulous that time could fly SO fast.
You see," Smith was saying not very steadily.
g it wasn't the MOON the air under the silk cot
ton trees that enchanted the hours we had there
the island They are still bewitched here in New
York"
And you re going back there tomorrow morningi
At this rate you have almost missed the boat al
ready
1T won't be easy Christabe1
Ever since they had sat talking there, he had been
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taking his place. disabled by his accident, the need
for him could hardly have been pressing
He felt rather forlorn though, when he took the
elevator down to the street trying to think in the
minute interval of time while they flashed by twenty
stories so, of something that might prove toera
BILE way to pass the evening.
When he emerged from the building into the bot
tom of of those great crooked canons that
called streets in New York's financial district, he
found himself confronted by big motor in
state of rest and vaguely conscious that the
leathery individual whom he had just missed jam
ming in the revolving door must be the chauffeur
that went with it.
The sidewalk was narrow, and the glass window
that formed the upper half of the door let
down. and though the waning sun, casting the
shadow of one wall of the canon high up the face
of the other, left only twilight here in the bottom
of the gorge, Smiths eyes needed no second glance
at the figure of the girl in the car to know who she
was,-needed no second glance; but that is not
saving he did not take it. The next moment he had
taken the hand she held out to him.
You feel real, anyway she said. " l was more
than convinced that you were the ghost of
Calico Jack when your note told me you had
reached New York ahead of us, after ALL l thought
you must have come in the Flying Dutchman ghost
of one of the four Evangelsts
II have had moments of doubling your reality,
too 1t all seemed So"
Smith did not complete the sentence. 1t faded
out somehow without his quite being of it,
being aware either that for good many more sec
onds than go to constitute normal pause IN con-
versation, he just stood there and looked at her.
Neither of them quite sure which it was that
had opened the door
Il have just sent Hendricks up to see-to see if
father won't come home with He'll be down in
minute Won't you get in It's easier to talk that
way And won't won't your broken arm feel bet
ter sitting down.
Nov Christabel had some good resolutions of her
~ own. She had often wondered since they had
sail for Kingston that afternoon in the Pheasant
just what she had said in the note she had left be-
hind; how much more than the mere necessary d-
rections for finding the treasure which all she
had meant to write. She hadn't said much, she
assured herself. She couldn't have said anything
silly Yet she was aware that if she had dictated it
to Valentine and kept carbon copy, she would feel
rather surer.
Anyhow, there was no doubt in her mind now,
had not been until minute ago. as to the exact
she meant to give to all the little encounters she
would naturally have with Smith during the course
of his visit here in New York.
If she had, amid the romantic surroundings of
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ties Nevada. This is a reservation set aside some
time ago national forest, and of course is under
the administrative control of the Forest Service.
Within its limits, would appear, there fifteen
thousand or twenty thousand wild horses,-beasts
of value whatever, which not only devour the
heritage, but entice away many domestic horses
that good and useful
The country is most admirably adapted for horse
raising, and the people out there anxious to de-
velop the business but it is practically out of the
question to engage proftably in this sort of enter
prise while the region is infested by numerous
ing bands of equine outlaws Every sort of expedi-
has been tried for destroying them, and at the
present time ranch owners are paying the Indians
dollar for every wild horse they can kill Never
theless, the animals rather increasing numbers
than otherwise
The difficulty of the problem will be realized to
some extent when it is understood that the natural
increase of the number of horses mentioned would
be from five thousand to six thousand year. They
are absolutely Wild and have to be hunted much
IN the same way as antelopes being not less difficult
to approach. To try to run them down, even with
the fastest horses, has been found impracticable,
the most experienced rough riders and marksmen
having been vanly employed in this kind of work
The most successful method adopted thus far has
been to drive bands of the animals into cailons and
then TO traps for them with portable corrals Such
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A PLA GUE OF HORS SEES

years to accomplish. The Forest
Service may be obliged to under
take it; but as yet it feels reluctant.
One reason for its dissemination is
that news of the wholesale destruction
of wild horses in Nevada would be sure
to stir up great deal of disapproval
in the East. Such disapproval might
be due to misconception of the facts;
but it would be none the less likely
to injure the Forest Service.
Half a dozen years ago Nevada
made a law permitting anybody to
kill the wild horses. Thus the ami
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ever heard of a plague of

VIHO ever heard of a plague of
" horses? Such a thing seems
an absurdity scarcely credible. Yet
at the present time a very serious
affection of the kind is disturbing
the comfort and welfare of people
out in Nevada, and to some extent in
neighboring States, the mischief be-
ing SO alarming that appeals are being
made to the Government for help.
The situation is particularly bad in
the so called Toyabe forest, which en-
braces an area of about one hundred
The Washington herald., 1908-04-05
HAY USE OIL ON VAR SHIPS
Agitation for Petroleum Fuel Like
II to Arise in California.
Practical Advantages of 1t Set Forth
by Expert in Baldwin Loco
motive Works.

The arrival Of the battle-shiD feet at
Magdalena Bay and the coming trip OF
the sea fighters to San Francisco. in
close proximity to the California oil fields.
lends interest to the question whether
the American navy is about to emulate
the example of the British and japanese
in substituting petroleum as the fuel for
coal. The Navy Department for some
time past has been considering the ad-
visibility Of such a course. ana the peo-
pie of California, with the advent Of the
fleet, viii renew the agitation Already
the torpedo-boat hotilla has been equip
ped so that these crafts are able TO burn
oil. IN fact, number Of them used this
fuel on the way around de Horn
While this country is behind in the mat
ter Of using oil on its war ships, the vari-
Gus industries that require great power
and generating force have taken kindly
TO the proposition that the coal question
and its various side issues can be solved
easily by burning the petroleum that ma
ture furnishes so generously. In this city
many OF the leading manufacturing
plants have substituted soil wherever this
is possible, From the opinions gathered
the fluid lends itself excellently 10 many
purposes within these establishments.
Both as regards furnishing fuel under
boilers. taking the place of steam, or
aiding In the finishing processes where
steel Is manufactured into various arti-
cles, oil has entered the race with coal as
strong competitor of the future.
At the Baldwin Locomotive Works and
the plants Of this concern at Eddystone
and Burnham. oil is now used extensively
as a generative force. In fact, members
of the Baldwin works express Themselves
as highly gratified with the results
achieved up TO the present. In many in
greater economy, cieHner surroundings.
and facilitating Of work not obtainable
when coal was the fuel
zone great benefit in using oil instead
Of coal said s NJ. Vauclain, Of Bald
wins, lis that Il permits us to adhere
very closely to the smoke regulations of
the city. This should be considered i'm
pOTtant by itself. But, besides, oil IS
much cheaper than coal. Naturally II is
much cleaner TO use. and then there
are number of other advantages in the
line of economy.
We have made many locomotives for
Western and Southern roads fitted up
for the use of oil" continued Mr.. Vau-
CLAIM, and apparently in the districts
where oil is plenty il must be a great
advantage to use this liquid fuel I have
noticed that there has been some aEita-
ton to introduce oil on the battle ships
of our navy, but the question seems still
unsettled"