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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-17

The Woodstock Standard says that
general newspaper opinion seems to
be that Windsor county will lose the
lieutenant-governorship unless the pre-
sent paralyzing deadlock is broken.
The public has not learned that either
DR.. Kidder or Mr.. Leland will give an
inch, and therefore the nomination is
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-17
uliooleburY REGISTER
F. NJ. CROSBY, MANAGING EDITOR.

Red Cross stamps are for sale in Mid
dlebury Buy few to affix to your
Christmas packages and thereby help
along this good cause
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1909-12-17

Preaching a sermon to celebrate ones
hundredth birthday is merely an Incl
dent in Vermont and the Middlebury
man who did it Sunday won't be rare
performer, unless he lives to celebrate
in like manner ten years hence. Not
long since, Barre had woman resident
who up to the age of 107 made quilts
and chatted pleasantly with callers.
That industry, displayed by opponents
of the "old Vermont" might well be
copied by those who claim to have a
preference for the new Vermont. -
Barre Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-18
The Death Penalty.
New York Evening Post1.

JNeW lOTk Evening IOSlJ.
Capital punishment, after being vir-
tually suspended for eight years. was
resumed yesterday in France. The his
tory of the movement for the abolition
of the death penalty is made up of just
spasmodic advances. hesitations and re-
treats. A country or d canton abolishes
capital punishment, finds, or is per-
suaded to believe, that crime springs
UP in consequence, and goes back to
killing its murderers. Yet the very fact
that, in spite of setback after setback,
the question comes up again and again.
shows conclusively that the moral in
stinct of man is repugnapt to legalized
Staying. Little can be deduced from the
figures cited to show increase of crime
following upon the abolition of the
death penalty. The trial has rarely
extended over a sufficient number of
years to afford fair test. We may even
concede that the removal of the fear
of death may act as an incentive upon
a single generation of criminals. 1t VIII
remember the severer penalty and pro-
fit by the lighter one. But with future
generations. it must always be the GER
tainty and not the severity OF punish
ment that will count. The proper way
is not to examine whether the removal
of the death penalty leads to increased
crime but to remove the death penalty
and then to set about combating the
iporeaso of crime
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-18

the train pipe which would set the air
brake from the pressure remaining in
the auxiliary reservoir. He made the
leap. but missed his hold and was
thrown to the ground between the rails.
OF course, the car was upon him in
stantly. An officer of the road, shand-
ing on the steps of his private car. saw
the whole incident. The horror of it
made him sick but he quickly recovered
and ran with the yard crew to pick up
the poor mangled body.
Before they could reach the spot
they were dumbfounded to see the sup
posed dead man spring up, give sig
nal to the engineer and go on about
his business as If nothing had hap
pened 1t transpired that the car was
an old fashioned one with running gear
much higher than is the modern prac-
tice, so that it could pass over the
body Of man lying lengthwise of the
track without touching him. 1t was the
only car on the whole Canadian Pa
cific system that could run over a
man without killing him.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-18
the NEW REL,GIOM.

Whatever one may believe or disbe-
lieve of the Christian Science faith 1t
has made health part of religion and
made the knowledge common that the
mind is an essential factor in the cure
of disease. There Is nothing new about
this knowledge-the ancient told US to
throw physic to the dogs: to think we
are we'll and we are well--but to the
Scientist belongs the credit of reassert-
ing it as an axiom and generating gen.
eral acceptance of large part of its
truthfulness.
| There is a new health movement
alive and intimately connected with
what we call religion, at least most In
timately close to the church and Off
cered by ehurchmen. The Immanuel
movement, new thought, suggestion,
! Christian Science are but the multi
tudinous nomenclature Of the various
exponents of the same cult under diff
1 ferent names. 1t all comes back to the
! learned doctor OF the past centuries
who voiced it as principle of his
philosophy and not as priestly or OF
the priests office. We are crowding
| toward closer relations of religion and
philosophy. growth that may be con-
tinued to the benefit and breadth OF
| both.
Mems sano In corpore sano is the
new philosophy to which we have added
! a sane spirit in a sound mind ano
body. 1t is a grand combination Best
| of all, 1t is entirely logical practically
possible, and belongs as much to re-
ngion and philosophy as to therapeu-
| tics and the scientific schools. The
new religion must save bodies as well
as souls, and build with the intellec-
tual and the physical a fit tabernacle
for the spiritual. The call is for
religion that may be touched with the
| intellect, felt with the fingers, and the
latest cult seems to have provided 1T.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-18
Where the Whale Was.


The Bishop of Marlborough told
story in opening the st. Thomas sale
of work ait Exeter recently to illus
trate the difficulty which confronted
church workers in the days gone by.
Sixty wears ago he made a strenuous
effort to stimulate parochial life In
the direction of amusement. but it
was. he said, bad failure. The only
thing which he could recolleet of the
details now was that there was
smoky magic lantern which had been
used at the Haldon races, and was
Caught hold of by a young farmer
as a proper thing with which to give
an entertainment in the parish, but
it was simply an exhibition of animals,
and the room being dark and the show
man not first rate, it was a miserable
affair.
Suddenly the Snowman said: You
know, children, I am exhibiting the
animals that came out of the ark.
Unfortunately the next thing exhibit
ed was a whale, and a little boy ex-
claimed:
.There weren't no whale in the ark.
But the Snowman was equal TO the
occasion and replied: mo, little BOY
the whale wasn't there; 1t was waiting
for Ionah''
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-18
The Leaky Room.

Gypsy" Smith, the evangelist, con-
planned, at a meeting in New York OF
the discomfort caused by the customs
rules.
'They who receive from abroad
packets or heavy letters, such as at
tract the eye of the customs officials,
find" said Gypsy" Smith. that the
American government in this matter Is
as lacking as the Haitien hotelkeeper
"a gentleman, you must know
stopped at a country hotel some fifty
miles from Port-au-Prince to escape
one of those tropical deluges so char
acteristic of Haiti.
after dinner he turned in. for there
was nothing to read in the hotel, the
night had turned chilly and there was
no fire.
sHe turned in, and he fell at once
into deep, delightful sleep Then ne
awoke dripping. The downpour was
leaking thru the palmetto roof onto his
bed.
"shivering. he reached out his wet
arm and rang.
1.-THE pad Of bare feet approached
What's wanted?' snarled the landlord
"'You must prepare me another
ROOM said the guest. The rain Is
leaking in here in buckets
"'And is that what you wake me
for at this time of night? the landlord
roared. If you'd thought to look
you'd have found an umbrella undel
the bed. Use, it, man."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-18
The Missina Link.

A lawyer having offices in a Phila-
delphia building wherein there are some
hundreds of tenants, recently lost
cuff link, one of pair that he greatly
priced.
Being absolutely certain that he had
dropped the link somewhere in the
building, he caused a notice to be
posted in the following terms:
"Lost-A gold cuff link. The owner.
William Ward, will deeply appreciate
it's immediate return"
That afternoon, on passing the door
wherein this notice was posted, what
were the feelings of the lawyer to OBJ
serve that appended thereto were these
lines:
"The finder Of the missing cuff link
would deem it a great favor II the
owner would kindly lose the other
link."-7Harper's Weekly.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-18
Famous Ship is Wrecked

1illy UAdil.J
The Stork, an Arctic fur carrying
ship with a romantic history has been
wrecked and lost on the lonely Lisbon
shoals of Hudson bay. The crew have
been saved.
In 1904 the Stork disappeared and
was given up for lost. The rate OF IN
surance rose to seventy-five guineas
and when it was a year overdue to ~
guineas. News that the Stork had been
unexpectedly sighted in a storm off the
Cornish coast brought the insurance
rates down with a rush. Day after day
passed. and it was ultimately found
that the news arose from a s1gnaIer
mistake. 1t was not until some time
later, early in 1905, that the Stork
reached one of the northern ports 81
Canada in safety. She had been inn
prisoned in the ice and beached on
small island, where the crew subslsted
largely on rabbits shared on the IS
land.
The Stork belonged to the Hudson
Bay company. Gas far as we know II
had not much cargo" said the secre-
tary of the company yesterday; only
a few packets of furs, perhaps not
worth more than 6 1000" The work OF
the Stork was to collect the packets OF
furs gathered at the depots of the
company along the shores of the bay
by the fur trappers. These men, usually
half breeds or Indians range over I'M
mense solitudes in search of pelts, ana
often go for months at a time With
out seeing fellow man, their sole
companions being the dogs which draw
their sleighs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-18
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Lines to a Bacillus.

(I4ondon WORLDLY
BY the shivering fits which chill us,
BY the feverish heats that grill US,
BY the pains acute which fill us.
BY the aches which maui and mill US
BY the quacks who draught and pill us
BY the hydropaths who swill US,
BY the allopaths who bill us,
BY the nervous fears which kill US,
Tell US. tell US, wee Bacillus.
What, and why, and whence you are!
Say, are you a germ atomic!
Have you uses economic?
Are you truly miasmatic?
Are you solid or Emphatic?
Frankly, is your case zymotic?
Are you native or exotic?
When your business is transacted
Is your stay to be protracted?
And do you intend, Bacillus,
To return again and kill us?
Do make answer, if you please!
Tell us briefly, tiny mystery,
What's your source and what's your
history,
Clear the clouds Of obfuscation,
What surround your Incubation!
Furnish. without more obstruction,
Your belated introduction!
Let us know your why and wherefore
What it is you're in the air for,
And meanwhile, o wee Bacillus.
Once with morbid fear you fill us.
Prithee, take your leave at once!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-18

the 1,107 millions above indicated. The
exports thru the Atlantic ports In 1907
Were 1,156 million dollars and for 1905
will apparently not exceed 1850 mill
of imports and 1850 millions of exports
for the Atlantic ports is liberal and
the actual figures when compiled by the
bureau of statistics of the department
of commerce and labor will probably
show totals rather below than above
the estimates here presented.
Under the term atlantic ports are
included all of the ports on the At
lantic from the northeastern boundary
line of Maine to the southern tip of
Florida.
Nearly all of the important ports
share in this falling off in imports and
exports. For the eleven months the I'M
ports of New York fell from III mil
lions in 1907 to $50 millions In 1908,
while the exports shows a fall from GIT
millions to SIS millions. Boston shows
a fall from 116 millions to 81 millions
in imports and from 90 millions to rs
millions in exports. Baltimore shows
fall from "a millions to % millions in
imports and from 80 millions to rs mil
lions in exports; Philadelphia shows a
fall from &c millions to So millions in
exports; New Orleans a fall from AZ
in imports and from 80 millions to IS
millions in exports; New Orleans fall
from ~ millions to 81 millions in I'M
ports and from 1877 millions to 131 mill
ions in exports; Galveston shows fall
from a little more than millions to q
little less than millions in imports
and from 173 millions to 1853 millions IN
exports; Puget Sound shows a fall from
% millions to 20 millions in imports
and from 81 millions to S5 millions In
exports: San Francisco shows a fall
from so millions to Al millions In i'm
ports and an increase in exports from
81 millions in 1907 to % millions in
1908.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-18
THE DECREASE IN FOREIGN TRADE.

The Atlantic ports show a greater
falling off in foreign commerce during
the year just ended than those of any
other part Of the country. OF the APP
proximately 500 million dollar reduc-
ton in our foreign commerce in the
calendar year 1908 when compared with
the Immediately preceding year, a de-
crease of nearly 400 millions occurred
in that tarede which was accustomed
to pass in and out of the Atlantic ports.
The imports of the Atlantic ports in the
calendar year 1907 We're 1,107 million
dollars, and the calendar year 1908 will
probably show a total importation of
not more than $50 millions as against
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-18
a MAN OF GODS OWN MAKING.

There is no proper history except
the story of human lives and the
analyses of mems characters. An
epoch simply dates from the day ana
hour when some man was born. Events
are Incidents; decisive battles, mere
occurrences and the seismic convul-
sions by which the social and indus
trial orders are rent begin with the birth
of men who are born when the world
is ready for their coming. The Chris
tian era is we'll named. 1t began with
a birth and it's foundation is but the
manger of bethlehem. All that is great
and noble and the fulfillment of Cots
great purposes begins with the wall
of a new born babe.
Men come to work out these great
purposes of the creator when the time
is ripe. Christ could not have come
earlier. Lincoln appeared when cir
cumstances and the growth of the
human soul called to him. He dropped
into the seething alembic of human
hope and andeavor a new and needed
element. The precipitate was univer-
sal. human liberty.
Here was a man. born as we must
believe with the force of a magnificent
purpose behind him. Not now nor for
MANY wears to come shall the true
greatness Of the man and the wisdom
that created his type be understood
and appreciated. We still stand DO
close to the most imposing and mar
velous figure in American history; to
the grandest purely human figure of
all history, to feel all that he meant
or to realize all he accomplished. His
was a brotherhood to all humanity. a
fatherhood to all that was weak, help
les or in need of aid. The splendid
breadth of his wisdom, the grasp of
his magnificent mind, the heighth of his
nobility and the purity of his self sac
rifice, all the rounded fullness Of his
universal manhood that knew not
place. peoples. station, race. color or
condition, and that recognized alone
the common rights and needs of hunlaa
Kind, must await the generations of
the future to attain full recognition.
For centuries may elapse before men
grow to the moral and intellectual
stature Of Abraham Lincoln.
AS a historical type heYstands alone
like a, giant tree, landmark by which
the infinite future shall guide its trails
toward the best in government and
the truest in altruism. Above all the
triumphs of war, beyond all invention,
art, industry, commerce, national ag-
grandizement and territorial gain, are
the purposes Of God. And to Lincoln
was vouclrsafed the leadership on earth
of one of the greatest of His pur-
poses.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-18
When the President Failed.

An Arkansas man who was In Chlcago
a few days ago said that when Pres
ident Roosevelt was in the southwest
an one of his bear hunting trips it was
found that the dogs, which had be-
come sick on the train going down
would not hunt. The president and the
members of his party were greatly 9ut
out and a search for good bear dogs
was inaugurated. After the party had
suffered a good deal Of encouragement
a native of the country brought In
word that a negro who lived at the
edge Of nearby clearing MAD some
6ne bear dogs. but it, was said thai
there was no possibility of persuadins
him to loan them to anybody.
"He will lend them to me- said the
president in his well-known decisive
manner, and mounting his horse ne
started for the clearing.
~ understand" said Mr.. Roosevelt
when he was met by the old colored
man in front of his cabin, you have
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-18
Nerve of Yard Foreman.
(Collier's)

William Scott was yard foreman on
the Canadian Pacific at Montreal One
Of the crew in drilling a parlor car
gave 1t too hard a run, so that it came
down the siding toward some standing
cars at a rate that meant damage.
There was no question of saving life;
only to show how far a railroad man
will go to save the company's property
Determined to prevent the smash, If
possible, he placed himself in the mid
die of the track in front of the on
coming car, intending to leap on the
platform and turn the angle cock on
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-18
More Surprise Vet.
(Everybody's)


The infant mind has much to learn
in order to comprehend the English
language or the mysteries of etiquet. 1t
frequently puts it's instructor in diff
ficult position, especially if the instruc-
tor be mother dressed to go opt, with
a waiting and impatient husband down
stairs.
"where are you going, MAJ" asked
the youngest of the five children, from
his bed
"Tm going to surprise party, my
dear" answered the mother.
"Can't we go, too?"
"No, dear. You weren't invited"
After few moments of deep thought
during which the mother was bidding
the others good night.
Say, ma, don't you think they'd
be lots more surprised if you took us
alI1o
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-18

| making ever to the divorce counts and
allow commission? 1T would be good
| for business.
Tillman expresses his preparedness
"for the knife of an assassin. Till
man fror1 having thoroughly discred-
fted himself is now making an ass OF
himself.
| The election. just announced. of
Frank A. Vanderlip as president Of the
National City bank of New York, re-
calls one of the most picturesque
stories of persevering uphill work ever
related of a poor American boy. Thirty
years ago, Vanderlip was plodding
away in g. machine shop out west. at
rs cents e. day. His father had just
died in Indiana, leaving a widow and
her family with nothing but a farm and
few hundred dollars. The farm could
not be worked TO advantage, so the
young man took the place in the ma
chine shop as the only means Of sup
porting the family. He went at 1T like
a Trojan--he still works that way
and. after a ten-hour day. came home
to plod a portion of the night over a
shorthand text book.
The value OF the state fair as a
great summer school Of agriculture and
industry, cannot be overestimated The
substantial increase in equipment for
the state fair is appreciated by the
people, and attendance is steadily in
creasing. IL seems to me we must con-
tinue, at least for q time, the policy
of building permanent structures for
the state fair. / would recommend an
alter to avoid the constant danger be-
cause of the present structure. 1T is
unwise to invite our people to be our
guests at the state fair and expose
them to unnecessary risk.-Governor
Garst's annual message.
In the Harnptons overwhelmingly
the Broadway-Admiral Robley d. Ev-
ans is rapidly sinking the fleet of
mosquito magazine writer's who have
been discreditng the American navy
and It's staff of constructors. Admiral
Evans doesn't use the language we
have come to consider his especial pre-
rogative but he hits Reuterdahl and
the other critics below their armonr
line at every discharge of his terse
English. 1t Is good stuff and Hampton
is an excellent periodical to have hand
lily by for casual hour.
The Technical World magazine inn
proves. 1t fills unique field and fills
it to the satisfaction of it's readers. 1t
watches the march of invention and
discovery and tells and explains it all
in the language of the ordinary person
without technical training. Another
magazine along somewhat similar lines
is Popular Mechanics, as good in its
way as the World Both should be part
of the equipment of the schools. BY
the way 1t Is strange that rural school
boards do not supply magazines of this
class at the school house for the use of
the teacher and to the general inform
alton of the pupils. Children absorb
such knowledge avidly and with de-
light. 1t appears most of us have yet
to learn that the multiplication table
and the spelling book are a small part
of education.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-18
Topics of the Times.
The south "cottons'' to Taft, but 1t
votes for Bryan. Habit is a stern mas

I The south "cottons" to Taft, but II
votes for Bryan. Habit is a stern mas
ter.
The shercliffe trial in Minneapolis
bids fair to include considerable rak-
ing UP of matters highly discreditable
to Iowa. It is worth noting that all
these things we are fain to be
silent upon date back to the "old
regime"
A T.-R. want ad travels farther than
it would require to go eleven times
around the world, averaging the dis
lance to each subscriber at twenty
five miles 1t costs fifteen cents to
send it out on this trip, 'transporta-
ton and expense account included. Bet
ter try one of you want to buy, sell or
trade
Anything of less utility than to send
a bunch of congressman down to the
zone to determine the feasibility of an
unparalleled engineering project would
be hard to imagine.
drop IT," advises the Sioux City
Journal regarding the suggestion tc
spend $4,000 sending out the congress
sional attack on the president. The
advice should not have been required
Most persons drop hot articles when
they feel their fingers scorching.
Not to start anything, but when Is
Col. Lafayette Young to be incarcer-
ated for criminal libel?
Congress has finished its fit of buck
ing, but didn't even force the president
to "hunt leather"
Would the abolition of the tax or
moneys and credits lower the Interest
rate, and what effect on the prices OF
Iowa land would lower interest rate
mean?
The suggested state matrimonial bu-
reau for the state of Wisconsin is re.
dundant. Why not turn the match
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-18
Almost as Good.

Little Ikey came up to his father with
very solemn face.
rs it true, father" he asked, that
marriage is failure?"
His father surveyed him thought
fully for moment.
.Well, Ikey," he finally replied, "if
YOU get a rich wife it's almost as good
as a ure"--Lippincotts.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-18
some fine hear Dogs

some fine bear dogs.
"Yassir, yo' is shore right. Dem
dawgs Oh mine am de best bar daWgs
in his whole bilin' oh kentry."
81 WISH" said the president to boz
row them for few days"
"Not much, boss. nevah loans dem
dawgs out to nobody nohow."
'tBut you evidently do not know who
/ am. 1 am Theodore Roosevelt, pres
ident of the United States
'Ah CANT help dat, boss. Ah couldn
loan you dem bar dawgs eft you was
Booker r. Wash'n't'n heself."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-18
AucTloNEER
:. n KENDALL, Auetioneer,

Ear saIe-A good general mescaan-
disc stock. Invoice $4,000.
Ear saJe-Hardware, all good. Clean
"a. invoice about $4,000: also good
suicr building in the heart OF town,
reputation coo. =,
S have several good properties to sell
n Make your sale dates with
At 9 r nr,cs .,hone 81; residence 4s7 RED.