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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
FRUIT LOSSES MILLIONS
Acres of Oranges and Lemons
Frozen from San Bernardino
to Los Angeles.

Los Angeles, Cal. Jan. From San
Bernardino to Los Angeles, every acre
of oranges and lemons has been frozen.
This was the statement that came
tonight from Pomona, the center of one
of the heaviest producing sections of
the citrus fruit belt. Only a fifth of
the crop may be salvaged, it was as
serted. If this be true, the total loss
on $50, 600 acres of fruit will amount
close to forty millions dollars. More
conservative estimates, however, fig
ured the damage at twenty million dol
lars. Between five and eight millions
of this sum will be the loss to railroads
in curtailed freight receipts. The
weather bureau issued a bulletin to-
night that the worst of the cold wave
has passed.
According to growers a sudden return
to the warmth of normal winter condi-
tons would ir%reparably damage fruit
which might be in such condition that
a gradual rise of temperature would
leave it in marketable shape. This
additional loss would mean practically
the ruin of the citrus crop, the value
of which has been placed at fifty mil
lion dollars.
While Pomona reported a damage of
80 per cent. of the crop, San Bernar-
dino county appeared today to be the
heaviest sufferer. San Bernardino in
cludes the large Redlands orange sec
ton adjoining Riverside, and it was de-
clared that 80 per cent. of the crop was
ruined.
The weather moderated considerably
today, but the mercury began to drop
at shutdown, and it was expected that
by midnight the fruit growers would be
in the midst of the final "killing FROST
of the present cold snap.
l FEET MORE OF SNOW.
Seattle, Wash, Jan. Snow slides
in the Cascade mountains completely
blocked the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul's transcontinental line today, and
the Milwaukee, overland trains were
being operated over the mountain divi-
sion of the Northern Pacific, which is
also handling the Great N%orthern's
Chicago trains. Five feet of new snow
has fallen at the summit of the Cascades
since last night and the snow in the
mountains is now 10 feet deep.
ARKANSAS FROZEN SOLID.
Tulsa, Okla, Jan. with the Ar.
kansas river frozen solid Tulsa's water
supply was cut off today and tonight
the municipal electric light and power
plant was forced to close down after al
the available artificial ice had beer
melted to supply the boilers with water
Many cattle are reported to have frozer
to death.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
FRIDAY. JANUARY 10, 1913.

We are pleased to learn that the
committee on temperance has voted to
report the Inn Keepers License bill un-
favorably.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10
MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH.

Rev. Richard B. Esten. D. D., Pastor.
Morning worship at 1O:45. Preaching
by the pastor. Subject, 1.-The First
Thing in the World Sunday school at
- m. Glasses for all ages. Christian
Endeavor at 6:45. Union services in the
Congregational church.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10

other lax methods, are largely respon-
sible for a regular business of incen-
diarism amounting to millions of dollars
a year. Boston Journal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10

that increased interest would lead to
duplication of effort is a mistake.
Grange, State, College and Legislature
can all work together now.-Boston
Journal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1913-01-10

Suffered day and night the torment
of itching piles. Nothing helped me
until | used Doan's Ointment. The re-
suit was lasting. Hon. John r. Carrot,
Mayor, Girard, Ala.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23
Happy Little Girls
in Zuzuland
BY H. D. HOLT. London. England

is eenly for the 10 work more than they can heP Inc
women therefore manual labor while their husbands
fathers and brothers laugh and sing lie about at their kras anG tel
another what fine fellows they
welcomed into the world by her father because
will valuable Ii she taken care OF
Zulu lover will pay perhaps two cows for the privilege OF
marrying the lady and that she retain all her charms the little
maid allowed hard work until she mares excepting sueh
things as carving fuel her head to her parents kraa
carrying Zulu girl nstncvey puts 1t on her
goes store buy pot OF jam she walks grave over
balanced there and have in
carrying bundles of wood which tried and failed
lift ground They it to the head unaded by
lifting up gradually working the body under the burden
until balanced certainly exaggeaon to the women
carry bundle equal their weight for twenty miles a
day and think nothing much Of the feat
Younger have noble carriage which the result
of carving heads They walk with nguary stately
tread shoulders being thrown well back But they
get older the rudger of working in the fields begins to tell on them
very little difference in the appearance of of forty
a forty years her senior
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23
BAsK IN FORTUNES SMILES
Sailors From New Zealand Port Are
Reported to Have Made Rare
Find Of Ambergris.

In the old days, when the sturdy
men of New Bedford and Nantucket
nut out to sea in chase of the mighty
whale. they used to dream of finding
ambergris. A streak of fortune which
carried a lump of this stuff across the
bows of an old square-rigger might
make small fortune for all hands,
even to the lowest one in a hundred
laymen slowed away in the forecastle
But the streak OF fortune seldom
came
However, the sperm whale continues
to give us this ooncretion and the
navigators of the far-off waters some
times find It, The whaler Norvegia
comes hooting into Christchurch, New
Zealand, jubilant in the possession of
ambergris to the amount of half ton
at least the cables to the newspa-
pers say it's half ton. Inasmuch as
ambergris has seldom been discovered
in quantities exceeding 100 pounds.
the accuracy of the scales may per
haps be doubted.
And here's another thing. The same
dispatches place the value of the am
bergris at 100000. That is lot of
money for crew of hard-bitten
whalemen. yet perhaps it would not
be grudged them by world always
ready to applaud good fortune. But
armbergris is usually quoted at SIS the
ounce. What has caused this tremen-
dous advance? A decline would seem
more probable because the discovery
of such quantity might easily over
stock the market.
It's a good yarn of deep-sea treas
ure. Don't let's scott at it. 1t seems
fglrly sort of contribution to the
men of the Norvegie. and that the
men of the Norvegia are joyful there
at. And my lady's next bottle of SUI
perior perfume from Paris may con
tain, under the name of some sum
mer blossom, its share of the essence
which had its origin in the bleak ant
arctic.-Hartford Times.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23

The ele yen-year-old daughter of a
member IF woman's franchise asso-
citation, produced the following essay:
Il have been asked by lady friend
to write what know about Women
SuGeredge, 1t is a very difficult thing
to. be asked to write about, as hardly
know anything at all of it.
THE women, l believe, are divided
into four classes-the sufferegettes,
who break windows, throw black stun
into the piller boxes, and blow up
Lloyd Georges new houses-the suf-
ferigists who want women to get the
vote, but who don't want them to do
wild things-the antics, who are most
ly stupid, and don't want women to
vote at all-and the ones who don't
care if they get the vote or not. The
sufferigsts are far the most clever
usually. The sufferigettes are really
not much to be blamed for their con-
duct, for Mr. Asquith and Lloyd
George, and the rest of them, have
always been promising them the vote.
and then breaking their promises in
way that would make anybody mad.
Their husbands (if they have got any,
always pretend they sympathise with
them, but in their hearts they are
! antics"
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23
HowP ension System
Works In I France
By ]. P. Hastings. New York

lowing report published ayre FTane newspaper which pub
shed list 107 persons and 20 women employed IN tins
c and its vicinity medals of honor have been awarded
by decree Of and industry OF France for fat
full service thirty years the industrial establishment or ou
list included superintendent managers dock lore
accountants clerks spnners tao dressmak trawy
conductors naons caemers bermakes sokers aboe ETC.
The medal of employees and wormen was established IN
France by the decree July 1885, which authorized the minister OF
cred thirty years This be the establishment although
might have changed hands several times Intervening military service
will important condition is that the beneficiary oe
citizen France although his employers be foreigners
Applications be made stamped by the employer IN
behalf his employees the project Of the department. who forwards
them with such deems necessary to the minister of COM
me industry formal inquiry then made respecting the char
actor standing the whose behalf the applications have
been made medals then presented with suitable ceremony to
the employees mayor his representative at his office alr IN
the presence employers and the friends of those to be honored
institution very properly held in high regard by those for
whom it intended form of decoration bestowed by the
French analogous the Legion of Honor since those who
the medal permitted the lapel OF their coat
their coor ribbon
blue There organization at Hav the Association
des ea composed exclusively of those who have received
the medal or honor.
institution has, Of nothing to do with the od-age pen
sion system operation but it undoubtedly factor in
bringing industrial solidarity esprit de loyalty to employers
and cordial relations between employers and their employees
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23

One of the earliest of official rat
oatchers appears to aave been a wo-
man. An English warrant dated 1872
announces that, whereas, Elizabeth
Wickley is employed in killing of rats
and other vermins, in and about His
Mates Stores and Houses in We Tow
err of London, have therefore thought
fit to allow her We sum of eight (S40)
pounds per annum." During the next
century the office was invested with
great dignity and the "Gentleman's
Magazine" for 1741 recorded the APP
pointmsnt of Mr.. Cover as rat killer
TO his majesty, "a place of e100
(s500l a year. an honorable office"
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23
Material for Matches,

The body contains nearly two
pounds of hosphorus-enough really,
ii extracted, to make about 5000
packages of friction matches. This
phosphorus is claimed by scientists
to. be essential to our health and vigor.
Our bones are much stronger and
break less easily for it's existence,
and our minds are much keener and
able to work more rapidly and clever
ly than they could without it. Besides
phosphorus our body holds number
of ounces of sodium and nearly three
fourths of an ounce of potassium
quite enough of the latter to conduct
good many classes in experimental
chemistry at a good-sized university.
We are also carrying about with us
quite few grains of magnesium. If
we turned it all into use we could
make splendid silver rain for our
family on the fourth of July evening"
or We could create brilliant light so
strong that it could be seen and adj
mired for a considerable distance,
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23
I have just returned from

! have just returned rom
a trip to France, l locked
into the labor question in a
number of countries in Eu-
rope, but was greatly I'M
pressed with the pension
system of France. The fol-
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23

one in Cairo, is Mrs. We're Speke-Al-
ston. who was Miss Anne Chew.
About her family home. Cliveden. in
Germantown, center many historic as
sociations.
One of Rome's social leaders and
who. by reason Of her exalted posi-
ton, is frequently hostess to royalty,
is Mrs. George W. Wurts, sister Of
Charlemagne Tower, while occupying
much the same sort of position in
Paris and ct Dinard is Mrs. Hughes
Hallett. the former Emily Schaum-
berg.
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23
CONSIDER ONLY DUTY
LABRADOR PHYSICIANS NEVER
FINCH FROM DANGER.
Answering Call at Night Seems Hard
ship to Doctors in Civilized coun-
tries, but Read These Expert
ences in the North.

An urgent call in Labrador means
not only inconvenience and hardship
to the doctor and his sledge drivers,
but actual danger. Nevertheless, no
one ever flinches from his duty. DR..
G. X. Hutton tells of one such call.
On bitterly cold and stormy night
the message came from the mission
airy at Hebron, II miles away: Come,
my people are dying" It was an ur-
gent call and there must be no delay.
Quickly the dogs were harnessed to
the sledge, the Eskimo drivers were
in place; everything was ready.
1t was pitchy black when we
started A raw air came moaning
from the east; it chilled us through
our sealskins and made our cheeks
and noses ache. When | tried to
warm my stiffening toes by an occa-
sional trot alongside the sledge kept
stumbling over jagged points of ice
until one of the men shouted: "Sit
still, or we shall be losing you'll"
After that l sat still and hoped for
morning For two solid hours the
agony went on, and then faint glim-
mer of gray began to show in the
east; it changed to dull red, sullen
and lurid in the morning haze, and we
began to see the wide stretch of
white ice beside us, and a black and
awful sea ahead of us. The ice in the
bay had broken with the STORM
There is no road" the men said;
the ice is all broken there round the
headland Let us turn homeward."
81 know track over the headland,"
said Johannes. Let me see If we can
do it,"
He walked along the ice at the foot
of the rocks, now standing for a mo-
ment, now running a few steps; he
came back presently and said: "We
can do it,"
/ think that of all my memories of
Labrador, the most vivid is the mem
DRY of that race along the fringe of
ice at the foot of the cliffs. On the
left the wall of rock rose steep; on
the right the black water churned and
tumbled and ground the floating ice
pans together; beneath us the thick
sea ice rocked and heaved, and here
and there the water came swirling
through.
sit tight, sit Tight" said the
drivers, and there we sat, bowling
along over the heavy ice. Sometimes
one of the men pushed out leg to
guide the sledge around bend, OF
to check its speed. AT the place
where the guide led us to the head
land the ice was broken away from
the rock, and was rising and falling
with the swell One moment it came
groaning up to the level of the land
the next it sank away again. The
dogs went. scrambling over, glad tt
get on to something firm; but the driv
ers held the sledge back until the ic'
, began to rise, and then with vel
theY started the dogs again, AM
bumped across the crack just as i
came up level. A second too soon o
, too late would have meant smashing
the front of the sledge to splinters.
, Finally, in the dark of night, W
: got to Heb,on-71 miles over sea ic
l and snow.covered hills.-"Among tn
3 Eskimos of Labrador"
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23
Why Woman Should
Have reference
BY Eugene Comment, St. Louis. Mo.

ability endure maternity without injury
The Young woman not actually, is potentially mother
Because motherhood risk Of life risk of health
certainty and enal ask you to make the occasional
sacrifice not OF life, Of health but of comfort
The sharp which moments unpeasantne TO mean
life that girl the life Of her unborn child as well
rs her own the expecan MOTHER and cruel the who
is of the neuter sex, the French term it.
But alas though she be- she is forever to suffer
Tor fine long hours bringing child into the world
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23
Woman S Secret Of
All Easy Work
BY c. W. NORTON, New York

neeaking rush. try what keeping schedule will do for you
Buy notebook and head opposite pages with the day and date Be-
going plan down the work Of the next day In the
evening up what has been accomplished
Ii does long keep this simple schedule but it is surprising
quickly system from Busy go far plan
certain duties for certain hours
plan do much day. for then the opposite
disappointment which unwis efforts needless dsecur
agemen What left don day be carried to the next
days planning page jog against procrastInatIon
notebook object lesson to the shftes house
wife who works by fits and STARTS nothing accomplished has no time
leisure being nuisance herself and burden to her
family
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23

Men ought to give women
the preference where seat
ing is the question because
every woman may be or is a
mother. As few soldiers
serve their time in the army
without some physical dis
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23

When asked how she ac-
complished SO much work
50 easily the mother Of a
large family replied, 81
work by schedule
That is the secret of all
easy WORK. If you live in
Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-23

In few countries are the
native girls happier Up to
the age of about ten than
in Zululand: in still fewer
countries do they haze a
harder existence after that,
According to their tradition,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-10
TAFT'S BLUFF
REGARDING MEXICO.

On the eve of PRECEDENT Taft's de-
parture for the Panama Canal he
bristled up with startling suddenness
and apprised the country that patti
ence had ceased to be virtue, neces-
stating a drastic policy in dealing
with the republic of Mexico. He let
it be known that an ultimatum had
been forwarded to President Madero,
and owing to the pressing nature of
the emergency no time was to be
loSt-the document having been
transmitted by telegraph. The coun-
try was led to believe that immediate
steps were to be taken for the pro-
lection of Americans and their prop
erty, as Mexico would not or could
not do anything that would safe
guard American interests.
Nearly two weeks have elapsed since
the Presidents return and no action
has been taken. American mining
interests, evidently discouraged,
have taken steps to get all women and
children out of the zone of danger,
and within week all smelters in the
Chihuahua district will be closed
down. The situation has been going
from bad to worse for so long time
that it is believed advisable to move
the people at once, as there is no
longer any hope of measures being
adopted for their protection. With
American property in ruins it may be
the wieset course ito save the Ameri-
cans from possible slaughter while
there is time. Madero cannot pro-
tect them, our own government pro-
crastinates and the imperiled people
must depend on the rule OF self-pre
servation. A copy of the Mexican
Herald just received by the Gazette
shows an alarming condition of af-
fairs.
In less than two months we will
have new President, an0 II may be
that President Taft intends to leave
the Mexican situation as legacy to
his successor. Two months is long
time to wait for those whose lives
are in danger. However, it is believed
that no time will be wasted after
MIR. Wilson reaches the White House
The folds of the American flag will
be unfurled for the benefit of Ameri.
can citizens who see their properly
being destroyed and who are com.
peeled to take flight lest they meet {
like fate. After March 4 the people
will expect something more thar
mere flashes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-10
ROBINSON MONCURE
THOMAS Il. KEITH
Special Commissioners Of Sale

In the Clerks. Office of Fairfax
County Circuit Court, Virginia, No
vember, 26, 1912.
|, w. E. Graham, Deputy Clerk, of
the Circuit Court of Fairfax county,
do certify that Robinson Moncure, one
of the above named Commissioners
of sale. has duly this day given bond
as provided by law and decree enter
ed in above named cause, with United
States Fidelity and Guaranty Com
pany as his surety, for the due per-
missioner.
w. E. GRAHAM,
Deputy Clerk of the Circuit Court
Of Fairfax County, Virginia.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-10
BRYAN AND THE CABINET.
Cemmoner Says Such Positions Should
Not be Currency to Pay Debts.

Lincoln, Neb. Jan. 10.-Political gos
zip linking his name with cabinen1
position, on the score that President,
elect Wilso mis- personally obligated OF
indebted to make any such appoint-
ment,.is discredited by William j. Bry-
an in a first page editorial in his Com
moner which says in part:
Cabinet positions ought not to be
regarded as currency with which to
pay debts. They are responsible po-
sitions and in filling them the presi-
dent-elect should look to the future
and not to the past. A public Off
cial has no right to discharge poll
teal obligations at the expense of
the public. The men selected by Mr..
Wilson for the cabinet should be Sc
lected, not because of personal service
rendered him, nor even because OF
past services rendered the party. The
individual counts for little; the cause
counts for much. An individual if he
had proper motive for working, finds
sufficient compensation in the triumph
of ideas, principles and policies; ne
does not need the consultations of OF
flee. Offices should be, used to strerg-
then the party and to advance the
things for which the party stands. 1t
is pleasant to reward those who have
been faithful, where that reward can
be given without sacrificing public
interests, but where past service is
considered, it is better to consider it as
an assurance of future service than
merely because it has been rendered.
"The Commoner declines 10 discuss
cabnent possibilities, but it ventures
to express the hope that Governor
Wilson will be governed by higher
motive than gratitude in the selection
of his official household. In other
words, the welfare of the party and
the welfare of the country, not the
ambitions of men or the interests OF
individuals should be considered"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-01-10
r. F. Knox, !Auctioneer.
COMMISSIONERS SALE OF VAL
1 & sEllsg FARM NEAR ALEXAN-

COMMISSIONERS SALE OF yALUA.
4 {: iii. sf FliRAI NEAR ALEXAN-
DRlA, VA
BY vlrEue fof{a decree OF the Circuit
Court Of -FatTfaN County, virginia, en-
tered at The November term, 1912: in
the charcery; cause therein depending
of =. s: Coilaid. IN his own right, etc,
e2mglainan}5 2 aga j. h a5d A athsra
tRe unier s Special
Commissioners OF sale were therein or
dered TO expose to sale ct public auc-
ton in front of the Royal street en-
City OF Alexandria. Va. decedent, Viz
Siaia Co!lard's portion, being Lot Mol,
of the Groveton Farm, containing
abou. fifty acres OF good land, at such
seemed to them proper, but.at price
OF nor less than $50 per acre.
Therefore in pursuance ; Of S said de-
soser see of sae VIII exe6se to sale said
fifty acres OF land. at q price not less
Than $50 per acre, on SATURDAY, jan
UARY 18th. 1913. in front OF the ROY
KET HOUSE, ALEXANDRIA. VA, be-
ing bounded and described as follows:
Lot No. l of Groveton, Beginning at
in the centre of the County road
%here H.. line of Henderson or the
thence with said line South SO IL de-
grccs East to a stone, a corner OF Gill
ton; thence with the Clifton line North
corner of Lot No. >; thence with the
line OF the same North GS IL degrees
West 2d,SO chains to the aforesaid
County road: ard thence with the afore
sai ID County road to the beginning, con
tanning fifty acres. more or less, said
land being well wooded and in convcn-
lent driving distance of Alexandria
CRY. Va.
Terms. All cash. or one third cash
and the balance in two equal install
ments at six and twelve months. Con-
veyancing to be at the cost of the pur-
chaSerS.