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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27

In 1868 a fat man rushed into the office of
a well-known New Hampshire lawyer, and
told him he was drafted. The deuce you
are said the lawyer. 1T must be strong
man that could draft a man of your size. -
"Well, am drafted and want you to get me
of. III pay well for it, ''Very well -
and they proceeded TO the Office Of the Pro
vost Marshall. Here" said the lawyer,
'l've got you a substitute" =" ''He won't
do said the Marshal. "lle's too fat and
wheezy be can't march" Cannot you
take him Just for me?'' said the lawyer
NO." said the Marshal, ''it's no use |
don't want him This was just what the
lawyer wanted. ale won't do eh ~ mo,
he won't - "Well, then, scratch his name
off the list, for he is drafted, and came here
with me to be exempted The Marshal saw
they had proved too much for bin, and with
out another word ordered the mans exemp-
ton papers.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27

tight9' "Thank God, no - was the re-
sponse. This brain has never been mud
bled with the aecursed thing Once more
the muzzy one spoke: Then don't the
gen Tmau seem TO use great familiarity
bout an entire stranger, 5 long he haint
introdooced2' The speaker had to struggle
for some moments before he could circumvent
the unseemly interruption, and get back to
the thread Of bis discourse You see he did
not know whereof he affirmed.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27

The origin of warts has from time immem-
orial agitated the scientific mind. We al
ways supposed they grew ike hump on a
tree, but the following from cotemporary
would seem % argue against such theory
''The papillomata warts ondylomats epithe-
lioma,) originated essentially in an active
neoplastic process taking place in the Tete,
which penetratcs to greater or less extent
into the likewise hyIerthropiel connective
tissue matrix of the corium. The pBpill9 Of
the cuts here, too, perform only a passive
role, their elongation and dendritic form
being occassioned by the hyperthrophy of
the epdermis; while the elevation of the sur
face Of the skin is due the hyperthropathy Of
both "
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27
In the Valley of shadows.


10 seems TO be growing dark,
The t.til IS running slow,
But the car wheels rumble sot
I'm la fuch haste o ges home
For ny wife has a terrible pain ia her head,
And may DOT live I'LL | come.
Who is that there at the foot Of NY bed
And there On the nsutel eiiek, lex, cLct-
wonder u !iva hoea sick
don't feel aayfhin- much lika pain,
But, now remember the other day
windmill got in my head some way,
And its fans wheel round and roand in n brain.
Why, what have l done You needn't smile,
take queer notions Oues-in-a- while,
but you see II m perfectly sane
Hnd, come % think 4 IL dzain.
10 wasn't windmill. after all.
uni, sllae sand :. into my blood,
- o.en "a hiag along my veins Tor hours
;..f, f il -I't-s ant -rnis and ruos and scours,
- iil yoW it Won. .1u'l be strange to find
Ia Ia nag Y "a some holes In nv nind.
no" lls 10 get there sure enough.
But d is yery volatiiestlT
And think it o.; ia tuy food.
Nhv YES ot cuur-el he other dav
They gave me piecs Of t1as ei brick
And lor hours ana e9ats should thick Il lay
lJ would have made a weI nan si.k
Just loor a; those awk4a- curtain strings
They hang az oue side and ths curtains aEry.
Couldn't you fix them if you should trvl
What makes then 50 careless aoou. such things,
some Iaudanum for me 20 tasei
liz b. Hu. tha- is an Oli mistake
The s'ck mans ther1 at the flat 90 my bed
And bee 4rolus and t-sses aud tlm1ies about
I re1 D. wish yoI Won q ttse "a out
For. You see. be is out %. his head.
An1 when m ms head is "a little isht.
IT'S queer what sill = speeches he'll make.
Ard th this aad thst he has kept ne awake
Fog meee than half o. the uisht
saI another thing, 10. me rel you, l.
stop. auf lst r11 spe * lu your ear
D. o. ff.r "a y f . hIa tIgu nnlr=-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27

\ neighbor missed corn from his garner
ard his suspicious rested upon a reckless
fellow whom everybody called sam The
corn was kept in a chamber over the kitchen
which was left open and accessible by lad
der The victim Of the midnight "thefIery, -
as another neighbor calls it. determined to
satisfy himself concerning the identity of the
thief and made temporary bed upon the
kitchen floor and lay down to watch About
the hour when "churchyards yawn" he was
aroused from partial slumber by the rat
ting of the ears Of corn overhead, when he
suddenly called out at the top of mis- voice
"Hello :" quickly responded the thief, taken
entirely off his guard by this sudden call.
Cant take more than bushel.'' Then
shall have to pour it out :; for I've got two in
the bag already
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27

SAVE LITTLE Every man who is oblic-
ed to work for bis living should make it a
point to lay up a little money for that "rainv
day which we are all liable to encounter
when least expected. The best way to do
this is to open an account with the savings
bank. Accumulated money is always safe it
is always ready for use when needed. Scrane
together five dollars. make your deposit. re
ceive your bankbook, and then resolve 10
deposit given sum; small though it be.
once month, once week, according to the
circumstances. Nobody knows without try-
ing it how easy sbing it is to save money
when an account with bank has been open
ed. With such an account a man feels a
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27

desire to enlarge his deposit. 1t gives him
lessons in frugality and economy, weans him
from habits of extravaganza, and is the very
best guard in the world against intemperance,
dissipation. and vice.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27

EAIS 81 NtcIiSEaI.- The latest agricuilu-
rat experiment in b. gland : surisce irrigation
by sr;iicisi rs.rs. Ar Stone PARK this has been
tried. the surf-cr experimental on being a tract
of twentV sc es, in grass ami the water has
been spp.ied 10 art dc Al shosers. in the night.
every u:zbt during she season Of 1871, excepting
when natural rains usie it unnecessary. The
apparatus consists o. Pipes lsii ia the ground.
supplied from elevated reservoirs. into which
jhe va,er is pumped ty machinery A few hC-
ure- viii shog the result per acre: Interest @
per cent? on cost OF machinery snd pipes, 50,
80; supefsrrgcture aad fuel, SID; manure
ami other top dressing, SCI 30; cost Of har-
vesrur, Sl2 50; total expenses. S95. The
vsi1e Of the product II each scre is stated at
500 F.; the let prcGJ is thus 500 Land Of
the same character and IN the same tract, not 50
irrigated, netteI only SO per acre.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27

r.ss-..ut spring, their beauties coyly hiding
f.uu stranger eve,
rr..-.l -.- O. MS. as thou, the sweet sad chit.us
That al must dIcL
.. ...a.a.- wild flower blooming for some finder
Neum chan e may serd.
..-. -. tvi 3D. all its bloom. thy still reminder
That lic must end!
#... ueturr heauteous birds no. flowers, giving
Tle.r perfume rare.
-.. who cannot always here be living
Are half su fair
s.t..l. -ht leaf. which waited from a distance
Hast Lither flown
H- .r -le story % thy brief existence,
he read cur own.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27

SOURCE OF TIE Nnz.-This great river
rises in the Mountains of the Moon. in about
ten degrees Of north latitude, and in a known
course Of one thousand two hundred and fifty
miles receives no tributary streams. The
The travels Of Bruce were undertaken %
discover the source of the Nile. He ser out
from England in June, l76S; on the I4th
November, l770, he attained the great object
Of his wishes, and returned home in 1913.
The Nile overfows regularly every year, from
the 18th OF June 10 the l7th Of September.
when it begins u decrease, having given
fertility to the land and it must rise sixteen
Gu bits to insure that fertility. In 1929 the
inundation Of the Nile rose to twenty-six
instead of twenty-five cubits, by which thir-
ty thousand people were drowned, and an
immense amount Of property lost.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27

A certain eminent temperance lecturer
was setting forth most awful portraiture
of old King Alcohol, when a muzy-looking
brother arose in the corner of the hall and
observed: Il likt' ask the gen'l'man a
quesh'D." Certainly, my friend said the
urbane speaker, by all means" 81 wish II
inquire of the gen linn T he's ever been
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27

A special dispatch to the U'orld from London
states that Mr.. Bradlaw at an immense meeting
there Monday evening. declared that the queen
was insane. and demanded Regency. to be in
structed to the Judges Of Law and Equity, until
a Republic was established.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27
Senator COnkIing's Speech at Albany

The following are extracts from the eloquent
and effective speech with which Senator CoakiiuE
opened the State campaign in New York At A.
bany last week:
Bo.h Houses of our Legislature ase to be
chosen, as also members OF the Canal snd Prison
Boards aud these bodice, acting for nearly
8 100000 people, are 10 deal with affairs more
grave than these bodies ever dealt with before
The incoming Legislature will create for 10 years
the districts from which Representatives IN Con-
gress will be chosen. The State msy be fairly
divided, or to change or peryert results it may
be gerrymanderei snd z'gzageed tl Tammsny
Indian would te puzzled by the trail The SEN
ate TO be chosen now will participate in appoint-
ing Senator Of the United States These sre
matters Of importance, but they Sre less grave
than other things which the next Legislature will
hsye in charge
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27

Look at the city Of New York. In many re-
spects it is the proGdest city in the world.
When we consider lis geographical position, it's
colossal trade, its un6qusled activities, its gen
erous charities, its temples of learning and re-
ligion, It's civilization AMI advancement its ur
exampled growth, and its magnificent destiny.
where shsil We fnd cOmpassei in the same space
more 10 invoke the sympathy and admiration Of
mankind. let All this is prey to remorseless
spoilers. Iis streets reek with flth-yet fabu-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27

In front Of All questions pending in the State
of New York now, is the integrity Of elections
This question underles all others, hecusse it III
wolves all others II elections cannot be real and
honest, the majority cannot role, and then self
government and public liberty are gone Are
elections in this StSte real now ? Have they been
honest Of late years? When say real and hon
est, mean, has every elee,or enjoyed the right
to vote once and only once, and to have his vote.
and all others honestly counted and returned
No one candid and well informed, will deny that
on Manhattan Island elections have long been
worse than sham. False voting ana false count
ing decide every contest This would be fright
full if the usurpation sutjugstei only the million
Of people in the City Of New York but the Stste
is trsmpled down by pirates the osllot-bo1 ia
the metropolis, and nearly five million people
are subjected to their sNay
No mater what msjort es roll up where the
green grass grows, the Russ pavement overtops
them with false majorities swollen to suit the
occasion. Gigantic frauds which nov convulse
New York, disgrace the nstion, and amaze the
world, could never have been perpetrated with
out the villainy which counted John 7. Hoffman
into the Office Of Governor to which John A.
Griswold Was elected, and which seated men
10 the Legislature IN defsnce of the votes Of their
constituents
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27

.H..r AGA OF the obstinate Sailor Boy
.t... . .lt on the tu ming decks
.. .4rtt aEainst the pump.
--..I vino saw him there
.... Glow you're trump q"
r-.F..F Be the music faced,
r. smoke and % tme.
..... .a too " iy the track ~
.r.. was game
...-u raa eek The sailors le1.
..- Ha Id not linch
-.--- were getting ve-y hot
T.a.- at bulge an inch %
.fase cave the ship q" a sailor crisd.
T.t-' ca mly stay ed:
tr.a .leK bid him save himself
H.aa= rcd them, thats played"
H. ---.le ~ honor lud for ilmc,
a|t for world peif;
.. not leave my p st " he cried.
}.l law how 'tis yourself"
DIMES 5ev0u-ei the stately ship.
N was az aWII. scene.
.sf gct tls boys were not on hard
Who Jun WI,h the machine
T.sr cslle blast. the boy and all
s.e-e hurled .vari The SKY
Hs a-a had reached the magazine
..S1y, how is That Tor hiEht'
George P. V,bsfer.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27

The GIRLS THAT ARE GROWING OLD.-Har-
uer's Bazlr has q word of comfort for the girls
who are beginning to go of, as our English
cousins have Ir: We saw that our friend is
passoe. Is she past her intelligence, her
good-nature, her power of entertainment. her
wit, her usefulness generally2 On the con-
trary, she has usually but Just attained ez-
pcrience enough ID enable her to comprehend
aud i3in in conversation above the mediocrity
Of gossip and litter and compliment: her
gayety is not mere eiging, but there is in it
something Of the fash of enc0untering intel
lects; she has discretion enough TO be silent.
and knowledge enough TO speak on occasion
no longer raw, or Shy. or painfully selfcO
scious, her manners have charm of Tease that
gives ease 10 all around her. if she has ac-
compllshments, they arc rracticed and
mature. and You src spared. for instance.
the familiar horror ofa schoolgirls 5 music
if she has not the rosy lovelness Of her youth,
she has knowledge Of the arts Of the toilet
that makes her dress perfect and herself an
attractive object; ia fact, she has only lust
become capable OF enjoying and giving en-
Joyment IN society," and 90 far from the
young idiots who call her passee having any
right to siurs IN her regard, it is she who.
should be herselfan aTbiter of society. and
have authority to pronounce whether or not
they are in any sense fit to enter its charmed
circles. Indeed, it may well excite all the
wonder that it does among Europeans that
the young are here allowed to absorb all the
enioyments Of our social life-the Young.
who have nothing hut their youth or their
beauty to give; whose minds and manners
are almost totally unframed and insufficient
! who are, indeed, objects of pleasure to the
eye, and wherein they yield other pleasure or
profit do so rather in subsidiary way than
in the main. We do not wish to underyalue
the element of innocence and freshness which
the young bring or are supposed to bring,
with them: but we maintain that the virtue
of years, with their knowledge of the world
we live in, and their preparation for the
world We hope to live in-their wisdom.
their grace, and their charity-are of at least
equal value. and deserve e6ua! recognition
in the places where men and women meet to-
gether and we protest against the curyipr
of the "contumelious lip over the claims to
courtesy and consideration of the woman be-
yond her girlhOod.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27

Here is . fearful episode Of the Chicago con-
fszraiion. which We Sud in the New YORK
Sun:
The exprcssmen, hlckmeu, and drivers Of
every coccsivshie vehicle, goadei their horses
through the ihrongs Of mel, women. and chill
ircu, trampliog them down in their mad haste
10 deposit their loads and return for more plum
der. An exprsssman made this reply to a son
arld daughter who isd carried their sick father
IL their arms from = thiri story to the street.
and who offered this ezpressm.n SIS to carry
him few blocks out Of danger.
'- Don't talk about SIS TO me. Say 81 600,
and will tals with you"
They had no more money, and tried to carry
their father. who urged them to abandon him
ard ssve Themselves; bat they would not, and
were oyertaken by the flames and persisted.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27

Who looking backward from his manhood's pride,
,ees not the specter Of his misspent time
And, terough ths shade
ar -1nerai C. press, planted thick behind,
fl.trl 10 reprls,l VI whisper on the wind
From the loved dead
Who b,ars 20 trace Of passion evil free
Wa1 huns thy sting. q terr.3 c reL1orss.
Nho does aYt east
ps tue thr0lsed pages OF mis- mem ry's BOOK,
at times, sad aud half reiuctGut LOIS,
Regret vi OF the past
Alas the evil Which we fain would shun
We DO ana leave the wished for go-d undone;
our strength to-day
Dc but t1 mor-ows weakness. prone 70 fall
PU5r, blind, Improbable servants all
Are we always.
Yet who thus looking backward o'er his years
Feels not is eyelids wet with grateful tears,
Ifhe hath been
Permitted weak and sinful as he was,
@. cheer ana ard in some ennobling cause
His achievement
rfhe hath hidden the outclst, or let in
4 -ty of sunshine 10 the cell Of sin
fine bath lent
-t-srzth O. the weak, and in an hour Of need,
.Ir..- che suffering, mindless Ofhis creed
or home hath bent
..s ..=a1t lived in vain. Aud while he eivts
#.. -.-I 90 % him in whom he moves aud lives
Ni:h tlsukful heart
-.s backward, aud with hope before
z 1h-t ir1m his works he neverwore
I4a hcuceflrth part.
John G. Whinisr,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27

R,n, Ayl.-T.s .-sa,,aie,s a-,ba...-
.--..-.i- ........,-. ,.
..-.s...----.'. ..... NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
Hc 20 AAi 'As i-.oT'ns
The man aLo thinks be o.u.lr @ improve iae
eii'oris. tln- ot bis newspaper . be- tal the
management % b.
The unmarried Ialy we9 want @ uere ei-.
when an Incident ot twenty years a-1 she .-
.orcei Q. -ec-..eci occurred
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27

Iron in considerable quantities has lately been
discovered in ireland and Scotland. In County
Down, a bed yelling s. per cent. Of ore has
been found and some slsO ia the County Of An
trim Professor Anderson, q Glasgcw. has
pronounced favoFably in regard to specimens
submitted 10 him from the newly discovered iron
stone field in Caithness.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-10-27

he Beaufort, S C., Repu5iicaa, in sp akinr
OF Vermont manufacturers, speaks IS follows OF
the National Horse Nail Company, Of vergsaues,
Of which our toWusman, J. D. Kings,sud, Is
President;
Directly at the foot Of tbs fails, on a margin
that is partly overhung by the primitive rocks.
the National Horse Nail works are bui.t, and 10
one visiting this region should 20 away without
witnessing the interesting process through which
bars Of fne Sxeies iron become multiplied into
the various sizes Of those Indispensable little
articles whcreWith the shoes Of horses sre fast
euei Each stage Of the process is a history in
itself for the mschines used, the appliances for
working, so simple and yet 30 perfect, imply
genius ef a high order. and il IS not all the IL
ventive sgnius Of one man the intelligent. me
chsnic discovers some want, and after study bits
upon the means for its supply His fellow op-
eraiive grssps same other idea. aut fistens il 90
his machine, and so it goes On. We used to
talk about labor saving machines years ago, but
no blacksmith in she land down 10 a very recent
period would have believed that good horse nails
could be made in any other than the old way.
upon an anvil snd by hand. Let them look at
this factory see the bars Of iron drawn into I
nail plate, cut into nails, polished by friction, I
aud uointed, and then try them in every way I
they desire, and be convinced when they will I
cease to wonder thss fifty men, boys and girls, /
aided by poSersul machinery, cannot keep up I
with the demand for nails.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-01-07
Early Influences.

There can be no greater blessing than to be
born in cheerful, loving home. 1t not only
insures happy childhood-if there be health
and good constitution-but almost makes sure
virtuous and happy manhood, and fresh young
heart in old age. I think it every parents duty
to try to make their children's childhood full of
love and childhood's proper joyousnessi and
never see children destitute of them, through
the poverty, faulty tempers or wrong actions of
pareLts, without heartache. Not that all the
appliances wealth can buy are necessary to the
free and happy unfolding of childhood in body
or heart-quite otherwise, God be thanked !
But children must at least have love in the
house and fresh air and good play, and some
good companionship out of it, otherwise young
life runs great danger of whitening, or growing
stunted or sour, or at best prematurely old ana
turned inward on itself.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-01-07
Education and Liberty.

The two go hand in hand. So insists the
Hon. Henry S. Foote, extracts from whose
recent address before the Fisk (colored)
University at Nashville, were given in your
paper last week.. "Surely," he says, ''it
is proposition too plain to be disputed,
that a system of Republican freedom can
not possibly be maintained, unless the peo-
pie living under the system, are both in
telligent and virtuous." He makes his ap-
peal to history in support of his statements,
and argues that it is the duty of the State
to preserve itself by caring for the educa-
ton and virtue of the people. Nor would
he confine this word people" to the white
race. He includes in it 1.-THE whole body
of our youth in America, of whatever COM
plexion and lineage" The education and
moral training" Of them all, constitutes
the ''imperious necessity" of which he
speaks. The distinguished orator does not
leave any doubt as to his opinion concern
ing the education Of the colored people,
whatever the Scribes and Pharisees may
say or think of him. He refers again and
again TO tDat point. He analyzes the ben
etits of mental and moral instruction, and
states them in detail. Observe his remarks
under this head:
I'm this way, only, can we enable our fellow.
citizens everywhere to comprehend the work.
ing of our wise but complex system of govern
ment. In this way will they be enabled to Judge
OF the character and qualifications of those who
shall aspire to places of official trust; detect
malfeasance in public functionaries, and pun
llsh it; and unmask the delusory claims of
knaves and false pretenders."
Mr.. Foote is not confident, however, that
all these benefits are in store for us.
Whether they are or not must depend.
much," he thinks, 'upon those now up
on the stage of action" But ''there is one
proposition" he concludes which he is
'sure no one" of his hearers would "be in
ciined to dispute, and that is as follows
TT is our sacred duty to forward the educa-
tonal welfare of that class of our young people
whose ancestors participated so. efficiently in
clearing our forests, in tilling our lands, in
building up our villages and cities, and who ad-
minlstered IN former years in thousand inter-
estlng modes, to our domestic comfort and to
our social business
Now, it is much to be hoped that the
good sense, the humanity the freedom from
unreasonable preiudices, and the clear un-
derstanding Of the welfare of the State as
involved In rescuing all its youth from ig-
porance and vice, aud training them i'm
knowledge and virtue, which are shown
by Mr.. Foote, will be initiated by all per-
| sons who offer to lead in and manage pub
lie affairs, and who have been disposed to
conduct them upon principles better suited
to the middle ages, than to the year
| EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY ONE