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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23
Swiss letter to the Toronto Globe.
Queer DOctOrlng,
THE COWS uREATH" AND GOATS WHEY
CURES IN SWITZERLAND.

,,,Rr. IN sy,rzrpr.xn
1t rs In the valley OF the kander that, in
addition to the mineral spring, there IL an
establishment to which invallds 90 to inhale
the breath OF cows. There Is Il large saloon
pa-lor lifted up with row OF stalls for cows
on either side, and in the centre are placed
sofas and chairs on which the patient sit /;
and, the external air being excluded, they
are forced to take into their lungs the same
air which has passed through those of the
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23
The Last Hymn.

b1 AAhlAhNE fAhslNGHAA.
The Sabbath day was ending, in village by TIL
The uttered tenediction touched the people ten
derly,
As they rose to face the sunset in the glowing
Aud then FASTENED to their dwellings for Gods
hlessei boon Of rest.
But they looked across the waters, and storm was
raging there;
fierce spirit moved above them-the wild spirit of
the air
And it la,hed, and shook and tore them, till they
thundered groaned and doomed,
And. alas for any vessel in their yawning gulfs
entOmb-d.
Very anxious were the people on that rocky coast
Lest the dawns of comm morrows should be telling
AWFUL tales.
When the had spent its passion, and should cast
upon the shore
Bits Q. wreck. and swollen victims. as 1t had done
heretofore.
With the rough winds blowing round her, q brave
woman strained her eyes,
And she SAW aon. the bilows large vessel fail and
rise.
Oh it did not need prophet to tell what the end
For no ship could ride in safety near that shore on
such sea.
Then the pitying people hurried from their homes
thronsed the beach;
Oh for the power 10 cross the waters and the per-
Helpless hands wrung for sorrow tender hearts
grew cold with dread,
And the ship, urged by the tempest. to the fatal
rJck shore sped.
''She has pa ted in he middle Oh the half of her
goes DOWN
God have mercy! Is heaven far to seek for those
who dr. -
Lo when next the white shocked faces looked with
terror the sea.
Only enc last cinsing figure on the spar was seen
70 be.
tossed by tie wave,
And the man still cung and dosted, though no
power on earth could save.
'Could seLd him short message? Here's q
trumpet. Shout away ="
'Twls the preachers hand that took 1t, and he won
dered what to say.
Any memory Of his sermon Firstly: Secondly
All, no
There was but one thing to utter in the awful hour
OF woe
So be shoured through the trumpet, Look to Jesus
And 'Ay, a., sir :" rang the answer DER the waters
loud and clear.
Then they listened. "He is singing Jesus, lover
OF my soul ;"
And the winds brought back the echo, while the
nearer waters roll :"
Strange indeed, 1t to bear him, It'll the storm
q; lite is past"
Singing bravely from the waters, "oh seceive my
soul al last."
lie could have no other seiuge "Hangs my help
less soa on Thee;
Leave, ah, leave me not."-The singer dropped at
last into the sea,
And the watchers. looking bomeward. through their
eyes with tears made dim,
Said; He passed to be with Jesus in the singing OF
hat b, nm"
-Chicag0 Journal
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

Two shocking tragedies in New York city,
one in high life and the other in low, point
afresh the moral of the horrible folly and
wrong of indulgence in strong drinks. In
one case young wife killed herself because
of the ill-treatment of 4 drunken husband.
She was the wife Of Robert Stuart, son of the
late Capt. Stuart of the navy, and step-son
of Gen. Elijah Ward, member of the last
Congress. The family is one of great wealth
and high social standing. Young Stuart for
some time has been the victim of the
taste for liquor, which he had Inherit
ed from his father, and which had become a
disease when he married Evelyn Marks.
The marriage was opposed by friends on
both sides. While the Marks lImily did
not know Of the excesses to which Stuart
was addicted, yet they regarded him as a
worthless young fellow Mrs. Ward, his
mother, knew only too well her sons habits,
and did not encourage the engagement Miss
Marks knew that Stuart drank, but thought
she could reform him. At her urgent re-
quest he was confirmed at St. Tnomas's
church, last Spring. After their marriage,
seven months ago, they took elegant quar-
tiers at the fashionable Berkeley Hotel,
on Fifth avenue. Mrs. Stuart's suderings
from that time can only be inferred from
their sad elimination, for she never com
planned OF her lot until last Saturday, when
she said to one of the servants of the house
that her husband had ill-treated her and she
would rather die than live. Sunday night,
Mr.. Stuart returned to his room stupldly
drunk. and threw himself upon a lounge for
the night He saw his wife lying dressed
upon the bed, but he took no more notice of
her until morning, when ne became alarmed
at observing that she had not stirred. Going
to her side, he found her unconscious, and,
though physicians were called and every
means taken to arouse her, she died in
short time. \ vial in her bureau drawer,
partly filed with laudanum, indicated the
manner of her death. Mrs. Stuart was about
23 years old, woman of refinement and iu-
tellgence, and an exemplary Christian.
The miserable husband is almost crazed, and
mingles hysterical tears with curses upon
himself as the cause of the death of his
lovely wife. He is threatened with an attack
of delirium- tremens.
In the other case, a labOring man de-
stroyed himself and three children in an in
ebriate passion at the drunken imb seiliEy of
his wife. This was German family, whose
weakness was wine and beer. Such is the
work of the demon OF drink
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

RRAL REFINEMENT. 1t is not boon COM
panion thar II right minded man wants III II
young woman, it is something to call ont his
higher feelings of respect and honor. This
is not saying that the woman should be pru-
dish, or helpless, or inactive though. on the
whole. Mrs. Barbauld's mother was right,
and prudishness is the better extreme III II
girl than tastness.
Real refinement has the full play of all its
faculties and its very modesty hindrrs it
from dependence and feeblrness. 1t is 81
Instructive. that to lay down rules for IT Is
almost injurious to 1t. All that can be sud
is, that it IL the delicate aroma Of Chrlstinnl-
tv. Ii shnukS from no task, however pam
iul or disagreeablr, that ought to he done ,
but simply goes through with it. 1t makes
no parade OF sensitiveness or of drcornm, hut
it silently stands aside from whatever Jars on
its sense of the fitting. 1t loves the shelter
of home, the protection OF parent, brother or
husband ; vet II will pass over ordinary
bounds when the call comes not of pleasure
but duty. All that is tainted with evil. and
bears the trail of the serpeHt, Is hateful to 1t.
No undesirable newspaper report, no novel
founded on crime and full of questionable
situations, are studied 10y it. 1t does not
take pleasure" in the story OF the evils 1t Is
restrained from committing Nay, its very
words are pure from all those slang terms of
doubtful origin, the charm of which Is u GER
tam audHclty and naughtiness III using
them, and the cheap wit OF msapplying
them.
The saying about calling spade spade
has also done harm. 1t was a reaction from
the evil of veiling u coarse idea under an cle-
giant periphrasis. and IT goes on the principle
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

Tur I,;ra,otiro, Sboeuol,c, u,s ,,,, ,,r,l,
oIJ,, ,,r,.at Ioss =, snciat,, o., -. ,s
nossed IN the s,aS,o e,cey, that tbl La;
rmIty Of bringin~ nm family Of cbildren IN
t",ai ig,'o,npce Of bnw :" ,,,,l,,. .L"as ,nr ~,
themselves when sbocrp.liu,, ia ,oin,, az,
occnsionnlIy in the house ANS rr,.af n, fh,t
ot nblitcmiinp aIl knowIedo, of domestic
br,,d maxine Will tLa t,r.s of I'm, i.,,5ly
b,lsno buru frirhtIy A. nearly MS | rni
find ont tho shoemaker ,yln bn,rd,J nrourd
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23


Anna Dickinson is publishcd Ms having II
talent for sculdng | never heard her scold-
ing talent disputed The superb proof she
has given of her eloquent possession of it
does not se,1n to scare the wuuld-be husbands
in the slightest, though all men declare TINT
they can bear amy utllctlnn better than It
sculding woman I've come to the conclusion
That ON u magnificent scale they rather like
it. else why du they march upon Anna and
hey her to sculd them for life Mt tine rate of
seventy or So II year = Henry Wilson. after
he became \Icr-rrcsidcnt. called on me one
day in deep perturbation of SPIRIT, and told
me that "Annn Dickinson hmd been recon-
mcndcd to him as wife, and asked my
opinion ON the subject,
The possibility OF her not accepting. IT he
asked, had not d,.wncd ipou the old gentle
mans mind
"Anna il attractive, he went en- "but
I'm afraid there's too much of her She Il
keep ON wanting Il career of her own.
wouldn't she: That would put 1t public man
i'll au unpleasant position don't You thmk
sD2'
81 think, | said, that ii you ever receive
iu IL dr. wing room, with Anna Dickinson "a.
5oUr wife. that You, Mr Wilson, will he no
whore, If you are Nicerresident "
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23
!. NOVEMBER o3, 1877.

was extinct and from that time the church
OF Justnlan has served as the chief mosque
OF the clty- The various Christian emblems
were covered with plaster and thin coats OF
PANT, and mosaics. which could have offend
ed no one, were afterwards treated in a SINH
lar fashion. Large and heavy exterior but
tresses, rendered necessary, it is asserted,
by the shock of earthquakes, were added by
Selim H. and Amurath III. but what might
be considered 4 fortunate neglect was more
or less the fate of st. Sophia until 1917,
when 1t was placed in repair by the italian
architect Foscati, at the instance of the Sui
tan Abdul Meiid His work lasted through
Two years. and was completed under great
dlfhcultles. Only the zeal of Reschid Pasha,
1t is SAID, enabled him to bring it to sue
ccsSful end
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

The New York Times Washington cor
respondent says, that at the interview be-
tween the committee of Republican Sena-
tors and President Hayes, on Tuesday
mittee, in general terms, that lie did not in
tend to appoint Democrats when Republi
cans lit for the postum could be selected.
unless there were in 4 given ease special and
particular reasons for different course.
lie had not nominated any Democrats with
out reasons which seemed to him sufficient,
and which he had no doubt would seem
sufficient to the Senate, if placed before them
in detail He spoke freely and at some
length of his views concerning the treatment
of the Southern situation. The nomination
of Fitzsimmons to be Marshal in Georgia
was particularly referred to, and he explained
at length the reasons for the appointment.
The principal reason was that the State of
Georgia is overrun with small distillers who
carry on their operations in the mountains
and who, when pursued, run away with the
entire machinery oi a dlslillery in a wagon
The attempts that have been made to break
up this business have been attributed to
political persecution, and it WIS concluded
that the administration ,t the law
would be carried on more efficiently
and with less friction if the officer most
active IN the enforcement of the law were
man of their own party. The selection was
made chiefly upon the Recommendation of
Alexander Ii. Stevens. The President is
confident that the appointment will result
in better enforcement of the revenue laws
than has heretofore been possible. The Sem
atOrs were by no means convinced of the
necessity Of appointing Democrat to enforce
the revenue laws, though they were con-
vinced that the President had acted in this
and other eases from what seemed to hin
sufficient cause The talk was very free and
plain on both sides, the President replying
with good nature, hut with dIrectness and
painness, to the arguments presented by the
Senators. The conference resulted in no
compromise and no concessions. The Presi-
dent did not agree that he would not here
after nominate Democrats to ofi;es, and the
did not recede from the position
of the caucus that such nominations ought
not to be confirmed. \ cautious member of the
committee expresses the opinion that the
President will he much more careful in Sc
lecting Democrats hereafter, and will be
more certain of the strength of the reasons
which control his action, aud thaJ Senators
will be less likely to find fault until they
have taken pains to understand the Presi-
dents reasons.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23
Than ksgiving-Day.

Hail, hail. Thsnksgiving-day.
Welcome to SAINT, and sinners
Welcome TO all both great and small,
Thou day of royal dinners
See how they come from far and near,
troop vi "caTpet-baggers,"
To grAcs the board with one accord,
Ant appe ties like daggers.
Who cares for Turkish war abrosd
Who cares io- serf or CEar
Our Turkey lies before our eyes
Come and attack-hurrah
With kni.e and fork We win the day,
truce to care and sorrow
Eat while we may, 1hanksg ving-day
Will fade before to-moTrow.
We're thankful for host OF things
Too numerous to mention,
f II swecthearts trIe aud hearts to woo,
And all things worth attention.
For all and every thing that gives
cur lives SO much OF pleasure
We offer thanks. Long may We taste
Thine ogerlowing measure
Then hail, hail Thanksgi
Thou day OF royal dinners
Nor will We care i th- grim nightmare
Shouli fright the soul within us
" hen da, is dune. Let Turkeys ghost,
With the nuts and ppAdiDgs and wine,
In the dead Of night begin their fight,
Siiil-,ictury is thine
Elders DraiUer, in HaTPeT's HttAls
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23
Promoted.

BY J. A.
Let Us say prayer.
There is u chill In the november air,
Colder and sharper than It's wont to be
There is SLOW bell tolling morniullyi
Some one is dead.
soul has slipped the silver links and fed
With the waning year. and the wlther'd leaf,
Ii is gathered home like ripened sheaf.
sope one is dead.
his place will be long untenanttd
BY hands as willing 10 do their part,
by as clear a head, BY as large heart
A man Of power
A Statesman, strong in the perilous hour,
wise to counsel, serve. Command
A potent force In the widespread land.
Then toll the bell;
He labcred faithfully, long. and well
Enroll his name with the honored dead,
And rear the marble above his hsad.
Toll all the bells,
And wave hi IN a wreath o, immOrtellcsp
Plant roses around him and lilies sweet;
Aud write on the stone at his heart and feet.
With a bold hand write;
"Tbis soul has hlossoInsd through death to light
To fuller lite at last tet free
To unfold itssli through eternity
Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Epodon.

from the Amherst Scorpion Of 1862.
Ii institutio Amherst est
Omnium cOllesarum best,
Ejus profs, tutores sunt
Punklns sum.
Ubi fncultatis lex.
Cum pOtesiste Ell Prex,
ReguDt freshmanorum mores
MenIes atque.
Expellunt SOphOmores nunc,
Suspendunt Juniores tune,
Gum d znitate" seniores
"Utium" capiunt.
Tam salvete. D salvete,
Cursm for yourselves habete
Ne hanc locam relinquetis
Very suddenly.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

At Lexington, Mo, lately, there were three
men IN wagon drawn by two blind mules.
The driver had but one eye AMI the Other
two men were totally blind The amount of
responsibility that rested upon the one eve
in the wagon, adds the Cuuia-iwraal, can
scarcely be estimated
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

Two girls, Of good looks. cultivated mines,
and good parentage. recently ran away from
an academy in Northern Ohio, and. without
money or clothing except what they had on,
got on board u railway train, and rode until
they were put off by the conductor. Then
they got on another train, and were again
put off, and after repeated getting on and
putting off, they wandered into q wood, and
subsisted on stolen food. They had been
living this gypsy life for some days, indulg-
ing in strange antics and seeking the queer
est adventures, when their friends and rela-
tive, having been apprised OF their flight,
hunted them down, and carried them home
by main force They were in sorry plight.
Their garments were soiled and in tatters
their hair was irretrievably tangled their
eyes were bloodshot ; they had lost their
mOdesty and all sense of conventonalism.
They fought against capture with tooth and
nail, and with such energy and spirit that
they resembled ballet girls in scantlness OF at
tire when they were finally overcome Alter
week oi confinement they grew tractable,
became their gentle selves once more, eI-
pressed contiluOn for their behavior, and eX-
plaiued their eccentrcities by affirming that
they had been possessed Of devil.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

\ "CoRSEr LIVER. some medical stu
dents in one 0t the colleges ot thiS
city, dlS-cctluE female subject II
lew days ago. found what j. called M
doctors parlance II ''corSet liver when
tight lacIng has been practlscd through
several years. a permanent dent "r hollow l.
produced IN the liver, which may he seen
very plairly aiier tho woman Is dead and
occurs sotrcqunntly IN womsn that phS>I-
cIaG. have gwen 1t the name OF corset
!;Str.' In the subject mentlouci the hni-
low in the liver WAS large enough tot ttc
wrist ut u crown man t, he laid in 1t.
Ncuue ladies " no don't want their lI,erS
put nro the newspapers after they are dead q,
would better take warning - CmaHRdfi
Connnereldl
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

TuEv had heea engaged ',r a long t:m,,
and ure s'eu.ug they ere reading the rn-
pe' .ageth'r. ..ouk, love-" he exclaimed,
""S t~en' dollars Tor Of clothes - i
II u "coding suit2' she asked, luoSinG
nulycly ut her lover. "Oh. ne. he an
~wcrcd "its a business suit well, !
meant business, =" she replied
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-11-23

What picture of a perfect woman And
In the following tender memorial to her
mother we indeed find her love living, her
"mercy" spreading to the rescue from mis-
conception of the one of all others whom
she most would have wished her love and
mercy to shield ut least this was the way 1t
struck me- though severe friend who will
tolerate nothing that is not ertect and whom
] asked to help me translate II, somewhat
cuttilgly remarked OF It that it was ''Eritton
in Lqiia de caiS,He," and that the ending was
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-12-11
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-03-29
Alefanorla 6axttte
THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH %.

FAITHFUL TO HIS TRUsT.-We hear all about
the bsd deeds of this wicked world, but the good
deeds are rarely alluded to al any length. We
expect people 10 be honest and say nothing
sbout it. It is the dishonesty of men that e.
cites comment Tho other day, in New York.
BIZ. Samuel T. Skidmore, the executor OF the
will of one John r. Townsend, who died thirty
years ago, asked to be relieved Of his trust on
account Of age. The son of Mr.. IoWnseno
stated in court that during his long trusteesnip
Mr.. Skidmore had refused to accept one cent OF
remuneration, and be requested That accounts
Gavin said it was bright spot in the history
Of the court where 20 many had P prsssoa isis
themselves so highly grstfed with its manage
ment. He directed the accounts of MIR. Skid.
more to be passed without examination: There
are thousand instances of similar fidelity on
the part CT executors and trustees in Boston,
but ne do not remember that any one ever TOOK
care Of a large estate for thirty years without
compensation --BoSton Journal.
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1877 GREAT l},;'ss

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