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Hooks Practical Jokes.

There is story told of Hook carrying
off splendid wooden Highlander from
before snuff shop, throwing q cloak
friend" he said, addressing the driver,
who looked rather astonished at the fig
ure, ssa very respectable man, but a little
tipsy" Not even the passers by in the
street were exempt from his cool impu-
dence Observing man Of most pompous
air struttipg down the Strand, he stop
ped him with 81 beg your pardon sir, but
may | ask if you are any one PARTICULAR
Then, without waiting for a reply he
walked off, leaving the stranger transfx-
ed with amazement. These, however, are
but poor specimens of his efrontery
Strolling one day arm-in arm with Dan
ial Terry, the actor, up a street in Soho
his nostris were assailed by the most
savory odor. Looking down an area, he
saw the servants in the kitchen below
dressing up very fine dinner.
"a party, no de5ubt," said Terry; sjolly
dogs! what feast. l should like to make
one of them.;' "Ill take bet l do re.
piled Hook. 'Call for me at ten" Leav-
ing his friend, he mounted the steps and
knocked at the door. Believing him to
be one of the expected guests, the servant
conducted him to the drawing room, where
number of persons had already assem-,
bled., Making himself perfectly at home
he ltl half-a-dozen people about him
Laughing at his 6ons maots, before the host
discovered that stranger was present
~ beg your pardon sir, he said, address
ING the unlimited one, "your name
Il did not quite catch it; servants arr
incorrect" 'Smith, sir, Smith, re
piled the unblushing Theodore, "don;
J apologize, you are quite right, sir, ser
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Artemus Ward on the Platform.

From the Sunday Cleveland Leader.
To begin at the beginning, there al
ways was a suggestive incogruity in Ar
tmus Wards announcements. This time
it was advertised that the lecture would
he Just one hour long, commencing at
a quarter to eight and ending at nine.
Now, it was precisely a quarter of eight
when there emerged from the right up
per entrance of the theater the we'll
known slight form of the veteran show
man. I say well-khown." but the ex-
pressions Of those around me as he took
his seat were those of surprise, as if they
expected to see the burly creature that
dispenses show-bills in the frontispiece Of
ssThe Great Moral Panorama"
No likeness to him was truly discern
able in that frail, thin, faultlessly dressed
figure that now sat so quietly at one end
Of the stage. The impression on one was
of pain. The face wore such pallor; the
eyes were so preternatunally large and
melancholy. It seemed as if death had
already marked him for his own. In a
moment or two he seemed disturbed. He
took out his watch and looked at it.
Then he looked inquiringly and anxious
ly at part OF the audience. Then he
put back his watch. He then changed
his position; shifted one leg over the
other; after half minute shifted it back,
and followed up these motions, with 9th
ers suggestive Of uneasipess so contin-
ually that they began to infect the audi
ence. We were all wondering what it
could mean. AS his nervous unrest be-
came more marked, our sympathy with
the evidently suffering lecturer became
positively uncomfortable.
He now took out, looked at intently
! and replaced his watch again, glanced al
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the audience piteously, as if expecting
from them some relief, tilted back in his
chair then forward again, as if catching a
thought that he might toPple over, and
then he half arose, sat again and began
positively to tremble. Our nervous sym
pathy was now at fever heat, and really
believe something to relieve the suffering
lecturer would have been done when sud-
denly a large clock in one of the churches
began telling the hour of eight. At the
first stroke he grew calm and collected,
and as the last was echoing on the stilled
air he arose to his feet, and coming to the
center of the stage, his voice was heard
low and hesitating and apologize, ex-
planning that mis- trepidatlon during the
last fifteen minutes had been caused by
the fact that he had been advertised to
begin speaking at a quarter to eight and
end at nine, and yet only to speak an
hour, and he couldn't tell whether to be-
gin at quarter to eight and speak till a
quarterAo nine, or to begin at eight and
end at tine. Here his apology might have
ended.
But mere apology did not suit his de-
signs. He went on into an elaborate and
ingenious exaggeration OF his, of course,
imaginary feelings OF suspense. | can
hear even now his slow, quivering, hesi-
tating voice as it struggled q can use no
better world out to us, in visible embar-
rassment, all the more effective because
it was feigned. It was the best serio-
comedy to listen to his recital of his ina
bility to speak more than an hour and
the dilema in which he had been placed,
and on either horn of which he affecting
ly said he had been fearing he should be
tossed. In explaining, or attempting to
explain the situation more graphically, he
used word which was obviously not the
one he wanted. He Immediately perceiv-
ed this and glibly remedied it by pronounc-
ing another. But this, too, was plainly
incorrect So he stumbled upon third
synonym, but this was SO conspicuously
inexact, that he halted, nonplussed.
Then he tried to go on again, but the
fourth attempt was the choice Of so in
congruous word us to cause asmile. As
if painfully aware that he was becoming
ridiculous, he went back and began all
over again. But this was too much; the
audience drowned his voice in peals of
wild hilarity over the long joke to which
itself had contributed And when few
minutes later, he was pathetically telling
US all, that he had come there to Boston
to lecture so that he might get money
enough to go to Africa, for he would feel
as if he had lived in vain if he didn't &C
to Africa, and, bursting into tears, he
didn't want to live in vain, he would
rather live in Bostcn--so great was the
laughter, there wasn't, as at Teddy
Strikers funeral on rainy day, dry
eye visible.
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A Fathers Long Search Rewarded.

One Of the strangest circumstances Of
life, more like fiction than the truth, came
to onr notice this morning, says a recent
issue of an Ottumwa Gnd) exchange. 1t
seems that several years ago family Of
German people, consisting of father, moth
er, and two Chi. dren, lived in New York
where the wife and mother sickend and
died, leaving the man with but little mon
ey and the two children to care for. The
father had two sisters in that city, who,
like himself, were strangers in a strange
land, and to each he gave child. The
children separated from their father and
mother and from each other, fretted them
selves sick, and it was thought best to
place them in one Of the various orphan
asylums Of that great city, where they
could be together. Here they seemed to
thrive. and the father by his labor was
able to support them in a style that guar
anteed them home and comfort for the
time being. This was nine or ten years
ago. The father wandered out West in
hopes of lettering his condition, and final
| ly found himself in St. Louis, where, soon
after his arrival, he was Frustrated with
the typhoid fever, from which he only re-
covered to take the smallpox. He was
a long time in recovering, and found him
self without money for his own support,
and in the long time intervening no mon
ey had been sent for the support of the
children, and the managers sent them
with hundreds Of others, to this State and
elsewhere in the West, finding homes fol-
them, wherever they could, in the best
| families. After his recovery, and when
money matters were better with him, he
wrote in regard to his children, but could
get no word from them. AS soon as pos.
sible he made his way back to New York
but was refused information as to where
his children could be found.
After searching the city in vain he star
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FALLING LEAVES.

Zone by one they fall and fade,I
Some in the sunshine, some in the shade,
Some meath the cold and quiet moon
One whirleth here, one falleth there,
I'LL the ground is covered, the bough is bare
So every field and path receives
These fading, falling. dying leaves.
" One by one we fall and fade.
Some in the sunshine, some in the shade,
Some in the bright, unclouded light,
Some in the cold and quiet night
One mourneth here, one parteth there,
Till the soul is weary, the heart is bare;
50 every field and path receives,
These fading hearts, these dying leaves
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-05-03

carpet manufacturer aforesaid, to come over
to court, identity the property and make a
charge against the thief, all in due form.
But the owner refused to comply; ne said
the man had been stopped and the property
recovered, which was all he cared about, and
that he wouldn't take the time TO make q
complaint. This reply having been cOmmu-
nicated to the court, word was sent back to
the obdurate carpet man that it was neces-
sary for him to prefer the charge or nothing
could be done about the larceny this
second message received the same an
swer as before, namely, that the
property had been recovered, which
was all he was interested in, and
that he wouldn't be bothered with prose-
cutting the fellow. On receiving this second
rebuff, the justice turned to the prisoner and
told him that, as there was no charge against
HIM, he could 60. Tho lucky thief, who
could hardly realize his good fortune in a
case where the facts were so clearly against
him, stared speeches. at the Judge for a
minute, and then made break for the door,
"llold on said His Honor, "come back and
take this lead pipe with you; there is no
evidence before the Court that it does not be-
long to you" With broad grin the ex-
prisoner complied, and at orce made himself
scarce, while the Court. amid the laughter
and applause of the bystanders, calmly pro-
ceeded with its business.
1t is not safe yet to inquire of that carpet
maker whether he has lost any lead pipe
lately. Yours, DALTON.
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present denial that he is anything more OF q
greenSacker than that. The Messenger
adds:
"While it is true that Mr.. Barlow has
made good deal of money in mail con-
tracts'-though not so much in them, by any
means, as in the passenger and express bush
ness it is not true that she lives half of the
year in Washington, and has always irons in
the fire in the departments and in Congress.
He is most of the time at his home in St.
Adams, but as Mrs. Barlow enjoys
better health in Washington during the
Winter than here, he keehs house there
andIs there himself about one-half of the Win
ter and none of the Summer. He has DO
business in any save the postoffce depart
ment, and none whatever in Congress, where,
we have been told, he is not even visitor
more than once or twice year. His mail
contracts all expire this Summer, and he
was not bidder at the last lettings so he
has no interest at all to be promoted by
having seat in Congress.
Our statement on these points does rot sp-
pear to have been very far out of the way.
If anybody can believe that Mr.. Barlow is
up for Congress wholly from disinterested
and unselfsh motives, we should be sorry to
disturb such unsophisticated faith, but we
cannot share it. We owe him no ill-will, as
we have said; but it does not seem to US, for
reasons some of which we have stated and
stand by, that be is the man to represent
this District in the very high and response
Die position to which he sspires.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-05-03

JEFF DAVIS STILL UNREPENTANT.-F Friday
Georgia, and at Macon Confederate monu-
ment was dedicated with great ceremony.
Tho procession included 20 civic and a num-
Der of military organizations. the grand
lodge of Masons of Georgia having charge
of the ceremonies. A letter from JEFF
Davis was read, in which he says: LET
not any Of the survivors impugn their faith
by offering the penitential plea that they be-
lieved they were right. Let posterity learn
by this monument that you commemorate
men who died in defensive war, that they
did not. as has been idly stated, submit: to
the arbitrament of arms the questions at
issue, questions involving inalienable rights
inherited and held in trust for posterity,
but they strove for the State sovereignty
which their fathers lett them, and which it
was their duty, if possible, to transmit
to their children. Let this monument
teach that heroism derives its lustre
from the justice of the cause in which
it is displayed, and let it mark the difference
between a war waged for the robber-like
purpose of conquest and one to repel inva-
sion, to defend peoples hearths and affairs
and to maintain their laws and liberties.
Such was the war in which our heroes fell,
and theirs is the crown which sparkles with
the gems of patriotism and righteousness,
with glory undimmed by any motive Of
aggrandizement or intent to inhict ruin on
others. We present them to posterity as
examples to be followed, and wait securely
for tine verdict of mankind. when knowledge
shall have dispelled Misrepresentation and
delusion. 1t is not unreasonable to hope
that mature reflection and closer study Of
the political history CT the Union, may yet
restore the rights Frustrated by the passions
developed in our long and bloody war. If,
however, it should be otherwise
Then from our heroes graves shall come
In mournfnl tones the answer ht,
And If our children must obey,
They must hut thinking our day
Twill less debase them to submit.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-05-03
THE EASTERN QUESTION.
A MYSTERIOUS RUSSIAN MOVEMENT

htoslaN
SOUTHWEST HARBoR. Me-, April 3O.-Sun-
day, the steamer Cimbria, of Hamburg, one
of the New York and Hamburg line, arrived
at this place. According to the captains
statement she is chartered by an agent Of
the Russian government. She sailed from
Port Baltic, where she took on board six
hundred men. mostly Firms. as storage
passengers, and sixty three men as cabin
passengers, April 18th. The captain was
under the orders of ono of the cabin passen-
gers. lie has no cargo, only ship stores.
He is now lying here waiting for orders.
He processes utter Ignorance of the desti-
nation of the vessel or men. The ship
keeps up steam continually.
THE STEAMER cIMBRIA-HER PASSENGERS PROVE
TO BE AN ORGANIZED SHIPS COMPANY.
ELLSWORTH, Me-, April 3O.-The passen-
gers on the Cimbris prove to be regularly
organized ships company of sixty officers
and six hundred seamen Of the Russian i'm
perial levy, under command Of Count Crit
enberg. On her arrival a long despatch in
cipher was sent to Admiral Lessorsky, at
st. Petersburg, and the officers seem to be
waiting a reply. The ship has a large
amount of stores, including coal for ten
days. No arms or ammunition are visible
and the officers deny that there are any.
The officers and crew number ll0-all Ger
mans. Captain Badenhausen was taken
out of another steamer and appointed to the
Cinbria three days after he reached Ham
burg, and she took in stores and passengers
as rapidly as possible. Badenhausen has
asked for bill of health from this port.
The Russian officers are very reticent about
the object of their visit and even profess to
be ignorant of their destination or the Dur-
pose of their being sent here. Among the
officers is Russian nobleman of high rank,
who was with the Grand Duke on his visit
to this country. None of the officers have
YET been on shore except the captain
and purser and the paymaster of
the Russian corps. The collector board
ed the ship and found her papers all right.
corresponding with the captains state
ment. Formal entry was made to-day and
list of her passengers will be furnished as
soon as it can be made out They observed
no special secrecy but permitted the asso-
ciated press representative to freely go
about the vessel. They think they NAV re-
main here some days. The ship came in
without local pilot no inquiry being made
for ono
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-05-03
The Third District.

The FREE Pass squarely opposes the
nomination of Mr.. Barlow for Congress to
succeed Mr.. Hendee, for two good reasons.
First, Mr.. Hendee deservessto be his own
successor, having earned the reputation of
a clear-headed, useful legislator, whose nat
ursl parts are good, whose experience has
been so industriously used that he can rem
der better and more satisfactory service than
a man of even superior ability to his own,
who must needs acquire this training and
influence. The second reason of the FREE
Pass Is equally good. Mr.. Barlow,
Justly or unjustly, is reputed to be be-
lever in the stupid financial heresies of
the silver bill, and is somewhat tainted
with the odOr that attaches TO the
mail contract service in the far West
during the last ten years. We believe Mr..
Barlow's frank answer to these charges has
been identical with that of Cakes Ames,
who excused his corruption of Congress BY
saying that he only protected his interests
from unfriendly legislation by giving re-
tsiner to the unfriendly legislators. Ames
was in private deal honest !; his business
obliged him to spike every hostile gun; this is
Mr.. Barlow's defence of the use of money in
the departments and out of them whenever
the use Of it arrested danger, whether the
enemy was blaek-mailer or raging re-
former. Taking this for all it is worth, the
FREE Pass is right in its conclusion that
Hendee ought net and need not retire to
make room for bold, able man, who is
believed to look upon politics as mere
matter Of business, and that convictions
are yalus BILE only for what they will bring
in the market place Rutland Herald, 3Oth.
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of ten prizes offered recently by the Cob
den Club for examinations in political econc-
my in London, eight have been taken by
women.
The Springfield Republican never opens
its mouth on Vermont politics without put
ting its foot in it.
To settle postoffice contest in Bingham
ton, n Y, the President has referred the
question to the Republican electors of that
city to determine it by ballot.
Hon. Martin l. Townsend, Republic
can member of Congress from the Seven
tecnth District of New York State, has writ
ten to his constituents declining a reelection.
lie assigns no reason for his withdrawal.
There is more joy in some newspaper Oh
fees over one man who is alleged to have
gone astray than over ninety and nine sinners
who are repentant, or Just men who need no
repentance.
1t is to be hoped that the next man or wo-
man who is moved to confess will give US
something that hasn't been told before
Boston HraH
The Rev. Mr.. Jasper. of Richmond, the
man who believes that the sun moves round
the earth, is coming North to lecture. lie
will receive a warm welcome from our
reenbackers.-Portland Press.
- The trailing dress is moribund. "-Nt~
York Sun Some of them are more ribbon
ed than others-Netc York Mail. Yes, and
they are more abundant than they will be-
Graphic.
The Speaker raped order, the Congressman jswed,
When Glover remark ed, ''ril 90 fishing for fraud"
He ate his hook with experts and mousers,
And caught all his friends by the seat of the
trousers
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impossibily, from physical causes. Of the commits
sion OF the offence alleged.
1. hat Mrs. Bannister's conduct since her mar
riage has been,irreprO Achable.
S. That the letters spoken Of have never been
recognized by the Bishop.
0. That they have never been proven to be in his
handwriting.
!. That the statement concerning the alleged re-
iatlons between the Bishop and Fanny Richards are
vague and inconsequent.
s. That not single one OF these letters has been
published, and that no copies Of them exist.
y That the person who gave the letters up Tor
deposit confesses to having stolen them, and is
person of bad character. who has already been
indicted for criminal offence in betrayins wo-
man.
have taken no action in the matter OF public
character
For these and other rea sons am not disposed to
fall IN with the rucx Of those who goat over the
supposed fall OF ,cclesiastic OF the very highest
standing. chose name is aspersed by men like the
publisher Of Rose's Nose. an infamous PRINT, or the
hired scavengers of the CT icaso Times
Candid men, here, in the West, believe
the aged prelate will come out pure and
spotless .from the terrible ordeal through
which he il now passing.
DEATH OF NATIVE vERMoNTER-oNE OF
CHIcAGO's PIONEERS.
Chicago is to-day mourning the loss of one
of her Oldest and best citizens, DR.. Charles
Volney Dyer, who died yesterday of paraly
sis at the residence of his son-in-law, Mr..
Adolph IIeile, in Lake View, the northern
boundary OF Chicago DR.. Dyer is we'll
known in Vermont. He was born in Claren-
don, Vermont, in the year 1908. His
fathers name was Daniel Dyer. His mother
was the daughter of Judge DIN. and who
ever has met in Chicago, during the last forty
years, the stately form and broad, dark face
and lofty forehead of DIR. Dyer, has seen the
DIN form and features imported direct
from the Green Mountain State. There also
flowed in DIR. Dyer's veins some Of the
Roberts blood. lie was cousin Of Hon.
Daniel Roberts, of your city. lie was also
descendent from Judge Harrington, of Yer
mont's early day, whose celebrated decision
on the fugitive slave law helped to keep
Vermont free from the stain of human
slavery, when he claimed bill of sale from
the Almighty" DR.. Dyer was always
warm abolitionist. He came here from his
native State in 1885, and commenced the
practice of medicine, and formerly owned as
his homestead the land where the Chicago
postoffice now stands, which he afterwards
sold to the United States Government. lie
was very successful land operator and Mt
one time amassed large fortune. lie held
many Offices Of trust and honor, munich
pal, State and governmental. His death is
deeply felt throughout this city. He was
almost the last of the "old pioneers"
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SHELDON. VI, May 1.
To the Editor of the Free Press and Times:
Your correspondent ct" in your last
weekly, on Congressional matters, is very
much off the track in the statement that
but few suppose that Hon. E. A. Sowles, of
st. Adams. can carry Franklin county as a
candidate for member Of Congress. am
sure that nobody else can carry it against
him. Most of the towns will go for him,
since the name Of Bradley Barlow has been
mentioned. This county knows all about
Mr.. Barlow politically, officially and So
cially. and they will not support him.
They know all about Mr.. Sowles, and
belieTe him to be. as your correspondent
IT" says, able. upright and competent.
They believe that no man of his age has
done more or is likely to do mere for Frank
lin county than he. The Messenger mis-
represents the people who will have a
voice in the matter. W.