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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04

The report of Commissioner Coleman of
the agricultural bureau contains Il graft
flying asscmblage of figures and shows
how rapidly, rs well as steadily the pro-
ductive area, the number of farms and
farmers, and the interests of the agricul-
turists are increasing. The acreage of
cereals is o. per cent greater than 1t was
year ago There are now siXty-seven
millions of acres in the United States de-
voted to the cultivation of cereals.
Mr.. Coleman's report embOdieS some
valuable suggestions as to improving the
methods and increasing the resources of
the agricultural department over which
he presdes. He urges that more intimate
relations be established between the de-
partment and the various experiment sta
tions. 1t is unfortunate that previous
experience as to the value of these expert
mental stations is less encouraging than
it might be. Practical agriculturiStS are
rather inclined to snecr at the expert
mental methods of the department and
with no small reason. Most of the expert
ments attempted have been more or less
visionary in their nature, and have alb
sorbed good deal of money with very I'M
satisfactory results. Such work ought to
be assign ed to practical rs well as scien-
tihc men who should eNpend the appro-
priations in Il conservative and careful
manner.
The report gives practical illustrations
of what Mr.. Coleman considers the proper
work of the department. He asserts,
among other things, that the farmers OF
This country ouUht to l1nl< tn the 1pDart
ment for protection against frauds, fol
the latest and most valuable information
concerning diseases among cattle, the
preservation of forests, and other ques
tons of general and vital importance. |
| is, on the whole, very satisfactory re
/ port
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04

Mary steele shown not to have been Muir
dered-Ihe Inquest.

The funeral of Mary Steele the unfor-
tunate woman who was found dead i'll her
house ut Castleton under suspicious cir
cumstances took place Monday afternoon.
During the inquest it was shown that she
was accustomed to taking laudanum when
sick and the witness thought that she
might have taken TOO much. either unin-
tpntionally or to kill herself, rs she was
Respondent. Ii was also shown that her
brother in cleaning up the house found
that il two ounce bottle, which was full OF
laudanum last week, was nearly empty.
lie stated that she wrote him letter last
week Monday, in which she SAID that she
was tempted to end her life and had often
nut a pistol to her head but relented be-
fore firing it. DR.. Currlcr,Who had charge
Of the post Wurtcm examination, gave ms
report, Thought that none OF the bruises
would have caused death. In the stomach
me fOUWd some laudauum, but 40 traces
IT other puISuu~. " hen asked by the
/ states attorney his opinion ON the pruha-
bic cause Of her death lac replied. "A my
/ dcbauch.' The other doctors who attend
/ cd the autopsy agreed Win MN IN 'h'-'
+ \ peculiar TACT N,l~ the SIZE ul me We
mans BRAIN. II was found TO bc 50 large
/ thai the doctors weighed it and found il
contained more than llty-liNc ounces OF
/ matter, while the average weight OF wu-
mans brain Is only lurty-llNe ounces Or.
/ Sanford who attended her frequently
/ when she was suffering from the delirium
/ tremeus, said that at such times she threw
the furniture around to produce as much
confusion in the room as was found when
| she died. After careful consultation and
review of the evidence the officers con
| cluded that there was not evidence enough
to warrant the arrest of anyone ON the
charge of numbering her Although the
! finding of laudanum WIS Il suspicious cir
cumstance, the fact that she was accus
toned to taking it and thought of suicide
made it probable that the death was either
the result of the spree or suicidal.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04

The English elections are running very
close. Mr. Gladstone is quoted as saying
that Scotland and Wales will return ten
times us many Liberals as Conservatives
and that the Liberal cause would yet pull
through all right. The great falling off
in the Liberal strength, however, is
equivalent to Conservative victory. Mr.,
Smalley, the Tribunc's correspondent in
his despatch of the 2sth says
The Liberal party has sustained crush
lug defeat at the hands of the very con
stituencies which have hitherto been
Liberal strongholds. The great CONNER
cial and manufacturing centres, the
homes of that energy, industry and intel
ligence which make England what she is,
have renowned their allegiance to Ltber-
alism. Whatever the counties may do
the significance of this result cannot be
affected.
The Liberal organs are too bewldered
by the blow to offer any Ineligible eXpla
nation of the disaster, but Mr.. Chamber
lain's responsibility for it, is freely
admitted by every Liberal have met. 1t
is perfectly clear that the Moderate Liber-
ais in great numbers, not content with
abstention, have pumped for Conserva-
tive candidates. There is no other posi-
bic explanation of the vast increase of the
total Conservative vote. New electors and
the Irish together fail to account for it,
Mr.. Chamberlain's attacks on property,
his agrarian socialism, his violence, must,
it is now seen, have alienated thousands
of leading Liberals long before the Tories
bethOught themselves of starting the cry
"rhe Church in danger"
An Englishman who was nterviwed in
New York, of the result said
! Gladstone is good man-that all must
admit-but his policy has been wretched
Hoo
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04
a WESTWARD TRIP.
The seventh Day Adventists and their
Michigan College-Wheat Interests
in the West.

ATCHNsON, Kansas, Nov. 90, 1850.
To the Editor of the Free Press and Times:
eco West" somebody has said, but that
was only II general command, "the com
mon call so to speak, that all do not
obey But when a good client says go
West" lawyer may not disregard it.
The next train finds him on the way. The
train is full all strangers. BY my side II
sharp man from Amherst is going to
make Richford his base, to get turkeys
out of Canada" He believes in free
trade and says that by driving his turkeys
across the line he can escape the tariff.
ANY creature that wears feathers, he says
may driven out
But here is Il party of eight persons
bound for Kansas. They belong to Il
small band of pilgrims and strangers in
this westward moving generation. THEIRS
is the pure and unadulterated faith of the
fathers. They keep the seventh day, pap
tie by immersion and look for Christ ;
coming as very near at hand. After
crossing the river at Prescott, they make
the little stone depot ring with their
hymns and sacred songs, during the md,
uight hours, as we wait for the Montreal
train to be ''Vaccinated' and cross the
| line from the province of Quebec to the
]
Michigan, they stop over to attend their
general conference. Here they have a
college presided over by Mr. Prescott, late
editor of the Waterman at Montpelier
also Il publishing house that sends out a
ton of printed matter each day. About
three hundred ministers attend this gen
cral conference. They have State confer
enCeS in twenty-siX of the States and q
membership of $4,000 that keep Saturday
as their Sabbath. Yet all of these are not
strictly Seventh Day Adventsts,' The
president of each State conference is the
official authority for that State as Il sor
of bishop. They say that the world Is
growing more and more wicked every day
and so 1t will he until the last trumpe
sounds
Wheat is the leading subject, just now
The price has declined. There is not mucl
foreign demand, but the crop is 5000, OO
bushels less than last year in quantlt.
and ten per cent lower in quality. Chica
20 elevators are crowded for storage. a
Minneapolis there was IA blockade of 23OC
cars of wheat waiting to be unloaded, las
week The blockade covered more thar
fifteen miles of track. The farmers o
Kansas and Missouri sold this whea
when the price was up, and are now /
better condition than they have been 70
several years. Some of the wheat grow
erS seem to be in no haste to sell and ar
sending their wheat To Duluth Tor storag,
O. w X
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04
THE COASTING CLUB.
Thirty-six New Members Voted ina
Badge and Uniform Adopted


The monthly meeting of the Burlington
Coasting club was held at the Van Ness
house last evening, with Hon. Henry Bal
lard in the chair, and DR.. Linseley, secre-
tary pro TEN. Thrty-six new members
were voted in and fifteen more proposed.
The badge recommended by the executive
committee was adopted as the club badge.
1t isa silver toboggan, an inch and half
long, overlaid with the monogram "B. C.
C.," making very handsome and appro-
pirate badge. Members of the club who
VINO desire one can order it through the
executive committee.
On the recommendation of the eypcutive
committee cardinal red tuuue and sash
were adopted as the club uniform. to be
worn at the option of the members in con
nectlon with the regulation toboggan suit
of any color to suit the taste of the indi-
vldual member. As there was some OBJ
lection to the adoption of rule making
the wearing of the uniform when tobog-
gaming compulsory, that matter was left
optional with each member. A resolution
was carried, however, recommending each
member to procure a uniform and wear 1t
when convenient, on the slides.
a resolution was unanimously adopt
ed authorizing the executive commit
tee to arrange for a week of
out door sports in February, the mem
DerS expressing strong desire 10 nave
grand carnival of fun, perhaps not on the
scale of Montreal, nor wholly in that line,
but Il season of sport that would be credit
able to the enterprise Of the city and the
club.
a snow shoe club is being formed among
the members of the club, and much healthy
! sport is looked for in that direction.
Nothing furnishes more healthy and eX-
hilaratng exercise than good tramp on
snow shoes.
The toboggan slide will be done next
week.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04

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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04

TO Une Democrats, anu JndJ ne Wdnueu
them to have the whole thing for four
years to see what they would do with it,
If Senator Hoar's bill, providing for the
Presidential succession in case of the
death, resignation or disability of the
President and President, had not
been opposed by the Democratic members
of the House, after having been passed
by the Senate, AL this worry and foreboding
on the part of the Democrats would be
unnecessary. But the Democratic Solons
were not in the same boat then that they
are now. If n Republican President and
Vice President should die, they thought
it would give them another chance to elect
n Democrat so they refused to pass the
bill Senator Hoar's bill provided that in
the case of the death of both the President
and Vice President, the Secretary of State
should be first in the order of succession
after him the Secretary of the Treasury
and the other Cabinet officers in their or
der. There is one reason, however, why
the Democrats can congratulate them.
selves that they did not allow the bill tc
pass If it were a law to-day, not only the
President but all the secretaries would be
afraid to attend the obsequies of Mr.. Hen
bricks
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04

A novel kind of pledge is circulating
at Worcester, Mass. 1t is directed against
the sale of all flash, criminal and immoral
publications, and is being quite generally
signed by newsdealers How would it do
to circulate such IA pledge all over the
country, under the auspices of some re
formatory association-say the w. c. T..
L. or the Y w G.. II. u.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04

We do not hear of any danger of an up
rising on the part of the dusky friends of
" Wandering Spirit Dressy Man"
"Man Without Blood" or the other par
Elephants in the Frog Lake massacre, who
were executed on Friday. The Canadian
savages set good example in this re
spect to some of the other races in the
Dominion.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04

-Four Nice-P Presidents before Mr. Hen
bricks have died in office. Two Nice-Pres-
idents died during President Madson's
neutrality-suspicious. Clinton of New
York April 90, 1912, and his successor,
Elbrdge Gerry of Massachusetts Novem-
Der %, 1913. William II. King of Alabama,
Vice President under Franklin Pierce,
died April IS, 1853 Henry Wilson, elect
ed President on the ticket with Gen
Grant in 1872, died November -, 1873.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04
Stories by Popular Authors.

The publishers of the FREE Press take
pleasure in announcing that they have COM
pleted arrangements with Mr.. S. ;. Mcclure of
New York city, the manager OF the famous
international service of popular stories by
leading American authors, by which for the
next SIX months series of original and Charm-
ing stories will appear in these columns
weekly. The FREE PRESS will have sole
control of these stories for Vermont.
The series will include a Thanksgiving story
by Sarah ID. Hobart, an inimtaDle character
sketch by Joel Chandler Harris C'Uncle Re
mus, Il story of adventure by b. b. Nalcn-
tine Il beautiful and fascinating tale by Julian
Hawthorne, entitled "Such Stuff as Dreams"
a Christmas story by Harriet Prescott Spof-
ford, and 1.-THE octave" Il series of short sto-
ries by eight of the most popular
American authors, Charles Egbert Craddock,
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps. Joel Chandler Harris, Frank RI
stockton, Rev. +. Il. Hale, j. y. Trowbridge
and Julian Hawthorne. These eight authors
will furnish stories for sixteen out OF the
twenty-six weeks during which the proposed
series will run in these columns. That the
OCTAVE series is composed of stories by the
strongest names in American fiction will
be recognized by every person Ia
miiar with current literature. Stories
by the above authors are never re-
be furnished by Mr.. a. A. Hays, who has
written for the series string tale of from
tier life; by Philip Bourke Marston an Eng
fish authur-Sidncy Luska, and Others. This
list of names may he fairly said to surpass the
programme offered by any of the magazines
for the coming year. 1t will he understood,
of course, that these stories are all original
and published for the first time on the date
when we give them to our readers. They have
been secured by us at considerable eX-
pense, are all copyrighted, and Will
appear in no other paper in Vermont we
Shall publish them-unless special occasion re-
quires different date-in our Saturday issue
of the daily, and in each issue of the weekly
FREE Press. We trust that the public will APP
preciate the efforts which have been made in
this direction, and will second the endeavors OF
the publishers of the FREE PRESS to keep il
abreast of the newspaper enterprise of the
day, by adding still more literally to its grow
ing subscription list.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04

When President Garfield died, his ply
sicians were Immediately hauled over the
Goals. General Grants physicians were
handled pretty roughly, for insisting that
his disease was of a cancerous nature. And
now Mr. Hendricks's medical adviser is
catching it from the penny-wise press. 1t
is a hard lot to be doctor if you don't
achieve IA reputation and sometimes still
harder if you do.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04
The Wit of Women.

Miss Kate SanbOrn has recently publish
ed Il somewhat bulky volume, filled from
cover TO cover with what she announces
to be the wit of American women. The
book is written-that is the cOmpilerS
part of tin IA pleasantly controversial
tone, and is intended to prove the falsity
of what is assumed to he a somewhat
prevalent impression that, though women
are excellent judges of wit, they are poor
producers of it.
So far us wit is concerned perhaps, Miss
Sanborn proves her point, from the copi-
Gus extracts which she furnishes. But
she does not seem to have clearly deter
mined in her own mind the distinction be
tween wit and humor. The catholicity of
spirit which she displays in this respect
seems to us to defeat her purpose, besides
marring the unity of her work
Any attempt to prove that woman is IA
| humorist, in the common acceptation of
that term, must be IA failure Humor inn
plies an underlined, not to say unrefined,
quality which very few women possess.
There is something repulsive in the very
idea of a female Mark Twain. In that
kind of humor, rs in base ball, the gentler
sex does not shine and when women ven
ture upon this masculine preserve, it is
commonly at the expense of the dignity
and grace of womanhood.
On the other hand, wit, that finer scn-
tllation of the mind, is a charm in
Il woman and while it can hardly
be claimed that women excel men in
this delicate gift, no one would think of
denying that they are rs closely the rivals
of men here as in any form of intellectual
activity. 1t is impossible to read far in
Miss Sanborns book without becoming
convinced that it is rightly named. 1t is
| indeed rich compendium of the wit of
women but one could wish that the liter
AIRY, if not the moral insight, of the com
piler had led her to reject some of the Sc
e. lectionS which appear as the humorous
productions of American female writers.
Richard Grant White has said that "a sense
of humor is the rarest of qualities IN
woman" So far as this applies to the simple
appreciation of humOr we do not think
that it Is true-eYcept, possibly, in the sin
gle instance of the compiler OF the present
- volume, who has perhnp 5 schooled her
taste to suit her argument. Bat it nm
:, doubtedly is IL fact that the humorous fac
!. ulty is not a feminine qulIty,-the rN-
- CtpllDn0 9lIllpIA plpN ils~ NV l''''
i The galaxy of American female writers
- is brilliant one, considering how Suun.
a our national literature is; and it is a mo-
+ table fact that nearly all of them law
- produced more or less that is truly witty
Harriet BccChCr Stowe, Louisa Alcolt
Gail Hamilton" Rose Terry Cook, Kat
;, Field, Mrs. Clemmer-and scores of other
l. quoted in Miss Sanborn's book, have writ
- ten passages. which for bright, keen an,
i captivating wit are uneXcelled. But ",
q know of very few, if amy, productions b
= American women which can claim To pos
n sess the genine, misunderstanding spirit q
% American humor Women appear to b
II constitutionally debarred from the pleas
l. ure of throwing stones and writing TO
ia the comic weeklies,
al Talmage on Hendricks Any man tina
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04

Mr.. Dorsheimer of the New York star
is burning his fingers, trying to attend to
two irons in the fire at the same time.
The Democratic contemporaries of the
star are beginning to clamor for the res
ignation of Mr.. Dorsheimer as United
States attorney for the southern district
of New York. They evidently think that
he can not be both great and good at the
same time-and we suspect that they are
right.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04

1t would have been quite appropriate for
the Boston Post to have changed the
headings of its editorials slightly, on
Thanksgiving morning. The first caption
was: 1.-The Vice-President dead" and
the second. T.et Us BE Thankful"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04

The interdict against the Montreal thea
tres has been removed, and the theatrical
season is about to reopen. Montrealers
will now have an opportunity to prove
that they are not afraid of the pits.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04

The fact that Mr.. Edmunds went to
President Cleveland on Friday, to advise
him not to run the risk of a railroad jour
ney to indianapolis, in the present situa-
ton of affairs, when the death of the
President would leave the country with
out any executive head, and no one en-
titled to fill the place even temporarily,
indicates quite distinctly that the Sena-
tor does not consider that there is any
President pro TEN of the Senate at pres
ent.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04

A Washington special says that it is the
general opinion among the Senators that
this winters session will be one of the
most exciting and intense ever known in
the history of that body since the out
break of the war. If so, it will be IL pity if
anything prevents Senator Edmunds from
taking an active part in debate on the
floor. For this reason we should not care
to have him elected president pro TEN.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04

Pain from indigestion, dyspepsia, and too
hearty eating Is rcliVcd ut once 10y taking one
of Carriers Little Liver Pills immediately
after dinner. Don't forget this.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04

The Presidents message is in print. and
the scramble for it among the .-reat met
ropoltan newspapers has begun. A few
copies are being sent out for the benefit of
newspapers in the far South aud on the
Pacific coast, that they may have it in
time for publication. 1t is not sent direct
to publishers, but goes to postmasters or
Associated Press agents, who have strict
instructions not to let the document be
seen until the hour of its presentation to
Congress. Nevertheless some of the lead
ing newspapers are making every effort to
get hold of it, and it is said that offers of
$1,000 have been made for copy any time
before Monday morning.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04

The Atlanta Prohibtionists are evil
IDENTIFY in earnest. They propose to abide
by the results of their victory, and meet
its responsibilities, no matter at what cost
Realizing that the closing of the brew
cries, distilleries and saloons must throw
hundreds of persons out of employment,
they have undertaken to carry out GER
tain projects which will enlist all unem-
ployed labor in the vicinity. Among
them is the completion of the Georgia
Midland railroad which is to be brought
into the city of Atlanta. Wealthy Pro
hibitiOnists have contributed largely to
fund for inaugurating several other in
dustrial projects and it looks as though
the liquor men were going to have some
of their thunder stolen. The latter, it is
said, propose TO contest the election by
which the decision in favor of prohibition
was reached.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-12-04

The little Roman Catholic parish
Notre Dame de Lourdes at Fall River
Mass, has the hardihood to assert itself in
square opposition to the authority of the
Pope. 1t will not have the pastor APP
pointed for it-a French Canadian priest
or none, is its ultimatum This is IA spec
tacle to make ecclesiastical authority
stand aghast The entire parish will
probably be communicated,