Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-11-27
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BURLINGTON, FRIDAY, NOV. 81, 1885
PUBLISHED BY
THE FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION,
G. BENEDICT, Editor.
Terms-S2. 90 II year, always in advance.
Stories by Popular Authors.


The publishers of the FREE PRESS take
pleasure in announcing that they have COM
plcted arrangements with Mr.. S. 5. Mcclure of
New York city, the managcri 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 II Thanksgiving story
by Sarah ID. Hobart, an inimtable character
sketch by Joel Chandler Harris CUncle Re-
mus'O, Il story of adventure 10y b. b. Nalcn-
tine, Il beautiful and fascinating tale 10y Julian
Hawthorne, entitled "Such stun as Dreams"
a Christmas story by Harriet Prescott Spot
ford. and 'the Octave" a series of short sto-
ries by eight OF the most popular
American authors, Charles Egbcrt CraddOck
Frances IIodgson Burnett, Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps, Joel Chandler Harris, Frank n
Stockton, Rev. f. L. Hale, J. T. Trowbridgc
and Julian Hawthorne. These eight authors
will furnish stories for sixteen out of the
twcnty-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
miar with current literature. Stories
by the above authors are never re-
rejected by any magazine. Other stories will
be furnished 10y Mr.. \. a. Hays who has
written for the series Il string tale of from
tier life; by Philip 3ourkC Marston- an Eng
fish author sidney Luska, and others. This
list of names may he fairly said to surpass the
programme offered by amy of the magazines
for the coming year. 1t will be understood,
of course, that these stories are all original
and published for the first time on the date
rl,f,,, h.lN
been secured by us ut considerable OK
pense, are all copyrighted, and will
appear in no other paper in Vermont. We
Shall publish thcm-unless special occasion re-
qures different datc-in our Saturday issue
OF the daily, and in each issue of the weekly
FREE PRESS. We trust that the public lap
precatc the efforts which have been made in
this direction, and will second the endcaVOIs of
the publishers of the FREE Press to keep it
abreast of the newspaper enterprise of the
day, by adding still more literally to its grow
ing subscription list.
1t is Il great pity that Nesuvius is so
ituated that is Of no earthly use to
O'Donovan Rosa.
1t is reported that Minister Cox has a
Republican as his secretary of legation.
That is why we laugh.
The great powers of Europe seem less
inclined to fight than some of the little
ones. But this is perfectly natural. Great
bodies move slowly.
The charter of Yale college will evil
IDENTIFY have to be amended before the
trustees can get the kind of man they
want for president.
There is one advantage enjoyed by
small powers which is not possessed by
greater ones, They can't fight long eX-
cept on Il very small scale.
We shall now see Il repetition of the
stereotyped war despatch, "Khartoum has
fallen" with Mandalay, the Burmese
capital, substituted for Khartoum.
The Presidents Thanksgiving precla
nation is winning II very wide recOgni
ton. Greece has announ ced her deter
mination to attack Turkey in Europe.
Divorced-Married," is the caption o
a news item in the New York sun. Thi,
is a rather suggestive hint of what we are
about it.
A man was fined the other day for kiss
ing member of the Salvation army. A.
this 'army" has begun a campaign in thi
State it will be well for impossible youn!
Vermonters to be on their guard.
a goose that crows like rooster ha
L l. Al
Here is 4 suggestion which we respect
fully commend to our esteemed contem
poraries, the Boston Post and GlObC.
Now that Princeton has captured tn
college football championship from Yale
the latter institution seems to be total
bereft, 1t is seldom that an instituto
loses both its President and its athleti
supremacy at the same time.
The latest developments in the Blu
garia-Seryian affair must increase tn
prospect of war between Russia an
Austria. 1t may be that the great FL
ropcan crisis is closer at hand than wa
expected.
With Schelling on street car and h
wife, Victoria Morosin, ON the stage
might at first seem that they were run
ming opposition to each other, But it is a
in the family; and they are both engage
in earning an honest living.
The university of Michigan at Ann Al
Dor now possesses the most complete co
lection of humorous autithcses in tn
country Mr., William Mahon of thu
town has presented it with what is cal
ed "the best Irish library in America"
Some opposition to the reappointmel
of Mr.. Dorman Il. Eaton as civil servit
commissioner is threatened but it ca
not amount TO much. Mr. Eaton is an e
cellent man for the place and can civ