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THE FREE PRESS
FOR 1889.

The burlington Free PrSss enters the year 1889
better fitted to its readers than ever before.
Its growth in 1888 was unprecedented in provin-
cial journalism, and its equipment Is now supe.
ror to that of any other paper of its class in the
country. 1t is one of the best provincial news
papers in America, and it is still improving. The
Daily Free Press is doing more to promote the
interest of Vermont readers, and is furnishing
more reading matter ofinterest and value to sub
scriber5 within its field than any other paper
printed. AS news and political journal tor
Vermont readers, The Daily Free Press is I'M
equaled The Weekly Free Press is a great news
paper. Its So columns are filed with the choicest
reading. Its subscription is only One Dollar
year, and in no department of business in the
state of Vermont can much value be secured
for SO small sum. At that price it should find
readers in a majority of the homes of the state.
Its well known departments: news-ag ricultural
-society-musIcal stories and full
local reports entertain and please everybody,
old, middle aged, and young. If you know the
Free Press you can testify to its quality; if you
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PROBATE @oTICE

UntiIfurther notice, the Probate Court fort
District of Lamoile, will be held at the Court
House in Hyde Park, on Monday and THURSDAY
of each week, and on saturday, from le.SO A. NJ
to 10 M . and from 2. VI. to 2.30 p. ".
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$50.
THE HOME MAKER
An illustrated monthly magazine edited by
MARION EARLAND.
MARION EARLAND.

Associate editors: Christine Terhune Herrick
Il. Hahn.
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A cAROI


As the wheels of time slowly rcvolvipo hr,..
70 US another spring-time would like 10 III ,hS
attehtlon or the citizens of Morristown ana ,i i
olnltY 70 the hundreds of wheels vim, ,, ~
GGelenrateu Marshall Carriages and Wagons ns saS
lor years on your roads. As usual / s6oil hrS ou
several car loads to supply the ever incraasins
T hrnanu ior my work. My assortment will ems
pn'ee al the ea'sing styles of top and omen car
I rrs c, anu wagons, both light and heavv ana
,,H Se, s sure we can suit everyone in want of a
~ artlcle at low price. Our aim is TO MR.
err in H. oo,leVlng II is economy for the pnrchas
vi III thG end. Allintending to yet n co rrias 70
wagon this spring will do we'll 10 VAT 'lase OF
einsinr our $50, Stock and learn our prices before
o,,, i. trade with any one. We sha baYs
' 1ui Sools really for inspection as soon a. ~
son 90 I w., settled All inquiries either in ner
9Uh OF ny letter. should be addressed 10 c;ao Nv
h mSNe' Morrlsyille, On Martin c. Barber Water
nos Sos aiso Keep nun line of new driving her.
niTsses, nave tor sale several good borsess. az
%sU %gest FOR the Buckeye moving MACHINE
rakes. Thanking all for psst Ta 81 49,, W norse
io' continuance of the same, am, ping
Respectfully
aprIan, ~, W, MARSHALL,
Kingston, NH.
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DIE

WHEELOCK.-In Eden, Jan. 4, 1889, Ava, aged
one month and 25 days. only child of Fred and
Clara Wheelock.
ROB1NSOS.-In North Hyde Park, Feb. H. 1889
Phoebe, widow of the late thomson Robinson,
aged 49,
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Probate court-LamotIIe District.
The following business was trans
acted at the Probate Office in Hyde
Park, during the week ending Febrna-
nv 16. A. d. 1899.

Feb. I'm. J. Morgan's estate, Cambridge
Administrator asks for license to sell real estate
hearing set for March s, 1889. SaphrOna Sander
sons estate, Cambridge; Administrator presents
his account for settlement; hearing set for Feb.
q, 1889.
Feb. 1s.-Daniel Waits estate, Stowe; r. A.
Savage and A. c. Raymond appointed AppraiS-
ers and Commissioners.
Feb. 15.-Hannah LovewelPs estate, Morris
town; hearing on VIII held open one week.
Feb. 16.-Hannah j. COffrin's estate, Hyde
Park; license granted Administrator to sell
real estate.
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n EN- DEE g. FISK

A TToRNEYS AT LAW, MoRRIsv,,,p ",
- mr. FISK places Insurance in Mutual and
IcIlapIe STOCK Companies. He is Resident ass.,,,,
VI ' rne oiI anu layorablY known Insurance Com
pdny OF North america, company having ss
selts OF over eight million dollars and is No.,
prepared to write policies in that company lie
Is also agent for the old and reliable Verr,.l,'t
prompt attention. WIN ieoelFe
u. w. HRNDEE. m - -
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Ayers SarsaDariIIa.
Petition for foreclosure.

In Chancery, Dec. Term, A. D. 1888.
III M MCFARIAND /
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FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES.
st. Nicholas for 1899.

~ PEOPLE who have the
ASM idea that st. Nicholas Mag
Ys8W dztne is only for little chill
e g4 "a, dren should look over the
W~H prospectus of that maya
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creased the number of rooms, added store
houses and granaries. Stones took the
place of brick, while plain pillars cut
from single stone and devoid of base and
capital broke the monotony- of the walls.
The roof, too, took on
A MORE SUBSTANTIAL AIR,
being formed of stout timbers. making a
level terrace for an evenings siesta. There
were commonly two entrances to each dwell
Ing, but no DOORS curtains being used to
screen the interior from the street. But
like all early civilized nations the Aztecs
succumbed to barbarous but more powerful
races, and their architecture suffered like
degeneracy. The Pueblos, Zunis and
MoguIs are the degenerate relics of the
Aztecs. Like the ancient cliff builders, the
Moguis have their habitations in the high
rocks. Again, they follow the ancestral
style in that their huts are built of mud
and stone and entered by ladders. The
Zunis build on the slightly raised ground
on the plains Their houses are strongly
built OF adobe, but what is curious is that
they are entered by ladder at the second
story. Once in while Won find
ground door. The windows are
mere holes, though in some in
stances lsinglass is fastened in.
The Incas built their dwellings low and
solld. There was nothing pretentious in the
outside walls, which were, for the most part
OF rough hewn periphery and granite, fitted
at the Jointures with exquisite nicety. The
root was commonly bell-shaped in forru, and
built of wood and rushes. Few buildings
ever reached second story, for the immense
area of ground built upon gave ample ac-
commodation. The rooms, which opened
upon square court, were lighted by means
OF the doors above, and the latter were
curious as resembling closely the Egyptian.
with slanting sides and diminished Intel
The plain outer walls gave no idea of the
splendor within. Gold was abundant in the
mountains about, and most generously was
II iavlshed throughout the rooms, from top
to bottom. Niches about the walls held pots
and flowers of gold and silver, chairs and
tables, dishes, even parterres in the gardens.
al glittering with these precious metals
No wonder the Spaniards brought home
wondrous tales of this Ell Dorado-tbis
golden kingdom across the sea.
One of the most interesting models at the
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Exposition is reed like structure resting
on poles in miniature lake. This repre-
sents the home OF the lake dweller, whose
prototype existed in prehistoric times in
Switzerland and Ireland. Evidence goes to
show that these lake dwellers were descended
from a very ancient race that covered the
shores of the Baltic-a rude race who did
not have the building instinct who protected
themselves from wild beasts by means of
fires along the beach. They buried their
dead in stone chests, as did our lake build
ers after them. As they grew more civilized
they ventured farther and farther into the
interior, and came finally to settle on the
Swiss lakes. While the first race left moth
ing but stone relics, we find implements of
bronze among the latter. The traces of this
ancient race of the bronze age have been
discovered very recently, and since the first
Investigations thousands and thousands of
relics have come to light. From the preser-
walton Of the piles and stakes at the bottom
of the lakes and the numerous relics, we can
construct a Lacustrine dwelling with toler-
able accuracy.
The lake dwellers sought the lake for
safety, building their houses on platforms
fastened upon piles. The frames of the
houses were circular in form, 10 or u feet
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know more than men, at least than some
men I know" . =,
At this little burst of enthusiasm said
nothing, and he continued: IF ne was
loaded they would let him IN and deposit
his load, and if he stayed all night he would
be accepted as one of them. 1t is a young
one and he has struck the wrong hive, 9
thing they seldom do, but if he stays all
night he knows better than to go back home,
as his own family would then have nothing
to do with him."
A NERVE TESTER.
At this juncture one Of them came
buzzing nervously near, at which became
uneasy, but was told to keep quiet and not
get scared, and it would not bother me.
Then, as if for the express purpose OF testing
my nerves, the little fend came buzzing
right up to within six inches of my nose,
where he poised himself on wing. SUM
moning up my courage looked him steadily
in the eve without iinching.
SIT is just coming over to investigate.
Keep cool and it will not sting you" said
the farmer.
NV nerves were by this time at pretty
high tension, as was expecting every mo-
ment to get it on the end of the nose, when
it suddenly started of, much to my relief.
'I have to be very careful when taking
off honey" continued the farmer, 'for, if I
should let any drip on the grass, they would
soon detect it, and quickly come to the con-
clusion that there were robbers in camp, and
the only way to get even would be BY re-
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THE COCOANUT CRAB.


A Thief Whose Depredations Are Carried on
In the AgaIa Island Groves.
Scientific Americana
On the Agala Islands, in the Indian
ocean, there is very strange crab. He is
known to science as the birgus lutro, or
thief crab, and his depredati ons are carried
on in the cocoanut groves, which abound on
these islands. This crab grows to be %
inches long, measuring from the tip of his
tail to the end of the long claw, and resem-
bles in general appearance the hermit
crab. The abdomen is heshy and not COW
cred with shell, and in order to protect
this it is the habit of the thief crab to take
forcible possession of shell of the Trochial
family, in which it lives.
1t is nocturnal IN its operations, and h as
the faculty of selecting the trees having the
finest cocoanuts upon them. Climbing up
the trunks, frequently for 25 feet, it reaches
the limbs and sewers the stems which attach
the nuts to the branches. These are fre-
quently as thick as your three fingers and
would require q strong knife. Having
brought down the cocoanut, the crab now
descends to the ground, digs hole and rolls
the cocoanut into it. He then commences
to tear off the husks, fiber by fiber, until
the nut is completely exposed, and then
breaking in what is known as the eve he
eats the meat completely out. The fibers
stripped off the cocoanut by the crab will
frequently fill bushel basket, and they are
gathered for making mattresses, and are also
twisted into ropes.
Coeoanut groves are cultivated by those
who make business of extracting the oil
from the nuts, to be used for illuminating
purposes, and the depredations OF the crab
are of a very serious character, in many
cases the efforts of the natives to extermin-
ate them proving fruitless.
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taliation. Then comes a desperate attack
on some weak hive. which, ii they can over
power, they will break open the comb and
rob of its last drop. Sometimes, when a
hive is weak and not able to protect itself,
take quart or so of bees from some strong
hive and put them in about dusk. After
staying in all night, they will fight like
fury for the very hive they were trying to
rob the day before. tried
SHUTTING THE ROBBERS IN
by putting a piece of wire net over the en-
trance, but the rascals Immediately began to
hand the honey through the bars to their
companions on the outside, so l had to
double the net, putting it about an inch
apart, and then / outwitted them. have
to be very careful not to get robbing started,
as it is so contagious I can hardly get-it
stopped"
"When do they commence to swarm?"
asked
"well, that depends on the weather. Bees
like warm weather, and June and July are
the months when the most swarms come off;
but have taken off swarms in April, which
is not a common occurrence In this lati-
tude."
"Is it not dangerous business to hive q
swarm?"
''Oh, no; not if you understand working
with bees. OF course use this veil. You
see it is fastened to the brim Of my hat and
/ lust tuck the ends under my coat collar
and then they cannot get near my face or
neck, although they sometimes strike
against it in such numbers and with such
force that it feels as though some one was
throwing hahdfuls of gravel at me. 1 al
ways wear this hat in case OF an emergency.
The other day I was out here moving clover
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resembles the Egyptian. The approach is
much more pretentious than the Assyrian,
but there is the same piling up of stories.
The distinctive feature, however. is the bal
cony tiers and the curvilinear pitch roof
The modern Hindoo houses feel the in
fuence of this early style, for to-day we see
the pillared verandas running up to the
height of three stories. The modern houses
are built of brick, coated with cement, and
In many cases are connected by long stretches
OF terraces, bounded by ratings. Similar
railings border the fat roofs, favorite re-
sort in the warm evenings. The rooms are
generally very high studded and supplied
with generous quantity of doors, many of
the rooms having door pierced in
each wall. The Hindoos have
curious method of cooling their. rooms.
Down from the ceiling and about seven feet
from the hoor hangs broad belt of painted
canvas called punkah, with rope at.
tached to swing it by. A few pulls at this
with the aid Of the cross drafts from the four
doors, sends delightful breeze through the
room. What paradise it would be ior the
lazy Hindoo to lie on his divan and refresh
himself with the cooling air from one of our
wooden revolving fans Hindoo furniture
is heavy and richly carved, but what strikes
the traveller as queer is that each piece is set
perhaps foot from the wall. This is done
to protect the heads and necks of the family
and their visitors from the attacks of in
sects that drop from the pictures and the
walls.
In Benar s, one meets with yerv high
stone structures, sometimes built to the
height of seven stories.
III ere is very pretty model of a Japanese
dwelling at the Exposition. Everything
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dockets, the records of deeds, wills, leases
and other documents relating to the titles Of
real property which would have caused
enormous trouble.
But the greatest of all the embarrass-
ments yet to be mentioned-that relating
to the inheritance of real property
growing out of the impossibiiity of proving
the precise moment of the death of any
property owner, husband, wife, father, son,
sister, brother, who was overwhelmed, and
who perished in this cataclysm; the kim
dred impossibility of proving which of sew
eral direct or possible heirs, grantees, or de-
visees perished before the other; and the still
further impossibility, in the instances of
unrecovered or unrecoguized dead, of prov
ing even the fact of death itself. These un-
provable facts touch and affect the descent
of property-the inheritance of property
and there must be a large number of in
stances wherein such questions must arise,
seeing that the major part of whole COM
munities, as well as whole families, have
been estroyed-hundreds, perhaps thou
sands, at the same instant, so far as we can
tell-and other hundreds, and perhaps
thousands, have gone out of human sight
nobody can tell where.
Only lawyers can fully understand what
difficulties, what long-continued litigation
and losses may arise from the uncertainty as
to whether the father perished first or the
child; whether the wife was the first to die
or the husband; whether brother or sister
lived a moment longer than the father or
mother; for upon such survivorship depends,
in many instances, the direction that prop
erty must take under our interstate laws
or in the execution of wills; for here all of
a family, or all of, them, at least. who did
perish, went at one fell swoop, without
leaving sign or trace as to the moment of
the decease of anyone of them. And what
an opportunity there is for pretenders and
false claimants of kinship.
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his wants exactly. A few hours labor with
rocks and stone, and he had detensible
fortress within which he could cook his din
ner with comfort and security. When he
went fishing he would block up the entrance
to his cave Just as we would lock tbs front
door, and feel tolerably sure of finding
things as he left them. The cave dweller,
or troglodyte, did not wander abroad, but
hunted and fshed in the country around his
dwelling place. In Colorado and the South
west we fnd many of these clefts and caves,
with very distinct
Much more secure were the homes of the
cliff dwellers. As safe as the goat on the
roof they had little need to block up their
doorways. But their immunity was bought
at the expense of a steep, hard climb. The
cliff dwellers were not content, however,
with natural caves, but in many instances
built houses and towers of mud and stone
on the narrow shelves of the cliffs, some of
two stories, but the majority of about six
feet in height. Arizona was the great land
OF the cliff dwellers. Here 1000 feet above
the valley of Rio Mancos
THE CLIFFS ARE HoNEYCoMBED
with these prehistoric habitations. Some
that look like little Speeks from the valley
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connected with this unique race is interest
ing; The houses are not of substantial
build, earthquakes and consequently fires
are too common. Wood and a combination
OF clay and chopped straw with cement
finish are the most common materials.
Every house is encircled by a balustraded
veranda on to which all the rooms open. and
In the better class of buildings a pretentious
Portico shades the doorway. The gardens
that sdorn every house are laid out with
painful exactness. Mountains and rills,
forests and fish ponds abound in miniature
"a Landscape of extraordinary diversity.
The houses are fitted up scantily within,
Stuffed straw mating cover the floors, and
here the japanese squat and paint queer
pictures or eat their rice The vaInahies of
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spent day not long since on bee farm or
apiary in Lawrence county and there
learned great deal of these interesting
creatures.
While seated upon bench under an apple
tree 1 listened for hours to my friend the
bee farmer telling of the wonderful ways Of
his pets. observed quite a commotion
among a number of the bees at the entrance
to hive, and in answer to my question,
'What seems to be the trouble there?" my
informant said: "Oh, they have got hold of
a stranger there, and as he is not loaded up
they will not let him in, as they conclude
he Is a suspicious character. 1 tell you bees
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below are utterly beyond reach. The traces
OF winding trails can be seen in the face of
the cliffs, but time has so changed the struc-
ture of the ground that it would be madness
to attempt the climb. Some of the dwellings
are isolated, some in groups of two or three,
others clustering into little villages. At
intervals along the higher ridges are the re-
mains of round stone signal towers The
houses within reach have been most thor
oughly Investigated, and evidences of con-
siderable civilization have been found
Many of the houses have plastered walls,
the plaster evidently being spread with the
hands, as the imprints of human fingers are
often traced out. The walls thus succeed
are in many cases adorned with highly
colored designs and hieroglyphics. Re-
mains of pottery and stone implements have
been found in considerable quantity, but no
trace whatever of the cliff builders them
selves-not even a bone. Without doubt
these ancient people were fire worshipers,
and burnt their dead. At their dizzy height
the cliff builders had broader horizon than
their valley fellow-men, and an earlier
chance at their sun god
The cave and cliff dwellers are supposed
to be the ancestors of the Aztecs. The relics
of grand monuments in Pimeria and Zaca-
tecas have often been ascribed to the Aztecs.
but evidence goes to show that the early
Aztecs In their wanderings southwark came
upon these buildings-that they were the
work of much more ancient people. The
Aztec built crudely at first, modelling his
hut out of reeds and mud. As the race
grew more prosperous through fishing and
commerce they commanded better building
material, and bamboo and sun dried bricks
came into vogue. The roofs were formed of
long reeds, closely matted, or azave leaves,
each projecting over the other after the fash
ion of tiles. These rude habitations had
single room that served the purpose of an
entire suit, including the stable. Gradu-
ally as wealth increased the hut builders
contrived strong masonry underpinning, in
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present time. Never did happy family
present a more striking diversity-a more
fantastic unity. The solid masonry of the
Egyptians shadows the thatched and
matted huts OF the lake dwellers, the
graceful architecture of the Greek goes
hand in hand with the practical lives of its
old Roman conqueror, stately Aztec piles,
fimsy Japanese, Hindoo palaces and Chero-
kee wigwsms, all stand on common ground
and on equal footing. Here is every build
irg material that mans ingenuity ever
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sought out or contrived; granite, sandstone,
Limestone, marble, sun and kilned bricks,
tiles, adobe, plaster, mud, thatch, wattIes,
and straw, and wondrous combinations. 1t
is an object lesson within the grasp OF all,
appealing alike to the wondering country
man and the skilful architect These his
torie dwellings have been designed one and
al by MIR. Charles Gautier, the designer of
the Grand Opera, and the leading architect
of France, and the masterlv wav in which