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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-12-29
Tho o!ft an Even Million.

Later-lt is now authoritatively an
nounced that the amount of Mr. Rockefel-
ler's gift is 81, 600, 600. THIS makes total
of 80, 500, 600 which he has given this insti-
tuition mainly for its endowment funds.
The endowment aud the value OF lands,
buildings and other property of the uniyer-
sity now amount to about s.! O0J 600.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-12-29
ANOTHER NlHllISTlC PLOT.



ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. ~. - Numerous
arrests continue TO be made a Kisf OF per-
sous suspected OF nihilism. Nine more otsi-
GERS are among those imprisoned either
under suspicion or charges Of connection
with a conspiracy against the czar.
The Russian authorities believe that they
have unearthed a widespread plot, in which
the number not only OF the lower officials,
but also those of higher rank are involved,
and several officers having positions of trust
and confidence noar the person of the czar
have been put under surveillance, heing
givon leave OF absence from duty until the
suspicious resting upon them are verified or
dI-proyen. The extent of the plot is not
yet known, and there seams no doubt this
time OF its genuine character, although it
is not certain that the motives of tho plot
ters are niniiistlc.
DOW. Being Driven From oiosoow.
The persecution OF rhe Jews goss or more
earnestly than ever, the leading official per-
secutor being the Grand Duke Sergius,
brother of the car and husband of Queen
Nictoria's grand daughter, Elizabeth. As
governor of Moscow, he seems deter min ed
to turn every Jew out of the city.
The Jewish population OF Moscow has al
ready been reduced from about so, 900
when Sergius became governor, to abou,
30, 900 and the number continues to de-
crease under the added rigor of penal laws
and the intoerabls severity of their en- force.
ment The severe treatment OF tho jews is
having a ruinous effect upon real estate and
other interests. at least 80, 900 lodgings be-
ing empty in Moscow.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-12-29

BISMARCK, N. D., Doc. s7,-Juigs Rose
has decided the famous SELF precinct case
against the board Of csnvassers. This gives
tie fusiGnists all thrSs electors from North
Dakota.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-12-29
VARNuM rRAaEOY.
II $. wight alive, Hut Unable to Talk-
Funeral of he V,ctims.

WORCESTER, Mass, Dec. 2,.-TLere are
bat few dave,ormentI in the Varuum
tragedy today. Mrs Wrg4t, the eyed
mother OF Mrs. Narnum, is reported com
Portable Sue has snd nothing yet TO throw
light on the affair.
Tomorrow tho bodies of Vurnun, his
wife and little girl tlossie will be taken to
Sharon. VT, where tho funeral services
will bo held Thursday.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-12-29

LONDON, Dec. 27.-Eng,sud lie having
aevere and trying Christmas weather. ~
vigorous frost prevails throughout this
country and the average temperature :.
about II degrees above zsro. London il
buried under dense fog and 1t is difficult
to see anyone few feet away.
Many accidents have occurred at Glss-
cow, Manchester and New Castle owing tc
frozen boilers bursting and two persons
were killed by an accident OF this character
at Ardrie to-day. Twelve skaters lost
their lives by drowning in Great Britain
yesterday.
The poor are suffering terribly il London.
Last night the Salvation Army shlteri
were crowded, ali being accommodated
whether able to pay the small charge for
lodging or not. The Salvation Army also
entertained multitude with free Christ
mas dinners. Quantities of coal were also
distributed by charitable societies 10 the
needy poor and special visitation made te
the districts where suffering most abounds.
The privetion in London among the uu-
employed increases with the advance
wiuter and Notwithstanding the number
already here muittudes continue to throus
in from all parts of the country.
Advces from Lancashire state that tie
locked out employees in the manufacturing
districts had a hungry holiday, thousands
of them being dependent upon charity for
sustenance. Hundreds are wandering abous
begging and it is feared that the rigorous
weather will cause the loss Of many lives.
Fearful suffering Il Finland.
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 91.-The famine in
North Fin and is increasing, anG thore is a
movement in Sweden to renew the suDscr!p-
| tions OF last year for the aid of the starving
! Finlanders. The emigration Of FInus IS
receiving great impulse on account OF the
| famine which if prevalent chiefly among the
! agricultural classes, who we're unable, owins
| to the scarcity of corn last year, 70 provide
anything for the winter.
Many villages are snow bound and it Is
| feared the sutferiugs of the people are in
tense az they have no means OF breakius :
! through the great snow drifts on account OK
the weakness Of themselves and their cattle.
| 1t is feared that whole communities have
| persisted, as nothing has been heard from
them for a Number Of days.
>tary.ttua. I.,.tt!"uco and Donth.
~. PETER GrH,. Dec. 2r.-A British
consul who has visited eight famine dis
trcts reports that The peasants are dying
like flies of hunger and disease. There
are no signs of relief from the horrors of %
hard winter. Cholera is raging severely
on the CircassiGu shore. Hundreds Of
deaths have been reported in the last fozb
night.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-12-29

LONDON, Dec. G1.-Mrs. Lap8try, who
was reported as having lavorably passed
the critical point, has suffered a serious
relapse.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-12-29

TEmrASIEpIt. Drc. "a \ jealous mSu
chopped to death, with a sugar cane knife,
mis- wife, mothcr-in-law and si5ter-iu-law
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-12-29
IT THE UNITARIAN CHURCH

there was a Christmas exercise with respon-
siYe readings, singing Of carols and rscita-
tions by tho little ones Saturday evsninG.
a remarkably handsome tree, reaching al
most TO the ceiling, lore gift for every
child in tie society. At the close of the
exercises in the church the children com
pered gifts and had merry tims in the
parlOrs.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-12-29
CHRISTMAS CAROLS
SUNG IN BURLlNGTON'S CHURCHES
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.

Littlo Heart. Made Glad By Gifts and
Social Entertain s-Musio Given n
Prominent Pnrt in the Religious OBJ
scrvnncc OF tho nay.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-12-29

trees in front Of which sat 1S young ladies
prettily dressed in white who gave recita-
tions and sang in concert.
There were Scripture readings carol sing
ing and recitations by Miss Hayden, Miss
Grace Goodbue and Miss Nellie Ayling, fol-
lowed by a talk by Rev. 7. G.. Thompson,
the pastor.
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MURPHY NO. THE MAN
FOR THE NEW 70; :, seuAroas4,p
SAYS THE PRE- e :NT-ELlCT.

His Election Would Sh;Ii at tho Outset
tions of the reople-Empire states
Senator should be Capable OF Cons-
truotive Liquidation.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-12-29

The worlds ono great festal day was fit
tingly observed in Burlnston's churches.
Saturday was given up TO social entertain
ments for and by the Sunday schools. Sun
day the several pastors preached sermons
appro opria to to the day and the choirs chr
riad out more or less elaborate musical pro-
grammes The bustering weather inter-
iered somewhat with the attendance at the
several churches on both days.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-12-29
FACING GAUNT FAMINE.
THOUSANDS OF EUROpE'S POOR ON
THE VERGE OF STARVATION.

Sad Destitution In London ILcrePsad by
Severe Weather--Benshcnu Work OF
Charity in Feeding tho hungry hole
Communities In Finland Believed to
Have Perished.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-07-07

not nave D00n OoCL0T HCCcu Will SuIuduIC'
Turner was very small. and David Garrick
was known as Little Dave" The record of
theOlOgians seems to be less ample. but
Calvin was little man, Martin Luther
reached medium height, whilst MelancthOn
and Erasmus were mere mites of men.
"Soapy Sam" only measured five feet three
inches. whilst his father, William WILDER
force, is described as "a mere shrimp of a
man whom you might easily have mistaken
for baboon in rusty broadcloath."
Great lawyers and statesmen are often
little. as witness Lord Somers. Lord
Shaftesbury-of whose pigmy body DRYDEN
speaks-Lord Camden, Sir Alexander Cock
burn, five feet six. and Lord Chancellor
Westbury. nicknamed Little Bethel"
Adolphe Thiers is described as ''soft and
sausage-like on the whole. five foot three at
most, and ends neatly in fat little hands
and feet" Lord John Russell was little
man. Mr.. Gladstone runs to length more
in speeches than in his inches. being about
five feet eight, whilst Lord BeacOnSfield was
five feet nine.
This is a very formidable record for the
big men to beat. and seems to 90 to prove
the inverse ratio of brains to inches. In
fairness to the poor big fellows it must be
added that Nature has not neglected them
entirely in the matter of brains. and the
writer quotes some six fOOters-ScOtt. for
instance-as rivals to the dwarf geniuses.
but the muster roll is not so long. and it
now remains for their champion to come
forward. the Review of Reviews.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-07-07

arguments. He thinks. that the conscience
is begot by Judgment. bred by reason. fed
by expectation and destroyed by knowledge
before it came into this world. Do you be-
ieve it, sir? 1t so, you are more lucky
than l am. The conscience seems to be
a very interesting study. To-day 1 came
across the ''Hudibras" of S. Butler and his
innocent query:
Why should not conscience have vacation
AS we'll as other courts O. tn natiOn2
Have equal power to adjourn,
Appoint appearance and return?
Butler thinks therefore. that the con-
science is certain spirit, which cal deliber.
ately and wilfully come in and 60 out when
ever it wishes to do so. 1t may be true and
If it is, we should not wonder at all why
our conscience left us and went on a spree
during the time we are doing service for
the state. 1t might be the best thing after
all to ask the stOrekeeper, perhaps he stored
away our conscience with all our other
things together.
l have read somewhere else, that the con.
science is an appendix to an honest man
only. A dishonest man has no conscience
at all. How do you like it now? The last
seems to be the nearest to the truth. At
least believe in it. though will not i'm
pose this idea upon your readers. And
AOW 10 IL Will tlC COuVICtS. AIC tucy uOl
entitled to conscience? That is the ques-
ton which comes next and which is the
eliminating point of my study. They are
within the walls of prison honest men.
they are hard working, good behaving and
they visit the church services every Sunday.
They are so strictly watched. that they
cannot find even an opportunity to do
wrong, in spite of their best wish (excuse
please the last expression. it is lapsus
calami. but will not take it back). Yet
where is their conscience? This is easy to
explain. The conscience of the convict
lays with the administration of the peniten
tary. AS long as the convict abides by the
rules and is doing what he is ordered to do.
he is in peace with his conscience. i. e..
with the administration, and is not respOn-
sible to anybody else for his action. 1t is
case of force majeure which excludes the
convict from responsibility. The admins
tratiOn as his conscience is responsible for
the convict to God and society. LEO.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-07-07
THE FLAG.

That ocean-guarded flag of light, forever may it
fly!
1t flashed oer Monmouth's bloody fight and lit
>McHenry's sky;
1t bears upon its folds of fame to earths remot.
The names of men whose deeds of fame shall e'er
inspire the brave.
Timbers have crashed and guns have pealed be.
meath its radiant glow,
But never did that ensign yield its honor to the
foe;
Its fame shall march with martial tread down ages
yet to be,
To guard those stars that never paled in fight on
land or sea.
Its stripe of red eternal dyed with heart.streams
of all lands;
Its white, the snowcapped hills that hide in storm
their upraised hands;
Its blue, the ocean waves that beat round Free.
dom's circled shore;
Its stars the print of angels feet that burn for.
evermore. james Whitcomb Riley.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-07-07
Mistakes.

The man that never makes mistakes
never makes anything. He is of no use in
this poor, blundering world. Not that
have anything against him. oh, no. have
never even seen him, but l have heard
about him. 1 met fellow only yesterday
who thought he was twin brother to the
man who never makes any mistakes. But
he wasn't. and there was mistake number
one. Then began to watch this fellow
and to count, and in less than half an hour
he had made more real shameful blunders
than anybody met that day.
And this is fact have often noticed:
The man or boy that IS quite sure he don't
know how to make mistake piles them up
faster than anybody else. But they are
not big mistakes; no, indeed! They are
little ones, just about the size of very lit
tie man. The large errors are usually made
by the large men. There was the great
soldier Napoleon. He made a mOnstrOus
blunder when he went to Russia; and, as
nearly as we can find out. Gen. Grant made
another at Shiloh. Now. you and l
wouldn't have got into such hole, we
know better. And yet. if we should stand
on each others shoulders, IL PROBABLY
wouldn't make as big man as either of
these
Mistakes, slips. errors. blunders they
will creep in. and it only makes matters
worse to pretend that you are different
from other people, and never get your foot
into the wrong boot. But don't be ashamed
of it, and don't be afraid of it; go right
ahead and do the best you can. A lOcOmO.
tive engine without anV fire will never 90
off the track; but that isn't the kind of an
engine you want to be. If you go at all.
you are liable sometimes to 60 wrong; but
be always ready to come back again when
you know it.
But there is one class of mistakes that it
is worth while to be afraid of and ashamed
Of-the mistakes of sel6shness. and mean.
ness. and cowardice. Yes, dread these and
despise them, and 60 slow when you come to
them. They are bad mistakes to make
Welstan Dixey.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-07-07
Nfcknames of European Nations.

Englishmen have accepted the name of
John Bull as suited to the national charac-
ter. A Scotsman is Sandy; the 1rishman
derives his name of Paddy from his national
patron saint; while in ancient nursery
rhyme records that Taffy is a Welshman.
English sailors call the Frenchman, in con-
tempt. Johnny Crapaud; but in France he
is Jacques, BOnhOmme. or as a bourgeois
Monsieur Prudhomme. Cousin Michel is
the name by which the German is known
to the continental nations. Mynheer ClOsh.
an abbreviatiOn of Nicholas, sums up the
Hollanders. who are often simply known as
the Mynheers. while the Switzer rejOices in
the name of Colin TampOn. We have all
heard of the Russian Bear and the Infdel
Turk, but these are hardly real nicknames.
Don WhiskerandOes is almost a national
nickname for the Spaniards, dated from
Elizabethan times. Italians are known as
Lazzaroni. and Danes are called Danskers.
Chicago Tribune.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-07-07
The Conscience.

EDITOR MIRROR: Reading the last few
numbers of your paper, the idea occurred
to me, that the cOnvcts or some of them
penitentiary. Queer. isn't it? 1t seems.
however. that they are trying to find and
regain their loss. Why not? Do you not
say yourself. that ut is never too late to
mend?" Each one of them keeps open eye
and ear. looks around, listens. is always on
the alert and we can expect for sure to see
some day or other our own DiOgenes crawl.
ing out from his cell like from barrel and
trying with lighted lantern in broad day.
light to find the conscience. What is the
matter with it anyhow? Let me see if l
will not be able to find the bottom OF the
truth.
One of your contributors gave us in No.
45 of THE MIRROR full description of
conscience. even its measurement and ex
animation according to BertillOn's system.
No matter if honest or dishonest, human or
brute, man is always in peace with his
conscience and does always that what his
conscience wants him to do. Man Is guided
by his conscience only, was the firm belief
of the author and the chief characteristic of
his study.
Both. belief as we'll as characteristic, met
with a severe criticism and were censured
mercilessly by the representative of our own
jurisprudence. We have been told, that
the description given as above can never be
applied to the conscience. oh no! never! be
cause it is only and solely plain case of
judgment. 1t is the judgment that rules
the world and nothing else, and as an un
deniable proof of it's truth we have been
lectured On-On what? do you say? On an
nkstand. Look here. said the censor, if
you will take an inkstand in your hand and
look at it. you Will not see an inkStand at
all. Your eye will see something, but your
eye will not know what it is. until the judg-
ment will tell your eye that it is an ink
stand. This seems to be all argument de
jure and de facto. and if you do not under.
stand it, why, it is your own fault. l am
only sorry that the lecturer did not grasp
deeper in the results of the science. He
could have told US, how man does not see
anything at all, even when his eyes are
wide open. He can see only the reflection
of a thing on his eyeballs and nothing else.
| am sorry also, that in the criticism of the
conscience we have not been enlightened
on the subject, though the lecturer had an
ample opportunity to give us fair idea of
the conscience, its age. measure, weight,
smell. etc.
A week later appeared on the arena an.
other contributor and boldly asserted in No.
46 of The MIRROR that the conscience is
an imaginary thing, the product of weak
mind. Why? 1t is very plain. Simply
because he does not believe in it. Here you
have another one of the most convincing
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-07-07

Be to your king what you would wish
your sub0rdinates to be to you.-ISocrates.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-12-21
Washington.

GENERAL BENJAMIN W. BRIcE, United
States Army (retired), died in Washington
from congestion Of the lungs. He was
eighty-six years old.
An official list Of members-slect OF the
Fifty-third Congress shows 217 Democrats,
1928 Republicans, 8 Populisrs, two districts
in Rhode Island In which elections have yet
to be held, and the Fifth District Of Michi-
gan, at present represented by MIR. Belknap'
In doubt.
THE President resumed his public recep.
Gons in the East Room, and about seventy.
tive people paid their respects to the Chief
Executive.
The National Chippewa Commission has
agreed to purchase the Turtle Mountain res
ervation, amounting to about eight million
acres, in North Dakota, for 81, ,0O1,0O
REPRESENTATIVE DUB RRow, Of Illinois,
introduced in the House joint resolution
providing for opening the Worlds Fair on
Sunday
THE State Department announces that the
United States, England and Germany have
agreed to joint action to restore order in
Samoa. !
The annual report OF b. P Leibhardt
Postoff1ce Department, shows that there
were 5, $50, TSS domestic mailable letters re-
csived, decrease o. 71.755 as compared
with the previous year.
I'E-PREsIpEST MORTON laid before the
Senate the report OF tae Nicaragua Canal
Company. D: the capital stock 10. l45 shares
have been subscribed for and 81, 00l, $50 paid
thereon. Recsipts from other sources
amount to s39. 299.T0, making the total re-
ceipts 81 ,040. 1870. The expenditures have
been Ssl5 649.63 cash.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-12-21

THE railway managers that hest.
tate to lower rates to the Fair are
standing in their own light They
have but to study the results Of fare
cutting in England and on the
continent to learn a sample and
wholesome lesson. In Europe, where
governments generally own and ope-
rate the roads, reduction Of fares not
only for occasions, but permanently,
has enabled many roads to pay OF
heavy debts. The rich can have spe-
cial cars. The people who have to
work for money will not travel unless
they can do so cheaply. A cut OF one
half is the most convenient principle
for all transportation companies to
adopt during the Fair. On that they
will reap the largest profits known in
tho history of railroadfng.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-12-21

Jay Gould, the great figure in the history
of Wall street. died the other morning at
his home in New York City.
The cause of death was pulmonary
consumption. All night long ths members
Of Mr.. Gould's family were ut his bedside.
Early on the previous evening it became
known that his death was only a matter OF
hours. He had never rallied after ne had
a hemorrhage OF the lungs on the day before
Thanksgiving. He had another hemorr hage
two days later, and still another on the pre-
yious Wednesday. This announcement was
a surprise to ali but the most intimate ac-
ouaintances of Mr.. Gould. 1t had all along
been supposed that he was suffering from
nervous dyspepsia.
From an early hour in the night before
his death Mr.. Gould began sinking rapidly.
DR.. Mum, his physician, had DR.. Janeway
in consultation, but they said that nothing
could be done but make Mr.. Goulds last
hours as comfortable as possible.
DR.. John R Paxton, the pastor OF Mr..
Gould's church was at the house in the
night before his death. When the end camo
the me : bers Of the family who were in the
house were: Mr.. and Mrs. George Gould,
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Gould, Miss Helen
Gould. Mr.. Howard Gould, Mr.. harold
Gonld and Miss Annie Gould.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-12-21
THE TREASURY'S CASH.
A Net Balance of $50, 3es. 01s, a
Decrease of $685., 4S2.

A Net Balance or SoU, SSS.0A q
Decrease of $685., 4S2.
There was net increase of 1886, se2 in the
public debt during the month OF November,
as,shown by the statement just issued by the
Treasury Department. There was an in
crease of $3.50 in the interest bearing debt
a decrease OF s195, $50 in the debt bearius no
interest and a decrease Of 1882. iS2 IN the
net cash balance in the Treasury.
The several items that 60 to make up the
aooreoate of the debt are as follows: Inter-
est.bearing debt 1855. 0S2 $50; debt on which
interest has ceased, s., 49,, OILS; debt bearing
no interest, S37T,777,S S94, total, 1886, 2i2 IVY.
Certificates and Treasury notes Lutstand-
ing, Offset bv an equal amount OF casn IN tns
Treasury, 1898, 369. .656
Tho net cash balance In the Treasury was
$50 32S, ,9lS, in addition to the Sl00, Ool,No
gold reserve fund. OF this amount SIS, o69, =
CSC was on deposit in National bank deposito.
ries. a decrease OF S29a. Us since Oct 81. VI
the cash in the Treasury s2i7, 59S, 465 was
GOLD coin and bars, an increase OF about sS,
So 900: silver coin and bars, SASS, 4S6. l35,
an increase Of s.. .SSi, ops: paner currency
s4S, 345, ,079, decrease OF $6, o47, 2S2.
Yne recs'pts and expenditures during 1ne
month were:
Receipts-Customa, $l4.2o9: S79si; Inter
nal revenue, sl3, 3,O5p, 3.8+; National bank
deposit fund, s54, 5000; miscellaneous
sl.419, $3.50. Total. Sss, 794, o49: 80.
Disbursement and miscellaneous,
g. I95 sI4. .9S: war, $4,75l. 1870; navy,
Sc 36'096. Is; Indians, s559, ,322. Al; pensions,
s13 43i SfI 90: National Bank Fund Re-
demptlon acr, 81. lOS. 104 so; interest, $751;
eSS.ys. Total, .3o, 74s ss2.T5.
In November, 1891, the receipts were
seq yl7. l6s.T2 and the disbursements $@1,-
OIL IIrl I'D