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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-08-10

The bodies OF the four people from this
city and that of Miss Clark of Bridgeport,
Conn, whose lives were endei so abruptly
and tragically at Lake George Thursday
evening, were brought home on the steamer
Vermont Saturday afternoon.
That the drowning of the four people
and it may as well be said five; for Miss
Clark formerly resided here-was the
greatest shock the community has ever bad,
vas evincsd by the presence at the wharf
f >, coo people, the eyes Of many OF whom
we're moistaned with tears,
Undertakers Brown and Rand were in
waiting with hearses and conveyances with
which to remove tho bodies. The remains
of Mrs. Mitchell and son Frank c. were
taken to Undertaken Browns rooms; the
bodies OF tho Misses Coriey and Clark were
taken to the formers late home, and the
body of Mics Black was taken to the house
of her father on St. Paul street. The friend s
OF the deceased followed to the various
places, ard shortly sfterward they were
permitted TO view the remains OF the four
young people. The lid of Mrs. Mitchelrs
casket was not removed.
FUNERAL LARGELY ATTENDED.
The funeral OF Mrs. Mitchell and her SON.
FRANK c., was held from st. Paul's church
Sunday afternoon at O'Clock. The
church was crowded and many people, who
could not gain entrance, stood outside until
the service was concluded.
The service, which was conducted by
Rev. George y. Bliss, consisted OF the read
ing of the church ritual for the dead and
the singing OF impressive hymns by the boy
choir. Mr.. Elias Lyman had charge. The
bearers for wife and mother were: H.
w. Allen, d. w. Robinson, c. h. Allen
A. b. Kingsland, II. J.. Ward and W. +,
Hall; and for the son, F. w. Whitcomb,
who accompanied Mr.. Mitchell and family
and nearly lost his life, G. L. Kinsman, W.
G. Isham, A. S. l-ham, r. q. Stone and
Jean Holden, all bank clerks, the frat four
of whom, after Whitcomb, being fellow
clerks OF the deceased in the Msrcha ants
bank.
The floral offerings we're many and very
beautiful, there being number of hand
Iome designs. The class of 80 of the High
,chool, of which Mr Frank Mitchell was a
owed member, wsrs present in body.
They also attended the funeral OF the Misses
Black Corley and CLARK
The interments were in Lake Wow came,
terry.
The last oDiequles over the remains oil
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-08-10
STOR]
sc and So CHURCH STREET.
A GRAND |
CLEARANCE |
Sale OF |
SUMMER |
| GOOOS..|
Also a great bargain
sale in every dept.

sale IN every dept.
20 pieces of a6 inch Gel
noese Muslin Goods. worth Cd
per yard, for this sale they cd
at
&c per yard.
&c inch Castilian Cords, d
very fine Fabric. well worth
25c, for this sale 91ac per I'd.
This is the greatest bargain
in wash Dress Goods eve1
offered.
Short lengths OF So inch
Percales, in Pink and Blue
ground, worth 121ac, for
1Oc per yard.
Heavy Checked Shifting, q
great bargain. worth &C, for
Lee per yard.
bale Of Fine bleac he'd
Cotton, yard wide, worth 7C,fol
. 12c per yard.
S pieces Of IS inch Uni
bleached all Linen Crash.
worth Sc per yard, for this sale
8 yards for 17c.
500 yards of Fine Bleached
Cotton, worth Sc per yard, fol
this sale
6 | &c per yard.
Ladies Shopping Bags. Fo1
this sale we will sell the 75c qua
lily for
soc each.
Great values in Combs, a lind
of Drummers' Samples, at aboud
half price.
Electric Comb Curriers', worth
I5c, for
&c each.
Cooper's Leather Stocking
Tales; five volumes, for
41c per set.
Dickens Complete Works, Isl
volumes,
Sl,31.
WaverlY Novels, IL volumes
SLIP.
Washington Irving's Works,
91c.
Ladies Black Sateen Empird
Shirt Waists, worth $3.50 each
reduced for this sale to
Sis each.
Gents Fine Summer Shirts in
Light Stripes, made from Che
viot and Sateen, worth soc, lie
duced for this sale to
81 Lee each.
Fine Laundered Percale Shirts
in Blue, Pink and Lavender
worth $500 each. for this sale
15c each.
Misses Jersey Vests which are
worth IL 13c each, this sale
Sc each.
Ladies' Print Shirt Waists, with ruff
front, worth SOC each, for this sale
SOC each.
Tourist Ruchng by the box, yards ID
a box, worth 25c per box, for this sale
Zoe each.
A large line of Ladies' Handkerc hiefs
worth l0c each, choice
DC each.
dozen sets of White Fauutleroy Collars
and Cuffs, worth 25c, for
Zoe per set.
1900 Standard Novels, including those by
the best Authors,
3 for 25c.
1000 Good Novels at the remarkably low
price OF
sc each.
Window Screens at lie, l9c, Csc and
zoe each.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-08-10
Pitkin Has Not Disappeared.

FAIRHAvEN, Vt, Aug. G-The report
thar Harvey H. Pitkn had disappeared is
not true. He is here. 1t has been dis
covered that the man who drove the am
bulance into town which had Miss Shaw's
body, inquired Immediately for II. II. Pit
KIN.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-08-10

20 pieces of 20 inch Gel
noese Muslin Goods, worth cd
per yard, for this sale they cd
at
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-09-06
England in south Africa.

England has come forward in south
Africa with a Roland for Frances Sia-
mese Oliver. Cecil ]. Rhodes, the prime
minister of Cape Colony, is well known
to be one of the ablest and most sue
cessful Of those who are seeking to ex-
tend the dominions of the queen. and
much weight must be attached to his
utterances on imperial affairs. He has
just been making a speech on British
policy in Africa, in which he explicitly
best instead of the Orange river the
northern boundary of Cape Colony. This
means the absorption of the Orange Free
state and the Transvaal republic, which
are now independent, besides Mashona-
land and Matabeleland, which are al
ready under British protection, and
threatens OAKLAND, which makes half
of Portuguese, east Africa. No doubt
Mr.. Rhodes means what he says and will
presently set out to do 1t. The Orange
state and the Transvaal will have TO be
secured by treaty, and that should not
be a difficult task, since these states owe
about all the progress and enterprise
they have to England. Matabeleland
may have TO be won by hard fighting
but IL is doubtless worth It, for IL is
one of the choicest regions in all the
continent. Mashonaland is already IA
nous for the wealth of it's gold mines.
In these advances England will have
practically a free hand, for she will
come into coAfict with the interests or
desires of no other European power save
Portugal and scarcely counts.-N. Y.
Tribune
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-09-06
TWO DOLLARS THE CORRECT SUM.
A Scheme of Borrowing That Amount
Reduced to Science.

Among the great variety of ways OF
getting a living IS to borrow two dollars
until tomorrow says the New York
Herald. The manner seems at first blush
TO be rather precarious, but If scientiti-
cally pursued II apparently yields an
income sufficiently large to sustain life
and enable its recipient 10 keep up many
of the appearances of responsibility.
Why should two dollars become a
standard sum of exchange In this field
is a question for the financial sharps
who can tell you all about the causes
of commercial depression. But who ever
heard OF a friend striking you FOR
three dollars? And as for $3.50 or $3.50
it is something pTeposterous. Next to
the man who wants but fifty cents to
tide him over the evening the man who
is in need of two dollars takes preced-
ence. The next man of value is five
dollars. The sum of four dollars would
be of no use to anybody. 1t Is two
dollars that seems TO I'll a long felt
want For this reason the two dollar
silver certificates were created.
There is a man who has reduced the
scheme Of borrowing two dollars some
thing akin TO an exact science. Per-
haps II were invidious to allude to a
single individual in discussing so popu-
lar and widespread an occupation. but
1t Is merely for the purpose OF illustra-
tion. This example is said to be very
DIlsnI ana cofupdnlOnaDle gentleman
who, did the bent of his mind turn in
that direction. might easily earn a COM
Portable living in other walks of COM
mercial life. In fact he was earning
such an income a year or so ago when,
unfortunately. he borrowed two dollars
till tomorrow. 1t was accomplished SO
easily and quickly that he tried il again,
and again he was successful. With the
brilliancy of a born fnancier he saw at
once that il was a foolish thing to toll
when two dollars could be gathered here
and there merely for the asking. He
made another discovery-that nobody
expects two dollars thus loaned to ever
be returned. Any amount above that
required a note of hand, or If nit
promptly repaid caused trouble and en-
gendered hard feelings. Having settled
on the two dollar theory he threw up
his job and has ever since subsisted on
an army of small investors. He knows
the pay day of every printing establish
ment in town. And he is on hand for
his two dollars every time.
The employees are taken in turn. Some
of them kick" once in a while, but as
the financier usually takes them to the
own money he is not altogether unpop-
ular. If the kick" is strong he let's
them off with fifty cents or perhaps a
quarter and thus lets them in on a cut
rate. Sometimes men attempt to dodge
him. but they find their retreat cut off
at the elevated station. The loan of two
dollars is usually made philosophically.
1t is put down to profit and loss, al
lowed for wear and tear, and the
thought of il banished-at least as long
as the borrower is out of sight.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-09-06
REPAIRING OCEAN CABLES.
Locating the Fault-Picldng Up and
Splicing the Wires.

1t has always been matter Of specu-
lation and wonder to most people as to
how q marine cable once broken In mid
ocean is ever got together again. The
explanation is this: First, IL must be
known that the cable practically rests
everywhere on the bottom of the sea.
OF course, there are places where sud-
den deep places coming between shallow
ones will cause the cable to make
span as over a ravine or gully. In either
place the ocean is so deep that the cable
finds its specific gravity somewhere In
midwater, SO to speak. In that case 1t
rests quite as firmly as II 1t were on
solid ground.
When a break occurs the first step,
Of course, is TO accurately locate its
position. A conductor, such as a cable,
offers a certain amount of obstruction
or resistance" to the passage of an
electric current. Apparatus has been
devised for the measuring Of this re
sistance." The unit of resistance Is
called an ohm. The resistance of the
average cable is, roughly speaking, three
ohms per nautical mile. Resistance prac-
tically ceases at the point where the
conductors make considerable contact
with the water. Therefore, If when
measuring to locate break 1t be found
that the measuring apparatus indicates
a resistance of 900 ohms, the position
of the fault will be known to be 800
miles from shore.
With this information the captain OF
the repairing ship is able to determine
by his charts of the course OF the cable,
the latitude and longitude of the spot
where the break occurred and can pro-
coed with certainty to effect the repair
When the approximate neighborhood of
the break is reached a grapnel is
dropped overheard and the vessel
steams slowly in a course at right an
giles to the run of the cable. On the
deck of the ship there is a machine
called a dynometer, which. as its name
The rope securing the grapnel passes
under this If the dynometer records a
steady increase of strain it indicates
that the grapnel has caught the cable.
If, on the other hand, the resistance va
ries from nothing 10 tons and from
tons to nothing again, IL is known that
the grapnel is only engaging rocks or
other projections of an uneven bottom.
1t is frequently necessary to drag over
such a ground several times before the
cable can be secured.
Having secured one end of parted
cable, the vessel moors it TO a buoy
and proceeds to search for the other
end. When both ends are brought to-
gether on deck the electrician holds COM
munication with the shore on both sides
to make sure that there are no other
defective places and that the cable Is
perfect in both directions. This having
been satisfactorily determined, all that
remains is TO splice the ends together
and drop the cable once more back into
the sea.-New Orleans Times.-dem.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-09-06
SERVANTS IN INDIA.
A Good Memory Required 10 Tell
What They Are All For.

The kull does odd jobs around the
house and grounds.
The chohodra, or private pnstman,
carries cards and letters.
The chowkidar is a night Waterman,
who cannot be hired to open a door In
the daytime.
The dudh is the miIkman. who always
brings the cows and the goats to the
house to milk them.
The gari-mala, or coachman, looks
after the carriages and drives. If nee
essary, he will help the syce.
The consarmi. or head man. an indis-
pensaDle individual, SuperviseS the
whole army of servants. His position is
theesame as that of chef or chief stew
ard
The khidmutgar is a personal servant.
who also waits on the table and will
help to look after the older children.
Some khidmutgars are excellent walters
and can lay a table very tastefully.
The bihishti is a native carrier who
supplies the bath rooms and waters the
roads and gardens. He also sweeps up
the rooms every day, but would not
help the pani-wala for fear Of losing his
caste.
The hawurchee is the cook. who will
prepare every meal but can not be hired
to wait on the table. He attends strictly
TO his cuisine and reigns supreme over
the kitchen, which is in separate
building situated some little distance
from the house
The dhobee or laundryman washes
all the clothes on the banks Of the river,
or any place I'm a jungle where there
is water He pounds them clean on a
rock or slab of stone and will wash the
clothes beautifully clean, even if he has
to destroy them and smash every but
ton into oblivion.
The ayah or ladies' maid, is a servant
of great Importance. She is as good as
a French maid without airs. All chill
them night and day. They have excel
lent judgment in the care of children
and will even put themselves between
the little ones and danger.
The pani-wala Is a waterman who sup
plies the kitchen and drinking chattels
only. The water is carried in goat
skins. AT railway stations the pani-
walas meet the trains, calling out: "Ho,
everyone that thirsteth come up to the
waters" The sixteenth part of one cent
is charged for a drink.
The saees, or groom, looks after the
horses and cuts grass in the jungle
every day for all the stock. Nearly
every night in the year he must keep a
good smoking fire in the stables on ac-
count of the mosquitoes. He must also
keep net on every horse in some dis
tricts, or they would be tormented to
death.
The chaprasi. or the masters body
guard. has some strange duties to per-
form. He attends 10 his master at din
ner parties and carefully watches him in
case he gets too excited over wine. II
necessary the chaprasi will by some
excuse summon his master out of the
room, and will by main force sometimes
take him home.-Ohio State Journal.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-09-06
THE WORLDS PRODUCTS.
FIGURES COMPLIED BY THE AUS
TRAN GOVERNMENT.
They show the Amount of Grain Pro-
duced by All the Countries of the
wOrld-A TabuIated Statement Con-
tanning Much Information.

VIENNA, Aug. 2S.-The estimate Of the
harvests of the world, which are prepared
annually by government officials was
given out today. The grain and seed
market estimates will show Austria s
yield of wheat to be 100000 meterzent-
ner or SIS per cent; rye, 24,5OO,OOO
meterzentner. or 50 per cent; barley,
$4,000 meterzentner, or 93.5 per cent;
oats, 1900, 900 meterzentner, or S2.69 per
cent. The estimate for Hungary will show
wheat 10000, 900 meterz, miner; rye. 49,
100000; barley, 15.25OOOO; oats, 12OOO.OOO.
Estimates for other countries are as fol-
lows:
Prussia-Rye, 90 per cent; winter wheat,
"a: summer wheat. go: barley. 81; oats, SO.
Denmark-Rye and wheat 100 per cent
Norway and Sweden-Wheat, 100 per
cent; rye. 90 per cent.
SwitzerIand-Rye, Il per cent; wheat.
81 per cent.
Holland-wheat. IS to 90 per cent. /:
barley, rs TO so per cent.
Belgium-Wheat, IS to 30 per cent.
F'rance-wheat. aOOOO.OGO to $4,000. 900
pectolitres; rye, 100000 pectolitres;
barley and oats, SO per cent.
w neat oo per CShl.s DdllCSS TO-
hay and fodder, decrease of 80 per cent.
Italy-wheat, $4,000 pectolitres.
Servia and Bulgaria have $4,000 meter
center available for export.
The estimates of Roumania show a
deficiency of 40 per cent. in the wheat
and rye harvests. Poland, after the
needs Of her inhabitants are supplied,
will have surplus of 100000 pools of
wheat and 100000 pools of barley.
Central Russian Provinces-Wheat, 20
to so per cent; rye, so to 80 per cent. /;
barley, 10 to 120; oats, 100 to $50.
Taurus-Winter wheat and rye, $50 per
cent; barley and oats. 300 per cent.
Egypt will have 100000 meterzentner
available for export.
The estimated yield of British India is
1926, 900 tons.
The estimated yield for North America
is Ss2.000.O00 bushels Of wheat, 24SS3,OOO
bushels of rye and 1.S09. OO0, 600 of corn.
The Hungarian minister of agriculture
estimates the worlds production Of
wheat this year at 2.279. 100000 bushels
against the official average of 2,2S0.000,-
600 annually for the last ten years. He
gives also the following figures
The deficits to be filled by the import
ing countries will require 379, 0000 900
bushels. The surplus available in ex-
porting countries to satisfy this demand
is 379 SGT, 900 bushels. The worlds pro-
duct Of rye is given as ass, 900, 600 hecto-
litres. The production of wheat and the
deficit amount needed above the domes-
tic supply I'm each importing country is
given:
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-09-06
Strange Diseases.

Physicians here are interested in the
case of Miss Annie Richardson Baldwin,
who died on Friday from a combination
of two rare diseases, syringomyelia and
acromegaly. Each disease is rare and
IL is said that the combination was never
before known. Acromegaly is a weird
disease for which neither cause nor rem
edy has been discovered. One of Miss
Baldwin's physician says OF the disease:
'It affects the head, hands and feet In
such a measure as to make them grow
to gigantic size. while the body itself
retains its normal conditions. Persons
suffering from the disease present a gro
tesque appearance Their bones. flesh
nails. ears, chins, noses, fingers and toes
attain often twice their ordinary size.
Many people with this aiment have
found their way into museums. There
Is no pain, and the disease is not neces-
sarily fatal" The other disease affects
the spinal cord in such a way that the
patient loses entirely the sensation of
pain and temperature, though the sense
OF touch is not affected. That two such
terrible vet grotesque diseases should at
tack one person is certainly remarkable
enough to excite the interest of either
physicians or laymen.-New York Letter.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-09-06

IDENTIFY inclined to look upon the scheme
with some favor. chimerical though IL
may be. The proposition of the mer-
chant Is TO pilot a searching party to
the locality where the treasure is buried.
and then, with the assistance Of charts
and instruments in the hands Of sci
entihc men. to locate the spot and I'M
earth the treasure. He does not pro-
pose TO surrender his claims to the
wealth. but. being without the necessary
means to prosecute the search, he will
surrender one-half of all that is found
In case the merchants, individually or
collectively. conclude to furnish him
with the means necessary to carry out
his plans.
That the pirates In the early days OF
the republic concealed along the coast
vast sums OF money and precious stones
of untold value there is hardly reason
to doubt. Florida. at the time referred
to. was inhabited by wealthy Spaniards,
and the ships that visited the coasts
brought with them cargoes Of immense
value and carried away to the Old
World the riches of the purchasers.
At st. Augustine, the oldest city in the
United States. the people still talk about
the depredations of the pirates, and
they firmly believe that there is treasure
of almost fabulous value buried some
where along the coast from the city.
OF course the directors a body
cannot go into the scheme. 1t must be
put to vote Of the exchange. Money
is too tight now to go into a scheme
like that said one member when inter
viewed on the subject. Moses Fraley
read the letter and took the trouble
to quote 1t from memory to dozens of
members. Mr.. Phil Schrimer wanted
more information before he would COM
NIT himself either one way or the other.
He wanted the letter printed in full
and discussed. Mr.. r. p. AMMAN, the
first vice-prseident and acting president
of the exchange, was asked to give the
letter for publication. lie consulted his
secretary. Mr.. George II. Morgan, and,
after reversing his decision twice. final
~ ordered the secretary TO treat the let
ter as nriVate communication.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-09-06
Telephones I'm Paris.

Telephone service in Paris costs $125
a year. The instruments are good, the
wires pretty much underground, but OH
for an American operator. If 1 ever get
back I'll never talk in a minor key to
her If she fails to give me the number
L want in ten seconds. A new Central
is being built, but one now may wait
an hour I'm vain for a number. The tele-
phone as a toy is much appreciated. In
some rich houses connection is made
with the theaters, and the hostess says
20 her friends: wouldn't you like TO
hear a little of the grand opera, or the
Coincide FRANCHISE, etc?" 1t is far SUI
perior to the inevitable amateur pian-
ist or vocalist that is inflicted on suffer-
ing mortals by interested friends at
home. One is not obliged to listen and
applaud a telephone soiree. Anything
of the toy nature takes with Parisians.
The improved monograph pleases them
Just as a rattle does a baby. In one
office 1 found two Photographs and not
a single typewriter i'm sight.-Paris Let
f1r
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-09-06
Animal Kingdom I'm Newspaperdom.

The top of the Herald building in
New York is said to be decorated with
twenty figures of owls. Behind the eyes
OF these owls will be sixteen-candle
power electric lights. The clock over
the main entrance will be connected
with these lights and at midnight each
particular owl will wink one eye and
then wink the other eye. Mr.. Pulitzer
should now get up some electric owls
that will not only wink the other eye
but shrek unltedly at MONDAY, 1--WE
told you So This bit of enterprise
would goad Brother Dana into having
colossal Office cat set on top of his mod
est building that would arch its back
occasionally and yowl loudly, eff you
see II in the Sun, it's So" and then con-
clude the performance by thrusting It's
tongue into its cheek and grinning from
ear to ear.=BuffaIo Commercial
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-09-06
Those selfish Chicagoans.

Mrs. Muggins-"How did you enjoy
your visit TO the worlds fair?"
Mrs. Puggins-"The fair was good
enough. but / don't think they had any
business to charge extra for the Condo
las and side shows and things Seems
to me the price OF admission was enough
to cover II all, and give a free lunch
besides, but it didn't. l never saw such
selfish. money-saving creatures as them
Chicago people. The worst of the
troubles, though, came at night. That
was awful! We were packed four in a
room sometimes; and one night the
children had to sleep on the sofas.
never felt so annoyed in my life.''
"Were you at a hotel?'
mo, we was visitin' relatives, and
other relatives kept comm"