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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-02-22

Miss Lilly Gordon is at home There will
be "A social dance at Justin Hills Wednesday
night. Quarterly meeting services will be
held at the Methodist church Sunday morn
ing. Presiding Elder Noe will be here. Il.
G. Ferguson is moving into his new home. -
Mr.. Cookie will move into the Bushnell
house. There were 2G at the Ladies' Aid
held with Mrs. Charles Norton last week
Wednesday.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-02-22

There were two burialS in the cemetery
here February 18th, one Edison j. Smith.
who died very suddenly on the i4th of heart
disease, leaving n widow and three children,
the other that of George Campbell who
leaves a widow and two children. Mrs. II
a. Sickle is very sick.-Rollin Goodale is
sick. Z. Morrison and family are in California
en- route for Nermont.-Casper Clark is
sick.
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G. W. Granger expects his sister and her
husband. Mr.. and Mrs. Alison Blake from
Iowa this week There was candy pull
at c. OSgood's Tuesday evening, and will he
an entertainment at the hall Thursday even
iug.-Several from this place attended the
basket sociable at the Methodist church at
the Falls Wednesday evening Mrs, ID. o,
Bullock, with her sister Mrs. Tabor of
Swanton, go to Boston next Saturday for a
10 days visit Mr.. and Mrs. Bigwood of
Winooski visited friends here last week.
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ST. GEORGE.

The venerable Ira o. Lockwood is quite
sick with the grip,-lt is reported that the
j. Y. :. lsham farm, now occupied by Fred
Lavine, has been sold by the National Life
Insurance company of Montpelier to parties
from Boston.-Miss Anna Barber re
turned to her home in Richmond the 10Th,
after a two weeks visit with friends in this
PLACER. f. Forbes takes his milk to the
Valley Falls creamery in Hinesburgh
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Big British Steam Yachts.

Yachts of enormous size and Of the
most luxurious fittings have in recent
years become the order Of the day, and
Mr.. Cecil Leigh's White Heather, Mr..
Wythe's St. George and Lord Ashbur-
toms magnificent craft Venetia are not
able examples of the floating palaces Of
the period; but it has been left to Mr..
Laycock to eclipse them all with his
Valhalla, the largest English yacht
afoat.
True, the American owners vie with
US in the size of their vessels and the
perfection Of their arrangements and
Mr.. Astor's new boat, the Valiant (sic),
Is even larger than the Valhalla, but
no yacht that flies the English flag can
approach the splendid steam craft now
fitting ont at Southampton for a length
ened cruise. In the early part Of this
year she proved herself on her first voy-
age to be an admirable sea boat and
very fast under sail, and there is every
prospect that the large party soon to
leave England with Mr.. Laycock on
an even longer voyage than that Of last
spring will find that the splendid vessel
deserves the reputation she has already
earned.-London Telegraph.
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Living For Show.

We fix up our homes altogether too
much with the idea Of either what the
outside world will say Of them or to outdo
our neighbors. When we reach that
point where we shall dismiss little of
that ostentation that is now so prevalent
in many of our homes, we shall not only
reach a happier state for ourselves, but
we will remove one-half of the nervous
ailments from which our women are now
suffering. It is all well enough to have
pretty home, with rooms filed with
dainty bric-a-brac, mirrors, cushions and
ornaments of every sort, but some one
must take care Of the things, and gener-
ally it is not the help we may employ.
So far as the ornamentation of our
houses is concerned, we are OVERRIDING it
in the majority Of cases anyway. Aroom
tasteful in its rich simplicity is the ex-
ception rather than the rule. The greater
part Of our drawing rooms resemble mu-
seums more than anything else, and a
man is never so comfortable as when he
is out of them. Between kicking some
ting over or knocking something of, the
average mans mind is anything but a
tranquil one in the typical modern draw
ing room.-New York Mail and Express.
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Instruction by Illustration.

Brevity is credited with being the
'ssoul of wit. Sometimes, however,
there comes at the end Of a lengthy dis
course a genuine fash Of humor which
more than compensates for the time pre-
viously consumed. The Rev. DIR. Broad
us was giving the Junior class at the
Baptist Theological seminary their first
lecture. The junior class began by
showing the white heat earnestness of
high resolutions. 1t wanted to make a
good impression en- Dr.. Broadus, and
so it leaned over with drawn brows
and drank in every word of the speaker,
allaying in some slight degree its con-
suming, unquenchable thirst for k1owl-
edge. But the wind of the junior class
did not hold out. The steady, sluggish
flow of dry facts about word roots swept
away the noble resolve. The junior
class began to get neck weary as DR..
Broadus talked of things 5000 years
old. That was little too remote for
the junior class, which was fabby and
out of training from a long vacation.
The junior class tried to suppress a
yawn, fought against it and then yawn-
ed under its hand.
'Seventhly, said DR.. Broadus. This
seventhly was broken up in sections,
and there were so many Of them that
they consumed almost the entire alpha
bet. And lastly the lecturer said.
The junior class could not hide its
relief, though it tried hard enough.
And, :" with the smoothest utterance
the speaker concluded, Il expect you
are about as tired Of me now as your
congregations will be Of you some day. !"
Huntsville Argus.
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A Gas Engine Dynamo.

A gas engine for dynamo service has
been in operation at the station of the
Waukesha (Wis. Electric Light company
for over year. It is 100 horsepower,
two cylinder Otto engine, with an elec-
tric igniter and an unusually heavy fly
wheel and pulley, the regularity of mo-
tions being increased by the use Of a
heavy balance wheel carried on jack
shaft. Measurements of the consump-
ton of gas have been made several times
by the manager, George A. Farwell, who
reports that in 10 hour run driving So
arc lights of 1000 candle power, on 81
mile circuit, 10,920 feet were burned,
equal to 20.6 cubic feet Of gas per lamp
per hour. In another test 36 arc lights
and 800 incandescent lamps were run on
1,4Oo feet an hour, and in still another
test 36 arc lights and 425 incandescent
lamps were run on 1000 feet an hour
Engineering Record.
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School of Naval Architecture.

We have received from the Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology an an
nouncement of the establishment at the
institute of a course of instruction in
naval architecture. It is four years
course; it aims to provide thorough
training in the theory and methods OF
designing and building ships, and its
graduates receive the degree of bache-
lor of science. It is an optional branch
Of the mechanical engineering course.
There are to be lectures twice a week
during the third and fourth years. and
stude1,ts are required to make the cal
culations and draw the constructions
described in the lectures.-EngineerinS
Record.
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Historic Houses.

Now that "The Terrace in Kensing-
ton is down or doomed, it seems every
house in it once sheltered celebrity.
And yet scarcely any one knew any
thing about it. It is always the way
with historic houses. The link with
the past'' paragraph is the first intlma-
ton that the past was memorable.
When the interest is with Us. we don't
know it. The Society of Arts has indeed
singled out and decorated certain
houses -Walpole's s in Arlington street,
Dryden's in Gerard street, Mrs. Sid
dons' at the top Of Bakers street. Louis
Napoleon's in King street, Thackeray's S
in Palace Green, but we want many
more to be ascertained and notified.
The house where Thackeray wrote
VANITY Fair" is said still to stand in
Young street. One of Dickens last
residences is opposite the Marble arch !;
the house where Goldsmith lived and
died is in Brick court, Temple; Charles
Wesley's house and William Blake's
house cen yet be identified. While we
have these we don't value them; we
don't care to identify them. But when
the navy comes with his basket and
his pickaxe, the "link with the past
paragraph goes its round.
In other capitals the great mans
memory runs no risk. In Rome there
is a marble plaque on the house Sir
Walter Scott occupied, in Genoa on
O'Connell's hotel, in Florence on Mrs.
Browning's casa, in Frankfort on Mo-
za-t's lodgings in the Zeil. And yet
these are the several recognitions OF a
foreign interest. We cannot even ap-
preciate our own. The truth is, this
duty should devolve on a responsible
and continuing body, the board of
works or the county council, and not he
left to the voluntary effort of private
association like the Society Of Arts
Westminster Gazette.
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Pisgah Items.
P1sGAH, S. c., Feb. 3, 1894.

PKGAH, S. c., Feb. 3, 1894.
Mr. Editor: When our Senator'S and Repre-
sen,atives, with the exception of Brawley,
were fighting for silver last fall, it was argued
by those who read through Dir. Cleveland's
spectacles, that as soon as the Sherman law
was repealed, the panic would end, cotton
would go up, confidence would be restored
and money would come out into the sun, and
be more sociable in visiting around. Some
of us who live so far from the centers of civil
are fulfilled. On the contrary there seems to
be retrograde movement all along the line
in finances since gold has got to be the
monarch of the world. Is not notes, mort
cages and bills of sale aud cotton to meet
them in the fall, the currency of the day? II
seems 50 to countryman's vision, but then
we are supposed to be ignorant of such things;
but since We have got up to gold standard,
cotton has gone down, money is harder to
get, credit is getting into the ditch, our peo.
pie are fast drifting apart, and Secretary Car
Isle thinks We can pay little more interest
by packing on us S5o,000, 900 or so. The
writer has talked with men of all religious
faiths and politics, and they cannot see any
hope for the future from this burden of 6nan-
ciaf depression. Some of us hope to see the
Ocala platform carried outso the people can
be relieved of the financial burden, but then
the Ocalites are not Democrats, and yet Mr..
Cleveland can keep Gresham in his Cabinet
and send Wayne McVeah as an ambassador to
Italy, and keep other noted Republicans in
his employ and keep his political standing
Whew! But truce.
So the Governor of Florida got whipped at
his bluffng, "Ben" ought to have been COVER
nor over there while.
Grippe is above par here. AS yet no deaths.
Mr.. William Deas, aged 80 years. died last
Saturday night from second stroke of par
alysis. He was we'll thought of.
Rev T. W. Scrusgs, the Pisg@h pas,or, is
6ne preacher.
We are glad to hear of Rev. B. c. Lampleys
return.
Farm work is going forward as usual.
Guano is scarce as yet.
So "Guv" has turned over the fence into
the Tillman camp. We thought he was half
over the last time we saw him Hurrah !! for
Tillmauite aGuv". j. E. D.
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*Daily. tDaily except Sunday.
No. So runs through to Charleston. S. c., via
Central r. r., arriving Manning 6:l5 P. NJ,
Lanes 200 p. NJ. Charleston S.45 P. NJ.
Trains on Manchester Il Augusta R. R. leave
Sumter daily except Sunday, lO:5o A. NJ. ar
rive Rimini ll.59. Returning leave Rimini
100, P. NJ. arrive Sumter 2:lo P. NJ
Trains on Hartsyille r. R. leave Hartsville
daily except Sunday at 60G Il. m.. arriving
Flvyds 6.35 a. m. Returning leave F1oyds 500
p. m., arriving 1Iartsville s.O4 F. IN.
Trains on Wilmington chadbourn and Con-
way railroad, leave Chadbourn 1910 a. In.
arrive at Conway 1880 p. M, returning leave
Conway at 200 p. r., arrive Chadbourn $50
p m. Leave Chadbourn SIS p. ~, arrive at
Hub 600 F. m. Returning leave Hub at BIS
m. arrive at Chadbeurn 900 a. m Daily ex-
cept Sunday.
JOHN F. DIVINE, General Sup't
J. r KENLY, Genl Manager.
T. NJ. EMERSON. Traffic Manager.
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ManaSinS q Railroad.

In Schoharie county, N. Y, there is
an II mile piece of railroad owned by
several brothers named Vrooman, who
meet annually and lease the line to one
of themselves. This year Corn ius
Vrooman has control, and he is show
ing an example Of the model railroad
man. He not only manages the road,
but sells tickets at the station and acts
as conductor on the train. The rolling
stock consists Of one locomotive and
two combination passenger cars, and
the employees number an engineer,
fireman, baggage master and train
man. When track repairs are needed,
farmland is hired for a day or two.
Exchange.
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Fulton Letter.
FuLroA, s. c., Feb 3, '94

FuLroh, s. c., Feb 3, 'o4.
Work on the tram road now being built by
Lukens 4 Reifsnyder from Pinewood in the
direction Of Pamela is progressing nicely and
from what we can ascertain will soon be
ready for use.
Iu connection with his gin and grist mill
Mr.. C. L. Griffin has put up saw mill at
Pinewood which will be a great convenience
to our neighborhood.
Religious services will be held at st. Marks
at IL clock tomorrow morning by the Rev.
Mr.. Har,selF.
The Rev. C. W. Creighton will be called
away to Pscksville from his regular appoint
ment at St. James tomorrow in behalf of the
proposed Methodist Church which is to be
built at that place
Mr.. Tbeo. Keels, of Sumter, agent for "The
Farmers Mutual Insurance Association, OF
Clarendon County, paid US flying visit
last week IN the interest of his association.
DR.. Jao. L. Easterling will lecture at Pine
wood on ssBlind Tigers" oext Thursday even
ing.
One of Sumters merchants created quite
sensation in our little villa one day last week
by hauling large bovine ia hay rack on a
oue-horse wagon with such celebrity that the
animal could scarcely stand upon. his feet.
At first we did not know whether he was
Sheriff or some one making his escape from
Sheriff. We have the curiosity to know if be
arrived in Sumter safe or not.
S.B. VIC.
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THE. DIVINE sAaAH's FOOT.
The Artist sarony Says It Is Perfectly
Formed.

The Artist sarony Says It Is Perfectly
Formed.
e.How beautiful is the human foot
when properly formed-according to
Gods own plan and not according to
the shoemaker's! the artist Sarony ex-
claimed the other day as he put in a
stroke or two about the feet Of maid
en- he was drawing in charcoal. you
will remember - he said, ''that in all
the great. Greek and Roman sculptures
the mostshapely feet are those in which
the large toe is represented as being a
little apart from the other four.
During Sarah Bernhardt's last visit
to New York she came to my studio to
have some photographs taken Of herself
successively in three or four costumes
of different roles she was then billed
to ;mpersonate. Among them was that
detected character Of Leah, the for
saken. noticed that she wore the con-
ventional stage footgear, in which the
big toe isgiven its own individual GLOW
ing, so tospeak, and the other toes are
mittened together. Suggested that she
remove the stockings, which, after a
French shrug, denoting curiosity and
doubt, she did. I never saw in my life,
considering Nine. Bernhardt's years,
more beautiful and shapely feet than
hers. posed her in such way as to
leave one foot in profile and the other
in nearly full view. Just at that mo-
ment a happy thought occurred to me.
"Taking from my waistcoat pocket
a crisp bank note, folded it into a
wad third of an inch or more thick
and gently pressed it between her right
big toe and its Immediate neighbor Of
smaller growth, so as to separate them
according to the old established canon
to which / have alluded. Nine. Bern
hardt laughed heartily at my profes-
sional temerity, but she was given a
capital picture all the same. New
York Telegram.
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Observation-Disclosures.

Look In the Dictionary For 4 Keason.
The police Of Prospect park, Brook
lyn, are puzzled and some of them
have been scared by mysterious lights
that have been fitting about the
park walks and drives. The lights are
described as two red balls of fire of
phosphorescent brillancy. Each is the
size of a mans head, round and with
a tail like comet. Both lights travel
together at distance of five or six feet
from the ground, going along side by
side. They are never seen apart. 1t
is only on dark, drizzly nights, the
police say, that the lights are abroad.
The lights have been the subject of
general discussion among the policemen
after the relief hour, and notes have
been compared on their appearance.
Those who have encountered them in
the stiffness of the night hours say that
the lights do not deviate from astraight
line till certain point is reached,
when they shoot over to the big lake
and cross it. The lights have been
seen to come in at gate 4 on the Coney
Island road from the Boulevard and
pass along the east drive to the flower
garden.
From there they have deliberately
shot off to the left, and while keeping
a regular distance from the earth, have
fitted over to the lake where they have
shot ACROSS the water like flash.
Exciting times are recorded by those
who have tried to capture the lights.
The police compare them to the Ian
terms of bicycles or carriages. A few
nights ago Policeman MCGOWAN saw
them on the drive near Lookout hill.
He ran up and made grab, but the
lights eluded his grasp. McGowan
was mystifed. He consulted Police
man Mcclure, ON the next post. twas
too late, he said, for bicycle rider to
be abroad, and be could hear no rattle
Of carriage wheels. Policeman Nc
Guire could suggest no explanation.
On another occasion, Policeman En-
mis- says, eight of his comrades chased
them over Lookout hill. Near this
point is the Quaker cemetery, with its
ancient gravestones green with moss.
The red lights entered the graveyard
and fitted among the tombstones, while
Policemen Stillwell, Boyle, Ennis,
Brown, Mcclure, PETER and others
made desperate efforts to catch them.
When all hands reported at the Man
sion House the men e1citedly compared
notes and agreed that they could not
understand it.
Sergeant Foster said that several po-
icemen had been badly frightened.
He said the origin of the lights had
never been satisfactorily explained
g eve were all interested to know
something about theln," he went on,
s'and we consulted dictionary. The
information there is that the words
'Ignis fatuus' explain the origin of the
lights. I remember, concluded the
sergeant, reading of man who got
so near to the light that he could al
most set fire to a piece of paper. .
Here is the definition that Sergeant
Foster referred to:
"a phosphorescent light that ap-
pears in the night over marshy ground,
supposed to be occasioned by the de-
composition Of animal Or vegetable sub
stances or by noninfammable gas; pop
ularly called also Will-with-the-wlsp
and Jack-with- lantern.
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A Misuuotation.

One of the English papers is much
distressed at the constant misquoting
of Carlyle's famous definition of genius.
He did not say in his history of Fred
erick the Great anything so simple as
genius, which means infinite capacity
for taking pains. That was too ordi-
nary for the Chelsea sage. What he
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did say was genius, which means
transcendent capacity Of taking trouble,
first Of all. T" That is more like him.
The sentence is so often quoted it may
as well be quoted straight.-Boston
.Ionrnal.
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A Good BUSINESS.
Exchange

Guest to bell boy)-What is your
part of the business, my boy?
Boy-I wakes the guests in de morn
ing, sir.
Guest-Ah, yes; you are doing rous-
ing business, eh?-Journal Of Educa-
ZION.
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HARLlN CITY BRANCH.

No. 80 going North leaves Vances $50 p
M, Smells 0S, Parlers Z II, arrives Harlin
City 35 p. m.
No. "a going South leaves Harlin City Is,
Parlers IS, Smells 5 48, arrive Vances G 10
p. n.
No. 81 going North leaves Vances Il Is a.
NJ, Smells ! / IS, Parers II 49, arrive Harlin
City IL 10 p. m.
No. 80 going South leaves Harlin City s 80
a. M, Parlers 4s, Smells 8 81, arrive Vances
9 Is a. m.
Trains 80 and 81 connect with No. at
Vances.
Trains "a and 80 connect with No. at
Vances.
No. Al connects with No. / at Eutawville.
No has connection from S. c., No. ii at
Pregnalls, connects with Harlin City Branch
Trains 80 and 81 at Vances and connects with
c. c. No. 43 at Hamlet.
No. has connection from G. G. No. &c at
nal4e: connects with Harlin City Branch
Trains "a and 80 at Vances and connects
with S C. No. l2 at Pregnalls.
No connects with Seaboard Air Line
at Hamlet for Wilmington, Charlotte,
Shelby, Rutberfordton and at Charlotte
with p. l. D. Ves,ibule Limited for
Washington and New York. Passengers can
take sleeper at Charlotte at 835 p. m.
No. passengers by this train have through
Sleepers New York 10 Charlotte connects
with S. A. l., at Hamlet from Charlotte and
North, and from Wilmingtoa, connetcs with
S. C. R. R. at Pregrails for Charleston
and Augusta Dime, ~ Hamlet.
C. MILLARp Superintendent.
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O. L. Rice, Mendoza, ILL.,, writes: "Have
used your japanese Pile Cure and found it
sure aud permanent cure" Sold by DR.. A..
J. China
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Guar;t1jt. es issued by agent NEST'S LIZ iK PILLS
cures s;ic!, Headache. NlioG>ncss, Liver Complaint
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BOND BLUFF BRANCH.

No. Al leaves Eutawville s.45 a. n, Belyl-
dere 9.56 arrive Ferguson 1905.
No. AZ leaves Ferguson 10 35 am, Belvi-
dere l0.45, arrive Eutawville 1885.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-17
and bonnets that were made up of mass

and blue hortensias have taken the place of
feathers. These flowers are usually arranged
in two large punches, one being placed in the
front and one at the back of the bonnet. On
either side is a drapery of green ribbon,
made up into a stand-up bow in the centre.
Speaking about flower decorations for hats
and bonnets reminds me that the printed
muslins so popular this season are much like
the Dolly Nardens which delighted my heart
as child thirty years ago. While within the
reach of all, these muslips are most becom-
ing. They show punches. Of flowers such as
can be found in our old fashioned gardens.
In making either a muslin or null, it
should be borne in mind that the gown will
look very much prettier if made over silk,
and as the material itself is not expensive,
one feels that, for the sake of good effect, a
little bit more money can be put in the lining.
Extravagance in ribbon and. laces for the
summer evening gowns is really not money
thrown away, for the trimmings are always
useful, and it is these things that give a
nice effect to "a very inexpensive costume.