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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-01-25
MUNICIPAL LEGISLATION.
Meetings of the Board for Abatement OF
Taxes and the Aldermen.

Meetings of the Board for Abatement OF
Taxes and the Aidcrmen
The Board for the Abatement of Taxes
and the Board of Aldermen. held meetings
at the city Hall Mondaycvcnng. The only
large claim for abatement of taxes came
from Elias Lyman q Co. The Board of Al
dermcn transacted the usual amount of rou-
tine business, adopted the report Of the
special committee on the electric road ana
spent some time in discussing the collection
of unpaid taxes against the Rutland Rail
real company.
At the adjourned meeting Of the board
for the abatement of taxes Elias LYMAN al
pcared before the board in regard to an
abatement of taxes of Elias Lyman a Go.
Mr., Lyman claimed that ON the LOOMS
dock he had paid double tax and a,,ei
that half the tax paid he refunded. Alder
men Gutchcll and Burke opposed the motion
of Alderman Stevenson TO recommend to the
Board of Aldermen to refund to Elias ~
man a Co., 500 taxes. Alderman Hall sup
ported it and it was carried, after consider
able discussion.
The report of the sub. committee on the
| abatement of taxes was adopted. Tie fol-
lowing is the report
BrRTINGToN Vt. Dec. 49, 1893
To tie Hoaordbic. the Bo0rd ion, Iboic-
mcn Of TorcS:
Gentlcmen:-No committee To- whom
was referred the abatement of certain taxes
in the hands of f. e. Mower. city treasurer
James \. Kelly. city constable and John f.
LaVellc. former constable. would respectfully
report that they have examined the several
lists presented and recommend that the
taxes Of the following persons, with the
amount opposite the name in the schedule
hereto annexed. bc abateI:
Summary of the whole for abatement.
L. G. Mower. city treasurer, grand list
1893, so. 80.
James a. Kelly, city constable, grand list
1893 81. 81
John Lavellc. grand list 1891 500. Sc:
grand list 1892 500 20
We also recommend that the Board of
Aldermen refund the following sums. which
have been paid through errors:
Cook. Louis j.. S30l
McIuirc NJ. f.. 50 20.
Srgel. II. H.. 81 10.
Sheahan. Eleanor, Sl.6l,
Corley. p. H.. s. 80.
Ladue, Frank costs. II cents.
f.. f.. DAVIS.
CLARENCE Hicks.
FRED JOHOHNOTT,
JOIN j. FLYNN.
f. C. MOWER Traas
Subcommittee of Abatement of Taxes.
This was all the business 10 come before
the board, and on motion of Alderman Sev-
er,ou the board adjourned
THE ALDERMEN's MEETING
Am adjourned meeting Of the Board of
Aldermen was held after tine adjournment
of the board for he Abatement nf tive.
Several roli ta,.e, were abotcd
The appointment biz the moyor Of Fred
MITCHELL WesIey NJ. Rockwell. j i Flona
can. II. w. Johounott r VI Dugon r II
Jones. J. RYAN and W. NJ Freeman ,periaI
policemen Tor the benefit of fine ejactri,.
road. was confirmed
The opplicatiou of r II NTcCaIe for, H.
ceu.e to move n buil,lipo was referrDd to fin.
street committees
The applic,tiou Of .Iolu BI,cL f,r - tru,.l
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-01-25

DIED

,McNwELNN.-On Jan. -, a son to nr. p. E
McSwccny and wife -
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-08-16
A CANADIAN TWILIGHT.

The white mists gather on marsh and fen.
And down by the rivers edge
The tide is tapping the fibrous grass,
And the snarls Of sea green sedge.
Away In the west the sunset glow
Fades out of the cold gray sky,
And up from the reeds that bend and
quake,
Comes the red necked looms weird cry,
0h-oo-whi-oo-who-wi, whi-oo - who-wi,
whi-oo-who-wir'
The fisher boats In the lonely bay
Lie anchored serene and still.
A red light CLEANS like far faint star
From the dim crest Of the hill.
The wind through the high limbed poplar
trees
Is sweet as some quaint old tune,
Yet sadder, sweeter than grooming wind,
Pipes the single red necked loon,
"oh-oo- whi-oo-who-wi, whi-oo - who-wi,
whi-oo-who-wir'
From shadowless heights the night creeps
down
And muff1es the sounding shore,
The still white boats gleam spectral and
thin,
And the red light shows no more.
Yet ever across the darkening world
Creeps the rivers monotone,
And the pensive, plaintive murmuring
OF the red necked loon alone,
"0h-oo- whi-oo- who-wi, whi-oo who-wi,
whi-oo-who-wil''
Youths Companion.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-08-16
A ROSE RHYME TO JULIET.

Heedless how It may fare with Tina
/ send you here n rose OF rhyme;
Its fragrance, love; its color, one
Caught from Hopes ever constant sun.
Upon each leaf lyric writ
Your eyes alone may witness II,
And in its heart for You TO see
Another heart-the heart Of me.
All roses are as fitly worn
By you as By your sister Morn,
Since you, like Morn, fail not to give
New beauty to them while they live.
II this against your bosom rest
One brief, sweet hour, its life were blest
Then, should you chance to cast il by,
II would not find it hard TO die.
So take this bloom Of love and song,
And be its life or brief or long
Know that for you the petals part,
Disclosing all its lyric heart.
For you its fragrant breaths are drawn;
For you its color-love's glad dawn,
And for you, too, the heart that goes
Song prisoned in this rhyme Of rosel
Frank Dempster Sherman in Century.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-08-16

her husband's face, but only for a mo-
ment for she Immediately again read
over the letter that she held in her
trembling hand
ST know allp' he added quietly,
watching every movement she made
81 know it allP' he repeated louder and
in sullen anger.
She made no reply. Her mouth twitch-
ed nervously, her eyelids dropped, and
with a wild cry Of hysterical anguish
she slipped out of the bed and flung her
self at his feet. The amazed husband
looked ON with dull sensation of hor-
TOR in his heart, while she clung to his
knees, and with an agonized voice
groansd aloud:
''Forgive mel Forgive mep'-From
the German.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-08-16
Low Excursion Rates to Mountain
Lake Park, Md, account Camp
Meeting via the b. & o. Ry.

On July 5th to 18th inclusive, the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad will sell round trip tickets to Moun-
tain Lake Park, Md, and return, at q rate of one
fare for the round trip, account of the Annual
Camp Meeting, and the West Virginia Sunday
School Convention. Tickets will be good for re-
urn passage until July 3lst, 1894. For further
information call on or address any B & o. Ticket
Agent or L. s. Allen, Asst Genr Pass Agent,
Chicago, Ill. "a
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-08-16
CCuRTlNG BY WIRE.

The Man Gushed Over the Ticker, but Was
Disseminated on Sight.
A telegraph operator in q Boston Office
once met with bitter disappointment
early in his career by falling in love with
o young woman at the other end of one
of the old Western Union wires. She
used to say sweet little nothings when
lull in the business gave her an oppor-
tunity to use the wire. The young man
worked in the Boston Office and had the
reputation Of being "fy" sender and
able to receive what he could send, an all
importan. factor in the "sizing up" Of an
operator. The woman was proud to have
him say even "Gm" or "Ge" (good morn
ing or good evening" to her, and the other
girls on the wire, with whom he never
condescended to exchange even these Or
binary salutations, were jealous. AS time
wore on their conversations over the wire
became longer and more frequent. FL
nally an invitation to come to Boston and
visit one of the theaters was given and
accepted. The Lothario Of the wire was
to wear g red, red rose in his buttonhole,
white straw hat, with blue band; she
was to carry small satchel of peculiar
shape in one hand and fluffy lace sand
kerchief in the other.
The train arrived at the eastern sta
ton on time, and the satchel of peculiar
design was sighted. 1t was indeed Pc
culiar design. It was an old fashioned
carpetbag Of q grayish green color and
considerably older than the Morse alpha
bet. The girl was sight that would
have made Neil Burgess in the County
Fair" go and hide. She was fully 4s
years old. Long corkscrew curls Of a
past era hung down over her shoulders
like twists of molasses candy, and smile
leomed up under the caves Of her sun
bonnet that would have done credit to a
fssure in the side of Vesuvius.
She was extremely glad to see him,
and he, with the instinct Of true gen.
tleman, tried to appear that he was just
as glad to see her. He took her carpet
bag, and they boarded car for the
house where he was staying. There
were sly nudges and covert laughs al
the tea table, all the girls and young
men thinking the young operator wal
entertaining his aunt from the country
For the evening performance at the the
ater the giddy maiden fished out an aw
full bonnet from the depths of her car
petbag and slicked up her curls in thu
most approved fashion. The bonnet wal
flower garden in itself, and the writer
has the young mans own word for i
that she and the bonnet attracted NOR,
attention than the play.
The next day he sent her home, bu
ever after he was careful not to ALLOW
himself to converse with any one on tn
wire except on business. .--Donahos'
| nfa-~~@;--~.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-08-16

Once Senator Stanford was travelling
through California in his private car.
The train had stopped at small town,
and the senator was leisurely strolling
back and forth on the platform at the
depot. A baggageman was unloading
trunks, and in doing SO carelessly pitched
one onto the platform, and it burst
open. The senator looked at it and re-
marked, "Well. that's a shame. The
baggageman impudently asked, "Do you
own this trunk?" The answer came
quickly, "No, young man, but own
this road, "-Horseman.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-08-16
Estl1etics Run Mad.

O'Kief-Why did the Newsplices
move?
McEll-The wall paper on their old
fiat didn't harmonize with the new
baby's complexion, believe. Brook
lyn Eagle.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-08-16
TRAPS AND SHARES.
toNTRFVANcEs THAT SHOW WHAT
A GENIUS THE YANKEE IS.

fou Would Call Most Of the Inventions Alb
surdities. and Yet They Are UsefuI-De-
vices For Poisoning Pests-Rattraps Of
Many Kinds.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-08-16
EXCURSION TO MICHIGAN,
Half Rate July, Aug. and Sept.

One fare excursion tickets will be issued from St.
Louis and all T., St. Lid K. G. r. r., Glover Leaf
Route stations east to various points in Michigan,
on July 10th, August 18th and sept. 18th. Return
limit 20 days from date of sale.
Call on nearest agent Glover Leaf Route, or ad-
dress C. JENKINS, Gen. Pass. Agect,
Toledo, Ohio.
Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-08-16
What is this
anyhow
2

1t is the only bow (ring) which
cannot be pulled from the watch.
To be had only with Jas. Boss
Filled and other watch cases ~
stamped with this trade mark. W
Ask your jeweler for pamphlet.
Keystone Watch Case Co., +,
PHILADELPHIA.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-12-05
VIEWS OF LABOR LEADERS.
Few of Them Believe in Strikes for the Ad-
vancement of Labor.

Strikes are industrial wars like in wars
between nations, the best disciplined
army with plenty Of ammunition wins
the battle. The necessity "f large re-
serve fund becomes more important from
day to day. It is power and not justice
that wins. When to strike, and when
not to strike must be determined by
cool heads and experiences; sympathetic
hearts and pleas for justice are poor coun-
selors in time of battle. Trades unions
neither court, nor do they favor any
strikes. They should be the last resort
alter all attempts in favor of conciia-
ton and arbitration have proved futile
A. Strasser, in the American Federation
ist, New York.
Lean imagine that an emergency might
arise that would justify a strike, but
generally speaking, nothing more than
temporary victory can possibly be
achieved in this way at best. Strikes
widen the breach between capital and
labor, and no matter which side is worst
ed, it is sore over it's defeat and will re-
taliate with vengeance at the first oppor-
tunity. It is in study aud education and
the wise use of the power thatis placed in
their hands, through the ballot, that work
ingmen must hope for relief from the
conditions of which they justly complain.
General Master Workman Sovereign
of the Knights of Labor.
A man who will encourage men to
strike in time when thousands of his
craft are out of employment, when the
business Of the country is paralyzed,
when men are begging for bread, and
strike means certain defeat for those who
participate, displays poor judgment and
is unfit to be a counselor and leader of
labor organization. The lesson of the
A. R. G. strike is that the emplove must
respect public sentiment and the law.
Also that when you have quarrel with
one man you cannot make all others suf-
fer. Sentiment will be against you, and
sure defeat will be the result.--Grand
Master Sargent of the Locomotive Fire
men.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-12-05
A Better Plan of Teaching

In recent number of the Boston
''iranscript a correspondent directs at
tention to the fact that school methods
and school curricula are still very poor
ly adjusted to the needs of pupils. The
educational system, considered as body
of teachers organized under superintend-
ents, trustees, commissioners, etc., with
tax laws, fine school buildings, books,
apparatus and the like, has had in the
last half century magnificent develop
ment. There has been money to spend,
and it has purchased large equipment.
But the large development of the
machinery of education, under State ad-
ministration, has tended very naturally
to crystalize the crude methods of former
times-methods suitable enough, perhaps,
for adults, according to the ideas of those
times, but clearly not suited to all ages
and classes of students for all time.
Progress in pedagogy has accordingly
been slow, and people wonder why their
children go to school so long and learn
so little. Private schools as well as
public schools have in many cases been
slow to adapt ways and means to the
varying needs of their different clases.
The correspondent of the transcript"
shows that the ''higher branches taught
in the high school are not necessarily
more difficult than the subjects taught
in the grammar schools Parts of arith-
metic, for example, are harder than the
elements of algebra or geometry. Geog-
raphy, as commonly taught in the gram
mar schools, is as difficult as the elements
of botany and physics. Latin, which
was not too much foe the Roman boy of
six, is not Inherently too difficult for
young children certainly not more than
English grammar in the higher grades.
Eve shall ind,'' says the writer, sthat
Latin does not present embarrassing
difficulties, if we do not require of our
grammar school pupils more technical
Latin grammar than Cicero knew" OF
course, teacher may BY his method
make Latin q s'dead language as he
does German, French and even English,
but that IS not the fault Of the Latin.
The point, however, to be kept in view
IS that some subjects nov taught in tho
high schools could Be taught as well in
the grammar schools; il IS mere ques-
ton Of curriculum-making. The Boston
school COMMITTEES q accordingly com
mendcd for introducing Latin, modern
languages and algebra IN The grammar
grades.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-12-05
Clubs and the Homes.

It is announced as one of the evidences
of the emancipation of women in Eng
land that not only have they entered the
political arena and become CONSPICUOUS
in many business avocations hitherto
n,onopolized by men, but they have at
tanned larger measure of social freedom
by establishing their own particular
clubs. Here their male friends may come
only by special invitation. and here they
themselves smoke and drink and gamble
without let, hindrance or interruption.
No reasonable objection can be raised
against that emancipation of woman
which grants her larger liberty and bet
ter opportunities i1 choosing her way in
life. If she wishes to be independent of
any ones support; it she feels within
her the strength and the desire to carve
out her own fortune; or if necessity and
circumstances force her to rely upon her
own efforts in securing livelihood, not
only should not straw be laid in her
way, but she ought to be encouraged in
every possible manner. Different, how
ever. is it with the removal of those Soc
ial barriers which induce her to forsake
the home life and abandon its pleasures
and comforts for the meretricious attrac-
tions of the club-room. The atmosphere
of the club is not conducive 20 domestic
happiness, either for man or woman The
multiplication of clubs for men is
fact rather tn be deplored than commend
ed. They tend to wean man away
from his home and many family wreck
can be traced directly to, their influences.
It were better by far if the social
emancipation Of women, either in Eng
land or IN the United States-wher in
some cities, clubs for women are also be.
ginning to spring up-had manifested
itself to diminish the number of mems
clubs, instead Of endeavoring to .4go and
do likewise. Washington Times
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-12-05
The Evils of Amateur Acting.

To what degree the modern fad Of
amateur acting may be said to influence
the characters of the women who have
taken it up, it may not be difficult, but
it may be distinctly distasteful Ito tllem)
to state. Amateur acting carried to the
point at which it at present rests, IS, in
my opinion, very demoralizing amuse
ment, fashion, pursuit, whatever one wills
to call it. In the first place, it unques-
tionably alienates, if it does not divorce,
woman from what we are justly con-
demned to call the realities of life. 1t
robs her of the savoring salt, and bestows
upon her instead the unsanative sugar.
1t confers upon her rather tropically
favored fictional existence, and takes
from her the real throe. and throb, and
pulse, and pleasure of true and unsen-
timentalized state of being. It takes
from her the bloom of her best preroga-
tives, and renders her back nothing in
their place, save the excitial excitements
OF an applause, that is too often totally
insincere as well as totally unmerited-
an atmosphere tina: is false, and code
of manners that is ill-built on some kind
of insecure foundation called by some
one the ''freemasonry of art" and it
leaves her glorying in a nondescript
phase of self -adornment, which, for lack
of the courage to christen it demi-mon-
daine, we impertinently designose as
''actress-like." - From ~"Women and
Amateur Acting" by Fanny Aymar
Mathews in North American Review for
December. 4
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-12-05
A New Method of Catching Train Robbers


In addition to the means of protection
already suggested, let me mention an
other, and that is the use of dogs trained
to follow men; and while on this subject
let me correct misapprehensior, pre-
valent throughout the North, that these
dogs are bloodhounds. I doubt if there
ale half a dozen bloodhounds in the
United States, or tina: any had been used
in the pursuit of fug1tives, except in the
fable cf Uncle Toms Cabin. The dogs
used are the ordinary foxhounds; these
will follow trail, but they will not at
tack the fugitive. They only indicate
his route of flight, SO that parties follow
ing them on horseback can come up with
him. Most of the penitentiaries in the
South keep these dogs, as do the man
ayers of convict farms and camps. The
Cuban bloodhound is : fierce, intractable
dog, and I have never known of its use
in pursuing fugitive, nor are they use
full as hunting dogs The English blood
hound, on the contrary, is noble dog,
gentle, sagacious and affectionate. In
the famous picture by Landseef, called
"Dignity and Impudence' he is well
portrayed, and though it is said that in
the olden time he was used in England
to track human beings, he is now not
called on for that purpose. Your readers
are doubtless familiar with Walter Scott's
story Of the pursuit Of Sir William Wal
lace By one Of these dogs, and the man
ner in which he escaped. I have used
both the Cuban and the English blood
hound in hun5ing, and while the former
was generally worthless for this purpose
the latter was valuable. The hounds now
used for tracking men, when properly
trained, will take and follow : trail
twenty -four hours old, and in some cases
even colder one. II, IN those lparts of
thecountry, WHARF robberies.. Of trains oc-
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-12-05
II Still Alive.

.sDo you rectify mistakes here7" asked
. gentlemen, a. he stepped into drug
store. .tYes sir, We do, il the patient is
still aliye,'' replied the urbans clerk.
Never Was druggist called upon to an
swer such : question. after selling bot
tie Of DE-. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
cove.y. Do not be hopeless although
you are thin and pale. u spite Of : dry
hacking cough, night sweats and slight.
splitting Of blood, ron need not fill con-
sumptive's grave. Take the aDiscovsryn
and you viii soon be nd Of the troubles
which hara1 ron. But do not delay.
Delay may mean death and that mistake
you cannot rectity. Sold under posi-
i've guarantee Of cure Il taken = time
or money returned.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-12-05

grammar school curriculum is criticised.
For six long years the pupil is kept at
little else than arithmetic, geography,
history of the United States, physiology
and grammar. This monotony of intel
lectual diet is exceedingly tlresome ard
deadens interest. ssThe present curricul-
um is overcrowded," says the defender
of present arrangements, land there is
no room for more studies.'' Very true,
it the list is not to be overhauled and
reformed. But better conception of
the amount of time pupil should give
to his various studies and better ways of
teaching will make the required room.
To begin with, much is now taught in
arithmetic and geography that is of little
practical value. The time given to these
subjects can he cut down. Technical
grammar may be omitted ex-
cept in the two highest grades. In the
lower grades training in speech and
writing may be given IN actual practice
in speaking and writing in the school
room. Good English is not learned by
children from books on grammar. As
for the study of English grammar in the
higher grades. "the study of Latin,' says
the transcripts correspondent, "would
throw light on English grammar and
English grammar on Latin grammar to
an extent to make both more interesting
and shorten the time otherwise necessary
for both. In like manner algebra would
give the pupil new point of view from
which to study number Ct topics in
arithmetic.
Amuch-needed reform is to dispense
with "readers" altogether, and stop
teaching separately subjects that can be
taught together. Says the writer, very
forcibly: "Reading, composition, spelling
and penmanship should not be taught as
separate braches, but largely, if not
wholly, in connection with what may be
called the Thought studies of the cur
riculum-geography, history, arithmetic,
science, literature, etc. There is no
need of regular special hour in school
for reading, NOR is there any with vastly
greater interest by reading about the
same topics which he is studying in the
Thought studies than by reading school
readers He ought to read on history, on
geography, on natural history and on
literature. He ought not only to slearn
to read,' but he ought at the same time
read to learn In this way the reading
would 'help him along' in these other
studies to an extent which would save
mos, if not all, the time now devoted to
aimlcss reading, disconnected from the
other school studies" The problem of
learning more in shorter time is to be
solved, it is clear, not by merely adding
or subtracting, but by co-ordinating and
directing all the various lines of work in
the school-room to the, accomplishment
of the subjects the educator has in view.
Baltimore Sun.