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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-08
Dressmakers' Bills.

Following the dispute of Mrs Cooper
Hewitt and her milliner comes the story of
a frantic discussion in Paris rs to whether
a mar is responsible for tho bills his wife
may run up at her dressmaker' 5. 1t has
always been supposed that in such IA case
as this the unfortunate husband would
have to open his pocketbook wide and pay
the amount even though his heart strings
tuGGed. But the Paris courts have said no
to this and there is wild stir in conse-
queuce throughout the entire world OF
bodice, skirt and coat designers.
The story is simple one. \ certain
Partisan manufacturer had spouse who,
while exemplary in every other respect,
makers bill and paying nothing on &C
count. The bill finally assumed the amaz-
ing proportions of So, 200 The husband
meanwhile was in complete ignorance OF
her extravaganza, and his first intimation
of it was upon presentation of the bill,
Assuming tho mastery of his household
and bidding defiance to the world AZ large,
he contested the case, with the result that
tho court of appeals cut down the bill &c
81, 200 and decided that that was all he
should pay. The arguments Of the French
judiciary were that the husband was not
bound if his wife's expenditure was out OF
proportion to his means and out of proper
ton to the circle in which they both lived
The crucial point in the case was that dur
ing these two years the dressmaher hao
made neither inquiry of nor referred tC
him-New York World
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-08
Paper Sails.

Among the new uses to which paper Is
put is that of sails for yachts, A regular
processed pulp is made and is treated with
various chemicals. To "a ton Of pulp are
added 40 pounds Of prime tallow and "a
pounds of soluble glass, 80 pounds of alum,
25 pounds of glue and n pound of hichro-
mate of potash. All Of these ingredients
are thoroughly mixed, then made into
sheets after the usual fashion, and then
two sheets arc gummcd and pressed to-
gether so as to practically unite them in
one. Then specially built very powerful
compressors are employed to roll these
thick, pulpy sheets out into the desired
thinnness.
The result is tough, strong, flexible
paper ready for further treatment, which
comes next in the way of bath of sui
phurc acid and water. Then it must pass
between glass rollers. Then follows an
ammonia bath, then a clear water wash
ing and pressing between felt rollers
winding up by drying and polishing be-
tween heated cylinders. Tho sheets which
now resemble in weight and thickness the
usual grades of duck employed for sails
arc cemented and sewed or riNeted To form
a continuous sheet of the required size for
sails. 1t is suggested that this material
would mako admirable tents and covers
where cloth is ordinarily used. Whom once
its manufacture is carried on on Il large
scale, it will be comparatively inexpensive
and quite us useful and durable as cloth
New York Ledger.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-08

die i'm peace: and with the burnings Of thy
fathers the former kings which were be-
fore thee, so shall they burn odors for
thee, and they will lament thee saying,
All. Lord for have pronounced the word
saith the Lord"
Unique and interesting, many specimens
being unlike anything as yet unearthed,
is the collection of pottery that has been
collected from the graves. Exports and
lconnoisseurs will be glad to know some of
the details. The varieties so far dscov-
cred have been the polished red hcmatitc
facing, the red with black tops and the
light brown with wavy handles, like the
Amoritc pottery. A later variety was of
coarsor brown and Of much altered form,
copying somewhat from Egyptian types
of the old Kingdom.
Animal-shaped vases and vases with
designs of many curious sports are to be
found in the red-faccd potteries Besides
these forms three other sorts have been
| uncarthed-buf vases initiating stone,
with red spirals and figures of animals
and men; red polished vases with figures
of animals and patterns of white, and
hack bowls with incised patterns. most
| like the earliest Italic pottery.
Strange and decisive, as distinguishing
these people definitely from the Egyptians
Of any dynasty whatever, IL the fact that
though a great variety of signs. marks
pictures and designs are scratched on the
vases, bowls and jars, there is not one
solitary indication of an Egyptian hero
plyphic nor anything even remotely re-
scmbinc II.
II is moro than likely, moreover that
the discovery Of this race, which has
hitherto been without record in the pages
of history, will lead to the focusing OF
many important sdeliEhts upon the Gus
toms and manners of the ancient dominion
of Egyl,. Already, though the cXCaVa
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-08
A Cad Wear For ElIn-.

This promises to be one of the worst
years for the elmS since tha beetle first nj
tackled the trees. These pests begin work
early in the season, and second crop
comes on and by August strips thousands
of Gins. The larvae and pupa of the second
crop are now coming down the trunks by
the million and are worse than the first
crop. because moro numerous. Entomolo-
gist Southwick of the parks is fighting the
pest with greater energy than ever. His
assistants gather up the Larvae and pupa
by the bushel. Several quarts are taken
from the base of Il single elm. Sometimes
deadly preparation is sprinkled over the
creatures as they lie in pile at the base
of the tree, and they are reduced to "a pulp
They often lie so thick that those at tho
bottom arc destroyed by the heat of the
mass Only the most energetic measures
can reduce the numbers of this deadly sec
ond crop.
Dr. Suuthwick is better armed than
ever this year for his war upon insect enc
mics. He has new and strong cart that
carries a tank holding 100 gallons of liquid
ammunition. There is force pump con
noctcd with the tank capable Of throwing
a stream Of poison from each of two hose
no2zlcs. The cntomologist has also new
device in the form of double barreled
pole that may be extended to 40 feet. This
pole carries at its top a long bamboo rod,
and the rod carries u hose with this device.
The nozzle of tho hose may he raised near
ly 90 feet in air, and the force pump can
send through it % spray Of poison that
reaches almost the highest elm in the park.
With all this and improved ammunition
DR.. Southwick is able to destroy his ene-
mics by tho million. New York sun
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-08
Stevenson's Oddly of Dress.

Stevenson was not without a good deal
of innocent oddly in his dress. When l
try to conjure up his figure, cnn see only
"a slight, lean lad, in suit Of blue sea
CLOTH a black shirt and a wisp of yellow
carpet that did duty for a necktie. This
was long his attire, persevcrcd in to the
anguish of his more conventional acquaint-
ances. | have IA ludicrous memory of 60
ing, in 1873 to buy him a new hat in
company with Mr.. Lang, the thing then
upon his head having lost tho very sem
blance Of human article of dress. Aided
by very civil shopman, we suggested
several hats and caps, and Louis at first
seemed interested, but having at last hit
upon one which appeared to us pleasing
and decorous we turned for moment to
inquire the price We turned back, and
found Louis had fed, tho idea of parting
with the shapeless object having proved
too painful to be entertained.
BY the way, Mr.. Lang will pardon me
If l tell, with an added detail, n story of
his. 1t was Immediately after the adven-
ture with the hat that, not having quite
enough money to take him from London
to Edinburgh, third class, he proposed to
the railway. clerk to throw in u copy Of Mr..
Swinburne's Queen Mother and Rosa
mond." The offer was refused with scorn,
although the book was of the first edition
and even then worth more than the cost of
u whole ticket Personal Memories of
Stevenson, by Edmund Gosse in Century.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-08

Tea and coffee should be positively in
tcrdicted to all children, and there should
be no exceptions to this rule. In the fam
lilies of the poorer classes it is found that
tea and coffee are given freely to all chill
drcn and even in tho better classes tea Is
used too much. The parents take it and
the children naturally want it, and when
the parents are weak the children get it.
Tea is IA powerful stimulant, upsetting the
digestion, exciting the nervous system,
which prcdominntos in tho growing child,
and causing nervousness, sleeplessness and
q host Of other evil effects. In England,
where tea is used much moro than here
many cases of tea poisoning are seen annu-
ally at the hospitals and dispensarics
Children, who aro much more susceptible
to all such powerful stimulants, are much
moro powerfully affected by these bever-
ages and. consequently, they should never
be allowed to use thon.-Popular Health
Magazine
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-08
Lost In the Shuttle.

At midnight the other night patrol.
man on Calhoun street saw an old colored
man searching his dooryard with candle
in his hand, and had the curiosity to stop
and inquire what he had lost.
Lost quarter round yere sumwhar,
sab, " was the reply.
lose it during the day."
"No sah-bo half an hour ago"
'Hole in your pocket, chf'
"Not z'actly sah-not 'zactly. When 1
eum home, dc ole woman was waitin fur
me right about yere, an when she had dun
got frew wipin up de airth wild my body
dat money was gone. 1t maybe yere and
maybe in de next ya'd or out in do road
but I'ze boun to look fur it, No, sab, dar
wasn't no hole in my pooket-not as l
knows of. Dat quarter was jess sumhow
lost in de shuttle, to say muffin of how l
got frowed down an walked on till l
couldn't holler. Detroit Free Press.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-08

up, their faces oil innocence and love, you
know that there Is o God somewhere about
in the room.
think l am on the right track at last.
Awake, o sleeper, and call upon the God
of thy children May he set these little
ones to pulling at thy heart until they
charm thee to the same God to whom to-
night they will say their little prayers |
But alasi alas some of these men and
women are unmoved by the fact that their
father had God, that their mother had
God, and their children have God, but
they have no God. All pious example to
them for nothing. All tho divine good
ness for nothing. All warning for moth
ing. They are sound asleep in the side of
the ship, though the sea and sky are in
mad wrestle
Home at Last.
Many years ago man, leaving his fam
lily in Massachusetts, sailed from Boston to
China to trade there. On the coast Of
China, i'll the midst of a night of storm,
he made shipwrock. Tho adventurer was
washed up on the beach senseless-all his
money gone. He had to begin the streets
of Canton to keep from starving. For two
years there was no communication between
himself and family. They supposed him
wore dc,d Uo had gopoout nc a cani,i,
He was too proud 70 come bocI, ne n mi
voto sailor Rut ,ftor awhile bo cbotod
down his nrilo ard sailed for Roston Ar.
irving there he fool, nm cvoning trim for
the center Of thc stnto whore ba had loft
his family. Taking tho stage from tho
donot and riding a score of miles ho cot
home He saws that. going nm in front of
the cottage in tho hrIebt moonlight the
,,laco 1ool,nd to hin, lilo bo,v,r IL r,,,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-08
DRESS GOODS.

Some merchants are complaining becaus
Colored Dress Goods have not sold readil
this season. We confess that it has beei
"a slack goods season. Our colored good
have done well, yet we find we have a goo
many handsome co!ored goods. We wan
the room and offer at Csc a yard Beige
Melany's Crepons, Lupin's Mixtures and
variety Of rich fabrics regardless of forme
prices or cost
Best French Challies in choice patterns
25c. choice mixtures in all wool 36-incl
Cheviot, gle; Silk and Wool mixtures
Serges, etc, at 31tc, were so to 15c.
Our special sales of Wash Dress Good
will continue while the goods last; also sale
of LADIES', Childrens and Mems Summe
Underwear. We offer 100 dozen Ladies
&c Vests at 12tc and a large number 0
odd Vests and samples at very low prices.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-08
Knew It's Meaning.

A book peddler who tried to sell die.
tonary in n certain Buffalo household was
told by the head of the family: I'VE do not
want to buy any book that explains the
meaning Of words We know the meaning
of one word here, and that Is poverty We
will wrestle with that."-Buffalo Courier.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-08
Pertains.

If we can have guns that will fire 600
shots q minute, what is the need Of such
large armies; When one gun will do as
much as 100 men, what is the need of so
many men? But perhaps u large number
of men are needed in order that these
guns uiay have somebody to shoot. Dos
ton Globe.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-08
BOttIe=Fed
* Babies

are often insufficiently nourishcd ;
they are actually starving in their
mothers arms, becoming feeble,
debilitated, colorless. The mother
is puzzled. Add a few drops Of
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-08
First Fioor-North Side.

Japanese Wash Silks, large sclec
ton, reduced to p cents.
Fancy Silks, all kinds, were IS t,
s1.25; table full of them; you
choice, 4Sc.. Fancy Silks
richer qualities, another table
your choice 75c.
From these lots you can select
dress lengths, waist lengths
children's dresses or trim
mings.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-08

De sure and use that old ana well-tred rem.
edy Mrs. Winslow's Soothing syrup for chill
dren teethins. 1t soothes the child. softens
the gums, allays all pain, cures wind collie and
ts the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty
i've cents q bottle.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-08
CLUES FROM THE BIBLE.

In this custom of constructing an es-
pecial funeral pyre, not for the burning
of the dead. but simply for the making
of ashes to be buried with the dead there
is important proof that these people were
related to the Amorites and were of their
stock, If, indeed. they were not after all
a branch of the Amorites themselves
For this custom IL an exceedingly curious
and strange one. Nevertheless In at least
two places in the Bible 1t Is mentioned
In connection with the Amorites.
Second Chronicles, xvi, IA, says And
they buried him In his own sepulchres
which he had made for himself In the
city of David. and laid him in the bed
which was filled with sweet odors and
divers kinds of spices prepared by the
apothecary's art; and they made very
great burning for him"
jeremiah Xxxiv, 6. says: But thou smart
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-08
SPECIMENS OF THEIR WORK

Copper needles found in the tombs indi-
cate the use of garments that were sewed,
and scores of spindle wheels discovered
in one of the eXcavated towns prove be-
yond question that weaving must have
been a common pursuit among the women
of this people Copper ADDE'S show that
carving was a trade in vogue, and couch
has been found in illustration Of tins art
with finely carved bulls legs.
| These people were nation OF hand
workers, for while vases of stone ana
other materials have been found in great
abundance, none Of them shows the slight
est sign of the turning wheel or the
I lathe. This fact in itself is sufficient to
distinguish completely the unknown race
| from the Egyptian, among whom the
wheel was well known.
| All the workmanship thus far discovered,
! however, is exquisite. The vases espect-
! ally are beautifully wrought, and every
kind of material, from alabaster TO granite,
was used. Pottery, indeed, must have
been the favorite art among them. The
discoveries declare the variety, fineness
land quantity of it to be surprising.
! Few graves We're opened that did not
contain from two to II vases, and III some
were found as many as 30. Many were of
the coarser kind merely used for con-
tanning the ashes of the great funeral fire.
Bodies, so far as can be told, were never
burned among these people, but great
burning was made at each funeral, and
the ashes thereof were carefully taken
and preserved, sometimes in as many as
20 to 80 large jars.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-08
Storm
Garments

Cravancttes, S.. 50, $1Loo, Stage
Macintoshes, S3.75, s.. So
s.. IS IS. to SIS. 50; Chill
dren's AIackint05hes, s.. 50
S3.75. Childtca's Crayanettes
fine quality silk hoods.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-08
IN SATAN'S SERVICE.
JONAH OF OLD SOON TIRED OF THE
DEVILS BUSINESS.

But It Took Heroic Treatment to Bring
Him to His ssnses-Dr. Talmage Draws
Instructive Moral Lessons From domains
Misadyenture In the Mediterranean,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-08
THEY WE'RE CANNIBALS.

In the graves the bodies lay contracted
and not mummiicd, always with tho head
to the south and the face to the west.
The evidence is not lacking that the bodies
were generally mutlated before they were
buried, and a yet moro startling charac-
tcristic is conveyed from tho fact that
seems to he proven that these people
were anthropophagist that is canni-
balls.
In one large and important tomb four
skulls were found placed between stone
vases on tho floor, a separate heap of loose
bones of several bodies together, and but
"A little distance away bones broken open
at the ends and scooped out. All of these
were dstinctively human bones. 1t does
not need an expert in ethnology to Judge
this to be cannibalism pure and simple.
Commercially speaking, these unknoWns
must have been of Importance, for even
when set side by side in comparison with
tho Egyptians, their Workmanship shows
forth as little short of remarkable. With
both metals and flint they were experts.
In flint especially they must have been
possessed of wonderful skill, for flint arti-
cles have been found magniiicently
worked, far more exquisitely and with
greater degree of elaboration than that
employed by the Egyptians in any age.
There are in the Ashmolean and the Pitt
Rivers museums at oxford splendid eX-
amples of flint Workmanship that have
been believed for years to be Egyptian.
1t is now absolutely proved, the discover
crs say, that these were products of this
unknown race.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-08
I'd Floor CLOAK Department.
Take the Elevator.


Best quality linen finish duck suitd
worth S.. 90, closing at s.. col
Our Eton and Blazer Suits, 25 Of
80 odd ones, were $40. 90 I'd
$40. 50. Your choice 81. 50.
One lot Black and Colored Iackotl
were $40 to $40; now S4.75
in this lot are some elegant sill
lined garments Of high cost.
Misses and Childrcn's Jackets s.. Cd
S.. 90, So. 50, 81. 90, S. 50, one
half regular prices.
Black Capcs suitable for early fal
wear, all fine goods w
bought a manufacturers stool
and can offer these fine quail
ties at much less than usua
prices for ordinary garments
Black Broadcloth Cape, deer
velvet collar, strap trimming
s.. SO. Black Broadclotf
Cape, handsome let and Rib
bon trimming, SO. 50.
Black Broadcloth Cape, handsome
embroidery, with silk lining,
worth S18. 50, now $1,000
Broadcloth Cape, Satin an,
ct trimming, with silk lining
worth $40. 90, now $40. 90
Elegant Velvet Capes and rici
Colors at ST.. 50. These wer,
pattern garments, high cost
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1895-08-08
A NEW RACE OF PEOPLE.
ANClENTS OF WHOM THE WORLD
NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE.
Explorers Have Discovered tho Remains
of Strange Prehistoric Nation Puz-
zlins soientists-Were Cannibals and
Yet Skilled Artists aud Mechanics.

A new race in Egypt in tho long ago
and almost at the very dawn Of history
is the surprising discovery that has just
been made by a band of European scien-
lists who have been exploring and eXca-
waiting in the southern part of that ancient
country. OF what type or section of the
human family this race was part has
not yet been settled, but this much al
least is certain that these people must
have been essentially non Egyptian, for
their pottery, their statuetts their mode
of burial. their beads and even themselves
as can be plainly deduced, were completely
different. The honors of this discovery
the particulars of which have only JUST
come to London, are due TO two gentlemen
of that recently established English insti'
tuition known as the Egyptian Research
Account-a Mr.. Quibell and w. NJ. Film
ders Petre, who have been constantly II
Africa for six months past.
They have not only explored and eX-
numed. hut they have summarized then
data and made careful deductions, so that
the value of the discovery is already
apparent. BY a careful study of dates
and other comparisons they have nroVec
fairly concusively, that this new-or ole
race lived and had power between the
seventh and ninth dynasneS oil EoNa
Egypt, or about 5000 r. G.
over 1000 graves have been opened. ant
hundreds of skulls and skeletons have beer
collected. and with great mass Of lmple
monts and relies made ready for snip
ment to England. Yet in all these tomb'
and excavations there has not been tounC
a single article that bore the marks o
Egyptian civilization in the slightest dc
gree, or Il solitary mummy.
THAT these people were not merely
local variety or even provincial division
of the Egyptians is certain from the rae
that remains of them were found over Z
stretch of more than hundred miles o
country, from Abydos to Gebelen. Side 10y
side with the novel relics and strans'
bodies have been found Egyptian tomhs
Egyptian pottery and ruins of Egyptian
towns of the fourth twelfth, eighteenth
and nineteenth dynasties of Egypt
As the explorers have recorded in th'
memorial they have presented 'Th'
strata of Egyptian civilization was there
fore uniform over the whole country
This newly discovered race must haV'
been a tribe of invaders settling in THU
section of southern Egypt between thu
days of the seventh and ninth dynasties.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-06-25
RABB NOTES.

RABB, June 24.-No one has report, d
for this section for some time. We
know not why, but suppose on account
of the scarcity Of news.
Our postofice il still under the efi-
cient management of Mr.. Jas. r.
Harvey.
Mr.. J. L. Lennon, who returned
from the Land of Flowers" not long
since, exp2c:s to strike the soil of the
"Lone Star" State before long. We
wish him success.
A certain young man of this cjln-
muuity while out last Sunday came
across a mob of Ethiopians who were
engaged in certain game, and 'tis
said "if negroes ever fought heel dust
they certainly did when the white man
sounded his voice." Perhaps there'Il
be more said about this matter later.
When shall the road be worked be-
tween the five and six mile posts on
tie k;ncaid bridge road? 1t must be
worked orthe county will have to buy
new road
Rev. A NJ. McNsuil, who recently
graduated at the Columbia Theological
Seminary, will accept a call 10 Bedford
City, Va, or one of the Carolinas.
The Lord bless him in bis work.
We regret to report the continued
illness of Mrs. NJ. NJ. McNaul, but
trust the kind hand Of Providence may
speedily restore her to health.
Dir. A. Y. Milling is now in Dallas,
Texas.
We hope to have Rev. Robt. Young,
of York, preach at the chapel soen.
All were badly disappointed last week,
but hope he may soon have health in
his family so he can come.
"U-No.'
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