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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-01-02
A LAw-BREAKERs' CONVENTION.
To the Editor of the Free Press:


The following parody OF a circular let
open the eyes OF the community to the
desperate and anarchical measures that
the rumsellers are endeavoring to adopt
against a good law and the peace and safe
ty Of society. A combination of horse
thieves, or gamblers similar to the one
they propose would be ."child's play" In
comparison to this. The movement, to
my mind, shows plainly that the law is
being enforced better than ever before,
for, mo man ever felt the halter draw
with good opinion Of the law"
f. WHITNEY
Williston, VT. Dec, 30, 1895.
TO FIGHT PRoHIBITION-A PARODY,
Dear Sir:--You are respectfully re-
quested to be present at the Horse Thieves
convention to be held at Montpelier, jan
nary 8, 1896, at 1:3O p. m, then and there
to discuss the question of mutual protec-
ton and any other question OF mutual ben
eft that may come before the meeting and
then and there try and devise some means
whereby we may find relief from The in
justice and persecution that we are now
subject to through the present admins
tration of Vermont's prohibitory laws
AS II is now, we are subject to open arrest
at any time and are powerless TO prevent
1t. If we combine we certainly a get q
hearing from the people which we cannot
get now.
My circular letter calling for pledges &c
attend this convention has been very
widely published in this State n In SOM
OF the Boston dailies and has called forth
very few ~unfavorable comments indeed
In fact, most of them say that an asso'
citation of the kind would be most beneh'
cial to those concerned. Therefore 1t Is
for the interest OF every Horse thief In
this State to be present at this meeting.
I have nearly ore hundred Horse Thieves
| pledged to be present, among whom are
some of the most influential. which IL q
guarantee of the success of the convention
and / sincerely hope that one hundred
more that are not pledged will be there
Let every man who Is coming, see that his
~neighbor comes also. We can at least
get together and get acquainted and gel
to q better understanding Of this question
But from the tone OF nearly every letter
that ! have recsdved, infer that Horse
Thieves mean business. Why Not.
49,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-01-02
ADVERTISED LETTERS.
MEMS LIST.

List of unclaimed letters in the Burling-
ton postofflce for the week ending Dec. 81,
B 1Sq..
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-01-02
THE HOME FUND.

Rut and.
We take pleasure in announcing the fol-
lowing gifts which have been received for
the Home FOR Destitute Children:
Previously acknowledged ..........$ $40, 927.91
Primary class Congregational Sum
DAY school. Olcott.. 800
Mrs. Rockwell Barrett. Rutland. 80
Total $40, 93l. IL
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-01-02
FLOUR. SUGAR AND VEGETABLES.
Doiau Brothers.

New st. Louis -four, $3.50 per barrel;
Michigan, $3.50; spring patents and Minne-
sofa patents, $3.50. Buckwheat Is 4 cents
a pound; rye -four. &c. Maple sugar
10 to is cents a pound; maple syrup, $40
q gallon. G%ranulatcd sugar Is 5s cents
a pound. or 1S lbs for 800; coffee A, &c;
light brown. &C.; loa and pulverized. &c.
White clover honey. 20c. a pound. New
squash, &c a pound; cabbage, Sc; potatoes.
bOc a bushel: onions, &c a pound; turnips,
15c a peck; bects, 15c a peck; popcorn,
5 cents u pound; onions, 8 cents a pound
curly lettuce, 8 cents a head; beans, Is
cents q quart; lima beans, IL cents a quart.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-01-02

BRAIN EXHAUSTION is not Identical
with Nerve Exhaustion. and DIR. Will
lard fnds the best results come from
that treatment which recognizes an
essential difference.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1896-01-02
TEAS. CoFFEEs AND SPICES.
Il. IL. Perkin..

Teas-Oolong and India, $3.50 per pound;
Formosa Oolongs, 40. 81. SOC. and t1.0o;
English breakfast. 80 to s0c.: Ceylon. soc.
20 sl.00; g~unpowder. s0c.; young Tyson,
Coo. Japans. 30. 10. 80, 80 and Toe.
Cofees-Private growth Java, 4oc. per
pound; Mocha. &c.; standard Java. 35c. I;
golden Rio. 49,; Maricabo. Soc; mixed
ground. &c.: powdered Mocha and JAVA,
4oc.: dandeiion. &c.: New Era. &c.
cereal, Soc; cocoa coffee. 15c. per ID.
Spices-Pepper, 10 cents per pound; all
spice, 40c.: cinnamon. 6oc.; ginger. soc.
cloves, 5Oc.; mustard. &c.; Cayenne pep
per. 5Oc.; white pepper soc. mace. $40
nutmegs, u. 20 per ID.
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every consumer. Everything included in this sale containing
ten yards or less. Silk Remnants in immense quantities, in
Guiding Waist Lengths, many of them late purchases of the
most desirable goods in the market We include the entire
line and at prices that will insure their Speedy sale.
We have neither time nor space for long stor es. Stock of
odds and ends never SO large, the prices never so low We
claim it for the interest OF every Lady in the city to visit "The
Old Bee Hive during This Clean Up Sale.
n G so Fur Capes, 100 Ladies' Jackets, 100 Misses Garments all marked
L. y to sell. Lockers will be buyer, as prices will be lower than reliable
Goods were ever offered In tbsc city.
~. e. Chambev'in.
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soeo>o> e>es>s>o>o>e$
| Annual Sale ri,
| Remnants and nbone
Short Lengths. $50.
>s>s>e>S
Old Bee Hive:
| Friday Morning, Dec. 9th.
OUR SALE
! Remnants and Short Lengths.
The Most Important Sale OF
the Year.

The most important be-
cause it is the Cleanup"
in every department OF the
store. Dress Goods, Silks,
Linens. Domestics, Carpets,
Curtains, Portiers, Under
wear Hosiery and Gloves.
Hundreds of short lengths
Dress Goods suitable for
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AT THE HOME FOR AGED WOMEN.

Total $40. 93l,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-29

Oh, wat IS t1a5 mecr-loollug thing,
mother?
Pray, what can it ever be?
! have pictures at home OF the beasts that
roam,
And the fish in the deep. deep sea.
ooh, the quilted porcupiue ! have seen,
mother,
And the terrible grizzly bear;
The sacred OK, and the winged bow
WOW,
But nothing like this, / swear.
4 have looked On Tho goosl2-cycd sa;pc,
mother;
Gazed long at the Zulu chief,
The Borneo wild, when he's good and ril-
And fierce Creatures beyond belief
The IT that you're looking at now,
Willie.
With the far-away vacant stare,
Is thing that's rife, in all walks Of life:
lis the man with football hair"
New York World.
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THE VOTE FOR BRYAN.

We cxult in the great majorities against
Bryan which were recorded in Chicago
and New York and Brooklyn. But when
we look at the enormous number Of voters
that deliberately east their votes FOR him.
when we reflect that without money,
without flags or professions, deserted by
their leaders, deprived of effective orators,
despised by the intelligence Of the com
munity, the humble followers of Bryan
mustered 1000 strong in such a city as
Brooklyn, 5000 more than supported the
last Democratic candidate for mayor, we
cannot look forward to the future with
serene onfidence.-David MacGregor in
the December Forum.
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BoDY-sNArcH1NG At HARVARD

Or. Thomas Dwight in December Forum.
In the memoirs Of my grandfather, DR..
John c. Warren the second professor Of
anatomy at Harvard. and who succeeded
his father in the chair, is an interesting
passage describing how, when a student,
he. with others, raised" a body He
says: when my father came up in the
morning to lecture. and found that I had
been engaged in the scrape he was very
much alarmed; but when the body was un-
covered and he saw what q fine healthy
subject il was. he seemed to he as much
pleased as ] ever saw him.
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CURRENT POETRY.
THE CAROLINA GIRLS KISS.


The Asheville girl bows her stately head,
And she fixes her stylish lips
In firm, hard way, and then let's go,
In spasmodic little ships.
The Greensboro girl gets a grip on herself
As she carefully takes off her hat;
Then she grabs up the prize la ii flcazled
way,
Like a terrier shaking a rat
The Raleigh girl is the exquisite Of all,
As she bends her shapely head,
And puts such electricity into her lips
As would resurrect the dead.
The Weldon girls Fuckers up her lips,
Lays her head on his manly breast,
Closes her eyes and gently signs,
And the young man attends to the rest.
The Goldsboro girl, she pouts at first,
But her face lights up with a smile
AS she sticks out her lips like an Omen
book
The Kinston girl comes up with a whirI,
Thick inston girl comes up with a whirl,
Rolls her sleeves mp and answers the
call;
She delivers hot kisses with nerve and
with curve,
Like a league pitcher playing baseball
The Wilmington girl, so gently and sweet
Lets her lips meet the coming kiss
With a rapturous warmth, and the youth
full soul
Floats away in sea Of bliss.
The Newbern girl, so jolly, so sweet,
In a clinging and soulful way,
Absorbs it all with a yearnful yawn,
As Zig as ii bale Of hay
The +, City girl never utters a word.
And you'd think she was rather tame,
With her practical views of the matter in
hand,
But she gets there just the same.
The Hartford girl couples on to your lips
With a soulful and succulent smack
And, when ferverish fervor begins to
unncrye her,
Gets new hold, and takes up the
slack;
For sublime osculation of good, long
duration,
She rips other towns clcas MP the back.
The Plymouth maid just loves to kiss.
Her lips hardly ever culver,
And when she aims one at her beau
They hear her over the river
But the Edcuton girl when it comes to a
kiss,
As in other things, beats them all,
One is willing to die, after winning such
bliss.
And sleep unal Gao1c's call
The y asningtou girl She just looks up
with eyes diyinely tender,
And lips whose nectar gods would sup
And eyermore defend her;
And then in love she settles back
Sweet feelings to engender.
Gives You good old-fashioned smack
You bet you will remember
j. NJ. CHARLTTE,
EdentOn, n c.. Nov. %.
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Yours truly
GEO. L. CRosGROvE.

The aboveis but a sample Of the many
letters we receive daily in regard to
various deep-seated blood diseases
which other remedies do not touch.
Contagious Blood Poison, Scrofula, Ec-
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blood remedy will have any effect what
ever upon~them. S. S. S. guaranteed
purely gegetaJle) is a real blood remedy
and never fails to cure any disease haV-
ing its origin in the blood, it matters
not what other treatment has failed
Valuable books can be obtained by ad-
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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-29
TIE TREE OF LIFE.

Can you tell me what is meant by this
phrase: AS incorrigibIe as the tree OF
life%" Is there such a tree? II so, where
is it to be found, and what is meant by
its being incorrigible!
Answer.-There is certain curious
member Of the plant family, very COM
mon in Jamaica, West Indies, which is
called the plant Of life, or leaf Of life, and
the word incorrigible may mean that it is
almost impossible to kill the leaves.
You may cut one off and hang IL up by
thread, where an ordinary leaf would bee
discouraged and dry MP. u send ont
long, white, thread-like roots. and set
about growing new leaves. You may cut
off half leaf and shut it in an air-ig ht
box, where it can get neither light nor
moigturc-necessari of life % other
plants; the spirited leaf puts out its deli
cate roots all the same. Even pressed
and put away in a bOtanist's herbarium
the very driest and dullest place You
could ever think Of, it will keep ZIP its
work, throw out roots and now leaves,
and actually grow out Of its covers. Bot
anists who want to dry this pertinacious
vegetable are obliged to kill it with "a
hot iron or with boiling water. Brook
lyn Eagle.
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THE CHApLAINS IN THE WAR.

Rev A. u. Belts, one of the old and
venerated ministers in the North Caro-
lima conference, Southern Methodist IT,.
church, who was a chaplain all through
the war, and of whom the great Lee said
that he was a chaplain after his own
heart, has been for weeks writing brief
sketches Of the chaplains from this STAG
in the great war for second indepen-
dence, for the Greensboro Christian Ad-
vocate He has closed the record. He
served with the Both North Carolina.
There were seventy-ive regiments from
this State He guesses from what he
saw and knows that North Carolina must
have had 10000 men, losing $1,000 of
them His own regiment had 1888 men,
lost 358 killed and from disease and
wounds-over % per cent He says;
'As 81 per cent Of the dead were mar
ried, the war made 1856 widows for
North Carolina, and something over IL
112 children fatherless! What fearful
responsibility rested on Chaplains! They
felt it, Twenty-three out Of every hun
dred to whom they preached at the be
ginning were to die before the end Of the
Wgrw
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AN HUMBLE PETITION.

Nay, not Thine eagle, Lord
No golden eagle /,
That creep half-fainting on the sward
And have not wings to fly.
Nor yet Thy tender dove.
Meek as Thyself, Thou Lamb!
would | were the dove, Thy love.
And not that thing l ami
Make me Thy sparrow, then,
That trembles in Thy hold;
And who shall pluck me out again
And cast me in the cold?
But if | fall at last,
A thing of little price,
If Thou one thought on me hast east
To, then my Paradise!
Katherine lyman Hinkson.
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A WISH

He told me the sun would cease to shine
If | sent him away from me;
He said his life would be wasted unless
His helpmate / would be.
He swore that the siIyery moon would
fall
From her noble place above
Unless renowned the world for him
And give him love for love.
Il gave him my hand and l gave him my
love
The sun is a faded ball.
And as for the moon-oh! how / wish
That / had let 'er fall"
Exchange
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PRICES PAID 10 sCULPToRs

1t is sometimes thought to-day that the
prices paid scuIptors are high in COMPARE
son with what painters receive, but when
tbe highest prices of to-day are compared
with those paid seulptors of ancient times
they seem mere trifles.
The famous Colossus Of Rhodes. Il
bronze statue which rose 10 the height OF
10J feet. cost 800 talents, which, comput-
cd by the Attic talent, equals 1926, 900. OF
by the other talent which is more proba.
bic, $4,000
The famous Colossus of the Sun, n
bronze figure polio, - feet high cost
1919, 600
But the value of these works sinks into
nothingncss beside that of the colossal
statue Of Mercury made by Enodoras for
the city of Avernal, ia Gaul. 1t took the
sculptor ten years and he received ST.
|G75. 600 for his trouble.
The greatest statue of the Athena
which Phidias made for the Parthenon
was also an expensive work. but its exact
cost is not known. 1t was richly adorned
with ivory and gold. which cost vast
sums, Ancient writer's are equally silent
as to the sum Phidias received for his
statue Of Jupiter, but they do tell some
thing as to detail The unalloyed gold on
the movable drapery Of the Athena was
lover 40 talents in weight and would equal
in coin S5S0000, while n single lock on
the head Of Jupiter represented value
of about $50, 600
Even when gold was not employed.
some prices were paid sculptors for their
work. For the famous statue, the Diadu-
menos, a life-size bronze figure represent
ing a youth tying a fillet about his head
polycletus received $125.0O
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BUCKLRN,s ARNTCA sALvR.

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Internal
Cancers.

We have numerous inquiries in re-
gard to s. S. S. in cases Of Internal
cancers, such as cancer Of the wombs
stomach and bowels. When the dis
ease attacks these organs, the doctors
generally admit that it is incurable..
We make no boast of what S. S. 5. Will
do in such cases, as the following LETT
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men Of other nations. to recognize duties
that were involved by the ties Of kindred.
The poor relation in England or France
is cared for by the rich member Of the
family. and cared for in a courteous way.
Nine times out of ten she has regular
income allowed her, and this is deliver
ed, not as if it were nuisance, bur III the
most polite way, and usually accompan-
led by a note Of kindly inquiry. 1hen,
she who is favored looks up to the head
Of her house with respect and feels non
ored at bearing the same name.
NOT TO BE RELIED UPON FOR
SUPPORT.
know great many women who earn
money and earn it with brains and
hands. They work hard for it, and l do
not know a single one who has not some
moor relation to support When you say,
as I did. to one busy woman: why don't
your brothers help your She viii look
at Won and answer you, as hundreds Of
them have answered me: who can rely
on men to steadily take care OF poor re
lations? They will splurge out with q
present, they will send some ridiculous
and unsuitable gift, but the man who
regularly han0S sum Oh Htoity out ~
a woman whose only claim on him is
that she is of his blood and is poor and
old is more than man; he IS so excel
tionaI that he's an angel
OF course. there are foolish women, but
the folly of woman when it comes to
spending money usually has kindly
feeling as its incentive. Speaking of folly
not long ago an elderly lady Of my ac'
quaintance was left thousand dollars by
a rich friend. A thousand dollars is not
a great deal Of money, but it was given
because, while the lady to whom it was
left had q small income, there was always
the possibility of a sudden need Of money
illness or death-and the giyer thought
that this thousand dollars would be q
nest egg held for the day of trouble.
dropped in to congratulate my friends
They have a sweet, old home, filled will
furniture that is old fashioned, and they
are gentlefolks. Before | could say ;
word in regard to the bcquest, my hostess
said:
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We A4s ~ 4NGDA ~ LIS
Box 154, Norwich, Conn.


THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Cos
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A SLIP OF THE LIPS.

Give me only one kiss, the lover pleaded
And now he's mighty lonely;
She thought one kiss was all he needed,
For he emphasized the "only."
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one of us would like to think that we
owned all the virtues, Each one Of us
can be certain that we possess but few,
but each one Of us can try, and, in form
ing a class for the cultivation of a good
heart put as near the top us YOU can the
name, of Bah.
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Norwich, Conn, Dec. 30, 1895.
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Box 154, Norwich, Conn.
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1t is strange that in widely separted
countries and among people differing
from one another in language and charac-
teristic the same ideas ON the matter of
luck seem to prevail But in regard to
peacock feathers there is a widely diver
sifed sentiment. 1t is more matter Of
individual preference whether the hand
some peacock feather is Stunned or ad-
mired.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-29

Since the death Of the head Of the
Harpers publishing firm the company
has been reorganized into stock com
pany, with a capital Of 100000 All
the stock is in the hands Of the Harper
family. The legal firm name is Harper
Il Brothers.
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A curious incident in connection with
these feathers occurred few years ago
at Drury Lane theater in London. The
pantomime included an "Olympian pro-
cession." Among the gods and goddesses
who marched under direction Of the stage
manager was Juno, but there was not a
sign about her costume 10 associate her
with the peacock, the bird especially
dedicated to the queen Of heaven" This
absence of indication was commented
upon and dramatic journal explained
that the omission was not accidental but
designed, as theatrical persons had a SUI
perstitious aversion to the peacock in
any form appearing ON the stage.
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IN many parts of England persons are
to be found who would shrink, if not with
horror at least with dislike from using
the peacock feather as a decoration. One
old woman will tell you that so long as
the unc1pn! feathers ar4 n Tia house no
lover viii come seeking the girls of the
household, while another old woman
will prophesy string of calamities that
will follow as sure as fate the introduce
ton of peacock feathers into a household
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LITERARY NOTES.

In spite Of the sneers of Marie Corelli's
critics. her novel, The Murder Of Deli
cia,' recently published, is now in its
thirteenth thousand.