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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-10-20
The Weekly Free Press

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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-10-20
TEAS COFFEES AND SPICES.
II. Il. Perkins.

Teas--Russian Caravan Tea, $500 per
pound; Ceylon and India, rs cents and 81. 20:
rormosa Oolongs. 49, 60, so cents and 800;
English Breakfast, Go and so cents. Gun
powder, 50 cents: Young Hyson. % cents;
Japans, 20 80. 10. 80. 60 and 70 cents; APP
pleton's Tea, rs cents; o. and O.. so cents:
Ceylon, co and 70 cents; Tetey's tea. Is
cents; Weddel tea, sl.26.
Coffee--Private Growth Java, 40 cents
OLD Government lava. % cents: Mocha. 40
cents; Bourbon Java. 20 cents: Maricabo.
per dozen; Grain-O Cereal. Is cents. s275
per dozen: Father Kneipps. Is cents. ST. 65
per dozen; New Era Coffee. rs cents; $2.75
per DOZEN Shredded Wheat Coffee. 20
cents $40 per dozen: Dandelion Coffee. 80
30 cents; Golden Rio. % cents; Cereal Cot
fee and Carmel Cereal. 20 cents, $3.50 per
dozen: Old Grist Mill Coffee. AZ cents, 81 70
per dozen; Postum Cereal. Is cents. 50. 70
cents; Malt Coffee. 60 cents; Kafreebroad
Coffee, SO cents: Bordens Extract Coffee.
As cents; Coffee Essence, 30 cents.
Spices-Shot Pepper. 40 cents per pound;
White Pepper. 40 cents; Cayenne Pepper.
20 cents; Java Cassia. 60 cents; Allspice, 80
cents; Ginger. 30 cents; Clovers, 40 cents;
Nutmegs. S.2O: Mace, $40: Mustard, 20
cents; Paprica. so cents: Mixed Spice, ~
cents; Curry Powder. 60 cents.
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CapeS and Wraps. N <i,;.

on sale to-day, beauties in velvet,
velour, plush, cloth, etc. Lots of them.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-10-20
MONDAY, OCT. Il.

Philip Layeux of Lewiston, aged 10,
killed by falling down cellar stairs
Officers and men of the army not liable
to punishment for appearing before the
war commission and telling the truth
-Colored miner murdered another in
pana, Ills-Three- story building in
Plainfeld. y. j., burned at a loss of
$50, 00O--Socialist in France appointed
n vigilance committee to Illustrate the
military conspiracy against the repub-
lc"-War investigators in the south
--Colored teamster killed in Santiago
a fight with polcemen-Rev stephen
Kaminski, bishop Of the Independent
Polish Catholic church of Buffalo, ex-
communicated from the Roman Catholic
church,. S. Conkey, aged So, killed
I'm West Warren, Mass, by being thrown
from carriage--Man and his four chill
dren killed with an AK In Dominion City
Man, supposedly by tue VIE anu mother
Man in Fall River wounded by
youthful thief whom he found stealing
hens--Band of desperadoes, number
ing 1000 to 1000, disbanded Manchu SOL
diers. took possession of the gold mines
north OF Kirin, China, and hndering
Russian railroad developments--Sec
tary Alger will recommend that the
standing army he increased; probably
to 5000 nen-Friends of Colonel Will
lam j. Bryan complain of his regiments
retention in service as scheme to side
track the silver leader-Great damage
to crops in Japan and maay lives lost
President Mckinley given an o''atior
ut the opening of the peace jubilee in Chi
cago-Republic of Liberia wants thu
United States to establish a protectorate
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n w. Jones.

Bananas, % to 10 cents per dozen:
oranges, 80 to 60 cents; lemons, 20 to 80
cents; figs, Is to 20 cents: dates 10 cents
per pound; citron 20 to 25 cents per pound;
olives 35 cents per quart, and lOcts to l.5O
per bottle: evaporated apples. II cents;
peaches, 10 to 20 cts; apricots, 70 to 10 cts;
raspberres, 25 cents per pound; nuts, as
sorted, Loci apples 40 to 30 cts peck;
cranherries. 10 to 1914 cts ct; prunes lOto
IL cts pound neCtarincs, 10 cents
pound; grapes, % to 35c a basket; peaches,
80 to iOc dozen; watcrnalons, % to C1c;
ounces l6cts n pound, applcsS3,25 TO So 30
barrel, 30 to Scots a peck; plums 10 to 20
cents a peck; pears, 40 to 30 cents a peck
HAY, GRAIN AND FEED.
Jones Il Isham.
Hay $6@s9 per ton; hailed, SlOq$l2, oats
So to 3Sc bushel; beans N5oa& BUSH
ell, spring rye, 75 cents a bushel; buck
wheat 60 to rs cents bushel; peas,
81. 0Oli 5l.25 a bushel; corn, 5O455c bushel;
middlngs, SIS to $50 a ton; bran, SIS to SIS
per ton; corn meal, sl6Msl7 ton; No. |
Iprovender, $l9 a ton; No. provender SIS a
ton ;haled shavings, 80 cents bale; baled
rye straw 81 per ton,
MEATS, POULTRY AND FISH.
Albert Il. Jones'.
Spring lamb. headquarters, 10 to is cents
pound; forequartors, l2ls cents; lamb
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FIVE sNoWsroRus AT ONCE.
a Startling and Grand Panorama That
Moved Before Nirginin City.

A Startling and Grand Panorama That
Moved Before virginia City.
Virginia City" said Sayre Noble. a Nevada
ranchman. is pretty well up in the world. as
any one knows who has ever been there. and
there are few localities in all the Rocky Noun
tain region from which n wider range Of coun-
try can be taken in at one view. Owing to that
fact. some very beautiful. striking and unusual
sights are frequently seen by the jewellers in
that favored city. almost within sounding dis
lance OF the clouds. l have witnessed some OF
them myself, and one in particular remember.
In fact. it was 4 sight that no one having seen
could ever forget. 1t was a moving panorama.
grand and impressive in the extreme. be-
ing no less than five distinct snowstorms
raging among the mountains and deserts to
the eastward. while in the city not a flake OF
snow was falling. The storms represented all
degrees OF flerceness, aud covered an area Of
at least 100 miles. The one furthest TO tho
east, and at the same time the most northerly
one. was apparently passing directly over the
forty-mile desert. 1t was as black as n thun-
der cloud. 50 dense was the whirling body OF
snow, and was. perhaps. ten miles in diameter.
Any one in the midst OF it would have been
willing to swear that a snowstorm must be
raging over. the entire. continent. but Just to
the north of it several tall. stately peaks rose
out OF the fierce storm and lowered above 1t in
the full splendor of sunlight. The high hills
NldN ray III lHt SNplIl Z 1 Cill vi "
sight as though by a giga ntic black curtain.
Nearer. and to the southwark. another
storm. not so black and fierce as the first. but
still dense enough to hide all the region behind
1t. was. in less active progress. 1t crept along
toward the east. reaching from the level Of
the Carson Valley upward to tho very cloud
whence it came. high in the heavens. Still
nearer. and between the city and the noun
two or three miles in width. passed on its way.
Through this the mountain peaks could be
south q fourth snowstorm. smallerin area than
even the last one. but as black and tempes-
tnous us the great blizzard that. with
the sun touching it's crown. WIS sweeping
behind 1t was hid as with the pail OF the black
est night. Miles away. further upto the south
ward. the Nth storm. a vast and violent one.
was sweeping along. covering and hiding a
range of thirty miles of high hills.
Between these several storm bodies hills,
plains and mountain peaks stood revealed as
n late October. sun, The cleaning peaks that
rose golden far above the black masses of
storm as they ragged in fury at the mountain
bases and far up their rocky sides made a par
ticularly striking and awesome part of that
arrange picture.n
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such attendance was not seemly when a man
was going accounting.
stances contributed to his ILL humor us soon as
the eye Of jealousy began 10 view everything
in the light IT, 81 II nIre ,gSs siinTGE ont Of hid crih
who. presently. with snorts 81 ll-humor ana
much ~iinGllnR Of steel keys, drew half a tank
dungeon floor and handed it Grudginglv to the
CAPTAIN Of the guard.
growled. Had the messenger been old Land
less Jock. ] had known down whose scottish
throat i had gone, but tbs one is surely to-
not by the way. Master Sholto,' he called out
after him as that youth took hiSway upto tho
chamber Of the ambassador Of France.
Al the shut portal he paused and knocked.
His hand was on the Din to enter with the tank.
ard, as was the custom. But the door opened
no more than an inch or two and the dark face
OF the cropped servitor appeared ~ the. creyice.
In ! moment, air. he 9cgnn' nnG nS{ai99,disHp
engaged ITSELF almost like something tangible
from the chtnks of the doorway
de-vie in his hand. till presently i was opened
again very quickly, The form Of the servitHr
came out. drawing the door behind him rs be-
lore, He held 9 bar 81 IRON IN MS hnpd IKE
tGe bd soft fGid En of s q T yb's sSp n tbat 2 ,b b5,Is SSE1l sds
Take this iron he, said abruptly, land
device which his Excellency needs for the com
bat OF the morrow"
me Cautnln OF inc guhru was nettIeu az me
mans tone. also he desired much to know
what his master was doing on the floor above.
Heat il at your own nose. fellow" he said
rudely. Il am Captain of the castle guard
and must attend TO my own business. Take
the spirit out OF my, hand"
The swarthy. ,hullet-headed man, glared at
him with eyes like burning Goals. but sholto
cared no jot for his anger. Forthwith he
turned his back upon him. glad at heart to
have found some one to quarrel with and hop
ing that the man might prove courageous and
challenge him to fight on the morrow
But the man only replied. l am Henriot.
servant of the marechal. | bid you remember
that l shall make you live to regret these
words"
ITO be Continued.)
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and I didn't ask. The fact that they hadn't
told me convinced me that they didn't mean L
should know. | suppose they had a cave or a
hut nearby. although; as l say; [ don't know
anything about 1t. The moonshiners gave me
a cheerful good-by. and. two hours later. l was
back in my room behind Zed's store.
That's all there was to it. excepting that
Zed told me afterward that l had seen the big
gest still in that section of the country. and one
which the Government had spent a great deal
of money trying 70 locate. He told me that two
spies had been killed III trying to find the place,
and that only the year before a revenue officer
had been SO badly wounded that his right arm
had to be taken off. II the place was anywhere
near a railroad OF, within a hundred miles Of
civilization, he said. the Government would
have broken it up years nSo. but the fact that
1t was SO isolated made It impossible to work
against 1t with an armed force.
What little / know about the location of the
still could not be dragged from me. for If ever 1
met a good lot Of fellows it was those moon
sinners. and their secrets are safe with me.
The outside world looks on them as murderers
when they kill a revenue spy: they look on 1t
the same as you would look on it il you killed n
burglar who was robbing your house. If you
could talk with them you would soon be con-
WINGED that there is much justice in the posi-
ton they take"
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and again repeated. i wps like the cry Of a
child IN the grip of a deadly terror.
Sholto's henrt gave "A great bound. That
something untoward should happen on this the
first night OF his charge was too disastrous.
He drew his sword and set In his. Inns the sill.
yer call which depended from the chain OF
oiIlce tho Earl had thrown about his neck when
he made him Captain of his guard.
His feet hardly touched the stone stairs IA
he few downward, and wings were added 10
lie haste by the sounds NJ fenr which continued
to increase. In another moment he was on
the lust step OF the turnpike and Ut the en-
trance Of the corridor which led 10 the rooms
Of the little Margaret and Maud LINDSAY.
AS Sholto came rushing Town the steep de-
scent from the roof he caught sight OF n dark
animal running on all TOURS like n dog just
turning out OF the corridor and taking the
arst step, Of the descent toward the floor he
Meath, Without pauslng TO consider. Shoito
lunged forward with all his might. and his
sword struck the fugitive figure behind the
shoulder, He had time. TO. SEQ In the pale blu
ish flicker of the cruisle .lamn that the beast
was of n dark color, and that iis head seemed
immensely too large for its body.
Nevertheless the thing did not fall. hut ran
on md vanished out of Sholto's sight. The
young man again set the silver call 10 his, lips
and blew. The next moment he could hear
tho soldiers Of the guard Gathering upward,
and he himself ran along the corridor toward
the place whcrc &C The screams OF terror seemed
to proceed.
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sclfam youaEcr aud have heavier burdens, Also,
Landless jock Ia growing old. md stif,. and
sake. I cannot be severe with him. He win
die in his charge II he will. but on Dpuglasdnle
and not Mt Thricye. But l would have your
soii do my bidding without. question. which Is
more than his father ever did before. him"
II can answer for Sholto.' said Malise Mac
Kim. He Is afraid Of nothing. save. per-
haps, the strength Of his fathers right arm.
He Is cool enough In danger. Nothing dnunts
him. except. perhaps. the .1utter of a farth-
\ fault moat commendnble In this castle of
Thrieve. Sholto will he an honest Captain OF
your house carls. IL you see TO II that the stew
ard locks up his. loaves Of sugar and his tooth
some preserves"
Faith" said the Earl. heartily. ~ know not
but what | would join Master Sholto in n raid
on these dalnties myself"
In this fashion was Sholto MacKim placed
in command OF the house guard Of tho castle
OF Thrievs.
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THE BUILDING OF THE HOUSE.
Some Striking and Interesting Features of
the City's Growth.

IL WHY'S SrOWtH.
TIC one accustomed to walk abroad in the
neighborhood where he lives the building OF
new houses here and there is certain to be of
interest. Suppose. for instance. the construc-
ton OF some great apartment house comes
under his eye. He sees some day men set up a
lot OF rock drills on a SPOT OF ground that he has
often passed. and from the moment they begin
to pound labor there never ceases. When the
drills have gone other men put in the founda-
tons. and gradually the building is reared. tho
frame and tho walls. with activity about it
always. The time comes at last when the walls
are up and the roof is on, and then there comes
suspended. but that is only because work is at
such a stage that the workers are no longer
visible; they are inside now. engaged upon the
finishing and putting in the various fittings.
II may pc, thnt the man who saw the drills
placed and the great, building started and car
after niGhttalI. he sees il lighted In every story
and all around. Curtains OF lace hanging now
with lights. At the entrance a glimpse OF a
spacious marble hall. brilliantly Illuminated
q llveried mailman at the door. The great
house IL finished and peonled; and what a
wonderful change from the day the drills were
set NJ on the vacant land.
And one can scarcely help wondering where
all the people come from 70 Ill 1t. for this is a
costly building, fitted with every appliance of
luxury as well as comfort. and. only people Of
houses are, built in numbers. and as fast as
they are, finished the tenants come, apparently.
JUS as they 90 I9r the i0Msr,nriced apartments
And OF scarcely. II any. less interest Is il to
see the private houses 20 up In scores. and at
low figures up TO houses. many on them. Of
large cost. Here. again, one Is almost inclined
to wonder where all The people come from who
They help 10 give one some idea ofSthe clty's
growth in wealth Is well Is population.
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ALL. THE CREW GREW Fat.
The Phenomenon Explained by the Presence
of Much Arsenic on Board.
I,.n.. Al. DLiInd.InL;a r;n..

From the Philadelphia Times.
TIL German bark Zion. which arrived at this
port Sunday from Fowey. England. brought a
casks of china clay. but in addition there were
on board 300 casks Of arsenic. This part of
the cargo had a remarkable effect on the crew.
The fact that arsenic as well as strychnine
helps the formation of adipose tissue when
taken into the human system in minute parti-
cles is well known. and both drugs have be-
come ~favorite tones for convalescents On
board the Zion the rnen slept very near the
large array OF barrels containing the drug.
They We're stored in the hold. near the ~forecas-
tie. and partially exposed to the rays of the
Sun. WHICH Kha, streHme sb in through the open
port one OF the crew mentioned to, his mess
mates that a peculiar and indescribable odor
was coming from the casks containing the
had been called to 1t that they all noticed the
same thing. and. strange to say. noticed it all
the more forcibly a week later. Several OF the
GfhenrIm an ta GI,i became anne t aware i, OF the fact that
greater extent than when they shipped. Many
others. as days went by. became abnormally
stout. in vast contrast TO the former slim APP
fore the land was left. One man gained. 1t Is
said. twenty-five pounds. Others were az
fected TO n less extent. But the aggregate
weight put on by the entire crew was little less
than 400 pounds.
Several OF the sailors are known here. and
they are said 70 be scarcely recognizable when
contrasted with the old days. The entire
to vapor. which. generated by the action OF the
sun on the casks. was inhaled by the seamen as
they slept. and acted in precisely the same
manner which II does when given as n tonic In a
In the vessel. entirely removed from the arse
mic. does not show any effect Of the inhalation.
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SIX TEARS OF SILENCE.
The WelI-Kept Vow of n Prisoner in the
California state Prison.
From he San Frdnci'co Chronicle.

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Edward j. Cunningham was released from
San Quentin yesterday. after serving a sentence
OF six years for burglary committed in Orange
county. and with his Liberation there passed
from the prison walls one Of the strangest
characters that over wore the striped garb Of
the penitenIiary.
When Cunningham was landed within the
walls OF San Quentin Prison lie turned to the
sherif, who had conducted him lither from
the southern part of tho state. and swore a
heavily solemn oath that no word would escape
his lips during the period Of his incarceration.
Cunningham stood by his oath through the
long, weary yeaTsni his sentence. and MS tongue
prison walls yesterday a Tree man.
Whenever it became necessary for Cunning
ham to ,rommuhirate his needs or wants to
others. he did so IA writing or by. motions.
After being cone. vi in the prison q short time
he was thought : be insane and WAS sent 10
the, Ukiah Asylum. Here he N~- confined but
was in his righ' mind and merely acting in "a
stubborn manner, Word was sent TO the prison
officials and Guard Miller was sent % the asy-
lum To bring the prisoner back. When near
santa Rosa he Jumped through a ear window.
but was captured alter Il hard chase, Alter
his return he still preserved an inviolable
crank alley. Here all kinds Of influence we're
brought 10 bear upon him TO cause him to
speak. but without avail lie also refused TO
have his hair cut, and when released yesterday
morning his hair was measured aud was found
to DO Bfty-four inches in length.
When relieved OF his prison CARL a smile over
TO him. but he only grinned. Once outside the
prison gate Cunningham made up for lost time.
he condemned every ons, around the, prison
managed 10. control himsel and preserve an
unbrokeQ silence for so many years, he angrlly
replied that he had no explanation.to make.
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NO USE FOE A BAROMETER.
Not If You Have Red Ants and Watch Them
Says n Man from Steuben.

Not If You Have Red Ants and Watch Them.
Says n Man from Steuben
If you have any red ants about your prem
ises." said a veracious Steuben county man,
you won't need any barometer to tell you
whether it's going to rain or not-not IL you
keep your eye on the red ants. found that out
long. long ago. A colony Of these lively and
persistent little insects settled in my back
yard. where they made their nest in the ground
and proceeded to carry out whatever mission
they had. One day 1 noticed them scurrying
up out OF the hole in the ground where they
lived. each ant carrying a little white thing
in its mouth. which l soon discovered was
one OF the colony's supply Of ants eggs.
The weather had been very dry for weeks.
and there was at that moment no more sign of
the long drought being broken than there was
that an earthquake was going to set things
tumbllng. 1 noticed that the ants went in a
steady stream toward the house. which was
only n few feet away, whore they climbed on
the back porch. disappeared beneath an old
trunk that was there. came out without the
eggs and hurried back to the nest after another
lot. This curious transfer of eggs from the
nest to the hiding place beneath the trunk on
p~uzzling me, not a little when, an old friend OF
mine from the town OF Woodruff, where they
me: and j. mentioned the singular action Of the
ants 10 him.
InatS the best news I've heard this year,
said he. It'll rain before morning and it'll be
a soaker, tool Those ants know it and they've
Just moved their eggs from the nest TO save
,cm from being drowned. out. That's all.
They'll always do 1t just before an old soaker
of rain. like the one thatll be here some time
weather..
81 didn't take much stock in my friends ex-
PLANTATION of the ant movement. although he
did come from Woodruff, but I was walked up
some time along in, tho night by the noise Of
about the hardest doITnpour Of rain that had
two days. and II it wasn't an old soaker then /
don't know what an old soaker is.
Red ants and Woodruff against all crea-
ton! said /, after thinking the matter over.
The weather came on nice and bright after
that rain; and everything was dried of in the
mine do but toto, all OF those eggs from the
shelter Of the trunk on the porch back to the
nest in the ground and deposit them In their
subterranean cells again, all in fine, shape and
condition for Matching a future colony, which
they wouldn't have been II their ,custodians
put them out Of the way OF the coming flood.
After that kept my eye on my red ants. and
they never failed to warn me during their sea
son OF the approach OF a hard rainstorm. much
to my profit; Watch your red ants. II you've
got any. and throw away your barometer"