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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-22
The Siege of Kimberly.

Kimberley was blockaded for one hum
drcd and eighteen days, the Investment
having been made effective on oct. 20.
last.
/ Kimberley is ca miles from Cape Town
by railroad. 1t lies in a plain which is
unbroken. save toward the east, whore
there is line of low hills.
The streets are wide and the houses are
detached, surrounded by yards. Land has
little value save when diamonds are found.
The town surrounds huge hole, the Wes-
wide and 612 feet deep.
Surrounding the whole is an artificial
rampant of the debris from the mines. In
many places this rampant was built to a
height of sixty feet and guns were mount
cd on top. In addition there were trench
es and excellent Notifications. The gar
rson under Col. Kekewich was about $780,
including the armed police and town
guards.
Before hostiities began great stores OF
provisions, wheat, -four, oatmeal and b s.
cults were laid in and during the siege the
inhabitants were on limited rations
During the blockade several sortes were
made by the garrison, and in the first,
made Oct, a. the Beers suffered severe
loss, their commandant, Botha, was killed
As the time went on the Boer forces were
augmented from the 5000 that began the
siege, until they amounted at the least TO
an estimated 5000.
Gen. Methucn's several unavailing at
tempts to force his way to Kimberley from
the southeast, are remembered by all. AZ
ter his disastrous attempt to turn the lett
Of the Boer position at Magersfonten on
Dec. II, his advance was suspended until
sufficient mounted force could be or
ganized to effect wider turning move
ment, which has been effectually accom-
plished.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-22
NEW CARRIAGE REPOSITORY.
Building Erected by William Smith on
ST. Paul Street Now in Use.

The new and commodiouS carriage re-
pository built by William Smith at the
northeast corner of King anu ST. Paul
streets has been completed so that il is
now occupied. The building is OF bri, *.
three stories high, with a basement, ana
is rs feet long and 10 feet wide, covering
the entire lot which was purchased by
Mr.. Smith some time ago.
The first floor of the building is enter
ed from two doors on the St Paul street
side. one leading into the shop on the
south side and the other into the carriage
ware room on the north side of the build
ing. There are also entrances from the
rear Of the building, where carriages are
taken inside. From this floor an elevator
runs to the second and third floors on
the second floor there is a .arge carria ge
room at the north side with trimming
room and room for the rubber tire work
at the south, while on the third floor
there is similar division, the two small
el' rooms on the south side being used
for painting and vanishing.
The basement is eight feet and a half
high and will be used for storage pu"-
poses. 1t also contains the furnace, which
heats the building. Near the entrance OF
the first floor is MIR. Smiths Office The
building is designed and fitted for the most
expeditions handling and storage of wa
CONS and makes a substantial addition
TO the buildings of its character in the
city,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-22
THE ICE BOAT SEASON,
One Club Getting Ready For the Sport,
While Another Disbands.

The club house of the Exec .sior Ice club
was placed on the lake Saturday and the
sport Will be enjoyed as much as possiu c.
Commodore W. Is. Craven has received an
invitation from A. II. Church, mana, ser "
the III" tshulgh carnival for The club to
attend the CarniN dl and participate in the
races, which are to be held on Thursday,
FEday and Saturday. They will accept
the invitation and send four boats If the
lake freezes over enough to allow them to
cross. There has even been talk of send
ing the boats to Grand Isle hy team and
going from there on the ice. The lake
was closed over Saturday evening but
during the night the strong wind opened
1t again and there is now a stcip Of open
water several miles long.
a meeting of the Burlington Ice Yacht
club was he'd Saturday evening at the
office of y. q. Whittemore, and it was
voted to disband the organiZa zion. III
funds in the treasury were divided be-
tween the thirteen r naming members.
The club was the oldest o. gauza,ion of its
kind in the city and was at one time the
crack club on Lake Champlain and one Of
the best in the country. In late years
some OF the members have moved away
and others have lost interest in the spor..
\ number of the boats have been sold and
for the past few seasons little has been
heard of the club.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-22
THE SCHOOLS TO THE RESCUE.
To the Editor of the Free Press:

Scientific Temperance instruction in the
public schools has been attacked with
Violence and persistency ever since its
Introduction, These attacks come from
widely differing sources. Most active,
naturally, are the brewers and dealers,
who see in the movement a menace to
their trade. Less adroit and viru.cnt but
far more insidious and effective is that
made by certain members of the medical
profession and by a few scientific men of
distinction and character, who object to
such instruction on the ground the state
ments in the books used as to the effect
of alcohol upon the human body are not
true.
Foremost among this class of opponents
just now Is Prof. Atwatcr of Wesleyan
University, who, by means of very ineen-
ious experiments, claims that he has
proved beyond the possibility Of doubt the
crroncousnoss of the statements contain
ed in the textbooks on physiology now in
use His contention is that alcohol taken
in very limited quantities Is a food, and
at recent meeting of the New England
school superintendents held in Boston, he
went so far as to assert that ii is i'm
moral to teach the contrary.
This gathering had some points of sig
niticance which the friends of scientific
temperance instruction in the public
schools cannot afford to overlook. The
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-22
Attacks on Senator HOar

Many of the republicans and all of the
independents of Massachusetts are scan
dalized by the attacks which have Teen
made during the past few days upon Uni
ted States Senator Hoar by different par
ties on account of his open and aggrcss-
i've opposition to the annexation of the
Philippine Islands. The latest of these
attacks was made by Congressman Cush-
man Of the State of Washington in the
course of an address before the Middlesex
cub. who deferred to the venerable Mas
Sachusetts Senator as a traitor" and in
duised in other cpithets unbecoming a
gentleman, and particularly Congress
man in speaking of a member of the up
per branch of Congress. As result of
these reflections upon Senator Hoar reso-
sachusetts House of Representatives de-
nouncinG the accusations in question as
an Insult to the intelligence of the peo-
pie of Massachusetts" and declaring re-
gardless Of political affiliations the conf
donce of the legislature lin Senator
HOar's integrity, honesty of purpose and
noble type of AmeriCanism." Present in
dications acre that the attack will result in
political incident Of national interest,
and the outcome will have special signih-
canoe for the people at this time.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-22

Illinois. In 1860 he moved to Chicago and
engaged in the real estate business. lie
acquired large wealth by the rise OF real
estate in that city and elsewhere, and
through investments in the city railroads,
and other enterprises and has used his
wealth with singular wisdom and liberal-
ity, for the good Of mankind by gifts to
colleges, hospitals and charities, often
conditioning his gifts on the raising Of
other considerable amounts, for the same
object and thus making each Of his dol
lars add another dollar to the fund in
question. Mr.. Tearsons has been the pres
ident and an active member of the Illinois
Society Of Sons of Vermont, which is one
of the most successful of the organiza-
tons of native Nermonters in other States
and his name is held in high honor i'll his
native state.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-22
V. N. G. REGULATIONS.
Changes in the Rules Governing Sur
geons and Hospital Corps.

The following general orders have been
issued from the adjutant generals office;
The following changes and additions in
TIE regulations for the National Guard
OF Vermont are hereby prescribed and
promuigat
l. So much of paragraph 1874, Article Il,
as relates to hospital corps and hospital
stewards is hereby repealed.
That part of paragraph las Article y,
re.ating to regimental non-commisa.oned
officers is hereby amended to read as fol-
lows:
The regimcnral non-commissoned ofn-
GERS will consist of one hospital steward.
three acting hospital stewards, a drum
major, chief trumpeter and two color
sereeants, and the colonel may enlist one
orderly outside the strength of the com
panies.
3. So much of Article 10 as relates to
surgeon and assistant surgeons is HEREBY
amended by adding the following:
The surgeon under authority of the
regimen;al commander, will enlist d hos
pital corps consisting of twelve prlvates
VINO shall belong permanently to the
medical department of the regiment:
these men to be enlisted with due regard
for their qualifications in pharmacy nurs-
ing, clerical work and previous military
training, and be required to comply with
the conditions of enlistment in Article "A
OF these regulations.
Ht surgeon Will nave charge of, and be
responsible for, the efficiency of the hospi-
Ia! corps, and will prescribe the course of
instruction. and assistant surgeons will.
under his direction, instruct the hospital
stewards, acting hospital stewards and
prlVates of the hospital corps by means Of
lectures and demonstrations in the meth
DDS of rendering first aid TO the sick and
injured, in the care and use of the hoSpi-
tai and field appliances, litter and amui-
lance drill, in accordance with the manual
published by the authority of the secro-
tary of war for the hospital corps of the
I'.''. y GtatCs army
Privates of the hospital CORPS in addi-
ton to the uniform worn by privttes Of
lHD rtSltntnO VIII wear Il 'braSsdrd' on
the left arm and carry "A canteen of water
litter sling and hospital corps pouch ex-
cept when serving as oIderles for nj edic al
officers. when they will carry the prescrlb-
ed orderly pouch.
At ceremonies the hospital corps will
take its position on the left of the regf-
On practice or service marches they viii
follow the regiment under the charge of
the medical officer.
The members of the hospital corps shall
receive pay in accordance with Article 10
OF these regulations.
The hospital corps shall he quartered
near the reginental hospital, and shall
furnish their own subsistence.
The regimental surgeon will receipt for
and be responsible for property and equip
mont of the medical department and hos
pital corps.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-22
The Sultan's Rule, Described by His
Brother

The description of Turkey under the pre-
his brother-in-law and for twenty-five
years his minister, now a refugee in Paris.
in a recent interview with NJ de Blowitz
of the London Times is a striking one. lie
says the whole empire is captive. Abdul
Hamid keeps everybody in prison. What
ever he has not directly under his hand
frightens him. and whatever he thus does
have in hand appears menacing to him at
the slightest sign of individual will or of
a thought not the masters own. He is
time he is a man of wonderful activity,
working harder than any of his subjects
but at useless and childish things" as the
uniform of the army and the voluminous
count his own futile efforts to secure re-
forms, and pictured the heir to the throne
a man of iifty-fVe, as shut out from the
world. seeing nobody and knows nothing
of what is going on outside. Some day
suddenly he will be told that the Sultan Is
dead and that he has been proclaimed. 1t
is just as if blind man were told, The
door IS open, walk Mahmud added that
the great wants of Turkey were an unfet-
tered press amnesty for political offences,
and equality for all before the law, things
which Turkey will not see in a hucry, UNI
der its present despot, or any one that is
likely to succeed him.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-22

Word come from Washington that Sem
ator Proctor is generally regarded as the
coming man in connection with tho pro-
posed new cabinet position. that Of COM
merce and industry, to be established by a
bill which has been reported to the son
ate favorably. 1t would probably he a
dlthcuit matter to select a man for the
creation of this part in the cabinet, as
the dramatic critics say, who ould carry
into the work greater executive ability
ana sounder common sense than would
Senator Proctor, and the new department
under his administration would be sure
70 be organized upon a thorough system
and strong business basis. Vermont is
not anxious. however to lose the services
OF Senator Proctor in the upper branch of
Congress, where he still has many years
OF usefulness before him.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-22
WlNOOSKI
SAVINGS BANK

from It's careful management has not
met with Ioss from ony loan made dur
ing the last twenty years.
deposits made during the first 1--WE days
Oh any month will draw interest from the
nfst day OF that month. Deposits made
atter the fifth day of any month Will draw
interest from the first day of tho next
month.
interest is credited deposltors January
ISl ana july list, Coinpounding semi Lam
nually. The rate of interest paid to de-
posters by all savings banks in this state
is united by law to four per cent. until its
surplus amounts to ten per cent. OF its
deposits, when an extra dividend is to he
made.
NO interest is allowed by law to be paid
on deposits In excess Of two thousand dol
lars except 1t be on deposits by widows,
orphans administrators, executors, guar
dlans, charitable or religious institutions,
or on trust funds deposited by order of
court.
The Bank pays all taxes In this state
on deposits OF fifteen hundred dollars or
less.
VERMONT LOANS SOLICITED
DUO Dcpositors Dec. 81, 1880 .s793. 10 Il
Deposits and surplus. So, 3's 7
OFFICERS-S n. Weston. Presldcn
TRUSTEES--S. H. Weston. J. p. Small,
O. =. Ray, A. J. Stevens, Ormond Cole, f.
C. Mower, Samuel Rlgwood.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-22

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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-22
SAVED BY THE FENDER,
Trolley Car Overtakes a Little Cir
Running Down Hill.

The little three ear-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry faCto, who live at the tor
OF the hill above the residence of >. II.
Weston on the road to Essex Junction had
very narrow escape from
death about 2:3O O'Clock Friday
afternoon and owes her lite 10 the
tenders with which the electric cars az
equipped. The child was struck and pick
ed up by the fender on car No. /, who.
leaves Essex Junction at 2:l0 p. m. a.
was on its way TO this city and escaped %
most miraculously it being impossible iur
tho physician who was called to tnd --
scratch upon her person.
The car was coming along the long leVe,
stretch this side of Winooski Park at ID
goou rate OF speed and as Motorman Isadg
Lunt pulled back the brake lever at tho
top of the hill the little child ran out %
the yard of hex home which is at tn
brow of the hill, and upon the track. not
going across but continuing down ia.
hill 1t was impossible to stop tile car DO.
fore the child was reached but he hand Co.
the motorman dropped the brake lever f..
that of the fender which swung into place
just as the caC overlook tho child at.
gathered her up unhur,. The strain W
those, who witnessed tho iucid NJ. "
great and the relief was sudden and com.
plcte as tho little ore was soon found {.
be unhur,. The conductor OF the car Wai
Frank Austin.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-22

\ message from General Manager
CHARLES NJ. Hays of the Grand Trunk
railway received in response to tclo-
gram Of inquiry from the FREE PRESS
announces that there is not one partic. e
OF truth in the report regarding the ac-
QUESTION Of the Canada Atlantic road 10y
the Grand Trunk. So long as Mr.. j. r.
lumber operations in Canada and this
country it is not likely that he will dis
pose Of the railroad which enables him
to conduct his business to material adj
vantage.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-22
HEALTH OFFICERS SCHOOL.
State Board of Health Votes to HOLD
Another Meeting Here This Summer.

state Board OF Health Votes to Hold
Another Meeting Here This Summer.
A meeting OF the State Board OF Health
was held in this city Friday night at " ich
1t was voted to hold school for heal n
officers on similar plan as that inaugut-
ated last summer in this city the coming
summer. The dates of the sessions nave
not been fixed and the plan to be fol ow-
ed has not yet been outlined. The dura-
ton OF the school will perhaps be shor er
than that of last year
Or. ii. d. Holton was called upon to
make a statement of the condition of the
finances of the State Laboratory which
ne ala. The work of the laboratory in OK
aiming Specimens OF water will be tho
subject OF bulletin soon to be Circulat ed
by the board. 1t was also voted to issue
a circular pref AIRED by w c. S. Caverly
on tuberculosis an ! its prevention.
The board expressed themselves as dis
pleased with reference which had been
made intimating THAI the alleged samll poX
scare was being OVerworked in the inter
est OF some one. 1t was stated that The
meaning of the board had been misint,r-
preted in the circular issued upon the sub
Ject of smallpox. The intention was to
state plainly to the people that the disease
had been more prevalent in the Province
OF Quebec and contiguous states than for
many years. They wished to call tho AT
tention of the people to The
value of vaccination as a pre-
Vcntive of the disease in forestalling an
outbreak. They do not wish to raise a
smallpox scare and certainly ave not work.
ing IL either in their own interest "a those
Of any other officials or profession.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-22
Catarrh Cannot be Cured

with LOCAL APPLICATION, - they
cannot reach the seat of the disease G.
tarrah is a blood or constitutional disease.
and in order to cure it you must take III
ternal remedies. Halls Catarrh cure g
taken internally. ana acts directly on tile
blood and mucous surfaces HAIRS Catarrf
cure is not a QuaCk medicine. II vas pre-
scribcd by one of the best physicians '
this country for years, and is a regula
preservation. 1t Is composed Of he hes
tonics known, combined With the hes
blood purifiers, acting directly on thu
mucous surfaces The perfect combina.
ton of the two ingredients is what pro,
duces such wonderful results in curins
Catarrh. Send for testimonials free.
+. J. CHENEY, & CO,Props. Toledo, q
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-22

There is, We think, no doubt that the
name was Boorn 1t is so spelled in the
account of the case published in a PAM
phlet in 1873, by lion. Leonard Sargent,
who was associated with Gov. Richard
Skinner in the defence OF the Boorns: and
in every published report of the case that
we remember.
In regard to the suggestion about adj
vcrtislng tor Colvn. Mr.. Sergeant says
that one day III the prison. stephen Boom
said to him Well / suppose / must
die" but before Mr.. Sergeant left the
cell "a new idea occurred to MIN and he
asked If it might not be Well to advertise
in the papers for Colvin." The grammat-
ical construction of the sentence does not
make 1t plain whether the new idea" oc-
Cured to Boorn, or to Sergeant: but the
contest seems to imply that 1t was
Boorns idea Mr.. Sergeant seems TO
have discountenanced the suggestion, and
he says that Judge Skinner thought 1t was
"a foolish eXpedient." However, having
promised Boorn that they would advertise,
Mr.. skinner wrote a notice which was
published in the Rutland Herald, request
ing papers throughout the United States
to ask for information concerning one
GOWN in order to save the life of the
innocent" Tho Herald accompanied the
notice with an editorial saying that there
was no doubt that Colvin was murdered
and rdiculing the attempt to secure infor-
nation about him. The New York Even
ing Post copied the notice, and 1t came
under the notice of persons living in Do
yer, New Jersey, who knew Colvin there,
and his Identification as the missing man
followed This is Mr.. Sargean's account
of the transaction.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-22
n Public BenefaStor.

Daniel Kimball Pearsons. the philan-
thropist and friend Of education, whose
mupificent gifts TO colleges and Christian
charities have given him name high up
in the list OF the worlds benefactors,
is a native Of Vermont. He was born in
Bradford, Vermont, April IA, 1890 He
studied medicine and graduated from the
Cd Vermont Medical College In Wood
stock. which ceased to exist In 1856. He
practiced medicine in Chicopee, Mass, I'M
Ill 1857, when he removed to ogle county.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-22

Mass, has advanced the price of standard
print cloth "a by "a to three and three
eights cents, an advance Of one-eight Of a
cent yard. AT the price at which colt on
cloth is now selling there ought to be "A
good outlook for the cotton mills of New
England, and particularly those OF Ver-
mont. which are not Handicapped by la
Dor i gisation.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-02-22
TRUSTEES.

TRUSTEES.
r.. WARD, WILLARD CRANE,
CHARLES p. SMITH. HENRY GRHESs,
j. l.. BARsTow, 20. PEtKCE
HENRY WELLS.
'eceiVes 3ad pays deposits daily. De-
posits made during the first four busi-
ness days of the month draw interest
from the first. If maze afterwards in
teIest VIII commence the first of the fol-
lowing month.
interest will be credited to depositors
JANUARY and July |, compounding twice
9cdl' mere are lao Stockholders in this
Jain All the earnings, Iess expense be-
iohe 10 depostCrs. The rate of interest
Nepehos upon the earnings, and for twelve
years was AZ per cent. but under Law
phsseu oy the Legis allure OF 1896 no saw
mss Dank can pay mere than per cent.
uH'ii us surplus reaches 10 per cent. OF
us deposits, when a special dividend is 10
be made.
All taxes In this State are paid by the
Ddhk on deposits Of $3.50 or less. Depos-
10 are received in sums from 81 to 5000,
ana no interest will be paid on any 81 II
III excess OF this amount. except on de-
posts by widows. orphans, a1ministra-
Tors executors. guardians, charitable or
le'lglous institutions or on trust funds de-
rUslted by order of the court.
no money loaned to any officer or trus-
tee OF the bank.
CHARLES p. SMITH. President.
FREDERICK w. WARD Treas
h. 5, ISHAM, Assistant Treasurer.