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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22
The Steel Trusts Cooperative Plans

1t is unfortunate that the plans of the
steel trust regarding the adoption of a
cooperative system could not have been
announced previous to the beginningof The
present strike; for in that case there
would have been no room for the suspic-
ion that the project had for its Interior
motive the desire to wean the strikers
from their allegiance to their organization.
On the other hand it is to be borne in mind
that the plan is not new, being nothing
more than higher development of the co.
operative scheme that has been in use In
the Carnegie mills since 1892
Nevertheless the announcement ia
worthy of more than passing notice. The
proposition of J. Pierpont Morgan, the fin
ancia head of the United States Steel
company. according to the announcement
of President Schwab. is that stock of that
corporation valued at several millions of
| dollars at par shall be set aside for pur-
shase at inside figures by the employees of
| that gigantic organization, thus forming
a co-partnership between the sharehold-
ers and the employees. lnasmuch as tho
forces of the steel trust number 1850 men
it follows that the proposition in question
is of the greatest Importance to the en-
ployes as we'll as of marked interest to the
public.
| 1t Is claimed that the plan for the adop-
ton of this enormous cooperative scheme
was conceived previous to the strike and It
was expected that it might be put in oper-
alton in two years. 1t is now asserted
tween the executive board of the Almaga-
mated association and Charles Schawb
the executive head OF the trust, the fact
was developed that the latter under the
direction of Morgan has formulated IL
profit sharing scheme whereby 1t was pro-
posed to make every employe of the steel
corporation a compartner In the business.
Whether or not the announcement of this
project at the present time will have any
material influence upon the strike situa-
ton is a question that the progress of
events alone can tell. The knowledge that
the managers Of the great corporation in
tended to give it's employees a share of Its
: profits would naturally tend to mollfy
them In connection with the present strug
} gle. but inasmuch as the men are in ignor-
ance as to the exact amount of benefit
they would derive from the adoption OF
) this project the influence of the announce
g ment can hardly be farreaching.
! That the system Of profit sharing among
4 employees has marked advantages for all
t concerned has been abundantly demon.
= started by the Carnegie mills. which have
tried 1t for so many years. Indeed al
= this late day there is no necessity of ar,
a gument I'm support Of the plan. The caus,
n for wonder Is that the trust did no,
y promptly announce its intention to con
s tinue this custom upon the very first init
e nation of trouble. and thus cement more
o closely their relations with their employees
Z The attempt to make use of this influence
o at this time may be successful even now
h Lbut the chances Of suscoss at kha thsSs
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22
WHEN TIE SEWING CIRCLE MEETS

WHEN TIE SEWING CIRCLE MEETS.
The village sewing circle has a member
ship that's large.
For one can't get so much of good for such
trfing charge.
In any coterie select of women sweet and
fair
From San Francisco clear to classic
Boston. anywhere
The meetings Tuesday afternoon are such
a helpful source
OF aspirations to the ones who gather and,
of course,
Some dear one, up-to-date in all that's
going on, repeats
The choicest bits of gossip when the sew
ing circle meets.
I'd always thought that Lawyer Smith was
Wrapped-up in his wife
And treated her with such respect she led
a happy life,
| thought that if she'd ask for It he'd get
for her the moon,
Until | heard he drank sometimes, last
Tuesday afternoon.
I did not know till then our rector S
brother long ago
Was put in Jail for something All, it must
have been Il blow.
Why, pure, good women might not learn
cen holy-men's decoits
But for the "heart-to-heart talks when
the sewing circle meets.
I've told my husband nearly all the stories
l have heard,
And he has laughed or smiled at them
but never said word.
But yesterday he said to me: This morn
ing. dear, dropped
Into the office Of the News and had our
daily stopped
I must have looked amazed al him, so he
went on to say
He thought it an extravaganza 10 for a
paper pay.
When you get more news now, he said
than in these local sheets,
And lots more fiction too. dear, when the
sewing circle meets"
, Roy Farrell Greene in Leslie's Weekly
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22
TOMMY ON TIE CRECHE.

W hen mamma goes TO the exposition
An takes my baby brother
She doesn't lug him round all day
Because she saws she'd ruther
Leave Kim in what they call the crcch
An schanGe him fora check
That's mum beled zactiy ike the one
They tie around his neck
Now don't like this checkin' PLAN
An neither does Uncle joe
Spose they'd mix the checks some day
Then whcre'd our baby 20?
MY baby brothers awful tanned
An a squint eyed little chap,
S'rose they make a mistake out there
An give him to Jap?
An s'pose ma should he hurried, too,
Oh, huly-gee then, mister
What n row she'd find at homo
II she brought me back a sister!
Mebbe she'd draw Niger Kid.
Black $ chunk of coal,
Or a Filipino baby
" hat didn't know milk in the bowl.
Ar mebhe there wouldn't be a time
When she put that kid to bed
Think I'd own il. black or brown.
After my prayers was said?
Tell YOU what. | wouldn't stand il;
I'd wiring its little neck:
Ought to know hetter'n TO go
An get my baby rrotter's check.
Philadelphia Press
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22
Canada's Moderate Growth.

While the Dominion of Canada in
cludcs an enormous territory, it's area
being 3.653,9i6 square miles, as compared
with the 3,692,l25 square miles of American
territory, not including our recently ac-
CURED possessions, it's population is not
to he compared with that of the United
States. Indeed there are "A number of
States i'm tho Union whose population ex-
cceds the number of inhabitants in the
entire Dominion of Canada. According to
the census recently completed in that
country the populatio of the Dominion
aggregates 5,53s $50. which is an increase
of only sos GA in ten years. During the
Same decade the population of tho United
States increased from So o69. 756 to &c, POS 900,
a gain Of 13,225i64, our gain from 1890 to
1900 being two and one-half times the en-
tire population of Canada.
It is only when we compare the increase
in population of Canada with that Of
some of our States that we obtain a rel
alive idea of that countrys moderate
growth. Canada's population is exceeded
by that Of each of two of our most pop
ulous States and nearly equalled by that
Of two others. New York's population
according to the last census was 1865
600 as compared with Canada's 5.33s, $50
a gain from 5.997,s53 in ten years. Penn
sylvania had 6,30l S65 inhabitants accord
ing to the census of 1900. as compared
with 5.25S,oi1 ten years previous. During
the decade the population of Illinois in
SaI 2 in m 4 N
1900. while the population Of Ohio advan-
oed from 3672,3l6 in 1899 to 4,157,545 last
year.
1t Is only fair to call attention to the
fact that the excellent showing by the
three first named States was due to the re-
markable growth of their critics. Chicago's
increase alone during the decade was
equal to the increase in the entire popula-
ton of Canada; Greater New York gained
nearly a round million in population, and
Philadelphia about $1,000 or about one
half Of the increase of Canada.
In spite of this showing. IT must be adj
mitted that the outlook for Canada
/ future is most assuring. There are indi-
cations that the food of Immigration &c
the United States which has been one o.
the principal causes Of Canada's small pei
cent. of increase In population, has begun
to ebb. Labor troubles or an extensive
scale in this country have caused many
former Canadians to return to their coun.
try during the past year; industrial con
ditons in the Dominion are improving anC
the chances are that at the end of the de
Till be able to point not only to a large
increase in population but also TO gra
tifyng state of prosperity.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22

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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22
LIABILITIES :
EMPEkORS OF THE PEOPLE.
Men Who Direct American Labor Have
Ability of Highest Order.

Carlyles theory of the strong man.
seems to be acquiring fresh vitality
through the striking events that are in
progress within the United States, writes
Col. Richard J. tiintcn in the London
Express Theodore j. ShaTer wage
worker and president of the Amalgamatod
Association of Iron, steel and Tin workers
holds the center of the American stage to-
day
I.ik Mr.. Mitchell, the coal miners
leader. President Shaffor is still n young
ran, being a little over 20 years of age.
Mitchell is on the sunny side of 81. Both
arc graduates of our common schools.
They are masters Of art from our work
shops and the bear diplomas from that
most markable series of training schools
the great unions and organizatiO that
have grown up in the past thirty years.
one thing is suprcmely worth trying TO
understand. and that is the character and
capacity of men like Shaffer, the steel
worker; Mitchell, the coal miner Com
pers the cigar maker and executive OF tho
Federation of labor; or Peter Mcclure,
secretary Of the Carpenters Brotherhood.
a graduate of the City College OF New
York and a man able to speak and write
we'll in several languages. l name these
only because they are the executive of
some 100 100 mon. and not to deny capa-
city to others. but because they have be-
come known and noted.
In the last score or more Of years Of
close study cf these movements | have
known Of many such men with ability to
til any administrative position, and seldom
lacking the chance of gaining the same
Those who want such places, like Pow
dorly or Jarrett. for example, are gladly
given them. But the men who are in tho
front of the great American labor organs
zationS are men who are class con-
scious to the degree at least of being en-
tirely willing tc stay by their order and to
serve it passicnately ana well, according
To their capacity and insight into what ID
to lie achieved
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22

The latest crop advcos indicate n gem
eral Improvement in the situation. Wheat
Is said to be showing to better advantage
than heretofore. and the weather in tho
last week has been in the main decidedly
beneficial to corn. 1t is is now stated
that in Minnesota there will be an aver
age harvest Of corn, provided there are
no early frosts but in many parts of the
West II is too late for the weather condi-
lions to fully redeem the corn crop
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22
800 Reward, 800.

The readers of ihis paper will he pleas
ed to learn that there Is al least one dread
ed disease that science has been able to
cure in all its stages and that is Catarrh.
Halls Catarrh Cure is the only positive
cure In all its stages and that is Catarrh,
Catarrh being a constitutional disease re-
Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous SUR
faces of the sy stem. thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in doing
its work Tho proprictors have so much
faith in its curative powers, that they
offer one Hundred Dollars for any case
that It fails to cure, Send for list of ties,
timonials.
Address.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halxa Family EtNs are the hAst.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22
The Free Press ON Local Option.

The Rutland Herald has done us tho
honor to comment upon a recent remark
in this paper to the effect that the FREE
PRESS commended local option when and
where 1t was a step towards the more
stringent restriction OF the liquor traffic
popularity { and as we think mistakenly
called prohibition; but not when and where
1t was step in the opposite direction.
This remark our Rutland brother affects
to consider to be an indication of a change
in the attitude OF this paper towards local
optional change induced by the supposed
discovery on our part of strong set of
public opinion In Vermont towards local op-
ton. II the FREE PRESS has in any re-
spect changed In It's position on the sub
ject, 1t cannot have been owing to any such
discovery. 1t Is true that Local Option
League was organized in the Marble City
last year; but so far as we know 1t has
made no Roadway in tho State. We are
not aware OF any vast or considerable
change of opinion among the people of
Vermont In the direction of relaxing the
existing restrictions on the ltQasoc tanffso,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22

The injunction which WAS formerly re-
sorted to only in the most unusual cases,
has now become one of thu most common
legal resorts Of the day. It's most extra
ordinary use SO far was noted few DAYS
since when a mother who had been sep
arated from her husband brought an IN
junction to compel him to allow her to
attend the funeral and look upon the dead
face Of her four years old son.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22
81, sol, oo9 o3
FAMOUS ICE CAVE
EXPLORED.

The existence of the Pittsford ice cave
has been known since the days of the Rev
dictionary war. but few have had the
temority to explore it. it Is remarkable for
the fact that the entire floor of the cave
Proper and ;hc sutterranean passage ways
leading from il are of ice. many feet in
thickness and as clear as crystal The
ice has never been known to melt, the
thermometer registering several degrees
below the freezing point on the hottest
summer days. The shaft is six feet in
diameter and is as round and smooth as
tho barrel of an 1s-inch gun. Intensely
cold air gushes mp from the cave like
water from gcyser. Some years ago a
young man named Humphrey cut a sap
ling, and mailing on some cross sticks
showed 1t into the shaft Ever since it
has served as n ladder for tho few ven
turesome spirits who have made the de
scent. 1t is none too safe, and a log has
been thrown across the mouth. and over
this a rope can be run and tied around the
waist. Prof Ronalds and daughter who
are spending the summer In Brandon, re-
Gently explored the cave. The professor
lighted his lantern and let himself down.
Then he hosted the loop and, putting the
rope around her waist, Miss Ronalds partly
climbed and partly slid down the saphuE
Father and daughter found themselves at
the head of a passagewaN leading down
toward the mountains base Mt an anglo of
45 degrees. The air was cold and damp,
and the lantern showed that the walls
were dripping with moisture. The!
dropped to their knees and crawlod along
carefully for POO feet. pushing tho lantern
in front of them. Here the passagoway
suddenly ended midway between the IL.
and ceiling of an immense vault. The
professor was then let down into tho cave
about 50 feet deep, and when he WAS
hauled out he had in one hand frog he
had found imbedded in two feet Of ice a
had chopped out with Jagged stone. TN
frog was white. brittle, and almost trans
parent. At first it showed no sign If ltfe
but after it had been warmed by the Ian
tern for time there was slight move
ment Of the legs. The professor holi /
nearer the lantern, and the frog swelle'
out its throat, gave robust kick an
crOaked. on reaching the outside al
, father and daughter hurried back to Bran
don. There they fed the frog with flies
and in a few days it began to take on
healthy green color.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22
American Farm Machinery in Russia

Gen. f. d. Grant just returned from
Russia. said in an interview in New York
on Thursday, that the general feeling OF
the people Of the middle and upper class
es Of the Russian people IL distinctly IA
vorable to the United States. and the trou-
bic over the sugar tariff generally re-
GREETED The Russian farmers buy enor-
nous quantities of farm implements from
us and regard with greatest regret any
difference bstwssn tha tWo, countries
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22
TIE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE POST.
OFFICE.
(F'rom the Manchester. N. H., Mir

Next to the schoolhouse and the
church the postofiico has been the centre
of influence in the village, and the post
master has been above the sclectmen and
the peer of the representative to the gen
eral court. Where farmers are TO meet
to talk politics, swap information. play
checkers, plan campaigns, lay wires, sit
in 1udgmnt on their neighhOrS', discuss the
to Nn report and the Presidents message,
when the postoffice is closed forever, we
do not see and how there is to be any
systematic Canvassing any satisfactory
communication with headquarters. any
thing interesting In politics in the country
towns without the postmaster to organ
ize and lead the ms, and the many who
wants to be postmaster to direct and en-
courage the outs, Is beyond our compre-
hcnsion. Further, what congressman are
to do for Jealous supporters when they
can no longer call en- those they have Put
in charge of the letter boxes no one can
tell
Again, when there is no lorger occasion
for the farmer, his wife and hts boys and
girls. to hitch up the boIse and go to the
village for the mail" one of the chief en-
ioyments and rccreations of farm life Will
he gone. And finally, when the farmer s
wife is obliged to send to tie city fol
every spool of thread and yard of sheet
ing she wants and pay the freight on II
/ her husband will need larger income
! that he has now. In all seriousness. the
RAISING OF the country postmaster and his
establishment Is loss which balances tc
some extent all the gains by rural deliv
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22
Wonders of the Wireless Tclegraphy

There was n time when the announce
mont of mans ability to communicate
from land with steamship many miles
at sea would have been regarded as IA
freak of the imagination, but it is now an
accomplished fact, Our news columns
have already told how Marconis system
of wireless tclceraphy was used to com
municate with the Lucania from the Nan
tucket lightship when that steamship had
nearly 200 miles OF ocean travel before
reaching her pier In New York
This accomplishment has served to thor
conf system of wireless tecgraphy is not
only practicable but that it's use In con-
ncction with ocean going vessels can not
DO oyerestimated, BY means Of this- inven-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22
BY HOLp.NIs.
(From the Boston journal


Is not the hotel season satisfactory n
the Adirondacks? Why these tales o.
hold-ups by a lone hlghWayman. VITA
mask and gum II is unfair competition
with the White Mountains, where If ned
be. bandits might be procured ami lis
trihuted among the Businesses TO caltu"5
tourists and demand ransom.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22

Captain Charles L, Clark may not have
received from the nation the recognition
TO which his services enttle him, hut his
experiences il connection with Nermonts
Old Home Week must have proved to him
that he IS idolized in the grand old State
OF his nativity.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22

That kingdoms, Ike republics. may he
ungrateful is indicated by the statement
that Gen. Kitchener is to be reheNeo OF
the command of the British forces In South
Africa, about the middle of next month.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22
WANTED.

When you want anything, advertise IN
the new special column OF this paper. some
borrains are offered there this week which
IT will nay you to read about. See page
seven. This paper has more than -o'VoV
readers every week, and one cent Il Woru
will reach them all.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22

A society for the Suppression of Spur
ious Titles has been formed in Virginia.
IF branch of It should pc organized In
every State Of the Union, we might have
fewer colonies who rever smelled powder,
fewer judges who never read law and few
er doctors who never healed a patient.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22

DR. Koch's theory that bovine tubercu-
losis cannot be communicated to human
beings is now being tested by the Chicago
health department. Several men are I'M
dcrgoing incubation under the direction
Of Or. Reilly. acting commissioner of
health The experiment is made with skin
Observation-Disclosures form Of the disease
which is durable
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22

The Tammany politicians arc said to have
hopod that Gov. Odell would rush to the
metropolis and remove Police Commission
er Murphy, thus giving them an opportun-
ity to raise the cry of Home rule; no AL
bany interference" Gov Odoll disappoint
cd their hopes and the managers of tho
anti-Tammany campaign have thus gain
ed another point.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22
PERSONAL.

Charles A. Adams Of Arlington for FIVE
years connected with St. Adams Academy,
Knoxville, Ill. has been appointed To- the
chair of English in the University Of
Wyoming at Laramie.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22

Mr.. John Barrett, formerly United states
minister to Siam. has been appointed COM
missioner general OF the St Louis EAposi-
ton to Asia and Australia
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22

One of tho Disadvantages connected with
the Schley investigation is that 1t Will
impel some of our contemporaries to hIht
the baltic of Santiago all over again.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22
WIVES IN THE SERB.

Never a careworn wife but shows.
II Joy suffuse her,
Something beautiful to those
Patient to peruse her
Some one charm the world unknows,
Precious to muser;
HAPPY what, ere years were foes
Moved her mate to choose her.
But be It hint of rose
That an instant hues her.
or some early light or pose
Wherewith thoughts renews her
Seen by him at full, ere woes
Practiced to abuse her
Sparely comes it, swiftly goes,
Time again subdues her.
BY Thomas Hardy.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22

Massachusetts has no mountain line, as
has Vermont but there are rumors OF
geographical issues in Its coming cam
pagn.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22

The success of Old Home Weeks cele-
brations this year has rendered the per-
manence of the observance certainty
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-22
TRUCE IN LAMoiLLE COUNTY.
lrrom the Randolph Ileraldl

Conditions are apparently improving in
Iam,ille county. MOrrisville and hyde
Park teams recently played an exciting
eleven inning ball game, and not single
bloody nose WAS repoiten.