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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-11-20
WHAT OUR NElGHBORS SAY.
The Chief Provisions OF the Battell Bill
Considered from Two Points OF View.


UTrom the Randolph 1Ierald)
We publish in this Issue the full text
Of the so-caled Batten bill for regulating
the liquor traffic. Inasmuch az this bill
is very likely to come before the present
Legislature with the endorsement Of prob
ably a majority of the joint temperance
committee and II passed as now seems
reasonable TO expect will be submitted to
the voters under referendum, for their
acceptance or rejection, it will be worth q
critical study by our readers.
The Batch bill outlines a system in some
respects different from anything In opera
ton anywhere. 1t is not prohibition, or q
modification Of prohibition, for it permits
the sale in cities and towns so voting OF
spirituous liquors in sealed packages and
of malt liquors and light wines by tho
glass Tor use as n beverage. This is con-
trary to the fundamental principle OF pro-
hihition, Of course
The Battell system is not license as the
term is commonly understood for its
main feature is not the selling Of the H.
quor-vendng privilege for certain spe-
cilied sum to private parties, but it az
tuallY conducts the business on behalf
of tho states pccuniary, and, presumably,
its moral benefit.
The Battell system IL not the South Car
olina disrensary plan. for that provides
only for selling in sealed packages not
to he broken and the contents drunk on
the premises: nor DOGS IT provide for
sales by druggists on physicians prescrip-
tion only, nor for serving malt liquors
on the table only by hotel keepers, all
Of which is permitted by the Battell bill
The Battell bill Is purely local option
II permits cities and towns to say BY vote
whether they will allow liquors to he sold
at all, whether for necessary purposes
only; whether malt liquors and light
/ wines shall be sold by the glass and
whether the privileges Of the system shall
be extended to druggists and hotel keep
ers. no plan yet proposed gives the com
munity such complete control Of the Ii
quor selling business
The traffic, under the Battell method Is
carried on by salaried agents of the
state, whose income is not affected by
the number of sales made. The purpose
Of this is clear. 30 saloons. in the or
binary conception are to be established
The selling is done at the State stores
under strict regulations.
| Tho quality of liquors is insured by &C
tual test at the hands Of an expert when
the goods are purchased by the state
They are then sealed by him and the seal
remains unhroken until the consumer Is
reached
The traffic is done at profit. which goes
| to the State and is divided among the
towns according to population. The pur-
pose Of this division is 10 remove from
towns the mcrcenary temptation to sell
| in order to realize from the returns there
4 Of
For tho fun details Of the plan. nclud
ing the prohibitions. restrictions penalties
and methods employed to secure faithful
service by those interested in tho systems
/ administration. We refer the reader to a
| persual of the bill itself
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-11-20
BATTELL BILL CRITICISED.
(From the Rutland Herald)

The action of the prohibition members
of the Joint temperance committee Of the
Legislature on Wednesday evening In unit
ing on a liquor dispenSary bill for me
purpose of heading off the high license
local option referendum bill reported By
the sub-copmittee IS about as rank bit
Of parliamentary foolshness and self
stutincation as we have heard of for
some time No one of the II prohibs who
voted for the Battell bill providing for
State liquor stores believed in the bill.
They supported II in order to gain the vote
of the author of that bill in their fight to
head off the license bill. According to
prohib ethics It is wrong to license an evil.
The dispensary bin, which Ii prohibs sup
ported in the temperance COMMITTEES.
makes the State the sole proprietor Of tie
liquor business 1t makes Vermont q
rum-scller for the money there is in it.
What Justification can prohib have ia
supporting such a law? None whatever
as a moral proposition. The II prOh!b5
supported the Battsll bill for the pur-
pose of forcing upon the Legislature a
measure so unwise in principle and 50
offensive in many of its details that the
great body of the voters of the State
would defeat the bill when put to the test
of the referendum. Every man Jack of the
II prohibs who favored the Battall bill
in committee would turn it down when it
got before the people. These men did not
stick to their guns and support the
prohibitory law or even the expurgatel
edition OF it edited by Father Ross. They
supported a rum measure in order to Kill
off high license-local option. The 18th mem
her If the committee who opposed the IL
cense bill can bo pardoned, we suppose,
Cording 10 law Of human nature; for he
is poor father who will deny his own
child.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-11-20
A LICENSE war.
PreCipitated by the Close
Division of Committee
on Temperance.
THE TWO BILLS REPORTED

Believed That Settlement of This Question
Will Make Adjournment Before
Thanksgiving Impossible The Tenn
perance Men Stand for the Battell
Bill with Slight Modification and a.
Straight Referendum - The Majority
Measure Follows General Lines of the
License Bills--Its Full Text.
The Green Forest tribune., 1902-09-20

A NEBRASKA editor says: The other day, when we were driving down town behind our family rhinoceros, we came across an aged man tearing a bridge to pieces and placing it on a wagon. As the bridge was one we needed in our business we asked the aged man what he was doing with it in which case why so. or words to that effect. He replied: My eyesight is poor and l have no spectacle with me. 1 understand that many advertisements are painted on this bridge, and am taking it home in order that may read them and find out where to get bargains. The long winter evenings are coming and I want to lay in supply of bridges and board fences and barn doors, that 1 may read what the mer- chants have to say"
The Green Forest tribune., 1902-09-20
Deafness CaunOt Be Cured

by local applications, as they can- not reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deaf ness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to it's normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
 We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free.
 F. J. CHENEY 6 Co.,,
 Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c.
 Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Green Forest tribune., 1902-09-20
ADVERTISING RATES.

Display ads. 50 cents per single col umn inch per month. Ten per cent dis count on large or on long time ads.
 Locals, 5 cents line each insertion: If number of insertions are not specified when given, they will be run until or dered out.
 All job printing, cash on delivery. Collections for advertising made month ly.
 All obituaries, resolutions of respect, or similar matter, exceeding one hundred and twenty words, will be charged for at the rate of 5 cents line.
 All notices of entertainments, suppers, socials, etc., where pay is demanded, will be charged same rate as other ad- yertising matter, cents line.
 Original poetry, 10 cents line, strict ly cash in advance.
The Green Forest tribune., 1902-09-20

AN esteemed exchange asks: Did you ever run accross an old home paper, say some ten years old or more? Did it not prove extremely interesting as you road it's columns of local news an l personal mention? As you look over it's pages the many seemingly trivial mentions c lrry with them a multitude of tender and pleasant associations. You wonder why you prize the paper so little when it was first printed when you find it so full of interest and reflection after so many years. It is only when one gets hold of an old local paper and views it's panaroma of the past and reflects on what a mirror of local events the papers are, that you begin to estimate their real value as recorder of current history. You then re- as.ize how worthy of support and patronage the little collector and recorder of the life and doings of the community was, which from week to week and year to year 1t so carefully portrayed. People make a big mistake by failing to place on file the copies of their local paper. Which in after years are highly prized and of much interest.
The Green Forest tribune., 1902-09-20
Rule and Vicinity.

billiard Webb is reported quite ill.
 Mrs. Laban Alfred has a.serious seize of chills.
 James Wilson shipped out car of cattle Sunday.
 Rule Kenner and family of Osage are visiting Rule relatives this week.
 Jack Frost has been guest in the community during the past week.
 Our public school will close in three more weeks. We have had an excellent school this year.
 Our farmers haven't forgotten the eff fects of The drought last year and are taking care of all the feed possible.
 Ceaf Brawley G Go. have threshed 10000 bushels of wheat this season, the toll amounting to 400 bushels to each man in the company.
 Prof. Davis gave an eloquent lecture to the patrons of Rule school Friday night. He is an excellent educator and we were glad to have him with us.
 Dear readers, let us call your atten- tion to some facts about fruit. Benton has million and half fruit trees, the largest number of any county in the United States. Considering the fact that this is the fruit belt proper, is it any wonder our Benton county neighbors are growing rich? Let us all proceed to plant orchards. Nothing can beat it. Try it.
The Green Forest tribune., 1902-09-20
DeYOured by Worms.

Children often cry, not from pain, but from hunger, although fed abundantly. The entire trouble arises from hamilton, their food is not assimilated, but devoured by worms. A few doses of Whites Cream Vermifuge will cause them to cease crying and begin to thrive at once, very much to the surprise and joy of the mother. 25c at Dr. F. R. Mor- rows drug store.
The Green Forest tribune., 1902-09-20

Josh Westhafer, of Loogootee, Ind, is poor man, but he says he would not be without Cham berlain's Pain Balm if it cost five dollars a bottle, for it saved him from being a cripple. No exter- nal application is equal to this iniment for stiff and swollen joints, contracted muscles, stiff neck, sprains and rheumatic and muscular pains. It has also cured numerous cases of partial paralysis. It is for sale by Green Forest Drug Go.
The Green Forest tribune., 1902-09-20
Not Doomed for Life.

'sI was treated for three years by good doctors," writes w. A. Greer, McConnellsville, O., "for Piles and Fistula, but, when all tailed, Bucklen's Arnica Salye ,ured me in two weeks" Cures Burns, Bruises, Cuts, Coras Sores, Eruptions, Salt Rheum. Piles or no pay. 25c at Dr F. R. Morrow's drug store. Near lepot.
The Green Forest tribune., 1902-09-20

THE ex-Confederate pensioners will receive only AS per cent of the amounts allowed, instead of 49 per cent as previously an nounced. The checks for the payment of those allowed in this county are now in the hands of County Clerk Collier.
The Green Forest tribune., 1902-09-20

BOTH wings of the democracy are trying to unite on Tom l.. Johnson for the presidential can- didate in 1904, and from present headwav the deal is most likely to be effected.
The Green Forest tribune., 1902-09-20

THOSE who were consoling themselves that the elections for the year were over had forgotten that the congressional election comes off Nov. 4.
The Green Forest tribune., 1902-09-20

Usually begins with the symp- toms of a common cold; there is chilliness, sneezing, sore throat, hot skin, quick pulse, hoarseness and impeded respiration. Give frequent small doses of Ballard 8 Horehound Syrup, (the child will cry for it) and at the first sign of a croupy cough, apply frequent ly Ballard's Snow Liniment ex- formally to the throat. soc at Dr. F. R. Morrow's drug store.
The Green Forest tribune., 1902-09-20
WEST BOUND TRAINS.

Train No. 3 makes connection at Seligman for Ft. Smith and points in- termediate.
 Train No. 7 makes connection at Seligman for St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, Monett, Paris, Tex, and all points south.
 For further information call on or ad- dress J. E. WEATHERLY, Agt.,
 Green Forest, Ark.
The Green Forest tribune., 1902-09-20
Wanted-An Idea 7; $as ';;s :s$: sse .ss!: ss'ss

Protect your ideas; they may bring you wealth Write JOHN WEDDERBURN & CO, Patent Attor neys Washington D. G. for their 81, 800 prize offer and list of two hundred inventions wanted.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-14

the competitors themselves If the Little
Men and Women do not think they know
very much about rocks. 1t would he n gooa
idea to go to the encyclopedias or some Door
birds. and read all about them DO NOT
copy anything directly. hut after you ha'7
read 1t and put the book away. tell all the
facts you can remember in your own WORDS.
Any letter received after December - VIII
he too Inte for the contest Address Iifue
Men and Little Women. The Tribune- ae"-
York.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-14
THE DISCONNECTED DOLLS.

cradle and went over to Aunt Patence's big arm
chair. He walked with a queer little stump be-
cause of his feet gone. The Baby had
pulled It off for the kitten to play with.
Cant I have some. too. Aunt Patience?' asked
Sir Lancelot. \ burst of laughter came from an
other corner 1t was funny little laughter that
sounded like the tinkling of tiny silver bells.
Well. really" said a new voice, ''such a fine
gentleman 10 be begging for chocolate drops! Don't
give him any. Aunt Patience. He'll get them all
over his fine velvet clothes
You needn't laugh. Lady Geraldine" replied Sir
Lancelot in a very cold voice; you would like
them. too. II you were not so afraid OF your Dig
nifty
"6,biIdren children" said Aunt Patience placidly,
don't quarrel: il isn't nice Come here. Lancelot;
there plenty for you and Geraldine. too, If she
wants them"
Str Lancclot got down rather stifly and walked
across the floor to Aunt Patience's chair. He wore
very beautiful clothes of crimson velvet with lace
rufcs and A velvet hat with white plume. and
a flashing sword at his side. Most Of the dolls did
not like him very well. because he stiff. and
such elegant clothes.
ought to go back to England. where he came
from muttered Jacky; we don't want no such
things as that in America" Jacky was a rather
vulgar boy. His early education had been neg
lected'
'Oh. oh: me. too" called a smothered voice from
the end OF the room. Come and pull me out some
of you. l want some chocolate drops. too, and
they have done gone and left the express wagon
right on top OF me is mos dead
Sir Lancelot turned toward the sound but he
moved in such slow, stately way that Jacky
was ahead of him in spite of his lame foot: He
stumped across the room very fast, and found
Chloe living fiat her face with the express
wagon bottom side up. her back. Jacky could
not Iift 1t until he had stumped to the toolbox
and got out a long iron spade This he put under
the edge the express wagon and so lifted it off.
Then he helped Chloe up.
Chloe was little negro doll. but she was very
folly and funny. and all the dolls were very fond
Of her. They began to talk about her accident all
at once Even Aunt Patience displeased.
II declare it's "A shame said she. Somebody
should speak to those children. They should be
taught better. The idea of going off to bed and
top of her. to suffer all night! It's wonder poor
Chloe isn't dead. Are you hurt much, Honey?''
Use got a misery in my back replied Chloe;
but she such a cheerful little girl that
a she got a chocolate cream she forgot all about
her trouble and was quite happy again.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-14
THE JUMPER
a Sled with One Runner.
By Galloway c. Morris.


There is winter sport that is popular in the
region about Lake George. and nowhere else so
Tar the writer is aware which would please
of the readers of st. Nicholas who live In
those regions where abounds.
II is ordinary coasting the common sled
what coasting on bicycle is compared running
downhin express wagon.
The whole art and mystery and trick of the thing
is TO balance a sled with only runner while
going rapid rate downhill.
have them used hills with a gentle in
cline well those quite steep: and once
used the terraces of Fort William
Henry. ] also know of case where. some
fifteen years age. q boy, prosperous young
business man. rode his Jumper successfully down
the long and steep soboggan slide at Saratoga. /
doubt not that the quickness of perception and
sk Of action developed by such sport boy
have stood him in good stead in his business AT
any rate he has buen successful in as In
the other But he also knew how combine play
with work.
The youngest boys commence the sport on the
curved stave Of barrel which has only one ad-
vantage that suggests itselfLt saves some wear
and tear OF cloth. Before very long the little fell
low who starts barrel stave will nail block
OF wood il to raise him up a little He
gradually gets that block little higher 20 raise
him more and more. until finally nothing will
satisfy him but well made jumper, and he gen
orally proceeds TO make it himself or his father
helps him at il, for know Of place where one
can be bought.
Jumper" is the local applied to a single
runner sled In its perfection * is steel shod as
shown in the picture that accompanies this article
the steel being generally taken from a t-rosscur
saw such the lumbermen use. This runner varies
from one and half TO two inches wide and tbs
bearing the snow is from three TO foul
feet long the front being curled somewhat like
an old-fashoned skate. Just behind the centre O,
the length upright is framed into the wooder
part OF the runner. and this upright a seat il
firmly fastened.
The height of the seat is entirely a matter o
taste with the individual maker; but il viii b,
reacily seen that the higher the seat the greater
the skill required balance and guide IN.
Jumper Furthermore the greater the length O.
the runner the harder II will be TO keep il gonl
10 the desired direction it passes over the litt
10 swerve II from its course well to tilt
over sldewise- The coasters skill is exhibited !:
preventing either of these things. for eithe
of them is sure TO result in an upset.
II is not particularly dangerous sport, for IN
fall. when IL comes. is never bad one. sixteel
Inches is considered a good high seat, and thi
New-York tribune., 1902-12-14

ne was only little yellow dog, with tail cut on
and ears clipped and bristly tan colored hair He
had had each of his legs broken at various times
in his life; had been shouted at by men, stepped
on by horses and run over by cars
When his tail caught in a heavy iron door
and cut off its loss caused him only momentary
pain and no regret at all. What did he want OF a
tan? he asked himself No one was ever good TO
him and no one ever cared whether he wagged 1t or
not
7, mas the same with his ears. What occasion
had ne 10 prick I'D his ears in anticipation of bit
of meatc
His eyes we're the brown eyes OF a little yellow
tiog-bg soft eyes that looked to the throngs OF
people hurryirg by. seeming to say: oh if some
one would only smile and say. Hello. little yellow
dog" People did smile at him. but not that way;
they smiled at him because he was comical
He often wondered why it was that they liked 10
fool him why boys held out cookies to him. ana
then as he was about to take them. ate the sweets
themselves Though he forever misplacing his
confidence he bore no i'll Will; he not that kind
Of a dog: he was yellow. and had been brought up
in a school where they teach little dogs TO be prac-
tical-the streets Of city
This little yellow dog had had many owners. but
that was not his fault. He had been fidelity it
self The ragman of whom he very fond, lost
him TO a man who sold shoestrings: the shoestring
man left him with the apple woman, who in turn
lost him 10 the who mended umbrellas The
umbrella man gave him To a truckman, who want
him little girl. but the truckman lost him
before he got home. and he came, he had for
gotten just how. into the possession OF woman
who took in washing.
His loss from the apple woman was the great
grief he had known. for il was there he
he'd seen a little girl who overwhelmed him with
caresses. and who. he knew, really loved him.
The little girl did not live the apple woman :
She had come one day with sweet voiced woman
10 buy basket of the reddest apples she could
find. Look. Lulu the sweet voiced woman said
her little girl. See what funny little dog
Mrs Greg has And then the little girl. who had
golden hair blue eyes, caught the little yellow
dog up in her and hugged him, calling him
"a dear little google and "a sweet little google
and when she away she cried because she
could not take him with her.
The little yellow dog alwars remembered that
little girl In all his life one had ever been so
good to him. He remembered her by the pretty red
tlress she wore. and he fore-er watching for
the apple had lost him to the man who
mended umbrellas. Then the truckman took him
up and finally the washerWoman.
He did not like the washerwonlan. She called him
little when he had not done anything at all.
and threw hot sudsy water him that burned him
and got into his eyes. Besides. he could not help
thinking about the little girl in the red dress.
He thinking of her ON. lying before the
stove in the washerwomans kitchen. and he
miserable il is possible for little yellow dog
TO be He miserable indeed that he did
New-York tribune., 1902-12-14

The house was all still. Everybody had gone to
bed for it was after Il O'Clock. The nursery was
quite dark and quiet for a long time But after
a while queer little voice spoke up and said: rs
anybody awake"
Your voice sounds very squeaky tonight.
Jacky'' said somebody.
.squeaky? Why wouldn't it?" asked Jacky. in
an injured tone when that Baby drags me all
day by string tied tight around my throat II
has worn through my skin now, so that l have a
sore throat. Some day l suppose, he'll hitch the
string over the back of chair and leave me
there and l shall die
oh no. Jacky not so bad that" said the
voice.
why wouldn't II" said Jaoky again Don't peo-
PIE die when they hanged"
Cheer up cheer up, old boy said the voice
again.
ITS ali very well for you he cheerful re-
piled Jacky. morosey- 1T amt your throat that
has string tied TO It. You're Sir Lancelot and
they think so much of you they never would al
low you be treated like that II you were poor
sailor boy, without any friends good clothes
you'd see what it be turned over to the baby
maui
But it's because you're sailor boy that the
Raby loves you So" said Sir Lancelot
He loves TO suck the paint off my face. know
that" replied Jacky. "One eye is gone already. and
they won't even get artificial one. | hope he
swallowed it." finished Jacky, vindictively. There
was general murmur of horror at this.
II wouldn't wish anything like that said
gentle voice THE Baby might have appendicitis
II re rwallowed your eye. and then We would all
feel very sorry
That's right" said Jacky, in an injured tone:
al Of you Jump on me- and stick up for the Baby.
You amt the Babys dolls. They won't give you
to him If they would you might talk out Of the
other side of your mouths. Besides" said Jacky.
sitting up and throwing his legs over the side Of
his cradle: besides. Aunt Patience no one would
maui vou You're a Quaker doll, and an old lady.
The,,d have too much respect for you. You amt
lust boy" finished poor Jacky. bitterly.
There there, never mind, Jacky. said Aunt Pa
fence soothingly. Come over here. and I'll give
you some chocolate drops ] saved them Tor you
from the tea party this afternoon
THAT'S real good of you Aunt Patience said
Jacb, gratefully, as he hoped down from his