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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03
MISSISSIPPI'S VARDAMAN
VOTE.
Due TO "FOrcing Negro Officials Upon
Southern White Communities"

Tho Atlanta Constitution (Dem) SAYS;
The Northern newspapers are comment
ing with some Unnecessary acerbity upon
the fact that Maj. Nardaman received a
plurality of the votes for governor in the
recent Mississippi primary The interest
they take in the fact is because Maj. Var
danan has made his canvass almost
wholly On the issue of dividing the school
fund of the State between the white and
coiored children proportionately with the
taxes paid by each race.
The result of the primary was not con-
elusive and the final heat is to occur Au-
gust u, when the choice will fall upon
Mai Nardaman and Judge Critz, the two
candidates having the highest votes in
the late primary. Col. Noel drops out and
his vote will doubtless determine between
Nardaman and Critz. AS Noel stood for
the present plan of apportionirg the
school funds according to school popula =
ton it is more than likely that the bulk
of his friends will fail in the Critz col
umn, in which case the Vardaman para
mount issue viii be overwhelmed with de-
feat The actual result of the second
primary will, therefore. be awaited with
something like national interest.
The people of Mississippi are unusually
progressive and prosperous. They have
just completed a fine new capitol building
and made perhaps the largest appropra-
tons to public education that have been
made by any Southern State. They are
not likely to take the backward step
urged by Maj. Vardaman, and his small
plurality in the late primary is no as
surance of his success in the next one.
The real significance of the Vardaman
and Money votes in Mississippi is wholly
missed by our Northern contemporaries.
They represent in "A very emphatic way
the protest of Mississippi against the pol
icy of President Roosevelt and the Re-
publican party on negro equality issues.
The lndianola postoiiice affair was piled
by Maj. Nardaman and Senator Money,
and the people of the State aroused to
resentment against the Presidents avowed
purpose to make them accept negro Fed
eral officials or be penalized for their
rejection of them.
!: is an easy thing to drive Americans
to the point Of self-deIense and retalia-
ton. President Roosevelt actually con-
fesses this truism in his Durbin letter on
lynching And If he were TO try his
negro giafting policy by appointing negro
postmasters in the white towns of Ohio,
Indiana, or Illinois he would speedily be
brought to face the same sentiment of
issippi and South Carolina. Northern
sentiment in favor of opening official
doors of hope to the negro is like Josh
Billings preference of place to have a
bolton the other fellow"
The Mississippi vote for Vardaman
should be a warning to the President and
his party that their perncious activity in
forcing negro officials upon Southern
white communities is an enmity against
the negro more than against the whites
The latter will always find a way to de-
fend themselves against such enfOred at
tempts to make them accept negro
equality"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03
BIGHORN IN THE RATTLESNAKE,
MOUNTAINS.

In the late seventies, in the Rattlesnake
mountains, as the Southern spur of the
Bighorn range in Wyoming is called one
November afternoon | had sighted a small
band of rams lying up on narrow ledge
within shot of which, by dint of a long
round, | thought | could get with some
certainty of success. The only question
that troubled me was whether it was
wise to undertake the stalk in the face
of what looked to be an approaching biz
Yard. In less than half an hour I had
reached what | thought was the point
above the rams from which steep gully
led down to the spot from whence l ex-
pected to get my shot. ! say thought"
for the storm had now broken, and in the
whirling snow my movements had for the
last 10 minutes, been mere guesswork
The lateness of the hour and the appar-
ent hopeessness of finding my game UNI
der such unfaVorable surroundings made
me hurry down the gully with anything
but noiseless haste. But the unexpected
happened, long before ] considered that
] was down low enough ! suddenly found
myself in the very middle of the band.
Driven away from their exposed ledge,
probably by stress of weather, they We're
in the act of ascending the gully down
which / was Fastening, Old 'Trail-stop-
per- my double Express, was slung over
my shoulder by its strap, In chamois
stalller's fashion, and, what was worse,
1t was not even loaded. My fingers We're
cramped with cold, and it must have
taken me some seconds to tumble in my
pockets for two cartridges and get them
into the chambers, my eyes, of course,
being hxed all the time on the rams
standing motionless and looking intently
at the strange appearance that had so
suddenly emerged out of the whirling
snow. ] was not doing any fine shooting
that afternoon. But what was extraor-
binary about that band was that they
did not take to their heels until / had
emptied both barrels at the rearmost ram,
the first shot causing but a trifing com
motion.-W. A. Baillie-Grohman in Sep
TENDER Outing.
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SHAMROCK AND RELIANCE COM
PARED

Shamrock III. is first of all deeper
and more bulky in the HULL she has
more displacement than Reliance. Re
lance has the longer overhang being
longer over all by something like five
feet. Then where the oVerhang meets
the water it is fiat. 1t meets the water
as "A toboggan meets the snow. The for
ward end of the plane of her water-line
is a straight line. A cross section would
look like hat-bottomed L. Shamrock
Ill has an overhang the cross section
of which looks like an orbicular ac-
cumulate leaf. The forward end of the
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03
GOVERNOR TALK.
(From the Montpelier Journal)

Somehow the 'mentioners" seem to cling
more tenaciously to the namc of AleXan-
der Dunnett than to any other in con-
nection with the next governorship. Here
is the latest from the Island Pond Journal
''rhose who have witnessed the appalling
spectacle of Alex Dunnett coming down
Eastern avenue, at gait to rival Dan
PatcheW as he remembers that he is
due in Boston at 4,3o p. m, and the train
IS due to leave St JohnsburY station in
3ust ten seconds can imagine,-if they can
stop laughing long ouough-hOw pictures
que the honorable gentleman would look
running for the Office of governor. But
probably the office would run after him
If he would let it; it usually docs run after
good men, and gets them too. Alex would
he all right, but there is no use to run
UP against his omphatic No "
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03
RACCOONS AT HOME.

Personally, I should never dream of
interrupting a fox or other wild crea-
ture in the act of stealing n hen. For
the pleasure and in information to be
gained by watching the animal at work,
the payment OF a hen or two would
seem no more loss than would the
payment of money for lecture tickets
But then. my living in howise depends
upon the successful rearing of poultry;
If it did, | might have had more sym
pathy for a farmer neighbor who called
upon me some months ago. Something,
he said had been stealing his chickens,
and he wanted to know If | wouldn't
try to find out what II was, He and
his sons were so tired out every evening.
that he didn't see how any of them
could sit up nights TO watch the hem
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03
From the Barre Telegram. }
SOFT SOAP AND LYE.
O'rom the St, Johnsbury Caledonia.

Urom the St, Johnsbury Cacdonia)
The past week has seen many gather
ngs Of former Nermontcrs returning to
their native heath and our guests have
been lavish in their praises of the State
and it's people. But lest our own people
get too conceited in hearing their praises
sung we beg to remind them that the
efficacy of soft soap depends upon the
amount of I've in it.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03
EFT THE LAW BE STRENGTHENED
(From the Hardwick Gazette.)
LEGITIMATE POLICE NEWS.
F'rom the Fellows Falls Times.)


1t is becoming more and more clearly
established that under the existing license
law big increase IN drunkenness and
disorder will be the regular thing 1t is
peculiar freak of human nature that
man Will deliberately set about getting
drunk and yet Is unwilling to accept the
results of his own voluntary action. No
matter If he isn't getting but $3.50 per
day and the clothes on his back are not
paid for the minute he strikes a bar
room he becomes a liberal-hearted phil
anthropist He may tell his wife that
he cannot afford to get her a new dress,
but when he is in a bar room he can at
ford to set EN- up" to all his friends.
lie may haggle with the clothing man
over so cents for an hour. but he doesn {
even count the change that the bartender
shoves back to him. After he gets well
fabricated. makes fool Of himself about
the streets, spends a night in the cooler
and pays So and costs, he begins to cry
baby. He is no longer the philanthropist
willing to pay for all the whiskey Mike.
Tom, John and the rest can drink. lie
begins to be afraid that somebody will
hear that he got drunk, and the first
thing he thinks of Is the newspaper. lie
asks the justice and the policeman If his
fine cannot be kept out of the newspaper
OF course they tell him that they are not
running the newspaper, and his next
move is to visit the office. lie has just
enough bravado left to say that he per-
sonally doesn't care rap, but he has a
Wife or children. or an aged mother and
their knowing that he had ben drunk
would be a sad blow.
There is probably not a paper In a IL
cense town in the State which has not
found that these regrets have increased
at least four fold since the license law
went into effect, and yet we were told
that the new law was to greatly decrease
both the amount of liquor consumed and
the number OF DRINKS. Then, too, under
the new law everything was to be open
and above board, There was to be no
lying, no hypocrisy, no covering up
Everything was to be brought out into
the broad light of publicity II is pretty
safe guessing that about every intemper-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BATcHELoR.
Money can talk an awful lot withou

boring us.
Women enjoy being happily married
almost as much as they do weepy novel
It's about an even thing between men
and women on pigeon toes, but on knock
knees they have all the best OF 1t.
Women are 50 queer that when they
are dying to marry a man they reject his
proposal so as TO be able to be good and
miserable until he asks her asain-New
York Press
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a'o man, and every man who expected to
get financial gain from the liquor traffic,
whether directly or indirectly, voted for
license and will continue to so vote.
TOW Then can man consistently shrink
from the results of system he himself
mas assisted in establishing? If he or his
friends get drunk and make asses Of
OF themselves, why don't they take their
medicine and not come whining around
newspaper Office like -year-olds,
asking that what the community already
KNOWS be kept out of print?
Police court news is legitimate news
and the paper which does not print the
record from week to week Is not doing
'Ie square thing by its readers Tho
man who Keeps sober has nothing to fear,
ana the time to think of the dear wiley.
,he sweet children and the poor old ma
IS while he is sober The man who sys-
tematically sets about to get drunk is
not deserving Of much sympathy or CON
s,deration. If he is not willing to accept
the results of his own free action he had
better he relegated to the nursery.
SENATORIAL SUGGESTIONS"
From the Morrisvile News and Citizen. J
Tho Middlebury Register suggests"
'noto, docs not "mention') that Orange
countN's senators next year he Harry
Parker of the Bradford opinion and L..
II. johnson of the Randolph Herald. We
heartily approve of the Suggestion"
Parker could have no better colleague
than Johnson. who besides having served
two sessions in the House as official re-
porter and knows all the ropes" is one
OF the brightest newspaper men in the
state. The Senate would be highly hon
orod, and Orange county and the State
well served with such man in its body.
PROSPERITY AND HONESTY IN
NORTHFIELD.
Trom the Barre Telegram.)
Business must be douby good in North
| teld. y common every day man was
able 60 lose $500 worth of bank notes from
ms pocket and the one who found the
same felt that he could afford to he hon
est and exert himself to find the rightful
/
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03

STATE OF VERMONT. District of Chit
tenden, IS.
To all persons concerned in the estate OF
Emma J. McGill late OF Burlington, in
said district deceased
GREETING:
At Probate Court, holden at Burling.
ton. within and for the district OF Chitten-
den, on the 22nd day of August 1903, az.
instrument purportinR to be the last VIII
and testament Of Emma j. McGin, late
of Burlington, in said district deceased
was presented to the Court Aforesaid, for
probate.
and II is ordered by said Court that the
1lth day of September, 1873, at the Probate
Court rooms IN said Burlington be assigned
for proving said instrument; and that no.
stee thereof be given to all persons con-
cerned, by publishing this order threa
weeks successfully in the Burlington
Weekly Free Press, a newspaper publish
ed at said Burlington, previous to the
time appointed
Therefore. you are hereby notified to APP
pear before said court at the time and
place aforesaid. and contest the probate
ST said will, IL you have cause.
Given under my hand at burlington, in
said district, this 22nd day of August,
1903
MARCELLUs A. BINGHAM
9,w3t Judge
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03
said Court appointed
PETITION FOR DIVORCE.

Frank L. Lawrence Us. Sarah Lawrence.
Whereas Frank l.. Lawrence Of Bur-
lington, in the County of Chittenden, IN
the state OF Vermont has this day hlet
Court, for said County. his petition for \
divorce against Sarah Lawrence now
without the state of Vermont, setting
forth in substance that he was on tho
10Th day of January. 1SS lawfully mar
ried to the said Sarah Warner and that
he and said pctitiorce lived together as
husband and wife until on or about July,
1909: that the petitioner has resided IN
the County OF Ctitteuden for the pase
six months: and has faithfully performed
all the marriage obligations incunlbenr
upon him that on or ahout the ORG daN
Just cause for provocation, deserted him
ana from thence hitherto continued such
dcSartion. And PRAYING that tho bonds
OF matrimony between him ana the SAD
petitiOnee he dissolved; ana that he 10
granted a bill of divorce. And 1t appear
ing that the said peuuonee IS without
this State and that 10 summons can be
Ii is ordered. that the petitioner notify
the petitonee of the tendency or said
petition and summon her 20 appear at the
term OF the County Court to be held at
burlington within and for the County OF
Chittenden, on the first Wednesday after
the hrst Tuesday iu March, 1904, on the
first day thereof, and answer to the same.
oy causing the substance of sand petition
weeks SUCCESSFULLY in the Burlington
Free Press, a newspaper printed at Bur-
lington, in said County, the last publica-
tor be at least six weeks previous TO tho
commencement of said term o.-.
Dated at Burlington, in SAID County,
ORMAN +. RAY. Clerk
HORACE II. CHIITENDEN. ESQ. Atty.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03
TWO KINDS OF JUSTICE.
0rom the Rutland News)

A Barre man while drunk attempted to
shoot several people being a perfect mad
man. And the only punishment he re-
ccivod was the usual fine for drunken
ness! Justice has a peculiar sense Of
proportions in Barre, when man in the
same town gets three years in States
prison for stealing $50 horse.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03
THE CAUSE OF IT.

Mrs Hayrix-It peers to me ez hoow
that cousin ov yourn is Twin in heap
better style sense she got a divorce.
Mrs Oatcake-Yos, in course she do
She's Twin on tn anthony tn jedge
took an low'd her.-Chicago News
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03
o REBUILD HOOSAC TUNNEL AND
WILMINGTON ROAD.

The statement is now made with author
fly that the Iloosac Tunnel and Will
minetou railroad Will be sold or leased
to the Rutland railroad. By this ar
rangement Deerlicld valley secures COM
munication with the outside world being
directly connected with Rutland Burling
ton, Montreal, Boston, Springfield and
New York. To secure such connection
the new owners of the Hoosac Tunnel
and Wilmington will build a branch from
the Rutland line near Manchester to Will
mington. The road will be converted from
narrow to standard gauge.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03

No need to fear sudden attacks of
cholera infaDtllm. dyscnterv. diarrhoea
summer complaint OF any sort il YOU have
DIR. Fowlers Extract of Wild Strawberry
in the medicine chest.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

There is nothing so valuable and yet
so cheap as politeness.
II is we'll to know some people we'll
enough not to know them.
A straight ticket is one with all the
crooked candidates left off.
An honest dealer does all his buying
ana selling by the same scales.
The road to prosperity goes right past
the saloons without stopping.
A lie made out of whole cloth should
prove more satisfactory than patched
up story
An enterprising museum manager claims
to haze the lie that George Washington
refused to tell-Chicago News.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03
When
You
Marry

1t will be money
in your pocket and you are sure
to be satisfied, if you get tina
wedding cards of the
FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03


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ROBBERY NEAR WHITE RIVER
JUNCTION.
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me rcSIu'il'e VI H. ~ oPduIuihS' d
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03
WHAT OUR NEIGHBORS SAY
why Vermont Farmers should Raise
Good Horses.
(From the Woodstock Age.)

VI lOlti INC NoouSlDCh Abc.D
A correspondent writes us in reply to
our article concerning the dearth of good
horses in this region. Tho question of
breeding good horses for the market is,
he says. "A purely commercial one. If
farmers saw a profit in this line of indus
try they would pursue it. Now 1t costs
about $50 to breed and keep n colt till he
or she Is four years old; and it must he
n very good animal that can he sold fot
much above this. Besides there is the
chance of sickness and of injury from
the harbarous barbed wire fences that
still pcrvadc parts of the country.
Such is the line of argument to justify
the Indifference of tho farmers to breed
ing first-cass horses, and the reasoning
would have hccn unanswcrablc n few
years ago. Just now IT fails. Tho price
Of really good horses has gone up. In
fact. there is hardly n limit to what il
willingly paid for n perfectly satisfactory
animal.
Besides. If man once breeds a $500
or a si0NN horse he has Mt once establish
cd reputation and practically bust
ness. 1t will he easier to sell all his other
horses. The breeder should aim high
therefore, and not he content till he is
producing again in Vermont rs grand n
strain as was ever represented by Nor
gan.
MR.. AKELFYs GIFT TO STOWE.
Urom the Montpelier Journal)
The act of Iioaley C. Akcley in pre-
scnting the Soldiers Memorial building
to his native town, stowe, has received
from the press and people of the state
more genuine praise than has. perhaps
been given to Nermonter for any sim
liar deed. The reason for this is easily
discovered. Mr. AkcloY learned that the
town Of his birth wanted to do something
In commemo grafton Of her sons who had
served on the battlefield of their country
soldiers monument was proposed but
in that Mr.. AkcleY saw only a memorial
to the dead, hut not being believer in
an overplus of post-mortom praise, t.
the neglect of the living. he Immediately
began to consider the erection of some
thing that would he benefit to the liv-
ing as we'll as n monument to the dead
The Soldiers Memorial building dedicated
last week was the result, and no Yer
mont town ever received a more usf,l and
appropriate gift.
It is not infrcouent that gift of this
sort is loaded down with conditions
whims Of the donor--that makes its
adaptabilitY to the changing needs anc
circumstances of n community a con
slant source Of trouble. but in the matter
Of Mr.. AKelcY's gift there is none of this
1t was II gift without restrictions and ii
when a century has gone the people OF
Stowe find that the building is not adapt
cd to the use for which it was erected
thon they can convert it in to some other
purpose without losing title to it.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03
STATE OF VERMONT. District Of Chi.
tendon

ESTATE OF EMMA j. McGILL Oh
BURLINGTON.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03
GREETING

GREETING:
Whereas, application in writing hath
been made TO this Court by the guardian
Of Mary p. Hollenbeck for license to self
the real estate Of said ward setting forth
therein: HIS said ward holds a life in
terest in the real estate known as No -.
situate on George street, in the City ~
Burlington, VT, and that II Is necessary
to sell and dispose Of said life interest
that the aVails thereof may De expended
in the care and maintenance OF his said
ward.
And thereupon the said Court appointed
and assigned the nth day Of September,
1893. at the Probate Court rooms, in said
district, to hear and decide upon said
application, and ordered that public notice
thereof be giVel TO all persons interested
therein. bv publishing this order three
weeks successfully in the Burlington Weekly
Free Press, a newspaper which circulates IN
the neighborhood Of those persons inter-
ested therein, all Of which publlcatonI
shall be previous 70 the time appointed
for hearing.
Therefore you ara hereby notified to APP
pear before said Court. At the time and
place aforesaid, then and there in SAID
court to object to the granting of such
license. if you see cause
Given under my hand. at the Probate
Court Rooms, this end day OF August,
1903, -
MARCELLUS A, BINGHAM
a.wSt Judge.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03

Hoods Sarsaparila builds up a broken
down system. II begins its work right
that is, on the blood.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-03
ESTATE OF MARY P. HOLLENBECK
BURLINGTON.

STATE OF VERMONT District Of Chit
tenden, SIS.
The Honorable the Probate Court Tor
the District OF Chittenden,
To ali persons Interested in the estate
of Mary =. Hollenbeck, mentally incapt-
Die ward, Of Burlington.