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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-12-10
rNGLAND's MOVING PICTURES.

England's Moving Pictures constituted
the attraction at the Howard Opera House
Saturday and served to draw fairsiZcd
audiences afternoon ana evening. A
variety of pictures were thrown upon the
screen, the more prominent ones being
a series entitled IAN day at tho Fore
paugh Sells Brothers circus" 1t cannot
he said that the pictures were the best
ever seen in this city, nor can ii be said
that they were even up to the standard
There was constant flicker and most of
the views were SO duh that it was with
difficulty that one could distinguish Just
what they We're supposed to represent. A
tenor soloist, late from Lew Dockstader's
MINISTRIES rendered several sentimental
ballads that took well with the crowd in
the gallery.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-12-10
ALMOST 800 PRISONERS
Confined In the County Jail during the
Past Year.

y record of the number Of prisoners con-
fined at the county Jail from December /.
49, to December |. 1893. during
sheriff Horizons administration. shows
tn total number to Ice 166, OF
OF this number the shcriffs department
has arrested - the police department 30
and outside officers ll9
The offcnscs for which arrests were
made ncludy nearly every crime except
murder Several were arrested for bur
glarN, many for larceny. a few for Grim
mal assault ana a large number for breach
of TN" peace lntoXicaton WAS the cause
Of the Incarceration of great number.
especially since the license law went into
effect.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-12-10
STRUGGLED WOOL.
Charge against u. J. Farrell of swan
Ton. who Furnished Bail.

L. j. Farrell of Swunton was brought
to this city Friday ana arraignod be
fore Commissioner George f.. johnson
for the purpose of having bail fixed in a
case against him charging that he SNUG
plcd 800 pounds Of wool. valued at S62I.
into this country from Canada Farrell
WAS indicted by the grand jury at the last
session of the United States Courts at
Rutland, Bail was fixed at $1,000, which
was furnished.
+. :. Tupper of East Fairfield came to
Burlington Friday and offered himself
as bail for James Flood, who was
charged with destroying "A rural free de-
livery mail box at Bakersfield. Bail was
fixed at $500 and Flood was released from
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-12-10
a Quart RahN.

Now and again there is All item in the
newspapers concerning the birth of a
puny baby so small that a quart cup
holds it comfortably. If the article told
all the facts it would probably tell also
OF mother who in weakness and misery
had looked forward to the babys advent
with shrinking and fear.
To have fine, healthy children the
mother must be healthy, and it is the
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-12-10
WOKE UP IN JAIL.
Inst Drunk of n soldier before Leaving
for the Philippines.

Jesse McKcuncy. a soldier from Fort
Ethan Allen. started out Sunday tn have
"A Gnal celebration before leaving for the
Philippines and instead of having the
royal good time he expected awakened TO
0ud himself behind the bans at the county
iail. He was in city court Monday
morning and pleaded guilty to being
drunk He was fined s. and costs Of SA.19,
which he could not pay and was taken
back to jail to serve the alternate ia
DAYS.
John Latour. who has once ore run
up against the license law pleaded guilty
to second offonHe. He was fined So and
costs of s. -. which he said he could not
pay. He was taken Tuesday to Rutland
TO serve the alternate sentence OF 100 days
in the House of Correction.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-12-10

common testimony
OF mothers that the
use of DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescrip-
ton not only pro-
notes the mothers
h c a 1t h but also
gives her strength
to give her child.
" Favorite Pre-
scription" accom-
plislies these results
by tranquilizing
the nerves, pronot-
ing a healthy appe-
tite, and giving re-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-12-10
The Supreme GIft.

The supreme gift of the Creator is
sight. Beside it all other blessings fade
into insgnifcance.
When you receive a gift from a
friend you foster the present very care
fully.
why abuse this most wonderful Of
all gifts.
II Won have heada che, nervousness,
indamed blurring or watery eyes, float
ing specks dizziness weak memory or
pains in head or neck You have been
neglecting the supreme gift
The Science Of OPTii \MoLOGY is
the most modern method OF dealing
with Eve Diseases.
If my advice is followed, ! Will make
the dullard bright. the unreliable book
keener steady. and the fretful Stcnog-
rapher ambitious,
/ will give back to the aged the hook
laid aside years ago, and to the young
:, fortitication against age. If You
don't think the question important, call
any time If you do. call now,
F, |, SEARLF, DR.. O.,
TO ". I TO 4. tos
AZ Church St., Burlington, Vt.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-12-10
A Jericho Lady,
Strongly Endorses Magnet
Healing.

Since we know. and you agree, Il
medicines have neither helped or cut
YOU of your many ills | beg to 4
YOU attention to a natural law Wh|
does cure when all other methods II
It is the only scientific law of ID
known to-day. and ! viii submit 81
undeniab1e proof as to compel ratioi
minds to believe | state with Il
phasis that magnetic healing aid
stands pre-eminent as a cure-all
disease. ! have all the evidence ID
proof in my possession necessary
convince any sufferer of this grd
truth. / have scores of witnesses real
to meet and confer with any suffet
and convince them Of the benefits til
have received. 1t is with pleasure IL
submit the following:
To whom it may concern
For the past four years I have be
great sufferer from nerve exhaust
and serious complications which ruin
my health. During this time | ma
been treated by different physicians a
gave drugs and medicines a thorou
trial but with very little relief and
permanent results. Last June | We
20 Prof. l.. q. Wilkins for treatme
and after having received five tres
mentS | recognized a decided change
my condition for the better, My "a
was q serious one and of long standir
but at the end of four months | "
entirely cured. When | went to Pr
wilkins ! was discouraged, but aft
his making a diagnosis OF my ca
which he did without asking que
tion. it gave me great confidence in /
ability as well as his method | Ia
proven him to he a man of his wo
and his method one that l can hearth
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-12-10
II the BABY Is Cutting Teeth

he sure am, use that old and well-tried
remedy MRS, WINSLoWS SOOTHING
SYRUp for children tee'h!nG. 1t soothes
The child softens the gums allays all
main, cures wind collie aid is the best
remedy for diarrhoea Twenty-Five celts
bottle
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-12-10
A SAD TIME IN TIL T. OLD JAIL.

Yes. they had a terribly sad time over
at the city jail, Warden Doyle told me-
And did you go over to investigator
"Of course ! did, and found the state
ment to be exactly true, Why, when
got there all the prisoners were in tiers
Baltimore News.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-12-10
MESSAGE FROM MAYOR
Electric Lights and Fire Depart
ment Considered at Length.
Urges the Aldermen TO Take Steps to
Establish ~ Municipal Plant and
Calls for Resignation of chief
Eng Murray

| The most prominent feature OF the reg
! ular monthly meeting of the board of al
! dermen Monday was a message from
| Mayor Burke in which he requested the
| board to reconsider their action taken
! October 10 relative to the establishment
/ OF municipal electric light plant and
take another vote in order to do away
with any illcgality that might be at
tdched to the first meeting. He also re-
ferred to the fire department and the re-
/ cent fire at the medical college. He rec
commended that the board ask chief Muir
rays resignation. that they ill the va
cancy with Il man who will have the con-
ddcnce of the people. that they invest-
gate tho advisablity of purchasing a sec
ond steamer and If such Il steamer is
purchased that one of them attend each
flre.
Mayor Burke was not i'm the city Monday
evening. thus making President Taft act
ing mayor. He could not. therefore. act
as president of the board Tho hoard was
called to order by Clerk Macomber and
Aldermen Shea, Parker and Morgan were
nominated to serve as temporary chair
man. The first two withdrew in favor of
Alderman Morgan. and he was elected
All the aldermen were present.
FIRE PROTECTION RECOMMENDED
il, ro,,.,,I e. r .i.. 80, a." UNIV
ranort tbot tboro .,,,,,..ar. -, - .. a',.,
protection in the highest part of the city
whore direct hNdrant service is of little
use. Not having had time to fully in
veStigAte the matter since the recent fire
vbatbnr -, s,,o,,d s,,., ~ "a
NOT W. do ,,,,,,,,oI tt 80 - y.
et,,tin,,' tbron ho i,',,..,,,, Wv ". AZ
ana mat man, .bonid H., D.'' man
ni,.oor to onnr,t. no .,',.,,'r ,,,. .i'-
,,nrt r.'s ,1,,l'i "a a. iic re-
ELM STREET EXTENSION.
Tho matter of tbo evt.nsion of r,,,
street north was hrn,,,,ht 49,, .',d !, ,, .,.
voted to- reconsider the nrtio,, tolo, ,,t
thc last ,nooti,,,, t - " '"No' ="
to appropriate the money for damages,
ttroot nr"" IL, ,nlii'lan Oh me poard oi
49,, .'.', vas aShcu ~ eNplaih
h,i ',,,i ''n' ~ H"'' t"r commissioners
U'' 80 uiu'i ana ACCORDING TO TN"
rho ",,, ,'.'' NV, "il'h
h,.,., -. 'i1. ~" "'','u uaiIiastS me
49,, -, nv" va '"iise" 70 i"iHSh
tho,i1i,,s, tna :, ,eS"Iuti"" WAS oIlefed au-
e,,,,, nS e. oC., may ~ va lot III"
, mu'n5 W S 49,, 10 d, Il, D. H. Lock
tio, , "'l' S,"" ~ ~. H. ,ulior' me resoiu-
'E " "''''''''''ouS No'e'
CHIEF MTRRAYS BILL PAID
~,
Nv i'''''"lE statement or the nre dr-
l'"' '''icht amounting 10 SIi-'|' was the OBJ
~ VI cir''lSul Oh 'he part OF Alderman
"ho opie.teu 10 the payment OF
90 10 iot Ohiel Murra! expenses in at
rniiHE me IRE chlelS convention AT At
.""1' NY re thought ~ was sufhcient
t" pay 'no tNpehSeS OF the chiei ana h"
m8uo motion to that effect Alderman
Richardson moved that the entire state
H'H' ne pau "nd ms motion was sec
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-12-10
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative Bromo Quinino Tablets
All druggists refund the money if it fails
to cure. T., w. Groves signature is on
each box, 2Jc,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-12-10
~TTTVTTF NVTTNI
MRS. :. y. Y. BOOTH.

jericho, Vt.
Prot Wilkins's days are Monday
Tuesdays, FRIDAYS and SATURDAYS
Main street ONCE, Burlington: STOW
Vt. Wednesdays; Waterbury, V
Thursdays.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-12-10
No One
Wants to Die

IN the Poor house. but
many would prefer to
Die IN one rather than
to i've in one. Poverty
shortens life. Insure
ance tand Annuity on
the other hand elong-
ateS life. Sesquiped-
alianates it. as it were.
5Ath year, doing BUSH
hess in IS States.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-02
Franchise Taxation,

New York American.
 The unsnimous decision of the Court of Appeals declaring the Ford Franchise Tax law constitutional does more than assure a large annual contribution to the city treasury. 1t firmly establishes the principle that franchises are taxable as real estate. The corporations to which the enorn- ously valuable privilege of using New York's streets has been granted have never been under any illusion as to the worth in money of their charters. They have justly held them to be the most valuable part of their assets when esti- mating the selling price of their proper- ties. But the proposal adequately to tax these franchises has always transformed them in the corporate mind into mere fig- ments of the imagination
 The whole fight made against the Ford law has bsne creditable neither 10 the honesty nor good business sense of the corporations. They induced Governor Roosevelt to call an extra session of the Legislature to amend the act, and then had the effrontery to assail the constitu- tionality of the law on the very lmend- ments which they themselves proposed and procured.
 By their interruptions and persistent ef- forts to escape far less than their fair share of the common burden of taxation the corporations have immensely strengthened the movement for municipal ownership and operation of public utiilIICS <AIo' tiftib tiiCy hdNC ihduC it clear to everybody that the assessments against which they have been battling are absurdly less than they ought to be. Were these greedy holders of privileges from the people taxed at the same rate that private citizens are. they would be required to pay from four to five times as much as they will be compelled to do under the decision of the Court of Ap- peals.
 Now these same corporations. seeking more unpopularity and bringing still nearer the day when they will be taxed as they should be. propose to carry their case to the United States Supreme Court on naked technicalities. That Is their legal right OK course, but it shows a characteristic lack of judgment.
 They seemingly have forgotten, if they ever knew, that they hold their privileges with the continuing consent of the people. for the constitution of the State of New York provides that all charters granted under 1t may be amended from time to time, or repeated
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-02

bafEIed machines, coufoundeds politicians and executed the moral mandate of the people. The gravitation toward him now is unmistakAble. It is growing hourly and daily. The East. attests 1t. The North recognizes 1t. The West Is stirred by 1t. Tho South is alive with 1t. The Democracy of the whole nation is not only conscious of 1t. but is vivfled by #, and sends It's hopes and its prayers forward in it's behalf.
 Moreover, he Is far stronger than his party. And his party, with him and with the Independents. whose pillar and bul- wark he Is, would prove to be far stronger than Its Republican adversary. There could be no Republican achieve- ments quoted in favor of his opponent which would not be offset by record in his case that would more than match them. And the great and the signal mistakes into which Republicanism has fallen and Is daily falling would be brought to an end by his incumbency of the Presidency. This fact alone would command for the Democracy Republican and Independent achievements on a large scale. In short, Grover Cleveland is today the only Democratic alternatiye to Theodore Roosevelt, as the assured Republican Presidential candidate in 1901. and those who do not appreciate the fact will appreciate it, the moment they give their though to the situation as it ex- actIy Is, and as 1t Is daily becoming more and more apparent.
 In our opinion Grover Cleveland can and should be nonnnated for President fin 1904. by the Democratic National Convention, as the only man who can assuredly lead the party to victory then.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-02
OFF ITS BASE.

The New York Evening Post seems to think the Supreme Court could have ex- ercised a little of the higher law doc trine'' of which we heard in days long gone by, and have decided the Giles case in a way to set aside the suffrage clauses of the Alabama Constitution It is by long odds the most extreme paper we have read in it's comments on this case and appeals to Congress to take cognizance of what it alleges to be wrongs against the negro. By way of suggestion to the law-makins power, 1t says:
 Still more effectively, perhaps. can ac- ton he taken under that clause of the Constitution which provides that leach house shall be the judge Of the elections. returns and qualifications of its own members" The House may go behind the face of the credentials of Southern Representatives. It can inquire into the registration of voters, can expose un- equal disfranchisement. and seat contes- tants who may allege and prove that lawful voters were deprived of the right Of suffrage. In any case. and in all ways, ihe South must be given to understand that there is a national conscience which will not sleep in the presence of injus. tice to the negro. He Is entitled to the full and equal protection of the laws. The suffrage cannot he taken away from him unfairly. His right to be educated, to improve his lot, to hold office when fit. can be questioned no more than that of any other American citizen. And the sooner the Republican party sets about the work of completing it's mission In behalt of the negro, the sooner will 1t create a soul under the ribs of death.
 That sounds like one of the extremes of Republican papers. which is accus- toned in every issue to condemn every thing and everybody in the South to fire and sword. The Post, however, has been conspicuous in a general way for its fair and considerate treatment of all public questions. and for it's unsparing criticism of many Republican men and measures
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-02
Letters to the Editor.
We're All Right.

Editor The Advertjser:
 There are only two clsssifications of government. scientific and autocratic. In the Gfles case. the Court had no option as between plaintiff or defendant at bar. The Court, from the Slaughter House cases to this day. has proceeded on the principle of self-protection. The Court is the ultimate refinement of scientific gov ernment. Theoretically. its powers come into action after Congress and the Exec utive but in these cases-both Slaughter House and Gfles-the Court has really preserved the very science of political or. the other departments.
 The Giles decree is here to stay, world without end. There is not tithe of the relief of mind, that the Court and the whole intelligent North feels. in this de. cree felt here in the South. We would continue to live with or without it. We have been tried but not extinguished. When the Dred-Scott decree came, in- voivtng the rights of the masters of slaves. the institution of slavery had be- gun rapid course of self-extinction in the South. along exacriy parallel lines to the sef-extinction that had overtaken it In the North. Property in labor was not paying interest to masters here, as had property. half a century before. There fore the propositions of constitutional law. laid down by the Dred Scott decree. found no vital sympathy in the country. North UT SoutH. The decree disposed or a single case. The case had already en- tered the sphere of phenomenon, not prac- hcal longer. It was condemnation of past wrongs rather than guide for the fu- ture.
 Now we come to the Giles case with our culver full of the shafts of natures eternal and wondrous law. We build scientific government upon that primal law and We brush autocracy out of the way of our progress. We assimilate our system of civil government with tho mind Of the Creator Of all features of animate life, white and black. which civil govern ment has to deal with.
 The Court never has construed and never will eonstrue the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to restore militia rism to the South. The contrary course would blot the Court itself out of ex- istence. set up Congress first and the army next over the whole land. The Court knows those amendments were born of rnifitarism' whose progeny was Busteed. J. O. Smith and like irreconcil- able excrecences; and the Court will pass by every future opportunity to generate fresh ulcers of that description, so vast Ing of its own life.
 T. w D
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-02
A PROBLEM OF THE FUTURE.

The Choctaw Advocate thinks it would be a grand thing if some of the surplus water of the Mississippi flood could be stored up for use when the dry weather comes. While this is merely suggestion on the part of The Advocate, it is but forethought of what will come, in our opinion. The destruction of the forests is causing more frequent and long pro- tracted drouths, but that isn't all. We have seen the statement recently made that noted French scientist has ad- vanced the opinion, based on observation and scientific deduction, that the earth is gradually losing It's moisture. The
 water, as he reasons, is gradually find-
 ing It's way towards the center of the
 earth, partly through cracks and Assures
 and partly through gradual absorption,
 in both of which methods 1t is being car-
 ried beyond the power of the sun to draw it back.
 This may be a fanciful and unsupport- ed theory, or, if founded on facts, ages may elarse before serious inconvenience will result However this may be, there is no fancy or theory about the serious drouths which visit us, or about the loss caused by them. To obviate this draw
 back to agriculture but two remedies present themselves. One is to stimulate
 and encourage the preservation of tim Der and to reforest so much of the coun- 1 try as Is possible. This can be but a partial remedy, and at best is a slow one,
 but the storing of surplus water and its distribution as needed can be accomplish ed on such a scale as will greatly reduce
 the dry seasons. Irrigation Is now prac- ticed with success in many portions of | the world. but the work must go fur
 ther. It must go to the extent of not
 only using the water of the streams and | springs, but must provide vast storage basins or reservoirs In which the great
 surplus of flood times can be utilized | when needed. That, in our opinion, is one of the industrial problems of the | future.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-02

The Baldwin Times is disposed to grow sarcastic at the expense of the single tsxers. and. after quoting The Adver- tisers editorial on unequal taxation, 1t adds:
 Why. we have the remedy in the single tax plan. It is guaranteed by its ad- vocates to eureT every i'll fin government tai affairs. It will also prevent badness and relieve that tired feeling if properly applied. The only objection to 1t is the utter impracticability of the theory. but that will work out all right when the mill lennium comes; just wait and see if 1t don't.
 The claims thus ssrcastically set out are about as valid as are many of those put forward by the advocates of the sim gle tax system. While 1t is undoubtedly true that inequality and injustice exist. and that no adequate remedy has been found. 1t is equally true that we have never yet read any argument which con- vinced us that the remedy lay in the proposition to tax land values only, without regard to Improvements. or to any extra value which may accrue on account of time. labor and money ex- pended by the owner