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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-10-29
ROYALTY IN ENGLAND.
|cre arc 1900 Descendants of Kings
Living I'm That Country.

fhe man in the street has little idea of
astonishing number of people in Eng
Id who are able to boast of royal de-
INT. a volume has just been published
. Messrs. T. and l.. Jack, entitled The
bod Royal of England" by the Mar
is of Ruvigny, containing the names of
the known legitimate descendants of
Kings Edward " and Henry VII of
lgland and James III of Scotland. 1t
htans 81 pages, and gives the names
,72S living persons who have royal
bod in their veins. And even this
gthy list is incomplete, the author ad-
king that there are several families
lose descendants he has been unable
trace.
Had the progeny Of all our rulers thus
tltiplied. we should have nearly 100000
ling people in some way or other relat-
to royalty. And if all the descendants
those children of Kings who bore the
nd sinister were includei--but that, and
b haps for the sake of royal reputa-
his it is well that it is so, is another
bry
Mi ranks of life-Kings, mobiles. and
mmon people-are represented in this
brk With the exception of the Kings
Sweden and Norway and Servia and
r Princes of Monaco and Montenegro,
ERE are the names of every Christian
owned head in the world, including
len an Empress Of Mexico, Many of the
cher nobility of Great Britain, France,
Ermany, Austria, Hungary, Poland. Be-
|ma, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Russia
|e also here. and, on the other hand,
|ere are the names of thousands of
mmoners-Smiths. Browns, Joneses. and
bbinsons-some Of them pursuing the
hmblest of aVocations. The compiler
surely we'll justified in claiming that
lis IS the largest pedigree ever pub
Mail.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-10-29
WIFE
|rdered Three of Her Children
While Alone at Her
Home.
RANGLED ALL OF THEM.
| She Committed the Crime at the
ictation of Higher POwer-Onc
BOY Made His Escnpe-Evi-
dcnces That the Others Mndc
u Hard Struggle.

onterey Cal. Oct. 25.-Whfle temper
N deranged, Mrs. Louise Iverson, wife
Ia Salinas machipist, murdered three
her children yesterday at Pacific grove,
the dictation she said later. OF a
rene power. She then attempted the
OF her eldest son, aged H. but the
broke away from her and escaped
his home in Salinas. She then strangl-
|her son Harold aged g. and securing
lake struck him Il blow on the head.
Ter in the evening she killed her seven
tiths old baby by strangling
tne murder of her children was related
Mrs. Iverson to Sheriff Nesbitt to-day.
added that during the night she mad
liked about the house, lying down for
hort time on the floor She said she
Ilized now that she had done wrong
believed she was doing right at the
lie she committed the decd. she per
led however. in stating that the child
were not dead.
he boy who escaped reported to his ia
Ii that the eldest girl was i'll but said
hing of his mothers attack on him.
/ father telephoned to a physician ask
him to call at the house and see the
bd. The doctor did so, and was met at
door by Mrs. Iverson. who said there
5 no one sick in the house and that
he mistake had been made.
|arly this morning Mr.. Iverson drove to
tific Grove. He knocked at the front
br of the cottage where his wife and
lilly has been living and was told to &c
|the back door. He did so and entering
house was about to kiss his wife when
said: Don't touch me. Don't put
|lr hands on me; so and look at your
|ldren."
NTH that he opened the door of an ad-
hing room where lay the bodies of the
Zee children. the boy on one bed and
two girls on another. The house was
disorder and indications We're plentiful
1t the two older children had struggled
I'd against their death. Mrs lNersor
b been i'll for several months and had
bwn signs of mental arrangement.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-10-29
LICENSE NOT REFORM.
From the Burlington News.

Urom the Burlington News.)
in our present Jaw, on the contrary the
exact opposite is true. The treatment
compelled by the present law does nothing
the State House of Correction for a longer
or shorter length of time, and there he is
herded with an indiscrminate gang of
prisoners, guilty of pretty nearly every
conceivable offense against law and de
cency, ana the effect on his moral tone,
his sef-respeCt and his Judgment of So
Ciety may be easily imae ined.
The State not only makes no effort to
reform the drunkard, but 1t does its ut
most to ruin him. ON the other hand. the
system does no more for society than it
does for the drunkard. For one thing, 1t
imposes a tremendous cost upon the COM
munty. 1t endangers society instead of
protecting II. And finally 1t favors cor
ruption. The machinery Of public Off
Gals whose chief occupation is the care
of the drunkard, can be worked to per-
sonal advantage. The drunkard makes 1t
chiefly necessary to support TINS large
standing army OF officials in the State
and in some cases their incomes would be
very small were II not for him.
And the remedy?
Well. there is the plan of a period of
probation under supervision, which has
been tried In Massachusetts with good re-
suits. There Is a classification of prison
ers SO that those sentenced for drunken
ness shall not be confined with criminals.
There is the system of ndeterminate sem
tcnccs. And finally there Is the state re-
formatory, which is no novelty In other
States.
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16,wSt
FRANKLIN II. ISHAMS ESTATE.


STATE OF VERMONT, District Of Chit
tenden.
The Honorable the Probate Court for
the District of Chittenden.
TO the heirs and all persons interested
in the estate of Franklin II. lsham, late
of Williston. deceased, -
Whereas, application hath been made to
this court in writing by the administrator
of the estate of Franklin II. lsharn. late
OF WilliSton, deceased, praying for Incense
and authority to sell the whole of real
said court, that 1t would be beneficial 20
the heirs ana all persons interested IN the
estate of said deceased to sell the whole
of the real estate of said deceased, and
convert the same into money,
And bringing into court the consent and
appreciation in writing. of all tho heirs to
said estate residing in this State and set
ting forth the situation OF the real estate.
Whereupon. the said court appointed
and assigned the 18th day of November.
district. to hear and decide upon said APP
plcation and petition, and ordered public
notice thereof to be given to all persons
interested therein, by publishing said or
der, together With the time and place of
healinE three weeks successfully in the
Burlington Weekly Free Press, a news
paper which circulates in the neighbour
hood of those persons interested in said
estate. all which publications shall be
previous to the day assigned for hearing.
appear before said court, at the time and
place assigned then and. there in said
court to make your objections to the
granting OF such license II you see cause
Given under my hand at the Probate
Court rooms, this 18th day Of October,
1903. -
MARCELLUS a. BINGHAM.
l7,wSt. Judge.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-10-29
WHY THEY LIKED DILLINGHAM
Trom the New York TrihnneN

Senator Dillingham; of Vermont, the sue
cessor of the lamented Morrill,, recently
returned from an extended trip through
the West and up to Alaska,
The senator says that while no was in
Idaho he was much struck by the strength
of character and the maniiness so charac-
teristic of the men Of that State. The
party with which the senator was travel
ling put up for several days with rich
miner, whose manner of thought and ac-
ton acquired in the rough days Of pros
pecting and poverty has in no way been
changed by the acquisition of enormous
wealth.
When the time came for the senator to
say good by to the miner the latter shook
the statcman's hand with great fervor
saying as he did So
Senator, We like you here. You're an
Fastener and n successful man. but
you're no id aristocrat! We like YOU.
sir. because you're free and easy, and no
gentleman In fact, you're just like u.s. .
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ARMED AND UNARMDD MoNARcHs

The Emperor William of Germany al
ways carries a revolver and an officer is
entrusted with the duty OF seeing that It
Is always in perfect order. The Kaiser
Is convinced that he is destined to fall
by the hand of an assassin; but he is
resolved to go down fighting. and to
have the satisfaction of settling the ac-
count of one or more Of his assailants.
The late Emperor Alexander III of Rus
STA always carried revolver; and so
does the present Sultan of Turkey. Prince
Ferdinand of Bulgaria and Prince Nicho-
las of Montenegro always carry pistols.
King Charles of Portugal does the same,
since the hand-to-hand fight i'm which
he engaged some years ago with Il tramp
on a deserted road near Lisbon. Neither
King Edward of England nor the En-
peror Francis Joseph of Austria goes
armed; and King Victor Emmanuel In
spite of the fact that his father was
murdered after repeated attacks upon
his life, also dsdains to carry firearms
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-10-29
CAROLINE SHEHAN'S ESTATE.

STATE OF VERMONT, District of Chit
tenden.
The Honorable the Probate Court. for
the District of Chittenden.
To the heirs and all persons interested
in the estate of Caroline Shehan. late of
Milton, deceased,
GREETING:
Whereas, application hath been made
to this court in writing by the executor
of the last will and testament of Caroline
Shehan late of Milton, deceased
praying for license and authority
to sell the whole of the real
estate of said deceased. for the payment
setting forth therein the amount of debts
due from said deceased, the charges Of
administration, the amount of personal
estate and the situation of the real
estate.
Whereupon the said court appointed and
assigned the 9th day of Nov, 1908, at the
Probate Court Rooms in said district, to
hear and decide upon said Application and
petition. and ordered public notices there
OF to he given TO all persons interested
gether with the time and place Of hear
ing, three weeks successfully in the Bar
lngton Weekly Free Press, q newspaper
which crculates in the neighborhood of
those persons interested in said estate all
which publications shall be previous to
the day assigned for hearing.
Therefore, you are hereby notified to
appear before aid court at the time and
place assigned. then and there in said
court, TO make your objection to the
granting of such license, if you see cause.
Court rooms this 18th day of Octobcr.
1893.
MARCELLUs A. BINGHAM.
17,wSt. Judge.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-10-29
MORNING IN THE HILLS.

How quiet is the morning in the hills.
The stealthy shadows Of the summer
clouds
Trail through the canyon. and the noun
tain stream
Sounds his sonorous music far below
In the deep wooded wind enchanted Glove
fir
Go tiering down from storm worn crest
and ledge,
While in the hollows of the dark ravine
See the red road emerge then disappear
Towards the wide plain and fertile valley
lands.
My forest cabin halfway up the glen
Is solitary save for one wise thrush
The sound Of falling water. and the wind
Mysteriously conversing with the leaves.
Here I abide unvsted by doubt,
Dreaming of far-off turmoil and de-
SPAR.
The race of men and love and fleeing
time,
What life may be, or beauty, caught and
For brief moment at eternal pose.
What impulse now shall quicken and
make live
This outward semblance and this inward
self?
one breath of being fills the bubble
world
Colored and frail, with neeting change
on change
Surely some God contrived so fair a
thing
In the vast leisure of uncounted days
And touched it with the breath of living
Joy.
Wondrous and fair and wise, 1t must
be so.
bliss Carman in The Reader for Oc-
tober.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-10-29
DOR.

Il know what you are going to say" she
said,
And she stood up looking uncommonly
tall,
You are going to speak of the hectic
Fail.
And say you're sorry the Summers dead.
And no other Summer was like it, you
And can | imagine what made it so?
Now. aren't you, honestly? Yes" l
said.
Il know what you're going to say" she
said;
"You are going to ask if ! forget
That day in June when the woods were
wet,
And you carried me"-here she dropped
her head
"Over the creek; You are going to say,
Do / remember that horrid day.
Now, aren't you, honestly ?''-"Yes," |
said.
Il know what you're going to say" she
said;
You're going to say that since that
You have rather tended to run to
rhyme,
"And"-her clear glance fell and her
check grew red
"And have l noticed your tone was
queer
Why, everybody has seen it here!--
Now, aren't you, honestly ?'-"Yes," /
said
II know what you're going to say" /
said;
you're going to say you've been much
annoyed.
And I'm short of tact-you will say de-
void
And I'm clumsy and awkward and call
me Ted,
And l bear abuse like n dear old lamb,
And you'll have ne anyway, just as |
an.
Now, aren't you, honestly" -"Ye-es,
she said. II. G. Bunner.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-10-29
ATLANTIS.

The world was old and half her work
was done
When lost Atlantis lifted to the sun
Her stately domes and turrets, proud
and vast
Yet not so old but that an awful Past
Hung like a threatening banner, vague
and strange,
over the centuries in their backward
range:
Past of fabulous beasts and things of
fear,
In lost Atlantis ere the doom drew
near.
The world was old, but since that far-off
day
Decrept Time hath waxen wan and gray,
Aeons have passed and left but craven
stone
Arches of Ed and ruined columns lone;
Assyrian tombs have crumbled to decay,
Egyptian Pharaohs ruled and passed
away;
And scant the tale though writ on porp-
hyry
Since lost Atlantis sat beside the sea.
What manner Of men were they in that
old land?
What armored warriors wrought their
kings command?
What crimson banners Haunted in the
sky?
And what the foe. and what their battle
cry?
And did their captains lead, on prancing
steeGs,
In splendid panoply. to knghtly deeds?
And what the Gods whose glory they
upheld,
In lost Atlantis hapcss land of Ed?
What We're thy temples like whose gods
of clay
Were powerless to avert thy Drcarful
Day?
And We're thy palaces of marble white,
Jasper and onyx, pearl and malachite?
And We're thy kings, on thrones of gleam-
ing gold
/ Magnilicently royal, wise and bold?
And were thy people happy, strong and
free,
o. lost Atlantis, underneath the sea?
Were men Of stature great, and stalwart
| might?
Were dainty women clad in raiment
white
Or did they flash with coors rare and
fine?
Did dropping wells forbid soft eyes to
shine:
What fashion clothed each 1.-the and
shapoly limb
And were the dark and fair, those maidens
slim?
And were their charms by rapturous
poets sung
In lost Atlantis when the world was
young?
Mayhap, their lives We may not know
| nor scan,
But. of truth, the brotherhood Of man
Endureth as the everlasting hills,
With hopes and fears and joys and griev-
Gus ills.
This may we guess; that lovers brave
and bold
Kissed melting lips and loves dear secrets
told;
And mourners sat by solitary graves.
Ere lost Atlantis sank beneath the
| waves.
And this we know. that when the sky
| was rent
| And forked lightnngs gashed the frma-
| ment,
And oceans marge in frightful waves
upreared,
Then. grand and true, heroic souls APP
peared.
And shetering arms and claspng hands
revealed
The worth of manhood while the thunders
| pealed:
And Love was strong as Death, that
awful day
When lost Atlantis disappeared for aye
on hut and palace fell the dreadful
doom,
Down down to death and night I'm waterS
tomb
Sank kings and warriors covered by one
pail.
Fathers and mothers, little children, all,
In one dark gulf Of sorrow and despair,
Then silence fell upon the shuddering air
And sad and cold the waters moaned ant
sighed
Ger lost Atlantis underneath the tide
by David l.. Proudit in prudential Re
view"
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THE COUNTRY GIRL.


All, weep for the maid of the days gone
by
The fairest of English posies-
With the ripe red lip and the laughing
eye
And a cheek like cream and roses.
She is caught in the flood of the flowing
tide
That sets to the teeming city,
For her love for country life has died
We have lost her-and mores the pity.
She has vanished from sight in the city :
whirl.
And it's hey lack-a-day for the country
girl
For now in a sitting Diapers shop
In the heart Of the town you'll find her:
And | wonder, when weary and like to
drop.
Does she sigh for the life behind her
For the sweet green fields and the low
ing kline,
And the work that was half pleasure,
Ere she fancied the town was a golden
mine.
Where the poorest might dig for treas
ure,
Where she thought she might we'd with a
duke or an earl.
This foolish and frivolous country girl
C. +. c. II B.. in Black and White.
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17w3t.
ESTATE OF hartley F. M'NIFF OF
BURLINGTON.


BURLINGTON.
STATE OF VERMONT, District OF Chit
tenden. SO.
The Probate Court for the District OF
Chittenden.
TO all persons interested in tho estate
of Eartley r. McNiff. late of Burlington,
in said district, deceased.
GREETING:
Whereas, said Court has assigned the
eth day of November, next, for the set
tlement of the account of the admins
traitor of the estate of y. f. McNif.
late of burlington, in said district. de-
ceased. and also the administration &C
count of the said decedent as admins
traitor of the estate of John W.
Hayes. deceased, and for a decree
of the residue of said estate to
the lawful claimants OF the same. and or
dered that public notice thereof be
given to all persons interested in said es-
tate by publishing this order three weeks
successfully previous to the day assigned,
in the Burlington Weekly Free Press,
a newspaper published in said district
Therefore, you are hereby notified to
appear at the Probate Court Rooms in
burlington. Vermont, on the day assigned.
then and there TO contest the allowance
OF said account If you see cause. and to
establish your right as heirs, legatees and
lawful claimants Of said residue.
Given under my hand. this 18th day Of
October 1903.
MARCELLUs :, BINGHAM.
1G,w3t. Judge.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-10-29
SHOCKING CRIME.
A Farm Hand in an Indiana Town
Shoots His Two Young
Sons.
BODIES LEFT BESIDE FENCE
The Father Tells How He DeIibc rateIy
Shot Them for Revenge on Wife
Gave Himself Up Mt Jail TO Es-
cape from Party of Would
he Lynchers.

Marion, Ind, Oct. 25-Jesse Mcclure, a
farm hand murdered his two sons, aged
five and seven years, this afternoon,
leaving their bodies in a fence corner.
While II mob was forming to capture and
lynch him, Mcclure drove to this city
and gave himself up. The police fearing
violence made hurried start with him
TO. Indianapolis. Mcclure had been sep
arated from his wife for a year she re-
turning with her children to her fathers
home To-day Mcclure drove to the Kill
gora farm, the owner being Mrs. Nc
Cures father. He found the children
playing in the front yard and induced
them vita candy to take a ride with him.
He drove a mile up the road, carried the
children to fence corner and shot them
with revolver The older one was found
dead a few minutes later and the young
er was dying, a piece of the candy in
his mouth.
Mcclure fed and was pursued by a
crowd Of young farmers bent on venge-
ance. The alarm was given and from all
surrounding towns armed pursuers start
cd Mcclure succeeded in reach the Jail in
safety.
AT the Jail the turnkey admitted the
murderer of his two children who said
he had killed them because his wife had
left him and refused to see him. He said !:
when she refused to see me, ! decided
10 ne rcNeneeu ana GROVE GOWN tne rOdu
to little clump of small trees. My two
children were asleep in the buggy. When
l stopped the jolt awoke my little boy.
lie looked up to me and said: Papa,
what are you going to do?'
II put my hand over his eyes and took
my gun from my pocket and shot him
in the forehead, killing him instantly.
The shot awoke the other boy and | took
him by the shoulder and fired a shot into
his head. They both fell to the bottom
OF the buggy / drove the horse to the
side of the road and lifted both bodies
/ out and laid them out on the withered
grass. / then drove directly to Marion
to the Jail and am here to give myself
up.
THE neghbors will lynch me when
they find out what l have done. ! don't
care what you do with me, l am ready
to die and expect to hang for this crime.
All ask is to see my dear little ones
buried"
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

lie laughs best who sees the point of
the joke first,
Wisdom is the name some men apply
to their self-conceit
1t often happens that the silent part
ner has the most to say.
AS men grow wealthy they begin to
inquire into their ancestry.
fride often lifts u man up by the
handle attached TO his name.
Any man Is unreasonable who expects
a woman to be reasonable
when an eligible man proposes to a
maid or thirty summers there isn't apt
TO be any 'Iiamlet's' soiloquy business
on her part.,-ChicagO News.
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WHY THE CLUB FAILED

mo" remarked Mrs. Spteful "our
club didn't last very long. ="
yet I understand that YOU all had a
Hery nice time while it did, said Mrs
Newcomer.
"Oh, yes" replied Mrs. Spteful, "but
Pne of the rules was that when the ses-
ion was over all the guests must leave ut
bnce. That didn't give any of them n
thance to talk about the others after they
we're gone, so everybody lost interest. -
Cincinnati Times Star.
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ESTATE OF JOHN w. HAYES OF
BURLINGTON.

ESTATE OF JOHN W, HAYES OF
BURLINGTON.
STATE OF VERMONT, District of Chit
tenden, IS.
The Probate Court for the District Of
Chitterden.
TO all persons interested in the estate of
John W. Hayes. lato of Burlington, In
said district deceased,
GREETING:
Whereas. said Court has assigned the
7ts, day OF November next for the settle
inent OF the account of the administrator
OF the estate of John W. Hayes. late OF
burlington. I'm said district, decea scd and
for "A decree OF the residue OF said estate
to the law full claimants of the same, and
ordered that public notice thereof be given
TO al persons interested in said estate BY
publishing this order three weeks success
sively previous To the day assigned, in the
Burlington Weekly Free Press, "A news
paper published In said district,
Therefore. YOU are hereby notified to ap-
pear at the Probate Court Rooms in Tur-
ington. Vermont, on the day assigned,
then and there to contest the allowance
OF said account If YOU see cause. and to
establish YOUR right as heirs, lcgatees and
lawful claimants of said residue.
Given under my hand, this l4th day of
October 1903.
MARCELLUs A. BINGHAM.
BwT. Judge.
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Broke Into His House.

S. lie Quinn of Cavendish, VI, was
robbed of his customary health by in
vasion OF Chronic Constipation, When
DIR. Kings New Life Pills broke into his
house, his trouble was arrested and now
he's entirely cured, They're guaranteed
to cure. BIC at J. w. OSullivan's and all
druggists