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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-10-06

OF great force and carncstness OF char
actcr; "A devoted son of the university
and an earnest advocate of the philo-
sophical and theological views which
had come to him through the instruc-
ton of President James Marsh
The Rev. william True Sleeper, U. ".
NJ. 1850, died at the home of his daugh-
ter Mrs. Ruggles, in Auburndale,
Mass on the 25th of September last
having exceeded his s5th year by seven
months and a half. lie was descended
from Thomas Sleeper, n native of Bris-
toll England, who came to New Hamp-
shire in 1900 SO MIR. Sleeper has care
fully written, but there is no evidence
that any white man had set foot in
New Hampshire at that date; the first
settlements being assigned to 1929.
MIR Sleeper was born at Danbury, N.
H., the son of Jonathan and Mary Par-
kerr Sleeper. lie prepared for college
at Phillips Academy. Exeter, under DR..
Gideon l.. Soulee, and entered the Uni
vcrsity from smyrna Nc. Immediate
ly after graduation he took up the
and was graduated in 1853. He was
married the same year to Emily Eliza
beth Taylor of Sanbornton, N r., and
entered upon three years service as
city missionary at Worcester, Mass. He
served as chaplain of the state Reform
school at Westboro Mass, 1S56-60
then as missionary in Maine, at Shcr-
man Mills 1S6O-71; at Caribou 1S72-75;
then back to Worcester, where he had
| charge of the Summer street Church
| for several years lie hunt three
| church buildings in Maine. at Patten,
| sherman and Fort Fairfield and two in
Worcester; he also organized two
churches in Worcester and one in Sher-
man.
He projected the Aroostook River
railroad and was its president 1S72-75
| While at Carbon he founded. and for
| three ears edited. the North star a
paper now published at Pressure Isle
Nc. After he had passed his sOth
milestone he organized and managed a
| creamery company at Sherman Mills
From 1863 to 1872 he was a member of
the state school board of Maine, and
for a time was supervisor of schools
! for Aroostook county.
\ volume of his emitted walks and
! Talks" was issued by the American
! Tract society in 1850; The Rejectc
| King appeared in 1879, and "Lenten
| Days. etc" in 1896. The last two were
! IN verse. Some hint of his adaptation
| to the special work 10 which the earl
! Ter part of his life was devoted may he
| disccrned in the afectionatc title
! Father by which he has long been
| known in Worcester. For some years
past he had been incapacitated for ac-
tive labor. Ills last illness was short
! Besides the daughter named above, h
| left two sons. one Of whom is pastor
| at Wellesley Hills. Mass, and the 9th
er a professor at Smith College.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-10-06

There has been much hard heh'lns III
The Far East. but it is not beyond paraliei
ms so many newspaper writers declare
Grant saws the Army and Navy Journal
when he crossed the Rapidan. May y 1904
had in round figures 10000 men preseh'
for duty, and Lee between $1,000 ana 9ocoo.
in the lighting during the twenty days
which followed Grant lost 5is2t killed
wounded and missing In the seventeen
days from July 10 to July 81, the united
armies of the Potomac and the James
added % aGs to this total, and there was
q further loss of y 62l during the series
of ENGAGEMENTS from August l to Deem
Der 81. Altogether Grant lost in eight
months la43e0 men. During two years,
Mcclellan. Pope. Burnside, Hooker and
Meade lost I3a, 7ol in the same field of
operations The records of Confederate
losses arc not cited, being too incomplete
for comparison.
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DEATHS OF TWO AGED L. v. ".
ALUMNI.

News has just been received .. the
death, at the house of daughter in
Portland, Oregon on the aith ultimo.
of the Rev Charles Andrew Huntington,
brother of the late Hon Samuel Hun
tington, so well remembered in our city
He was graduated from the University
of Vermont in 1872, and with one cXcep-
ton was the oldest alumnus on the ron.
He passed his ninety-sccond birthday on
the 9th of April last. VIM. T.. Pierson,
of the class of 1899. reached the same
age on the Sth of December, 1903. Yer
gcnnes was Mr. Huntingtons naive city;
Burr and Burton Seminary, Manchester.
the place where he fitted himself Tor
college; ana St Adams his home when
he was admitted to the university, in 1851.
He had already been five years a teacher
in the public schools. After getting his
degree he taught two years in Wyoming
county, New York. and then had charge
of Classical Institute at Rockford. H..
for four years. In 1919 he was made county
school commissioner and held the office
till 1871, at the same time conducting
spent in horticulture. In 1851 he emi3rat-
ed to Washington Territory under an
appointment as chief clerk in tho office OF
superintendent of Indian affairs. From
1873 to lsI7 he was agent for the Makah
tribe OF Indians near the mouth of the
Straits of Fuca
Mr.. Huntington began preaching as a
I Is,tF fsl-. 10.
ton; in 1883 he was acting pastor in
Johnson, VI The next two years ne was
in Olympia, Wash. Ter, and from Isl
| to 1857 in Eureka cal. He was about
seVcnty-iivc years old when he retired
from the pastoratc, but he continued Il
preach as occasion offered till about four
years ago In 1882 he issued a little book
under the title The University Of Yer
| mont FIFTY Years Ago" which also CON
| tanned few of his sermons. About thi.
time or little later he prepared u com
plete autobiography of which copies wer,
| made for each of his SIX children. 1t i.
AN account OF the times and the com,
muntics In which his life was cast, a.
well as Of his own experiences and &C
tivties. The earlier portion is an nd
mirable picture of life as it was lived il
New England and New York between
| 1920 and lS45.
| Two of his sons are alumni of tn,
university, Thomas Waterman Hunt
ington, 1871. is a surgeon in San Fran
| cisco, and stands at the head OF his
profession in that city. Bella Shaw
1882, is in the practice OF law at Tn,
Dalles Oregon. Another son is sherin
OF Baker county, Oregon, and fourth
a journalist in Portland, oregon. Iii.
permanent home was in Eureka witt
"A married daughter, but he had re,
Gently been visiting his children a,
their various homes. He was a maj
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-10-06
GOV.-EIECT BELLS DETRACTOR.

The people of Vermont have known for
days that the COMMITTEES engaged in the
work Of investigating tho accounts of the
Hon. Charles j. Bell as member of the
Vermont board Of agriculture and cattle
commissioner had utterly disproved the
dastardlv charge that he had soaked
the State treasury to the extent of hun
dreds of dollars The official report which
is published in fun in another column
therefore simply gives the exact Language
of result that had already reached the
public concerning Mr. Bells full and COM
pletc vindication.
The supplemental democratic report
which is also printed in fun substantiatcs
the statement that the detractor of Gov
ernor Bell, while forced to admit that his
malicious charges OF dishonesty were
false, was seeking some avenue of escape
from n serious dilemma for himself and
those engaged with him in the villainous
work Of vilifyinG as honest "A man as ever
served the people of Vermont. The demo-
cratic supplemental report is in brief an
attempt to shift the responsibility for this
dilemma to the shoulders of former state
Auditor q. NJ. Barber
| We predicted that this would be the
course pursued by this man Davenport
and showed that this could he no excuse
for his persistence in repeating the charge
both before and after the day of election
in spite of the fact that the clerical error
| in the auditors report had already been
pointed out. This detractor of honest
men is mealy mouthed and sanctimonous
in his phrasing, now that he has beer
caught TO fully appreciate his animus
however. it is simply necessary to recall
n single paragraph from the political ad-
vertising ne caused to he published in the
Rutland Herald on Monday. September 3
the day before election in connection with
his call for vouchers as well as in other
papers. Here is the sort of language this
man Davenport then used concerning Mr.
Bell and the explanation of the auditor
account:
| "rhe most impudent attempt to deceive
the people, and one that ought to over
wheln its authors. and their whole ticket
and system in defeat and Punishment from
their places in misgoVernment next Tues
day. is that put forth by the republican,
State committee in reply to the demo
cratic showing OF how Charles j. Bella
nice old gentleman, naturally. who wher
he went to the Rome Of republican ring
rule began to do as the Romans do
Soaked" the state In his charges fol
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THE LEGISLATURE.

Every Legislature opens with promise
of an interesting and profitable session,
and Legislatures differ principally IN the
manner in which they fulfil This promise
Vermont has had Legislatures, the mem
bership of which contained many prom
inent men of ability, but which disap-
pointed the people of the State owing to
the zeal expended in emphasizing The
adage about representation and the lar.
ceny of time. We have had other Legs,
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RAILROAD MATTERS.
Interesting Rumor In Relation Ia tho
Central vermont and Canada
Atlantic.

The Montreal Star says: Mr.. Frank
w. Morse. the general manager Of the
Grand Trunk Pacific. refused to-day ia
discuss the rumor To the effect that Gen
eral Manager Fitzhush, Of the Central
ermont, was to come to Montreal to sue
coed him as third vice-president of the
Grand Trunk railway, and that Mr.. T.. j
Chamberlain the present general man
agor of the Canada Atlantic, is To become
general manager of the Canada Atlantic
ana the Central Vermont combined.
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DANENpORT's OFTENsE.
From the Montpelier JournaD

The unanimous Joint report given out
from the committee of Investigation en-
tirely frees Mr.. Bell from the faint OF
fraud, charged by G. ". Davenport rep
resenting the democratic state commit
tee. Every one of the charges is proved
to be absolutely untrue. aSd the man
who made them was compelled to admit
over his own signature, that they were
wrong.
Every honest citizen Of tho state must
rejoice at the outcome of the nNestigL-
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WANTED.

when you want anything aoVe''sV
in the new special column OF TINS paper
Some bargains are ooffered there TINS
week which it viii pay you to iead
about See page two. This pape mas
more than $4,000 readers every week
uonoI U!M pioM 4u'' gu" p"'
them all.
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\ RELIC OF COLLEGE BARBARISM.


RELIC OF COLLEGE BARBARIsM.
The advent Of the college year with its
returning students and its gathering of
Young men who aspire to be students,
raises anew the old question in relation
to the lengths to which class spirit should
he carried an our institutions of higher
education. our boys appear to be able to
pass through high schools and academies
and different other classes of preparatory
schools as rule without being impcled
/ by any irresistible impulse to rough
house each other much less to disligure
each other persons or destroy each 9TH
ers belongings.
| The MON, mt the young men enter the
classic halls Of a college or university,
tradition steps in and ordans that
they must become pugnacious and do
those various stunts when were formerly
regarded as ossential to the development
of the manly" spirit of the aspiring
youth.
The Philadelphia Telegraph has well hit
off the conditions prevailing in some in
stitutions by rIcturing the Pennsylvania
sophomore .. indulgiug in the following
neat parody oa Hamlot's soliloquy
TO haze OF rot to haze that is the qucs-
ton.
| Whether lis nobler for the Soph to suf-
The penaltics Of an outraged Faculty,
VI ~ ,"N' "' MS against Il ''oS' Vi 'e'"-
ANU ny f ""@,'7' p''"N ''''' '"' 40 ''''N' =
~ "a
mem IA ana "N 'h'8e Kindly u'ous |"
~. W." .,,
me gre" loss ana inc '"'"S"nu "a'uf"i
mi, ..,.
'U "iN ~" ''' 10 Il stunning
Dovoutlv H. 81, dane ,ro toaeo to hazo.
70 haze! IT, be expelled Ay, there's the
rub
conn" ''' '''' '''''
When we h. led the Fresh to slaugh-
ter
;rbn, g., a.. "' lnas ,,na., l'HPc''
And who would hear in vain th. tice-nro.
vost
win warning words or h"edleNsiy in
Tho f,.rnIt,,e decree. incur tbo tr;.,1
The Disciplnes Committees penalty?
Worse than conditions, ay, worse than
,''''M 49,. ;...-
Because the Sophs should usual Measure
take
With green Frcshie? Who on the col.
leS' caWplF max"
'i'' - w.. anu 7"''' "''''' oou'Se o'
So near tho onico Of tho Dean Whom +,
Back lots he can be halen, from whose
=, n""I''
,n,ri'' 10 "'''o"' '''
That show his formal entrance into col.
lege HE
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-10-06

Oregon is recalling the Poet II Cane,
mah's" lines ON the beautiful Wlliamett,
river.
Here the wild Indian took his delight
Fisht. fit and BLEED
Now most of the inhabitants is white
With nary red
Current Itcm
Tho Poet of Canemah," whoever h,
may he, appears to have appropriated Inn,
lines from another poet VINO many wear,
ago produced a much copied skit which
ran as follows:
"ODE TO LAKE ONTARY
Green are thy waters green as bottle
glass,
Behold 'cm stretched thar.
Fine mushalcnges and OsWogo bass
Is often ketChed thar.
Thar the red indian oncot took his de
lights,
| FiSht, III and hlcd
! Now the inhabitants is mostly whites
! With nary Il red
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-10-06
AUDITOR BARBER BLAMED


And still We hear cry. but growing
fainter all the time, that somebody sue
Davenport or somebody els" for charg-
ing GoVernor-elect Bcll with drawing pay
from the state while cattle commits
Sioncr, for more days work than there
were days in the year This is nonsense.
These charges were formulated from tho
state auditors report and If they are
false and anybody is to he used he is the
man and not Davenport.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-10-06

4 boon to travellers Or Fowlcr's E,'
tract of " i'd strawberry. Cures dNs' y
terry, diarrhuea, soasckncss, ndust
Pleasant to take. Acts promptly
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GUILTY SLANDERERS SHOULD BE
PUNISHED.
U'rom the Rutland NewsD

The committee who have been inVosti-
eating the vouchers of GoVcrnor-clcCt
BELL in the office OF state Auditor Horace
j.. Graham have labored long and earn
estly and finally made their report In
the main, the committee of inquiry re
CARELESS of their partisan bias. have
agreed that the examination eNonordtes
Mr. Bell from the hasty and nasty
charges made against his personal honor
and honesty by the democratic campaign
committee during the recent campaign,
and reiterated since.
The citizens of Vermont who know Mr.
Bell believe in him and are entirely pre-
pared To receive word of his oXoner1tiou
Ais Nndication is complete and should
put to the utmost confusion those VIII,
have made the charges against him al
downright dishonesty while secretary o
the State board of agriculture ana stat,
cattle commissioner Every citizen o.
Vermont cannot fail to be glad that th'
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-10-06

ton. The chief executive may now take
tho oath Of office next week with the
people, without distinction of politics.
having fun confidence in his integrity
To ho sure. none but suporh~ated parti-
sans have Thought, or believed, that Mr.
Hell was guilty Of fraud in the minutcSt
degrcc.
The statements made by Mr.. Davou-
port y true, would make tho iucoW-
ing governor Il "srdtter.' Rut. although
those statements were made with the
apparent intent TO have thom boiloV"d.
and circulated with Wow to making
them as public as possible" it - nrobuhl"
that those who believed them ut all or
wanted to believe. were few cXtrciy"
partisans i'm thu Democratic party. Re-
puhlicans had little faith in what Mr..
Davenport was publishing. and were sure
tho answer would 10" found IN some mis-
tako-aS II was found
1t is greatly to bc regretted that on
the jury which passed upon the truth
Of the charges, as demonstrated by the
vouchers III the auditors onic" was the
Very manor the representative nf a."
mcn--Who made the charges. 1t WIS. iu
effect a tria Of an issue of fact o,-
tween Bel and Davenport. And s,l..
although "A party To the action. MIR Dlt-
export was allowed To sit on the jury
in his own case. He had mlulu s
enough to admit when beaten that t'o
charges were false. That should has"
ended II all That was properly all tOc
committee was to investigate. lfut NJ.
Davenport was anxious to ShoN o. IG"
state some Justification for his ID 'ti'H-.
Defeated and proved at fault. inst ID
Of being satisfied. he made pu"rla
attempt to excuse himself hN rt'Ia-
attention to errors in the report IF the
auditor of accounts. Tho chi"f rror IS
the one which makes IL app"4r a. first
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-10-06
BURLINGTON. THURSDAY. OCT.

Year Always IN Advance
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WOnien's FurS.

One OF the most remarkable features of this early Cut p
ing Ladies Choice FlS Discriminating ouspoken
Eur Nook Plcccs and eXcnml aonl
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The Children's Clothing Department

TGra', Bee lye Of t" Industry Parents crowded each other choice '
ver:rocLa.el at rate that threcn1 whole tock
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$l3.O8

I o lon u hicht type
o d demand t 5 W ti economic
yt Nttmn which, tan High Prof
. ON n
offer bth~at @5to$7 susG
at aud ani
her a that IT sOof
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-10-06
WHEW !

Hundreds of families among wage this thrifty community
have already taken advantage WONDERFUL
WEAR BARGAINS by providing for their amy
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-01
ss5sRs62ss 77S5n q 5Sg1lM
si| :,;|l u |! zSS

Home Visitors Excursions. The
hale of round-trip home visitors excur,
son tickets is hereby authorized to ter
ritory specified herein, at the follow
ing round trip rates and arrange
rlents: Territory-lowa, all points;
Wisconsin, all points; Nebraska, all
points: Minnesota, all points; North
Dakota, all points; South Dakotao, all
points; Missouri, all points north OF
the St. Louis-Kansas City lines OF the
Missouri Pacific railway; Michigan,
all points in Michigan north and west
Ct Lake Michigan. Rate, one fare plus
s. for the round trip. Dates Of sale,
October II and 25 and November
and % Return limit, thirty days from
cate of sale. Stop-overs can be arrang.
ed for at ST Louis and Kansas CITY
Under conditions regulating stop.eyers
al these points.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-01

tween the fence rail ard he school
house.
And after that. when Little Fra1e
Girl saw anything She aid not under
stand Shealways investigated the mat
ter before running away, and she
found that the most Of her 'hig fraid>
we're very small fraids indeed .
Winnie studied a moment, then She
said
What was the Lite Fraid GirLs
real name, grandma
Her real name was Lydia k"mp
said grandma. with d twinkle IN her
eyes
why. that was your name when 4
little girl. cause mamma toid me So
And Winnie clapped her hands joy
fully.
Il am not going to be afraid any
more, she said
THAT IS right my dear ard new
run along TO bed and # you see a hi2
fIaid,' don; forget 70 examine i be
fere you run. L. FitZGerald.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-01

Winter tourist rates to Colorado
points. The sale of round trip win.
ter tourist tickets TO Denver, Colorado
Springs and Pueblo is hereby au-
thorized at rates and under conditions
as follows. Rate, eighty per cent Of
double the one way rate via route Of
ticket. Dates of sale November 10,
1904. 10 April 90, 1905, inclusive. Re
tern limit, June !, 1905. Transit linz
il and stop.oyers. tickets will be lin
tied to continuous passage in each
direction. except that stup-oyers will
be allowed at and beyond the first
Colorado common point {Trinidad to
Denver, ine1usiyel on route within
g. limit return tri'. 1a be eo4"i"".
y. =. passage conmeacjna dat of
execution.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-01
execution

Christmas and New Year holiday
rates Account Christmas and New
Year holidays rhs sale If rctnd trip
tickets is hereby authorized from all
St. l.. S. " railway point- Jacu.din2
Memphis To territory specified heaejn
at the following round trrp rale= s9t
arran2emeats. Territory Cat1ana
EeI route. AH=,afrfs Tickle VIII
$50 be SOLID 10 =po..-
IN tarffto.s aaaaef .a }&az
s- al #a4. aa G@
- ae oa#e a5as aafs..
- Ea6
al paiM5 sts CO.
ato aul 4#s
as.a#.ff =a#l.a 81.
: afa a. a. ftae ets.a Jy4
- al 1set.la .fe'#se-.@ .~.'
pit only Texas Al eea9.z 'ste.
ore tare ps.s y geat ~ tn raa
kia Minimum uaH1t cate NJ -
- ceas MjaGmum chs.a tate @l
b. "a cents Ratg- t. aaa ferm Nea-
phfs VII he .aasle= o.. faae pFaz -
cents Dates of sal oocemhet =
"a ana 81. taoi ana .faaaary l. 7!.95
Ketarn ljnd1 January < 390a
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-01

stumbled and ell The vat r pail
Jtaf ts.#c CARVED went rolling III
rgcr.y N front af Heinrich and sen,
INN sprawlins. 700. Max scrambled
ITO hjs f.et and was off again. hut poor
Heinrich was not 50 lucky. H. was
caoEhr. rolled roughly into the dahlia
hsa. he water PAL was fammed
rudaN over his head and there H. va
|1,ft
Man. hy this rime ha5 gone entirely
around the garden oprned he gate.
ana was threatening 70 punish EtAc
Barbara for her par in the mselcc
R9t Wilhelm Was has .uue to the
rescue He came itt Warrior. and
Man Jared not stand hss sroHnd.
Wildly he fled. Wilhelm pursued him
as far as The bridge. tut Max. thor
ouehly terrified. was TO njmb3o. So
he escaped
Tt WafeIn returned - Rathae5.
and tos,ther hu5eht ard Iady. haod In
haad they went nome
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-01

International live stock exposition,
Chicago. III, Noevmber 20 to Decem,
Ter 5. 1904. For the above occasion
the following round trip rates and ar.
rangements are authorized TO Chicago,
H.: Rate. one fare plus 81 for the
round trip. Dates Of sale, November
&c, q and 2S Return limit, Decen-
,er 5, leaving Chicago.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-01
Coach Excursion.

Round-trib coach excuafsica tickets
wilt be sold to ST Louis S,optc1nher
Is. 1G, Il aud each Sunday M"naay.
paesday, "Wednesday ata Thursday
thereafter until November e tine'
iuit seven days hut II a5 case iater
tan De"onlhee 3
s. NJ. DtcKt9N. Ant.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-12-01

The tFon Noutaln vii, SEA tickets q;
rsta Of ei&ht dollars and f.een casa,@
to S. Louis and return, account tae
worlds fair Tickets OK safe Sunday.
Monday. Tuesday, "Wednesday and
Thursday Of each week during tic
nonths of September. October sad
November, All tickets to be lmited
fot return passage to seven days trotn
date of sale, but not including date Of
sale. hut IN no ease later than Decea
ber s