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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-13

Dr. Tamei Kin will be the guest of honor at reception to be given ct the woman's University Club on Saturday evening. March 19, from to 10 o'clock, and will give talk on the Empress of China. pr. Kin Is the first Chinese wo- man to take medical degree in t:ie United States. was seven years resident in Japan and has recently returned from the Orient.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-13
Gave Up Politics for Literature.

When men arrive suddenly, as Mir. Gardenhire has done with his Lux Crucis, just published by the Harpers, 1t Is usually discovered that they have been working hard for many years of comparatively obscurity before they came into public view. This has been dis tinctly- the case with the author men tioned. Mr. Gardenhire was once sterog- rapher for Governor St. John. of Kan sas. Before that, he was owner and editor of a Kansas newspaper. perform ing in addition the duties of advertise ment solicitor, bookkeeper, and assistant pressman. He then became successivefy court reporter. clerk of the District Court and representative in the Legislature. But it was all of no avail. He had been writing and getting his work accepted. and the spell was over him to such an extent that he gave up his political aspi- rations and went to New York to practise law and 10 be nearer his publishers. There he has remained ever since. He is a resident of Brooklyn.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-13


 shop And carried her iuncheon In bas- ins woman She is stfll young woman in the middle twenties. and not overfond of society and itss exacti0ns. Mrs. Mac kay "a q xranddapghter of the famous Wit William R. Travers and great-Erand- daughter of Revefdy Johnson. At the time of her marriage she was said to be the most beautiful bride of the season French Tribute to American Fiction. Mnae. Tn. Blanc Bentzon. who has been for years very keenly interested in the gently contributed thirty-page review of his work to the Revue des Deux Mondes. informs Mfr. Garland that the French publisher. M. Hachette. is about to begin the publication of a library of international fiction. Mme. Blanc as literary adviser of M Hachette. has re- ouested him to include in his series Ham lin Gariand's Captain of the Gray Horse Troop. which. as q representative work highest regard The French Academy. by the way. has just presented to Mine. Blanc one of it's highest awards.
 A Vail From England.
 The London Academy bewaiis the dearth of fine Illustrated magazines in England. points with generous envy to the fine art and remarkable talents of our Amer lean Sarah Stilwell, Elizabeth shippen Green. and Jessie Wilcox Smith. and asks why 1t is that England seems s'un- able to produce editors who can gather the best illustrators into a band and produce great makazine." It cites Har- pers Magazine, the Century. and scrib- nef's as examples of what can be done in America. It was the American mag azine. continues the Academy, with a certain mournfulness. that, '.steeped in the artistic spirit of the great English men of the eighteenth century, gave us Howard Pyle and Edwin Abbey"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-13

,nin,star,s sermon. The clergyman read aloud ta his congregation several pages from Ina book Including the powerful ncene between Hillysr, the merchant, and his adopted son. in which Hiliyer con- fesses to the young man the murder he iona seo committed in hot blood. and tells him Of his ceaseiess remorse and his de- sire to make amends. The pathos of the recital. and its appeal to the best quali- ties in human nature, evidently seemed to one clergyman, at least quite as good moral material as he could find for his mornings discourse.
 The Author of "Dracula.n
 Bran stoker, whose new novel ''The Jewel of Seven stars. Harper 6 Broth CTS are now publishing. Is best known here by his story. ''Dracula,'' which was published ir 1897, and made a certain sen- sation. Mir. Stoker's unusual Christian name is merely an abbreviation of Abra- ham. He was born in Ireland. and com pieted his education at Trinity College Dublin, excelling in mathematics and Composition. Although he entered the Irish Civil Service he worked at the same time as literary, art. and dramatic critic for newspapers. and edited an evening paper. When Henry Irving assumed the management of the Lyceum Theatre in 1878, Mir. stoixer joined forces with hi,n. and has continued the connection ever since.
 Samuel NJ. Gardenhire's novel was am nounced under the title of ''Christus vic- tor: A Tale of the Great Apostle" The book was put in type before 1t was dis covered that the title "christus Victor had already been used on a volume of verse. The title was at once altered to Lux Crucis'' tthe light of the Cross): A Tale of the Great Apostle, although the book was already in proof, and the change had to be made on every page. The new title has special reference to scene of impressive and reverent wonder which oc- CUTS at the end of the novel, and brings to fitting close this remarkable story of giadiators. lovers and saints of barbar- ism and Christianity in the first century.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-13

Cc0ntinued On Page Nine.l
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-13
Two Genuine Human Belnes..


 At this late day the advisabiiity or individuality of publishing the Letters of Robert Browning and Mrs. Browning is still discussed. In the Academy Swedish authoress, Ellen Key, whose study of the Brownings is reviewed, ls quoted as saying that emphatically se Letters should have been published; rl,ak Mrs. Browning, by her life and poetry, contributed in no small degree to raise the position of women.' As to the Let ters, she says: "They show the pos- sibiiity of realizing the higher emotions as they are dreamed of by exceptional men and women. . They stand alone as the utterances of two great genduses who, are at the same time two genuine and complete human beings"
 Wants More.
 A little Colorado girl who knows Mark Twain very well. and read with enthusl- asm his dog story In the Christmas Harper's. has written him the follow ing letter;
 dear Mister Mark, 1 liked your doggy and the poor little puppie to. now pleas rite us a cats tail quick. your playmate Jessie."
 Hannis Taylor of Alabama, author of The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution" will go abroad in June fof the purpose of attending the ceremony uf receiving the title of Doctor of Laws from the University of Edinburgh. He will then go to Dublin to have a similar honor conferred on him by the university there
 Joel Chandler Harris is arranging for publication fin book form some new ''Un. cle Remus" stories, which he wrote dur ing last year.
 Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett has just completed novelette, of childhood. It is the first fin juvenile since her Little Lord Fauntleroy." She has gone South for the Winter and Is now at work in AshevilIe, N. c.
 Walt Whitman and His Autographs. The other evening. as Will Carleton, author of Songs of Two Centuries" was chatting with some literary friends. the conversation turned upon Walt Whitman. "I was in his unique little home at Cam den, N. J., one day" he said, "and we fell to talking about autographs. He asked me If I always responded to re- quests for mine. replied, always, when asked personally and by people whom I knew. and generally when strangers wrote for them. If there were upon them any earmarks of the professional auto graph-merchant however, they had to wait; and most of them were waiting yet. Do you charge anything for your autographT he inquired. in all serious ness. laughed. and replied in the mega tive We'll ask a dollar apiece for mine, he rejoined. They are worth 1t. MT. Whitman said I, and much more' But I could not help wondering little at this peculiar thrfftdnesz oR fhe good gray poet until he went on to say: I all the money 1t can get. When peopI1 write for my signature, send them a circular. stating that they can have 1t for dollar the money to go to the char ity just mentioned. I am thus able to do some good with my poor old autograph. for good many respond with the mon ey.'"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-13

Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett has just completed novelette, of childhood. It is the first fin juvenile since her Little Lord Fauntleroy." She has gone South for the Winter and Is now at work in Asheville, N. c.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-03-10

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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-03-10
MIR. CLEMENT AND GOvERNORsHIp

That the Hon. Percival w. Clement de-
sires to secure an election to the position
of governor of Vermont does not admit of
serious doubt. That he would appreciate the
republican nomination this year he has ad-
United to not few of his friends Wheth-
er or not, under present conditions he will
make an open announcement of his candi-
dacy is what remains to be demonstrated
to the public, although until within a
short time some Of his close friends were
free to say he was to be a candidate.
1t was inevitable that the question of
his candidacy should he revived by the
action of so many towns the present week
in rejecting license. Some political OBJ
servers have held that the reversal
throughout Vermont so generally of
license with which his name has been
closely associated. practically destroyed
whatever hope Mr.. Clement may have had
of being able to ovorturn the mountain
rule and securing the republican nomina-
ton.
Other political leaders insist that the
way is open for Mr.. Clement to claim a
vindcation of the local option law in the
ton under this measure after only one
year of experience with the licensed sa-
loon, although they say that the whole
sale rejection Of license has damaged Mr.
Clement prestige to a marked degree,
In the meantime AIR, Clement is evil
IDENTITY putting himself in a position where
he can go ahead or retire as seems best at
any time. lie began his speaking tour at
Windsor Last week he spoke at Middle
bury and on Friday evening, March H. he
is advertised 10 speak in Swanton lie
will be able to form fairly good idea of
the possibility of creating enthusiasm for
his various platform planks, after he has
visited a number if towns in this manner
In the meantime the way has been pre-
pared for retirement by the announcement
sent out from Rutland since last week $
election, that Mr.. Clement present speak
ing trip is not necessarily connected with
the governorship in any way; that the
strenuous campaign made by him two
years ago was more of physical strain
than he would care to undergo again; and
that his reluctance to enter the field now
is caused by his aversion to such II Vgor-
Gus battle as he would have to make were
he to go out for the nomination in the
face of the sentiment in favor of the time
honored mountain rule
While some Of the politicians fear Mr..
Clement truth compcls us to admit there
are not a few people who hope to see him
candidate for the governorshp this year,
and we can say this without danger of
creating the impression that we are neces-
sarly prcjudiced in his favor.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-03-10
A TIE LICENSE VOTE.

An esteemed correspondent writes to in
qure whether town in which license
prevailed one year ago. and in which the
vote on the question of license in the
recent town meeting was a tie, licenses
can he granted the coming year under
the liquor legislation now in force.
The second section of the local option
law now on the Vermont statutes provides
that the warrant of every town meeting
shall contain an article in relation to a
vote on the question shall licenses be
granted for the sale of intoxicating liq-
uors in this town?' This means that the
question must be decided every year and
licenses are granted fo- only one year.
Various sections following begin with
the words. "Ths selcctmen of towns vot-
ing in favor of license" or when a town
votes to authorize licenses for the sale
of intoxicat ting liquor" 1t is evident that
these provisions are based on the suppo-
sition that the town has voted for Ii
cense at the annual melting.
II, however, the vote is a tie on the
question of granting licenses the town
has evidently not voted in favor of
the sale of intoxicating liquors that year
and licenses can not be issued under the
various provisions OF the act
II, however. any doubt exists in spite
of these different provisions quoted let
the selectmcn of tnderhill or Victory,
which are concerned over tie votes. try
to comply with the provisions of the
seventh section of the local option act
which says:
when a town votes to authorize IL
censes for the sale of intoxicating liquors
the selectmen shah WITHIN SI%TEE.N
DAYS THEREAFTER chat IS after the
date of town meeting) appoint a board
OF license commissioners, etc.
Other sections might be quoted to sus-
tain this position, but "a similar obstacle
would he encountered. The whole law is
plainly based on the idea that licenses
can not be issued in any year unless the
town has voted in favor of license at the
preceding town meeting.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-03-10

n is Thought that from ouo-halt to two
thirds OF baltimore tutl loss Will be
cos rod by Insurance. TWO insurance
companies found TIE sudden acCuUua.
sources and announced their failure Il
IT,, gale of February that bore on he
fer" it the fire and devastation HAD
swung into the south. instead Of tina
north many EaltimoreaUs might hava
Teen ahlevto collect only a fraction ot
the sums due from Insurance companies
'rhc example OF the Chicago fire. NherA
the insuran'" companies We're not ahl.
In pay in full, and the narrow eScaod
from such y condition in Baltimore sug.
gest the Availability OF carrying still
further, at any expense of complexity,
the already admirable system of .einsur.
auce and division of risks among a null
titudc Of companies II should be in
possible for any confederation to threaten
tho solvency of an insurance company In
good stqndnG,--sucr q calamity may ruin
the most prudent mcrchants.-1nd Il
should be tn" aim Of insurance interest,
and insurance LEGISLATION Ia approach rs
near this ideal as business conditions viii
allow. hv dividing the risks To such a ie.
gree that no single condensation can Gni
IN its path sufficient proportion Of thu
risks of one company to eudMger its sol
Nency. In baltimore. many OF the LOSES
have already been paid with exemplary
rromptness and curiouslN enough, II u
said some of the larger insurance com.
panies are Of the opinion that they at.
ually gain. over Il term of years, FROM
a startling disaster as Raltimorcs, ow-
ing To the convincing advertisement Of
the desirabilty of fire. insurance. over
s. 0aOO0O of the Bah more insurance VAS
placed with 20 foreign companies in
Germany. Holland, scotland and even
Russia.-From "Tho Progress of tho
Wcrld." in the American Monthly Review
of Reviews for March.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-03-10

ling the State highway tax now annually
assessed and applied to building better
roads; call IL ten cents instead of five
and supervise more closely its local ex-
pcnditure In such places only as shall
have In view n continuous line of better
roads between large business ccntcrs.
both north and south and east and west.
This better supervision could be easily pro-
vided for by legislation
AS we have before said we do not believe
in partnership with the general gov
eminent as proposed by u bill lately in
troduccd i'm Congress. Better to be in
dependent since our resources are ample
for all our real needs. Would this PROPOSE
ton meet the approval Of Mr.. Clement,
or the repre- scn,atves Of the cities and
large towns" Would 1t receive the support
OF the railway companies and other cor
porations doing business within our Dor
dcrs? Or would the corporation third
house at Montpelier defeat 1t as 1t doe
many measure intended to benefit and
lessen the burden of the farmers and
the non-iich? Mr.. Clement tells us how
easy it Will be to get the money to build
state highways Retain our present in
como and cut down expenses.
Easily said. but no more easily done thnn
ii would be for Mr.. Clement to return Ia
tho way of living which he enjoyed as Il
rich man 81 years ago. Mr.. Clement says
that from present income We should be
hiif " run 'il' Slblt anu DhitA ~ nm w
macadamzcd roads at a cost of $4,000 a
year; that this immense sum Of money
is equandorod in poor management ana
dishonest practices.
Now any sensible person knows that
this is All hush. 30 doubt there could he
some saving of money i'm small ways with
out gripping the institutions which we
must maintlin or making less efficient the
various Institutions of learning. or NM
wisely limiting the courts in their duties
More than right-ninths of all expenses,
probably. will be covered by the support
Of the soldiers Home, penal institutions.
tho ins.re the military the administri-
ton of justice and expenses in educa-
tional agricultural and public health
lines
Now there can be. and probably will he.
no large curtaimcnt in these departments
to the detrimert of the service ana the
other onc-rinth of the expenditures Is
made up Of commission expenses and
small items which no one would seriously
call in question.
We wish Mr. Clement would give In
detail the items which he intends to use
in luildnE his quarter of million fund
for highways. implicitly he attacks the
business management of all the public
institutions and the State officials VIII"
manage the financial business of the poo
pie. The most of these men are too well
known to be injured by attacks of tins
kind
Mr.. Clement was in the Senate in 19oo.
and he remembers that he introduced bill
providing for "A new system Of accounting
and purchasing; and he says in reference
thereto, chat the bill passed the senate.
but when it struck the pothousc politicians
in the House of Repre- scntatiVcs it was
killed"
He has probably forgotten that at that
session a hill was introduced in the iiouSe
whereby corporations would he required
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-03-10
THE POST CHECK NOTE.

We have already discussed some Of the
advantages which would accrue to fcsi-
dents of the smaller villages and rural
districts from the provisions of some form
of post check; or. in other words, from
affording something akin to banking facili-
ties to those communities.
The purpose Of the post check bill is to
furnish method of sending small sums OF
money through the mails as safely as
drafts are now sent and without subject
ing the RENTER to the delays and annoy
ances incident to the sending of a money
order
Tho bill was introduced by Mr. Gardner
of Michigan, and it provides for banl,
spaces on the |, . and dollar greenbacks.
silver certificates and treasury notes, in
which the payer can write his own name
and that of the payee, the latter signing
his name in the remaining space, when re-
ceived as a receipt, The transaction is
completed by afiixing to each note two
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-03-10
PASSING or THE TRADING STAMP

one hears little about the trading STAMP
in Burlington as compared with the fig
rious stores in this city. and it is evident
the people are learning that nobody can
reasonably expect to get something for
aching, In other words they have come
TO realize very largely that somebody must
pay for the goods secured with a certain
number of trading stamps and that tho
merchant is not going to pay therefor, If
he knows it,
That the trading stamp is being generally
condemned innot few other trade centres
Is evident from the gradual disappearance
of the trading stamp from advertising col
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-03-10
VINDIC ALTON OF VERMONT COURTS

If the courts of Vermont had been in
need of Nindication. which is doubtful in
vnow of the high respect in which our
judicial tribunals and our court decisions
are held ut home as we'll as throughout
the country. that yindication would have
been furnished by events of the past
few months, and of the past few days.
Nornont's SuprSnc Court is composed
Of seven judges elected h-cnnially by the
Legislature At the present time six of
the members of our supreme judicial
tribunal are republican and one is n
democrat If partisan considerations
could prevail in the judiciary. certainly
no broader opportunity could he afforded
than that offered by the republican pre-
pondcrance in tho Supreme court of Ncr-
mont. But applying the test of PARTISAN
ship which might be expected to hay"
influence, if at all, with judges elected
| by partisan Legislature every other
year, our supreme bench is tried and not
| found wanting.
In the first place several cases in con-
nection with the municipal government
of Burlington have been considered by
the Supreme Court of Vermont during
the past twelve months. each Of which
| involved partisan politics In each in
stance the republican court handed down
| a decision. which worked to tho benefit
of the opposite political party; and for
that very reason tho decision of the court
was regarded with all the more respect.
A more recent case was that involving
| the question whether or not the ticket
placed in nomination 10y the citizens eau
Gus in St, Adams for support at the re-
cent city election should be placed on the
| official ballot. As Il matter of equity
| there seemed to be every reason why the
| republicans and those democrats who do
sired to act with them in a citizens
movement should enjoy the right to put
their ticket on the ballot beside that of
the democrats. A trivial technicality was
overlooked, however, and as Il matter Of
law Judge Start held that the citizens
ticket could not be printed on the nical
ballot. The decision was in opposition to
the interests of friends as close to Judge
Start as could probably be found, Vet noi-
Their personal nor partisan considerations
swayod him to the slightest degree from
what he regarded as right.
IT may be said that these cases were so
plain our Judges could not do otherw Use
than to render the decisions in the vari-
Sous cases announced, but even granting
this to be true, cases are on record in
which courts in other States were put to
| similar tests and did not come out UNI
scathcd. From whatever standpoint one
| may choose the people of Vermont can
not fail to regard these decisions as proof
that they can look to our supreme judic-
ial tribunal firm in the belief that they
will receive full justice at the hands of
our judges.