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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-12-21

| interesting discourse on the gathering
and dissemination of news, emphasizing as
the three cardinal points, accuracy.
lpromptness and brevty. Mr.. Bowen gave
n bright speech in which he paid tribute
, TO the part played by the press in bring
ing about change in municipal affairs in
Philadelphia.
Others who spoke were w. e. Bclknap
Of the Bellows Falls Times. f. H. 1<mball
, of Bellows Falls, II. l.. Iiindlcy of the
Ludlow Tribune. NJ. w. Wilson of the
Bristol Herald City Editor T.. l.. Cowles
ca NJ. Goddard and J. II. Kellette of the
Rutland Herald and c. r. Harris of the
, Rutland News.
Manning of Rutland. who was also in
attendance upon the banquet, every news
paper man was presented with a marble
paper weight made by the Columbian
Marble company.
During the afternoon and early evening
Editor G.. II, Fairfield Of the Rutland
News held open house. His elegant home
was thrown open to the newspaper men
and a lavish hospitality was dispensed.
The banquet was the occasion Of an in
formal gathering Of the press men of the
state. Cares we're laid aside and all en-
tered into the spirit of the meeting which
abounded in mrth and good cheer. The
committees having the affair in charge
left no part Of their work unperformcd
but made lavish provision for the COM
fort und entertainment Of their co-work-
CtS.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-12-21
new FEDERAL BUILDING
Congressman IIasl&tns Asks n &sS,OOO
Appropriation for Island Pond
Busy on His Committees.

Washington. December ia bill ap-
propriating $4,000 for the purchase of "A
site and erection of a public building at
Island Pond. Vt. has been introduced
in the House by Representative Kit
fridge Haskins. The bill provides for IL
suitable building. post-office, customs
house and other government officers at
Island Pond. The bill further provides
that the site shall leave the building un-
exposed to danger from fire in adjacent
buildings by an open space of not less
than 40 feet including streets and alleys
Mr.. Haskns has introduced the follow
ing pension bills: For Melissa S. Lee of
Chester. widow of Gideon j.. Lee, an in
crease from So to so per month on ac-
count of Il helpless child, Lucy l.. Lee.
the increase to lapse in case of the death
of said child; increasing the pension of
Oliver II. Mackenzie of Woodstock to S2l
per month: increasing the pension of
Royal Sanderson of Townshend to s2i per
month. Sanderson was in Co. ID, 18th reg
imcnt. and Mackenzie in Co. b, LIST regi-
ment of Vermont volunteers
Colonel Iiaskins is likely to be kept
busy with the work of the committees to
which he is assigned this session. He now
NOUS IouTth place on tne important ana
harlworking committees of agriculture
and war claims and in addition has been
given II new assignment on the committee
on labor. Colonel IIaskins voluntarily
gave up lis place upon the committee on
elections ON which he has served two
terms and under an agreement with
Speaker Cannon WAS to continue on agri-
culture and war claims. the speaker, how
ever. saw fit to add to these the committee
on labor
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-12-21

tuberculosis can he checked or stopped
entirely in the human by the observance
OF certain laws. almost independent of
medicines. why not use these laws with
the bovine?
Suppose we cease to depend 50 much
upon killing the milk and meat producer
TO avoid a possible contagion. and all
take hold with a will and try TO find out
IL way to handle our cattle so as to
keep them in normal condition of
health.
A well person put into small pox
ward will have the disease a well COW
put into an lily ventilated stable. de-
prived of exercise. forced to her utmost
capacity. will. in short time
become deblitated. She will then be
tested. condemned, killed. Another well
COW goes through the same performance
and so on indefinitely.
Suppose the dairymcn of Vermont
study for the bovincs sanitation more
and tuberculosis less.
w. w. HlGBEE.
Charlotte, W. Dec. Is, 1903
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-12-21
THE STORY TELLER.
a GINE-.A WAY.

Robhic's father. according to /.
colts Nh gazine. had q friend call. 800
they had chatted Il few minutes the
cigar on the table was offered to
guest, so Robbie went upstairs for .
fresh box. As the boy reached the ton
stair his father was startled to hear.
(Which kind. papa? Do YOU want thos.
You smoke yourself or the kind you ei,,
awav?
SOMEWHAT MINED.
The chairman of tho COMMITTEES
addressing a meeting at the teacher.
sttute.
My friends, the schoolwark S
bulhouse of civilization; mcan--ah--'
The chairman here became slishtl>
chilled.
THE clubhouse is the schoolwarlx OF
An invisible smile began to make itself
felt.
"The warehouse is the buschool Of
He was evidently twisted.
The schoolbul is the housewark--"
An audible smoker spread itself over
the faces of the audience
1.-The scowsehool---'
He was getting wild. So were his hear
ers. He mopped perspiration. grtted his
teeth. and made a fresh effort.
1.-The schoolhouse, my friends
A sigh of relief went up. A-h-h! Now
he has got his feet under him again. He
ga7ed suavely round. The light OF tri-
umphant self-coni1dence was enthroneu
upon his brow.
rs the wulbark-"
| And that was all.
TWO WOMEN IN THE CASE.
Perhaps" said a -hater. who
| was visiting the prison, "a woman is
| responsible for your present condition.
"Oh! twice as bad as that" replied the
convict. Indeed" Yes two women. I'm
up for gamy.'-Cathoiic Standard and
| Times.
GUESSING AT IT
Eyes said Miss Ann Teek, George
has my wedding ring all ready and it
has H<ismet' engraved inside it,
What did you say was engraved in
it?' asked Miss Knox
"'Kismet' You know what the means.
don't you?"
"Why-er-I suppose it's Latin for Bet
ter late then never "-EXchange.
MEDICAL. jokes.
! That gentlemen of the medical profess
sion are not indisposed to jokes against
themselves In shown by the following
| witticisms. which appear in Mortar and
| lcstle, the organ of the hospital corps,
u. s. NJ:
Doctor twho is not feeling well, to him.
| selO-"What shall I do" ! haven't any
confidence in any OF those other doctors
and as for myself, my charges are too
high
| Cheer UP. old man." said the friend
to the sick Hlllville citizen. you amt
dead yet"
No sasped the sick man, but five
| doctors have got me-"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-12-21
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
Sanitary Measures Should lie Adopted
i'm Connection with Bovine Tubcr-
CulOkts.

TO the Editor of the Free Press:
Suppose that ten or a dozen years ago.
more or less, physician had recon-
mended to patient threatened with
consumption, the identical treatment
now employed?
Suppose ne had then broken away from
the hOt-housc. tropical climate. muffled
up methods to the out door life of to-
dayo-
1t is not difficult to imagine what
would have been said of such physi-
can Why this change? Why this hope
1ul outlook for the tuberculosis patient?
because the public and the profession
has come to see that food. fresh air.
outdoor exercise makes better blood and
better blood makes better health. The
modern sanitarum is being built with
nl this in view. Lectures before boards
of health everywhere emphaZise proper
sanitary measures far more than medi-
cines. Sanitation is the ounce of pre-
ventitivc.
This sounds reasonable. 1t Is reason
ahlc. Live as much as possible in III"
out door air. Exercise so that you can
cat we'll and sleep we'll seem to be in
sisted upon these days for the tuber-
Culus human being.
Suppose we go further and apply these
rules to bovine life.
Suppose We try ana show the owners
Of mich cows and beef cattle that
proper sanitary arrangements are just
as necessary for their health. That too
high feeding too warm stables, too little
pure air. too little exercise will make
the bovine diseased as well as the hu-
man.
suppose boards of health agitatc tins
al their meetings?
Suppose that the Vermont dairymcn at
their coming meeting in Burlington dis
russ the matter of how TO keep their
rows healthy as well as to tell how to
feed COW to get every pound of milk
lliis machine can he made to produce.
Suppose We continue the tuberculosis
test and keep on killing our cows and
then put other COWS into the same I'M
sanitary stables cram them with the
came forcing food trying to get the
most possible in "A certain limit of time,
Would such intense living he wise in the
human race? Is it any wiser with the
bovine?
Sanitation is just as good for the milk
producer as for the milk consumer If
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-12-21
PASTORAL CALL ACCEPTED
The Rev. Isaac Chapman Smart Of Pitts
field. Mass. to Become Pastor Of
the College street Church.

President NJ. II. Buckham. chairman OF
the pastoral committee. read at the morn
ing service of the College Street Congre-
cation Church Sunday letter from
the Rev. Isaac Chapman Smart OF Pitts
field. Mass, accepting the call to the
pnstorate of the church. The letter
reads as follows:
Pttsfeld, Mass. Thursday. December
the fourteenth. in the year Of our
Lord, 1865
TO the College Street Congregational
Church and Society. In Burlington.
Vermont:
NJ. H. Buckham,
Katherine A. Benedict.
j. l.. Southwick.
A. c. Whiting.
Committee OF the Churci'
Robert Roberts.
G. w. Brownell.
Isaac Thomas,
Committee OF the Society.
Dear Friends: Letters have come to
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-12-21
rIIF. ROGERS CASE.

10 the Editor of the New York Tribune:
to commend the Tribunc's remarks to-
day concerning the Rogers case and to
offer an apology. on behalf of the vast
majority of sensible people of the State
Of Ohio. for some of the fantastic 'yei-
low journal stunts done by certain of
our hystcrical citizens IN appealing to
maudlin sentiment TO save a creature I'M
worthy of the slightest consideration OF
special favor and III developing this sem
tlmcnt by concealing the atrocious facts
Of her crime.
The Tribunes comment is Just and
right. ] should like to inquire of the
mushv sentimentalists who took an OPP
posi,c view just what punishment they
would suggest as proper for women who
decoy their husbands with caresses. tie
them hand and foot in pretended play
fulncss and affection. and then strarsle
them to death in cold blood for the pur-
pose of getting their life insurance and
marrying a paramount. If hanging is not
tine proper thing, as they claim. then
they should offer IL suggestion. l most
ussuredly would yield no mans claim to
superior regard for womanhoOd but hon
or!ng womanhood need not blind us to
the misdeeds of those who voluntarily
set themselves outside the pale of its
sanctitv. and even outside the realm OF
all humanity.
A DISGUSTED COLUNRIAM
Columbus. o., Dec. 3, 19Oo
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-12-21
Banquet and Reunion of News.
papermen in Rutland satur-
day Night.
TWO OUTSIDE SPEAKERS
pres. ShaIe Of the Publishers Press and
T.. J. Bowen Of philadelphia Al.
dress the Gnthcring-Open
House by Editor Fairfield
.-rrcscnted Weights

Rutland Dec. 1'-The banquet of the
newspaper men at The Berwick. Saturday
evening was happy and successful event
About so press men representing papers
in different parts of Vermont were pres
cnt. The banquet which was sumptu-
Gus affair was served at $50 o'clock and
was followed by post prandial exercises.
Business Manager r. f. Parsons of the
Rutland Herald presided as toastmast,r
The principal addresses were delivered by
John u. Shale. president Of the Publishers
Press association and Edward ]. Bowen
of Philadelphia. President Shale gave an
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-12-21
TO FEED $50 POOR CHILDREN.

One hundred and fifty covers are to
be spread for the poor children and their
mothers in Salvation army hall in Rut-
land Wednesday afternoon, January B.
The dinner will be given by the members
of Rutland corps of the Salvation army
Already prepare tons for the annual din
ner are being made by members of the
corps. In addition to the food served the
little folks and their mothers Christ
mass tree will be an attraction in the
evening at the same hail. Gifts OF all
kinds are received daily from people in
all sections Of the city. The army in Rut-
land intends to make this one of the
happiest days in the history of their work
among the poor there.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-12-21
400 Reward 3iQa.

The readers Of this paper viii. be pieaAed 10
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OILY ~ SS: msd
a. alsss:s ssaSi;es ses:tisss tssssnssss..
directly upon tho blood and mucous surface: q
The system, thereby destroying the founded
q TIE disease. epd giying ths pstisIt stsshgth
q oS e: IT. sa$ :: .s.
90 much faith q IL curative powers. that they
offer One HundFed Dollars iof ANY esss thai 4
falls 70 cure. eend for list Of testimonials.
= Address, r. J. CHENEY 4 co., Toledo, o.
- Sold Nv Druggists. 10.
Halls Family Pulls ore the best.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-12-21
T.. C.. FISH APPOINTED SHERIFF.

Gov Charles J. Bcll has appointed Enos
G. Fish Of West Rutland sheriff or Rut-
land county in the place or Daniel T.
Peabody. who was struck by train at
tho Rutland city station Tuesday after
noon and received injuries that resulted
in his death a few hours later.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-12-21

every we'll, SIR" said DR.. FiXem, after
his quarrel with the undertaken. III
make you sorry for this :"
"What are you going to do?" asked
the undertaken, retire from practice"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-12-21
What Shall Il, Be ?

Come to THE Royal for your answer
Gift gvers find the right thing here Useful ornamental
costly inexpensive The Of giving partly in the coos
ing, and we glad to have you look.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-12-21
ELEGANT COUCHEs.
At Sneclal Reduced Prices.

Our assortment of COuches is not
euualled this side of large cities. in
GLIDING the latest styles. most Gle
giant coverings A Couch makes
beautiful Gift We have reduced
prices on all as follows. affording a
fine opportunity;
COuciles, were = $50 Special, 3 4.0S
COnches, were $1,000. Special. r. $50
COuchcx. were %12.5N. Special. = S.0H
Couches, were $3.50. Special, $3.50
COucIies, were x@O.W. Special. 1880
COWcIles, were *:5.OO. Special, $500
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-12-21
Hob AbOut An Umbrella 4?

An admirable gift every and likes to carry fine
umbrella We demand and satisfy Some
have dainty natural wood handles crook princess
others have pearl handles silver trimmed mounted with IA Karat
rolled all have close rolling steel frame with
90 $49S half prices
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1905-12-21
FINE MORRIS CHAIRS.
At Special Reduced Prices.

Xmas Gift. Our assortment is i'm
mense, latest improved mechanism.
superb upholsterings. We have cut
prices for the occasion 200 to 339c.
giving unexcelled opportunity to get
Morris Chair, as follows:
Morris Chairs. Z $50. Special, Z 4.OO
Morris Chairs. $1,000. Special, = $50
Morris Chairs, SI?.5O Special. = S.70
Morris Chairs. $1,000. Special. $1,000
Morris Chairs. $500. Special, 1890
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-09-10
CORRESPONDENT is PASSING.

One of the interesting signs OF news.
paper evolution is the passing OF the
correspondent. The news gatherer has
crowded him out. The public wants
facts; it can get its own impressions
is the view of the modern journalism.
But 30 many things happen that i is
physical impossibility to give all the
facts, and there are many able editors
who believe that the correspondent with
splendid aptitude for collation. and con.
densation will again have his innings.
A few of the old time correspondents
remain, and among the best known
probably the best known-is Gath
George Alfred Townend, Marylander.
who for almost half century has told
of great events epigrammatically and
in many thousands OF columns. In his
style he represents rare contradiction
the power to put facts in short, point
ed seintillant sentences, combined with
capacity to fill big lot of space. \
decade ago, Mr.. Townsend, after Gaping
his long career with two successful nov
els-"Patty Cannon" and Kitty OF
Catoctin, retired to a beautiful home
that crowns one of the Maryland noun
tains. He had made a fortune IRON his
work and earned a good rest. At ma
tional presidential conventions his daily
output was from IL to IA columns.
After one particularly exciting session,
when the correspondents drifted in late
from their work. one of them said;
Townsend, what's the matter! You
look tired" do II" he asked. "lou
ought TO see those three stenographers."
But there have been changes since Mr..
Townsend was at his zenith, and we find
them illutrated in the dispatches from
Portsmouth reporting the peace confer
ence. Very little fine writing was at.
tempted in this work. Even though
most OF it mad to be speculation, there
had been rigid hewing to the line.
The newspaper has so many things for
its space that it cannot afford to waste
unless sentences even upon one OF the
greatest events in the history of the
world. The best work at Portsmouth
was done by the reporter and not by the
literary man sent there to give distinc.
tion to his papers dispatches.
1t shows that is universally true that
the most important man in the publicity |
of the day is the reporter who gets at
the facts and states them in plain, ter.e
English.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-09-10
INSTITUTION OF GAMBLING

Another rich boy has been robbed by
Garfield and his fellow gamblers. Thi.
time the scene is Saratoga, not New
York city. The shorn lamb i. highly
commended by the gambling community
because after having given them all his
ready money, he raised thousands more
from his family and friends and sent
them that by mail. which he was under
no legal or moral obligation to do.
Gambling is an ancient and dishonor.
able institution. 1t always has been
and doubtless will be so long as some
men are low enough to live on the weak.
ness of others. But civilized communi.
ties should draw the line somewhere.
and swindling 1edgelings hardly comes
Ender the accepted definitions of gam
bling. The law makes no restrictions
of age or any difference in tine penalty
even the gamblers themselves and their
approved code Of honor does not approve
stripping boys of their patrimony or
unfairly adding to the mathematically
certain percentage which in every gam.
bling game ultimately absorbs the play
er's stake.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-09-10

WEEKLY ASTOR1AN.
BY mail, per year, in advance. .Sl.N
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-09-10

The precision OF modern observations
brings to light unexpected facts. At the
Paris observatory Jean Mascart has no
ticed that the surfare OF a thin layer
of mercury is not plane but undulated
like water disturbed by the plunge of a
stone; and has also detected another
movement that proves to be a true tide
due to the sun and moon. The meas.
urements have been made repeatedly
during a month with the six micro
scopes of the instrument. The tidal
motion is slight, but greater that the
possible errors.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-09-10
About the Fool Killer.

Il wish,' siad Col ], W. Laws, as he
handed out wash boiler to Gray's
River customer that some great editor
would get up an article telling the full
and entire truth concerning the fool
killer, Most people have in their minds
picture OF him as a trusty giant, arm
ed with club, going up and down bel,
lowing for victims. Such is not the case,
and many people are inclined to think
that the fool killer is dead and out of
business because they don't hear his bel
lowings nor see sidewalks splashed
with Il { re of those whom he has
slain. They are greatly mistaken. The
fool killer is alive and actively engaged,
The corpses .of his producing cumber the
kearth and living men stumble over them
at every step. The Young man comes out
of college equipped to capture the earth.
full of zeal and hope he undertakes the
task. The fool Killer. hands him the
bread and butter problem aud tells him
he must solve that before he essays 10
carry the world by storm. The young
man goes down in a helpless mass by
the roadside, a tribute TO the unerring
Judgment of his eNecutioneer.
\ bright young minister goes to a
new church and begins brilliant ca.
reer, The path is smoothed before his
feet, and he is grasping at honors with
in his reach. Some little thing, wo-
mans smile mayhap, is thrust before
him, his head turns, he steps aside and
tumbles headlong into pit dug by the
fool killer
A bankers clerk or a banker. or
trustee, or a cashier, is ambitious to
be rich. He ses sure thing in specu-
lation. he dabbles, he wins; he tries
again, he loses, once more he loses, he
uses other peoples money, and when the
door of the pen slams behind him the
fool killer chuckles in malicious glee.
An editor goes in for principal he
tells the truth, he stands up for the
right, he defends the poor and weak, he
champions the minority, he deiies ira
dition and power and authority; putfed
with pride in himself he marches at the
head of the ession-when the -tool
killer slips a knife into his hamstring
and he founders PROSTATE in the road
and i trampled into the mud by those
he but lately led.
And so on through list that j.
growing faster than the aflidavits OF
circulation liar. The fool killer exists.
but people misunderstood him. He il
no brutal and violent butcher. but ad.
ministers his coupe de final with a noise
less and graceful skill that is the high
est type of the art.
AT the present time | just want to
let few fellows know the kind of an
the fool killer is for he is
bound to get some Of them in Decem.
ber.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-09-10

Tn time recording camera lately pat
ented in England takes a photograph
of any rapidly passing object the ex-
posures ranging from l.25 to l-l0O0
of second, and at the same time pho
tographs a watch thus giving the exact
time. With two such cameras and syn
chronized watches the police can obtain
a picture of a motor ear at each end OF
a measured strip of road the exact speed
being made easily obtainable from these
data.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-09-10

Only one degree removed from the sou
venir postal cards is tn vari.colored en-.
relope advertising the agricultural fair
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-09-10

Entered as second-class matter june
., 1905, at the postoffice at Astoria. ore.
gon, under the act of Congress of March 5,
1879.