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never came back. None Of the wishy-
washy tittletattle Interested me. IN
fact. There WAS only one little six
line paragraph that really caught me.
On Friday night thst Is 10 say, the
oight Of my adventures In Blankshire). /.
the Hunt Club WAS to give . charity
nsAsquerade dance. This grssped my
adventurous spirit by the throat and
refused TO let go.
The atmosphere surrounding the
eAragraph was spirituous with en-
chantment There was genuine
novelty about this dance. Two packs
of playing cards had been sent out as
tickets; one pack to the ladies and
one to the gentlemen. Charming idea.
wasn't 1t? These cards were to be
shown at the door. together with ten
A0llars. but were to be retained by
the recipients till two O'Clock tsupper
time). at which moment everybody
was to unmask and take his partner,
who held the corresponding card, in to
supper. Its newness strongly appealed
to me found myself reading the
paragraph over and over.
by Jove. what an inspiration
I knew the Blankshire Hunt Club,
with its colonial architecture, its great
ball room. its quaint fireplaces, its
stables and sheds, and the fame OF its
chef. II was one of those great coun-
try clubs that keep open house the
year round II stood back from the
sea about four miles and was within
five miles of the village. There was
fine course inland, a cross country
going of not less than twenty miles,
shooting-box, and excellent golf
links. In The winter it was coy. in
the summer II was ideal
was intimately acquainted with the
clubs NJ. f. IL. Teddy Hamilton. We
had done the Paris Berlin run in my
racing car the summer before II ]
hadn't known him SO well, ! might
still have been in durance vile, next
door to iail. or securely inside. | had
frequently lincd with him at the club
during the summer, and he had offered
to put me up: but as ! knew no one
intimately but himself. ] explained the
futility Of such action. BESIDES, my
horse wasn't a hunter. and | was rid
ing him less and less. 1t is no pleas
ure to go parking" along the bride
paths of Central Park. For myself. !
want hill country and something
like forty miles. straight away; that's
riding.
The fact that ! knew no one but
Teddy added zest to the inspiration
which had seized me. For | deter
mined to attend that dance. happen
what might. Ii would be vastly more
entertaining than possibly dull the
atrical performance lit was,b
l called for a messenger and dis
patched him to the nearest drug store
for pack of playing cards; and
while | waited for his return | casu-
ally glanced at the other diners. At
ny table-one of those long marble
topped affairs by the wall-there was
an old man reading paper. and the
handsomest girl | had set eyes upon
in . month of moons. Sometimes the
word handsome seems an inferior ad-
jective She was beautiful and her
half-hidden eyes told me that she was
anywhere but at Mouquin What a
head of hair Fine as a spiders web,
and the dazzling yellow OF a wheat
field in a sun shower, The irregu-
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chAPvGA I.

y.
II all depends upon the manner -
your entrance to the Castle of Adveo-
ture. One does not have To scale Ne
beetling parspets or assault Its scarpo
and frVwRinS bastioas; neither 10 Oae
obliged to force with clan,0r and blAr
ing trumpets and glittering gorsets
the drawbridee and pOrtcullis. Rather
the pathway Hes through one Of those
many little doors, obscure, yet easily
accessible. latchless and bOltless, to
which the average person gives 10
particular attention. and yet which in
variably lead to the very heart of this
Castle Detachable. The whimsical
chatelaine Of this enchanted keep is
= shy goddess. CircumspectiOn has no
practicality; nor does her eye linger
upon the dullard and the blunderer
Imagination solves the secret riddle.
and wit Is the guide that leads the
seeker through the winding, bewilder-
ing lsbyrinths.
And there is something In being
idle. too,
- no" h't SohV th'o AHou
quins cellar for dinner that night, ]
should have missed the most engaging
adventure that ever fell to my lot. 1t
lis second nature for me to be guided
by impulse rather than by reason:
reason is always SO square-toed and
Impulse is always so alluring. You
will find that nearly all the great
aims and nF
impulse; nothing brilliant is ever
achieved by calculation. All this is
not to say that ! am great captain;
it is offered only to inform you that
| am often impulsive.
A Times, four days old; and If |
hadn't fallen upon it to pass the
twenty-odd minutes between my order
and the service OF 1t, | shouldn't have
made the acquaintance OF the police
in that pretty little suburb over in
New Jersey; nor should l have met
the enchanting Blue Domino; nor
would fate have written Kismet The
clairvoyant never has any fun in this
cycle; he has no surprises.
! had been away from New York
for several weeks. and had returned
only that afternoon. Thus. the spirit
of unrest acquired by travel was still
upon me. Ii was nearly holiday week.
and those congenial friends | might
have called upon. to while away the
evening. were either busily occupied
with shopping or were out of town;
and determined not to go to the clsb
and he bored by some Indifferent bill
lard player | would dine quietly.
listen to some light music, and then
go to the theater. l was searching
the theatrical amusements. when the
society column indinerently attacked
my eye I do not know why il is. but
| have a wholesome contempt for the
socalled society columns of the daily
newspaper in New York Mayhap. it
is because | do not belong.
read this paragraph with a shrag.
and that one with smirk. ] was IN
no manner surprised at the announce
ment that Miss High-Culture was 20
ing to wed the Duke of Impecune. |
had always been certain this SRI
would do some such fool thing. That
Mrs. Hyphen-Bonds was giving a fare
well dinner at the Waldorf. prior TO
her departure TO Europe. Interested
my curiosity not in the least degree
II would be all the same to me if size
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AFFIDAVIT ,!s1,!4{ q .!Ss JULIA S.
Mrs. Eddy's Wair not Gray in
the Yeas 1882.

studied Christian Science with the Rev.
Mary Baker q. Eddy in 1850 The picture
of her in n sitting posture, with book in her
hand was made by Mr.. ". Shaw Warren in
1852 or lsS3 II was true likeness of Mrs.
Eddy as she appeared when first knew her,
in 1sSo. and for many years thereafter.
The picture published by McClurs and
represented by the editor pf that magazine =
having been taken from photograph 81 Mrs
Eddy made in Is>2 is not pieturr al Mrs.
Eddy and does not represent her in any way.
1t appears t. have gray hair. In 1852. and
for many wears thereafter. Mrs. Eddy's hair
was natural brown.
tSIzncd4 JULIA : EAETLETr
Boston. Nov. 21th. 1906
Then personally appeared the above
named Julia : Bartlett and made oath that
the foregoing statement by her subscribed is
Before me.
ssicpedn LEON NJ ABBoTT
JuSric. 81 the Peace
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si"ls- and later ! studied rkri-,,aa s-.i~sc~
viia hrr In $50.
The pirturr pab,i-l..d IN Mcs lur-s oASa-
zine. aud represented by the editor s- hsvtaG
b., mad. ~ I--2 10 not . p,ctarv ~ NM
tiis aud dae- not r,-em,,ss her In say way
t>,gsedi EIiskN l.. CLAkk
No, 2~th. iassS
Th.u personally appeared tit-s l.. ClarA.
who signed the t"r~so,sG .tat-m~st aad
mn,ie oath that the same i- true.
Briore ne.
LEON n ARbDIT
Justice of the r.nce.
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He Knew

Ieacher-Nhat is it that our Chris
tan people should spread through the
WORLD
iommie-1 don't know. ma'am.
W hat is il We send TO the heatheo
through our missionaries
PeEnies, ma'am -Yonkers States.
man.
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Affidavit Il nhstDpaphss vhs
Took Mrs. fttys fie.ure 10

Boston. Nov. 27th, 1906.
The picture oi Mrs. Eddy marked No. 2
which l. Published In this article was made
by me on April 9th. 1s~6 II is n true pho
tograph of Mrs Eddy. The picture which
appears in Hrtlure's Magazine of I'-cemher.
and which il represented having been
made from photograph of Mrs. Eddy taken
in 1852 l. not a likeness of Mrs. Eddy. and
could not possibly have been photograph
nf her.
tSignedl II q. SMITH.
SpbscribeI and sworn To this 27th day nf
November. A. u. 1906.
Refore me,
tSirnedl MARTHA ". MACY,
Special Commissioner
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Affidavit Of chas. {. chevaillier,
Ssa Of the Woman Whose Pic
ture was Represented 10 the
Pub|ie b. neclsre's S Magazine
as 4 Photograph o. Mrs.
Eddy.

Marshall, Texas. Nov.IHi'cr 2Tth. 1906.
MIR. ALFRED E.KLow Boston. Mass
Dear Sir-1he photograph embossed here
with. taken by the hoffman Photographic
Company, Park Street. and ls4 Boylston
street. Boston. Mas-ar arhus~tts L. a I,ortrait
of my Mother. Mrs. sarah {. Cheyaiiiier. By
n comparison. any one can easily see that the
portrait published on page 2l2 of McCIur.'s
Magazine for December. 1906 i- the picture
of my mother, and to the best 81 my knowI-
edge and beiief is an exact copy OF the photo
graph enclosed
Signed CHAS r rHENAJIJJEE
The State 81 Texas
County Of Harr+sonl
Before me. Marion Turney. Notary
Public in and Tor Harrison County Texas. On
this day personally appeared Charles I.
'hev aillier to well known TO he tn.
person whose name is subscribed to the fore
going letter. who. after being duty sworn bv
me. ON oath says that the statements made
in the foregoing letter true. aud that the
photograph therein enclosed is - portrait e
his mother. Mrs. Sarah {. ch..vaiiIi.r
November 27th. 1906
tsisnedj MARION TUENEY
Notary Pubie in and for
l>eall Harrison County. Texas
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Mr.. kstAs.
% A.s~.sh-.t wh. and k-ssse the Ds.s.
ser ssoks< " BOT tss.- plscsA On tks
s-s- -ssssN. ! s~'se To the ns@as,as tAaer
VI nssisurc's. sps,s,-.sss hin ~ ss's srs"s. hot
ssreissa rsvy. ~ letter s,,ilow-s
4 have Just s~-n lsosias st the .avcr'i-e.
nest which yos have ia Riftse~syi- - the
18th in.t. IL the centre os the p~se Is =
picture which assume l. represented - .
p,strsit of hr- Eddy. ! hasten To inform
yos that tbs y not a picture 81 Mrs. k.ststy .
there is sosh,ns sboot IL that would rss.isd
one ~ ses. ! have seen Mr.. Lidy frequently
dsr'as the past twenty TIVE yesr- aud k.o~
her lace we'll eao.sh to draw a likese-- Of II n
We're an srti-t th.refore ! s,.esk from posi-
tive kno~iedsc.
II was my f,sr that Yen migit he imp"-ed
upon nv Just -uch counterf-it> that imI,lled
me to suggest that ypur manuscript relstinx to
Mrs. Eddy t,e Submitted t. someone thoroughly
posted coacernins the events 81 her life
Directly underneath the Nc, lure portrait
Is u modern signature "f Mr.. Eddy. which
might give the impression that 1t had been
written ON this photograph by Mrs. fdiy'
This Of course could MT possibly he true
since the portrait is not likeness of
- Mr. Eddy and never was in her
hands. ihnesth one of the genuine
portrait, appended To- this statement
We publish fac-simile of Mrs
tddys signature she wrote IT in
IS~2.
When called upon 10 pro ure the
photograph from which the picture
wss made. and to give the name 81
the photograp phcr. the editor d Nc
~ Cures declined, ss, ing he would
" give what information he could u few
days later.
Il then went to work ~ obtain evil
dsnce, by which could disprove Me-
tlurc's allegation, and show the public
81 that another face hal been substituted
FIJI fr that Of Mrs EDDY.
The following siiidavits and iho-
tosraphs are the results Of my investi-
CATION;
y escvvae 20 0aS soAAAts c
i cteevAskkNa. evOAsoeeGo Ov
0ecAvAC . AaD AllecGO ~
vt4e0 70 OG q etcvvNC oF
Ooo. eoov, vAAe0 ~ soo1.
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Thee P,cs.r. ~ Mn. Eddy IN . sstttas psss-
turs. with book in hasd. sss made hy nr.
y shaw srr~~ in Ssh pr~vi"~-. " ~
~ exact bk.ns-.~ oi Mr.. Eaay ~ she a.
p,.-sr.d "a, that time and Tor some year. pv~-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-11-15
BACK Gives OUT
Plenty of Burlington Readers
Have This Experience.

You tax the kidneys-over-
work them
They can't keep up the con-
tinual strain.
The back gives QUIT aches
and pains;
Urinary troubles set in.
Don't wait longer-take
Doan S Kidney Pills.
Burlington people tell you
how they act.
+. j. Crowley, clerk at Howe & Browns
market and living at So Front ST. Bur-
l,ngton. VI, says: MY back was lame
and sore and l often had sharp pains
when lifting or straindng. When / took
cold or over exerted myself in any way
the trouble was sure to be more ag-
gravatng, | used different remedies but
none OF them helped me as Doan's Kid
ney Pills, which ! procured at the Park
Drug Store. Two boxes OF this medicine
cured me Of a severe attack. stopping
the pains and making my back feel bet
Der and stronger"
For sale by all dealers. Price 80 cents
Foster Milburn Co.. Buffalo. New York,
sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-DoaI.s-an take
no other
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CCRATORS.
STANDING COMMITTEES

on library, Joseph A. DeBoer T.. NJ.
Goddard, John +. Goodrich; on printing,
Theodore s. Peck. Fred \. Rowland,
Walter Fl. Crockett; on finance, Henry f.
Field, Joseph A. DeBoer, Fred A. How
tand
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one maker to his son and were onl,
brought to their final perfection afte,
several generations had expended muc,
labor upon them. or course when peopl<
have little to occupy them, neither tirne
nor labor count for much.
There are other sorts Of ground an.
polished objects which appear in our col.
lections but they must be left with
further comment. Many times NOR,
abundant than the ground polished on.
iects are those that were shaped by chip
ping or taking. Except for a few flnel,
| finished slate points all the spear heads
arrow points, and most OF the knives
We're made in this way. Some Of tn
many forms of quartz were used in tn
manufacture of these objects and some
Of them are beautifully coored and won
derfully we'll made. The Vermont points
while Of very many sorts of quartz arc
by far most commonly made Of a gray
.sh or blush quartzite which occurs In
many localities IN the State. This is the
most common material and the tr!-
angular outline Is the most frequent
| These OF course we're without haft or
barbs, but halted and sharply barbed
specimens, while less common than forms
without these, are yet numerous and some
OF them will not suffer by comparison
with similar specimens from any part OF
the countcry or indeed, the world.
Still these delcately pointed and sym
metrically shaped points are the excep-
ton for the most part our Vernon;
points. spear and arrow are less finely
= formed and regular than those from the
region of the mounds. We have some
Specimens as fine as the finest. but they
ere less numerous and our average f.
composed Of specimens Of good work
manship, but yet inferior 10 those Of tn
West.
Not only were the smaller points made
by taking hinty stone but spear head-
a foot long have been found and still
larger oval or ovate objects which arr
supposed to have been used as spades or
hoes Other Clipped implements arc
drills long narrow pointed. scrapers
with blunt round edges. knives ~ al
shapes and sizes. and various nordescript
articles. the use Of which is wholly
predetermined.
Al the close or Prof. Perkiuss p1ner
Frank L. Greene Of 81 Adams offered
a resolution that was unanimously
adopted thanking Prof. Perkins for hts
excellent parcr and requesting a copy
for publication I'm tho record Of thu
proceedings of tho society w. W.
Stickney Of Ludlow offered similar
resolution on Judge Stafford's address
which was also unanimously adopted.
". r. Jones of Newton, Mass. was
elected to membership on recommeula-
tion of Fred A. Rowland.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-11-15

REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.
A girl likes to be IN love so she can say
she isn't.
Some boys are so naturally sound the'
have plain sense even after co.les.
education.
When a man has lived long enough in {;
fiat he kind Of looks forward TO purgatOr,
tho way a schoolboy does to vacation.
A girl who is too delicate to sweep a hal
rug can dance seventeen miles at a bal.
and then want to walk home with one Of
her paruars.-New York Press.
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mont, and Vermont Is proud Of her son.
me last speaker was Prof. George
II. Perkins OF Burlington, who read a
most interesting paper on prehistoric
vermont and Relics and Evidence OF
Early Occupation by Indian Tribes
an abstract OF which follows:
PROF. PERkINgs PAPER ON PRE-
HISTORIC VERMONT.
| That the area now covered by the Stale
of Vermont was more or less fully occu.
pied by Indian tribes long before 1t was
seen by white man is conclusvely proved
! by remains of village sites, camp grounds
and thousand OF objects fashio,yed from,
shell, copper, bone. earthenware and most
of ALL Of stone. These were found buried
1 in the earth, were in common Use when
the first Europeans wandered hither. VII
! lage sites arc few and It seems probable
that for maty years previous 10 the com
ing of Europeans the permanent villages
we're few and small
! The savage allies who iourneyed with
! Champlain when he made that well-known
| first visit to the lake which bears his
name, explains this They told him, that
! because of long contrhed feuds between
! themselves, Algonlkins and the Iroquois,
] t,tr
| ~, rn,,,o, oho,,. +. ,,hahi,ah1o
,rhia 400. account t,,....,. Gov. tho az
| ,o,,r.,y ei,,;ior ,h.o.,,o 80 ,.i,,ooos fror,
! H. o,,,or,, nor, - N, gu, ,bara
may have a similar condition OF things
t., 1.-Two connection, ,,,.a,. ,.,ior Al onv
,., ,,i..a,..,,, No.. 49,, - .ho foo.
ro,r,irs that fau o,.,do,oos Of long rom
.ir,,od so,t,ar,<,,+ 49, -, eo,,rd ar,-
,,baro in tba st,to
canning ,ro,,,,,1c so,,,o ~ v,bich ,voro
,,r,,o,,hte,llv occuriod eaoso,, altar sea
.,,, o,1 Co... ,,,o,,,L. =. .i,,,o ,ra mora
,r,,roro,,.
,r,o o,r1,. i,b,li,o,.. -, ,-or-,or+ se.,,,,
-, h,,,o croo,,,o.,+i,. -, ,,,4 e., tho o,riv
,,,,,,,,o,. tr,r, ,ba L., so.o.,s ,,.bora ror
toto. sho,.or .ho.. ~, o.. ,ro ,yin+ar
ne va arc ,o,d 10, ala ,.,.,r. and lo-
oo.ir,, a. so,,o ,o,,,, ,.,. ,ai., ,-ho,. t,er,
was rood fsbins md tor,uo soil. they
ni+chod thoi, ,orts ,bo,o c,,. tho summon
IIere ,bev rnode r,do ,l,o,i,,,.s and usln,
verv nrimitive a,,rioui,pr,j methods
n,,ntod corr, .orosbos ,uo,,rs tobacco
ord marianne coma o,bo. oro,, o,,1 wait
al Gov. tba ,ror,tb o,,d rt,o,i,,, If their
borvaet rha ecr,sws d,d Tho farm work
,rd ,ha mo-, hurto, as,.1 gouyh+ or
Ilo,ryod ah,r. tho ca,nn In the fall
pacLi,y th.ir d,1od ,,oot or ash and the
f,,,;ts NJ tb.ir ,,lloea ,r,o rorteble HIM
do. +bav hro,,e CAM, ard moved into tho
--..----- s. A. 49, .f..o. g..
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Adjourned Annual Meeting Held
1t Montpelier Friday AT
ternoon and Evening
DEWEY FUND INVESTED
Will he Kept until II IL large Enousi
$e Pay for statue of Admiral
Dewcy--Addrcss by Judpe
stafford OF Wnshiuu-
ton, II. &.

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p,4In"es 'oeepi -. Depoct' reward ~
49, 10 49, 'ip"'' '"!. 'V'' =
a. ei hinS' f'u""ru H. .'''N '', D. b"
pou.." ioN' Mur"n o''"'' W. ~
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,.aar ora. pr,.t1.,,, ,-,.,..s1 49,
dict Burlington; vice-presidents Will
liam w. StickneY' Ludlow, Fred A.
Howiand' Montpelier' H. CHARLES Royce.
BIZ Aipans; recording secretary Joseph
A. DeBoer' Montpelier; corresponding
secretaries Theodore $. Peck" HurlinS-
treasurer Henry T. 1rie1d put1and. IL
brarian, Edward NJ Goddard, Mont
pelier.
o,,,,.ron,
Ezra Brainerd. Addison county; Samuel
d. Hall, Bennington county; the Rev
Henry Fairbanks. Caledonia county: the
Rev. John Z. Goodrich, Chittenden county;
Porter H. Dale Essex county: Walter II.
Crockett, Franklin county; Nelson Wilbur
Visk, Grand Isle county; Carroll s Page,
Sanoille county; Dr. George Davenport,
orange county: f. w. Baldwin, orleans
county; =. r. Leaven worth Rutland
tounty; Hiram Carleton, Washington
bounty; Bert Emery Merriam Windham
)ounty, and Gilbert y. Davis. Windsor
bounty; Frederick q. Fleetwood, secretary
IF State; Horace F. Graham. auditor Of
accounts and George W. Wing state
'orarlan, eX-oh1c!o.
STANDING Committees
'uoPt' ~ i'epoe'' i' W.
o''''I l., Noo''' i'"' "ii p'"'"'4'
% s'!'' 'i'' ~ Ilo"i"hu'
oii "H"I'''' 'icil /
'09ep" ~ ie'oe'' rreu a. How
II VIZ -Hr'Ni 'r'hH'
The report of board of managers, pre-
fented by Recording Secretary DeBocr,
showed that the society has lost by dea h
since the last report. the following mem
bers: Henry Ballard Of Burlis,et ton. dis
tlSul member or the thitttudCl