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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-10-17
CITY NEWS.

paNe to-day Tor NOrfOlk, va, where
lhey will pass the winter WITH friends.
Joseph Delorme was before Justice
Macomber Thursday withdrawing his
plea of not guilty to charge Of in
toxcation. He was fined IS and costs.
James A. Ryan arragned in city court
Friday pleaded guilty to a first Of
Tense Of intoxication and was fined IS
and costs of S7.45.
Henry Therrien and Miss Dclma Ioule,
Hoth of this city were married Tuesday
morning at ST. Joseph's Church by the
Rt. Rev. Mgr Cloarec.
Nelson Terry, when arraigned be-
tore Justice j. r. stoarns Monday
charged with intoxicntion. pleaded
guilty and was fined So and costs OF
)695.
petition in bankruptcy was flied Tues
lay in the office Of the clerk of the
district court by Martha NJ. Dunn OF
Poultney. She has liabilities Of 33A.77
md assets of s67 of which $50 is claimed
Exempt.
Norman Mossey, colored youngster.
Was arraiened in city court Tuesday
charged with intoxicaton. lie pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to servo the
remainder of his minority in the State
tndustrlal school at Nergennes'
~ u. ,. ~
WV ~ i,,i ~
20" W" Tvs v" N""''n ana C"'ieBe
Itreets in this city, has moved to
Bangor, Me- where ne is practising
airs Morrow and children are resid-
ng on Pearl street
MIS-. J'hn y. Merchant or Howard
street dicd Tuesday morning after a
long Illness with tuberculosis. She was
u years OF age ana Is survived 10y hus-
Band and four daughters, the oldest be
ne only u years Of age.
fact. ,.a,,.. 20 r-,,.
mere hanL filed petition In bankrupt
tN ID me once of the clerk of the dis
'rict court Thursday. He has lahili-
ueS OF Wy ''.7' and assets of Si9o OF
Nhl'h $N' IS claimed exempt.
pctor Corhe,t at ,,hose ,,,c- ~, ao,tl,
r'barnnlafr street a iur Of ,vbi.i.cv uas
,.izod some ti,no ca ,,as .,ikc, n. foro
Justice ] n Nacnn,,or Saturday. ofror-
noon lie ploadod guilty. to r,lilre tho
louor for Illegal p,rposos ard was placed
" 'he hanas OF tho p'.'at'"n OFFICER
There was hearing in Powell Il
Powelrs Office Friday before Re-
cree in Bankruptcy Hiram Mote of st.
Adams in tho question Of the homs-
stead right If Alma Dean in the bank
rupt estate Of NJ l.. Dean Of Alburgn.
Tho homestead right was dccrecd 10
Mrs. Dean.
Tho fo,lo,yi,e, i,,,1,,,oo,,,, wore -o,,o,.s,,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-10-17

Or. ]. W. Morrow, who formerly
had offices on Cnurch and College
Itreets in this city, has moved to
Bangor, Me- whore nc is practising.
AIRS. Morrow and children are rcsd-
ng on Pearl street
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-10-17
Hoods SarsapariIIa

There was a hearing in Chttenden
county court Tuesday afternoon on the
motion to dissolve the injunction in the
case Of Michael Cavage VS.. Victor Plant
and Selma Plant. An injunction re-
straininE the plaintiff from trying the
case was brought by the defendants on
the 7und that the question involved
should he decided in equity The in
junction was modified Tuesday after
noon so that tho case may he heard as
originally entered.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-10-17

Norman Mossey, a colored youngster
Was arraigned in city court Tuesday
charged with intoxcation. He pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to serve the
remainder OF his minority in the State
industrial school AT Vergennes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
A SmaIIpox Scare.

From the New York Times.
 A number of policemen about to be sent out on special detail were in the large room of the station house in Mulberry street when an Italian woman, carrying a baby In her arms, entered.
 Baby" she said, quite clearly-then paused
 "Yes, baby" said the lieutenant on duty.
 Baby" she said again, "pox-arm- smallpox"
 There was a waver fin the line of waiting men.
 ''Smallpox-baby-ha the baby got the smallpox?" asked the sergeant.
 "Yes, baby got smallpox on arn,' said the woman.
 Everybody except the sergeant left with out waiting for a detail, and he didn't believe it. Has the baby got thS. snaiipox?' he asked assin
 want board put smallpox on baby arm," said the woman.
 "Oh, I see" said the sergeant. YOU want the baby vaccinated@'
 Yes" said the woman; want poard put on arm" .,a
 After the sergeant had written the proper address on a slip of paper for the mother. he called the detailed men in from the street and gave them special lesson in elementary police duty
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
How a Play Must Be Written.

George Middleton in The Reader for July.
 Though ones story may be pleasing and the underlying theme a sympathetic one, play that is badly constructed has nat urally little to recommend it to a man. ager. Again there are exceptions, but 1t is wise for the unknown dramatist td build well. We must assume some tech. nical knowledge, or piaywriting Is hope- less at the start If one is lacking in the scenic sense-that Is, in the ability to put @ scene together so that an au- dience will see its cardinal points-or if one has no inituitive feeling for what is "of the theatre" he is no more prepared to write play. let alone sell it. than an architect is to build a house without plans. If he has this knowledge realiz- ing that play is a struggle, he will unfold his story clearly through a series Of cumulative scenes, properly climaxed, and containing the scene a faire-tha scene in which the inevitable and final explanation must occur. Each scene of play must be a loss if omitted All sub-plcts should contribute to the main plot and its denouement.
 Of course a too conscious loyalty to technlc often kills ease and spontaneity: episode and color relieve the rgidity of the scheme. provided they are not too Important in themselves. It is here also that dialogue plays its important part; for if free and Immediately appealing. 1t gives grace and naturalness to the well planned play. Then, too, the dialogue should be in character, should advance .,the story, and. above all, should be inter- estng. In 1t Hes the authors wit, that tickles the intelligence, and the humor. that strokes the gentler emotions But no mere glittering gaudiness of words is of any use unless it cloaks a human story.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
COWARDLY AND UNMEANING
BY GREENE GARDNER.

then you're less than ten years old. You've stood still, become dwarfed, although you have grown to man stature.
 Your life, a failure if each added year doesn't change your horizon and make you want to stay in the world a little longer to see what's just beyond the horizon. After you've found that out you'll find stil another horizon beyond and so it will continue. even If you live 0 thousand years. You want the hap piness of childhood againi You, a man of fiftyi Even if you were 500 you ought to be ashamed to voice such a wish. An, there's my car. Don't take offence at what I've said.
 'Td not have said so much if hadn't known that you didn't really mean what you said"
 The elder man stood motionless, his cigar dropping from between his fingers, staring after bis companion until he had disappeared into his car. Then he looked about him in a dazed sort of way and said, q declare" under his breath while his own car passed him and he never knew f.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21

morning newspaper the other day and stranger still it was literally true. The headline was over story telling or the great prosperity of the Bowery SaVings bank and how Wall street bankers often sought loans there. The Bowery Sav- ings bank is the greatest institution or its kind fin the world with It's s100, ,3S0, ,94s O6 O. deposits and it's several millions or sur plus.
 This one bank has greater savings than all Canada, all Norway or all or Holahl and ore-tenth as much as England. US rise marks the conversion Of the BOW cry, once the haunt of vice and crime to an avenue of prosperity, of thrift and of economy. It hasn't been long since bankers and business men only went to the Bowery on sightseeing eXpedlCons to sec the inside of Harry HIT sa- loon Steveneon's Slide" Owney Geog- hegan's ''Wickedest Place In New York" and "suicide Hall" Then the actors be- gan singing a song to the effect, that 'They say such things and do such things on the Bowery. I'll never go there any more" There are those who say that this scng marked the beginning or the Bowery's reformation. There is no way of telling whether or not this Is true, put a Httis Investigation will convince any one that the people are going there again. not to see them do such things and say such things, but to put money In bank.
 The savings bank system in the United States Is not quite a hundred years old, the first one having been started in Philadelphia about 1S16. New York's first institution of the kind was established three years later. The Bowery Savings bank was opened on the Bowery in 1884 and it has been there ever since In going over it's record the officers will tell you with great pride that their institution lent the money for tho building of the yd a mortgage on the structure.
 Soon there will be little trace left of the wicked New York of the old days. The Ttnderloin Is not what 1t 'once was. the "Red Light district has been wiped out the Bowery remains in name only and Chinatown Is going soon.
 Senator Thomas Collier Platt is "A years old. There was time when the senator's birthday was an event in this state. He always spends his summers at the Ori- ental hotel and in years past all of the republican leaders and officeholders of importance called there to congratu- late him. Presents and teegrams poured in from everywhere. But the senator l has been shorn of his political power and | his friends have deserted him. Feeble and alone, except for hired attendants, he spent melancholy 74th birthday A SlIdHBe ieilblOuS Sett aii eduy hhOWi in parts of the south and west, has be- | gun campaign In New York. The
 leaders profess to acquire a gift of
 tongues by prayer. Sister Mabel Smith,
 the head and front of the organization.
 says seventeen tongues have been given
 her so far and she expects soon to. "come
 through" into the Hungarian language with n joyous halleluJah!
 Every night the faithful gather in Glad 1 Tidings" hall and Sister Smith exhorts. l Pretty soon she is far away. Her eyes
 roll, she gurgles frightfully and then she
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
Duffy's Pure Mali WhiSkey

It kills the disease germs and keeps the system in a normal, healthy con dition It is distilled wholly from matted grain, and its softness. pala- liability and freedom from injurious substances make it acceptable to the most sensitive stomach.
 It is recognized everywhere as the purest, most powerful tonic-stimulant, and is prescribed by doctors of all schools and used in hospitals as q positive cure for pneumonia, pleurisy, grip, coughs, colds, bronchitis, con- sumption and all diseases of throat and lungs; nervousness, malaria and levers; indigestion, dyspepsia, and ev- cry form of stomach trouble.
 Sold by druggists, grocersi and deal CTS, or direct. $1 per bottle. Illus trated medical booklet containing some of the many convincing testi- monials received from grateful men and women who have been cured, and doctors advice free. Duffy Malt Whiskey Co.,, Rochester, N. Y.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
John L. Sullivan Popular.
!, thn St Louis World.

From the St. Louis World
 There is something about rugged, un- routh old John l.. Sullivan that holds the admiration, If not almost the aiIec- +ion. of the American people, and one wonders what the peculiar character'suc is that makes this the case. Is II uhe fact that he was once champion heaVS- weight fighter of the world? Corbett was and Jeffries is all that, and yet neither is anywhere near as popular as the Neu- erable John l.. Sullivan. There IS so'ne- +binq to his hold upon the American peo- nle and recent developments in the game ,ha+ made him famous incline to the beiiet thai his unhlnching honesty and great od-heartedness are responsible. He was
 rough and ready. honest gooda heaIroo near. ~, and because he was the greatest hghter oi ,sis dav the American people do mn honor. He is worthy of it-great praise 1T
 these degenerate days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21

4 the two men passed the school "A house the children came out of the 4 \ doors. foN 1t was the hour of clos in. The instant they got down the steps, how they rushed out to the street. The boys screamed. threw up their hats and covered the ground. some by hand springs, others by jumping, while the girls hopped and skipped along with more dalntiness.
 Happy age!' said the elder of the two men as ne gazed rather wistfully at the children. What would I not give to be a boy again. care free and full of the very joy of living I've seen many ragged unllempt newaboy whom I've envied from l..e bottom of my heart because of his ligheheartedness. Look at that boy going along with his cap on the back Of his head, his books under his arm, and whist lingl What does he care about the prob lem of life. To eat, sleep. run, play and study as little as possible constitutes his aim for happiness I'd give big share of what I've got to be like him"
 The younger man looked at his oom- panion and shook has head You sur prise me beyond measure" said he. T didn't suppose you capable of voicing suon weak sentiments"
 Weak sentimentsv echoed the other What do you meanr'
 Exactly what I said. It's weak and unmanly to take such view of life. When you say you wish you were a chnd again you acknowledge that you have made a failure of life since you grew out of childhood"
 "Oh, no. I didn't mean that. was only wishing that could enjoy life again with the freedom of childhood, with DO responsibilities, without? the memory of days of happiness that are gone forever"
 Fl don't believe you understand what you are saying If you felt that way you would be confessing yourself a coward. Every year added to ones life ought to bring greater capacity for happiness and make one's life of moro value. There's too much of the sort of sentiment in the would that you have just uttered. and it's doing no end of harm. Men think 1t no shame to say that they are blase, that they have exhausted the possibilities in life. tu4tEsgl
 'The man was never born who could exhaust lifes possibilities. The quicker he gets to a point where he feels that he has done so the more does he prove his nature Is puny and crippled. To get up In the morning and feel that life con- tains DO attraction, that there's little to live for. Is the same as though man said: I am so much bigger than the world that I have even now got from it all 1t has to give me- Egotism Cyni- cism! Cowardice.
 And here you stand on brilliant morn-. ing a man in perfect health, with money enough to be comfortable and an active mind and you tell me that a ten-year- old schoolbody is capable of getting more out of life than you can! If that's so,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
DRENNEN'S VEHICLE PRICES

"comes through" perhaps In Greek, Hin doc or some other language of which she was ignorant until she went into the trance. Sister Smith doesn't worry about grammar and linguists might detect that she has coined many new words. In fact, her disqusltions sound as if she coined new ones for every occasion.
 When she has "come through some of the brethren "oome through" but none of them of course, is half so pro- ficient as she
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
Climate and Character.

Why is 1t that the inhabitants of the frozen north are a shftless and unintel- ligent people, that the inhabitants of tho tropics are lazy and delight in vulgar ornaments?
 According to c. D. Pflaum, a German scientist, the highest degree of civilization is reached in temperate climates.
 Temperature, asserts the savant, affects character; in the cold a man loses inter est in life and falls to associate ideas properly, while in an exceedingly warm climate a mans blood is consumed more quickly he becomes easily fatigued and at the same time his taste to de- sire for the barbario adornment of sav- ages.
 The effect of cold on the character Is evidenced in the Esquimaux. According to Mir. Pfiaum, cold contracts the blood ves- sells and prevents the organs from being suffused by a great quantity of the iuid flinders the work of the heart and pro- duces a trembling of the muscles.
 Because the automatic activity of the organs is lessened there Is a diminiution in sense impressions. "A shivering per- son." he declares, Ifs satisfied with vague impressions, he lays no weight upon the clearness of his ideas and the precision of his concepts and judgments. He does not follow up impressions, neglects to compare them.
 "One who is shivering relates poorly and listens poorly, and neglects, above all to make comparisons and to reflect upon sit uations. The actor at rehearsal in the unheated theatre is but superficial in his role"
 During the Russian campaign in 1872 many of the French soldiers suffered from a striking loss of memory. While Nansen and his crew. on the Ham, lay in the north during the winter and spring of 1895, they suffered from a strange lethargy and lack of interest. '
 Warmth, it is claimed has beneficial psychic effect. Heat has the opposite ef- feet of cold; 1t produces decay and de- strpys organic action. Heat lessens the vegetative activities of the organisms and canses the muscles to relax.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
Mason Fruit Jars

Time to use them now, and Jelly Glasses, too, and we have all sizes at reduced prices.
 1-pt. Mason Fruit Jars, dog. ..,... .6oc lat. Mason Fruit Jars, dog. ....75c N-gaL Mason Fruit Jars, dog. .s5c Good size Jelly Glasses, dog .... .25e Colonial Iced Tea Glasses. each. Sc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
Her Own Eyes Good Enough.

From The Reader for July.
 A little Scotch boys grandmother was packing his luncheon for him to take to school one morning. Suddenly looking up in the old lady's face, he said;
 ''Grandmother, does yer specs mag nify?"
 "A little, my child" she answered.
 "Aweel then" said the boy "I wad juist Ike 1t if ye wad talk them aff when we're packn' my loonch."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
Stomach Ache
 and DiarrhOea

are often brought on by eating green vegetables and unripe fruit, or by sud den changes in weather, excessive heat, gulping down iced drinks, etc., and are prevented and quickly cured
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21

banks in maintaining a system of espion- age over the employees
 So strict a watch do they keep upon the men for whom they have given bond that scores of detectives are being employed to scrutinize their most casual actions. Bank clerks in New York City are being watched as they have never been before. They are being followed from their places Of employment to their homes, and from their homes to places of amusement. So close is this watch, indeed, that com plaints have recently been made by men who resented the suspicion they have to endure. These men have demanded to know why they were being followed. They have been soothed, but the vigilance has not been relaxed.
 The record of embezzements shows in most cases that the proceeds of the thefts have been frittered away by dabbling in the stock market A fortune has been hoped for by the embezZer, but has not been realized.
 Of interest to the deposltors will be the admission of the bankers that any man who has access to the vaults can steal either in lump sums or small amounts and the officials will know nothing Of 1t until the cash has been counted. There are several ways that this can be done. The dishonest employe can take pack age of money and pass 1t to a confeder- ate or conceal it until he goes out to luncheon and then place 1t in a safe place He is practically assured that the money in the vault will not be counted In a's absence. Another way Is for him to take the money Just before he sets the time lock for the closing of the vault aftei banking hours Still another way is to abstract one or more bills from bundle which has been counted. This cannot be detected until the money Is counted again and the case of bills of large denomina- tion the bundles are not counted every day
 The loose ledger provides another way of stealing. It Is easy under this system for the dishonest bookkeeper to keep one account for the bank officials to see and another for the customer A clerk In certain bank here worked this scheme for a long time or until he was caught by ac- cident One day he was kept away from the bank by Illness. and he had left the wrong sheet in the ledger. Another sys- tenn of robbery consists of robbing one ac- count and paying it back from another. For instance, a clerk who sas been In banking in stitutlon for any length of time knows that MT A. balances his account the first of the month that MT. E. bal ances his about the 18th of the month, and that MT. C. probably balances his on some other fixed date.
 Dishonest clerks have stolen from the account of MT. A, and when the time comes to balance this account have Dor rowed from MT. B. to pay MT A, and thus strike a balance. Then the thief has borrowed from MT. c. to balance Mir B., and so on around the circle.
 It is almost impossible to detect thls until the clerk is away from the bank for day or more and some other man takes his place
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21

Devotion that is rare in the too sordid affairs of the world was revealed In a case before a New York supreme court ing to the testimony adduced, Judge " F. Cooper of the famous Cooper family of Tennessee, sent an annuity of st00 to an ex-slave of the family living in Colum- bia, Tenn, besides various sums to rela- tiYes. Some years ago the judges mind began to fail and sometimes he would omit the remittances. which were usually sent quarterly. Then some of his refa- tives would remind him and the oversight would be corrected.
 q overlooked them" the judge would say. "It Is one of the pleasures of my life to send them Finally, 1t will be theirs anyhow
 Two years ago the Judges mind failed entirely, a committee was appointed for hls person and the remlttances ceased. The suit in court was to have them coll tinued, and the justice decided fin favor of the plaintiffs including five sisters and the ex-slave, who Is now past 70.
 The Coopers were great family in Tennessee. Matthew D. Cooper father of Judge Cooper, owned a big plantation. He married three times. the three Mrs. Coopers being first cousins.
 lHt llISl hIS. 1OOptT DOIt luito tllll dren, of whom the oldest, William r. Cooper. is the present judge, now S years old and suffering from senile dementla. Henry Cooper, the second son, was "a United States Senator from Tennessee until 1882. when he died. Christine Coop CT is his only living descendant Mrs. Mary A. Samson, now IT and living on a small barren farm in Columbia county was the third child of Mrs. Matthew D. Cooper.
 The civil war swept away the Cooper fortunes. The hundreds of slaves were freed, Eldridge. the cook, and his wife alone remaining with the family. The thousands of acres passed into other hands and the family were scattered through out the southern states. William F Cooper turned lawyer and was for many years 9 chancellor In Tennessee. but later served on the supreme court bench HC was a judge of the supreme court til 1S9O when he resigned, having reached the age of 70, and moved to New York.
 JudgeF Cooper's property is said to hC about S5Oo,OOO, and consists largely o1 stock of the Nashville Gas company ant of real estate in Nashville
 wall street goes begging to the Bow cry" was the strange headline In 2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-21
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