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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-02-14
TEN RULES ANNOUNCED.
state Railroad Commissioners Want
Little Red Tape.

Montpelier, Feb. 10.-John w Red
mond, Eli II. Porter and $. HOLSTER
jackson. composing the state board of
railroad commissioners, have issued a
booklet containing ten rules for their
guidance in proceedings before the COM
mission by petition and answer. In all
other proceedings the commission does
not wish to be hampered by rules.
These ten rules, which are Of interest
Throughout the State. are as follows:
Petitions or complaints brought to the
board OF railroad commissioners @shall
recite in the Introductory part the names
and places OF residence Of the complain
ant and defendant and shall be signed by
the cOmplainants.
The petition shall contain. a clear and
explicit statement of the ground OF COM
plant, avoid prolixity and repetition. II
the complaint relates to a railroad cross
ing. bridge. depot or other structure
such crossing or structure shall be de-
scribed with such certainty that 1t may
be readily identified.
MUST ASK SPECIFIC RELIEF
The prayer of the bill shall ask for
the specific relief to which the COM
plainants think they are entitled.
When any such petition is filed, the
board will cause a subpoena or sum
mons to be attached thereto. requiring
the defendant to appear and answer. and
will return the petition and summons
for service as the law requires.
The defendant shall enter it's appear
ance and file It's answer on the day on
which it Is required 10 appear and an
swer. and Of which II shall have had due
notice; otherwise the bill will be taken
as confessed.
No formal demurrer. or formal plea,
except plea to the jurisdiction OF the
commission. shall be filed; but the de-
PENDANT may insist in Its answer on any
special matter that goes to the merit Of
th. hill and have the same benefit there
of as II it had specially pleaded the same
or demurred to the bill.
ANSWERS VERIFIED BY OATH.
All answers shall be verified by the oath
of some officer, division superin tendent or
other superior employee of the defendant
who has special charge Of the subject
matter OF the complaint, regardless Of
whether an answer under oath is waived
by the petitioner,
The oath shall be in substance that the
affiart has read the answer or heard 1t
read, and knows the contents thereof
and that the same is true OF his own
knowledge, except the matters stated TO
administer oath: and II taken out of the
State where taken. 1 he certificate OF the
magistrate shall state the form OF the
oath taken.
DEFENDANT SHALL. REPLY FULLY.
The defendant shall answer as fully
directly and particularly to every
material allegation of the bill as II he
had been particularly Intercepted In
respect there to.
Issue will be treated as joined on an
answer as soon az it Is filed, where II
denies any material allegation OF the
petition or relies rev matter in
defence or Justification
| At the time of filing an answer plead
| ing, or amendment, the party filing the
same shall furnish one OF the adverse
parties, or their attorney, copy thereof,
by personal delivery or by mail. postage
paid.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-02-14
n the Bnby IL Cutting Teeth

Be sure and use that old and well-tried
remedy. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Sy-
rup Cor children teethng 1t soothes
the child, softens the gums. allays all
pain. cures wind collie and IL the best
remedy for Diarrhoea. twenty-five
cents z bottle
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-02-14
KETCHUM NOT SURPRISED.
4. $. Prisoner Informed Application for
Pardon IL Denied,

Middebury, Feb IL. w. Ketchum, the
federal prisoner at the courty Jail, re-
ceived word to-day from Washington
that his application for a pardon had
been refused hy Attorney-Geno al Bona
parte. The decision is not surprise to
Mr. Ketchum. The petition for pardon
was filed April l. 1905. Por the first few
months it looked TO Mr.. Ketchum as
lnough the matter was being favorably
considered at Washington, but for the
past six months it has beer very evident
that the application would be finally dis
missed. He hoped to nave the petition
passed upon by the President but it never
got beyond the attorney generals office.
When interviewed to-day by reporter.
Mr. Ketchum seemed in the best of
spirits He Is, of course looking forward
to June % when his time expires.
,Ketchum was convicted with d. Henry
Lewis of Nergenres of completely in
wrecl<inE the Farmers National bank OF
Nergennes and sentenced to seven years
Imprisonment. He served the first Of this
sentence in Chittenden county Jail at
Burlington,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-02-14

in Jail with her. The mother and baby
will be taken 70 the poorhouse to-mor-
row.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-02-14
PROVISIONS OF THE ACT.

Before. however. said commission shall
hold a State fair it shall receive a guar
antee satisfactory to 1t that all expenses
of said fair in excess Of the receipts
therefrom. including the appropriations
hereafter referred to, will be paid by the
parties executing said guaranty. Said
commission, the act goes on to say. may
appoint a superintendent of the State far
and such other assistants and employees
as it deems necessary, and may prescribe
their duties and nix their compensa ton.
Said commiss shall receive all
moneys payable to the State on account
Of such fair. and make all disbursements
therefrom and also from any appropr.a-
ton made for that purpose by the general
assembly as may be needed, from time to
time. in carrying on the work of sai
commission. At the close OF each fair tn >
commission shall pay to the State treas
ury any balance remaining in its hands
The members of the commission shall
receive no compensation for their serv!-
ces and expenses
The sum Of 100 is appropriated for the
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-02-14

yelling; clerk. Harry r. Cushman;
Bennington jail commissioners, e. y.
Godfrey, Charles II. Sanford. Charles
T. Burt; Manchester Jail commissioners.
Edward M. Orvis. Allen y. Graves. Otto
r. Bennett; county road commission
ers. Fernando West. Arlington. r. q.
Bacon of Sunderland. o. T. Bates OF
Pownal; probation officer, John Nash OF
Bennington.
A 5000 FIRE AT SOUTH BARRE.
Barre, Feb. l0-The buildings on the
farm of George A. Wales at South
Barre, with the exception of a henhouse
and piggery were burned yesterday room,
causing loss of 5000. They were in
sured for $3.50 The fire was due to
defective chimney. All the live stock
WAS taken out
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-02-14
A 5000 FIRE AT SOUTH BARRE.
DEPUTY GAME WARDENS.

Stowe, Feb 10.--State Fish and Game
Commissioner II. g. Thomas has appoint
ed the following deputy wardens: w j..
Dyer and G. ). Hervey. Springfield /;
Charles w. Streeter, Weathersield.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-02-14
thine Shop, Round House and
Other Building Burned at
Montpelier.
)PERTY THAT OF M.&W.R.R.
$mOtivc Granite CITY in for Repairs
acknowledgements Hauled Out
All Ablayc-Eircmcn Ham,
percd by Tracks-Cause of
Fire Unknown.

49,.
''','ii''' S'"ps,' rouhu mousse plack-
S,'Vp ",,U ou'"U'iuIlsS VI the MONT
NV''' N'Ner i''''roau company
O. ''9' VI near ~ Soo'-
,.Io IA '''sio nIe loss IN TINS
oi many Inc locomotive
''e C''S' one Oh the pest machines on
o'u, d "e"'F I'suaIled "heel lathe
,uO' - '''.' WHINING machinery were
SIN vi 'iie IRE If ."hHhoWn' 1t
i,rSu u'S'oVered IN the oil room and
WV" '"c'' '"PIu''y uha' before 'he
the buildings we're doomed.
io''ii'..N' vermont was hanled
'iie p"i''''"s ai'er IL was mass
''''0'
he FIGHTERS HANDICAPPED
III, "'P'ru"leHl was handicapped
l' location OF th' buildings winch
IT "'Hl'"I' 10 Ee' us apparatus
'" '"' "''"""' crossing several
Nv N'' "''b III "nIStIe was
III ''''9c S""PS ana II to'aI
Nv 'IiV 'i'r WIS Dur ''lt'E tile ner'eSt
WINS ''l"ch apprehension lest there
Nl''9i'''N "' on Iars' qpahltN OF
wa S'",'i III '"I'''hs "uloln-
~ hr'' nut tn' names We're stopped
''''9 was reached me release
V" ne stationary engine In the
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-02-14
MAY COME TO BURLINGTON.
Meeting of state Poultry Association
Called to settle place.

ST. Adams, Feb. THE Vermont State
Poultry association will hold a business
meeting in this city Wednesday, Febru-
airy 20. The time and place of holding
the next annual show will be settled and
will probably go to Burlington or Mont
pelier. both places being DESTROYS Of hav-
ing the meeting. Reports OF officers
will be made and other matters Of in
terest acted upon.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-02-14
THE NEW JORDAN HALL.
Something about Military Preparatory
school at 81. Albums.

St. Adams. Feb. Another evidence Of
a greater Vermont, Is shown in the awak-
ening of the spirit of enterprise and pro-
gress in this city, as evidenced by the
location and esta blishment here of u
model military school, Jordan Hall. whicI
will be formally opened and dedicated the
coming summer.
For several years the stately mansion
at the head of Bank street stood vacant.
This fine old place, once the seat of
princcly hospitality looked down at the
city climbing up the gently sloping hill,
looked out over the changing water of
Lake Champlain and then on to the West,
the blue peaks of the Adrondacks. This
mansion, once the home Of one of Yer
mont's abest and most honored citizens.
is awakening from its silence TO assume
again its place as a new character and n
new name.
Jordan Hall, a military boarding schoo ii
for boys, appears from the chrysalis OF
the Worthington Smith place, and viii
soon welcome to It's roof some 50 boys
The Free Press here publishes for tho
first time. an authorized statement from
the founder of this school. Prof. c. L.
Jordan. former professor Of English and
economics at Norwich University. OF the
school Professor Jordan says in part: Its
purpose will be to teach everything q
boy ought to know. The course will be-
very liberal and Is designed not only tc
mt youths for any of the New Engla nc
colleges but also to include the first yea,
OF college work
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-12
Flats Harm Book Trade.

FLATS and apartments damage my
business dreadfully," said a publish
or. "The minute family gives up
It's house and takes to a nat, that
same minute 1t stops buying books
In the first place fiat dwellers are
cramped for room. Having little
enough space for their furniture, let
alone for books. they naturally buy
no books. and because. in the second
place, fiat dwellers are nomads, they
move often, and your nomad hesitates
to buy a book because he knows 1t
will be nuisance to pack at the next
moving.
eve are all taking to flats and
apartments; housekeeping in them is
so much easier and pleasanter. We
are all freeing ourselves of needless
things in order to have more space in
our cramped quarters. Books we
free ourselves of first. taking in their
place subscription TO a public IL
brary.
Indeed. thanks to the fiat, private
libraries In the future will be as rare
as private theatres OF private chap
lains. New York World
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-12
Barber Shop Like Roman Bath.

Through arrangements which were
completed recently New York City is
to have barber shop which Is to RI
val in splendor the baths of ancient
Rome, after which part of its appoint
ments will be fashioned.
1t will be established in the New
Pennsylvania Railroad terminal and
the rental is to be $4,000 a year
Michael Hochman, who has shaved
thousands at the Waldorf-Astoria,
will be the proprietor.
In the new shop almost everything
is to be OF marble and glass. Each
chair will cost $3.50 and will be sur
rounded by a canopy and velvet
hanglngs. There are to be ten show
er baths all finished in marble. A
department of manicuring, for which
provision has been made, will be
unique in that each manicurist will
have little glass walled Office of her
own.
Marble benches like those In the
Roman baths will line the walls.
Twenty BARRIERS will be employed In
the main shop. In another shop
which Mr.. Hochman has leased from
the McAdco terminal officials there
will be ten barbers.-New York Her.
aid.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-12
The City of Maples.

The stranger in Macon, Mo-, in
variably notes the large number of
magnificent shade trees that border
the streets of the town. The place
has come to be known as THE City
ef Naples" and the inhabitants tell
with pleasure of how these trees were
acquired. In 1872 John w. Beau
mont, real estate man, went broke"
and could not pay his taxes. which
amounted to $116. He offered the
city council in lieu of the cash TO-
600 young maple trees, from one to
two inches in diameter, all ready to
set out. 1t was that or nothing, so
the council took the trees. BY pub
lie proclamation the mayor fixed an
"arbor day." and everybody who
would agree to set them out and care
for them received from six to ten
trees. At that time the town was
almost bare of trees of every kind.
Almost In a day Mr.. Beaumont's legal
tender for taxes was in the hands of
the inhabitants, and they so faithful
ly carried out the mayors injunction
that to-day there Is hardly a street in
town which is not beautifully shaded
by thick leaved trees, suggesting a
town in the tropics. City
Star.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-12


1.-THE meals she cooks 'ud aickon
you,' says Ben. Harvest time fell
Ter hnin't partickler, but they sick
ened me. An when she's around the
house she's amt slicked up the way
she is when she goes to church
soshubble. tell you that
Shot, says Ben.
Yes, stree, an her temper hain't
none O. the best. seen her belt her
young brother one day an knock him
ondways. II you take my advice.
Sam, you'll drop or
Sam studied moment an then
he got up an shucked his coat. Ben
looked down his nose. You hain't
mad7' he says.
No, says Sam, a-spittin' on his
hands. I hain't mad mite, but I'm
Jest goin' to waller you around a
spell to teach you to mind your own
affairs an TO quit tattlin' on gals.
An with that he III In an done IT,"
Ibid he marry the gal afterward p"
inquired Baker.
Goose he did" replied Hancock.
why wouldn't he?"
"You said he had heap o. sense"
urged the storekeeper.
mot regardin' them matters
said Hancock No man has. But
there wusn't no more wrong about
that gal than there is about any gal,
an l reckon they got erlong about as
we'll as most, her an Sam-mebbe
better. ."---Chicago News.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-12
LORD FERRER'S TRIP
TO "TYBURN TREE
FFssent Park Lsn, In London
Was Tyburn Lane In the Days OF
Ferocious Murderer of Servant.

Park lane, in London, was TyburI
lane, and 1t seems as il the gallows-
described in an old document as
movable at one time stood at its
east corner. In that case the stealthy
burglar of Mr. Wertheimer's snuff
boxes must have trodden very near
the ignominious dust of many pio-
neer in his own profession.
But whether It be Mr.. Wertheim-
er's or Lord Battersea's house that
stands on the site of Tyburn Tree, or
that carefully groomed house at the
beginning of the Bayswater road,
upon whose walls hangs the narrow
cage from which lark's song ascends
over the din of the motor bus, the
Marble Arch, itself movable, :"
marks the region OF many a martyr
dom and many an execution. 1t was
there the ferocious Lord Ferrers was
hung in 1850 for numbering his SER
want. Horace Walpole's words paint
the picture well.
"Ife shamed heroes. He bore the
solemnity OF a pompous and tedious
procession of about two hours, from
the Tower to Tyburn, with as much
tranquility as IL he were only going
to his own burial, not to his own exc
cution.r
And when one of the dragons of
the procession was thrown from his
horse Lord Ferrers expressed much
concern and said. Il hope there will
be no death to-day but mine"
On went the procession, with a
mob about it sufficient to make Its
progress slow and laborious. Small
wonder that the age of Thackeray,
with Thackeray's help, set up its
scaffolds within four high walls. Ask
ing for drink. Lord Ferrers was re.
fused, for, said the sheriff, late regu-
lations enjoined him not to let pris-
oners drink while passing from the
place OF Imprisonment to that of exc
cution, great indecencies having been
committed by the drunkenness of
criminals in the hour of execution.
"And though" said he, my lord.
might think myself excusable in over
looking this order out OF regard to
your lordship's rank, yet there is an
other reason which, am sure, will
weigh with you; your lordship is SEN
sible of the greatness of the crowd;
we must draw up at some tavern; the
confluence would be so great that 1t
would delay the expedition which
your lordship seems so much to de-
SIRE"
But decency-so often paraded by
those who outrage it-ended with the
murderer's death. The executioners
fought for the rope, and the one who
lost 1t criei---the greatest tragedy. to
his thinking, of the day!
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-12
MuIes wien "Empire waists.r

Three hundred mules with Empire
waists and chest measurements of
sixty-one inches are preparing for a
tour of India. A British officer. with
an eye to beauty in the mule line, is
here picking them up. The party will
sail in December. and this will be
chance for those rovers who turn ui
when the British want muleteers to
get ride In transport to Calcutta.
This Is as far as the mules Will be
taken by the muleteers, but they
themselves are to go up the Hima-
laya Mountains.
India, being fearfully hot place,
Is Stunned by the aristocratic officers
OF the contingent of the army there.
The poor subaltern spends his leave
OF absence on the coast, where 1t is
cheap; the real swell goes to the Him
alayas. There is where the Mis-
souri, mules are going. Their bag
gage will consist of machine guns and
ammunition. They will travel in par
ties. one carrying small cannon, an
other a pair of wheels for 1t, another
the carriage and the balance will
carry ammunition.
The Empire waist" means a short
coupled mule. The British army buy
er's rule is for a ''head like picture,
legs like bars of iron and feet like
masons' mells, short in his coupling
and Intelligent" To this is added, in
the mule department. a chest meas
urement of siXty-one inches.-Kansas
City Journal.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-12
This Tea Didn't Need Sugar.

A little maid of four years was dis
tressed the other evening because her
father did not cometo dinner on time.
Her grown-up sister said to her in
fun:
Papa is naughty. and. when he
comes. we won't give him any tea.
When he did come, the sister sent
the teapot out to the kitchen for
fresh tea. The baby looked on with
a troubled face and stole softly to her
own room. Shortly she returned with
something squeezed up In her tiny
fist. Going up to her sister she whis-
pered:
annie, I'll give You all my pennies
II you'll give papa his tea"
And. opening her hand, she dis
played all her carefully boarded PEN
nies.--New York Times.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-12

Mother said little Willie Jones,
4 there's no work TO do,
IN like TO join the other boys
And go in swimming, too.
"There's not a bit OF work to-day"
Said Willies mother kind;
"It's useful TO know how 10 swim,
SO go-I do not mind.
"Father," said Willie 10 his pa,
When be had older grown:
"pd like 10 smoke and wish that l
A briar pipe might own.
"And so you shall, /" said Willio's pa,
Proud Of his manly SON.
And to the store he went 70 buy
A real expensive one.
"Dear folks said Willie TO them all
When he was twenty-three,
II love Marie, and we're engaged
And soon will married be-"
"We love her sol" -She's just the girll~
"The one for you we'd chooselr
Which goes to prove these lines are fnlse
And writ but TO amuse.
Clifford TrembIy, in Puck.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-12
Artists and Color blindness.

Artists are as subject to color
blindness as other men. The writer
had tested the color sense of a large
number OF them-colorists engrav-
ers. illustrators-and found an aver
age of one in twenty-five color blind.
AS class they are quicker to recog-
nize varying shades, but green.
blind artist will place a brown skein
of worsted with the green as readi-
ly as layman. The possession of an
artistic Temperament" bears no 9TH
er relation to the keenness OF ones
color sense than comes from close OBJ
servation and use of color. II an ar
lists eyes at birth do not possess all
color-seeing cones in his retina, he
cannot develop them by cultivation.
From Edward A. Ayres' Color
Blindness" In The Century
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-12

The reformation in England dur
ing the sixteenth century, and the
wave of purltanism which followed,
resulted In the destruction of much
church furniture and ornament-in
many cases amounting to complete
plundering or destruction of what
ever was valuable. Among other
things memorial brasses were often
stripped from old tombs, and It has
been thought that this was due to
general dislike to the form of record.
But lately a number of palimpsest----
or used over - brasses have been
found in English churches. and their
occurrence suggests that the destruc-
tion of old brasses did not follow re-
ligious scruples, but that the brass
was taken up and sold, often to be
turned over and the reverse side en-
graved in memory OF some person re-
Gently buried. AS. the brasses are
usually engraved with an efiigy of the
deceased person, and cut to the shape
of the engraving, II. would not always
be possible to alter an ancient mem
oriaI, but often 1t could be done. A
rarer form of adaptation was TO use
the brass without reversal. adapting
the ancient efiigy 90 the require,
ments of the time. crests or incongru-
Gus attire being cut away, and new
"Details worked Ia to take their place.
Scientific American,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-12-12
Resurrected Dredges.

Some of the so-called worthless
junk left by the French excavators at
Panama has been brought back to
life and is now giving excellent serv-
Ice. One of the old dredges, which
had been lying in the Rio Grande
River for more than twenty years,
has been rebuilt at a moderate cost,
and Is now capable OF excavating 12O,-
900 cubic yards of material a month,
or as much as can be removed by four
OF the most modern ninety-fve-ton
fve-yard steam shovels.
The various parts which have been
used In rebuilding were all of French
construction. and were found in the
jungle or among other abandoned
material scattered along the line of
the canal.
Thus the three boilers, which were
found in the jungle near San Pablo,
were in excellent condition, being
quite free from corrosion. In good
shape also were the two cylinders.
The engine, which was in place in the
hull, was in excellent condition, and
could not be surpassed by modern
machinery. Moreover, the copper
piping on all the machinery is of very
heavy design. and shows more care
full workmanship than is found in
modern machinery.
The excellent state of preservation
is due, in the first place. to the high
quality of the material. and, second
ly, to the fact that It was all abund-
antly covered with white lead and
grease when the work was shut down.
Chicago News.