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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-08-08

VERMONT NOTES

Blueherrics are very scarce in southern
| Vermont
'e'iI' '"''"u'' meeting OF the state
u''' Na,no"c Oruer OF foresters' VII
We iie'' at 0""'''o'' august l7'
Cashier Edison Bonncy Of the Plt,sfeld
National bank while in Remington p,cked
up s7oo-dian,on PIN In the street He 1,
''"i"s i'' ''ie '""c''
In an experiment with a now marble
cleaning fluid. School Commissioner 7 f
Lamb and Albert Young ~ Rutland GO
verely burned their hands Tho eleanor
contained hvdrofo,,ric acid
'haries Wnl'heF was driving load OF
nay INTO the farm barn OF Frank Melvin
III Foui'h'F "Hen ne feil 10 the ground
died at midnight of the dav the acciden,
occurred.
,ro''eS car on 'ne futlahd man line
caush' hre near 'aS'ieton TO the intense
alarm OIL the passengers one OF the mo-
TORS had burned out ana the greater re-
sistence on the single motor caused the
moor TO ignite. small damage was done
n -r~A Of ,rA Att
pelonsins 10 me late Judge IL. ii. Wheeler,
Will make an eitort 10 interest capitalists
IN the marine deposits on Ball mountain
IN Jamaica. Judge Wheeler once took
samples or me stone but did nothing fur
ther toward heVeiopng the quarry. A
VEN or pure white marble is plainly seen
outcropping at the summit,
Central vcr,non+ engiro NJ on got
IN front ~ too many c,rs n, tho ,,,1n
mlll spur AT Milton ana the tender
iouhd the snort ran at the emo OF the
'rack' tree kept the tram from
gong into inc bamo'lie river AFTER
t"e wreck 'raln had worked several
hours 'he cars were Hlaced on 'he
iaiis "pout 'i'Iee oclock SesteruaS
MORNING
Ira Heath Of Groton. oped o. wears
was seriously injured at the Blue
Mountain granite Aouarries AZ Rvesate
Tuesday, afternoon. and probably will
die. Heath was EMPLOYED on a hoist
ing derrick. In stepping over a sha II
his clothing was caught in set
screw. and he was whirled around the
shaft. being crushed and bruised be-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-08-08

Parker, commanding.
4. Co. c, Brandon, Capt. Frank p.
Johnson, comma ndine.
SECOND BATTALION.
Maj II. T. johnson. commanding;
Lieut.. II. r. Deal, adjutant.
1. Co. G, Bradford, Capt. Moses l..
Brock, commanding.
2. Co. d, st. Johnsbury, Capt John
w. Tinker, commanding.
8. Co. l., Newport. Capt. Clarence w.
Richmond, commanding.
4. Co. b, st. Adams, Capt H. X.
Brooks, commanding.
THIRD BATTALION.
Mai L. S. Tillotson, comma nding +;
Lieut.. II. V. Hall, adiutant.
/. Co. n. Montpelier. Capt. Fred q.
Thomas, commanding.
2. co. f, Mortified, Capt. Haroll NJ.
Howe commanding.
g. Co. I, Brattlcboro, Capt. Loiis II.
Henkel, commanding.
a. Co f. Bellows Falls, Capt. John
p. Lawrence, commanding.
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spring.
The annual report Of the Pennsyl-
fvanla department of mines shows that
( there were 22G employees between the
ages OF IL and 81 years killed in the
coal regions OF Pennsylvania during
the year 1908.
] Lemuel l.. Holmes. an associate
| Judge Of the Massachusetts superior
court, died at his home in Mattapoisett,
Mass, after a brief illness. He was
born in Rochester, Mass. in 1853.
Tuesday, Aug. 8.
Madness which has twice caused her
| to be confined in an asylum again took
| possession of Mrs. Christine Nenadal
| Of Baltimore and she strangled her two
children to death.
! The British government has decided
! to build 400 miles of railroad in northern
| Nigeria, with the object of developing
the colony. and especially the cotton
growing industry.
Henrico county. Va. is being ter.
rorized by an armed negro. IIen.y War
rem, who IS a fugitive from justice.
charged with murder. Tie negroes
think Warren bears a charmed life and
they are in great fear of him.
f.. NJ. Holbrook and T.. f.. Lone
baugh. recently convicted OF con
spiracy TO defraud the government in
the acquisition Of coal lands at Mon
arch. Wyo.. were fined $1,000 each.
Leon Mailley. who fred two rev Oliver
shots at President Falliercs in the
streets Of Paris. has been declared to
be insane and sent TO an asylum.
One Of the most brutal Of the crimes
which have swept over New York and
vicinity recently was added to the long
list Of assaults Oh women and children
when Tucca Fontza was locked up,
charged with criminally assaulting
Antoinette Taluci, . years old.
Ralph A. jenkins aud Rodney s Jen-
kns Of Pittsfeld. y. H., made sue
cessfnl descent Of Huntington ravlnc.
Mt. Washington. a feat rarely. if ever
before. accomplished. The ravine is
1000 feet deep. with n prociplous head
wall.
Overseer Voliva. head of the Chris
'tinn Catholic church. asserts his def
ance of the forces organized against
him. and declares that he will abandon
Zion city to establish a colony of his
own elsewhere.
Judge Lands. at Chicago. ordered the
dissolution of the church and school
furniture trust recently punished by
fines amounting to $4,000 for viola.
ton of the antitrust laws.
Ip,.i,-
terry siege artillery is to serve three
years in the military prison at Ieaven.
worth Kan. for breaking a promise OF
marriage and borrowing money with
intent to defraud.
At a meeting at sea off Swinemunde
Emperor William and Emperor Mich
oas agreed that neither in Europe nor
the Far East is peace in any way
threa tened.
Wednesday, Aug. 7.
CaSablanca. on the Moroccan coast.
has been bomba rded by French cruis-
ers the Moors have been shot down in
large numbers and the town is prac-
tically in the possession Of landing par.
ties from French and Spanish cruisers.
TIL" first shots We're fired by the. Moors
The occupation OF CaSablauca is di
rect outcome Of the native uprising
which resulted in the killing Of eight
Europeans at Casa blanca.
Rev. Edward Mcconnell and Claude
Friendship We're out in small sailhoat
at Atlantic City and Friendship fell
overheard. Mctrnrell lcaped after the
sink ing man and both we re drowned
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-08-08

The Muho and Kuanying Shan gold
mine7 in Heilungkia ne. China which have
been restored to China by Russia on the
repayment of the expenses incurred by
the latter during the last several years.
are said To be still very rich. and may
be again made prosperous If sufficient
funds are put into the working of them
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The great-granddaushte OF Romnev
one OF whose pictures was sold recently
In London for sso.ooo is lying penn,Iess
and paralyzed at Maiden, England.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-08-08

The Mohammedans use the lunar year,
which is ten days and twenty-one hours
and a few seconds shorter than ours,
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MARRIED..

STEARNS- WHITNEY-In this city,
Wednesday. August 7. Arthur Duane
Stcarns and Bertha NJ. whitney.
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lows:
FIRST BATTALION.
Maj. II. f. Dyer, Com'dg; Lieut.. John
c. Holden. adjutant.
l, Co. A. Rutland. Capt Bert 8.
Hyland, commanding
2. Co. X. Bennington, Capt. ]. Ben
jamin Harmon, commanding.
8. Co, NJ, Burlington. Capt. orris H.
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ington. d. c. After short stay there he
expects to go on three years cruise
Mrs Holden will remain in Burlington for
the present with her mother, Mrs. Char
lotte H. Walker
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shipbuilding commenced al Path, Me-,
and will last four days.
For violation OF the short lobster
law Ellis Wilbur of Little Compton. r.
l., was fined $3.50
j. II. Zimmerman. driver employed
by Pittsburg department store, was
attacked by three highwaymen and af-
ter receiving a severe beating shot and
killed one of his assaiants.
Rota, the fighting leader of the Pula-
james in the Island Of Leyte. has been
sentenced to death. One companion
was sentedced to Imprisonment for
life and four others were given 30 years.
William Maxwell and John S. Fields
were killed in an automobile accident a
Charlottesville, n. Y.
Monday. Aug. s.
Three serious wrecks occurred in
Massachusetts. At Chester a freight
train, beyond control of the crew.
dashed down steep grade and after
collidinR with an engine iuInped the
track and converted % cars into mass
Of wreckage. Fight employees were in
iured. At Riverside there was a rear
end collision between freight trains and
much valuable merchandise was de-
stroyed. At Fayvile a train OF empty
passenger cars crashed into the rear of
Il freight train.
CONSERVATION reignS among cotton
planters of Durango. Mex, on account
OF the appearance Of what is generally
supposed to be the boil weevil,
Rose Remission. IL years old, and
Jerry Remission, aged 81. are dead as
the result of shooting which occurred
at Newmarket, n, ii. The girl and the
man were not related 10 eacn orner
Remission killed the girl by clubbing
her over the head with his gun and
shooting her and then took his own life.
The Welman-Chicago Record Her.
aid Polar expedition arrangements have
now been perfected. II is hoped to
start for the pole about the middle Of
August.
BY the bursting OF tire ON an auto
mobile as ii was racing through South
port, Conn. Peter Henderer was killed
and William Mallory badly bruised.
The surveys for the proposed canal
from Lake Erie to the Ohio river have
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-03-07
"CUBA,s MALADY.~

Friends write me from the north,
asking: How did 1t happen? What
is the truth? Forswear your jour
nalistic pyrotechnics and forget for
once the existence of Ananias." The
National shall answer them all.
'Tis a tale Arcardian in it's simplicity
A weak executive, surrounded by un-
scrupulous politicians, ergo, grafters.
Palma, dear old gentleman, was not
by character or training fit to govern
men. He never did, even in the days
of the Cuban Junta in New York,
when brainy men, like Rubens, sway.
ed him at their will. He was their
show piece, and put forward on ac-
count of his earnestness and almost
fanatical patriotism, and unquestion-
ed moral rectitude. Palma was force
full only in pleading for Cuba and
asking for financial assistance. One
day he decided that it behooved him
to buy hat, after being urged to do
so repeatedly by his intimates. He
espied small shop on Broadway,
and, vaguely thinking that the price
would be small in proportion, select
ed a hat and, without asking the
price, had his initials stamped on the
band. The salesman said, Five dol
lars!" 1t was a Knox. He excited
ly rushed into the Offices of the Junta,
exclaiming: What do you think, gen.
tlemen five dollars for a hat!" This
incident, insignificant per Sc, serves
merely to show how unworldly he
was. How, then, could he govern
! and check the intriguing Latin Amer
lean politician and office-seeker? But
! Roosevelt knew that he was honest
and as the chairman of the Junta
he was the logical candidate for pres
ident. The men he confided in be-
came bolder, and planned to perpet-
uate the Moderate party In power
forever. They resorted to methods
of oppression and persecution. They
4 did not play fair. They wanted it all
| and the Liberals, who would have
been contented to take the leavings
found that, like the boy in the cereal
advertisement, tthere amt going to
| be no leavings," and took to the
woods. In justice to Cuba's first civil
war, whatever the ultimate object
may be of its projectors and leaders,
there was some excuse and justifica-
ton. Theirs was really an armed
protest (they claim) mliitarily-
organized strike to attract the atten-
ton of the United States to the real
condition of affairs. They succeeded,
and it was assuredly a most bloodless
war.-John Vavassour Noel In Ma
tional Magazine.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-03-07
A nRIDE,s CRUEL REBUFF.

A story Is going the rounds of the
army and navy concerning a young
bride and groom who came to Wash
ington for their honeymoon. One
day the groom was not feeling very
wei, and the bride suggested that
while he lay down and rested, she
would do some shopping, and having
established the gentleman comforta-
bly, on the couch, the little lady de-
parted.
In several hours she returned with
her arms full of bundles and the
pride of possession in her heart. She
came confidently to a door in the
long corridor and tapped.
Here l am, honey
No answer.
Honey, honey! It's me. Open the
door, honey"
Silence within tho room. The
little bride began to feel discouraged,
but she called and tapped more Wig
orously than ever.
Honey, honey, open the door. Pm
back"
Dead silence inside the room, and
the lady waiting outside the door be-
gan to have dread visions of serious
illness inside, or else a creeping fear
that the bridegroo had forgotten her
and departed in search of some of his
old time bachelor friends. Still, she
made a final effort.
Honey, are you very ill?" Shall
l get the doctor, honey?"
She tapped long and loud this time,
and when she paused a gruff voice
shouted from inside:
There's no honey here. This isn't
beehive-its bathroom. Joe
Mitchell Chapple's Affairs at Wash
ington," in the National Magazine.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-03-07
RACIAL ELEMENTS
IN WISCONSIN

(From Wardon Allan Curtis "The
Light Fantastic in the Central West
in the Century.)
am speaking of Wisconsin, be.
cause it happens to be the state where
l have pursued my chronological stud
les, and because it epitomizes the CEN
tral west No other western state
has such a diversity of racial ele.
ments. Illinois alone, with its queer
colony of Portuguese Protestants al
Jacksonville, has an element which
Wisconsin has not. None but Wis
consin has Bulgarians and Flemings
1t has an Indian population of over
5000. 1t is the greatest Welsh, Cor
nish, Norwegian, and German state
1t has 1celanders with Minnesota,
Bohemians with Iowa, and French
Fins, and Hollanders with Michigan
The oldest and only purely Hungarian
colony in America is on its soil, and
the largest colony of Swiss. 1t has a
native white element as old as the
Knickerbockers, and even English
descended families who go back 15O
years on Wisconsin soil.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-03-07
JOSEPH G. CANNON.

tby Wallace Irwin.)
Come forth and behold him, the
Grand Old Standpatter,
Whose mind is so fearfully plain,
Beside him all ogic seems mad as a
halter
And only the Tariff looks sane.
First reared on farm, with an old
fashioned notion
OF duty TO honors last ditch,
He stands like a rock in his simple
devotion,
A stanch, honest friend of the Rich
When rural admirers grow genial and
think on
The Shore Acres cut of his chin,
They rashly compare him to Abra-
ham Lincoln
And that's where. delusions come
in.
Enthusiasts laud him from belfry to
steeple,
Forgetting the truth, as they
must,
That statesmen are seldom so close
to the People
AS when they are hugging some
Trust.
So, when he's at rest from Congress
sional duties,
To greet him the populace flow:
Strong men from Frog Centre and
Keg County beauties
And babies to kiss Uncle Joe.
With togas of homespune his shout
ders they kiver,
Which moves the avuncular heat
So deeply and we'll that he's forced to
deliver
Hhis favorite Lecture on Art
"The High Art" he says, both en-.
lightens and broadens
Wherever the High Tariff whoops
/ ain't so durn stuck on that fellel
Saint-Gaudens,
But say, / like Rogers's groups!
"And why to them foreign-made
drawings and sketchings
Do free-born Americans smirk?
If Europe feels proud of her paint
ings and etchings,
We're proud of our Burnt Leather
Worki"
Thus high-angle fire at the ramparts
of Beauty
The mouth of the Cannon doth
dart;
Though Ruskin, perhaps, rested art
upon Duty,
j. c. puts duty on Art.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-03-07
MACHINE DIGS nITCHEs.

The following interesting item Is
clipped from the Technical World
for March.
With a small traction ditcher, two
men can do the work of fifteen laboy-
ers working with spades and shovA
els, and of 100 men when the largeN
traction ditchers are employed
The traction ditcher consists O.
traction engine, in the rear end Of
which is mounted an excayating
wheel provided with excayating buck
cts fastened to its circumference. This
excavating wheel is open, that is to
say, it has no axle, but 1t revolves
upon anti-friction wheels placed just
outside of the rim of the excavating
wheels. The buckets have top and
back, but no bottom. They are shap-
ed somewhat like the bowl of a drag
scraper; and, in fact, they act very
much like drag scraper in digging.
forsas the excayating wheel revolves,
each excavating bucket cuts off slice
of earth which fills the bucket. When
the excavating bucket reaches the
end of the arc near the top OF the
wheel the dirt falls out of the bucket
upon a belt conveyor.
This trench excavator cut the full
depth of the trench at one stroke.
and leaves the bottom exactly In the
grade desired. The operator sights
along the sight arm at the targets on
the flag poles provided. and operates
a hand wheel that raises or lower the
excavating wheel until the sight arm
is at the proper level. In this way
the operator has perfect control over
the depth to which the exvacatine
wheel cuts, and he can keep the bot
tom of the wheel within fraction OF
an inch of the desired brade.
BY the use of this modern ma
chinery three lineal feet of trench
can be dug per minute in ordinary
earth to depth of three feet, and at
this rate, one machine would dig 1870
lineal feet per hour, or 1900 feet per
working day of ten hours.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-03-07
HOW GOOD is CONCRETE?

Under the above title Walter Lor-
ing Webb, G. E., writes in the Tech
micah World Magazine for March a
careful study of the merits and de-
merits of reinforced concrete as a
building material. He says:
"a building material that will not
rust or decay and that will not be
subject to the attacks either of in
sects or of atmospheric acids; that
will be fireproof and earthquake
proof and capable of supporting
heavy loads over long spans--a ma
terial that has all these virtues and
still is not prohibitively costly-such
material would be close TO ideal.
And the material that most nearly
meets these essential requirements
and that is daily undergoing tests
with credit, is reinforced concrete
He then follows with long dis
, cussion upon the subject, admirably
we'll handled and thoroughly reada
BILE and understandable for the aver
age reader. It's worth reading, too
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-03-07
lNTER-LEAouE GAMES.
Objections TO Plan to Glass Them
With Fall Series.

= From Cincinnati comes the sug-
gestion, probably originated by Chair
man Hermann, of the National Com
mission, that all ante-season contests
between American and National
League clubs be played under the
auspices of the commission, as is the
case with the series for the worlds
championship each fall. Practically
the only objection that will be made
TO the suggestion is the financial one,
that the games are arranged as exhi-
bition Hffairs only, for the purpose of
training trips, and that the receipts
of the club owners will be curtailed
considerably If the proceeds are
shared with the players and with the
National commission, as would be the
case If the games were played under
the same conditions as those govern
ing the worlds series. Those condi-
tions provide for deducting 10 per
cent of the gross receipts for the
commission, and then giving the play
ers 60 per cent. of the remainder of
the receipts from the first four games
of series. In few cases will there
be as many as four games in series
next spring.
There may be some objection, too,
to dignifying spring exhibition games
by putting them in the same class
with the inter-league series of the fall
season, which would be the result If
the commission assumed charge.
There is big difference, also, be-
tween games which are played be-
tween the two Philadelphia and the
two St Louis clubs in the spring, and
those which are scheduled to be play
ed in New Orleans, for instance, be-
tween the Athletics and New York
Nationals. There is need, however,
of some method of insuring to the
public that inter-league games, when
ever and wherever played, will be
properly conducted under baseball
law, and of Furnishing any deed or act
of player or manager in such games
which may injure the sport.
Better than anything else would be
q law prohibiting ante-season games
between major league clubs, and
compelling all such series to be play
ed in the fall under control of the
commission. Spring contests are
nothing but tests of early condition,
and are hazardous affairs at best.
The rivalry between clubs is liable to
tempt a player to extend himself far
ther than his condition or the wealth
er will permit. In the fall such
games are a fair test of the relative
strength of two teams which have
finished a pennant campaign and are
supposed to be in condition to play
to their limits without injury Even
IL injuries result from the fall series
they will not handicap a club in it's
pennant race, as would be abe case
If players are hurt or overdo things
in spring games just before the start
OF championship season. Some leg
islation along these lines will be a
wise move. before there are serious
results from the scramble for early
dollars.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-03-07
NEW HEART OF AFRICA.

"No more Chinese or reluctant
kaffirs; but labor from one great
central mill as it were, driven by
the mile wide Zambesi through its
fall of 400 feet" says w. G. Fitz
Gerald, in an article on the tremen-
dous new water power in South Afri-
ca, which apepars in the Technical
World Magazine for March. The
diamond mines of Kimberley should
profit too-those queer volcanic
pipes from which have been won
sixty tons weight of glittering gew-
gaws, whose value can hardly be COM
puted in figures. And the Transcon
tinental Railroad should be electri-
fed by the same power; quarries and
'orests developed, and electricity
transmitted on vastly increased Mag
ira lines to the gold fields of Mazoe.
Hartley and Lo Maghunda. as well as
o light the fast growing cities of
Salisbury, Gwelo and Buluwayo, Tel
egraphs and telephones, too-but
why continue the list? The force of
the Falls is to be the new heart of
Africa in the more literal sense that
it's power will drive life in all direc-
tions through the Dark Continent"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-03-07
WHEN THE CARLYLEs MARRIED.

When they finally decided to be
married there was another long delay
much discussion as to where they
should live, and another difficulty in
the shape of Mrs. Welsh, now left
alone in the world. AS the day for
dreaded ceremony approached Miss
Welsh wrote to him:
"Oh, my dearest friend, be always
so good to me, and | shall make the
best and happiest wife. When
read in your looks and words that
you love me, then | care not one
straw for the whole universe besides.
But when you fly from me to smoke
tobacco, or speak of me as mere
circumstance of your lot, then, in
deed, my heart is troubled about
many things"
The ceremony itself was regarded
by both of them as some terrible ca
lamity, Carlyle prepared himself for
the ordeal by reading Kant's Critique
of Pure Reason. Miss Welsh headed
her last letter to him: "The Last
Speech and Marrying Words of That
Unfortunate Young Woman, Jane
Baillie Welsh" He wrote in reply:
After all / believe we take this
impending ceremony too much tc
heart. Bless me! Have not many
people been married before now?-
From "The Love ArTairs of Thomas
Carlyle" by Myrtle Reed.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-03-07
JUNIOR LEAGUE GAMES
Alpines' Second Team Has But Little
Chance Left to Make Much
of Showing.

The Interstate Junior League
teams Will bowl In this city and
Pleasant Plains tonight. The Aque-
hongas' and Alpines second teams
will bowl at Kirby's, and the Ami
citias' second team and the Key
stones will bowl at Pleasant Plains
The Alpines must needs take strong
brace to climb out of last place, as
there are in the schedule remaining
but five rounds, including tonight.
They cannot even now get first place,
unless they were allowed to play off
the forfeited games.