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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21
TWIHtrI: TO SEM TOR CRANE.
O'rom the New York SUM


Murray Crane will mako an admirable
chairman of tho Chicago convention, pro-
Nidine he consents to act, which We per
nit ourselves to doubt, and providing
further that there is no trickcry or I'M
clean work desired OF him. He is quito
incapable Of that sort of thing. Indeed
in our opinion there is no finer figure in
the senate of the United States to-day
than Murray Crane. Morally and in
telicctualy he dwarfs his colleague and
far SURPRISES any one who has sought to
represent Massachusetts since tho time
Of Charles Sumner. His personal mod
csty and habitual solf-chaccmcnt have
kept him relatively IN tho background,
but there Is no one in the Senate more
respected by his fellow mcmbors or
whose intellectual stability and in
trigrity they more admire
We coulC wish that it had occurred to
Il bcncncont Providence to cast Murray
Cranes lines on a scale more conspicu-
Gus; n futile aspiration, perhaps, since
his party no longer possesses the moral
force or soli-rcspcct to enable it to make
its own nominations.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21
JEDDIE G. WORSE'S ESTATE

state Of Vermont District OF Grand
rho honorable Probate Court for
the District aforesaid.
To all persons interested in the
estate of Jedde c. Morse.
GREETING.
hath been made to this court by the
guardian OF Jeddic G. Morse for
license to sell the real estate of said
ward, viz the interest Of said ward in
the dccease Of Mrs. Libhie j. HcminC-
way. said land lying and being in Al
hurgh. in tho county OF Grand Isle in
this state Of Vermont and described as
west and south by lands OF Louis
Thericn and on tho cast by the center
Of tho highway leading southerly from
William Honsingcrs place. so called.
and past the Catholic hurying ground.
and supposed to contain 1ia acres If
land. he the same more or loss Re-
presenting that thr sale thereof for
such sale AZ interest or investing the
Same in stocks or other real estate. or
using tho avails thereof for the bene-
would he ben ficial for said ward.
Whcrcupon. the said Court appoint
ed and assigned tho 9th day Of June.
zoos. at thG probat: "ffi Co. in So s
eide up said application and ordered
that public notice thereof he given 10
all persons interested therein. by pub
fishing this order three weeks sue
ccssively in the Burlington Weekly
Free Press newspaper published at
burlington in this state and which
circulates in the neiGhborhod Of those
persons Interested therein: all which
publications shall ho previous to the
time appointed for the hearing:
Therefore you are hereby notihed 70
apear before said Court. at tho time
and place aforesaid. then and there In
said Court. to object to the granting
of such license. If You see cause
Given under my hand at North Hero
in said District, this Sth day Of May
laos.
Attest. WILLIAM HAYNES,
40, Ju1gN
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21
ChriStobnl prOtcSted loudly

81 thought this was to be workers
meal" he said. "Tollemache has stol-
on n march on us. He Is quite Bond
street ounger In appearance"
DIRTY job stoking," said Tolemache.
II seem TO have been the only lazy
person OF board during the night"
cried Elsie.
"Do you know what time it Isl" ask
ed Courteray
NO about 10 o'clock, | fancy"
at Is not yet half past A.
The blue eyes opened wide. "Arc
you in earnest?" she demanded
He showed her his watch. Scarce
four hours had elapsed since she had
waited in the captains cabin. amid
the drenchns spray and tearing wind,
while he took lsobcl and Mrs. Somer-
vile and the shrieking maid to- the
boat The corners of her mouth droop.
Cd and tears trembled on her eye
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21
FERTILIZER

Farmers. who have not bought
their fertilizer for this spring will
do we'll TO investigate the merits
Of the Burlington Animal Brands
manufactured by The Burlington
Rendering Co., North Ave, Bur
llngton, Vt.
TO those who have already
bought and find they have not
quite enough for the spring plant
ing. trial Of the Burlington
Brands in comparison with other
makes is especially desired Al
tention is called to report ON
these goods in Vermont .Agricul-
tural Experiment Station Bulle-
tin No. 1874.
ANY home can be made an at
tractivc place this summer if sur
rounded by IA nice vclvety green
lawn. This can be assured by Il
small amount expended with us
for lawn dressing.
Orders given prompt attention,
Burlington Rendering Co.
North Ave., Burlington
i3,wst.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21

straSglo In as they choose. Divided from
officers and performers mess tent IS
that of tho one thousand tent hands or
rouStabouts. as they are generally called.
The food served to both tents Is the
same. and consists of good. wholesome
fare-roast beef. baked potatoes, VCge-
tables. salads and desserts. with
change Of menu every day; and tho food
cooked in the open air Is peculiarly de-
licious and appctizlng.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup

Ia, been nsed for over sIXTY-FIvE YEARS by NIL
LIONS of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE
TEETH1NG, with PERFECT SUCCESS. / SOOTHES
the CHILD SOFrENS the GUNS, AILAYS all PAIN
CURES WIND collie, and 10 the bes. remedy for DlAR-
RHo;A. Sold BY Drugsiss in every part Of the world
Be and ask for " Mrs.. winslovs Soothing Syrup
and take other kind. Twenty Eve cents bottle ,Gusr-
sneed under the Food snd DYugs Act June sh ls sssl
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21
BUSINESS, NOT PLEASURE.

"You are looking secdy to-day"
Yves, ! sat ny with a girl last night
until 10 o'clock"
why | sit up with girl three
night II week until midnight ana you
never see me looking seedy."
This was baby girl"-Houston
Post
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21

The odor Of Spirits Turpcntine and
Kerosene OIL e not AS fragrant as some
other things, but when in the right pro-
portion and combined with Origan,im
Ether and Ammonia and then whipped
into a thick creamy emulsion, it beats
tn world for reducing swelling relieving
soreness Of tho muscles and stiffness of
tho Joints, and then who cares for the
odor WHOM It takes tho place of pain
Elliott's Emulsiicd oil Liniment is made
rs described above and put in half pint
bottles for DC tho hottie. Sold under a
g,iara tee. j. ". o'Sullivan, Burlington,
Stanley e Esfey, Winooski
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THE
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COULD RECOGNIZE THE NJ W.
WALTZ.

knox-Saw Green and his wife At
tho opera last night ] can't see
where their enjoyment came in, As
neither OF them knows The difference
between a symphony and sonata
Blox-Weil, l ought to be ashamed
to confess my ignorance, but I'm In
the same boat by the way, what is
the difference
Enox-WhY-cr--a sonata, YOU
know-cr---I mean a symphony is--say
there's my car, old man; see you later.
Chicago News
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21
STATE Is STILL SOLVENT.
Vermont Has Money Enough on Hand
- pny Its Bills.

Montpelier. May 1.-THE newspaper
discussion as to whether or not there
will be a deficiency in the Stat. treas
ury at the end Of tho fiscal year. Juno
80, has resulted In food Of letters 10
the state treasurer ana auditor OF ac-
counts inquirinE for the true situation
The present prospects are there will
be no deficiency, although possibly
some of tho departments may use
nearly or quito all tho money allotted
to them by the Legislature Of 1906
The department of Justice may he one
OF these.
OF course when the appropria tons
in those departments are exhausted,
the state auditor will draw no more
orders in favor of such department
until the close of the fiscal year but
II would not necessarily follow from
that that the funds in tho state treas
ury we're exhausted. Unless unforc-
seen contingencies arise the state has
money enough on hand to pay its bills
for tho remainder of tho year.
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Boys!
Boys!

We will give years subscription The American
Boy any boy who will bring subscription Tor
one year TO the Daily Free Press The rate by mail is
only 400 year when paid in ADVANCE this is about l..
cent a copy Any boy can get one subscription to
our paper and year free subscription to The
American Boy Let us tell you what it is like
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-05-21

minutes to become poing hot and serve
in the folds of n napkin
good soup is made from old potatoes
that have been pared and soaked. Make
hin white sauce seasoned highly
with onion pepper and little salt. add
sufficient ticcd potato to thickrn. heat
and serve very hot. IF lied add y pinch
of minced parsley to tho top Of each
portion Of soup after it is IN tho plate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-12

IN pasture in almost any part of the country or
i along the banks of stream may some
times dark colored birds whose sprghtly walk
and contented air seem to indicate that they have
little trouble in taking of themselves They
cowblrds; each of them foster child; and the
little mothers that brought them up perhaps
of different families and of various and colors
Like the European cuckoo, they shift their domestic
of other birds; and these two the notable
ceptlonS to the general rule that birds artistic
nest builders and most sollcitous for their eggs and
young
The cowbirds belong to the blackbird family, and
more remotely are related to the boboinks and the
orioles. The names given by ornithoiogsts
Mootrus dter and Molotlyns peeoris (the first word
designating genus kind while the second indicates
color. has reference the inherited habit of &C
Companying cattle). On the western plains they are
called buffalo BIRDS while Webster classes them as
American starlings. Cow blackbrd, cowpen bird,
and COW bunting are simple variations of the name
and brown headed oriOle, cuckoo bunting, and
trouplal seldom heard. In the adult male. the
head and neck brown, while the body is dngy
black, with tinges of green and blue. The females
have more brown, and smaller
A Libel the Species
THE general run of writers birds give the COW
buntngs scanty consideration; and their con-
illusions pretty we'll summed by one writer, who
dsposes of the whole tribe with the that
vagabonds, and outlaws in birdland. There have
BEEN however, many close observers of the habits
of this anomaly in the bird world "a vigorous fos-
terlng that is striking example of the doctrine of
the survival of the fttest. While the willy ntruders
are known to have imposed upon rather wide range
of BIRDS they usually select the of those smaller
than themselves. In most they leave single
egg probably distributing their full number among
several nests. To all birds, the alien egg is an un-
welcome gift, and some of them promptly get rid
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR APRIL IL. 1908

Ord of the United States army, was son of this
marriage Ia most circunstantlal story being related
to how he was sent to America boy, and
brought up at the Georgetown college by Jesuit
Fathers who of his llustrious parentage,
vet no one has ever been able to show any official
documents demonstrating the truth of the pre-
tension.
Mrs. Fitzherbert, however, had no less than five
sons by her previous marriage to Thomas Fitzher-
bert. She was by birth a Miss Mary Anne Smythe,
Youngest daughter of Walter Smythe who the
second of Sir John Smythe, Baronet of Eshe
Hall, County Durham and of Acton Burnell Park,
in Shropshire. Her first husband was Edward
Weld, of Ludlow Castle. Nearly all of Mrs. Fitz-
herbert's five by her second marriage to Thomas
Fitzherbert had children; and it is this that has
probably led to misrepresentation, people on hearing
that such and such person was one of her descend
ants naturally inferring that the other ancestor in
the King George.
There several members of this Fitzherbert
family that have married in America, among them
the late Captain Henry Fitzherbert, who killed
in in the Boer war whose widow is daughter OF
bequeathed everything that she possessed to
her adopted daughter, Mary Seymour, daughter
of Lord Hugh Seymour who married to Colonel the
Right Hon. George Dawson Damer, became the
mother of the fourth Earl of Portarlington The
present Lord Portarlington is therefore in the
joyment of all of Mrs. Fitzherberts property.
Queen Victora's Father
IN Canada it is firmly believed to this day that
Queen Victora's father, the Duke of Kent,
secretly married to Alphonsine de Montgenet de ST
Laurent, Baroness de Fortisson, who lived with him
for years at Ha1dimand house at Quebec overlook
ing the falls of Montmorency, and was in charge of
his household for than quarter of century.
No certificate of the Dukes marriage to Nine de
ST. Laurent is known exist; but in the register of
the parish church of BEAUFORT Canada there is
entry, dated July 1892 of the baptism of child of
Colonel de Saaberry, at which the Duke of Kent
godfather and Nine. de St. Laurent godmother
The ceremony was performed by Mgr. Bailly
Bishop of Capse, coadjutor of the then Bishop of
Quebec; and to those acquainted with the rules
of the Roman Catholic Church this must be salts
factory evidence that the Bishop least had salts
fed himself that there had been ecclesiastical
marriage of the Duke and Nine. de St. Laurent
not the union valid one in the eyes of Eng
lish law was a question that did not concern the
prelate.
Nine de St. Laurent, after leaving Canada, where
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she spent several years with the Duke resided with
him at kensngton palace; and the family of Colonel
de Salaberrv have still their possession letters
from her dated from there and also from the Duke,
in which she mentioned in terms of affection.
Eventually she retired to convent in France, where
she died few weeks before the Duke for of
state compelled to wed the German Princess that
became the mother of Queen Victoria.
The Case of Mrs. Ryves
the early part of the reign of Queen Victoria the
English courts for time occupied in dealing
with the case of Mrs: Lavinia Ryves. who styled
herself Princess of Cumberland, and claimed
large sum of money from the great Duke of Yelling
ton. executor of the will of King George w.
the strength of alleged bequest to her mother by
George III. Mrs. Ryves, who, like the bogus Sir
Roger Tchborne in subsequent years, found a num-
Der of prominent but wrong headed people-such as
for instance Sir Gerard Noel and Bell the most
famous geneaogist of the day outside of the ROYAL
College of Arns-to support her pretensons insisted
that her mother the offspring of secret mar
rage between Olive Wilmot and the Duke of Cum
berland who the younger brother of George Ill
A number of documents were produced in sup
port of this assertion, including paper dated at ST.
of George III. and also those of Lord Chatham and
of Lord Warwick witnesses. 1t ran as follows:
In of our royal demise. we give and bequeath
to Olive, our brother of Cumberlands daughter the
sum of fifteen thousand pounds, commanding
heir and successor to pay the same privately to
said niece for her use, as recompense tor the mis-
fortunes she may have known through her father
These and several other documents of an analogous
character failed satisfy the courts to the facts
that any marriage between the Duke of Cu1nber-
land and Olive Wilmot had really existed, and
the case thrown out.
That secret marriages frequent in royal
families is undoubted fact This, however, and
the mystery by which they enveloped, often
leads to their being ascribed to instances where
they do really exist. In fact, there several
royal personages now living who have suffered much
distress through purely imaginary stories to the
effect that they had contracted secret marriages be-
fore leading to the altar the royal women who
their and the mothers of their children.
Secret marriages likewise offer unrivaled oppor-
tunites for professions the part of full edged adj
venturers and adventuresses, or of people of more
or less unbalanced mind, who have deluded them
selves and others into the belief that they have royal
blood in their veins. But with all that they furnish
a considerable element to the romance of both
modern and ancient royalty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-12

of it. 1t that the two most frequently imposed
upon the red eyed vireo and the Maryland yell
owthroat both of which accept the charge with little
protest.
adverse conditions, Nature to depart from
her usual lines. Between the size of birds and their
eggs there is usually an approximate ratio also be-
tween the periods of incubation. The eggs of the
cowbird small as compared with the size of the
bird, but considerably larger than those of the
vireo or yellowthroat They are, however, believed
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has given up riding, to which she was formerly SO
devoted and walks great deal, particularly in the
Bots de Boulogne. Her summer months she usually
spends at Boulogne sur- Mer, where her whole time
is usually passed on the water, sailing about in a
small cutter which she manages with wonderful
skill, Drawing every kind of weather.
King George and Mrs. Fitzherbert
Of all secret marriages of royalty, the one that has
~ given rise most discussion and to the greatest
amount of romance undoubtedly that OF King
George ". to Mrs. Fitzherbert, union from which
quite number of people in this country claim to be
descended. 1t was only about two years ago that
produced through opening, with King Edwards
permission package of documents consigned more
than seventy years ago to Couttss Bank, which was
found to contain the certificate OF marriage, as
having been performed in Mrs Fitzherbert's own
drawing room, on December Fl, 1855, by Protes-
tant clergyman. The certificate was signed by
George w. then Prince of Wales, and also by the
witnesses of the ceremony who consisted OF Mrs.
Fitzherberts uncle, Henry Errington, and her
brother, Jack Smythe. The package also contained
letter from George acknowledging the marriage,
and will made by him bequeathrng certain property
to Mrs Fitzherbert whom he described as his wife.
The reason for the secrecy with which this mar
rage of George ". enveloped until the opening
of this package may be found the statute enacted
in the reign of King William and Queen Mary,
titled the Bill of Rights which provided that Every
person who shall marry Papist shall be excluded
from and forever incapable to inherit the crown of
this realm. 1t did not matter that the marriage
itself was invalid in law owing to its having been
contracted in defiance of the terms of the Royal
Marriage Act of 1772. The very circumstance that
had been celebrated entailed the penalty instituted
by the Bill of Rights and there is no doubt that
George w., who died childless, should by law
have been permitted to reign, and should have been
excluded from the succession to the throne. 1t may
be safely assumed, under the circumstances, that
had King Edward been in anyway descended from
George w., no permission would ever have been
given by the crown to reveal the contents of the
package of documents at Coutts's This de-
posted there during the lifetime of Mrs Ftzherbert,
in her name, by her close friend and adviser, the
great Duke of Wellington.
With regard to the claims of those who insist that
they descended from the union of George w. and
Mrs. Fitzherbert, it may be stated that the most
positive evidence exists to show that there
issue whatever of the union, and although it is in
sisted by a number of people in this country that
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to hatch in little less time, a circumstance that
gives the vigorous parasitng fedgeling advan-
tage that usually results the destruction of the
other eggs birds. Then the little mother, bereft
larger than herself; and at last and her reward.
is forsaken and perhaps forgotten until the return OF
the season when little songsters are sacrificed
If this process of determination was within the
ranks of the blackbirds -cowbrd against blackbird.
blackbird against gracke, and grackle in turn de-
provision of Nature for keeping in check prolific
family which has not always been held in the best
repute. But the vireos and warb1ers are bright and
happy little songsters whose mission seems be
only for good Nutta an English naturalist who
observed the cowblrd IN this country more than
fifty years ago, concluded that the parasitic habit
not vice, but perpetual instinct of nature.
When Audubon came to record his observations
of this bird, he at first departed from simple
ton, and soliloquized for than the space of
as an expert might look upon a mechanism of some
curious and wonderful des gn. The great naturalist
firm in the belief that the works of Nature
wisely adjusted in all their parts; but he could not
why the digent little vellowthroat should be
made to bear the burden of the happy go lucky
cowbird.
A Feathered Command
A MALE cowbrd, brought up as pet in Our family,
few years ago, afforded good opportunity for
close range study of habits and characteristics In
SIZE this bird was somewhat above the average due
perhaps in part to the fact that he never missed
breakfast, dinner, supper. At seven months he
measured eight and quarter inches IN length, with
spread of wings fourteen and half inches As
fedgeling, he voracious, gulpng large guam
and insects of various kinds Later he was hearty
eater but rather dainty; and his preference was tor
seeds, which were never bolted but were swallowed
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