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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-03-14

Friday and the thirteenth has passed,
and the only really unfortunate thing
il that 1t couldn't have seen the local
labor difficulties settled and the march
Of progress resumed,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-03-14
What Did He Giveg

The druggist had just fillei a pres.
cription.
I'D like copy Of that prescription
said the customer.
Guess you'll have to get it from the
Doctor replied the pill compiler 7
could never read bis writing Chicago
News
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-03-14

Various state papers are using the
town Of Somerset Is an example Of the
nnfairness Of the ''rottcn borough sys.
tenn" Of representation. If this agita
tion viii only result in change Som
erset may feel that it has exerted an
influence far out OF proportion to its
population Brattleboro Reformer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-03-14

The Waterbury Record finds that 1t
has something to be thankful for, that
Waterbury has not gone whist crazy,
like some other towns. Sure they don't
sneak down and make it poker neigh
hnrg
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-03-14

The movement for an extra session
Of the Vermont Legislature to elect
United States senator is being buried
under an avalanche Of criticism. Good.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-03-14

CURRENT COMMENT. /
Bradford Sauarelv No.

Bradford ~ rs vote, Tuesday, stays
squarely in the No column for another
year. There was no especial fight on
the subject, as no license has worked
well here, Bradford having been in the
Yes column but once. Bradford Opin-
ION.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-03-14

Disappointed apple spectators who
thought to get corner on the market
are a. bitter as the few weeks old cider
that the apples may eventually make.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-03-14

Municipalities Of the size Of Boston
and Hartford still have "call firemen,"
while New York has its horse cars.
Peculiar, isn't itg
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-03-14

Provided. as the Groton Times hints,
Lieutenant Governor prouty is "a man
Of circumstance" he's not a circumstance
to zed Stanton in the same line.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-03-14
Hrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup

Has been used for over sIxTY-FIvE YEARS ~
MILsLlQNS OK MOTHERS for their CHlLDETN
SCOT I4hS the u LII. S0FIES he GEAS ALL ~
al pAlNs CURES WIND COfIC. aud is fhe ksst
Part " the world BE sure and ask fer Mrs VIZ.
l9Ns Soothing syrup and take no other k3nd
y Twenty-Five cents bottle Guaranteed under tts
fuid and pruss act Iuae aQth ias Serial Man,
lass. AN OLD AND WELL TRIED RE4fEIx.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-03-14
Looks like sugarin'.

At the present rate there win be
plenty Of green for the celebration next
Tuesday.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-03-14

If chilly Boston could melt the Hughes
icicle, what would the budding warmth
OF Washington dot
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-03-14

SOC and 75c belts on Saturday a5c at
Faughan's.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-03-14

New York City has joined the $3.50
class; there's child born there every
three minutes and half
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02
FERRY'S FREE SEED ROOK.

For half n century thousands and thou
sands OF farmers and gardeners have re-
garded "Ferry's Seed Annual" as the
best guide not only for the buying Of
seeds, but for their planting and care.
Daily reference to It's text and lllustra-
lions proves It to be the actual begin
ming of successful season. The new
edition for 1903 Is now ready for free
mailing to all who write to the publishers
for a copy.
1t is high tribute to tho house OF II,
NJ. Ferry & Co. that two generations
have planted Ferry's Seeds each sue
ceedng year adding to the confidence
that seed trouble" will never arise when
Ferry's seeds are planted as "Ferrys
Seed Annual says they should be.
Another remarkable feature developed
by the house Of Ferry is the method of
distributing seeds to dealers throughout
the country SO that the planters every
where can secure at their home store
exactly what they want when they want
It, with the absolute assurance that II
Is fresh and fertile, Everyone should
semi at once to ID. NJ. Ferry & Co, De
troit. Mich for the 1908 edition of "Fer-
rvs Seed Annual"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02
THE WEEKLY FREE PRESS.

THE WEEKLY FREE PRESS
cents per copy, 80 cents for six months.
fl.oo a year. postage paid.
Advertisements and subscriptions re-
reived at the Office. 1s9 College street.
Full advertising rates sent on apr lea
tion.
Accounts cannot be opened for sup-
ecriptions. Subscribers VIII please re-
init with order. Names are not entereo
until payment Is received. and all papers
are stopped at the end of the time paid
for.
Remittance at the risk Of the suoscrip-
err unless made by registered letter. or py
check or postal order payable to the pub
fishers
The date when the subscription ex-
pires IL on the address-label or cacn
paper the change OF which to SUD-
sequent date becomes n receipt Tor re-
,ittance. No other receipt is sent unless
requested The receipt OF the paper Ia a
sufficient receipt for the first subscription.
when - change OF address Is desired
both the old and now addresses should
be given.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02

children praying about dying while they
are asleep It Is a great mistake. he said,
to let children think of sudden death
Ba | sight is given as the reason for
mon going wrong Defective vision has
been proved to he the cause of lack Of
self-control. alcoholism and drug taking.
Since 1896 the vicomte and vicomtesse
dc Gruard have been making their
honeymoon on foot. They have arrived
at Turin after walking Il $50 miles. 1t is
on wager.
The Korean tailor does not stitch gar
mente. Ho pastns the edges together and
presses them down. Koreans carry glue
around to stick their clothes together
when they are torn.
Tho Brussels municipal council has
halted the work on tho Kings new palace
because the building hns been found TO
lap over on city property about a feet
The architect has only q month t set
the building back.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02
SENATOR DILLINGHAM ON IMMI-
GRAFTON,

The immigra ton problem is ever pre-
senting itself in new phases and the COM
mission OF which Senator William p.
Dillingham; is the head is evidently be-
coming moro deeply impressed with this
fact as it continues its work of inves-
tigation. In the comprehensive statement
which Senator Dillingham; has recently
given out to the press on this subject
there is constant insistcnce on the pur-
pose of the commission to accumulate
great mass of facts and digest them
thoroughly before making any recon-
mendatio.i. lie expresses however. the
opinion that the danger of an excess of
European immigration Will be less in
the future, and bases this expectation on
what is known Of the disposition of Euro
pean governments to discourage emjgra-
ton to this country, The cases he cites
refer mainly to industrious. thrifty citi-
zens and to the efforts to retain them at
home. which are dictated by sound econ
omy. As far as that goes 1t is the worse
for us instead of the better Italy. for
instance. has on hand a plan for buying
estates in its southern territory and open
owners. Immigration from the cast. and
from the cities in southern Italy is re-
Eardcd as comparatively undesirable
Senator Dillingham; emphasizes the fact
that while there are undesirable immi-
grants, the commission must recognize
the growing demand In this country for
Immigrants of the better class. 1t is the
intention OF the commission to inquire
carefully into this demand for mmi-
grants. and the influence they exert, the
extent to which they are assimilated and
where within the limits of this country
they should be distributed.
Another feature of the immigration
problem which IS discussed by the Hart
ford Times is that Of immature citizen
ship. While five years may not be too
short time for some immigrants to be-
come identified with American institu-
oughly enter into the spirit of our free
and government. In the est!ma ton
of the Times there are two chief parts
20 the problem the economic and the
political. The former involves much stat
istical work II any intelligent interfer-
ence with the natural flow of immigra.
tina 10 To no att
other may most advantageously be deal
with promptly 1t holds there is nothing
sacred about the present fve-year proba
ton, and that it Is so nearly a matter o
common knowledge that under it many
zen are made voters before they are
sufficiently in the spirit of the response
bilities Pf citizen in democracy tina
an extension OF the period is greatly {,
be desired. II 1t should prove an erro
1t can be abandoned, but there Is stroni
presumption in its favor. 1t takes ava.
n right, but extends for our own pro
lection under new conditions a probation
which was fixed arbitrarily when tn
situation was radically different
AS Senator Dillinghams commission
prosecutes its labors and people becom
more familiar with the subject, It readil,
becomes evident that the work embrace,
Is manifold and that considered from al
points OF view the results can not fai, L
be far-reachn. as we'll as important. 70
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02
THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW.

The great maj ority of PEOPLE, If ask
of the year just closed. would probably
name the financial panic, on the prin-
ciple that this is the most recent and
in many cases unquestionably the most
widely felt influence Strangely
enough. however, those business con-
Germs and great corporations. which
have already taken an inventory Of
their operations and the results there
Of, report that the year, which has just
passed into the category of "old," was
the most prosperous in their history.
When these come to look over the rec
ord of the past twelve months as a
whole. they will be likely to conclude
that 1t was not such a bad year after
all, and so far as they are concerned
this is unquestionably true.
For the man who lives from hand
to mouth. however, there is no such
retrospect One month is pretty much
the same as another. provided he has
employment at fairly remunerative
wages. His labor is his capital. and
when he ie thrown out of employment
his ability to work counts for nothing
So far as the sustenance of his family
is concerned he Is like a capitalist who
has lost his all. and has not even the
labor of his hands with which to help
himself. According to all accounts
there are not few people of this class
scattered here and there over the coun-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02
CHICKEN DREAMED WITH PEAS.

Four level teaspoons butter, one-ha'
finely chopped green pepper few drop
onion Juice three level tables poons flou
one-ha,f level teaspoon salt, one GU
chicken stock, one cup cream, on GU
chicken cubes, threo-fourths cup peas.
Melt the butter; add the pepper an
onion juice end cook for five minutes. Al
the -four and salt and when we'll mike
add gradually the stock and cream. ST
until th!ck and smooth, then place owe
hot water. Add the chicken and peas an
cook for ten minutes.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02

may be as free from war as that just
closed.
Human freedom and constitutional rule
made marked progress in Russia and in
Persia. while even China began to dis
cuss the adoption Of a parliament. The
only d,scouraglng accompaniment Of tho
development Of human liberty the past
year has been the growth Of the spirit
Of socialism. We may be unconscious Of
the extent to which republican and free
America has drifted toward socialism
during the past year, and happy Indeed
will be the new year, II we can begin to
counteract this growing tendency IN our
democratic country.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST,".

midas only cotton seed oil mill Is in
Burmah.
Over 1000 men are laying tracks on the
Southern Nigeria railway.
British india has the swiftest river in
the world. Tho Sutlej has descent of
1900 feet In $50 miles.
All Abyssinian male children over -
mus go to school. The state provides
that education and IL building many
schools.
To get rid Of daughters East Indians
marry them to flowers. When the flow
ers are dead the girls are widows, and
widows can he sold-cheap
A British scientist has spoken against
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02
ACTING THE PART.

The curtain had Just gone down
on the second act. leaving the heroine
in the Williams clutches. Up in tho
balcony a sentimental woman burst
into tears.
Don't cry, dear" said hcr husband.
'Rcmcmber It's only play. Act
like a man
Very VOL, John" said the lady.
smiling through her tcRrs; "You'l
excuse mo for moment, won't YOU
| must run out and send n telegram"
From the January bohemian.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02
STRING BEANS.

Drain and rinse with cold water a ca
OF beans. Cut three thin slices of breai
fast bacon into tiny strips crosswis
Cook In hot frying pan until NIGEL
Drowned, then add the beans. first heate
in boiling water and drained, stir lgh
ly with fork, Sprinkle with pepper an
add salt If necessary. Serve as soon q
hot.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02
V'OIt i[.

Mrs. CrimsOnbeak during spaD-
Why, even in the poultry world the fo-
male chicken does all the work
Mr.. Crimsonbeak-Nonsen
Doesn't the female chicken lay all the
eggs"
Yes. she does; but that's not all the
work"
well. it's the most important"
Don't ne silly, Who Is it that docs
all the CROWNS ?'-Yonkcrs Statesman.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02

legislation along these different lines
must have marked effect on the great
er race problem in this country as we'll
as on the character of no small part of
our citizens.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02

The Fall River mills have broken all
r. ords of prosperity by declaring cash
year now closing, the latest dividends
having beer 1927 per cent, aggrogatlng
no less than $2,7Ol,S75 Dividends like
this talk.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02

When the Mount Mansfield electric cars
PIN into Morrisville. the town with n new
lake will have good reason for INDUCING
IN another celebration IN which neighbour
ting cities and towns will gladly join.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02

would give round S1,000,QO0 for the
erection of . building devoted to the
instruction and training of poor people
who desire to become Christian Science
healers. was too much for her ohstreper-
Gus son, and he will speedily begin an
other contest.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02
THE HENS REPARTEE.

The roosters smiled and the ducks did
grin
When tho brown hen sat IN the old coal
bin
But the brown hen laughed as wcl as
And said Now listen 20 my lay:
The OH coal bin IS tho place for ne.
For it's filled with egg coal don't you
sce?"
Chicago News
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02
HAD lTER DOUBTS.

shaky."
$40, it amt The cashier told me It
was as stable as Gibraltar"
And what is Gihraltar?"
II don't know hut that IS what no
said
Henry Hickman You Just go down
right away and take YOUR money out.
That sounds to me mighty like the name
OF a sleeping car"-Nashville American.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02
OUR KALEIDOSCOPE.
A QUESTION OF COLOR.

MY pa goes to tho palmist to get his
hand read boosted Freddy.
II don't know where my pa goes"
said Jimmie, ''but he gets his nose red"
Circle Magazine.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02

When you want anything, advertise IN
the new special column OF this paper
Some bargains are offered there this
week which It will pay you to read
about. See page two. This paper mas
more than %, 900 readers every week
and ono cent word will reach them ALL
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02

Roar Admiral Goodrich admits there is
SANS battleships. But Il is a pretty
good navy by comparison with other
navies of the day after all
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02
COLD TONGUE AND CULIFLOWEI

Cut cold boiled tongue into uniforl
slices. Arrange on platter. Separate
cold boiled cauliflower into its foweret
Place one on each slice. Put teaspoo
Of mayonnaise dressing on each nowere
Garnish the dish with crisp heart leav,
OF lettuce and spiced beets into fame
shapes
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02
ACCOUNTED FOR.

Mr.. Bacon-Ths milk taste different
this morning, dear. Have you been
changing your milkman?
Mrs Bacon-No; but ! understand his
well went dry and he's using water from
the one next door-Yonkers Statesman.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02
CORRECT.

A teacher in a public schoo' asked the
children to define the word advice
advice" said little girl rs wheh
other people want you to do the way 'hey
do."-Chrlstian Registar
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02
GEoRGIA'S LIQUOR TRADE
White People Stocking Their Clos
cts for the Drouth.
Procession of Jugs and Bottles from
the 700 Condemned SaIOons-Stnte
Prohibition in Eject with the
beginning of the New Year.

(From the New York SUM-
Nearly every saloon in the State is dis
playing the following Legend
Hush, little harroom,
Don't you cry
You'll be a drug store
By and by.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-01-02
WANTED.

BURLINGTON, THURSDAY, JAN. 2.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-18
FOOLS IN THE FOREST.
Some Day There Will Be No More
Redwoods in California.

From the San Francisco Argonaut.
Something more than mere sentimental
ism will move the Californian to rejoice
that The Mother of the Forest" of the
Calaveras grove of big trees still stands
in columnary majesty with her stalwart
family of great-girthed. russet-mailed
emerald plumed giants. For a time it was
feared that these trees were fated to
perish from the earth; that the flames
creeping out from a sheepherders pot
boiling campfire or the embers of
fool campers" bacon-frying contrivance
would destroy the only living survival of
the age beyond "the dawn of history.
Happily this disaster was averted, and
only the bald and ragged crest of 1.-The
Mother" was scorched; only another scar
added to those already inflicted by time
and the hand Of God.
Better far better, that these age-defy-
ing monarchs should perish by the silver
ing stroke of the thunderbolt than that
they should waste to cinders and ashes
in the ignoble flame of a fire kindled by
Slovenian goatherder or a grocer's clerk
obtruding his puny presence upon Nature
in her solitude.
When Abraham fed his f1ocks on the
scart pasture of Ur in the land of the
Chsldes, the giant redwoods of California
were vigorous shoots not yet parked to
record their age in annu!ar growth, though
centuries had elapsed since their seed had
drift; while the armies of Sesostris were
devastating the world from Ethiopia to
the Indus the last of the post pliocene
mastodons may have rubbed his gigantic
tusks against the rough bark of The
Father of the Forest now PROSTATE and
dry-rotted in the Calaveras grove.
Dynas ties founded to outlast the men,
DRY Of man have passed into oblivion since
the seed of the sequoia winged its flight
on the northwest wind to find it's final
resting place on the slope of the Califor-
MIA Sierra, racial types have changed to
fit their shifting environment and mingled
to produce a hundred new phases of HUI
mainly since our redwoods began to grow.
So old are the everything redwoods of
the Sierran forests that they have out
lived the use of commerce. The centuries
have eaten their hearts and they are no
longer timber; they have ceased to be ap-
praised in the lumber market; they are
Interrogation marks and exclamation
points on the pages of the Book of Time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-18
POINTS ON PREvARIcATIoN.
Touching the Alleged Decay Of the
Art of Lying.

From the New Yorw Sun
Prince Bismarck, once definitely and ir-
revocably retired from power. had no deli
cacy in describing himself as an uncom-
promising liar. The quality of his mem,
dacity was not strained: it was bold.
simple and unstudied. The old Emperor
William was his apt and proficient pupil.
Between them, by straightforward lying
that would have disguised Machiavelli.
they made history. The lie Of Ems was
a prodigious thing. unmade one empire.
created greater and deluged continent
in blood.
There was no common knowledge OF
Prince Bismarcks achievements In the
art of lying at the time of his activity.
They were we'll enough known in high
places. but to make public such a charge
against SO great a man We're TO incur
great personal Inconvenience or expose
ones self to ridicule. Simple verac!ty is
resorted TO by very great statesmen only
when they are reasonably sure that they
run no danger of being believed. Bis
marck was one Of the great figures of the
nineteenth century. In all his career he
never told a trivial lie, while for gratui-
tous lying he entertained an ineffable con.
tempt.
In the early part of the last century
parte a liar. 1t seemed too inadequate.
None Of his sycophants is on record as
describing him as a gentleman. His pre-
cious nephew gained his twenty years Of
precarious ascendercy by an effective
counterfeit Of all his uncles worst quail.
ties plus his own undluted depravity.
Disraeli. the most distinguished Jew in
modern history. was much the intellectual
superior of Bismarck. The imputation
of lying was never successfully urged
against him, even by the house OF COM
mons. On the other hand. implicit belief
in anything that he uttered was held
to be the height OF temerity. 1t was
maintained of PalmerSton that he never
told lie outside of the house Of COM
mons in his whole life.
The statement OF an obvious untruth
does not necessarily impair a mans char
acter for veracity. Mr.. Gladstone had a
wonderful reputation for truthfulness and
maintained il even to his death, I'm the
estimation of perhaps a majority Of Eng.
lishmen. 1t is only just to his character
to acknowledge that with advancing
years he himself shared the same con-
vict.on.
Respecting those persons who infest the
public prints with lamentation respecting
the prevalent decay Of the art OF lying.
we hold their burden to be mainly affecta-
ton. There Is none such. OF all the arts
of the day il is the most robust