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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-12-10

6eid throughout thc world Potter Dr,r 4 Th"W
I S4ss c saatSn soss .. ss,n D.>
us to accomplish in this direction. Oc-
casionallv a grange becomes dormant
or ceases to exist through lack of
proper instruction or alive wide
awake deputies. II IS the opinion OF
your state master that the deputy
work in some Of our neighhoring
states is superior in many ways to
that Of our own. and would urgs up-
on the STATE grange at this time 10
CAREFUL consider the subject OF
deputy work and adopt new measure,
that will make the same more efrec-
tive in various WAYS
FIELD DAY.
Four field day meetings have beer
held during the past year in differer;
parts of the state, under the direction
of the state grange, and in connection
with Pomona oranges All have been
successful from every point of view.
Several other field day meetings have
been held under tho direction OF
Pomana oranges ana it is the opinion
of your state master that more field
dav meetings should No held each
year as they are uplifting in both q
social and educational way. let MS have
more field day meetings.
GRANGE FAIRS.
Several grange fairs have been in
augurated in the state during the last
two years, and I am of the opinion
[ they should be enCourarol as they
are poth eouca'iohaI ana entertaining.
'"'rS started oF 'He "IHer'n' ORANGES
DE not 700 I7'E" S'"Ir' ana NOT made
| ''' 'Ni'"SiN"' Hn'"'' ID" "pIi'INE 10
the aRr'cul'uraI interests OF any com
MUMMY
1T was my PI'aS''' Nv attend
Rrahsc 1air last 1ali Where three
| thousan1 persons were present This
ialr was located IN on" of the noun
tam towns or vermont "ho has been
suro II has boon succoesr,,l rro,,, o,,ory
pVi"' W WV ~ W'S genuine couh-
'S az "''"'"' '"' t""d 'N"lp'-
.'on VI 'Nc SUCK anu "EIl'u''ural eN-
"i"''' "''c "o""' ""u "'"eIo"' sports
u 81" '"''' '"'''"S nature were pre-
Sc"''"' '"u 'no '"'r Se'N'd 'W"-ioIo
P"'P"S' H''St' III bringing IN" people
''6''"'' J" sunni 'HJoN iH'Ht Oh hieh
/ "'"'"' c''"r"''er ana ans" II became
'"uca'i ma by me 'NNhlnoh OF the
"Hi ''"''''"i P'"""''H 'i me iarh'' ''et
rs nave moro grange aerl'ultural talrs
OF 'hc Klho inehtlohed
Many OF IN" great AGRICULTURAL fairs
"l 'he country nave Iost thelF prestige
ana nave falled 10 hocom" educational
as Wen as entertaining by trying 10
'"h"ur' '"' same On 700 large scal"
ana IN" result mas hoon, they have
Iialled 10 make these exhibitions sue
c'SSiul hoth from " financial and edu-
l'"n"hal point OF F}'W' ana have had
10 resort 10 cheap midway ana Naudo-
Nile entertainments IN order to make
'he ialrS hnan'ial success and even
many OF 'hcS' nave failed to 90 So
II"N' we any H"'h IalTS IN vermont :
The subject Of taxation has vexed
the minds Of all taxpayers and cspe-
cially those who have made a study Of
this most important subject for the
last decade. Tho National grange
has gone on record from year to year
believing that one man should pay the
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-12-10
DEPUTIES WORK.

Notwithstanding there has been some
Improvement made In the work Of our
deputy system, we still believe that
thore is greater and better work for
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-12-10
SENATE EVENING.

Senate called to order by the president
and devotional exercises conducted by
the chaplain.
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LEGISLATIVE WORK.

TIE legislative committee of the
vermont state grange upon mature
consideration Of various matter soon
corning the people of the state at
large have presented certain recon-
mendations to the Legislature. and
have visited that body from time to
CONTINUED on mage 81
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ONE OF THE WEALTHIEST.

TNNN TN0TN Vt. TINS,
Burlington, Dec :, 1905
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CONTINUED on page g.,
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ORDERED TO LIE.

ORDERED TO LIE.
H. l79--An act to pay certain publishing
companies the sums therein named. On
motion of Senator Milan, the bill was
ordered to lie because of the absence of
several senators.
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SENATE BILLS REFERRED.

II. 4@c-Relating to the competenc. I
,i.it Il
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24

teen years ago her figure would not have been
thought too fat. When she was being fitted she
could be heard. through the fimsy partition
which separates the trying-on rooms. holding
her breath, so that she might be pulled In.
Mais madame" said her filter, "regardez les
bellies statues, Giles mont pas la taille que vous
admirez. II faut toujours regarder les bellies
statues" And one could fancy the poor lady's
rueful face as she remembered the old figure
which the redundances compensated by a
trim waist, and compared that happy past with
the uncertain future, when at best she could
only hope to be undecided copy of an antique.
But although this new fashion is not kind to the
middle aged, it has undoubtedly come to stay,
and whether we like it not shall all have
to 'tregarder les statues.' Along with the tight
waists of yesterday French women have abol-
ished their underskirts, the only women in Paris
still wearing them being elderly ladies and for
eigners and instead of the numberless frills and
Frenchwoman. and which were shown when the
day muddy and the skirt was lifted. the exi-
gencies of the mode have decreed that skinny
silk knickerbockers. shall be worn. Women in
England may dislike these innovations, but the
new fashions cannot be worn except over the
specially prepared frame made to carry them,
and If you try to one of the draped Greek
dresses copied straight from Tanagra statu-
cite, over your last years figure, you Will look
bunchy and awkward No doubt some people
will hold out, and If they do not follow the
fashion they will be all right and can look AS
pretty as any one, but compromise is impossible:
you cannot wear the full floating draperies and
heavy Eastern gauzes even the modern loose
tailor gowns, unless you also consent TO accom-
modate yourself to their Style.-Lady Violet
Cecil, in The National Review.
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24
sorTH AFRICAN CHIEF.

Chiefs like all rulers, of course varied In their
character All were more or less ferocious; II
any were benign it was usually ascribed to
veal Lness and. while under them. a tribe gen
eraIIv came down Moshesh. who made the
Rasuto nation was credited with an exceptional
share of benignity and occupied attention as a
central figure for many years in South African
history ,,., !,
He was an astute and clever man, worshlpped
l,y his people and eulogized by his missionaries
but was not lacking in the dash and resource
~ a roan-at-arms when these qualities were
called into reuuisition: did he hesitate to re-
move an urruly subject from this worlds cares
l,z, launching him krantz with 1atSi
dron of several hundred feet. 1t Is stated IN
the official records that enamoured was he OF
the magical powers of missionaries that ne sent
10 Adam Kok, who possessed one, zoo catte
Gov tbe purchase of a missionary" Like others
Of his contemporaries. his dominating position
,,-as due to his own ability and personality.
though unlike most Of them, he dld not owe }.
SO much TO fear created by ru,hless saGFlllCe Oh
,boee who stood in his way. lie had the Iore-
ei,bt 20 realize that he could not DEFY the maTcn
of ei,,I1ization and that much salvation for his
country was 10 be found III tolerating the mis-
eions of Christian societies, even II ne dld h"t
,nnreciate the gospel they propagated.-'9li
Godfrey Lagden, I'm The FortniShtiy REVIEW
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24
QUICK TRIPS TO GARDEN CITY.

Garden City, May 2.-The trial trips of the third
rail train from Brooklyn this week made on
an average OF four minutes less than the sched-
uled time and residents are eated over the pros
pect OF rapid transit William X. Hnman, who
died last week at his home in Madison avenue.
Manhattan was for twenty-one summers MEM
ber of the local hotel colony, holding the longest
record
Manhattan arrivals this week at the Garden City
Hotel include Mr.. and Mrs L. l.. ROssiter, Mrs.
NJ. l.. Gordon. Mr.. and Mrs. D. Crawford Clark.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howland Haggerty Pell. II. H. Pell.
jr Miss Orlie Pell, Miss Marie Boutron, Miss Ella
Burse Hall T. Mccullough and family. NJ. j. Lar
kim Miss Bella l.. Cox, W. f., Webb. John r..
Donchan. Mr.. and Mrs. Dulaney Rowland and
child, Mr. and Mrs. ]. 81. Aldrich. Jefferson De
Mont Thompson, A. Il. Pardngton, Claire Foster.
Colonel Crowley, Mr.. and Mrs +. b. Jennings. Mrs.
H B. Platt Lawrence Gourlay. Mrs. Ruth Cahbe.
E K Cabble the Misses Cabbe. Mr. and Mrs
Charles E. Bayliss. Miss Airline Bayliss and A. W.
I3aylisS
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24

Hotel Chalfonte this week On May z7 the South
eastern Traffic Association will hold its annual
convention the MaTlborough-Benheim. There
will be about five hundred delegates in attendance
The Wholesale Grocers Association will hold It's
convention here, beginning June s. This organiza-
ton will also make Its headquarters at the Mari
rough-Blenhem.
Rear Admiral Brownson. U s n. (retired). was
among the visitors in the early part of the week.
His family remains here, and he is expected back
here to spend Sunday.
Israel Durham. ex-Insurance Commissioner of
Pennsylvania, spent couple of days here this
week He is getting his Atlantic avenue cottage
ready for occupation.
The Rev William Scudder. formerly Of Phila-
delphia but now engaged in mission work in Mex
leo. is spending couple Of weeks at the Cnalfonte
for his health.
General Thomas J. Henderson. of Princeton. ILL.,
general superintendent Of all the soldiers homes,
is spending a fortnight here. He is accompanied
by his daughter and granddaughter, Mrs. John
Farnsworth and Miss Farnsworth. They are at
the Homhurst.
w w Atterbury, general manager OF the Penn
sylvania Railroad, came TO the shore last sunday
in an automobile with party Of Philadelphia
friends. including Mr.. and Mrs. Little Mr.. and
Mrs FELTON,, Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop Sargent and
Mr.. and Mrs. Tracy
Mrs r w Reed and her son. of New York, have
taken apartments at the Ostend for the summer.
MI and Mrs. Nelson of New York. have taken
apartments at the Wiltshire until the middle Of
June.
Ex-Judge Benjamin F. Lee and Mrs. Lee Of
Trenton are spending couple of weeks at Had
don Hall. Mrs. H w. Shoemaker and child, Mrs
J. c. Buck Miss Frances Buck and j. Manlon
Buck of New York. also visitors at Haddon
Hall.
The Rev. J. NJ. Flynn and the Rev. Thomas A
Thornton, of New York, at the St Charles.
Mrs Pauline Du Bose of New York. is spending
a month at the Rudolf chaperoning Miss Mar
garet Manle. Samuel Schumacher, New York
broker is also a visitor at the Rudolf
Mrs. Richard T.. Carpenter, Of New York, is a
visitor at the Albemarle. II. W. Brooks, jr.. Jonn
F. Byrne and Mr.. and Mrs. August Schacht. also
OF New York. at the Albemarle.
Mr. and Mrs Walter Langdon and Mr.. and Mrs.
Brahforn, of New York, staying at the Grand
Atlantic.
Mr. and Mrs T. d Bell, Of New York at
the Chalfonte.
Mr. and Mrs. F. E Edgerton, DR.. and Mrs. ".
r Chapin Mrs. James Mclean and daughter and
Mrs Edward L, Tinker, of New York. at the
Marlborough -Blenheim
AIr and Mrs. John E Dordan. OF New York,
the Dennis.
Mrs James Leeming, Miss Esther Stanley ard
H S Stanley Of New York. are at the Ostend.
George Gleason, of New York. the Y. NJ. G. A.
secretary, who Japan 10 establish
branch of the association there is at the Chelsea.
Other New Workers at the Chelsea include Mr.. and
Mrs. J. V. Sloan, Miss S. +. Stall. Mrs. John
CamDbell II. Phelps Reed
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24
CALL THE WATER FINE" "
Bathers at Atlantic City-Talk OF
Mardi Gras FestiUaL.

Atlantic City May 23-Th-re is no question that
'the season" is on. for a large number Of bathing
houses along the Boardwalk have opened during
the week and there have been a large number OF
bathers men and women. Those who are bathing
now say the water is fne." Mayor Stoy has
got squad OF his red shirted swimmers together.
and they will begin their duties Hfeguards in
the course of ten days People have long since
begun summing on the beach, and now the man
with the swinging chairs has appeared. to give the
beach a little more breezy appearance In the
course Of another ten days the ponies and carts
will be driven from the beach, and then the sea-
son. will have opened In earnest
There is talk of a Mardi Gras festival to be held
as soon as the handsome new electroers are erect
ed in Atlantic avenue. The first carload OF tho
ornamental poles arrived the latter part OF this
week and the work OF setting them up will begin
next week. When all have been placed In position
and the lights turned there Will be ceiepra-
tion for the avenue will be bower of electric
lights and brilliant as the great ocean front
pathway.
has been purchased for $4,000 1t has frontage OF
10 feet on the Boardwalk. The land inside the
walk can be disposed of for least s6S 600. which
will give the city the outside beach for park
at a cost of than 5000. and perhaps less
Alfred ]. Roger. secretary to Mayor Stoy, at
tended a dinner the other night, and while eating
Little Neck CLAIMS found couple Of pearls. which
a jeweller informed him were valuable
Chancellor Day of Syracuse University is at
Galen Hail. where he will remain until he has
fully recovered from attack of the grip. Mrs.
Elizabeth B. Steele. trustee of the university, Is
also at Galen Hall.
chine Tool Builders Association has been at ths
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24
CRUSADE AGAINST FLIES.

,,ura,ca Park ~ Y, May 23.-The project to
10 palmer avenue sixty feet wide all the way
fror, RronxviIle to Yonkers is being pushed and
ac+ua1 work has begun the Yonkers end The
BOARD of Health has asked for 500 to abolish the
breeding places of house files
,,a1,,,e+tan arrivals this week at the Hotel G-a-
a,j,, 3ncIude Mrs Joseph T. Dean. Mr.. and Mrs.
charles E Osborn Mrs. A. Lambert Phillips. MIR.
and Mrs. l. Newton Lewis. Mr.. and Mrs Clayton
pIott Mr. and Mrs. c. T. Quincy, Mr.. and Mrs
Julian o. Harft MI and Mrs Charles H. Ropes.
nIrs r James. judge Barlow. Mr.. and Mrs r.
9 Nas+arson Mr. and Mrs. r G.. Lee. Mr.. and
Mrs Seton Iindey. H. NJ. Creighton. E. p. Ben
tamin. George c. Underwood. William chauncey.
J. Lynch Pendergast. Mrs. Warren Curtis. Miss NJ.
f. Curtis and Mrs c. III. Yates
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24
From English Magazines for May


stripped it off and threw it among the ladies'
maids. observing that but Abigails ap
peared in white aprons 1t her fancy as
she grew older to disregard the changes of fash
ion and to adhere obstinately TO the dress Of her
younger days.
In a letter to Swift of November 10. 1873. she
rays: IF you have heard Of my figure abroad.
1t Is more than ] have done on both sides of
my (ss the saying isl, forI did not cut and
curl my hair like sleeps head, or wear one of
their troloping sacks; and by so doing did give
offence" Criticism. however. did not move her
determination, and in the following year we find
her writing to Mrs. Herbert from Spa august
f. 1734) that the divers dresses of the procession
and mob at Antwerp made mine not In the
least remarkable, though it was. is and shall
be just the same my Lord Pembroke laughed
at immoderately.'' There is good deal to
ba said in favor of the strength of mind which
enables lady to adhere to costume which
suits heI, in disregard of the passing fashions
But il seems clear that the duchess must have
strayed much further than this from the beaten
track. An attire which was merely Old fash
toned would never have provoked so much active
comment, but IN point Of fact it was sometimes
so peculiar to disguise her sex. For Lord
Corn bury adds a mischievous postscript to the
above letter, ''she has been called sir upon the
road above twenty times.''-Norman Pearson
in The Nineteenth Century.
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24
Az ECCENTRIC BEATTY.

Lady Catherine Hyde was the third daughter
Of Henry, second Earl of Rochester and fourth
Earl Of Clarendon, and a great granddaughter
Of Edward the first and famous Earl of Claref-
don One Of the strongest of her ca
sncceede6 admirably IN the attempt. Boiling
broke njckuanled her ''Sa Singular1te"; Horace
WalpoIe more blUntly, The mad duchess IhlS
od6itv was specially displayed in her dress IN
l747 after good dea! OF intriguing. she had
obtained permission 10 appear again 81 courl;
ana in 1853 Horace Walpole tells LORD HertIofu
that she presented herself there in gown ana
ueftfcoaf of resi flannel Making all allowance
for I,5sIe ienora nee on such a subject and Wal
poles tendency TO emDroider supiy, - az, - ~ -
1o,6 dolhf that she deliberately cou1co uie pc
tJllar in her costume. She was iohd al W'ail"s
an apron, and appeared IN one at court aIiet
this garment ha6 been f"rnidotii ~ a. i1 ~ a.,
orsu.ine rooms Her entrance being opposed by
one Of the lords in waiting, she tore IL on ulrf"
y IN his face and walked on. Beau Nasn on
stnnilsr occasion took the law slnto hls on
HANDS For Ube7 she attempted 10 enter the
Il s'lroom al Bath wearing al apron ne pIoihpilS
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24
QUAINT RENTS.

II would All a book cite the half OF the quaint
rents bv which estates fair and goodly were grant
ed to certain families. The Duke of Atholl holds
certain possessions Conditonaliy his supplying
a white upon the sovereign visiting him.
Queen Victoria and her Consort visited him years
ago when roses did not bloom in the garden. and
dire was the difficulty in procuring couple Evi-
IDENTIFY they did not then know much about rose
culture under glass. A trtckier rent was that
upon which the Munros of FOULS held their prop
ertv II was that SNOWFALL should be presented
upon any day of the year that IL was demanded.
HsnpiIv for the owner lies in the form of a
eiarfer in the chasms OF Ben Wyvis all the year
Tound and there Seems danger OF forfeiture bv
failure of the quit rent.-Dundee Advertiser.
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24
DICKENS AS A JOURNALIST

Dickens advocate for the entire aboli-
ton OF capital punishment; he dealt with the
subject in three articles in -'The Daily News
and summed up his opinion in the following
paragraph II beg to be understood advocating
the total abolition Of punishment of death, as q
general principle. for the advantage OF society,
for the prevention of crime and without the
least reference to, or tenderness for, any indi-
Vidual malefactor whomsoeSer-- Indeed, in most
cases OF murder my feeling toward the culprit
is very strongly and violently the reverse"
There also articles on 1.-The Demeanor of
Murderers," a psychological study OF William
Palmer, the prisoner, and The Murdered Per
son. in which he protests against the fact that
while the murderer is always in the linelight
of public curiosity, the murdered person, except
an Incidental ana tributsrv portion of the
rnurderer's own egotistical story. is absolutely
tgnoreo-of no consequence How trIe this was
In the case of q very recent trial: indeed in this
particular case the. prisoner was made a real
hero.
There articles dealing with all the wrongs
and ills current at the time under such headings
as Legal and Equitable Jokes in which he
laughs to scorn the fnadeQuacy of laws.
These so-called Jokes actually recitals of the
serious faults Of others. which It amuses him TO
think no one sees such, and he treats them as
Jokes 1t is Not Generally Known and That
Other Public deal with such matters as fees
fn theatres, tips to walters corruption in public
lie, mis,nanagement OF Parliament the treat
rent or troops ct war, the liberty of the press
etc In Nobody, Somebody, Everybody he
shows that nobody did this, that the other
Indeed, there scores of articles too numerous
even TO mention which will have to be taken
into account in reviewing Dckens's work as
reforrler and properly estimating *.
Two other articles with peculiar titles are: "A
Haunted House" and "A Thousand and One
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24
PARIS FASHIONS.

The first thing which strikes the visitor 10
paris this year is that all the women are siight
vyjtb sWanlike necks and sloping shoulders, ana
an absence of hips. How this result has peeh
achieved. by what dark methods of abstinence
massage and physical exercise. cannot profess
"a -av Something is no doubt due 10 the con-
ception Of the female figure which the Partisan
woman has recently adopted. We have all for
eight or ten years reloiced IN fashohs "hicn
have allowed us greater freedom of hgIre, but
further development has been reached ana
The IDEAL now is a certain slenderness without
any very marked waist line one lazy VINO ven
- be~ corsetiAre caTnored for an hour glass
waist She was plump and forty-hve. ana w.
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24
SHAKESPEARE'S RELIGION.

All attempts to attach to Shakespeare the
label of this or that denomination form of
faith within, without, the Christian Commun
ion have, in a certain sense, failed IT was not
his business. may even say it was not his
policy-for policy in religion was matter Of some
Importance in the reign of Eliza beth-to declare
his religious beliefs. In so far as he was pri-
vate individual his faith was his own business.
while in so far as he dramatist his dec
larations of faith were part of his art. How
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24
THE ANCLICIZED INDIAN.

The anglicized Indian. with very rare excep-
tions. is only a good imitator. He adopts the
letter, the catchwords and jargon, but not the
Egyptian, has little power Of initiation In
short the average anglicized Indian is bad
copy of the original He is generally more
tainted by European vices than influenced by
European virtures. The EuropeaniZed
Indian. like the Europeanized Egyptian, is an
New-York tribune., 1908-05-24
BUTTONS AS cLEws TO CRIMES.

In the Black Museum at New Scotland Yard is a
fragment Of button found on the windowsill Of II
house which had been entered ny burglars. II was
the only cew the police had work but in the
hands Of keep eyed young constable II led TO the
arrest Of its owner. whom the constable met
casually I'm the street wearing the very waistcoat
with it's broken hutton Of which the fragment had
formed A part The murderer Of Mr.. Dearue, in
F2sI-ze Lane Hampstead, years was
brought Ia the galloWs through the instrumentalitv
OF . macintosh button round near the '""" If
his victim w NsstnlDEter Gazette