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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-19
HUNDREDS FIGHT FIRE.
Blaze Started about . Mile from Nor
Pisville.

Worthwhile. Aug. 15.-A FIRE OF unknown
origin was discovered at 200 p. m. in a
wood lot about one mile from this village,
when a general alarm was sounded. In
4 short time several hundred people from
this village and the FIRE department were
on hand and fighting the flames by dig
Eing trenches around them.
Ten acres OF underbrush owned by ].
c. Russell. $50 cords Of four-foot wood
and 1000 feet OF logs owned by @. A.
Morse, E. e. Hadley and J. W. Berry.
were consumed. At six o'clock this even
ing II was thought that the hre had
been conquered although several men
will be kept on guard all night.
There was a high wind throughout the
afternoon and several times the ad1oin-
ing timber lands. situated in the direc-
ton Of the village. were in danger Of
burning. The brush IRE made q spec
tacie that attracted people from all the
adjoining country.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-19
HARRIS STATE CHAMPION,
BPattleboPo Tennis Player Best Pike
In Straight Sets.

In Straight Sets.
st. Johnsbury, Aug. 1.-The tennis
tournament for the Vermont championship
ended yesterday. Fred H. Harris OF Brat
tleboro winning. He defeated George W
Pike OF Springfield in straight sets
ga e3, 81. This IL the first time O
resident Of Vermont has won the cham.
pionship since 1901
Pike, last years champion. showed
the effects Of his recent illness and did
not play In the form he has shown In the
past This does not detract. however
from HAIRLESS brilliant work. He had
the game In hand from the start and
except In the first Set outclassed Pike
showing particularly strong in his owr
service.
The cups offered by the old Pine Coll
club have been awarded as follows:
singles-Championship cup. F. II
Harris OF Brattleboyo; tournament cup
r. II. Harris; runner-up. J. II. MacVeigi
OF Phillips Exeter.
Consolation cup-<'hester NJ Porter o.
Worcester.
Doubles championship cup-C. II. Col
lister Of Gardner. Mass. and Chester r
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-19
A 45-YEAR OLD HORSE.

Tho extraordinary age Of " years ana
six months was attained by horse
owned by Col. Heath, which has just
died at the Coloners farm at Apollo bay.
Victoria.
col. Heath states that there can be no
possible doubt ms to the animaIs age, az
he still has the diary containing this
entry showing when II was foaled. 1t ie
In all probability the greatest recor&
known The horse was ridden by the
colonel IA charger in Its youth. ana
several times carried him from MeU
bourne 10 Shepperton-l6o miles-tn tive
days. II is sired by famous race horse
named King Alfred. its mother being al
Australian Arah-bred mare.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-19
MOTHER SUFFOCATES BABIES
Sick Woman Died with Three Sons
"A Husband and Four ofher
children survive.

Chicago. Aug. b-Mrs, Marie Handze'
TODAY turned on the gas IN the bath
room md committed suicide and slew hcr
three boy babies. She carefully bathed
and dressed her three children one four
wears old and twins two years Old car
r,ed than into the bathroom and turned
on the gas. Tho smell OF gas awakened
her husband. He broke open the door or
the bath room and found the four dead
bodies. Mrs Handed had been III Tor
some time. She left four other children
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-19
FAT MEN AT PORTLAND.
Club Has Sail and shore Dinner and
strains wharf.

Portland. Me, Aug. 15-There was a
great gathering OF massive figures AT
the Falmouth yesterday morning. and
the members Of the New England Fat
Mems club were In evidence everywhere
President Arthur r. Moulton worked
hard, hut he did not lose flesh. With him
was Fred q. Stanley Of Beverly. Mass,
and they lowered above the crowd.
There were all sorts OF fat men There
wero short fat men. who made up In
gerth what they lacked In height, and
there were very tail and very heavy
men who hardly looked their weight.
The arrival OF Governor Fernald was
the signal FOR great demonstrate n
and the chief executive looked small
among go many men Of twice his weight.
He WAS especially greeted by Repres-
entative F. T.. Rounds. who lacks a
pound Of $50.
After q short parade 10 the wharf the
Pilgrim took the party 70 Harpswel and
the sail down the bay and hack 20
Long Island WINS greatly enjoyed. BY
the time they reached Long Island there
was only one thing thought OF. the
promised shore dinner.
The fat men were received by prac-
decentralization tested the strength OF
the wharf
A shore dinner was served. Then CAME
cigars and speech making. President
Moulton acted as the toastmaster. Gov.
ernor Fernald spoke 70 Maine as a goot
State TO live and grow fat and prospe,
In.
Mayor leighton welcomed everybod,
| to Portland. Asher c. Kinds made {
witty speech and Joseph E. r. Connoll,
told some god stories. J. r. Hale o
Wells River. VI. the treasurer. con
graduated the members OF their health
and ability to enjoy a good dinner.
David Wilkie Of oBston. the first presi
dent Of the club and one OF the oldes
| members. was given great reception.
A. c. Needham OF Whiting. VT, who tip
the scales at As. was among thos
present.
The party broke up comparatively earl!
because nearly all OF those in attendance
| except the Portland members wanted Il
take late afternoon train for thei
| homes.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-19

Porter: runners-up. A. A. Kicker and
r. w. epauidins Of 81. Johnsbury.
Fred n. Harris. the State champion,
10 a Dartmouth Junior. and the cham.
pion OF the New England intercollegiate
tournament and was the only Vermont
contestant outside Of e.. Johnsbury.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-19
II ne Haby Is CuNtlng Teeth

Be sure ana use that old and we'll -tried
remedy. Mrs. wipsiow's Soothing 81.
rup -: children teething. 1t soothe9
the child. softens the gums allays alt
remedy for Diarrhoea Tweniy.hvs
eent3 4 bottle
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-19

horers. II was applied with an old broom,
allowing the water to down freely into
the roots.
EMMA PADDOCK TErrORD.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-19

and iron on the wrong side. It Is grow
ing moro md more common FOR women
to do up their own fine frocks. stocks
and pretty emhroiderics as they are too
valable to risk being ruined by care
less laundress
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-19
PARENTAL PRIDE.

your boy was Just li,tle-er-wid
when he was at college, wasn't he?"
oh yes. he generally was little
wild at first Couldn't get 'em over the
plate. you know. But he always stead.
led down before the game was over
Chicago Tribune.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-19

FOUNTAIN PENS AT FREE PRESS
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-08-19
Domestic Science
ny Emma Paddock Teiford.

Tho day returns and brings us the
petty round of Irritating concerns and
duties. Help us to play the man ana
to perform them with laughter and kind
faces. Let cheerfulness abound with in
dustry. Give us to go blithely on our
business all this day. bring lis to our
resting beds weary and content and un-
dishonored and grant us In the end the
gift OF sleep.-Robert Louis Stevenson.
when spurred by tasks unceasing or
undone,
You would seek rest afar,
And cannot, though repose be rightly
won.
Rest where you are.
Neglect the needless; hailow what re-
mains.
Move without stress or lar;
With quiet Of n spirit self possessed
Rest where you are.
Not in event, restriction or release,
Not in scenes near or far,
But In ourselves are restlessness or
peace.
Rest whore You IRE
Rev. Charles p. Cleaves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-26
Money Refunded.

From the New York Times.
NO. l didn't catch a blessed fish,
laughed the truthful man who had just
returned from his vacation. II will admit
that / started out with the idea of break
ing all known records, but | got dis
couraged right at the start, and all the
fish that ] expected to catch are still
enjoying life. When I arrived at my des-
tination. / was told that if | needed
anglewOrms l could get them of small
boy who made a business of furnishing
them to ambitious anglers ] looked him
up at once and asked him if he could get
me some. Do you want the ten-cent
kind or the twentyfive-cent kind?' he
asked. What kind would you advise?
said |. vastly amused at the serious way
he put the question. Well sad he, if
you want worms to drown. the ten-cent
kind will do: but if you want worms to
catch fish you'd better take the twenty
five-cent kind | gravely assured him
that [ needed the twenty-five-cent kind
got them and spent the rest of hot day
nished me. On my way to my boarding
place, with nothing in my hands but my
fishing rod. | met the small boy, who
after solemnly surveying me for a mo-
ment. fished out from a pair of ragged
trousers three dirty nckels and handed
them to me, saying:
Il don't want to cheat you. mister
The very fear of once more meeting
that small boy empty-handed kept me
from trying my luck again
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-26
Saving Rails Is Not Musical.

From Success Magazine.
Rails are cut with saws. Not quietly;
not at all. There is considerable racket
underneath an elevated railroad in mar
row street; the subway isn't quite lodge
I'm some vast wilderness: but never until
/ watched a toothless saw cut through
cold steel rail by friction. melting its way
you can see the smeared ends afterward
did ] experience a noise that my ear
felt rather than heard. The toothless saw
whirled with unimaginable speed; the
sparks showered like an enormous pin
wheel and the unwilling steel emitted a
shrek of agony that was like forceful
niger damned into my ear and scratching
,n my ear-drum with its nail 1t was like
a brass band of hundred pieces, each
piece blowing fortissimo, a note a half
:one higher than its fellow. l don't care
Tor such CLOSE harmony"
Well. it's grand sight. steel-maki-S.
don't know of any grander one, unless it
is Niagara. The two spectacles, seeming
~ so different. are yet Identical in the one
prime requisite OF standardization. YOU
respect Niagara when you depict yourself
poised for one heartbeat on the silver
verge of its long drop: yoT respect steel
making when you depict yourself for the
heartbeat i'm which you can see a chain
link snap and the full ladle spill toward
goes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-26
METHODS OF PROLONG1NG LIFE
Plans Hitherto Proposed for Improving and Ex-
tending Human Existence.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-26
The Growing Churches.
From the Boston Transcript

Muck rakers of the magazines. who
seem TO be preparing TO assail the
churches. will find little material and
less inspiration in the religious census
recently completed by the census bureau
The report brings it's statistics to the
close of 1905. the last previous census
of the same kind having been made in
1890. During the sixteen years the popu-
lation OF the continental United States in
creased 1913 per cent, but in the number
of communicates or church members
there was an increase of 6O.4 per cent:
in the number OF church edifices, an in
crease OF Bod per cent, and in the value
of church property an increase of Sd
per cent. In 1890 the reported church
membership represented :2.1 per cent of
the total population: in 1906 33.1 per
cent. Ii is true that the number of
church organizations las not increased in
proportion to other advances, hui perlla ps
that fact also stands for gain. since 1t
signifies the blending of UNCONVENTIONAL
factions and the union o. weak churches
to make strong ones, and the further fact
that the proportion OF ministers to church
members is larger now than It was Ii
1890 indicates that the churches are more
adequately served than they formerly
were and suggests that the ministry is
by no means q decadent calling.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-26
Free If 1t Fails
Your Money Back if You Are
Not Satisfied With the
Medicine We Recommend.

We are so positive that our remedy Will per
uanently relieve constipation. no matter hoW
,hronic il may be, that we oner to furnish the
..a.,icipe at orr expense should il fail to pro-
0uce satisfactory results.
II is worse than useless to attempt TO cure
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.athartics do much harm. They cause reac
ton irritate and weaken the boweis anu 'ehu
% make constipation more chronic: besides' their
use becomes habit that Is dangerous
CONSUMPTION is caused by weakness of the
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.ccpJinc colon To expect permanent relief you
must therefore tone up and strengthen these
organs and restore them healthier activity
rho discovery Of the active principle Of our
remedv involved the labor Of the world great
est research chemists. As an active agent IL
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Known intestinal toncs well as being par
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We want you 10 try Rexall ord"rlies on our
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-26
THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE.
Our Greatly Enlarged knowledge OF
It's Composition.

From the Scientific American.
/The composition of the air at great
attitudes has long attracted the interest
of meteorologists. In the earliest ascen-
sions of unnamed registering balloons,
twelve or fourteen years ago. attempts
were made to secure specimens OF ar
from the upper strata of the atmosphere.
In one case half gallon OF air was thus
collected Its analysis showed compo-
sion identical with that of air near the
earth's surface. The system OF monthly
ascensions which was subsequently lnstl-
tuted revealed the remarkable phenome-
non of the permanent inversion layer.
The diminution of temperature with IN
crease of elevation which was observed
at all lower levels. was found TO cease
at a height of about 10000 meters Co.,
COO feeU above which level the tenn
perature was found to rise. sisntlS put
regularly with increase of elevation.
This upper warm stratum has been found
everywhere, in the tropical and temper
ate zones. near the arctic circle, and
over the Atlantic ocean.
The discovery of this singular re-
versaI of the temperature gradient sug-
position of the atmosphere at high and
low levels The French meteorologist
Teisserenc de Bort, although he did not
share this opinion, undertook an expert
mental investigation of the subject. He
suspended from sounding balloon
glass tube closed at both ends and with
one end drawn out to a fine point, which
was sealed in flame after the tube had
been completely emptied of air. At
certain height an electrically driven
hammer broke off the fine end of the
tube and admitted air. The tube was
then sealed again by the heating of a
platinum wire by current from small
storage battery. The electrical con-
| facts required to effect these operations
were made either by the barometer at a
| prescribed elevation or by the clockwork
| of the meteorograph. The glass tube
| was suspended at q distance below the
! balloon, which prevented the entrance of
| trace of escaping hydrogen.
In this way specimens of air were col
Iected at various heights In July. 1907.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-26

that have adapted themselves to under
ground conditions are sharply separated
from the light jewellers. Their skin is
whitish transparent. The eve afro
phies or disappears altogether. The optic
nerve and the optic lobe disappear, leav-
ing the brain profoundly modified. Other
organs develop in proportion. Those OF
hearing, smell. touch, become large. SEN
sitve hairs. long and coarse, appear all
over the body. These changes are pro-
duced gradually. In animals kept i'm dark
ness it has been possible to see the re-
gresson of the eye and the hypertrophy
of the other sense organs. With fishes
observed since 1900 the absence of light
determined a remarkable arrest of
growth. Their length was about two
inches and their weight less than an
ounce whereas similar fish kept in day
light reached five inches and two and
seven-tenths ounces.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-26
Cheap Restaurant Etiquette.

From the New York Sun.
Now that my wife has informed me
that she wants fur coat for Christmas
I'm learning something about cheap res
taurant etiquette. said young man who
has a desk in downtown brokers' Office
Il was having lunch in one of those eat
ing joints around the corner. where every
fellow waits on himself. / observed a
man next to me eating a pickle with his
sandwich and decided to have one myself
/ made haste to the food section OF the
room and returned to find my place occii-
pied and my lunch pushed to one side
/ protested, but was informed that ! had
not made the necessary sign 10 save my
MACE The fellow told me l should have
placed my spoon crosswise on my cup to
indicate that would be back. II Is the
same sign as the tilted chair in a sit-down
restaurant Next time I'll cross my cup
with my spoon or do without . pickle"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-26

400 words The shortest will on record
was that of Mr. F. c. w. Thorne of
Streatham, who on the back of an old
envelope wrote '.Al for mother-C. T."
and thus disposed of his property,
amounting to GS,2:p Another laconic
will was that of Mr.. Robert Edleston,
who died in 1907, and whose will ran
thus: Il leave all that l am possessed
of to my sisters. Marian and Frances
Edleston in equal shares" an equally
brief attestatiOn clause reading: wit
messed in presence OF each other,'' with
the witnesses signatures and date. AS a
contrast, one might mention the will of
the late Lord Grimthorpe, in the framing
of which no fewer than 11,0W words
were used: and that of Mr. Edward Bush
retired Gloucester engineer who died
last autumn worth E114.S13. and disposed
of it in will containing 10000 words
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-26
Short Wills.
From Tit-Bits.

Prom
There are several parallel cases to
that OF Mr.. Pitcairn, formerly assistant
to the president of the Pennsylvania rail-
road, who, it was recently reported. left
a fortune of three millions sterling to his
widow I'm a will which contained only
twelve lines of typewriting. Three years
ago Mr.. Alphonse Henry Strauss left a
fortune of e296.22l in a will of forty
three words. bequeathing the whole of it
to his wife. Thus the estate was disposed
of at the rate OF about E7,O00 per word
Lord Mansfield found half sheet of
note paper ample for the disposal of his
worldly possessions. Sir James Fitz-
james Stephens will began and ended in
thirteen words. A dozen lines served TO
dispose of Lord Russell of Kilowen's
estate of nearly f1J00o0; while Lord
Brampton, who died two years ago. dis
posed of his estate of nearly e142OOO in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-26
Subterranean Animal Life.

From the Chicago 1TIDUnt.
The underlife of the caves has a world
of it's own. Animals are born in SUBJ
terranean caverns followed out By
streams; develop, reproduce and die while
forever deprived of the sunlight. There
IS no cave mammal except a rat, nor is
there a cave bird. There are no animals
that require much nourishment. Grottoes
with underground rivers have the most
life. Usually the subterranean life re-
sembles the general types of the country.
climated there, undergoing divers adap-
tive notifications. So we generally find,
in modified forms, the life of our time.
But in some caverns there seem to be the
remains of an ancient animal life that
has everywhere else disappeared from
terrestrial rivers and lives only in certain
caverns. The creatures of modern species
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-26
CASH REGISTER TALKS.
Photographic Attachment Sings Out
Amounts of Sales.

Something elaborate in the way of
cash register has been invented by
Minnesota man His cash register not
only rings up a sale and registers the
amount in figures, but sings 1t out
When the keys are touched for sale
at sl4s certain photographic reproducers
are released and the machine sings out:
lone dollar and forty-eiSht cents. Ihahk
YOU very kindly. I think you Will ma
those goods satisfactory" or some other
appropriate remarks. In addition TO It's
novelty this register has some very use
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-26
ornamented Gloves Coming Back

From the New York Press.
Almost all the current fashions run
backward, and it is not surprising to
hear from Paris that an attempt is being
made 10 revive Qrnamented gloves. Gloves
in many old-time designs are shown in
Paris shops. and the most popular are
those patterned after gloves worn by
Mary Queen of Scots. Nothing pleased
Mary more than a gift of gloves. and
she also bestowed them freely her
friends. There are gloves in existence
which Mary worked with her own hands
They are of white satin embroidered in
gold and silver and worked into roses
and tulips. In small museum in SAT-
from. Walden, England, is one Of a pair
of gloves given by Mary to a faithful
follower on the morning she was put to
death. Those gloves are of light buff
colored leather, with the gauntlets EN-
broidered with silver wire and silk of
many colors. A bird in flight is one of the
designs. Several small roses are tinted
in pale and dark blue and two shades of
crimson. The gauntlets have gold
fringe, and the backs of the gloves are al
most covered with fine embroidery.