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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-05-12
RETURNS LONG LOST $40.
-. VI Honesty" Says II Took ~ Year.
to Save II.

chicago, May 10 Mrs. Frederick CRU
beck lost SO while shopping IN state St.
IL years ago young woman who gives
her name as A. NJ. Honesty found
the money the day It was lost. She has
returned 1t with this explanation OF de-
lay;
Kept INC money when | found II,
ioE needed " to pay my way to tho
country Tor much needed rest Since
thsn have never had enough al one
'iine before to return it. Now that
have, ! return the amount"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-05-12
LEAVES BANK CLICK $4,000
"POlitencss mud Kindness in RusineH
Dealings" Remembered In VIII
Of Bostop Woman.

Boston MAJ 10 The devotion of nH~ss
and the politencss OF bank clerk We're
found to have been rewarded when 'he
~i! OF Mrs Annie Preston Lincoln VS.
flied for probate today
To Miss Nellie X Nc saacs = aH~se 70
The family for some wears. was i@f' g. 80
To otto Zerrahn, clerk 3" Tire So
street Trust company. was left 81 b. "-
cause OF his po.teness and kirtrss, tl
business dealings
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-05-12
SUNDAY SCHOOLS ACTIVE.
at RutInnd County Con
yrution Double That OF Isst Year.

Rutland, May l0-rhe attendance al tho
annual county Sunday school convention
here to-day was double that of last ye--
There were 10 delegates al the morn
ing and afternoon session and 30 people
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-05-12

boulcvards Of Paris and In the casinos
Of Biarritz and Homburg as he vas along
riccadilly. He always exhibited a mark
ed preference for the society of Amer
leans.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-05-12
EDWARD THE IDOL
Of HIS SUBJECTS
Lived Down Unenviable Reputa-
ton by Long Years of More
Careful Conduct,
BECAME An ABLE DIPLOMAT
influence with His Ministers
Much More Pronounced Than
Was That Of Queen
Victoria.


when rdward VII hreathed his last
there came 20 close the life or
unique personality. lie was loved al
Inoa; 0n'rersallN. h'.t ~ all as a man
whose natural attributes made MN
doar {" o." hearts OF his SuhleotS, ana
nest as monarch whose HoiliE 20
fuIal tie r'i" which he "eF called on
- assume was demonstrated rohSplc-
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a. God ~ the ''t'a h+hE"'m OF
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Ert'sn pcmi0ionT beyond IN" seas
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rcnuta ticu through IONS rcsrA OF more
careful conduct ard succeeded in WIN
1tnc -" confidence % all the people
as almost uo. other sovereign ~ GREAT
Britain except li7 mother queen Nl'-
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was active art -uc"cssfH in tie held
If foreign AFFAIR.". f.o fact that re
Wa the IDOL ~ she poop" made MN
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Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-03
COLLECTS BIRDS EGGS

Dear Aunt Laurie:
Every bird season / always get a col
lection of birds eggs. Lloyd and /
went into partnership. We got about
300 kinds of eggs
One day 1 went up to the Soldiers
home. l saw a rabbit, but he saw me
and ran in a pipe. / told Lloyd to get
at one end and l would get at the 9TH
er He got there to block the hole up
and got a stick to punch him with.
He ran out the hole where Lloyd was
and got away from us. l quit getting
eggs because it was cruel. Mamma
said that it was not nice. The old bird
would cry and maybe it would kill her
to think of the loss of the eggs.
HUBERT BRYANT,
Of the Sawtelle City School, Grade 6.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-03
Letters to Aunt Laurie From NepI1erVs and Nie6
MAKES STAMP COLLECTION
Stamps of Many Countries Gathered
by This Junior
(Second Prize)

Dear Aunt Laurie:
MI Y favorite hobby is collecting
N stamps. have several cana
49, dian, stamps; some have pic
lures of King Edward on and some
Queen Victoria. 1 have an Austrian
stamp with a picture of the Emperor
Francis Joseph on, a One-cent McXi-
can stamp, a one-cent United States
stamp showing Marquette and the In
dians on the mississippi one of the
commemoration series of 1901, showing
a large steamship representing fast
lake navigation; a t-cent stamp with
Lincolns picture on il; an Scent
stamp with Garfeld's picture; several
Scent stamps of both Canada and
United States; 2-Cent stamp, com
mcmora ton series 1907, founding of
jamestown; an internal revenue stamp
from before the Civil War; 10-ccnt
stamp from Germany; one of the Alas
ka- Yukon Pacific exposition
have several of the commemorative
series 1904 with Jefferson's picture and
giving the date of his birth and death,
17l3-1S2i. / have a 2-cent stamp with
the dates 1492-1892, showing Columbus
in sight of land, and an Scent stamp
with Martha Washingtons picture
on it.
L nave a CUBAN stamp o. 1919, Syr-
ian stamp, q Is proprietary stamp,
21s-cent revenue stamp. "a Hudson
Fulton celebration stamp, Accent
stamp showing the ileet of Columbus
q 25-cent stamp of France.
| have a 10-cent stamp with Daniel
Webster's picture on it and a lucent
United States stamp with Clay's pic
ture>o on it.
Now, do you not think I have fine
Of or TaI1riap
1 remain your loving niece.
LORETTA FRY.
1876 Crocker street, 81. Joseph's
school, age H.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-03
PLAYS TEACHING SCHOOL
Dear Aunt Laurie:

Dear Aunt Laurie'
My favorite hobby Is school. I eX-
pect to be a teacher. 1 don't know
why, but have always wanted to. On
rainy days my friend and go into the
first grade room at noon and recess
and get them to spell words and read,
l have them try to read everything in
their books. My friend has the A class
and have the h, so that we will not
quarrel
OF course they don't mind us like
they do their teacher, but they mind
pretty we'll
Little folks work we'll because they
enjoy it, | would not want any higher
grades than the fourth or fifth.
GLADYS TURNMIRE,
Grade Sixth, Sawtelle Cal.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-03
MUSICAL TALENT is EVIDENT
From Infancy This Junior Has Shown
Liking for Melodies
(First Prize)

Dear Aunt Laurie:
MY FAVORITE hobby is music. 1t
vi seems to me l have always loved
AAA music.
When 1 was not quite one year old
1 liked to sit on the floor down beside
my rocker and sing "Ta-ra-ra-ra-
boom decay" and even before that
used to rock my body back and forth
as / sat on the floor to keep time If
anyone was singing.
Before was 3 | played tunes on the
harmonica so well that mamma could
tell the name of the song.
NV next musical instrument was an
autoharp. that my Aunt Florence gave
me when l was 6. l had both my
autohalp and my harmonlca on the
train when l came to California from
Massachusetts the next fall and 1 used
to amuse myself when 1 got tired of
looking out of the window or playing
with my brother.
The porter was very much pleased
by my playing and liked to have me
play yankee Doodle" and Home,
Sweet Home" for him. Mamma said
she believed he was especially kind TO
us because he was interested in my
music.
After we reached Los Angeles my
father bought me a mandolin and
began to take lessons on that. Now
can read music very easily, so l en-
tertain myself when l get lonesome.
Sometimes when l feel cross play TIL
my heart is all full of music.
Later | hope to have a violin. MY
grandfather had a very nice one and
told me that it was to be mine as soon
as | could play it. So my next les
sons will be on the violin.
ISADORE BROWN.
Gil Manasquan avenue, age ., Cole
grove school. grade 4.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-03
COLLECTS SHELLS AND STONES
Dear Aunt Laurie:

Dear Aunt Laurie:
My favorite hobby is picking up.
shells and pretty stones along the
beach. Every summer vacation go to
the beach, When l am through bath
ing 1 go along the beach and pick up
the shells and pretty stones
One day while was walking on the
beach found very pretty stone with
something in it which looked like gold.
/ kept that stone for about two years
and then lost it.
One day when I was tired of walking
/ sat down on the sand, and before L
knew it 1 was asleep. When 1 awoKe
it was dinner time. When 1 had eaten
my dinner / started to hunt for a shell,
for 1 already found a stone. Before l
had gone very far l found a beautiful
shell of all colors. / kept that shell
about as long as 1 did the stone.
RUTH LARSON.
Sawtelle city school, sixth grade.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-03
is FOND OF NATURE STUDY

Dear Aunt Laurie:
My favorite hobby is reading. I have
been given a great many books and
the woods is my favorite reading place.
One day l had book; it was about
robins and wrens l happened to look
up into the tree and there was a
robins nest. The old birds were flying
around in great despair. After think
ing a while I thought their young birds
or eggs may have been stolen.
One of the birds flew to the other
side of the tree There was a young
robin. In its attempt to fly it had fall
len from the nest. 1 picked it UP, went
to the nest and tried to reach 1t, but
found the nest too high.
1 went to the edge of the woods
and called my brother. When he came
he climbed the tree and put the young
birds back.
The robins were very thankful, for
they sang their sweetest songs.
MAUDE SHIPTON.
II years, ga grade, Logan Heights
school.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-03
ENTHUSIASTIC JUNIOR
TELLS OF HER PETS
(Honorable Mention)

Dear Aunt Laurie:
N YER since I could walk have
II always been very fond of cats.
IA I had a beautiful white eat when
in the east. When my grandmother
and I decided to come to California l
did not know what TO do with It.
Grandma said that we would have to
give il away. When we arrived in CAL
ifornia I soon found lots of stray cats,
and l always picked them up, fed ana
petted them.
/ had at one time about sixteen of
them, and among them was a Maltese
cat that l took special care of. one
time I took it to a cat show and it
won the second prize.
We let all the rest Of the cats go on
account of this one. We had 1t about
three years and took very good care
of it. When it died it had real
funeral instead of just burying it
without a word, and I am sure every
one in the house missed It,
GLADYS WATERBURY,.
Sawtelle city school, grade GIL
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-03
DEVOTED TO BABY SISTER

Dear Aunt Laurie:
My favorite hobby is to play with
my baby sister. l try to get her to
walk alone, but she always falls down.
When take hold of one hand she will
walk all over the house. Sometimes
she kisses me, but she likes to bite.
can put her into the baby walker, then
hide, and she will come and find me.
When she hears music she makes her
feet go like she was keeping time.
Sometimes when we ask her to say
mamma or papa she will say some
thing that sounds like can't. One
day she saw some boys quarreling and
she yelled at them. When she sees a
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-03
STAMPS AND POSTCARDS

Dear Aunt Laurie:
My favorite hobby is collecting
stamps and postcards. have now
over 1870 postcards and 140 stamps of
rare kinds. l have stamps from
France Germany, England, Mexico,
Belgium and Russia.
/ sent away and got some very rare
Stamps for % cents. There were
twenty in the packet. | have some
Austrian stamps which l got for say
ing Bixby labels. l expect to get "a
good many more.
Now as l have told you all about
my stamps, will tell you little about
my postcards. l have one album for
my pretty postcards and one for my
comic ones. sent away and got a set
of postcards on which were twenty
four different rulers of the world. Be
low it tells the area, population, pro-
ducts. industries and square miles of
the countries. Most of them are of
Europe. They are very hard to get.
CLARENCE SHEPARD.
Grade ga. Age IL years Logan
Heights.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-03
THIS BOY HAS COLLECTED
FOUR THOUSAND STAMPS
(HonorabIe Mention)

Derr Aunt Laurie:
MY FAVORITE hobby is to collect
N stamps one day l was playing
LIZA with my playmate out in his
yard. when I found common two-cent
stamp under tree. / showed it to my
playmate. Then he asked me IL l had
seen the new stamps he just got from
Chicago, so 1 went in to see them. He
had some from foreign lands. He gave
me some stamps and told me to start
a collection of them. / took the stamps
home and put them in cigar box and
kept them.
As I was reading Golfers Weekly
one day l noticed it said a stamp COM
pany would give foreign stamps for
good American stamps, so / wrote and
got one thousand stamps. / have been
collecting ever since and have four
thousand stamps now. Your friend,
GEORGE CLARK.
Age II. Logan Heights school, grade
"a, San Diego
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-03
OUTINGS WITH GUNS
AMUSE THIS JUNIOR
(Honorabie Mention)


Dear Aunt Laurie:
VIZ HAT / like to do best is to go
wv down to the Mallbu ranch with
W some other boys and rifle and
go hunting. 1 got rabbit and five or
six quail the last time.
When we got tired riding we liked
to lie upon the sand and watch for
quail. rabbits or any other animal
which was wild. I liked to kill and
skin rattlesnakes, wildcats and coy
otes. Their skins were so pretty and
nice that they were made into rugs
and ornaments.
When noon came we ate our lunch
and shot at targets and dug big holes
in the sand. After we were rested
we cleaned our guns and got all ready.
We got on our horses and rode home.
All of a sudden all the horses came
TO a standstill. We looked In front of
us and there was a big rattlesnake.
We all shot at it together. aiming at
it's head. 1 tied 1t to my saddle and
we went on. We got home about 3
o'clock HENRY JENKS.
Sawtelle school, grade 9.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-03
TELLS OF FRIENDS, HOBBY

Fanny Olestrom, one of my girl
friends, has a hobby for collecting
postal cards. She writes to friends all
over the United States for cards of
scenery, flowers, comic cards and
greetings which she keeps in albums.
One time her aunt in Nebraska sent
her a box of cards she had collected
While there on visit. They filled two
albums.
Her mother went on visit to Day
ton, ILL.,, and while she was there she
sent my friend two or three hundred
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-03
WHEN FATHER WAS .ABoY 9

First prlze-Luce Davenport
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-03

horse or COW or a dog she makes a
noise.
She thinks it is great fun to watch
me play with her ball She loves to
take bath and will splash, and some
times she puts her head under the
water, and that scares her.
MILDRED DOLSON.
Logan Heights school, AS grade. Age
Il years.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-03
COLLECTING FOREIGN PosTALs

Dear Aunt Laurie:
My girl friend was collecting post
cards and asked her aunt in London to
send her some. Her friends mother
sent her some comic postals, too.
When she was 10 years old she had
over 1000 postals, and she is still col
lecting them. l don't know Just how
many she has now Adds SHORT.
Sawtelle city school, sixth grade.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-03
COLLECTION OF BEADS
is FAD OF ONE GIRL
(HonorabIe Mention)

Dear Aunt Laurie:
NO quite a long time I have been
collecting all kinds of beads. 1
n have six strings of braided white
beads nearly two feet long. three
strings of Indian beads, a long string
of green and white bead |oven to-
gether and a great many & her kinds
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-03

Dear Aunt Laurie:
MY FAVORITE hobby is music. II
N seems to me l have always loved
AVIA music
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-03

A lady in San Francisco taught me
to weave the beads. and 1 have made
several belts and given them away.
EUNICE JACKSON.
Sawtelle school, grade g.
Evening journal., 1910-05-24
TO HONOR The
NEGRO NANNY

We see that the Galveston people who
proposed i'm the first place TO erect a mon
ument to the old colored nanny have
been prevailed upon to transfer the loca-
tion TO Washington, making all parts Of
the country to contribute. says the New
York Sun.
It is a good and pleasant opportunity in
our opinion. and we should like to see the
whole nation take part in it.
Stored urns and sacred edihces have
| been placed in all parts of our land. dedi-
Gated to memories good pad and indiffer-
ent.. and to achievements noble. benen-
cient and otherwise. We see heroes. some
of them too cheap to quote careering on
stationary but foaming horses. and mark
the attitudes of scuptursd patriots and
statesmen most OF whom are planted in
our private pantheons and immortalized in
grateful memory: but We encounter also
the efhgies Of mud stained pubncists and
/ futile warriors and questionable bene-
factors. Nothing more or ess could be ex-
pected. We let it go at that
All of US. however. can unite upon the
old black nanny. the millions who have
enjoyed their kindly ministrations and the
other and more numerous millions who
have only heard of them.
The southerners, whether we refer to
those still living in the South or to the
countless thousands who are now distrib-
uted all over the North, the East and the
West, hers is a name to coniure with.
White aproned, turbaned, always devoted
and alert, she nursed a strenuous and
proud race through the ailments and vicis-
STUDIES Of childhood They went to sleep
to her cradle and chants. rhey lolled upon
her humble, patient breast. She comforted
them in their hours of infantile affictlon
The Civil War, with its dread epiloque Of
terror, touched old nanny not at all. She
was unconsciously sworn 10 the family
She performed her simple but incalculabIe
duty. Few members OF her class survive
the race is surely dying; but If ever there
were heroes and martyrs who deserved
immortal celebrations. the old negro nam
Evening journal., 1910-05-24
KISSING THE BOOK"
NO LONGER COMMON

II the oaths bill is passed-and 1t has
obtained a second reading in the House
Of Lords-''l1issing the book" the present
insanltary and undignifed form of oath
taking, will practically become a thing Of
the past, says the Law Journal. Every
witness will be sworn with his hand up
lifted, unless he voluntarily objects to be-
ing sworn in that fashion or is physically
incapable Of so taking the oath.
The witnesses who will avail them
selves Of their option to kiss the book
will be even less numerous than those who
have been accustomed 10 exercise their
right TO be sworn with uplifted hand. The
right has not been exercised. because the
majority OF Witnesses however great their
dislike to the insanitary oath, have been
unwilling to make themselves conspicuous
in court of justice by making an unusual
request.
With the abolition Of kissing the book"
in England the unsanitary oath will prac-
ticaly disappear from the civilized world.
In France the Judge says: ''You swear TO
tell the truth. the whole truth and nothing
but the truth?" and the witness lifting his
right hand, answers. II swearr' In Aus
tralia the witness says with uplifted hand:
i swear by God the Almighty and All
Evening journal., 1910-05-24
PREDICTS LAW TO
STOP BAD MARRIAGES

Bishop William N. McVickar, of the
Episcopal Diocese Of Rhode Island be-
lieves that persons physically and men
tally unfit should be prevented by ma
tional laws from marrying. and that a
commission Of experts should be appointed
TO pass upon the fitness of would-be brides
and bridegrooms.
Il fully believe that n less than a gen
Grafton we shall see national legislation
that will check indiscriminate marriage,
and so prevent the propagation Of disease.
mental and physical
Hundreds of cases are on record Of
whole families who are criminals. Sons
follow fathers in evil ways and generation
after generation is a means of breeding
more criminals. Persons afflicted with tu-
berculosis should be prevented from mar
rying Incipient or threatened idiocy and
insanity should be treated in the same
way. A person apparently free from taint.
yet of a family in which there was in
herited insanity, ought to be prevented
from marrying. In addition there are
many diseases. purely physical, that ought
to be, and will be. considered grave
enough 10 act as bar to marriage.
1t would probably be necessary to es-
tablish a sort of marriage commission in
each state or large city. the members OF
which should decide on each applicant"
Evening journal., 1910-05-24
RECLAIMING THE
FLORIDA EVERGLADES

They Occupy More than Half that Part
Of the state South Of Lake Okeechobee.
The Everglades occupy more than half
that portion of the state of Florida south
OF Lake Okeechobee-the largest fresh
water lake wholly within the United
states except Lake Michigan says Put
nam's Magazine. In this vast region there
lies upon a subsoi Of coraline limestone an
immense accumulation Of sand, alluvial
deposits and decayed vegetable matter,
forming a mass Of sand and mud from
two 10 ten feet or more in depth, that
overspreads all but a few points OF the
first strata
Upon the mud rests a sheet Of water,
It's depth varying with the conformation OF
tho bottom. which is very rough and ir-
regular: seldom at dry seasons is II great
er than three feet The whole is filed with
a rank growth OF coarse grass. eight TO ten
feet high. with a serrated edge like a saw.
from which it obtains it's name Of saw
grass"
In many portions Of the Everglades the
saw grass is so thick as to he impene-
trable. but IL is intersected by numerous
and tortuous channels that form a kind
OF labyrinth where outlets present them
selves in every direction. terminating
however. at long or short distances in
limpenetrable barriers OF grass
The surface of the water is quickly ar.
fected by rain, which makes a rapid al
ternating rise and fall during the wet
Evening journal., 1910-05-24
Their Deserts.

Prof. Thomas Nixon Carter Of Har-
ward was talking about Socialism.
Socialism is no world panacea." he
said. but in the future it is to be
reckoned with. Socialism will, in the
future. protect the poor against in
justice and hypocrisy. 1t will expose
fraud. Yes. Socialism, like old Hig-
gins Wentworth. will bring out the
truth.
Higgins Wentworth was, hoeing one
April morning when three rough look
ing men climbed the fence and crossed
the field to him. They had just been
shipwrecked. they said, on the brig
Maria. They had lost even their
clothes. Would Higgins help them?
Higgins Wentworth looked closely
into the sailors faces. for he knew
the ways of men. Then he said:
You, the bowlegged one, go stand
twenty yards to the right, and I'll get
We to help me a minute. with the
seedin'. You. baldy there. you stand
twenty yards to the left
THE two men complied and then
Higgins Wentworth said quietly 10 the
man who remained:
What did you say your captains
name was?"
williams. Capt. Williams was the
reply.
The old farmer sauntered to the
man off on the right
What was your captains nameT
he asked.
Everett, sir the man answered.
Higgins wentworth crossed the
field to the third man.
"'What was your captains name?"
1.-THE name was Captain Jones.
Higgins Wentworth leaned on his
hoe and gathered the three men about
him.
"A fine lot of sailors you are. he
snorted, to go 70 sea in a ship with
three captainsl No wonder you were
wrecked. 1t served you right DE
troit Free Press.