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Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-02-07

Woman would like to do houseclean-
ing, washing and ironing. Mrs.
Lilly Oleson, 1876 Compton venue
1-6-9t
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-02-07

Woman Wants Work, washing or
cleaning; washing to take home.
Miss L. Somerville. 315 Front street.
2-6-3t
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-07-03
"Do you think your father would object my seeking your
hand? $500. ....-r -..1M..,<e. ".,m.l,.
Don't know I'm sure. If he's anything like he would"

blossoms as roses require a 10 per
cent solution, while carnations
and chryanthemums require a
little more. Lilacs, lilies and
sweet peas live longer.in untreat-
ed water, c
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-07-03
DID YOU.KNOW. THIS?

A distinguished French chem
ist has discovered that,fowers of
a certain SORT, canrbe kept from de
cay by adding sugar ITO the water
IN which they. are placed, Such
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18
BRADSTREET'S WEEKLY
VERMONT TRADE REPORT

Reports to Bradstreets for the week
state that labor Is reasonably well en-
ployed and In certain lines an increase
In number employed is reported Lumber
manufacturers report an increase in the
demand for building material. The stocks
on hand are less than Is usual for this
time OF the year. while dealers report
there has been some delay in obtaining
logs from northern points owing to an
alleged shortage Of cars. The outlook for
demand for building material is consid-
cred better than usual. Veneer manufac-
turers report an increased demand for
their product and in some instances or
deSs have been refused by reason Of In
ability to fill them in time. Furniture
manufacturers report an increased de-
mand and the outlook for further bust
ness IS considered good Manufacturers
Of garments and overalls note there has
been some Improvements In the volume
OF business. Considerable damage was
done to merchandise owned by merchants
at Barre and Montpelier during the early
part Of the past week by reason Of high
water. The damage in this line Is report
ed worst that they have experienced for
years. Reports from farmers who own
maple orchards state the run Of sap dur
ing the past week has been large. The
outlook IL for a good yield IN that line
and prices are fully as large as usual.
The season is not over and It is expected
there will be further sugar and syrup
made. Farmers report a scarcity Of po-
tatoes and the merchants complain OF In
ability to obtain all they require for the
trade with the result that prices are high
er than usual. Reports from diaries in
dicate an increase in receipts Of milk and
cream: wholesale merchants note volume
of trade Is about normal for the period.
Retail business has shown an increase.
buying having started In stronger than
usual Several warm days have tended
to aid trade One mercantile bankruptcy
is reported for the week.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18
GAYNOR AS DARK HORSE.

We intimated sometime ago the posi-
bility that Mayor Gaynor Of New York
might bear watching as dark horse in
connection with the democratic nomna-
ton for the presidency The action taken
by the New York State democratic con-
vention In relation to the selection of
delegates to the national convention now
demonstrates the practical certainty that
Mayor Gaynor's name will be presented
to the convention at Baltimore.
One of the men who will help shape the
verdict of the New York democracy in
the national convention is John d. Grim
minis of New York city, who has been
enc of the chief boomers Of the Gaynor
presidential candidacy and another i'm
portant aid Is Delegate and Corporation
upon to push the Gaynor boom. The
adoption of the unit rule by the State
democratic convention In New York city
makes 1t certain that Boss Charles F.
Murphy will go to Baltimore with 90 dele
gates for Gaynor in his pocket ready to
drop at the psychological moment for the
starting of a candidacy upon which all
champions of other candidates can unite
Gaynor has not been an avowed candi-
repressible in talking of these things
We 'Iet the eagle scream" as the
phrase was. Now we are entersd upor
cold age when men do not give full
credit to the power for good that lie'
in sheer human enthusAa AN. W. are
more than half Inclined Ito sbes ASHAMED
Of the good birrSd's' administrations. Bu
such feelings are contrary to fact ant
In normal human beIng-an affecta
ton. Every high flown Memorial da,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18

No one is more entitled to calm
and peaceful sunset of life, free from
financial worry. than Is the school
teacher. Never overpaid. and usually
underpaid, his or her best years are
passed PATIENTLY training the boys and
girls Of to-day so that they may be-
come the sterling men and women Of
tomorrow. This valuable work in Il
great measure units the teacher for
almost any other sort of employm emit
in after years. The Vermont Women
Teachers club has established n re-
tirement fund for the purpose of prop
erly assisting deserving teachers, and
what 1t Is hoped to accomplish is told
in another column. The plan is unique
and OF such a simple nature that all
can help without feeling that 1t Is a
burden.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18
lights, nor ears for the tolling bells

lights, nor ears for the tolling bells
In the hours of triumph he was d lad.
On this anniversary day captain and
ship and many brave souls went down
in the cold northern sea under the
shadow of the ghostly white mountain
that had brought them death In
sense this was sadder than the death
Whitman mourned. for. in a sense, this
was defeat. The Titanic, the out
growth of all mans scheming to con-
quer the Seas, the supreme result Of
mans building and devising of ships
since the day when the first savage
launched his hollow log, the mighty
thihg mat mad power behind it's pro-
pellors greater than quarter of the
whole on-rush of the Lachine rapids
in their most headlong place,-this
mightiest work of mans hands had
become simply another victrm to the
hungry, blind forces of nature.
L..
Thera was bravery and discipline on
the great ship to the last. There were
men who stepped back and let the
weaker escape. There was a captain
on this ship who won victory over
the blind forces in himself, Nature
may still hold In store for man danger
and death. despite all he has done to
overcome them. Mastery over these
things would make man "A god. But
not all the forces of the universe can
take from him what rises superior to
danger and death, the undying ideal
of manliness that does the right thing
in the face of danger, the bravery that
goes confidently to death. Nature
may prevent man from being a god
but she can not degrade HIM to a
| brute. Where many accept death
rather than be unmanly there is some
thing moro glorious than defeat.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18
THE SUCCESSFUL. TYPE.

human interest story, which is
story, was an interview which re-
porter for the New York Tribune OBJ
tanned from James Seligman on the
eve of his eighty-ninth birthday. Mr.
Seleman is the Oldest OF two surviv-
ing members of the firm Of eight
brothers which has exerted tremen-
dous power in the financial world and
has had its branches in every impor-
tant money center Mr.. Seligman $
fact that it demonstrates for the Nth
time what has become almost tiresome
to our ears-the lesson of what poor
man can do in a free country. But in
time when the growing tendency IS
to think of society as divided into
layers with barriers betws cen, It
would probably do no harm to repeat
the lesson. However that may be. Mr..
Seligman's story is valuable in help
Ing to head off the stock notion of the
successful man which is a very de-
moralizing one.
Mr. Seligman has neither the set Jaw
necessary to crush nails. nor what is
described as the mastery manner
whatever that may be. He Is mod
est, kindly old gentleman His career
shows him neither hard nor selfish.
And yet when this man left his nome
In Baiersdorf, Germany, In 1899, he had
forty dollars and his passage and on
the way to the steamer slept on the
straw piled floors Of inn stables. He
came over in the Storage of a sixty
day ship, slept seven In Q bed. and
had the smallpox. In this country he
peddled jewelry and made money. HIS
brothers went In with him, then they
entered the importing business and
prospered and later became bankers
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18
THE GREATEST TRAGEDY,

From time to time man in the might
1T the things he can build becomes
arrogant OF the place he holds. He
burrows the earth, tunnel beneath
tunnel. He overlays it with pavements
and elevated ways. and spreads over
1t for large areas -storied
hon sycomb Of working places. store
rooms and dwellings. He binds dis
tant places together with copper wires
snd rails OF steel While in the midst
Of the ocean he holds converse with
distant shores and has the news Of the
whole world served at his breakfas,
table. He exults that the perils of the
cities. And then nature causes the
r'erest local heave of the earth's crust
ana brings his dwellings topping
bout his ears or wipes them off with
lind or a fash of lightning. or reaches
cruel gray fang out of the de ep OF
alls down from the frozen zones a
iuge white messenger of death tc
grind and crush under his floating
Nineveh. and thus rebukes him in his
9ride and informs him what he is
the merest speck upon the out ar rim
Of things.
The Titanic disaster came on the
night of the fourteenth of April, the
forty.sevcnth anniversary of the nigh
on which Abraham Lincoln was sho
to death. Probably no day in the cal
endar marks two sadder events. II
the shadow Of that day the poet Whit
man wrote an imperishable dirge. Tn,
substance of that poem was that tn,
ship had weathered tho perlls and wa,
at last In harbor. that in JOY for he
safety bells were tolling. and to homo
her captain ftags were flung. But he
captain had no eyes for the harbol
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18
WHAT OUR NEIGHBoRS SAY.
Vermont Republicans Neglected the
Primaries.

(From the Brattleboro Phoenix
Vermont will send six Taft and two
Roosev cit delegates to the republican ma
tional convention. That the Roosevelt
forces, in a very brief campaign, were
able to carry the second congressional
district and to almost put the state con-
Nenton to rout. is surprising, 1t was to
be expected that there would be opposi-
ton for Taft on account OF his attitude
on reciprocity, but this does not fully
explain the situation. Roosevelt was an
advocate of reciprocity with Canada. ana
II was not In farming districts alone that
Taft met with oppo ition Roosevelt car
ried some of the big towns like Barre,
St Johnsbury and Rockingham, ana in
Rutland and Brattleboro the Taft sup
porters had to put up real night to
elect their delegates. II Is evident that
1919 Ia a time OF unrest and uncertainty
and that many unexpected things are
likely to happen between now and next
November After witnessing the excite
ment and turmoil OF the state conven-
ton II Is a rather disconcerting fact to
recall that the delegates there present
did not represent 20 per cent, or the re-
pubiicans the State. 1t seems impossible
Ia make the yoterp realize shat tho place
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18
TOO EARLY FOR FISHING.
unfavOrable Conditions ON Openinu
Day Of the Trout Season.

Rutland. April 15-Condltions to-ay
were very unfavorable In this part of the
state for the opening of the trout fishing
season. demonstrating the claim of those
associated with the Rutland County Fish
and Game League that April 10 Is weeks
too early to begin fishing for "speckled
beauties in Vermont. There was very
little interest in fishing here to-day be-
cause of the dlsasreeable outlook and
those who went out to try their luck did
not complain of aching shoulders on ac-
count of heavy creels. Overcoats were
worn by the enthusiastic anglers who
yentured out
While the snow on the lowlands has dis
appeared and streams are over their
banks. 1t has thawed little in the woods,
except on southern exposures and In
many places in the mountains the snow
and ice has not melted sufficiently as yet
to raise the streams to the usual spring
level Some of the mountain brooks are
partly ics-bound and everywhere in the
mountain woods the snow ID Is inches or
two feet deep.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18

East St. Johnsbury Is to have rev
school building for which not more than
$4,000 10 to be expended.
At the United States naturalization
court In Barre Friday p Applications
for citizenship were received. Three first
class papers were issued.
Notwithstanding the supposed sinister
effect Of presidential year, Rutland Is
enjoying building boom. Contractors
have begun to receive big orders,
From February to April H. tho dis
trict nurse Of Rutland. employed by the
Rutland Missionary society. made go
calls and spent $50 hours on duty
C. b. Moore Of Hinesburg. who has been
in the employ of II. NJ. Hull & Son, AT
that place, has taken a position with the
Spear. Martin Fur company.
Mrs. Irene $. Couch, aged H. was found
dead in her chair by her sister. Mrs. A.
NJ Harlow of Brattleboro Thursday.
Death had been caused by angina pee
tois
f. l.. S. Hartman. son of Mr.. and Mrs
ii. A. Hartman of Rutland, has been APP
pointed assistant Industrial agent Of the
central manufacturing district ~ Chi
cago
In 1900 the population OF Mount Holly
was one person short of 1000. and during
the next 10 years. instead of growing
Into the four-figure class, II decreased
to 81,
The body of Mrs Lillian (Sayers) Ack-
erman, who was murdered by her hus-
band at RoXbury, waS inferred beside
the body of her mother at East Con-
cord. her native place.
The current issue Of the Vermonter is
devoted exclusively to st. Johnsbury
and Its industries and public buildings.
1t contains an article on the pageant to
be held there this summer
Edward p, Kerwin who has been sta
toned at the Western Union telegraph
office In Barre for nine months. has been
promoted to a more lucrative position at
Keene. y. H.. where he will have charge
Of the Office
A letter has been sent to each club be-
| longing to the Vermont Federation Of
Women's clubs by Mrs, Herbert T john
| son Of Bradford. chairman of the food
| sanitation committee. calling attention to
] the uepacGof the-ay.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18
In which to record their preferences Is
In the primaries and not in the elections.
vDRMONr's DIVIDED DELEGATION
(From the Rutland Newsl

VDRMONT's DIVIDED DELEGATION
From the Rutland News)
In sending a divided delegation to
republican national convention. Vermont
will do a unique thing. Some people. pre.
sumably. will interpret It a. a s,pn -,
progress.
The movement that has resulted In two
Of the States delegates being instructed
to support athird term candidacy for the
presidency Is progressive as ono looks
at such things. Washington put the prom
osition aside as something's frauyht with
danger to the republic that he had helm
ed to establish. More than four score
years later, the Republican party refused
third term for the nations greatest
soldier. II change is progress, Roose-
velt's race for a third term. approved in
Vermont to the extent Of one fourth os
the delegation. is progress.
In 1880 Vermont delegation in a ma
tional convention took a step that never
has been rated as otherwise than pro-
gressive. One member OF the delegation
the venerable Col. Edward b. SAWYER Of
Hyde Park, had spent some time pre-
viously In Illinois He was there during
the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates and
lad heard Lincoln's equally famous Free
port speech. The Vermont delegate,
was expected to support William H. Sew
ard Of New York. but Colonel Sayve,
as the only member acquainted with Lin.
coin and with Lincolns great assets 10,
dealing with the crisis then imminent.
was given sufficient hearing by his asso.
ciates that Vermont was the first east.
On N tok ha ivit %
ing the New York man. The same ballot
| that recorded Vermont's change also
| recorded New Hampshires, but the
change originated as above.
That step was real progress-progres
of such character that we will not assail
It's sacredness by comparing a third-term
movement born Of obsessed ego to II.
However. such progress as the Yer
mont delegation exemplified in 1871 Is a
| type which must be approached IL some
measure. II real progress Is to be served
! by any division in a such delegation BY
| supporting a third-term movement in the
| absence of reason or OF national need. no
minor division of the delegation can ap-
proach the standard of progress set by
Vermonters 50 years ago. We think this
| must be admitted, even by the most rad
ical radicalism.
To some extent. this reasoning applies
| to that portion of the Vermont deega-
ton that goes instructed otherwise than
for Roosevelt. Progress according to past
standards may demand service contrary
to the first district instructions. as well as
to those of the second district
Wisely. the MISUNDERSTANDING are left
free to embrace such course of progress
as Judgment may determine or as gen.
uine national need may dictate.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18

ana built up a business when can DC
compared with that of the Hotns-
>hilds. And vet these men must nave
had mind for something beside
money. For when their sister, Bab-
cite was married, in 1916. they were
worth erght thousand dollars ana as
they were just starting In prosper
Gus business might have been excused
II they had wanted to keep 1t. They
gave their sister four thousand, and
proceeded with their busm sss on half
the capital they might have kept.
The fact seems to be that these men
we're successful. not by means Of sell
fish traits and lack Of scruple, but be-
cause they were brought up to live
frugal, clean lives, and beyond every
thing else because they united brains
and industriousness. And success for
them meant more than the getting OF
money. 1t meant the establishing of
| a family of leaders in thought and life,
line of men with broad interests
ana public spirit. userul to the COM
munities they lived in. Such Is one
type Of the "supsrman"
II we could rid the novels and news
papers Of the notion that man TO be
"successful' must have an ugly dis
POSITION. aggressive manner, selfish
ness and the love of stepping on other
peoples toes, our American life would
be saner and healthier The fact is
| that most men who have done things
| from Alexander down to Napoleon and
Hartman have differed firm other men
primarily in the fact that they had
brains, and all the rest was incidental
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18

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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18

w ]. Bryan Is quoted as saying that
the democratic platform will depend upon
whom the republicans nominate. or words
to that effect. Time was when 1t was
believed that the platform which sets
It stands for, was serious thing and not
something to be trumped up at the last
minute to meet the man which the other
cratic party has been accused time and
again OF standing for nothing in partic-
ular except an opposition to the other
side, but We had never expected to have
one Of the party leaders "fess up" in
this way.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18

The President has signed the law to
tax white PHOSPHORUS matches out of
existence. This is rather hard on the
industries equipped only with machinery
adapted to that process. but though the
surgeons knife is cruel. there are times
when IL Is necessary. The white
and we shall no longer be distressed by
the portraits OF "phossy Jaw victims in
the popular magazines. Thus doth the
world progress
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18
NOT CANDIDATE CONGRESS
senator Max l.. Powell mn Active Can.
didate for the Cover
nOrship Nomination in June.

While Max L. Powell was on his trim
to Panama his name was favorably men,
toned by many as candidate for Con-
gress. He returned from his trip Satur-
day and Free Press representative
called upon him and inquired II he was
a candidate. Mr.. Powell said:
II have not been and am not a candi-
date for Congress. One thing at a time
in the candidate line Is about all man
can attend to. 1t Is a trite saying. that
n man cannot successfully swap horses
crossing stream. I am candidate for
acknowledgements. l shall ride that
horse to successful finish or a fall. 1
thank my friends for considering my
name in this connection"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18

ADDRESS. every salute to the flag, every
patriotic procession, every strain of
martial music, everything Of this kind,
which rings at all with the tone of
sincerity, not only arouses a pleasur-
able sensation but does good by pre-
venting the Importance of the whole
from being lost and forgotten In the
midst Of our Royalties and enthusiasms
for the innumerabie parts. And be.
sides II shows Emanuel what we real
~ feel
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18

1t is passing strange that the Illinois
primaries should result in a victory for
Roosevelt, the ultra-radical republican
candidate and Speaker Clark, the con-
servative democratic candidate. Under
these circumstances it is not difficult to
picture what Will happen In Baltimore In
case the republicans should nominate
Roosevelt at Chicago.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18
WANTED.

When you want anything. advertise
in the new special column of thls
paper. Some bargains are oHere"
there this week which It will pay you
to read about See page two. rms
naner has more than $4,000 readers
every week and one cent word Will
reach them all
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18

Bryan is for Wilson, but only as
against Harmon. Bryan may not be
for Wilson as against a certain gen
tleman from Nebraska.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18

French and Belgian syndicate Will
build a 100000 dry-dock and ship re-
pairing plant at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18

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p1TRI,rNGToN. THURSDAY. APRIL IS
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-18
VERMONT NOTES.

East St. Johnsbury is TO have rev
school building for which not more ehan
$4,000 10 to be expended.