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in the courtyard OF q New York apart
ment house? The master of reyeis Of
Tartarus might dope out something more
aweeome and terrible. but he'd be hard
put to 1t so to do. The bawlers in the
night shirts reemain at their windows,
shaking their fists and bowling. They are
coin-tossers. who have an appetite for the
Teutonic brand OF ragtime at o'clock in
the morning.
And we try to write! 1t is rosy life.
The jakey-band plays five or six ''se-
lections," then departs, reluctantly
Then the baby begins. Probably the
baby has been going all the time, only
Its music couldn't make itself heard
above the poom-pah-ing. That is
strange, too, for 1t is music with the
penetrative powers Of a steel-cutting
cleaver.
The baby. it is judged, is teething or
has q pin sticking in it, or requires q
drink %h Hf ~.rs them or something Sen t walls
shrieks. Then 1t walls some more.
Then 1t bawls with all its might. The
baby must. Of course. be kept In a room
directly overlooking the courtyard. SO
aware OF its presence. 1t would be i'm
possible to keep the baby in one Of the
front rooms, not on the courtyard.
where its sorrows would only be made
known to it's immediate owners and
perhaps to the folks living in apart
ments on either side.
X X
So it walls and means and shrieks
and bowls and bawls.
''suat oop! Shat oopv' we hear the
Finnish nursemaid say to the baby.
Suggestion repudiated with scorn and
wrath by the baby. which goes right
on.
We resolve to try mental science. We
solemnly assert unto ourselves that
there isn't such q thing as q baby on
earth or In the waters beneath the earth.
We declare unto ourselves that that
which we hear. which we have fooiishly
baby. Is an aggregation OF sounds built UP
and developed purely by our Imagination:
we endeavor to conjure ourselves into be-
lieving that 1t is because we are 'out OF
tune with the harmony Of things" that
we are being tortured by the riotous vo-
It doesn't work out. The baby declines
to cooperate with us. And. anyhow.
there are new difficulties to overcome.
We are seeking to discover something
euphonious and rhythmic In the howlinSs
OF the baby. 20 Is to accustom ourselves
to It, and are, In part, getting away with
this scheme to an extent that permits us
to write almost four or Ave words Of an
article that we've got to have done by
noon under severe financial penalties
when lot Of other things begin to hap
pen that cut In on our system.
There Is q mighty, long-drawn, broken
blare from battered cornet at q point
dow at which We work 1t sounds like q
trumpet Of Jericho gone sour. The blast
- repeated ttuae and again.
Then comes = mighty bsliows "oe0-
II ID repeated tins and agaia. With
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since 1 seen We last says. How long
a coorse Nv science did We take befure
We entered tn profisyon?' says
Put 'em lower says he. TIL suns in
me eyes he says. Well says I, where
did We larn base ball? 1 says. In tn
back yard, with a bed slat an a wooden
ball. he says. Thin it isn't thrue We
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pandemoniumish Ne

pandemoniumish New York apartment
house courtyarAs.
The humble scrivener hereof hath
been engaged in trifiing little literary
activities in the aforesaid room over
looking the said BOBBY hatch court
yard since reasonably early hour this
forenoon, and ii Is now close upon bed
time
No. 1t is not a tenement house 1t is
an apartment house. just to live in
merely middling and moderate quarters
In which tears a monthly chunk out of
the bank roll precisely as il the same
had been messed up by q Whitehead
torpedo. II this should seem dificult
TO believe. in view Of what may follow,
let It be explicitly stated that 1t is an
apartment house only a very few doors
from Riverside drive.
The courtyard is square. large, deep
and high. and 1t Is the abode Of echoes
such a. no canyon in Colorado or
Arizona ever was or ever will be- The
gable gable Of the handmaidens en-
gagged I'm getting breakfast in kitchens
overlooking the courtyard began to
echo with the hard pedal In constant
use as early as : o'clock this morn
ing. when these eyes still were pad
locked in slumber. The chatter con-
sisted Of observations in Finnish, Lap
isndese. Scandihoolihan of all brands
Afro-Americanese. Slavonian. Rou-
manian. Coptic. Yiddish and Milesian
The MiIesian young person Of the culin-
airy department was complaining loudly
TO this essence:
"Phwat d'youse tink! Me Dustin me-
self wide open gittin dinner rr 'em las
night. an they tillyphonin at Swim
o'clock at night and they amt coomin'
home fr dinner! Phwat dyouse t'ink o.
that?'
| don't know to whom she was adj
dressing her plaintive observations. un-
less 1t was to Mde. Echo herself. Ger
tainly Ii VAS Alde. Echo who took up her
remarks and disseminated them.
And so l reluctantly abandoned bed.
1t was just as well. I'd have had to
DO that same within . few minutes any
hsw. Tor the cheery 5anitor. 0 Dane e
ESeaA.veiced DaueD slkated into tho cen
tAs Of De werid Of echoes Q few minutes
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Il anything mere
following should
denote a condition
of acute mania on
the part of the
writer hereof let
it be attributed to
the fact that it is
being written in a
room Of an apart
ment overlooking
one of those hol :
n w a r n n n ~
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disturbin' tn relations iv tn RADIUS iv
tn ball to tn circumference says I.
How about it?' Tt thrue,' says he.
He's thryin' to tell We in simple
language about tn old splitter. Ye
see, it's this way. old boss: On some
days I can peg it SO it crosses tn
turkey like a poached egg, an Ty
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later. Like all janitors Of his species.
he talks to himself; rumbles. should
say. and ne is always filled and sur
This causes him to treat the garbage cans
as II they were his personal enemies. He
RACES at them. He hurls them about.
A Danish janitor and a hundred gar
bage cans being juggled In an echoing
courtyard at quarter past seven in the
morning-nunno, nunno, there is no ne
penthe, no balm in Gilead! He storms
at the dumb-waiters which carry the gar
bage cans up and down. he howls and
RACES at the handmaidens who do or
don't attend to the dumbwaiters carrying
the garbage cans. 1t is the nearest thing
to great gun practice on a man-o-war
ever viii hear. The deep. insistsnt, in
cessant cultural Of the north European.
the galvanized garbage cans being merci-
lessly thrown at the granolithic tagging.
the derisive jeers of the handmaidens
sort Of parro keet chorus to the horrible
ratapan OF barbaric discord-to hear it
just once IL to forget it never.
a
There is breakfast. Breakfast partaken
Of to the obligato Of the tumult as OF
battle in the courtyard. There can be no
conversation at the breakfast table. The
tightly closed windows utterly fail to
the echoing courtyard.
After breakfast, q few moments OF
calm while the janitor 10 out front polish
Ing the brass ratings. We settle down
to write in the room overlooking the In
sane courtyard. Precisely at o'clock.
as We write. begins q horrible poom-pah-
ing in the courtyard. Peering outsof the
window, we see q disheveled group OF
nine fat waxy-looling Teutonic players
Of brass instruments. lined up in their
dingy. dirty uniforms. in the courtyard,
dishing out sounds that no dope-mad-
dened Chinese orchestra ever equaled or
ever could equaEand this. let 1t again be
repeated, at o'clock In the morning!
Why? We like to answer these easy
ones. Because the janitor gets his bit.
II there Is anybody imbecile enough to
toss out q coin or coins to the unspeak-
able jakey-band the janitor shares the
fifty-hfty cut. Therefore. the jakey-band
is permitted to SLOUGH into the courtyard
At 8 o'clock In the morning. when q
great many Of the folks living In apart
ments overlooking the court are stdu
asleep. and unpeel it, lugubsious, nerve
racaing. soul-shatteying punches OF poem
pahs. Figures OF tousled- haired male
persons In their night shirts appear at
windows.
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twas as mysterious as all that, how
cud Tom Donohue's boy Petite larn 1T.
that was fired firm tn brothers school
because he cudden't add?'
well, dinnaw," said Mr.. Dooley. II
thought iv that tn last time he was in
here. I'd been readin' a, ~ticle be
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Take that noise outside" they howl;
their sepuichral. sleepy voices echoing
maddeningiy through the court
Others. however. like the discord. They
toss coins to the jakey-hand and request
favorite selections OF q ragtime character.
The musicians" defer to the desires of
the oojn-tosoerA DID you ever hear Q
jakey-band's idea of American YaGtime9
AZ 9 O'Clock OF dark. gloomy morning.
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Professor Slapgood. an I harly knew
how to address tn young scientist,
though tits not so nanny years since
place with tn hose. I'd lost thrack iv
him since he left home, 50 I says: I
suppose we've studied hard says !,
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whit to Heidelberg whin We left here?'
says I. I niver heerd Nv tn team. I
whit as substichoot sicond base on tn
Baryboo nine. an thin was Threaded to
Cedar Rapids he says. This here
pa -aper.' says I. says ye pitch a
wonderful ball that We projooce be
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take a day OF. take a day OF. I'm
not goin' to base ball game. I'm
gein. to take bag Nv peanuts an spind
terry down at tn colledge, where there's
something goin' on can understand"
20, sure said Mr.. Hennessy, "if
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Cobb cudden't hit 1t with snow shovel
That's tn day I've. got tn smoke on
to it. Thin another day. whin I feel
just as good as iver. ivrything I toss
across looks like a thrunk covered with
electhric lights. That's tn Afternoon
take me girl fr walk What's tn
name Nv that fellow that wrats tn
article We was readinr says he What
dye want to know err saysL 1w,nt
TO find out how do It whin I do Il.
an why I don't do it within I don't.
says he.
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special Correspondence of The Star.

NEW YORK, May 4. 1919.
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Il asst him about tn science iv bat
tin. He said 1t was I'm hittin' on.y tn.
good vans. His idee iv tn mathy-
maticks iv fieldin' was niver to thry to
catch a ground ball with tn ankle or
a fly ball with tn nose. whin.' says
], dye pitch best?' A day or two
says he, 'hefure / sign me contract
he says. l asked about his thrainin'.
1t is simple but severe. Afther break
fast he goes to dinner. His dinner is
usually Uninterrupted in tn middle Nv
tn fifth pie be tn SUMMONS to tn.
game. Afther tn game he goes to
supper. Afther supper he sets in a
rockin chair in front Nv tn hotel till
tn other athleets sojourn to q raths-
kellar. He is invariably in bed befure
tn manager gets up. In return rr all
their suff'rin', these hayroes ARE
threated like white slaves. His ssFry
is on'y nine thousand dollars a year.
an fr this he is often compelled TO
pitch ivry other week.
that's all I cud get out Nv him, an
there We ARE i know no more about
tn subjick now, at tn end Nv me in
vistigation. thin Willium Alden Smith
knows about steamboats, anssacebergs.
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| \ II
we iver 30 to .
! !. ! ! ! !: !
~ base ball gamer
I %N asked MT. Hen
H n IA messy.
Isl II ~ mot now" said
~ H1/M Mr.. Dooley. 81
~ III haven't got tn In
~ IN H telleck fr It,
HA AH6A Whin I was a
vs. ~ young fellow
nawthin' PLACED
me betther thin to so out to tn ball
grounds. get a good cozey seat in tn
sun, take off me collar an coat. an
buy a bottle iv pop-not SO much. mind
ye, f'r tn refrishment, because I niver
was much on pop, as to have somethin'
handy to reprove tn empire with whin
he give an ERRONEOUS decision. Not
only that, me boy. but I was fine
amachoor ball player mesilf. 1 was
first basemsn iv tn Prairie Wolves
whin We beat tn nine iv milne COM
p'ny be a scoor Nv four hundherd an
eight to three hundherd an twinty-
five.
1T was very close. TIL game started
just afther low mass on a Sundah
mornin' an was called on account Nv
darkness at tn end Nv tn foorth inning.
i knocked tn ball over tn fince into
Donovan's coal yard no less thin twelve
times. All this talk about this here
young fellow Baker makes me smile.
Whin / was his age 1 wudden't count
annythin' but home runs. If it wasn't
a home run I'd say: Don't mark it
down. an go back an have another
belt at tn ball. Thin were tn days.
I'VE usen't to think base ball was
science. No wan was very good at it
that was good at anything else. A
young fellow that had clear eye in
his head an a sthrong pair iv legs
undher him. an that was onaisy in tn
close atomysphere iv tn schoolroom,
dye mind. an didn't like tn profits
syon Nv plumbing. was like as not to
jine q ball team He come home in tn
fall with a dimon in his shirt front an
a pair Nv hands on him that looked
like tn boughs iv a three that's been
sthruck be lightnin', an he was tn
hayro Nv tn neighborhood till his
dimon melted an he took to dhrivin' a
thruck. But tits far difrrent now
adays. To be a ball player, a man has
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"Annyhow, tits a GRAND game. Hin
Missy. whether tits played tn way tn
professor thinks or tn way Petite
larned to play 1t in tn back yard. an
I shudden't wondher II it's tn way he's
still playint. TIL two gr-reat American
sports are a good deal alike-polly-
ticks an base ball They're both played
be profissyonals. tn teams ar-re r-run
be fellows that cudden't throw . base
ball or stun q ballot box to save their
lives. an ar-re on'y INTERESTED In count
in up tn gate receipts. An here ar-re
we settin' out in tn sun on tn bleach
ing boards. payin' our good money rr
tn sport, hot an uncomfortable but
happy. injyin' ivry good play. hootin'
ivry bad wan. KNOWN nawthin' about
tn inside play an not carin,. but ALI
jinin' In tn cry Nv XIII tn empire
They're both GRAND games"
"Speakin' Nv pollyticks." said Mr..
Hennessy. "who dye think'll be Illicit
edy
"Afther lookin' tn candydates over"
said Mr.. Dooley. IAN studyin' their
qualifications carefully. can't thruth-
fully say that see a presidential pos
sibility in sight"
fCnnvrivht 1910 nv Finley ret.r nur~sl
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RITLNG humor for a living
doesn't appeal to every one.
Recently a Washington busi-
ness man halted a friend on
the street and confided to him
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Copyright. 1912. by Finley Peter Dmae.)
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-25
VERMONT NOTES.

The Montpelier Y. NJ &. :. has NOM
prrslip If 40, or this number 81 are
bo,s Tire net Indebtedness for tho past
year is $Ac So.
Luther -. l'echlrr. a former Barre BOY.
has lust been elected village engineer for
Highland Park. q suburb OF Detroit. at n
salary OF 81. 100 z year. lie was graduated
from tho University of Vermont "a ls.'!,
Mias Rose r'Imnnds, sister OF Violet
Edmandg who vas engaged to marry
rev. Clarence " r, Rcheson, was mar
ried Saturday to the Rev. George II. Holt,
,astor ~ the First BAPTIST Church N
Barre. The ceremony VAS performed AT
the home Of the brides father in Chest
nut I'm. Mass.
William jVightman OF Barnet has filed
n DetitioL IN bankruptcy giving his
liabilities As 81 ,05l 81 and assets Of $3.50
an claimed eNcinpt. Micr Goldman 81
roIchcstcr a tailor, has filed petition
with liabilities OF $3.50 Il nn,. assets OF
sluJ which IL claimed exempt
IA the Jagrlnt TO be- enacted Al l'iaillr-
boro this SUMNER 90 people WI! app"nr
IN the east. The pageant ~ 10 be given
for the purpose OF raising f'nds ior the
children : playground
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-25
4 WOMAN FRUIT GROWER.

Eighteen wears ago Mrs. Rowland and
her husband went to Washington and
bought three orchards, paying $40 per
acre for the land. These orchards arc
on an elevation Of So" feet above sea level
and In the famous Yakima fruit valley
Last year Mrs Rowland WAS left n wild
ow but with the hraveness hegotten OF
western pioneer life, she took up the
work alone and went on with it. The
land that cost so an acre is now valued at
$3.50 an acre. and from one orchard
alone she made clear over 5000 this
last year.
At the New York Land Show held last
fall she had an exhibit of y boxes OF
Winesap apples which won the prize above
all other exhibitors. She credits the win
ming OF the prize largely 10 the fine APP
pearance OF the apples from the stand
point of packing In this part she was
aided by two women. neighhors, VINO
were experienced In orchard work
| Aside from her orchards, Mrs. Row.
land raises potatoes, grapes melons ana
corn. Her one aim Is not to increase her
| landed estates, but to improve both the
land and the quality of her crops
Down hearted clerks and gray-srow1nR
! Gressmakers could haruiy expect 10 JUMP
into such good fortune with no expert
ence to back them up, but the fact re-
mains that many such hard worked WON
en- are turning their attention In sinai
way to poultry, bees or fruit ana are
meeting with n success that not only
, equals their town incomes OF the PAST
but gives them the blessed enjoyment o'
a happy. healthy and free-handed Ire IL
the great Out-of- Doors.-April Farmer
| Wife
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waiting. Automobiles continued 10 arrive
IN great numbers and the c'o"u 49,.
"'e entrance to the pier "''''
respectful silence.
within tho vast enclosure ,"e .o''pi'
OF people was. notwithstann'ne u'e pr
cautions and the limit WHO" '''.
placed upon the number OF PaSs's
dense, but serious and orderly
As the Carpathia was passing INTO ner
SIP she was surrounded ny "e"sp"
boats and there were fredueh. ''hS',eS
from cameras. which were takrhs p'o-
lures of the rescue ship, punctua''ns inc
silence like a series of bo'''os'
The great ship came up slowly anu nlu
n hard time docking Her "echs WE'RE
black wit. passengers.
But there was notable absence OF tne
usual hilarity and excitement us""''S az
tendant upon an ocean liners ARRIVAL
An air OF solomnity was added to the
scene by the presence of scores OF "n''e-
clad hospital attendants with strctchers,
while, prepared for the worst, there
mingled in the throng attaches from the
coroncrs staff MANY invalid chairs also
were rolled up TO the pier entrance and
p'd''u III wanting pT '''''7' ~ ~
walk.
When tho ship dockcd at ";"o the gang
plank was quickly lowered and the doc
tors and nurses went aboard
The first survivors began to leave the
ship at 9:35.
AS they came into the street dead
silence fell over the crowd and even the
flash light battery for moment ceased
Its bombardmcnt
Several Red Cross nurses and a dozen
physicians arrived upon the pier and two
ambulances from st Vincent hospital
stood outside
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
had a special train waiting AZ their sta
ton at oath street and number OF taxi
cabs to convey survivors desiring to go to
Philadelphia to their friends
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-25
RETNRT CAIN AND QIIO Is

To Illustrate the ever-ready Wit Of the
Irish the following story w., told AT
banquet held recently In the CONNER
cial club:
An freshman on his way home AT niSht
was in the habit of cutting through
cemetery, in order to shorten the dis
lance \ group of his friends evolved
4 scheme TO have some fun at MS on
pense. Accordingly they found sunk
en- grave. across which his path lay, dug
it out and covered 1t with boards IN such
manner that he must fall into the
yawning cavity.
The Irishman came along and every
thing happened as per schedule While
he was still squirmng about in the not
tom of the hole, striving to eNtricate NM
self three of four of his friends, attired
IN white sheets and other ghostly ac-
coutrements suddenly made their appear
ance Pat was frightened out OF his
wits and almost tainted when one OF
them said
What are YOU doing in my grave
The tone was sepulchral. 1t made the
lrishman's hair stand almost on end, bu,
he could not forepo "A witty retort.
Faith. and what are YOU doing out OF
it?2 he asked. Portland Orcgonian,
EOlNTAIN PENS At FREE PRESS
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-25

Mrv. Mary Elkey. Rutland, ", tells now
Foley Kidney pills relieved her of intense
pain II suffered untold agony with hiu-
ney trouble and pains in my back an"
my vision was tTsrred with BLACK spe'hS
| took Foley Kidney Piiis anu the re-
suits were quick and certain NJ! pains
left. my vision cleared ana am Wen
again, give credit for my return 10
health to foahy kidney ais d. W.
O sullivan, "A Church street
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-25
EMF. BRANDE1S. OMAHA MER-
CHANT
MAXWELL. NORMAN NOT ON
TITANIC

Maxwell Norman of Hamilton. the Wen
known polo player, WAS booked TO san on
the Titanic and his name was on the pas
senger list that was cabled 20 New YORK
Mr. Norman did not sail on that ship.
how ever changing his passage to tho
Oceanic
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-25

royal English oak tree Is 70 be planted
in Central park, New York, to take the
place of the one planted by the late
King Edward when he was Prince OF
Wales
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-25

The United States Supreme court has
decided that Virginia must pay exRcp-
resentative Charles II. Lttlefeld OF
Maine $4,000 az a fee for services in the
Virginia West Virginia debt case.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-25
EASILY GUESSED.

What viii the woman Of tomorrow
be-" sighed the pensive person.
"Oh. n year or two younger than sh" IL
to-day replied the one who had rea-
soned such things ort, -~PttsburG Post
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-25
NEWS TOLD IN BRIEF.

Beginnn next month. Canada will mint
s. and $40 gold pieces. Practically only
gold used in Canada now Is coined by tho
United States.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-25

Or. y. *. Pearsons. who has given his
entire fortune of more than s6,rO,0D to
educational institutions. has just cele-
brated his send birthday at Hinsdale Ill.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-25

The appellate division of the New
York supreme court has decided that
groceries need not be sold by weight and
that under law branded package goods
may he sold In cartoons. providing they
are sold without representation of weight
or measure.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-25

Prolonged strike in British iute trade at
Dundee. Scotland. affecting 3hhH workers
has been settled. operators getting 21-2
per cent. increase in wages.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-25

Anticipating deadlock In the coal strike
conference the House Interstate COM
merce committee Is planning to rush
through Congress an emergency measure
providing for federal mediation
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-25

President Yuan Shi-Kai Of China has
issued manifesto urging the five races
of the republic to amalganlate through in
termarhage.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-25

Darius Miller. president Of tho Burlng-
ton railroad has written to the Pennsyl-
vania State railroad commission urging
compulsory labor for tramps.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-04-25

1t is the duty Of sailors when a Chi
nesc vessel goes down to save men first.
children next and women last. This is
on the theory that men are most valu-
able to the state, that adaptive parents
can be found for children. and that
women without husbands are destitute.