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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-10-24
TWO.THIRDS OF WHITE
VOTERS NATIVES.
Census bureau Issues Striking Fig
| uren ON American Citixenshin.

Census bureau Issues Striking Fla
ures ON American Citixenship.
The United States has been called the
melting pot of the peoples Of the world,
and never did the pot have more work
to do than at present. Statistics just
compiled by the Census Bureau show
that the white foreign born males of 81
years or over now in continental" Unit
ed States number S.646.Sl7 The total
number OF white native born males Of
p years old or over is only l7,7lO.697
There are 3.o4sll7 white men born In
other countries who, II not disqualified
because OF offences against this Govern
ment or because OF unsOund mind. are
able to cast their votes for Presidential
electors In November. These are the
naturalized citizens-45,6 per cent. of all
the foreign born males Of voting age,
Natives OF Germany lead all the rest
in this count OF the foreign born mon
here. The Germans show the highest per-
centage naturalized--69.5 per cent. APP
proximately two-thirds of the white for
cign horn men In the country are from
northwestern Europe and Is per cent Of
them naturaliaed. or the 2,SSl. AS natives
Of the southern and eastern divisions Of
Europe 22.l per cent. are naturalized
II appears. however, that recent immi-
grafton has come In large part from
those countries whose emigrated sons
show a low percentage of naturalization.
The second largest group OF foreign
born men In this country are the Rus
SLAMS with 1877, $50. and only 26l per cent.
Of them are naturalized. Italians are
third. with 7l2s7, and only III per cent.
|naturalized. Natives Of Austria number
I'M. 35s, only 24s per cent. OF them nattira-
lized.
Relatively high percentages naturalized
are shown in the natives of Ireland, SIS;
Canada. 81; England hs4 and Sweden
lG2s OF the 255,S7 natives of Hungary
>nly l4.3 per cent have become American
citizens.
The lowest percentage of naturalized
foreign born men is to be found In the
ANAL group OF Montenegrins' There
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-10-24

companies are building vessels to use
the canal and the banks Of that country
are considering the opening OF branches
in Latin-American countries.
A Chinese steamship company Is also
planning to operate line from Shang-
hal to Central and South American ports,
and Australia's commercial organizations
are sending agents to South America to
develop trade. while citizens of Aus
rraia and New Zealand are arranging to
establish a canal steamship line of theiI
own. new line of freight vessels Is
also to run from Calcutta or Bombay Il
South America Canada will run two
new direct lines respectively from Van
couver and Montreal to the correspond
ing coasts of Latin America. From thi,
II Will be seen that the activity nciden
to the commissioning of this waterway
is not confined TO Europe, but is world
wide.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-10-24
ENGLISH AS SHE is SPOKE"

The proprietors of a Siamese neWspape'
have distributed handbills containing thu
following notice:
1.-THE news Of English We tell the lates
Writ In perfectly style and most earliest
Do murder get commit, We hear OF anf
tell it. Do mighty chief die, We pub
llsh it, and in borders OF sombre, stan
has each one been colleged and write Hike
the Kiplng and the Dickens We circl
every town and eXtortionate not for al
vertscments. Buy it. Tell each Of 20
Its greatness for good. Ready on FIR
day Number first" --Exchange
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-10-24

vided by the secretary Of state.) Joint
committee on immigration and labor.
SPECIAL COMMITTEE.
The chair appointed as the Senate mem.
hers Of the Joint committee to secure data
relative to taxation. Senators Wallis and
Mower.
HOUSE BILLS REFERRED
II. 13-Amending act Incorporating
Springfield Trust company. To committee
on banks.
II. 19--An act to provide for the safe
keeping Of wills. To general committee.
II. &-Amending section 1858. relating to
fire districts. To committee on municipal
corporations.
ADOPTED IN CONCURRENCE.
Joint resolution granting use OF Repre-
sentatives' hall to the Greater Vermont
association on the evening OF Thursday,
November I.
Senator Preston inquired II there was
any contest of the election Of any senator
and was told that the chair knew OF none.
On motion of Mr.. Blanchard Of Wind
sor, the Senate at 2:3 adjourned.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-10-24
NASHVILLE RUNS ASHORE.
Guuboat Averted Collision with DredEc
at Norfolk. Va,

Norfolk. Va, Oct. ITO keep from
colliding with dredge off Bush Bluff
light late to-day, the gunboat Nashville
stuck her nose In the mud and remained
aground until nearly nine o'clock tonight
when with the assistance of three power
full tugs from the navy yard she was
pulled back into deep water.
The Nashville was bound TO Guantanamo
with supplies for warships ordered to
Mexico and was endeavoring to make
her way through a veritable network OF
vessels at anchor of I.ambert's point
awaiting coal. After being hauled off the
fats the gunboat proceeded 10 Hamp,t
Roads. She probably viii put to sea to-
morrow.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-10-24
TRADE ACTIVITIES
(From the Marine JournalD

Some OF the port improvements being
made incident to the opening Of the
Panama Canal include the construction
of a new harhor at Valparaiso to cost
SIS, OOO. 600. harbor improvements at Buenos
Ayres to cost $4,000, 600, port improve
ments at Montevidoo to cost practically
that sum. and Sl0o.0W,WO Is being eX-
pended by Brazil in putting into first
class condition every port of her 5000
mile coast line and In building rail-
ways eXtcnding into the interior of that
country. Venezula, Colombia. Mexico.
Cuba and other Central American coun-
tries are fully alert to the trade opening
that will follow the completion of the
canal, while In Japan three steamship
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-10-24
BILL INTRODUCED.

8. 37-By Mr. Mower, an act relating 70
the hours Of employment Of women and
children in Manufacturing and mechanical
establishments. (No child under IS years
ana no woman shall be employed In such
establishment more than 10 hours a day
unless for the purpose Of making shorter
work FOR one day In week and In no
ease shall hours exceed 81 In a week
@verage) Employer shall post notice OF
uuWbs5 Of hours required. On forms Qre.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-10-24
WANTED AN OPTlMlST.

A Fifth avenue man had been trying
dig up some literary work for a literar,
friend, and he finally found publisher
who talked favorably, .....
Yes" said the publisher, II can civ
your friend literary work
"Thunks; he's n good man"
But hold on Is he an optmist or /
ressimist'"
What difference does that make"
Makes "A deal of difference. | can,
use pessimst. | want "A man to edt
g. spring seed catalogue ~ rittsbur
Post
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-10-24
are only 4.530 of them, and but 81 per
cent. have entered citizenship.


The tremendous problem confronting
this country in the amalgamaton of the
peoples of the world into Americans Is
indicated by the statement that of the o.
99l. Isl men 81 years old and over In CONT
mental United States 91SS,454 are foreign
born-white. negro. Chinese. Japanese
and other races. That is to say less
than two-thirds of the men of voting
age in this country are native born white
men.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-10-24

rh. s,ore that faces reduced adver-
,,.,nS expenditure faces BACKWARD
or course, the backward road IL the
90 .,s,t 70 travei-and It leads some where.
although not where any awake mer-
ehsnts wants to 80, Of counsel
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-10-17
Lever Releasing All stanchions.

pen. One of the things that is very
useful ia lever at the end of each
stanchion row that will unfasten all
Of the cows in that row at once.
There are 20 COWS on one side and Is
on the other, and the levers are near
the door where one could get at them
even though there were quite a blaze
inside.
The drawing shows how these lev
ers are fastened to the stanchions to
open them all at once. Instead of one
timber at the top there are two. The
uppermost, c, is a 2x4 that moves on
top of the other. This 2x4 has Sits
In it in which the stanchion timbers
are moved. The lever, d, at the end is
attached to c and will either open or
close all Of the stanchions at once.
To prevent accidents, the lever is
fastened with a wooden pin, either
open or shut as the case may be.
Besides being a good thing in case
of fire, it is very handy in everyday
use. When am ready to let the cows
out / open the stanchions all at once.
When the COWS come in, they take
their proper places, and when they
are quietly eating their silage the
lever is operated and they are all
fastened at one time.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-10-17
DRIED GRAINS TO DAIRY cow
Really More Valuable, Pound for
Pound, Than Bran-Animals
Should Have Dat Straw.

It is our opinion that the dried
grains are really more valuable,
pound for pound, as a feed stuff,
than the bran, and yet for the sake
Of variety, as we'll as for other pur-
poses, we should hardly go to the
extent of using grains exclusively,
says writer in all exchange. On the
contrary, we think it would be bet
ter to mix the grains and the bran
in equal parts by weight. This mix.
ture would carry about 16 per cent.
Of protein, and, when fed in connec-
ton with good corn silage, corn sto-
yer and oat straw would make a very
good ration indeed. If the amount
CT silage on hand will justify feeding
SO literally we suggest the use of 40
pounds Of it daily, and in connection
five pounds of alfalfa hay as long
as it will last. Ten pounds of the mix.
ture of grains and bran, fed in connec.
ton, would be quite sufficient for the
production of 40 pounds of milk, and
five pounds will probably suffice for
the production of Is pounds of milk
for amounts between rs and 40 feed
in about the same proportion.
In addition to the foregoing, give
the COWS all the oat straw or slower
they will care to eat.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-10-17
WAS FEELING WRONG BUMP
6agacious Phrenologist Mistaken In
His Conclusion, az It
Turned Out.

The learned professor was giving
his public lecture on phrenology, and
for purposes of demonstration he in
vited a boy to the platform, says the
New York American. After crlti-
cal examination of the lads Uranium,
he turned to the audience:
Ladies' and gentlemen" he said,
"the protuberance on this little boys
head is remarkably we'll developed. 1t
is the bump of philoprogenitivene
In the present case 1t proves that the
boy has an extraordinary love for his
parents. addressing the boy.) Isn't
that true, Johnny?"
Johnny hesitated a moment, then
said:
well. l get along pretty we'll with
the old lady. but the old man amt
such a much"
why, how is that, my boy?" asked
the professor.
well, If yuh want me ter let 1t out,
the bump yer BLOWN about is where
pop hit me yesterday wit belt
buckle"
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-10-17
lvnlks. EsteIla Gillispie
ONE CASE OUT OF MANY
TO PROVE OUR CLAIMS.

st. Anne, Ill.-"I was passing
through the change of life and I
was a perfect wreck from female
troubles. I had a displacement
and bearing down pains, weak
fainting spells, dizziness, then
numb and cold feelings. Some
times my feet and limbs were
swollen. / was irregular and had
so much backache and headache.
was nervous, irritable and was
Respondent. Sometimes my APP
petite was good but more often it
was not. My kidneys troubled
me at times and I could walk
only a short distance.
II saw your advertisement in q
paper and took Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, and
| was helped from the first. At
the end Of two months the swell
ling had gone down, I was IT.
lieved of pain, and could walk
with ease. continued with thu
medicine and now | do almost all
my housework. l knew yous
medicine has saved me from the
grave and am willing for you to
publish anything I write to you,
for the good of others. Mrs.
EsTELLA GILLESPIE, RID. No. 4,
Box "a, st. Anne, Illinois.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-10-17
Copyright By r. L. Nelson

dead to rights there in the room Of a
banker Alec, who was in the corri-
dor, flew to my rescue, and was shot
through the lungs by a night watch.
man.
Il had always urged him If ever I
got pinched to stay out of the scrape,
as woman always had better show
of getting free on the plea of klepto-
mania. Alec was taken to hospital
and died in few days. was tried,
convicted and sentenced to five years
in the penitentiary. While in Jail |
became party to a little romance,
which do not care to talk about 1t
ended in my being pardoned from the
penitentiary after I had served less
than year.
1.-TWO years after this became reck-
less again and joined Jimmy Porter
and Abe Norris, who made a speciality
of robbing postoft1ces and country
banks. was in many jobs with them
and used to do the planting as the
agent for sewing machine.
"The last big trick I was in was
very disastrous in the end. We spent
two weeks in putting up a job in the
Middletown, N. Y, postoffice and
bank sold machines in the town for
while. I soon got onto two valuable
facts. Money to take up 100000 in
bonds was in the safe at the bank.
The safe at the postoffice WAS the re-
pository for the valuables of many of
the residents. The safe in the bank
was the toughest one I ever saw for a
small one. 1t took four hours hard
work to get into the strong box. We
did the box in the postofflce in less
than half an hour. When we started
from the bank we had about $3.50, 900
in cash and jewelry. It was rich
haul for little place. We had to run
the gantlet when we left the bank
and had lively chase for several
miles. Fortunately our pursuers were
thrown of the track by mistaking the
road which we took, and we reached
New York safely. 1t looked as If ev-
erything was covered up in good
shape. but the turn had come to our
luck as It does in time to every
crook"
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-10-17
DETECTIVE BRiTToN's STORY.

THE Middletown postoffice rob-
berry," said Detective Britton, who was
formerly postoff1ce inspector. "arous-
ed the authorities to feverish action
A large force Of men was turned out
to run down the gang.
Zone great difficulty in postof11ce
and bank robberies is that the thieves
get plumber that can be used without
erousfng suspicion. Money, of course,
goes everywhere. Thieves know
enough not to try and put bonds that
will be questioned into immediate cir
culation. hunted high and low to
find a place where the thieves might
have tried to dispose of their booty;
to get, If possible, a description of
some of them
II was within ten miles of the place,
and heard of the robbery early in the
morning after it had occurred. / got
to Middletown as quickly as possible.
There I found a startling state of af-
fairs. The thieves actually had been
seen at work in the Middletown bank
by the local police, which consisted of
three men. Still they permitted them
to get away.
"The escape was made through the
cunning of one of the gang, who had
been posted as an outlook in front of
the bank. 1t seemed that the police
had seen four strangers in the town
who acted suspiciously. One of them
was recognized by a constable as a
woman, in spite OF her being dressed
In mems clothes, who had sold his
wife sewing machine.
1T was about II o'clock in the
evening. He notified the other con-
stables. and together they kept watch
on the gang. The constables had fol
lowed them for a time when they OBJ
served a man that seemed to be
watching them. When the thieves got
into the bank. he entered with them.
Shortly after he emerged and in a
shadow of tree kept up his vigil.
The chief Of the constables after a
while approached the stranger, who
seemed startled when spoken to. When
the constable said he was policeman
the stranger appeared delighted and
said he was just the person he had
been looking for.
"The stranger in a very few words
explained that he was secret service
agent He said he had been on the
track of the thieves who were in the
bank for week. He outlined plan
which would certainly lead to their
capture and also the capture of two
other thieves, who had just robbed
the postoffice, which the constables at
that time had not heard of.
"The bogus secret service man and
the three constables watched the
thieves break open the safe door with
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-10-17
'::z1eDAIRY
PROTECTING cows FROM FIRE
Lever Attached to Sanctions viii
Open Them All at Once-Quite
Handy at All Times.

Just the other day dairyman near
here lost II head of good cows in q
lire. The cows were fastened in their
stanchions in the barn when the barn
burned. One Of the men risked his
life to go in and open the stanchions
Of two of the cows, but the fire was
60 intense that the others persisted,
writes Augustus Merrill of Tulare
county, California, in the Farm and
Home.
I have always been afraid of fire
ever since. / built my new barn in
which invested a big sum, and have
taken many precautions to save the
stock in case something should hap
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-10-17
Assassins Worked Boldly.

An aged widow, who Kept a small
hotel in Paris near st. Lazare prison,
was found murdered the other morning
in room taken the day before by two
men who have since disappeared. The
old woman was strangled by the assas-
sins, when she went into the room to
put sheets on the bed. No noise was
heard by the other tenants in the ho-
tel. Their crime accomplished, the
assassins visited madame's private
room and then made good their es-
cape with about 5000 in gold and
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-10-17
AMAZING CAREER OF A WOMAN
THIEF.

!; :; :: e: :: J;
HE criminal records show
NVAtN that very few women have
y Sk been successful as all
4l ESN around thieves. There is
WIZ no constitutional reason
IS why they should not be
able to make just as good
burglars. pickpockets, sneaks, or do
any other kind of criminal work not
dependant upon brute force. Women
have tried their hands at every sort
of crime, even to holding up men on
the highway But the common expe-
rience of women, except in the line of
confidence work, forgery and picking
pockets, can generally be stamped as
failure, and no good reason can be as
signed for 1t.
While many women have been sue
cessful in limited branches of thiev-
cry, few have reached a very high
place in the criminal scale. Among
these no one is entitled to more
prominent position than peg" Foster.
the widow of Denny Brady. She had
only been married to Brady two
months, and had been with him on
several important robberies in Con-
necticut, where he was killed while
boarding schooner at Elizabethport.
NJ.
Peg" used to be an attractive wom-
an in face and form, but the hard
times which had come her way when
talked with her had wiped out much
of her attractiveness, although her
dark brown eyes are as full of fire as
ever
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-10-17
"PEG" FOSTERS STORY.

when Denny died." said Peg, 81
thought that had enough Of living on
the run all the time. l made up my
mind to settle down and live pretty
straight. I never had been pinched
but once. l got out of that scrape by
an alibi, so that had clean record.
But the way you bend a tree 1t is
bound to grow, and 1t was not long be-
fore I doubled up with Alec Foster,
who is now in his grave because he
would not listen to me. Alec was
always reckless. 1 tell you the only
thing that will keep some men In the
traces is a woman.
when I went in with Alec he was
doing the hotels and doing them we'll.
Then he got it into his fiery head-he
had red hair-that his particular bust
ness would be very much better if he
had woman with him. was willing
to do anything, and as 1t was summer,
we started out to do the seaside re-
Well, you remember that he was about
as NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. fellow as
you would meet In a days travel
When we went into swell hotel and
registered under some military title,
you can bet that it went every time.
Alec could fool the best of them. and
was not so very slow myself
1T was part of my duty to get on
very friendly terms with the women
in the hotels. Alec would do the
same with the men. BY keeping our
eyes open we would pick out the
rooms it would pay us to make a visit
for professional purposes at such
times as might be convenient.
1T was my work to enter the rooms
and do the tapping. If any one should
be aroused I could make an excuse
that would go much better than a man
could Whenever 1 was caught after
had picked up a lot of things in any
Of the other rooms I always made a
great fuss about being robbed myself
"Alec and l worked the scheme up
and down the Atlantic coast. We were
never arrested on the whole trip. So
far as know we were never even un-
der suspicion. We never kept the
stolen goods around, but would send
them concealed with other things by
express to New York. or some other
city, to be called for and delivered
upon payment of charges. We had
many amusing times helping detec-
tives look for the thieves. 1t seemed
so ridiculous to me on several occa-
sions that If the men had been smart
they certainly would have seen by my
manner that was only hollow pre-
tender.
After the season had closed Alec
and made a tour of the country, and
it was a star tour. We stopped at all
the first-class hotels In the large cities
and worked our little game to perfec-
ton. We never took anything but
diamonds and money. We Immediate
ly pinched the stones from the set
tings to prevent positive Identification
In case we were discovered. We had
little trouble in Chicago, but easily
pulled out of it with liberal use of
greenbacks, of which we had plenty on
tap. Everything ran smoothly until
we tumbled into Philadelphia and put
M at the Girard House. I got caught
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-10-17

| to murder her. She took the dog TO
live with her. One recent evening the
woman saw that her dog, which was
quite used to trains, was sleeping On
the line. She noticed him just as an
express train came laundering alons.
ran to the line, and rescued him, but
was herself knocked down by tAp
train and killed.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-10-17

panknotes, a gold watch and few
other articles of jewelry. The body
OF the woman was found under the
mattress. the hands and feet being
bound with cords.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-10-17
Gave Life to Save poq.

A few months ago a woman who had
been given charge of level crossing
at Mehun. in the Cher department,
near Paris. France, on her husbands
death, and who lived alone In little
house beside the line-was rescued by
stray dog from tramp who tried
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1912-10-17
JERSEY is BEST mixer
Highly Developed Animal Long Bred
for This Purpose-Can Always
Be Depended Upon.

The Jersey COW is highly develop.
ed milk-making machine. She has
been bred SO long for this purpose
that her characteristics have become