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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-06-19
WEST BERKSHIRE.

Childron's day will be observed by the
Sunday school Sunday.-Thc adde's Aid
society met with Mrs. b ]. Chaffce We'd
ncsday for supper.-Miss Gladys Dimond
is at home from her school in Hardwick
for summer ~vacation.-The West Berk.
shire cornet band furnished music at a
lawn party at East Franklin Tuesday
night.-Clarcnce q. Hull is a member of
the graduating class at Enosburs Falls
flic u-o.E
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-06-19

Mrs. Orray Tuft II family of Provi-
drnce, r. l., arrived here Friday evening
and will pass the summer at Samosct, oc-
cnpying the Constance Hopkins cottage
Taylor Mead attended graduation cNer-
cises at Johnson Friday evening Miss
Grace Russ, who is teaching at Wolcott'
passed Saturday and sunday with her
aunt, Mrs. Minnie Smalley.-Miss Lucille
Robinson, who IL attending Noun Holy
oke College, South HadIey, Mass, ar
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-06-19
BEAVER.

II. S. Austin of Randolph is in town
for a few days.-M. II. +. Leach has
bought the Wilcox place at Fairfax vii
lage and is moving there, Cyrus Leach
will run the farm.-Willis II. King IL
having n hard time with a cold and sore
thrnAL-There VIII be preaching services
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-06-19
MONTGOMERY

Carmi A. Farrar of Richford and Mabel
S. Combs of this place were married
June II at the home of the bride by the
Rev. J. T. Baxendale
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-06-19
LA NOBLE COUNTY
STOWE.

Stowe High School Alumni association
was given at the Akeley Memorial
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-06-19
The Main Intention Of GARRISON Store
Is Sevbice And Sapinq

And what is true saving? AS Oliver Wendell Holmes
would say: where does it reside?"
It is first in the In the mental
attitude of the executives and subordinates of the
ORGANIZATION.
R SERVICE is the Clarkson mental attitude.
SERVICE, Of the best we know how, the GARRISON
rule, and savings WHEREVER possible.
Not of the tongue alone, though the gentle word
is not to be lightly regarded. Not in the bearing
alone-thOugh care has been exercised in the selection
of our sales force for a place in the CLARKSON
STORE FAMIIY.
ARKSO STORE SERVICE begins in the
forethOught taken for our customers, whom we
regard as OUR GUESTS the moment they enter
the store.
1t continues throughout the year, from the dawn
Of the first day, to the last clock-tick Of Decembers
closing hour. THE LARKSON STORE SERVICE
we are trying to bring to a higher state of efficiency.
YOU, with thousands Of other individuals, are
a true arbiter of this growing business; one of those for
whom it is conducted.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-06-19
No Matter Hon. Stout You Are

Nine. Mills is conducting an exhibition and dem
onstration of correct undertakings which is of interest
to every woman of Burlington and vicinity. You are
cordially invited to see
The New Models of La Grecque Corset-Long
Line Models-Stout figure Reducing Corsets, strong
and effective, with nothing of the fat womans cor
set about it, the new craze, the uncorseted effect, but
we would prefer to have you come in and see them all,
even if you have no intention of buying. La GrecQue
Corset from S150 up. La Grecque Tailored Lingerie
moderately priced.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-06-19
Corset Demonstration Week
Here

There is no excuse for not having the figure lines
that make the present e~xacting style elegant and
becoming,
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lContiuued on page l".l
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-02
Carson's Baseness Revealed

His speech gave her but one clear
feeling-that of exceedingly great rel eft.
For she had dreaded, now that she
knew what true love was, to think Of the
attachment she might have created In
Carson's heart; she had loaded herself
with reproaches for the misery she might
have caused him.
1t was relief that his attachment had
been that low. despicable kind which
can plan to seduce the object OF It's at
lection. II am obliged to you," she
said for what you have told me. You
may think me fool, but l really did
think you wanted to marry me. I said
before understood. just now. that
was sorry Now ! scorn you. Good
night"
She was off like shot, leaving him
there with Sally laughing at him.
Mary had now dismissed both her low
ers. They took their dsmissals in diff
ferent. ways. Carson, after considering
the matter, thought her action merely q
charming caprice. He was more deter
mined than ever to pursue her.
Jem did not take either to drink or to
thieving or murder-he merely worked
away harder than ever and tried to hope
against hope. She loves no one Else. he
thought. and may come, In time, to
love me.
Three months passed and poor Esther y
term In the workhouse was up. II now
flashed across her mind that to Mnry's
old piayfellow. lsm Wilson. her tale
might be told, that tale which John
Barton had refused to listen to.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-02
Carson Meets Mary

Harry Carson was a coming man In
Manchester. Regularly Mary went to
and from her work at the dressmakers
Mrs. Simmonds. Harry Carson saw her
and he had an eye for modest beauty.
He briber a frivolous girl named Sally
Leadbitter-not a vicious but a rattle
Drained giyl-to introduce him to Mary
After that every day when Mary left
her work she was sure to find Harry
Carson waiting for her. He gave her
bouquets of hot-house flowers which she
accepted and grew very tender while
Mary built castles In the air That he
had any but honorable intentions toward
her she never for a moment suspected
He said that, for while, they must
keep their, enga cement secret until he
could arrange matters with his father
And then went on to picture the life
abroad, the carriages and the fine horses
and the fine clothes. when l am Mrs
Carson" thought Mary. II must do
something for poor Jem'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-02
MARY BARTON

said this before. but l had no position
then TO offer you.
'Now + am foreman of the works
and. DEAR listen. l have a home to
offer you and a heart as true as ever
a man had TO love and cherish you.
We shall never be rich folks. 1 dare
say, but IL a fond heart and strong
arm can cherish and shield you. mine
shall"
She was silent. Then he said: Mary,
they say silence gives consent; may 1
think 1t so In this caseY'
No replied Mary. at does not. Jem.
I will always be your friend but I can
not be wour wife,"
He pleaded with her, but she only
said Il tell you once and for all thai
it can never be-"
Mary! Mary!' he cried land this
is the end of all my hopes and fears.
Maybe you'll hear of me as drunkard,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-02
Mary Spurns Jem's Offer

One night he said. MARY what's
come over thee and poor Jem? You
Used to be great friends. At one time
he was much fond of thee or mistake.
Much fonder of thee than thou de-
servedest."
That's as people think" replied
Mary. She was not thinking of Jem
then. but of Harry Carson who. that
very day had called her the best. the
dearest. etc. When she had seen him
riding later with his sisters had he not
fingered behind to wave her q kiss
Barton gave 1t up with Mary and went
to his alehouse. sThis was the night
chosen by Jem to call upon Mary
rs your father at home. Maryr he
asked as he entered
There was a silence and thon Jem
said: Dear Mary-for you know how
dear you are to met is no new story.
You have known 1t long. l should have
or q thief. but always remember whore
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-02

were being discharged instead of being
taken on. Then came the bitter years
and to John Barton bitter heart.
One OF the great mill owners of the
town was Mr.. Carson. He had him
self once been mill hand and had mar
REC girl who had worked In the same
mill. But now they were rich people
great people in that manufacturing COM
munity. Carson's long. hard, bitter strug-
gle to get ahead of his fellow laborers,
to dominate them, had left him little
sympathy for them.
Now Carson had a son, Harry, the
best dressed, the best educated and
most polished youth of the town, who
could make society his hobby while not
neglecting the mechanics of his father
business, of which he was the designated
heir. In some ways he was a shrewder
business man than his father, for his
horizon had been broadened by travel and
education and these had not destroyed
his business instinct
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-02

Another wear passed and John Bar
TOMS wife was dead-he was alone with
her whom he used to call Little Mary
Tho Mary Barton of this tale Then
George Wilson died, and his wife
,,o,,rned for him, and the siclSly twins
died.
But she had her son Jenl, VINO was
now an employe in a machine shop ana
making good wages with good prospects
before him and able to support his
mother. He had been assiduous In MS
attentions to Mary Barton. but she' IN
spite of the fact that her father wished
rar n marry lem would have none Of
him.
The sordid poverty of her life had be-
come so irlzsome to her that she longed
for a glimpse, at least OF better mate
ria, things. John had sworn his daugtehr
sbou,d never work in mill and had got
her-or rather her good looks and deft
fingers had got her-a place as appreh-
tice to a dressmaker
When Jem tried to show Mary now
wuc, ne rr~ed her she laughted at him.
Rut he was determined to win her; he
was so sure of his persistency that he
was sure OF his success in the end.
For three years the trade had been
getting worse and worse and then came
those terrible years of commercial de-
nression in the manufacturing disuicts
Of England-the years of 1879, 1870 ana
1871. Whole families went through a
-radual starvation. They only wanted
< Dante to record their sufferings.
John Barton was thrown out OF work
and saw hope only in the trades unions
and the Chartist movement. which then
sprang up It was true that the manu-
facturers were failing or in financial
difficulties themselves. but the poor
workmen who were starving saw only
that the lives of the. rich seemed to so
on as usual.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-02
Jem Wilson's Prosperity

Amid all the calamities of unemploy-
ment which were harassing Manchester,
Jem Wilson, being In machine shop, mad
not suffered with the employees of the
mills. He had even gone steadily ahead.
He had invented a machine which HIS
employers had bought from him on a
royalty, and he felt that he was now
able to marry and support both his wild
owed mother and wlfe-and that wife
should be Mary Barton.
Had he not waited patiently all these
years? He would put his fortunes to the
touch and win or lose all. He put on
ms best clothes and went to call upon
Mary.
Jonn Barton was now so busy with his
clubs and his time spent at the ale-house
that he was not much at home Yet he
was beginning TO worry about Mary. One
nisnt, as ne was returning nome late, a
woman caught him by the sleeve and
stopped him. He looked around at a
nagea,d, painted face
II was Es.AIe,, beurasgled with the dirt
of the street. He saw her condition in
stahtiy and roughly Dade her not TO trou-
bic hlm. she peesea for one word win
hifn-one VOID for the sake of his uaugn-
ter Mary. Sne mad tnlngs to tell MN
about Maty tnat he should know.
~, DO not let her face be ike mine.
she begged. he Roughly threw her Off,
and policeman coming UP as he strobe
away alfes,eu Tie poo ~lelcn a,iu ICON
ner to pick oaKum in a prison for three
months.
Mnen he reached home John was trou-
bled and dissatisfied, ana alter that looked
IN VAIN, nignt alter nlgnt, for glimpse
OF Esener-ne would now know what sne
mad to say concerning May. But Oh TINS
ne saId never word TO Mary. But ne
wound sit sometimes and look at her In
a troubled way.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-02
Wilson and Barton

THERE are-or were before that
great manufacturing hive grew
j To It's present proportions--some
n,easant fields on the outskirts of Man
chester known as the Green Hay
Fields" where, of an evening or on
rare half holiday, or on Sunday the
mill hands used to walk with their fam
flies.
One afternoon two workingmen met
there at the stile which led to the main
road. John Barton had with him his
wife Mary and his daughter Mary, little
Mary he called the latter, though she
was now growing into fine lass OF
near 1e. The other workman was ac-
companied by his wife and both he ana
his wife bore each a little baby of the
same age, two sickly little twins, in
their ans.
This man was George Wilson, ana
although he was older than Barton yet
he had more of youths buoyaney In
him. seemed more hearty and hopeful,
His wife was delicate and fragile look
ing and walked with limping gait.
Barton should be described; he was
no ordinary man. His features were
strongly marked. though not irregular
and had an expression of extreme earn
estness. 'Ia2
Not many years had elapsed before the
expression upon that face was wholly
changed His wife had the fresh beauty
of the agricultural districts and from
the agricultural districts she had come
to the great city and there married John
Barton. with whom she had worked in
the same mill.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-02

edness and privations and of Ineffective
tn. euies draas on.
The cr.niInai law. too, was on the re-
folm, anu pcachels and even children
we. o hanged Tor poacnins or stealing Iiee
sLlilings worth OF propel ~. Inc repeal
of this diabolical law was opposed ~
the bishops, and the ptlmate hIuse1 drew
IIo,uV0 a year for holding out p. aspects
of oamnatlon to workers on far less than
los a week.
Ruskin has warned us that no empire
can be run for long by gamblers, usurei S,
and swindlers. and that England must
perish unless agriculture and pastoi al
Lushandry are to be the chief schools ,ot
Ensl shmen
Ana TINS most royal academy q all
academies you have to opsn over Al the
land. purifying your htatns, and lis,
and waters. and keeping them full nj
every kind of lovely natural ORGANISM
In tee, herb and living creature. All
land that Is waste and ugly you must
redeem into ordered fruitfulness all rum,
desolateness. imper fiction of hut and
habitation you must do away with; and
Throughout every village and city of your
English dominion there must not be q
hand that cannot find helper nor Q
htart that cannot find a comforter.
Imperfection OF hut and habltation. he
been one of the chief causes IF migra-
ton of the agricultural laborcr to the
towns. ana in all future dealings with
the problem of the, land the rural housing
question must be answered. Even I'M
palmer days than he enjoys now the as. 4
ricultural laborer was badly housed
George Crabbe was the first of ur poet1
to lift the curtain from the wretched III
teriors of the village poor. Happily the
present government seem to be fully alive
to the Importance of the solution Of this
problem. as well as to the necessity OF
the radical reform OF our medieval land
lords. Certainly Miss Dunlop is. Her
hook cannot fail to intensity the POPULAR
interest in the great campaign for deal
ing with this subject. which Mr.. Lloyd
George will shortly open.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-02
Mary Torn With Doubt

She put out her candle and sat down
TO think There came knock at the
door. 1t was Sally Leadbitter. Il have
come to see you. Maryland / have
friend at the other end of the road who
wants to see you. Shall he conner
30, do not let him come here cried
Mary, guessing who it was Sally mad
brought. What would people say? u
Sally tell him to go away. Tell MIN
do not love himOany more. 1t was
wrong for me to keep company with
him. / am very sorry. / will go ana
tell him myself. He must not come
here"
To the conclusion that she did not
love Carson and that she did love Jem
had Mary come in the course OF IL
minutes thought. But this latter prop
osition-that she loved Jem-she would
hardly allow even to herself But she
was sure she did not love Carson and
must see him no more.
They found Carson waiting in the
shadow of a neighboring alley. you
little WITCH" said he, trying to put his
arm around Mary. She drew back.
Mr.. Carson" said she, II want TO
speak to you once and for all. have
made up my mind to have nothing more
to do with you. l know ! have done
wrong to dead you to think liked you;
but l believe l did not rightly kno"
my own mind and l humbly beg your
pardon, sir, If l have led you to think
too much of me-
For an instant he was surprised
Then vanity came to his aid. she was
coquetting. you are darling little
rascal to go on So" said he las IL you
did not know think of you from morn
ing to night But you want to be told
1t again. do your
mo, no." cried she, do not ever
think of me anw more"
He could not realize how 1t was true,
but he did not understand and was as
tonished. The girl really had thought
he meant marriage! In an instant he
loved her more than ever.
Mary" said he, II want to tell you
how much love you. You know how
little my father and mother would like
me to marry you. I though we could
he happy enough without marriage.
thought you understood. But to show
you how much love you I will. IL you
like. get a license tomorrow morning.
Now you see how much 1 am willing
to sacrifice for you. Can't you say you
love me a litt1e?'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-02

Before the coroner's jury, the policeman
who had separated him and Harry Carson
told his story of the alteration and add
ed that as Jem went away he had said
threateningly to Harry, 'Tf you dare to
injured her In the least'I will wait for
you where no policeman can come be-
tween u.s."
The gun was proved to be Jem's and
he was carried to Liverpool to await trial
at the assizes which were soon to be
held there.
And they got Mary's name drawn into
the case, too. The policeman had heard
1t mentioned In the altercat'on between
the young men. Mary remembered Jem' 9
threat the night she had rejected him,
Maybe you'll hear of me as a drunkard,
maybe as thief. maybe as a murderer;
but remember, when people speak evil
of me that 1t was your cruelty that drove
me to It."
Through her heart went tolling the omi-
nous words Alone In her squal,d home
she wept and mourned; she could neither
eat nor sleep. 1t was horrible There
came a knock at the door. She opened
1t and her Aunt Estehr stood before
her.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-02
Barton's Futile Mission

John Barton was sent up to London
as one of the Chartist delegates for Man
chester, He was immensely pleased at
the appointment and full of hope. He
would see London. which he pictured as
one might city out of the Arabian
Nights.
And he would be one of those who would
explain things to Parlament-possibly
even to the Queen and Prince Albert
One old lady. at a little tea party in a
tenement before Johns departure. insist
ed that he should go direct to the Queen.
THE Queenl' exclaimed another old
lady as she slipped her tea. ut is to Prince
Albert that he should CO."
Does not the Queen have the SAYING
of it?"
= Does she2 No; when she married the
Prince did she not promise to love, honor
and obey?'' -...
This logic was unanswerable, and It
was agreed, by the women, at least, that
Prince Albert was the man to be talked
to- When an old man who was rather
better informed that the drinking
women ventured to explain to them that
hSipHSi lhc e}uteii Hof lHe fFlIlCe na0 a
word to say about it; that Parliament
was the place to talk, he was ruled out
Of court, That somehow, by somebody,
all would be set right when the cause
of the people was presented John Barton
had no doubt.
He went to London. All who are IA
mil.ar with the history of England in
the first half of the nineteenth century
know what happened to the Chartists and
their great petition; how they were spurn-
ed from the doors of Parliament house
how they were denied even a hearing
before the committee; how the majority
were driven out of London and some ar
rested for conspiracy.
John Barton came home a desperate
man. ready to listen to the first dema-
gogue who showed him a way-any way,
out of the present misery and distress.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-02
Mary to Jem's Defense

On the night or the muruer, VIII VIII
son, sailor who had been visiting rel
atives In Manchester. had come to bid
Mary goodby. as he was going to JOIN
his ship at Liverpool He had said that
he would walk the distance.
Possibly his cousin Jem had walked
with him to some distance out beyond
the town, and II so. Mary calculated
that VIII must have been with Jem ut
tine time of the murder. for she knew
when VIII had set out
Upon inquiry at the wilson's she
found that her surmise was correct
Jem had walked part of the way toward
Liverpool with his cousin. The thing
was now to catch Will before his ship
sailed.
Mary and the Wilson family found
many friends among the working peo-
pie, and some of them were not entirely
without funds. Already a lawyer had
been engaged to defend Jem, and ond
old man, whose daughter had become
prosperous concert singer. took charge
of affairs for Mary.
The lawyer did not seem SO sure that
II Will were found he could prove an
alibi, but everything was worth trying
Mary and her friends hurried to Liver
pool They must be there anyway on
the second day from then, for that was
the day of the trial, and Mary and old
Mrs. Wilson had both been subpoenaed
as witnesses.
Mrs. Wilson nsver for a moment had
doubted the innocence OF her son, and
was buoyed up by the confidence that
when she told the court what a good
boy Jem had always been they would
acquit him at once. The poor soul had
no doubts.
The father of Mary's friend, the singer.
Job Leigh, took old Mrs. Wilson to a
boarding house when they reached Liver
pool. while Mary hurried down to the
docks to find Wills ship, the John Crop
per- She was in such a feverish state
of anxiety that she would not wait for
Job to go with her, but promised to hurry
back to the boarding house as soon as
she found Will.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-02
Tho Sforv of Esther

:
The wives and husbands greeted each
other, and while the wives sat down.
the husbands walked apart, and Wilson
asked, ANY news of Esther yetP''
NO" replied Barton. nor shall we
get any, I'm thinking. My WIFE rrets
and cries and thinks she's drowned her
self But / think she's gone off with
somebody. 1 remember once she TOOK
INV little Mary by the wrist and says
in a coaxing way, what wouiu you
think. Mary, IL some day sent for you
and made a lady of your I spoke pretty
rough to her and said, 'Thou's best not
nut such notions in the girls head, can
tell thee She laughed, and Few days
after she was missing"
This Esther they talked about was
Mrs. Barton's sister, a handsome and
vain girl, who worked In one of the mills
and snent nearly all her earnings in
self-adornment.
when the little party went on their
way again, Mary fingered behind ana
an overgrown. awkward boy OF IL sprans
o,,t of a thic'zet, and giving Mary
kiss. said, That's for old acquaintance
sake"
TAKE that for old acquaintance sake
retorted Mary, giving him resounding
slap on the face.
'.Tbeed better stop thy fighting chill
dren." said John Barton, turning around,
land each OF you, take one of the twins
TO carry instead"
The two young people obeSed. and the
face of the boy took on new look as
he kissed and crooned over his little
brother. This boy was James wilson
or Jem as he was commonly caiieo-
the son of George Wilson.