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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20
JOHN }. FLYNN. vice-PrcA
TIE KANSAS CITY STAR HEARS
FROM AND or VERMONT.
(From the Rutland News)


A short time ago the Rutland News
resenter as unjust and unfair an attack
on Vermont made by Fred C. Trigg OF
the Kansas city, Mo, Star in a speech !
at Lawrence. Kan. The great Star |
makes the following very brilliant, but |
hardly logical or conclusive rejolnder:
"The Rutland News is distressed at |
reference to its state chat appeared in |
the columns of the Star. Tie reference |
was contained in the report of n meet
ing in Lawrence at which n speaker de- |
plored the tendency of Kansas to fall
into the moss back smugness of Ver-
mont
I'm coming to the defence OF Vermont
the Rutland paper reproaches this news
paper with the information that that
state leads the world in the manufact ure
Of scales, wire screens, shoddy. maple
sugar, granite and marble machinery,
silos rhilGrcrs wash clothes. soapstone
produces, dyes for butter and the hand
ling Of greer! calf skins.
Tn so far as the star is responsible
for the fleer at Vermont it would have
been willing to make amends even with
out being told about the green calf
"kins. Vermont is a great state, even
" IL tbcS NNt llS butter. IL Nbulu We d
great state, even if the maple syrup
sold in Kansas City as the Vermont
product really came from there. But
| when the News. warming to its work,
compares the Vermont and Kansas
roads to the Disadvantage of the latter
the Star must call for fair play. Kan
! sas has to build its roads and is greatly
| hampered in the work by rich top soil
La,
Vermont it is just the other way about
| The roads We're already there when the
Nermontcrs moved in, only they had
been covered up by the dust and all
they have to do to make n road is to
scrare off a few inches of this accumu-
lation, and therc- is the bed rocl;-the
best and most enduring road surface in
the world. Just because Nature was
mean enough to work off a lot of rich
loan on Kansas and gave Vermont all
the rock is no reason why the more for
tunate State should bite its thumb at its
sister.
For the rest the Star apologies. It
wouldn't he afraid to weigh its papers
on Vermonts scales, and if it used any
shoddy in its business it wouldn't hest
tate to bI'y it right in Rutland AS for
grecner than Nermont's. And here's our
hand on it,"
This is all very good-of its kind. The
good Star. however. does not take due
cognizance of the paramountcy of YER
mont in various important respects.
Vermont has the most modern school
system of any State in the Union; and
the bithe Star is mute.
Vermont has moro money in savings
banks. it has more automobiles and
p more telephones, per capita, than has
4 Kansas; and the CHEEKY Star is mute
+ Vermont has smaller debt both
state and municipal, it has more men
engaged in manufacturing than has
Kansas, per capita; and the fine Star is
mute.
, Vermont. per capita, raises more milct
COWS, other live stock, horses. swine
than does Kansas; and the sportive Star
l is mute.
II is perhaps Just as we'll that those
/ are mute who have nothing to say.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20
LIME FROM A WASTE PRODUCT.

In the light OF the present altitudinos-
| ity of the price of gasolene it seems
strange to recall the fact that gasolene
was at one time a waste product in
connection with the preparation of
kerosene. In n somewhat similar way
changes in methods Of manufacture and
other developments may yet turn YER
mont's tremendous marble waste, which
formerly taxed the ingenuity of manu-
facturers to dispose Of into the source of
great revenue.
Attention to this possibility is directed
by the announcement that the Vermont
Marble company has completed man.
moth lime kiln at Whipple Hollow, two
miles north of North Rutland, at n cost
of $500. This is by far the largest
plant of its kind in the State and per-
haps the largest in New England. This
plant will convert 200 tons of stone each
working day into l"0 tons of lime. About
year ago when there was a slump in
the marble business on account OF the
European war, ii was decided to en-
bark in the lime business. This in
dustry will utilize the waste marble, the
disposition OF which has been a serious
problem. Hundreds of carloads have
been carted away for railroad ballast
and vast heaps of marble refuse have
! been piled up mountain high. There are
| large lime kilns at Swanton, Winooski,
Amsden and other places run as lime
manufacturing plants exclusively, but if
| the present venture of the Vermont
Marble company should prove a success
| in every way, the chances are marble
waste and marble not regarded as
satisfactory for the market as finished
marble would open up an entire new
field Of development in this direction
Electricity is helping to make all this
possible
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20
Ht. HAD QUALIFIED.

thought he might improve the time by
attending service in the local church
At the conclusion of n lengthy talk, the
minister announced that he should like
to meet the board. The stranger, in COM
pany with several other persons, proceed
cd to walk to the front of the church.
Tho pastor, thinking there must be some
misunderstanding, said to him: Il be-
lieve, sir. you are mistaken. This is just
to be "A meeting of the board"
WELL" replied the visitor, Il have
listened to your talk for more than an
hour and if anyone has been more bored
than | have been ! should like to know
who it is."-The Christian Herald
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20
THE BAY STATES PRESIDENTIAL
CONTEST.


Strangely enough. Massachusetts is
the only state in the Union which is
having the old style of presidential
fight under new conditions. The fight in
the Bay State differs slightly from that
of 1912. however. Instead Of being
between Taft and Roosevelt it is Roose-
welt against the field represented by an
unpledged delegation. although one or
two of the unpledged men are supposed
to lean strongly toward Roosevelt. This
is particularly true of Senator Lodge.
Under these circumstances public
attention is directed toward the presl-
dental fight in the Bay State to
degree greater than would ordinarily be
the case were there straight and open
contests between rival candidates as in
previous years, According to the Spring.
field Republicans weekly survey OF the
political field in the Bay State the re-
publicans who are committed to making
Roosevelt the candidate for president
are the busiest of all in the Massa-
chusetts field. and Messrs. Bird. Cush-
ing and Gardner are making frequent
and fiery speeches. Mr. Bird. who is
mentioned as a possible candidate for
vice-president, makes the plain intima-
ton that il the republicans do not take
the colonel, they may expect the re-
election Of President Wilson, whom Mr..
Bird now admits has advanced progress
sive causes. Mr. Bird overooks the old
law about a rule that will not work
both ways, and that as Mr. Roosevelt
was responsible for the choice of Will
son before. SO his nomination this year
by the party he so bitterly fiouted four
years ago might produce like result.
The republicans who are supporting
the unpledged ticket. made up of the
governor, the two United States sena-
the Republican to be exhibiting much
the better temper. They have so far
declined to reply to the bitter on
saughts of Messrs Gushing and Gard
neT, DOtn QeIeateu III tHelT
ambitions, and that has made the speak
ing campaign up to date rather one
sided. Colonel Baxte'. who has the
cause Of the unpleiged delegation in
charge. appears to be doing the most OF
the work on his side of the fence. The
Republican continues:
There can be no doubt. notwithstand
ing the restraint of those republicans
who desire to follow the example Of
Connecticut and the other New England
States in sending unpledged delegations
TO Chicago that good deal of feeint
has been generated by the way in which
Messrs. Gushing and Gardner have con
Quoted themselves. This is the Trims
which Colonel Roosevelt desired to avoid
Just what may come out of the turmoil
will be disclosed only after the voters
have turned out If there should b
large vote Oh the 25th it is general.
predicted that tho unpedged four dele
gates-at-large will be chosen"
For the reason stated, however, sucl
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20

A wealthy New Yorker who started
out at one o'clock in the morning, tell
ing his wife he was going to pay some
bills. was black lacked by two thieves
ed of STA in bills. a gold watch and
chain, a diamond scarf pin and diamond
cuff links. The man who chooses the
middle Of the night as time to meet
his obligations, will do we'll to leave his
jewelry and money at home.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20
MORMONS ARE ELECTED
FOR CAUSING A ROW
w. II. Northrop Grnsps One by Coat
Collar ana Shows Him Out of Church..


The two Mormon elders. Monroe Bird
lie" ana Melbourne Romney, who have
campaigned in Watertown, ~ Y, for the
past two months were elected from the
First Presbyterian Church when they
became engaged in heated debate
with several members OF the audience,
Following an attack on Mormonism by
the Hon. Hans T. Freece New York
attorney, at the session of the St Law
renee Presbytery
During the course Of his speech, Mr..
Freeze cited several cases Of women be-
ing enticed to Utah for the purpose
of practicing polygamy which had come
under his attention while he was secur-
Ing affdavits to provo in the courts that
the Mormons We're still practicing plural
marriage despite their denial.
Throughout tho excited little meeting
Mr.. Freeze and DR., Packard were at
the pulpit distributing the anti-Mormon
literature, but at Elder Romney's out
break DIR. Packard rushed down and in
formed the men that they would have to
leave the church and discontinue their
wranglng. They became quiet imme-
diately and We're about to leave the
edifice when unfortunately, as did the
the wife of Lot in Biblical times, they
turned around not for n look back but
to answer n parting remark. w. II.
Northrop, general passenger agent on
| the St Lawrence Division of the New
York Central and Presbyterian elder,
! then went over to the men. grasped
l'omney by the coat collar and led both
Romney and his co-worker Tew down
the aisle of the church and out to the
sidewalk. The men waited several
minutes on the street curb gazing bach,
at the church and then left the vicinity.
! Mr., Romney in speaking of the treat
ment they were meeting within the city
said. 1--WE are getting hell"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20

Secretary of War Baker has marked
the practical beginning of his admins
tration of the department by institutine
service long plainly needed, as indicated
by results following the Villa raid. II
is about time to insist upon efficiency
in the service we have before we try tc
enlarge it.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20
BEST WAY TO KILL FLIES.

The May Woman's Home Companion
gives way to Kill flies that beats swat.
ting em all hollow. Here it is:
Take piece of -eighths-inch
soft wood three inches square, into which
you have driven, near the corners at
slight angle, four eight-penny finish nails.
Saw off the handle of an old broom and
nail this block of wood to one end of ii.
Half fiji tumbler with cold water and
put in it tablespoonful of kerosene oil
tsoapsuds also may he used. Place tho
tumbler ON the piece of wood between
the nails and raise it 10 the celing, COW
eling the fly. The fumes of the kerosene
oil cause the flies To drop into the glass.
The best time to do this is in the evening.
at dusk, or early in the morning while
the flies are settled on the ceiling
NNA
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20

The Londonderry SITTER has come out
for Roosevelt for the presidency,
although the great majority of the
papers of the State are for Hughes as
first choice.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20

The report of Villas death was even
more "exaggerated' than that of Mark
Twain, when he concocted this express
sion.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20
e. !. BOOTH, President.
MUTUALITY.
The Interest of Our Customers Is Held
to he OF the Highest Importance.

complete defeat for Roosevet's candi-
dacy.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20

When you want anything. advertise
IN the new special column of this
oaper. Some bargains are offered
there this week which It will pay you
20 read about. See page two. This
manor has more than 5000 readers
every week and one cent word Will
reach them all.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20
If THE BABY is CUTTING TEETH

be sure and use that old and well tried
remedy Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup,
for children teething. 1t soothes the
child. softens the gums, allays all pain,
cures wind collie and is the best remedy
for Diarrhoca Twenty-Five cents
bottle.-Adv.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20

The annual losses Of livestock on the
national forest RANGES of the West due
to predatory animals are over $4,000, An
organized campaign * now going on 20
eXterminate these animals, Wolves arc
responsible for about 70 per cent of the
cattle losses, while hears cause most "
the remainder Approximately IS per
cent of the sheep losses are due to coy
otes. . per cent, to bears, and per cent.
to lynxes and wild cats. Mountain lions
are charged with killing only few head
of cattle and sheep,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20

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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20

The chestnut blight has already done
damage estimated as close to $50, cocoa.
The disease attacks both American and
European species, hut does little dam
age to those from Japan and China. Plant
breeders by crossing Japanese chestnut
and native chinquapin have produced re-
sistant trees. Some of the Chinese chest
nuts are said to grow 1c) feet high in their
home forests
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20

FREE PRESS WANT ADS. PAY BEST.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20
FOREST NOTES.

The increase in the demand for potash
has resulted in a number of inquiries of
government officials concerning the
amount of this chemical contained in
wood ashes which may be available at
sawmills operating on the national for
estS.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20

The waste product of sawmils in the
United States including that fed to the
furnaces as fuel is es,ima ted to be 5000
90 cords per year and the equivalent
Of o,SSoNN,No cubic feet OF solid wood
substance About half of It has no use
whatever but is usually burned to get
rid OF IL.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-04-20
WANTED.

BURLINGTON, THURSDAY, APRIL 20
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-05-25
And Both Had Jobs.
(San Francisco starr

Mayor Curley of Boston was joked
about the prominence of Irishmen in
public life.
That's perfectly true; we always
get to the top" answered Mr.. Curley
AN example of this came to my at
tention a few years ago when | was
making trip through Minnesota. |
came to a small town in the north.
ern part Of the state. One glance at
the signs on the stores showed that
ScandinaVians predominated. Johnson,
Nelson, Gustavson, Hillberg Olson and
like names We're all that could see.
Any Germans here?' / asked the
man l was visiting.
There ban none, he said.
Any Italians?'
No he answered.
And no Irishmen, either, l sup
pose?' l added.
40, yaas, there ban two Irshers in
town. came the reply. One he ban
mayor and the other he ban chief of
police"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-05-25
STOCKHOLDERS MEETINGS.

Big Creek Mining Co.-Annual meet
ing to be held Tuesday, June s, at 1880
p. M, at 513 Bank street, Wallace
w. w. Smith, secretary
Occur d'Alene Anthony co.--Spe-
cial meeting of stockholders to be held
at office of company on Pine creek,
near Kellogg, May q, at p. M, for
the purpose of considering the mat
ter of increasing the capital stock OF
the corporation.--C. M. Powell, secre-
tary.
Cedar Creek Mining g. Development
Co.-Annual meeting to be held on
Monday, June 5, at 1880, at ITO Ho-
tel street, Wallace.-William Becker,
secretary.
Colonial Mining g. Milling Goa
special meeting will be held in otter
son block, Wallace, on May 81, at 700
p. m. for purpose of removing two d.
Beebe, secretary.
East Caledonia Mines Co.-Annual
meeting to be held on Monday, June
IL, at 3 p. M, at First National Bank,
Kellogg.-Franklin Pfrman, secretary,
Wallace.
Eldorado Mining & Smelling Goa
special meeting to be held Saturday,
June 3, at 1880 p. m. at 7O3 Cedar
Wallace, for purpose of considering a
proposition to increase capital stock
w. W. Bixby secretary.
Iron Spar Copper Mining co.--An-
nual meeting to be held at 703 Cedar
street, Wallace, Tuesday, May 80, at
1880 p. NV. w. Bixby, secretary.
Lombardy Mimi & Milling Co..
Special meeting to be held at office of
H, j. Rossi, Kellogg, on May 81, at 10
a. m. for the purpose OF considering
proposition to decrease the capital
stock of the corporGtion.-Her J.
Rossi, secretary.
North Bunker Hill Mining Co.-An-
nual meeting to be held on Saturday
May II, at p. m. at office of D. W.
Price, Kellogg.--N. T. Hardy, seere-
tary.
Wonder Of Pine Creek Mining &
Milling Co.-Special meeting to be
held on Saturday June II, at a. m.
at Kingston, Idaho, for purpose of
acting upon proposition to reduce the
capital stock Of the company-A. C.
Morbeck, secretary.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-05-25
GENIUS OF THE KEYBOARD.
An Analysis of the Typewriter Per-
Torrance of Rose Fritz.
New York Sun0

The typewriting machine not less
than the piano has its virtuosi, and in
both arts the excellence of perform
ance is affected, almost regulated, by
so elementary a faculty as the digital
dexterity of the person at the key
keys of his instrument Miss Rose l..
Fritz does to those of the typewriter
on which she makes records in speed
and accuracy.
In Is minutes Miss Fritz typed,
without an error ITO words. Large
numbers mean less than small ones;
1870 words in Is minutes is 11S words
to the minute. The first five lines of
the Suns report of Miss Fritzs
achievement contain 25 words, with
1853 letters, an average of 6A letters
to the word. If the fraction be omit
ted in the calculation, an operation
not in the champions favor, the speed
in letters is 70S to the minute. In
every second of the Is minutes of the
test the champion pressed a dozen
keys-and pressed the right one every
time And when to this we add the
manipulation of the space bar and the
adjustment of the carriage with each
successive line, it becomes apparent
that to win speed championships on
the writing machine there is need of
almost unimaginably well coordinated
and controlled action of the hand and
the brain and the eye.
What method does Miss Fritz en-
ploy? OF what school is she a grad
uate? Amateurs of the keyboard may
not hope to learn her secret from man
uals Of instruction. AS a tutor, how
much of her own skill in technique
could she impart to learners? She is
genius of the keyboard; and gen.
fuses never neglect the gammar of
their art. Like Paderewski, she owes
her art to native skill improved by
hard study and faithful practice. On
either instrument not motion is
wasted by the master, no effect" is
the child of chance.
The accuracy OF machinery, the
economy of skilled labor and the har-
monies of art unite to make admirable
the performance Of Miss Rose Fritz.
Plato, we think, who speculated on
the nature of music, would have found
music in the clicking Of her keys.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-05-25

Blue Bell Mining co.--Annual meet
ing to be held on Tuesday, June 6, at
500 p ma at 7O5 Cedar street, Wal
lace.-F. Bland, secretary.
Silver Star Mining co.-Levied May
4, mills, payable June IA to VIM.
Devan, secretary treasurer, Wallace.
Delinquent sale July l.
Sonora Mining & Milling co.--Lev-
led May 2, 4 mills, payable June to
DR.. W. A. Smith, secretary-treasurer
Wallace. Delinquent sale June 80.
Silver Gable Mining co.--Levied on
April 20, mills, payable May 20 to
Carl C.. Mott, secretary treasurer, P.
o, box 1903, Missoula, Mont Della.
quent sale, June 10. 1916
Snowstorm Extension Copper Min.
ing Co.-Levied March 81, mills, pay
able May . to Carolyn Pritchard.
treasurer, PIG Wright & Calendar
building, Los Angeles, Cal. Delin-
quent sale June 10.
Sunset Development Co.-Levied on
May 3, 2 mills, payable June to VIM.
Schierding, treasurer, $685. JAMESON
building, Spokane Delinquent sale on
June "a.
Tarhox Mining Co.--Levled April s,
5 mills payable May to Richard
Daxon, treasurer, Wallace. Delin-
quent sale June 10. Postponed to
June 20.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-05-25
LOWER RATES FOR MuLLAN.
Utilities Commission Orders New
Schedule for Water Company.
(Boise Statesman)

In decision rendered Tuesday the
public utilities commission finds that
the rates charged by the Mullan Wa
terworks for water furnished the in
habltants of the village of Mullan are
unjust and unreasonable, and that the
same should be reduced, and that the
rates prescribed by the commission
are Just and reasonable and should be
put into effect. The Mullan water
works is ordered to publish, file with
the commission and uniformly charge
and collect lower rates than those at
present effective.
The commission finds that the prac-
tice of the water company in furnish
ing free water service to the village of
Mullan should be discontinued and
that the village should pay for such
service.
No complaint was made as to any
specific rate or class of rates being too
high. the contention of the village
authorities being that the net revenues
after paying legitimate operating eX-
penses and setting aside an annual de-
probation allowance, are too great,
thereby giving to the owners exor-