St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-03-20

lations to it This statement will
not be disputed His ideal of public
service was high, and he applied it to
town, county, state and national
affairs in fearless advocacy of good
government all along the line. This
made him during the later years of
his life an independent in politics.
He differed time and again with ten
denotes in the republican party that
he could not reconcile with its better
days, and told the truth as he saw it
with a candor and vigor that placed
his honesty beyond challenge and
cemented his hold on the popular
respect The Caledonian, under his
management, was the model weekly
of Vermont, stamped with the indi-
viduality of its editor and devoted to
serving the best interests of its con-
stituency. He regarded his office as
trust to be administered in the fear
of God and for the good of mankind,
and so honored his profession and
made his mark in it. From appren-
tice to printer, proprietor and editor
he mastered his business and grew in
practical skill and mental power until
few men situated in so narrow a field
are able to achieve He might well
serve as the model for young men
who are laboring in the rural news
paper offices of Vermont and New
Observation-Disclosures Republican.
of Intending Honesty, Sincerity and
Integrity.
Mr.. Stone was, in the fullest and
best sense of the term, selfmade
man. Without early advantages of
any kind, and beginning as print
er's apprentice at the age of only II
years, he grew up by the moral force
of his own steadfaSt and answering
personality, to make for himself one
OF the most honorable places ever
held by any man in the editorial
ranks III Vermont.
AS a man i'll public life Mr.. Stones
most notable characteristics were his
strength of personal conviction, his
intolerance of whatever seemed to
him to be wrong, and his indepen-
dence and fearlessness in upholdine
whatever he believed to be right
His religious life was one of rare sin
cerity and earnestness. His temper
ance principles were of the most I'M
compromising kind, and in all the
social, benevolent and uplifting work
of a community notable for it's or
gained efforts in these directions the
influence of Mr.. Stone and his wife
have always been strongly felt
His personality iii his own local
field of newspaper work had grown
steadily with every added year, and
he had taken a hold upon his Glen
tage which was remarkable, and
which no opposition could break
down. He was q vigorous and
graceful writer, not given to long
discussions, but making concise and
pointed everything that left his pen.
He made the Calcdonian as clean in
all its contents, its advertisements
included, as i'll its print and makeup,
and for q score of years his fellow
craftsmen have pointed to it with
pride as the one model and typical
Vermont newspaper.
Mr.. Stones qualities were not
those which conspire to popularity
in the usual sense of that term, but
those who differed from him most
widely acknowledged their high re-
spect for him, and testified to his I'M
bending honesty, sincerity and integ-
1-itv Those who knew him best
thought he sometimes lacked in tact
and made too little allowance for the
ways and the Weaknesses of human
nature, but they also knew him as
man as sensitive and warm-hearted
as child, and a friend to be relied
ON and believed in in every circum-
stance and relation of life To such
his death brings a sense of deep be
reavement, which it is their privilege
to share with his stricken family
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