St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-05-28
PRESS COMMENTS.
The Presidents Trip.

in every way. The president has
seen large part of the country of
which he is the executive, and the
people of score of states have, for
the first time, seen president while
he was in office. And although the
president was obliged to make many
speeches, to all sorts of people, he
spoke with such tact and discretion
that no one could find anything of
which to complain in his many adj
dresses. 1t was good trip for the
president to Observation-Disclosures
Ledger.
The tour has been singularly fruit
full of good results that will mani
fest themselves in due time. Already
it has led to an indication of nation
al feeling such as has not been visible
for 80 years, and later it will develop
other and still more beneficial con-
sequences Mr.. Harrison most ar
dent follower could not have wished
for him a happier outcome. The
purest patriot in the land could not
have imagined a more abundant
harvest of fortune andJoyful things
New York Tribune
IHe 1TeSIQenf' s EXPENSE
1t is reported that President Har-
rison pays an expense of $4,000 as
attending the outlay of his journey
to the West, just being completed.
The willingness to do this, rather
than to charge it to the nation, is
creditable on his part. All the same,
we are by no means SO sure that the
nation should allow this sum to
come out Of the Presidents private
means. The journey is a public af-
fair, conceived and carried out as
national matter, as well as one OF
private enjoyment. 1t strikes us as
in accordance alike with national
fairness and national dignity that
the nation should renumerate
the man who is her head for
what it has cost him, and we be-
lieve the impulse of the people will
be to favor such a proceeding.-[ Bos-
ton Herald.
All after the Summer Boarder.
"Uncle' Silas Cummings of ST.
Adams is about to publish book
for private circulation among the
farmers and others of Vermont who
want to take bOarders this summer.
1t is not an advertisement. though
he is a railroad man, and it is not for
sale. In the book he tells how to
make the summer bOarder happy
once he is caught. He recommends,
as the highest art, that of leaving
the average boarder alone to do as
he pleases, when he pleases, and where
he pleases. He condemns the feather
bed, lays great stress upon the a t.
Effectiveness of plain farm food with
plenty Of fresh milk and butter and
eggs New York Sun.
Tribute to Senator Edmunds.
One of the finest tributes to Sena-
tor Edmunds' honesty, fidelity
and influence as a legislator, was
paid by the late Senator \ att
Carpenter, when he said, as he did
more than once, that when he was
presiding in the senate, he could tell
with his eyes shut whether Edmunds
was in his seat or not, by the char
acter of the measures presented and
motions made. The engineers of
Jobs" and promoters of schemes
which would not bear close scrutiny
were careful to bring forward their
pet measures when Mr.. Edmunds
was absent Burlington Free Press.
A Crisis Coming.
"It is the consensus of humanity"
says the prophetic Lieut. Totten,
that we are upon the threshold of
gigantic crisis" The gigantic crisis
has always been a few days in adj
vance since Noah was a sailor. 1t
will he remembered that Mr. Ward
making a railway journey at a criti-
cal period of our country's history,
insisted that if any passenger in the
car had a crisis concealed about his
person he should produce it at once.
1t wasn't produced; it never is, and
it never will be. 1t is always coming,
and it fails to connect.-[New York
Sun.