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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-12-24
TO BE SIMPLIFIED.
cancy.

During the recent struggle with all
the machinery connected with the
securing o-or rather the applica-
ton fora bounty on maple sugar,
there was great deal of well found
ed complaint over the existence of so
much red tape-so much of it, in fact,
that no small number of sugar
makers refused to put forth any
effort in that direction, and the num-
Der of applicants in Vermont was
comparatively small. We are glad
to note that this useless machinery,
or at least a large part of it, is to be
done away with. DIR. H. H McIn-
tyre of West Randolph, special
agent of the treasury department, in
the sugar bounty division, has been
to Washington and persuaded the
powers that be to simplify things SO
that the average sugar maker might
show an interest in the matter with
out being harrassed by a multitude
of forms and blanks that did not
seem to be of any real use in the
securing of the bounty. AS result
of DR.. McIntyre's efforts, the whole
scheme is to be revised, it is said
reduced to a practical, common-sense
working basis. This being the case,
we shall expect to see revived
interest in this matter of the sugar
bounty. If there is anything at all
in it, Vermont sugar makers should
generally take hold of it, and get
therefrom what benefit NAV natur-
ally belong to them.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-12-24
THE LESSON OF 1T.

The fire at Barnet on Tuesday af
ternoon, resulting in the loss of a
great deal of property, emphasizes
the Importance of having some facil-
tiles for fighting fire even in the small
country villages. The presence of a
hand engine, which could have been
used in throwing water from
stream, or even from wells, upon the
burning buildings, or others near by
and in danger, would have saved
Barnet much property loss. But no
such facilities were at hand, and the
flames had their own way. 1t is, we
believe, the imperative duty of every
town to provide itself with some eff
fective means of fighting fire, especial
ly in the more thickly settled por-
lions. When disasters like that at
Barnet occur-as they are likely to
at any time-help from abroad can
not be moned in season to pre-
vent extensive loss, and no village
should run the risk which lies in the
entire absence of means for contest
ing the progress of fire.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-12-24

his efforts. Hehad fine war record,
was close student of public ques
tions, held high rank as a statesman,
and will be much missed in political
circles. His death is said to have
been the result of overwork and too
close attention to the imperative de-
mands of his position; and this
points a lesson, which there is no
reason to expect will be needed as 1t
ought-the lesson of the great dan
ger there is in crowding the machin-
cry of the human system to its ut
most limit and neglecting reasonable
opportunity for rest. The question
of Senator Plumb's successor is al
ready discussed, and it will devolve
upon Gov. Humphrey to fill the va
cancy.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-12-24

The recent city and town election
day in Massachusetts was quite an
occasion for the no-license people,
who scored a decided advance all
along the line. Even in Boston there
was a remarkable change in the vote
from last years figures, the no-license
vote in that city rising from 1870
in 1890 to 81, $40 in 1891 The
towns and cities throughout the
whole state show 119,1O4 votes for
license and 126, 315 against-a hand
some majority in favor of prohib
itory policy. The temperance people
of Massachusetts are to be congrat-
ulated on this result, and the few
high license advocates in Vermont
will fail to get any great amount OF
comfort from the Bay state figures.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-12-24
4 REPUBLICAN SENA DEAD.

Death has called at the doors of
congress once more, as he has fire.
quently done within the past two or
three years, and this time it was the
popular Senator Plumb of Kansas
who answered the call He was
stricken with apoplexy early on Sun
day morning, at his home in Wash
ington, and lived only till noon, new
err regaining consciousness. The sem
ator's sudden taking off was great
shock to his associates at Washing
ton and to his friends in Kansas,
and many expressions of sorrow have
found utterance since the sad event
became known. Senator Plumb was
a tireless worker, and did valiant
service in the last Kansas campaign,
the defeat of the alliance movement
there and the consequent republican
victory being largely attributed to
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-12-24
NOTE AND COMMENT.

When death knocks at the door of
congress, somebody must recognize
his presence.
Ex-Gov. A P. Stafford of Florida,
who died recently, was born in Yer
mont about 81 years ago.
The New York World remarks that
both Mr.. Mills and Mr.. Crisp have
the grip, but the difference is that Mr..
Crisp has the gavel in his"
Rubenstein, the Russian pianist,
has promised to come to this coun-
try and give series of fifty concerts,
and will only ask $125,OOO therefor.
Another large story comes from
Chicago, to the effect that the most
gigantic electric light plant in the
world is to be constructed there by
the Edison company.
There are only lightweight republic
cans in the present house of repre-
sentatives; but, with ex-Speaker
Reed to lead, they will prove I'M
comfortably lively for the opposition.
Italy is soon to resume diploma tic
relations with the United States. So
the unp1easantness growing out of
the New Orleans lynching has blown
over, and the two countries will be
friends again.
The idea of the New York Mail
and Express is that Cleveland
has no boom at all except such
such a one as has existed lin the
imaginations of his friends for the
past six months"
Think of it. Chili's attitude is so
spunky and defiant that Uncle Sam
is really getting ready for an emergen-
cy in that direction. Our navy"
may yet have a chance to show of
what stuff it is made.
'One thing at time" is evidently
not a favorite motto with Gov Hill
of New York, for he is doing duty as
a United States senator and at the
same time will stick to the guber-
material chair till his term of service
naturally expires. Hill is not one of
the resigning sort.
Delays are not always dangerous.
On the very day that the Maverick
bank was ordered to stop. business
one Of the Worcester banks sent
down eighty thousand dollars to be
placed therein; there was little de-
lay, the bank was closed before the
money reached it, and the package
was returned to Worcester with the
seal unbroken.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-12-24
SIX NEW JUDGES.

President Harrison has named six
out of the nine new circuit judges
whom it devolved upon him to
appoint. The nominees are as fol-
lows: William L. Putnam of Maine
for the first judicial circuit; Nathan
iel Shipman of Connecticut for the
second; George M. Dallas of Penn
sylvania, third; Nathan Golf of West
Virginia, fourth; William H. Taft of
Ohio, sixth; William A. Woods of
Indiana, seventh. Judge Putnam Of
Maine, one of two democrats among
the six chosen, under President
Cleveland's administration did the
country good service in bringing
about an understanding as to the
rights of Americans in certain terri
torial waters of Canada and New
Foundland, and is fully qualified for
the responsible position of judge of
the circuit court. The nominations
are all favorablv commented upon
save that of Judge Woods of Indiana,
who, it is said, may have a little
trouble in getting confirmed, on ac-
count of some dissatisfaction with
which he is regarded by the repub-
lican members
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Campaign Literature.

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La grippe is here to stay, as the in
crease in the number of cases all over
the country fully proves. In some
localities the epidemic is interfering
seriously with business, and a repe-
tition of last years record seems
probable. A strange malady this,
discriminating in its choice of vic
Tins and reluctant to let go when
once it takes hold of the system.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-12-24

The congratulations which were
rendered to the beloved poet
Whittier on the occa sion of his eighty
fourth birthday, December II, were
genuine and sincere, and will be
echoed all around the world by the
thousands of admirers of the sterling
Quaker. Whittier wrote during
peculiarly trying times, and the
spirit which pervaded his poems did
much to strengthen the American
heart.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-12-24
CONCERNING THE MUSEUM.
What Some of the Papers Say About ST
Johnsbury'S Last Acquisition.

What Some of the Papers Say About ST.
Johnsbury's Last Acquisition.
Not many New England towns
rest on such Fairbanks as does ST.
Johnsbury.-[Lowell Courier.
The gift is one that should entitle
Col. Fairbanks to the gratitude of
the present and future genera TONS
M onitor.
A very generous act, that of Col.
Franklin Fairbanks, in present.
ing the town of St. Johnsbury. VT,
with building involving an expense
of $25O,OOO, to be used as a museum
of natural science Boston Travel
Ter.
The Fairbanks Museum of Natural
Science at St. Johnsbury was dedicat-
ed with appropriate exercises Dec.
18th. This is another of the many
munifcent gifts that this beautiful
village has received from the Fair
banks family West Randolph Her
aid.
The muni6cent gift of Col. Frank
lin Fairbanks places his native town
in possession of one of the most
perfect and complete museums of
natural science to be found in the
country. The whole is of a truth
royal Christmas gift to St. Johns
bury Windsor Journal.
Col. Fairbanks new museum at
St. Johnsbury was dedicated Tues
day evening with interesting cere-
monies, and in the presence of large
number of townspeople and invited
guests 1t is a decided and note
worthy addition to a village al
ready widely known for its elegant
public buildings. Hardwick Gaz-
cite.
This was a most notable event to
Vermont as well as st. Johnsbury.
The world buys its scales of the Fair
banks firm, and the president of that
mandatory, lifelong student and
lover of nature, and patron of educa-
ton, is thus Enabled to bestow this
royal gift. 1t was an occasion full of
local interest and signihca nee.
Donor and receivers were at their
best twice blest' and happy
Farmers Advocate, ST. Adams.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-12-24

President Harrison has filled the
vacancy caused by the resiyna ton of
Secretary-ofWar Proctor by appoint
ing to that important position
Stephen B. Elkins, who will be
remembered as a very earnest sup
porter of Blaine in the presidential
canvass He is a native of Ohio, but
now a resident of Virginia represent
ed the territory of New Mexico for
two terms in congress, and was
member of the national republican
committee from 1872 to 1884.
While it is generally conceded that
he has the business ability to fill the
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position well, his appointment has
set the politicians agog, by reason of
his close intimacy with Blaine,
who NAV be candidate for
president in 1892. The exact signifi-
canoe of this choice by the president
will develop speedily.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-12-24
"If They Do ThiS.D

The Massachusetts republicans
have been restrained and bamboozled
by their leaders, but there are indica-
tons that they are about to put the
temperance question to the front,
and if they do that, the advantage
secured in the past will keep them
far ahead of the democrats, at least
in New England and New York
boston Traveller
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-12-24

The Vermont congressman fare
pretty well in the distribution of
Speaker Crisp's plums. Gen. Grout
is made a member of the appropria-
tons committee, and Judge Powers
is the only New England member of
the judiciary committee.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-12-24
NEW BOOKS.

WHITE SLAVES; or the Oppression
of the Worthy Poor" BY Louis
Albert Banks. Boston: Lee &
Shepard, Publishers.
The writer of this volume is a Bos-
ton clergyman who has made person
al and thorough investigation into
the sweating" system as practiced
in Boston and other cities, and he
does not hesitate to indulge in strong
statements of fact as we'll as out
spoken denunciation of this nefarious
system which EFFORTS from the de-
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recompense-the greatest possible
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cramp or fetter the free utterance of
their manhood or womanly glory"
The illustrations are numerous, and
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which the "sweater's victims live.
LITTLE CAPTAIN DoPPELKoP." By
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by Clifton Johnson. Lee & Shepard,
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Those who have read the two pre-
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Little Baron Trump" and Little
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is also full of grotesque illustrations.
fine volume for the holidays and
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At A. D. RowelPs.
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-12-24
WALTON'S
VERMONT REGISTER
FOR 1892.

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1t is estimated that Vermont has
$50 boys and 16O girls in colleges.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-12-24

The Bradford Opinion, the Ludlow
Tribune, the Springfield Report
er and the Montpelier Argus COW
cred themselves all over with
glory in their Christmas editions
last week. The Littleton Courier
also issued an illustrated supplement
with pictures of the prominent bust
ness men of the town. Among the
illustrations was fine one of John
c. Rolley, insurance agent, formerly
of St. Johnsbury.
1t will prove but a sorry Christmas
season for the mill operatives at
Manchester, N. H., of whom some
six thousand are thrown out of work
by the stopping of the mills by reason
of low water. Such a scarcity of
water was never before known in
Manchester, and unless relief comes
soon there will be a great deal of
suffering among the laboring classes
who depend for their subsistence on
the wages received from the extensive
mills there. A drouth which thus
touches the heart of a great industry
is a serious matter indeed.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-12-24
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
First Natl Bank of st. Johnsbury.

The twenty-eighth annual meeting of the
stockholders of the First National Bank of
St. Johnsbury, VT, will be held at their bank
ing rooms in ST. Johnsbury, Tuesday, Jam
uary 18th, 1892, at one O'Clock in the after
noon for the election of directors for the year
ensuing JOHN c. CLARK, Cashier.
ST. JoHNsBURY, VT. Dec 5th, 1891.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-12-24
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