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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-10-22
The Food Fair.

The greatest attraction that Bos-
ton is now offering to the public is
the Food Fair, held under the aus.
pieces OF the Boston Retail Grocers'
association; and Judging from the
crowds that are constantly entering
the Mechanics building, where the
fair is held, one would say that it is
proving very popular.
The first 500 women who buy
tickets each day are given souvenir
spoons and this assures lively scene
at the gift department in the base
ment for at least two hours after the
fair opens. After that the coupons
that are attached to the entrance
tickets are honored by a gift of some
kind, and those who are in charge OF
that department say that it causes
no end OF amusement 70 watch the
expressions of countenapce and hear
the remarks that are made as the
packages are received. The packages
contain soap, cereals, cocoa, salt and
other things of the kind and are often
very laughable in their inappropri.
ateness.
The majority of the Boston w omen
who visit the fair carry the famous
Boston bags" These bags never
shut tight but always wear frank
open countenance. After trip
through the various departments OF
the fair their usual broad smile is
heightened into veritable grin as
the cards, boxes, packages and bot
ties, samples of anything and every
thing from nerve foods to shoe black
ing, are slowed away in their capa.
cious interior.
All the firms who have stalls at
the fair seem to have united in one
exhibit, that of courtesy and genial
ity. Ask any question you please,
wise or foolish, sensible or not, and
you will receive uniformly a polite
and satisiactoryireply from the people
in charge of the booths.
Oicourse the Won Vermont" acts
as magnet to one who is a native
OF that state, anG so we were a once
attracted to a stall built, for the
greater part, of butter tubs, and
bearing the name Jersey Hill Cream
cry. Ryegate, Vermont" The pillars
at the four corners are made of tubs.
yellow and white ones alternating,
and pyramids of small tubs form a
battlement around the top. At the
back of the stall is a glass case in
which may be seen golden cakes of
butter. In the center of the booth is
a separator, and Mr. Jaynes, VINO is
in charge of this exhibit, stands ready
to enlighten the curious concerning
this, or to serve one and all with
glasses OF rich cream or buttermilk
from the farm, by his satisfactory
wares and genial manner he is max.
ing Sunny Side farm and the Jersey
Hill Creamery very well known.
Another Vermont exhibit is that of
the c. T. Joslyn company of Waits.
field and Maiden, Mass. who, in a
blue and white booth, display
sweet collection of cakes of maple
sugar and bottles of delicate amber
maple honey.
On the large platform of the audit
orium is an old feudal castle, appar.
emily, with towers and battlements
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-10-22
Charles A. Dana-Died Oct. ~, 1897.

And when it comes your time to go you'll
need no Latin chaff
Nor Geographic data put in your epitaph
But one straight line of English and of truth
will let folks know
The homage and the gratitude and reverence
they owe;
You'll need no epitaph but this Here sleeps
the man who run
That best and brightest paper, the New York
Sun"
-lEugene Field In "a Little Book of West.
ern Verse"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-10-22

4
by the foot OF the conqueror. The true
wealth OF a nation is manhood, ana Tic
lack of that ruined the two mentioned.
Products grant the remarkaoie
range from tropical fruits to arctic pines,
and from pottery-clays to virgin go'o,
but these things are here by the gilt OF
Nature. We may be wise and take GREAT
or we may dispense of our plenty to
Others need; but the sun shines on other
nations besides ours, and il we may be
proud, much more such nation as Eng
land who makes up for insular lack by
getting quotas from every habitable por-
ton OF the globe.
Political institutions Then the pride
must be largely ascribed to those broad
plans of our fathers, rather than to any
certainty in relation 10 the future; I'M
less we come to realize that institutions
and rights are not perpetual motion ma
chimes. They do not run themselves
For example, il progressive plans and
broad culture could go on without great
men to carry them forward, we should
have been spared the sight of Greece, so
decadent from grand historical traditions
as to be an easy conquest by the polyga-
nous Turk.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-10-22
Tbe Californian
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY
c. M. STONE & COMPANY,
Pythian Building St. Iohnshury. Vermont.

Entered at the st. Johnsbury post Office as
second-class mail matter.
TERMS OF THE CALIFORNIAN.
One year to any address, $3.50
Six months, rs
Three months. so
Clergymen in Caledonia county $1.00
Receipt given on payment of subscription.
List corrected once month.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-10-22
ElY'S
CREAM BALM

1t Is quickly alb
sorbed. Gives relief
at once. Opens and
cleanses the nasal
passages. Allays in.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-10-22

Restores the Sense OF taste and smell. No
Soeeine' no Mercury, no Injurious Drug Full
s y, ooc, trial size Ice. at druggists or by
Man, ely BROTHERS, SO Warren street,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-10-22
A LOCAL
Disease
A Clitnnic
AffeCiOn

Nothing but a local
remedy or change OF
climate will cure 1t.
Get a well known
pharmaceutical rem.
edv.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-10-22

No country stretching far,
No pomp of civic state
Can make you truly great
America!
No gain from cruel war,
No cannon echoing loud,
Can make you really proud
America
No golden stone or bar
Filched from it's darksome ditch,
Can make you truly rich
America!
Only the guiding star
OF honesty and truth
Can keep your glorious youth
America!
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-10-22

Our pride is that the people" can be
trusted. Thoroughly possessed BY an
idea, their response is splendid. Like
some huge engine, their progress is ire
s,st'o'e when once motipn is impaired.
The only complaint-and even that is a
cause for pride as it is closely related to
the permanency of national purpose-is
that they are slow to awaken to danger.
with your editors permission l will
carry this idea further next week.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-10-22

No! Territory, population, wealth,
products, formal declarations, are not
the things that fill us most with pride.
This nation thrown together hap. hazaed,
is nevertheless so permeated by ideas of
the eternal right and justice of things,
that in moments ofgrave national test
ing the pulsations oil tie mighty heart of
the great common people have always
beaten steadily. That is our pride.
After all moral idea is greater and
longer lived than material things of
forms OF words; the chrrchin your neigh.
borhood will point my meaning as its
splre.finger is raised upward to the skv.
1t stands for an idea that goes on after
its apostles have persisted, after it's build
ers have slept for generations, after the
materials OF which it was made have
crumbled at the touch of Time. Moral
and not material it survives the lapse of
years, the death of supporters, the shat
tering OF dynasties. even so with all
right ideas, of which surely our nation is
anembodiment. Vaguly yet desperately
the masses have held 10 the conviction
that this widespread c'untry is to be a
supreme testing place the trust wor,hi-
ness of the common ,eople; solernnly
have they grown to s,nse of unity and
its absolute necessity % national lie.
Glance back and see
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-10-22

Who held in clinging DESPERATION along
the fringe of the continht, despite wild
savage,y before and Cultured savagerv
behind? The commonpeople.
When lapsing time sbwed the pose;bil
tiles OF this country and men began to
cream OF rights based upon conditions
here, uninfluenced By the dicta of a re-
mote and haltcrazy monarch, the COM
mon people watered the ground with
blood.
Thesupreme righIto the management of
our own affairs having been decided, a
territory wide enough 10 inspire bound
less enthusiasm confronted this plain peo-
pie. By splendid energy they have SUBJ
Jugateeit so that its culture, its progress,
its completeness are nj onument to the
magnificent power OF col mmon people, I'm.
trammeled by traditions.
Then great moral question came up
Tor settlement, whose sues struck at the
very cohesion of our blood. baptized ma.
ton. Desperately the national heart
yearned over the need Of a government
lone and inseparable." The common
people bore the brunt of the conflict on
ooth sides, and by them was it fought to
conclusion, so that even the vanquished
now say the question WI as settled rightly.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-01-16

an invention by means of which he
can, without danger, destroy the whole
Spanish navy. Although unwilling to
give out details as to how he proposes
to achieve this result, he says that if
the Cubahs will enter into contract
to pay him when the work is done, he
will undertake to do just what he
claims he can do, and in the event of
failure to make no charge. After the
destruction of the feet, provided the
Cubans agree to his proposition, he
proposes to sell his wonderful inven-
ton to the Federal government. The
story, of course, sounds like buncombe
and perhaps it is; but The Constitu-
ton correspondent goes on to say that
Mr.. Keeling, has been investigating
the subject of explosives for number
of years, and claims to have discover
ed an explosive which is ten times
more destructive than anything else of
the kind known.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-01-16

All the terms of the proposed treaty
between the United States and Great
Britain have not yet been made public,
and it is altogether likely that they will
not be. Agreements of this character are
published or kept secret as the president
and senate may elect. 1t is reported,
however, that few days ago the Russian
ambassador at Washington asked Secre-
tary Olney as to whether the treaty was
"otfensiye and defensive" and the secre-
tary replied that his reply might truthful
ly be either Eyes" or mo" The London
newspapers are talking about the treaty
in very jubilant tone. They seem to
take it for granted that the United States
and Great Britain are about to form a
partnership by virtue of which they can
tell the balance of the world to "stand
from under"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-01-16

- Governor Evans's final message was
transmitted to the general assembly on
last Tuesday and read in the house and
senate on Wednesday. 1t is quite a
lengthy document devoted mainly to
discussion of the dispensary law and a
review of the reports of the various state
officials. The governor defends the dis
pensary system in every particular, and
felicitates himselfupon the improvements
that have been wrought upon it by rea-
son of some of bis suggestions. He shows
that since the establishment of the dispen-
sary, up to date, the state has realized net
profits to the amount of S428, 1928. He
recommends that the dispensary law be
continued as it is, without material
change, except in the abolition of the
office of state liquor commissioner.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-01-16
: The Cuban authorities are getting tt

The Cuban authorities are getting the
work of transferring fillibustering expe-
ditions from the United States to Cuba
down to a fine point. A notable instance
is furnished by recent expedition which
went out on the Three Friends. 1t was
given out that the Three Friends was
going to Cuba, and the Spanish war ves-
sells were, of course, on the lookout for
her. Instead Of going to Cuba, however,
the vessel went to the coast of Yucatan,
and then returning to the coast OF Flori-
da, landed the expedition ON mo Name"
key. In the meantime, the Dauntless
left port ostensibly on wrecking expe-
dition, and when she returned to jack
sonville she was seized by the authori-
lies on the charge that she had landed
men and munitions of war on the coast
of Cuba. The captain denies the charge.
He claims that while cruising along the
southern coast of Florida, he saw a distress
signal on No Name key and answered the
signal out of common humanity. On the
KEY he found about 35 men with a large
number of bales and boxes, and at their
request he took all aboard. Within a
few hours another vessel was sighted and
the men expressed desire to be trans
ferred with their belongings. The cap
tain had no objection, and at once made
the transfer at sea. What was in the
bales and boxes, the captain claims that
he did not inquire, and as to the name of
the other vessel he could not say, as he
had never taken the trouble to inform
himself. The story is quite an ingenious
one, and the Federal authorities are some-
what at loss to know how to proceed !;
but, all the same, they are still holding on
to the Dauntless.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-01-16
CHEROKEE COUNTY.

The Gaffney Ledger of Thursday, con-
tains draft of a bill which the promoters
of the proposed new county of Cherokee
propose to ask the general assembly to
enact into law at the present session.
The bill referr ed to is quite lengthy, con-
tanning 16 sections and providing in detail
for the organization of the proposed new
county.
Section defines the proposed bounda-
ries of the new county, without giving
the area, and fixes Gatfney City as the
county seat.
Section 2 creates board of trustees to
have the boundaries of the new county
surveyed and marked, and also authorizes
these trustees to provide suitable build
ings for courthouse, Jail, offices and 9TH her
county purposes. The trustees ned
are n. w. Hardin, j. D. Jefferies, Sr.,
j. r. Moorhead, w. c. S. Wood, j. B..
Brown, j. E. Mostelar, and r. l.. Scruggs.
Section authorizes the governor to call
an election for county officers, to be held
on the second Saturday in August, 1897,
and provides that the officers then elected
Sllhll COlIlliluc III OilEe uiitii thOii SuSSo''
sors, chosen in the general election of
1898, shall qualify.
Section provides for the salaries to be
received by the different officers. The
clerk is to receive the same fees and costs,
etc., as are received by the clerk of York
county. These fees and costs, however, he
is required to pay over to the county treas
urer, and in lieu of them, the treasurer
will pay him salary of 5000 quarter.
The clerk is to keep record of all the
business transacted in his office, and such
fees and costs as he fails to collect or pay
over, must be deducted from his salary.
The treasurer is to be allowed commits :
sions not exceeding S7OOper annum. The
auditor is to have S400 from the county,
and 500 from the state. The superinten-
dent of education is to have 5000 only.
The county supervisor is to have $500 for
salary, and $3.50 for clerk hire. The pro-
bate Judge is to receive salary OF $500,
and the coroner is to receive the fees al
lowed by law. Magistrates and consta-
bles are to receive S25 per annum in all
the townships except those embracing the
towns of Gaffney City and Blacksburg,
and here the salary shall be S75 per an
NUN each.
Section provides that until the next
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-01-16
NEW COUNTY BILL.

Elsewhere we publish a synopsis OF
the bill through which the people OF
Cherokee want to get authority to or
ganize their proposed new county. Ia
ken altogether, the bill is pretty good
one; but at the same time it contains
certain provisions upon which we feel
justified in making comment, favorable
and otherwise.
The most important section, SO far as
the people of the new county are con-
cerned, is that fixing the salaries of coun-
ty officers. In this section mistakes have
been made which would be positively
ridiculous if it were not for the fact that
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-01-16

If there has been any doubt as to the
existence of an abundance of money for
business enterprises, it should be set ell
tirely at rest by Saturdays bank state
ment. The increase in deposits for the
last week was SIT 7,250,000. Since Novem-
ber | the increase has been nearly Sll0,-
600 900. Loans in the same period have
increased $4,000, 900. Call money in New
York now rules from /! to per cent. In
the European market it ranges from 2 to
81 per cent. In other words. there are
millions of idle capital in New YORK
bank vaults ready for investment at the
lowest rates. At the same time, wheat is
again being exported in large quantities,
and the balance of trade continues heav-
lily in favor of the United States. Not in
years has the business outlook been more
hopeful than it is at present.-Newsa ana
Courier.
All that sounds good on its face,
doesn't it? And it is just like the dear
old unsophisticated, but always refresh
ing News and Courier. November is
the time from which our jubilant con-
temporary devotes its era of prosperity.
Let us see. On November l, January
colt ton was quoted at $50, and today, just
7. This decrease of a cent and fifth
has been going on during the time all
this heavy deposit has been increasing.
And another thing. Our contemporary
rejoices with patriotic joy at the fact that
the rate of interest is lower in New York
ey Ell than in the European mark ct.
Gratifying? Why of course this is graft
flying, even in view of the fact that at
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-01-16

- The Southern Presbyterian and The
Southern Christian Advocate, are cudgel-
ing each other in a way that is interest
ing to people who enjoy such things.
Not long ago The Presbyterian printed
a vicious communication from an anony-
NOUS writer attacking Methodism aud
Methodists. Among other things, the
writer said that John Wesley was only
a fifth rate theologian, and the Methodist
ministry of to-day is composed of men OF
very small abilities. The Advocate re-
piled to the communication at length In
q dignified but rather hurt tone, and then
The Presbyterian came back and said
that the whole thing was joke. The
Advocate is not at all disposed to accept the
explanation, and it is to be presumed
that The Presbyterian will have some
thing more to say in the next issue. Per-
haps it is not within the province of the
secular press to criticize these religious
brethren but looking at the matter IN
common everyday sinful way, we beg to
suggest that The Presbyterian would
have showed much better judgment had
it never allowed the offensive communi-
cation to have appeared in its columns ;
and The Advocate would have done just
as we'll to have treated it with dignified
silence. The resulting controversy is not
going to prove very edifying from reli-
gious standpoint.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-01-16

apportionment of representatives, Chero-
kee shall have one senator and three rep
resentatives in the house.
Section provides that the new county
is attached to the Fifth congressional dis
trict and the Sixth judicial circuit.
Section contains the voting precincts
already established within the bounds Of
the county.
Section provides for the terms Of the
court of general sessions and common
pleas in March, August and November.
Section 10 provides that all legal busi-
ness pending in Spartanburg, Union and
York, bet W cen residents Of the proposed
new county, be transferred by the clerks
of the co urt of the respective old countles
to the new county on demand.
Section II provides for the appointment
by the governor of a commission, consist
ing of two members from each OF the
con mites of Spart anburg, York, Union
and Cherokee, and one member from
some other county, to divide and appor-
ton the present Indebtedness OF the olo
counties with the ew county. 1t Is espe-
cially provided that each section OF the
new county shall pay only its just pro-
portion of the ind ebtedness OF the OLD
county from which it was taken and no
more.
Section II provides that until the county
officers are elected and township COM
missioners are appointed, the various
townships and parts of townships in the
new county, shall remain as townships
When the ounty board OF commissioners
is elected, it shall have power to create
new townships except in the case OF
Draytonville and Gowdeysville in Union
county, and G herokee township IN YORK
county. These townships must remain
as now constituted and not altered.
Section l3 provides that If the super
visor of the new county can agree with
the supervisors of the other counties as
to the proper amount, then the treasurers
and auditors of Spartanburg Union ana
York shall have pay for services perform
ed on account of the new county. In the
event of the failure of the supervisors TO
agree, however, the officials referred 10
are to do their work without compensa-
ticn.
Section IA. provides that until the or
eanization of Cherokee is completed, the
other counties shall have jurisdiction over
the various sections of it "a now. Inc
treasu rers and auditors, however, are re-
quired to keep separate books for tax re-
turns and tax collections, etc., and turn
these books over to the new county upon
its organization.
Sections is and 16 repeal all inconsistent
acts and provide that the act shall take
effect upon it's passage.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-01-16

- Editor Osteen of the Sumter Item,
bitterly condemned the lynching of ST.
mon Cooper under the peculiar circum-
stances of the case, and, as the result, has
been roundly censured. But Editor Os-
teen seems to be well able to take care of
himself. 1t develops that while he was
in the crowd that was trying to arrest
Cooper, he did not belong to the mongrel
collection which was afraid to face the
danger. THE ENQUIRER suggested We'd
nesday that the lynching was not perpe-
trated by the few men who forced Cooper
to surrender, and Editor Osteen seems to
bear us out in the suggestion. In Tues
DAVIS Item, which was not received here
until Thursday morning, he said: "Simon
Cooper came out of the house with his
hands up, and under the promise that his
life would be spared for the time. The
editor of The Item was with those who
were nearest to the house in which Coop
er was, and objected to the promise being
made. We were in position to drive
him from his stronghold, when he would
doubtless have met the fate he deserved /;
but being induced by majority Of others
to cease our dynamite operations, and
Cooper being allowed to surrender, we
cannot approve of his being then shot
down in violation of the promise made,
and while holding up his hands and
held by strong men,"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-01-16

- Quite a number Of senators seem to
fear that Great Britain has secured de-
cided advantage in the proposed arbitra-
ton treaty between that country and the
United States. The advantage lay in the
fact that King Oscar of Sweden has
been selected as the final arbiter. Oscar,
it is reasoned, is, of course, naturally be-
lie yer in the divine right of kings, and
would, therefore, lean toward Great Brit
ain in any judgment which he might
be called upon to render.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-01-16
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
ABOUT PEOPLE.

Miss Mamie Kendrick is at Mrs. L..
George Crisis.
Mr.. B. D. Springs of Charlotte, was in
Yorkville Thursday and Friday.
Mr.. C. E. Spencer was called to Magno-
liza, Sumter county, on last Saturday, on
account of the critical illness of his sister,
Mrs. Henry v. Anderson. Mrs. Ander-
son died on Tuesday and Mr.. Spencer
returned home on Wednesday. Since his
return he has been quite unwell himself.
DIR. and Mrs. NJ. J. Walker were sum-
moned to Union county on last Thursday
by the serious illness Of Mrs. Walkers
mother and the sudden deaf b of her aunt.