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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-09-07
Merited Praise.

Merited praise is given a newspaper
which has proved its right to rank
among the leading papers OF the country
in this note, published in recent number
of the Brockton Enterprise:
"The Boston Journal evidently has the
inside on various phases of war news
both at Washington and at the front.
Last week it scooped the whole country
or the news of the designations OF the
officers of the Sixth Massachusetts
Volunteers, and it has been leading the
other Boston dailies right along on i'm
portant bits OF war news. Evidently the
Journal has good corps of newsgather-
ers at the capital and in Cuba"
In Porto Rico, the latest centre of in
tercst and the scene OF the most recent
army movements, the Boston Journal
has correspondent who combines the
faculties Of acute observation, cool judg-
ment and ability to tell Interestingly
what the people want to know of this
new and strange country. He is Frede-
rick Roy Martin, to whose credit belongs
the honor of scooping the country on the
designations of the officers of the Sixth
Massachusetts. His letters, descriptive
of the scenes and events surrounding the
American Army, are now appearing al
most daily in the Boston. Journal.
The Journal has also in Porto Rico
special photographer, Mr.. w. F. Turner
who pictured the New England troops in
their camps through the South. His
work will appear, reproduced by the ac-
curate and expensive half-tone process, in
t he Boston Sunday Journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-09-07
Uncle Sam Will Paw In Advance.

Word has been received from Washing
ton at the New York Sub Treasury that
the government will anticipate the pay
ment of interest on the per cent bonds
due on October 1. The coupons will be
paid off on September 10 on presenta.
ton, and the interest checks on the regis
tered bonds will be sent out from Wash
ington about September 20 for immedi-
ate payment. The large amount of
money in the United States Treasury
warrants the payment of the interest in
advance. Its disbursement is expected to
have an effect upon the prospects for
tighter local money market, and may be
reflected in an easing OF money rates.
The payments will nominally release
$500, 900, three-quarters OF it here, but
the actual amount will be less as only a
portion of the interest coupons are likely
to be presented promptly.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-09-07
Weight of Deep Sea Water.

When marine life began to command
notice. the question of the depth to which
life could extend, divided scientific
thought into warning camps. About
1910, it was generally believed that the
bathymetrical limit was about 300 faith
oms, and some strange ideas were cur
rent as to the physical condition ofwater
when under pressure such as depth of
two miles would produce. 1t was
thought that skeletons of drowned men,
or even heavy cannon and the wedges
OF gold" that popular imagination plac-
es In the sea, floated at certain levels, be-
meath which is water so compressed as
to be impenetrable. In fact, water is al
most incompressible, and the weight of a
cubic inch of it at the depth of a mile is
very little more than at the surface; but
it was assumed that no living being
could survive pressure which at 1000
fathoms is about ton to the square
inch. We ourselves live under pres sure
OF about fifteen pounds per inch, and are
unaware of it. Indeed, we sometimes
waken on amorning when the barometer
has risen, say, hall an inch during the
night, and consequently find ourselves
sustaining an increased pressure of sever
al tons not only without suffering, but
with positive feeling of buoyancy and
good spirits. On the other hand, if the
tremendous pressure under which we live
be relieved as by a surgical cup" severe
injury may follow. Aeronauts suffer
from this cause, and marine animals
dredged from great depth often reach the
surface in most amentabe condition,
with eyes protruding and viscera dis
tended.-[From "The Exploration of the
Sea-" by DR.. c. M. Blackiord, Jr., in
North American Review" for September.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-09-07

culation was impaired and at times her
limbs became numb and cold, and she
could hardly walk.
All these symptoms, and aft the heart
tropble, disappeared after she had taken
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to the value Of Dr.. Williams Pink Pills In
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The powerful, bot harmless, vegetable
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-09-07
Our Invalid Army.

While the work Of Transporting the con-
quered Spanish soldiers back to their ma
tive land has been progressing, there has
been simultaneous transfer OF the con-
quering American troops from Santiago
to the United States. If the Spaniards
had fully realized how seriously the army
of General Skater had been weakened by
hardships and disease, it is scarcely prob
able that General Toral would have sur
rendered without further resistance.
The American people will not be satisfied
until they are convinced that every phase
OF the Santiago campaign has been rig
idly Investigated, with no political screen
for the negligent or the guilty. 1t is de-
clared that this countryside richest and
presumably the most enlightened in the
world-dispatched an army to the tropi-
cal jungles of eastern Cuba at the height
of the seasons OF rains and fevers, with.
out medical supplies or any kind of adj
equate provision whatsoever for the
principal dangers that every one knew
the army would encounter. To send the
army to Santiago without every pre-
caution against the real enemy-namely,
the fever hend-was every whit as abb
surd as it would have been to send it
without ammunition for the rifles.
There is not even the excuse that the ex-
petition was gotten off in haste. Ittook
an inordnate time after Cervera's fleet
had been bottled up i'll Santiago harbor
by our navy to get General Skaters
army on board the transports and fairly
started. Unhaa PLY, there has seemed,
even after these matters had heen point
ed out, very little capacity on the part of
the authorities of the armv to improve
sanitary conditions. Nothing could have
animation to which the volunteers were
subjected when the regiments were form
ed at the opening of the war. We sent
into the various camps something like
three hundred thousand young men,
every one of whom was in excellent health.
1t needs no argument to show that the
experience of being in camp in the United
States in the pleasant months of May,
June, and July, far from breaking down
the health of these young men, ought to
have just the opposite effect. The regu-
lar life, systematic drilling, and careful
attention to personal and camp hygiene
that were not only feasible, but plainly
obligatory, ought to have put our army
into a superb physical condition by Aug
ust or September. That is what would
have happened in France or Germany.
1t is not what has happened in the Unit
ed States The camps have been infested
with typhoid fever, malaria, and enteric
troubles of all sorts, with the alleged re-
suit of a shocking average degree of de.
bilitation.-[ From THE Progress of the
World" in the American Review of Re.
views for September.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-09-07
Panama Canal not Feasible.

The American Chamber of Commerce
in Paris recently addressed an inquiry to
Mr.. Edward HOlbrooke Of this city in re-
gard TO some proposed alliance of inter
ests between the Panama and the Nicara.
qua Canal Companies, asking particular,
ly whether it would be possible to awak-
Ell the interest of the American people in
the Panama project. Mr.. Holbrooke re.
ferred the inquiry to Hiram Hitchcock,
President OF the Maritime Canal Com.
pauy ofNicaragua, from whom he has
received the following letter.
Edward Holbrooke, Esq, President of
the Gorham Manufacturing Company:
Dear Sir: In reply to your question as
to whether there is any ground for be-
lieving that America or the American
people would be willing to aid or encour-
age the construction Of the Panama Can.
al, will say that l believe any move
ment in that direction would be wholly
futile. Our wisest engineers do not con-
slider the Panama Canal feasible in any
economic sense, if at all. The Nicaragua
route being at the lowest depression in
Central America, and with attendant
favorable conditions, is the route marked
out by nature itself for the Gateway to
the Pacific" Engineers of greatest abil-
ty and experience all admit it's entire
feasibility at moderate outlay for a
work Of such magnitude.
The Maritime Canal Company Of Mic
aragua is chartered by the United States
and holds the concessions from Nicara-
qua and Costa RIGA. A bill is now pend
ing in Congress which will undoubtedly
become law. amending the charter so
as to enable the United States to acquire
70 per cent. of the stock OF the company,
and to furnish all the money for construc-
ton.
The Nicaragua Canal is realization of
the sentiment, "An American canal under
American control" and its construction
has become the declared purpose of the
President, the Congress, and the people
of the United States.
| am aware that have written moth.
ing new to you who have been so long
identified with this great enterprise.
Very respectfully
HIRAM HITCHCOCK,
President.
The Maritime Canal Company ofNicara.
qua, 81 and Sc Broad Street, New York,
Aug. /, 1898.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-09-07

Paralysis, dropsy and heart disease, cry
sipelas, debility.
Widely dissimilar as these various dis
eases seem at first sight they are all init
mately connected either with the blood or
the nerves.
This fact explains why they are ali
cured by DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People.
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Pink Pills, and how, is shown by the fol-
lowing testimonials, from people Of the
highest standing in the communities where
they reside.
Mrs. NJ. A. Whitley is the widow Of the
Rev. DR.. Jonathan Whitley, an eminent
preacher OF the Methodist denomination.
Mrs. Whitley lives at Meadville, Pa.
"Stricken with paralysis three years
ago." she said, ~ was helpless for months.
III was persuaded to try DR.. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People.
"The first box helped me very much,
and the pills worked, and are working
wonders.
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Mrs. John W. Beatty, wife Of promi-
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was Cured Of dropsy and heart disease by
Dr.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People.
AT times she suffered greatly. Her cir
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-09-07
Profits of RAILWAYS.

The report Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission shows that last year the
railways of the United States carried
over 10 ,O00,O 100000 passengers 1 mile
They also carried 95, 900, 100000 tons of
freight mile. The total amount paid in
dividends on stock was $S7 ,603,371-
call it $SS, 100000. Of the total earn
ings of the railways about 70 per cent
came from freight service and 80 per cent
from passenger service. Let us assume,
then, that OF the SO 900, 900 paid in divi-
dends, 70 per cent, or SOL, 100000, was
profit on freight service and 26,400,000
was profit on passenger service. Let us
drop fractions and call it 100000
from freight and 500, 900, 900 from pas
sengers. By dividing the passenger pro-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-09-07
A Thrilling Scene in a Field Hospital
at Guasimas.

There is one incident Of the day which
now as lie in New York hospital writ
ing. 1t occurred at the field hospital.
About dozen OF us were lying there.
A continual chorus of means rose
through the tree branches overhead.
The surgeons, with hands and barred
arms dripping, and clothes literally satu.
rated, with blood, were straining every
nerve to prepare the wounded for the
journey to Siboney. Behind melay Capt.
McClintock with his lower leg bones
literally ground to powder. He bore
his pain as CALAMITY as he had led his
men. and that is saying much. l think
Major Brodie was also there. 1t was
doleful group. Amputation and death
stared its members in their gloomy faces.
Suddenly voice started softly,
"My country, tits of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
OF thee sing"
Other voices took it up:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the Pilgrims pride"
The quivering, quavering chorus,
punctuated by groans, and made spas
modic by pain, trembled up from that
little group of wounded Americans in
the midst of the Cuban solitude-the
pluckiest, most heartfelt song that,
human beings ever sang.
There was one voice that did not quite
keep up with the others. 1t was so
weak that did not hear it until all the
rest had finished with the line,
"Let Freedom ring"
Then hating, struggling, faint, it re-
peated slowly.
Observation-Disclosures pride,
Let Freedom"
The last word was woeful cry. One
more son had died as died the fathers
From "a Wounded Correspondents
Recollections of Guasmas." by Edward
Marshall, in the September Scrbner's.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-09-07
Life on a Transport.

You have no idea what transport is,
and especially one that is overcrowded
1t is really hell on earth--or rather on
waterl Thank Heaven, the weather has
been fine, and have slept on deck every
night, not even going below when it
rained. never felt better in my life, and
have come to the conslusion that can
stand anything. AS have not been at
all seasick, volunteered for the stable
police, who have to clean up belowdecks
where the horses are. If you could put
all the terrible smells in the world to-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-09-07

fit into the number OF passengers carried
100000 ,000) we find that the rail-
ways had TO carry passenger 500 miles
in order to earn one dollar of profit--or
s miles to earn one cent Their average
profit, therefore, sless than wo tenths
Of one cent TOR carrying passenger land
his baggage) l mile.
By dividing the freight profit into the
freight mileage (95 100000, 00O) we find
that the railways had to carry one ton
OF freight $50 miles in order to earn one
dollar, or over IS miles to earn one cent
The average profit therefore was less
than one fifteenth of a cent Tor carrying
ton of freight (besides loading and IN
loading it, / mile.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-09-07

Some Foolish People

Allow a cough to run until i'll gets beyond
the reach Of medicine. They often say,
ooh, it will wear away" but in most
cases it will wear them away. Could
the; be induced to try the successful med
icine called Kemp's Balsam, which is sold
on positive guarantee to cure, they
would Immediately see the excellent effect
after taking the first dose. Price 25c.
and SOC. Trial size free. At all druggists
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-09-07
A Serious Question.
A kitten went a-w alking

A kitten went a-walking
One morning in July,
And idly fell a talking
With great big butterfly.
The kitten $ tone was airy.
The butterfly would scott;
When there came along q fairy
Who whisked his wings right off,.
And then.-for it is written
Fairies can do such things
Upon the starr led kitten
She stuck the yellow wings.
The kitten felt CULVER,
She rose into the air,
Then flew down to the river
To view her image there.
With fear her heart was smitten,
And the began to cry,
Am l a butter kitten?
Or just kitten fly?"
-tCarolyn Wells in September St. Nicholas
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-09-07
Made
Happy.

h11ae1ce Of many people concerning relief Afforded
from aarf0us diseases that are related, aA4oagA they
seem a0laeb dt6erem
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-09-07
MRS. PTNKHAM'S STANDING
INVITATION.

Women suffering from any form Of
female weakness areinvited opromptly
communicate with Mrs. Pinkham. at
Lynn, Mass. All letters are re-
ceived, opened, read, and answered by
women only. A woman can freely
talk Of her private illness to a woman.
Thus has been established the eternal
confidence between Mrs. Pinkham and
the women Of America which has never
been broken. Out of the vast volume
of experience which she has to draw
from, it is more than possible that she
has gained the very knowledge that
will help your case. She asks nothing
In return except your good will, and
her advice has relieved thousands.
Surely any woman, rich or poor, is very
foolish II she does not take advantage
OF this generous offer Of assistance.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-09-07
Stop! Women,

And consider that in addressing Mrs.
Pinkham you are confding your private
Ills to woman-a woman whose ex-
perience in treating woman's diseases
is greater than that of.any living ply
sician, male or female.
You can talk freely to q woman when
1t Is revolving to relate your private
troubles to man; besides, a man does
not understand, simply because he Isl
man.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-09-07
NEWS IN GENERAL.

Three members of Co. D are no W in the
hospital at Camp Olympia. They are
privates !. J. Frasier, Mark Virgins and
William H. Smith.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-10-27
me work win Continue.

The divisions of the Baltimore q
Ohio Railroad west of the Ohio river
are to receive the same sort of i'm
provements that have been made on
the lines east of the Ohio. Not only
are the grades to be reduced wherever
1t is practicable but very much heav-
fer motive power is to be introduced
In order to carry the additional weight
the bridges on all the divisions are
being replaced with heavier structures
and the track relaid with heavier steel
rail- 1t has been demonstrated by ac-
tual experiment that these changes
will result in an increase in train load
ing in some places of more than so
per cent the average being about AZ
per cent 1t is the hope of the receiv-
ars that within the next two years the
Baltimore e. Ohio Railroad will be an
iS-foot grade road from Chicago to
Baltimore, with the exception OF that
portion of 1t which passes over the
mountains where helping engines will
have to be used. A great many of the
estimates for the different portions OF
the work have been made, and those
who have seen the plans state that the
work can be done at a surprisingly
low cost considering the return. 1t
Is understood that the policy of re-
Mobilization adopted by the receivers
two years ago Will be continued by
the new company after the reorgani-
cation
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-10-27
CAnada's Vote on Prohibition.

From Chicago Post: ProhibitioniEts
the world over will claim the result OF
the referendum IN the dominion on the
liquor question as q remarkable tri-
umph for their cause. No candid OBJ
server will deny that the vote is an
impressive tribute to the earnestness
and persistence OF the prohibitionists.
but the likelihood and propriety Of
legislation embodying the decision OF
the majority OF those who voted on
the question is altogether doubtful.
The liberal leaders, we think, will
ind at least as many effective argu-
ments against national prohibition in
the final returns and summary as can
possibly be adduced in favor Of such
legislation. How do matters really
stand? Quebec, at first glance, is the
only province that has given major
lily against prohibition, but it is an
overwhelming one, nearly offsetting
the heavy majorities for prohibition
In Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
VIII the small majorities of Ontario
Manitoba Prince Edward Island and
British Columbia, aggregating only
between 10000 and $4,000 votes, turn
the scale and impel Sir Wilfred Laurler
and his cabinet to pass rigid pro-
hibitory law The position OF the
liberal party is indeed most trying
and difficult one, and we may expect
some neat quibbing over the exact
Implication OF the pledge" which the
premier made originally. The ants
will contend that the government new
or intended to promise definite action
in obedience to a.mere majority OF the
votes actually cast At any rate. they
contend that the verdict of the domin-
Ion is not strong and conclusive
enough to justify a radical departure
in national politics, taxation and fin
ance, and this cannot be successfully
disputed.
Another important fact which will
| be pressed on the liberal leaders IS
that nearly all the cities have pro-
nounced very emphatically against
prohibition. Even Toronto, the head
quarters of the temperance movement,
rejected the restrictive program by a
majority OF $500. The cities appar-
emily realize that prohibition must re-
main a dead letter in populous indus
trial communities. and they are not
willing to substitute lawlessness and
evasion for regulated sale and con-
sumption of liquor,
The government, it is safe to say,
will be in no particular hurry to an
nounce its decision It's dilemma is
most puzzling, and if in the end 1t
meets with defeat in consequence OF
failure to assume a courageous attitude
the result will not be surprising How
ever, reason is against hasty action.
There Is ground for suspicion that the
tories have quietly passed the word
around that the -prohibitionists
should abstain from voting. On no
other supposition can their apathy be
accounted for The liberals will be
justified in blocking the game OF their
political opponents by declining to pro-
coed under so uncertain a mandate.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-10-27

and in the very ripeness of tbs intel
lectual power. He came to America
with his parents when he was a lad,
and was left an orphan with the world
before him to fight. He earned his
education at Princeton and later at
the Presbyterian seminary in that In
stitution. During the hrst years of his
ministry he was offered the chair Of
Greek in Delaware College. the chair
of Hebrew in the Mccormick Theologi-
cal Seminary, the presidency of Rut-
gers College, New Brunswick, and the
chair of theology in the Allegheny
Seminary. In 1856 he became the pres
ident OF Lake For university, rear
ranged its curriculum, and added ST.
600, 900 to its funds. He has been a
moderator Of general assembly, the
highest honor the Presbyterian church
can bestow. He is a philologist who
might have made his mark in that SCI
ence had he not preferred the pulpit
and education. He will make a noble