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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-18
Vice and Honesty Not Combined.

The editor of the Congregational
list has drawn some very striking
lessons from Cashier Warmers defal-
cation and very conclusively proves
that man cannot be "hale fellow,
well met" in the basest sense of the
phrase and still be an honest man.
The two traits of character do not
mix any more than oil and water.
Here is the editorial in the Boston
paper:
1.-THE whole affair at Northampton
shows how inadequate are what we
consider our best modern schemes for
preventing crime in high places OF trust
and responsibility. Devices in electric
cars prevent conductors from pilfering
the fares which they take, but our sys.
TENS of checks and espionage seem to be
deficient in iorefending such a calamity
as visited Northampton. Most of the
stockholders and depositors probably
thought that their money was as safe as
it could be anywhere. The directors,
with an easy.going tolerance too often
characteristic of their class, presumed
that everything was right, and yet year
after year this clever rogue had been so
manipulating the securities and the books
that he has stolen 100000 or more as
easily as the famous bank robbers in
1876 despoiled another bank OF the town
of over 81 100000.
There is, after all, no absolute security
against a brilliant rogue. The price o, Q
man is above that of rubies. We car
hire work done, but we cannot command
virtue simply by paying high salaries
The marvel is that when so many per
sons in Northampton knew of the i'm
morali,ies OF this defauting official the,
still allowed him to be retained in posi-
tions OF honor and responsibility. Pop
ular he was, G NAL, accommodating, bu
he lacked the fundamental virtues o
purity and honesty. Northampton ha
had some splendid types OF banking men
loyal to their trusts, inhexibe in thei
devotion to righteousness. They wer
not good fellows" as the street est
mates men. They were seldom elected t,
Office, but every cent of the money Ell
trusted to them by widows and orphan
up and down the Connecticut Valley wa
handled with the utmost circumspectio
and honesty. In men OF this type North
ampton hereafter will put its confidence
At great cost it has learned the lesso
that it is a tremendous risk tor q com
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-18
Race PrejudiceS.

France, very likely, will never for
give us for turning her out of Mexico
in 1865, and this fact may have some
weight with her editors in their
present attitude towards the United
States.
The sympathies OF some people in
South America are curiously &C.
counted for by prominent citizen of
the Argentine Republic:
"We sympathize with Cuba; we
have been through her struggles, but
what we object to is that she should
call to her aid an alien race against
the mother country, for Spain is the
mother country" Very well. The
Anglo Saxon would have had no OBJ
lection to South Americas uniting to
help Cuba in her sorry plight. Span
ish talk is much the same everywhere
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-18

account. In this "Black Belt,
where this piano went, four.hfths OF
the people owned no land, many
lived in rented one room cabins,
many were in debt for food supplies,
many mortgaged their crops for the
food on which to live, and not one
had a bank account. In this case
how much wiser it would have been
to have taught the girls in this COM
munity how to do their own sewing,
how to cook inteligently and eco
nomically, housekeeping, something
Of dairying and horticulture; the
boys something of farming in connec-
ton with their common school edu-
cation, instead of awakening in these
people a desire for a musical instru-
ment which resulted in their parents
going into debt for third-rate piano
or organ before a home was pur-
chased. These industrial lessons
should have awakened desire tor
homes and would have given the
people the ability to free themselves
from industrial slavery to the extent
that most of them would have soon
purchased homes. After the home
and the necessaries of life were sup
piled could come the piano; one
piano lesson in home is worth
twenty in a rented log cabin.
Only a few days ago | saw a col
ored minister preparing his Sunday
sermon just as the New England
minister prepares his sermon. But
this colored minister was in q
broken-down leaky rented log cabin
with weeds in the yard, surrounded
by evidences of poverty, filth and
want of thrift. This minister hac
spent some time in school studying
theology. How much better would i,
have been to have had the minister
taught the dignity of labor, theoret
ical and practical farming in connec
ton with his theology, so that hi
could have added to his meager sal
airy, and set an example to his PEG
pie in the matter of living in decen
house. In word, this ministe
should have been taught that hi
condition, and that of his people
was not that of New England
community, and he should have beer
so trained as to meet the actual need
and condition of the colored peopl
in the community.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-18
Cuba's Woes.

Don't forget, in forming your
opinion about the justice of this war,
that no man born on the island of
Cuba Except of Spanish parents) has
any rights the Spaniards are bound
to respect. Since 1925 no Cuban
could lawfully discuss affairs in public
assembly; he could have no trial by
Jury; he had no voice whatever in
political affairs; and had no right to
bear arms. Punishment hung over
his head at the will of a governor
general. He could hold no office of
honor, trust or emolument; He was
deprived of nearly everything dear to
the American citizen. The awaken
ing of Mexico offers us sufficient
grounds for expecting good results
when Cubans can have fair deal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-18

The Vermonters in Chicago did not
forget to honor their iellow-Ver-
morter, the gallant Dewey. On con-
frmation of his glorious victory they
sent him the following message:
"As residents of Chicago we have al
ways been proud of our native state
proud of it's history, its rocks and its
mountains, its men and women, and last
but not least its heroes of peace and
war. To these there has now been added
the name of George Dewey, a name this
day ringing in all the capitals of the
world, on the tongue of every man and
woman who admres heroic deeds, hon
ors courage and is moved by exhibitions
of devotion to duty. AS natives of Yer
mont, as citizens of the United States, as
lovers of our country, as friends of hui
mainly we tender to you, Admira
George Dewey, our heartfelt thanks fol-
what you have done to succor the needy
to free the oppressed and to make glori
Gus the American name"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-18
The Philippines.

1t NAV be that Uncle Sam is rich
enough now to give us all a farm,
but there can be no harm in sug-
costing that he may conclude to add
to his acres. If this is his intention,
and the people sustain him, and the
results of the war justify it, there is
no doubt the Philippine Islands will
look just as large, and be more sala-
BILE, under United States protection
than in the control of Spain or OF
any other European government.
The larger half of their exports come
to US now, and just think ofit, a line
drawn to connect their extreme linn
its north and south, exactly equals
the length of line from Canada to
the Gulf Of Mexico.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-18
Industrial framing for the Negro.

EXTRACT from Booker T. Washington's
paper in the independently
Negro education Immediately after
the war in most cases was begun too
nearly at the point where New Eng
land education had ended. Let me
illustrate. One of the saddest sights
l ever saw was the placing OF three
hundred dollar rosewood piano in a
country school in the South that
was located in the midst of the
BLACK Belt" Am arguing agains t
the teaching OF instrumental music
to the Negroes in that community =?
Not at all; only l should have de-
ierred those music lessons about
twenty five years. There are num-
bers of such pianos in thousands OF
New England homes; but behind the
piano in the New England home there
were one hundred years of toll, sac.
rifce and economy; there was the
small manufacturing industry started
several years ago by hand power,
now grown into a great business
there was ownership in land, a COM
! Portable home free from debt, a bank
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-18
Let's Do 1t.

England and America can well
afford to brace up and stand to.
gether for Anglo-Saxon civilization.
When the reactionists everywhere are
shouting for closed ports and re-
stricted trade, it is the duty of Anglo.
Americans to see that no steps back.
wards are now taken. A few more
big battleships, a canal at the
isthmus, more missionaries, and even
more territory, are of no disadvan.
tage in planting our notions of civil
cation and trade in corners OF the
earth, where now emi.barbarism
prevails. They will come some time.
There will be difficulties of course,
but then we have way OF meeting
difficulties and again we have the
tools.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-18

Those who are accustomed to
think that Europeans and Americans
are the only authorities on scientific
discoveries, may be surprised to learn
that Menelek, negus of Abyssinia, is
an authority on small pox and pre-
ventive vaccination, and has written
a paper on that subject which will be
read at the coming meeting of the
international medical congress at
Paris. Vaccination has been prac-
ticed in Abyssinia for more than two
centuries, thus antedating Jenness
discovery.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-18

The CALIFORNIAN extends its sincere
sympathy to Vermont's revered SEN
ior senator, Hon. J. S, Morrill,, in the
loss he has just sustained by the
death of his wife, which occurred on
the 18th, after a somewhat extended
illness. Mrs. Morrill, was a woman
highly esteemed by a wide circle Of
friends who have partaken of her
cordial hospitality and been drawn
within the influence of her affection
She knew almost fifty years Of
welded life, and the union is said by
those who knew the family best to
have been an ideal one.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-18
Very Low Rates to Denver, Col.

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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-18
Stand by the Flag and President

Miss Helen Miller Gould's patriotic
enthusiasm is again shown. In adj
dition to the hundred thousand dol
lar loan to the government during
the war, she is raising four compa.
MES OF cavalry, 240 men in all, who
will fight under the Cuban flag. She
will furnish uniforms, horses, equip
ments and transportation to Cuba,
the government then giving the men
arms and ammunition. Miss Gould
will pay each Of her cavalrymen $50
a month.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-18
The Pioneer Limited

Is the name of the only perfect train in
the world, now running every night be-
tween Chicogo, St. Paul and Minneapolis
via the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway-the pioneer road of the West in
adopting all improved facilities for the
safety and enjoyment of passengers. An
illustrated pamphlet, showing views OF
beautiful scenery along the route of the
Pioneer Limited, will be sent free to any
person upon receipt of two-cent postage
stamp. Address Geo. H. Heafford, Cen
eral Passenger Agent, Chicago, III.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-18

pressed his opinion on this point
with characteristic directness when
asked if the 100000 voted by Spain
for the starving reconcentrados
would 60 to benefit them or to feed
the Spanish soldiers. Neither" he
replied, lit will all 60 to line the
pockets of the officials who handle
the money" Whether this solidly
entrenched corruption Of official life
will be prominent force in working
destruction to the new Spanish
armada gathered at the Cape Verde
Islands remains to be seen, but that
it will sadly handicap Spain in the
present contest no one will question.
Il Congregationalist.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-18

During the past two months the Rut-
land railroad has received 10000 Georgia
pine ties. These are used principally on
curves and in the yards where a harder
and longer-wearing tie is required than
the ties Of cedar and hemlock. Very few,
if any, of the ties of this class have been
used on the Rutland railroad up to two
years ago. In 1897, $4,000 ties were
put in. In 1897 the road put in $4,000
ties Of all classes, and in 1898 fully co.
900 will be laid. The life OF the Georgia
pine tie is II years. The cedar tie will
not rot for IS years, but it wears out
sooner because ofits softness. The prin-
cess pine lasts seven years; the hemlock,
five years; the white oak, Is years, and
the chestnut, IL years.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-18

munity to entrust it's business affairs to
a man who is morally rotten. And all
over this land today wherever there are
men in fiscal institutions lacking the pri-
mary virtues OF sterling manhood there
should be no rest day or night until they
are deposed or reformed. Ifwith North
ampton's sad experience in full view
other cities and towns elevate to office
impure men or intrust to them the keep
ing of their funds, the people thus mis-
placing their confidence will have them
selves only to blame if they suffer loss by
and by"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-18
ADVERTISING RATES.

These advertising rates have been adopted
nv the CALBpoYIAN and will be used until
further notice.
Per inch per week, 81. Per month 81 30.
For three months, So. For SIX months, So.
One year. So.
iarly three inches or more, 20 per cent dis
count from the above rates. Advertisers
using five inches or more regularly, 20 per
cent discount.
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Der word first insertion. (These will be set
In reading matter type and given the best
position in the paperD Legal mott. es 10
cents line, three insertions. Probate notices
$3.50 each for three insertions. Dissolution.
liberation and similar notices 81 so each for
three insertions. Card OF thanks, 70 cents.
Obituary poetry, 10 cents line.
Solid electrotypes only will be taken. We
cannot use cuts with wood bases.
THE CALIFORNIAN co.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-12-15
The Pine Tree State.

The following verses On the Pine Tree
State We're written for tie Pine Tree Asso-
citation at Los Angeles, Calf, Iy Emily P
Webb, native of Maine,
Hurrah for the State Of the ola Pine Tree,
That stands with her feet III lhe rocks 10y
the sea,
And bears or her shoulders broad and high,
The mountain peaks to the clear blue sky
And looks across DER the British line
Through her waving locks OF the fragrant
pine.
There thesuubeams chase the laughing MI Is
Az they spring to life III HE yerdaIt hills,
AL d they hide away in the verdant dells,
here the Wild flowers ring their pertuued
bells.
Rut when they leave the shadows and run
Their dimples are kissed by the smiling
sun.
There the rivers rush in torrents grand
Like warriors bold across the land
And turn by the power of their mighty
wills
The busy wheels of a thousand mills.
Then onward sweep with d current wide
Till their waves are lost in the oceans tide,
o, the dear Maine woods where the tall
trees stand
Like mighty kings on their native land,
And when they roar IN the wind and the
1t sounds like "A storm on the angry main,
For ships unborn that shall sail the seas
Are dreaming dreams in the dark old trees
There the blood-root first in those shadowy
woods
| mites the emerald strings of her hood.
And the sweet arbutus, with face aglow,
Peeps out from the leaves in a cap of snow.
bile under the ferns to a weird, soft tune,
The fairies fit by the light of the moon.
How sweet is the air when the soft winds
Through the tasseed houghs of the pine
and fir,
While the only sounds that fall on the ear
Are the drop of the nuts or the wild birds
near
The scamper Of squirrels, or frightened
hare,
That raises its hands to its breast in PRAYER
But the bracng air from the pine tree fills
The veins of her men with electric thrills.
1t stirs TO action and makes them bold
To battle with life, with heat or with cold;
10 fight for the right with their latest
breath,
And ride victorious down to death.
The man from Maine,' there was never
tomb
So dark or 50 deep as to bury his plume;
There was never an ocean rolled so wide
But his falchion flashed on the other side,
And his ringing voice Will 60 ringing on,
Till every star from Cur flag has gone.
stands
And beck ons us home with its waving hands,
And calls US back with its murmurs low,
To the boughs that sheltered US long ago
For over the land and over the sea,
We hear the wind in the ola Pine Tree.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-12-15
The Republican Journal, Thursday, December IS, 1898

the Thanksgiving Day one week, namely,
from the first to the second Thursday in
November.
After the meeting Betty pressed close
to Rachel.
''Said not t'would come right?' she
whispered.
Rachels eyes were shining with strange
radiance and her voice was full of glad
ness.
'This is the Lords doing; it is mar
velous in our eyes Betty, how am | re-
buked for my unbelief! l prayed, but
| trusted not
Betty looked away, and there was a
sound of tears in her happy voice.
Dear" she said, 81 am not good.
did not pray; but | love thee, Rachel, and
am so gladn' Then as she caught sight
of William Langdon coming toward them,
she turned away with her old careless
laugh.
Here comes William Langdon,' she
said. II must needs stops him or he
will jar on thy happiness, Rachel, fol-
never have laid eyes on so clumsy a
man. y
The young man greeted her brightly.
Thou art sight for sore eyes, Betty, y
he said
is that the reason thou starest so?'
she retorted But | have good news.
John Danforth will be here Thanksgiving
Day."
His face clouded, than changed, and he
spoke resolutely.
Betty" he said, Il claim thy prom
ise.'
She looked up at linn and laughed mer-
rily. Il knew thy wit was dull, "
She said. But this is cen the dullest.
Didst thou think out that plan? Didst
thou see it when it was half told thee
Nay, | might say more: Dost thou see
the work of it nov? Didst see that Han
nah Davenport was jealous and stirred up
the other women TO punish that saucy
Betty Allen? Didst see that?''
His face was white beneath its brown
coat of tan, and his voice was as she
never had heard it before.
'Betty,' he said, Il care naught for all
this. Thou hast played with me long
enough. | will stand it no longer. Thou
knowest that | love thee so that all the
world is naught beside | ask thee this
once-wilt marry me- Betty?''
Betty glanced up at the stern set face.
She tried to make her voice careless, but
it trembled little in spite of herself
''Well, then, William, seeing that a
maid must marry, and that thou needs
some one to care for thee beyond any
man | know, some day | will and be
fore he could say v ord she was across the
little green in the midst of group of
matrons, nor could he get another word
with her during the incoming. But when
the afternoon service began, to two hearts
there, peIchance to three, for who could
read Betty face? it was the real Thanks
giving Day.
Before the second Tuesday dawned,
John Danforth came riding back with
proof none could gainsay; Wednesday a
white winged sloop had sailed into harbol
and Hannah Davenport was making pies
beside which Betty Aliens should not be
mentioned, and tie second Thursday was
kent as Thanksgiving Day.
Long years afterward curious eyes read
in the old town records how Thanksgiv-
ING Day once had been postponed to allow
time fol- the arrival OF a sloop bringing
the molasses; but when in the tangled web
of fate are woven the three threads of a
woman's love, womans pride and a
woman's prayer, who can say why a
thing is done9 dorothy E Nelson, in
Good Housekeeping.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-12-15
THE MODERN MOTHER

Has found that her little ones are improved
more by the pleasant Syrup of Figs, when
in need of the laxative effect of gentle
remedy, tina by any other. Children enjoy
it and it benefits them The true remedy,
Syrup of Figs, is manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. only.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-12-15

Get Instant Relief from Piles,-This
most irritating disease relieved i'll ten min
utes by using DR.. Agnew's Ointment, and a
cure in from three to six nights. Thousands
testify of its goodness. Good for Eczema,
Salt Rheum, and all skin diseases. If you
are without faith, one application will COLI
vince.-35 cents. Sold by Kilgore q Wilson
and A. A. Howes & Co. 70.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-12-15
For Over Fifty Years.

AN OLD AND WELL-TRIED REMEDY.-Mrs
Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for
their children while teething, with perfect
success. 1t soothes the child, softens the
gums, allays all pain, cures wind collie, and
is the best remedy for Diarrhea Is pleas
ant to the taste. Sold by druggists in every
part of the world. Twenty-Five cents bot
tie Its value is incalculable. Be sure and
ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, and
take no other kind.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-12-15
B4RKS

Alice Reed, Alansou Ford, Weymouth,
n S, for Rosario, arrived at Buenos Ayres
Oct O.
CT Dixon, n f Gilkey, sailed from Barba-
does Nov for Trinidad and of II,
Edward May, cleared from San Francisco
Sept 30 for Sydney, n S W
Ethel, Dodge, sailed from Monteyiedo
June Tor Puerto Burghl.
EVE Reed, A I Whittier, sailed from
New York Nov % for Bahia
Herbert Black, W Ii Blanchard, arrived
at Boston Nov. 10 from Santos
Iolani Mcclure, arrived at Hong Kong
Nov. IA from Honolulu
Mabel | Meyers, Z n Meyers, arrived At
Boston Nov II from Turks Island.
Matanzas, arrived at Havana from New
York Nov 70.
Olive Thurow, j 0 Hayes, arrived at
Pascagoula Nov % from Havana.
Penohscot, L G Parker, cleared from
Hong Kong Sept a for Boston passed Anger
Nov 4
Rebecca Croweu, NJ G Dow, at Buenos
Ayres Oct II for Delaware Rreakwater.
Rose Inns, Melvin Colcord, arrived at
Rio Janeiro Oct 30 from New York.
Serrano, X G Warehouse, sailed from
Shanghai Aug. 20 for FoochoW.
Thomas A Goddard, w Griffin, sailed
from Rosario Oct . for Santos.
Willard Mudgett, A q Cocord, sailed
from Portland Oct 81 for Bahia Blanca.