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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-08-08
The Brooks-Ty|er
Dry Goods Co.
NEW ADS. THIS WEEK.

Newport Fair.
House to Rent,
New Junk Dealer.
Check List Notice.
McTndoes Academy.
Ensilage Gutter for Sale.
Girl Wanted-Mrs. Morris.
Springfield Business School,
Kodaks-Standard Drug Store.
August Sale-Brooks-Tyle Co.
Hot Weather Bargains-Lougee Bros.
Separators Repaired-W. w. S. BIowne.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-08-08
Caledonia County Fair Races.

The officers of the fair met yesterday
and appropriated $500 for purses for
the races and arranged for the following
ella sSes.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-08-08
classes

These are, we believe, the largest
purses ever offered for our county fair
and they will attract the fastest horses
ever seen on the track. Entries close
Saturday Sept. s, at II p. m. and all en-
tries should be made to Charles l. Smith
McIndoes vt.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1900-11-08

! koew . man once who had q buresr
that he had boushl iron . friend. and 1
y. probably the worst made bureau
that ever damaged the reputation Of 81
otherwise unproisne man.
/ What was the ms,.er with the bu
reaue
Plenty. There wasn't 9 drawer in 1,
that fitted. Sueibsker. that was the msu {
name. had bis collars and cuffs aud
small furnishings 10 the middle drawer.
snd TO pull ont The middle drawer re
quired pine bitches. slterutt ttely left sud
night, snd then . sndden jerk. Snel
baker could do i, every time after a
while. but the habit was so firmly fIed
on h'm tbs, be conduit do II without
swearing. H'd accompany himself with
sort OF proisne oblisstc. as II were,
and feel better for II too.
Doe night fellow bosrdtr snesked In
to hi, room and carefully soaped The
portions OF The drawer that caused the
friction. aud when Snelbsker 20, hold Of
its little later IL came 90 easy 1t the
fret bitch that be forgot himself and gave
II mighty jerk that brought II ont with
such celebrity that II 1sw over bis head
be was lying On his back Ut the time.
staring st the wonderful star display on
the ceiling and continued scros the
70 ON snd over The bed and banged II |
self against the door casing and flung
Suelbaker's collars and cuffs and other
things oil over the upper hall and down
the front stairway, and one OF his COLLAR
buttons actually dropped into the lower
hall and dtwa the register and straight
ahead into the furnace two floors below.
And what did Snelbaker do2
He didn't do thing bat get sn * and
give that wretched piece Of furniture
some Of the moet proisne licks tbst were
sver dealt an insoimste object Bat be
wouldn't have another buresu brought 10
to bis room. No, sir. He kept bis
'biris Ia the washstand, bis cuffs in .
latboX and his collars 10 the waste-bas
ret
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1900-11-08
VOLUME 10


The Chic.ao Record tell. q ,,ot, which
fsAd' liles aaesr sesslion Of The good
Old itiaec'ion. "lienor 10 whom hesot !.
due"
peenlisr ielssr,phlc correspos5enes
=" carried 90 heiweea the capital. Of
s.iony, Bohemia sad Rus.i.. some ons
10 Dresden bad . msiisn .ua, who vm
taken sick snd died 10 hospital IL
f"sue while oa her way 10 V,sns.,
The nepbes wm bottled and be tails
snphed TO The rf.sas hospital su,bori
Ties to scnd The body 10 Dresden, for On
iembneni in the family v.ut.
When The o. III srdv,d snd w.s op,n
%, II ss ioaad 10 eoni.in, not The body
OF the snnt bal that Of . uniformed and
bediE'aed Russian general. Immediate
b the nephew ielcgnphed to ptsgas.
No dead aunt, bal Russian sener,i.
Where dead suut'
From Prague osne the feplvi II dead
aunt not nrised. then Peiersburs.
The nent telegram vent TO the railway
authorities at 81, Petersburg. and read.
What do With Ru'sisp seusrslf Where
ls dead snnt9
Add from 81, Petersburg was received
The reply:
Bury general In all silence. Aant Just
buried here with hishes. military houots.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1900-11-08

Below 10 an snecdole. found 10 Short
Stories, which . R9msn Catholic priest.
nov deceased, was fo9d Of telling 10 bis
informal parish lectures. Its quaint and
homely moral Is evident.
Bridget only came to confession oocss
ionslly. and when sbe did come she found
1t very difficult 10 remember sDy wrong
doing on her Own part. She had, howev
er . better memory for her hnsbsnd's
sius. Ips Moiks. ms husband, thsps the
bad one, f.ether. she said once to her con
lessor. It's three weeks tbai Moike never
sontesses, 40 hisen kuosps bis sios is
scarlet He drinks like 8 b1ie ana
,mokes loiaes aae. lie essesfs th.t bhsd
st. Patrick xud trimtle Add tufs 70
shud see Moike smssh The dishes snd
bre.k the iarlitors ard dag The stove lids
se-
siI Hail Mays ssery day for week
and three fact d.ys Bridget, said The isth
er.
Oh. fxhst DO yoa msae. f.stbsri Bare.
Oi nirsr confessed sipl
Bat you confessed Mixes. said tbe fsth
er gaie,ly, suj IS ioag % yoa nsse bic
confessions ior hlm tbiok you oashi 70
DO peasEee. Bidgst
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1900-11-08

! sa ss much ossfiayed ~ Pete VA
sstonished 81 our meeting. Before noon
tie irdisn bad hang up deer on the
riise. snd vhep be returned 10 set ibs
neat be ioond three lions hsd totn down
the carcass. He hredisnd missed, and AZ
the liens rsn be bad followed. shooting
si them ~ lons ss they vereia sight.
by mskins q strenuous Effort iound ibsi
! could stand 90 my feet. bui ! sss not
released ircm my shelf until the Indisn
procured 30 sie aud bndsed the gulch
si,h peles
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1900-11-08

Ths 10 40 interesting fact, bscsase tbs
love OF locality ia . 90, IL sppsrsDiiy
stronger than the levs OF Persons. While
ia . doa the love Of per.on, 10 The ,lrens
sr sentiment, Besides itis Jerry bad
shown Ls attachment. to locality by rs
msinins ., bic master, old camp.
Jerry YES certainly sn usually iniclli
sett cat, but ! thisk bi. esssrness 10 10
,urn TO civilization ~ss nstarsl. and that
any cat would have ielt the same. si
though fev might have had the .bility
to sbos Il 81 plainly /. Jerry did. When
20 resumed our journey We left bin 10
the arms OF bis old master, Who had
come to the river bank 10 see us Cd.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1900-11-08

Hh., do yco tLiek Nsss Popkiss dii
sben slsid isls last righti she got %
snd hung 30 Exit plsead 90 The psflos
dosr,
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1900-11-08

Tho Civil War was fought almost 10 ia
clo,e With the Springfield mt szlc- -!oader,
but some oi the last Uaion regiments
we're srmed with the Henry riffs, then
comparatively new, fifteen sb ooter. With
= magazine which had TO be taken ont 10
be reBllsd. Some OF The things ihs. hsp
pened after one regiment WAS armed
with Henrys are described in the words
OF 30 old soldier.
My old regiment, ssld he TO II. b,
Townshend, an English writer who has
lived IN the West. got most terrible used
up In one OF them last campaigns before
Richmond, and there wasn't more'n Atty
OF US lett that wasn't either dead Of
wounds or sick or invslided on. OF tho
service. 80 what did they do but send
us back TO the base and reorsanize us
with q fresh lot Of officers. and shout
nine hundred newly drafted men.
They were pretty poor lot tell
you, US fellers rs had had four years OF
it and knew what soldering was. ~s
felt mighty sick ct being psrsded with
al them last sweepines Of the draft
Well. they took OR old Sprinsfelds
away from US. and srmed The regiment
With them foe new brsss-mounted Henry
rifles. and sent as right on to the front.
liked the new guns well enough. twas
not bad gun, the Henry; you hear ne
talk But what and my old chummies
didn't relish was the notion OF going into
action alongside OF them nine hundred
raw recruits. Bot there was no help for
1t, and the general showed us night along
to the front, and then them reoruities
bad to go nnder Gre for the first time.
Forward says somebody and We run
forward till we come TO . pasture with
fence on the far side. aud wood beyond
It, There wsss good few rebel sharp
shooters in that wood, and right away
they begun to belt . few shots into us,
We'd ought to have run on, but We oil
Firel says somebody. Aud then you
ought 10 have heard them raw rtcruitiss
whsling away. Every last msn Of them
lsd bis msgszlne emptied 10 about TIVE nty
I've seconds. Then there come lull, for
hey'd all got to stop firing At onot, and
pull out their magazines and fill up with
iiteen more cartridges.
And 10 ths. lull what d'you reckon We
,esrd2
Why, said the old soldier 10 answer to
lie own question, = noise like hail storm
'ver 10 them woods where the rebs
we're, II was oily the leaves and the
mall twies falling down from the high
ops OF the tres whore them recruit
nllets had gone.
/ reckon they must have fred about III
cen thousand rounds up there. Fell
own Just like rain, them leaves did,
on see, fellers like that. when They're
rcited are dead sure TO fre too high.
Nor they didn't scare them rebs, neither
Why one OF them heiloed across the pss
ire TO ~, u Ysnkl
Well. many 9 day I've talked with EN-
ke tbst befots, across the Geld Of battle.
Id 20 sung on. back, What 10 II. John
" DO you surrender
Surrender mol calls out the reb. Bot,
Ysnk, says be. Say where do you get
em coHse-millsi
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1900-11-08
A Bottle Romance.

Twas 9 bitter stroke OF the irony o.
fate that Ernest Norton 10 romsntically
, consigning bis sweethesrts name to th,
river. sealed in bottle, should have there
by united her to another man, . strant
or.
VI One afternoon 10 midsummer Mr.
Norton, Miss Grace Newhsesen and three
eluslly sentimental Council Bluffs couples
who have nothing to do With this story
embarked In company on the excursion
steamer Jacob Ritobmsn for . trip down
the river.
Mr.. Norton, says the New York World.
was in bis most romsntic mood. He be
gan rhspsodizing sbout the river and
the hundreds Of miles il travelled TO reach
the seq, and the esembsnce 1t bore to
human lie. and the many human eyes
that looked upon 1t in its course; and be
quoted Longiellow, and took of bis hat
and let the wind m ass bis hair up until
pretty Miss Newhausen was quite carried
swsy and pressed his arm and whispered
that he was real poet,
Emboldened by success. Norton wrote
her name and address on piece OF paper
waved il above bis head aud declared
thst he would consign 1t TO the water so
that the mighty river should carry her
fame 10 the southland, and 80 to the open
ses,
He rolled up the paper, slipped 1t into
the bottle and fastened the psteDt rubber
stopper. Then with = fne gesture be
flung it fer over the rail 60 thst II reach
ed the water.
The bottle went bobbing is way down
the Missouri river toward the ses. not
psusing by night or day. And Grace
Newhsusen's nsme remained inside sale
and dry, Tor The stopper was q good one,
Bat 1t was not destined TO resoh ihe
ses, nor tvsn the Mississippi. As II
nesred St. Joseph, No.. 1t drited near
. pleasure skifl 10 which Harold Trua1
Was rowing with some friends.
TrusI plunged bis hand over the side
and captured the bottle. With bis poe
ketknife be wormed out the piece Of pa
per and read what was on IT,
A sirls name snd address 70
msnticl Grace Newhsusen sounded 40
II she we're pretty too. And 1t had ira
yeled sll the way iron Council Blufsl
How romsnticl
Yes. Trusx Is the third romsntic person
10 this story. Otherwise be would not
have pond r'd ID pondered over Grace
New shsusel's usme. wondered what che
was like and shy she had thrown The
bqttie into tue rlsfr. ard ended BY writ
ng ber snivs little Dole telling oil about
Il, Inolosng bis photograph sud asking
Der TO send him oue OF her own.
Miss NsshaGssn felt more romsntic
.hsn ever over TtuaI's letter. especially
,s the potiisit ass that Of su .eressble-
ooiing yonUy man. sbe replied in .
Iimii.r sprit. aud The eorrsspondepes {
xsied warm.
Here we're two romsptie people 10 heart .
cit connaLicslioa: bat poor Norton .bo q
,sd started u sil aud ptiIsd himself o. 4
,eing 80 ronsbtic poor Norton who bad
sunehed The beer bottle 90 ils career
-w1 cot oi II. =
Ard oat OF it be rem aims, Tor Miss Ssv .
'sassn las become Mrs. Trusx. a
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-21

poses. The price which Senator Proctor
is expe cted to pay was placed at $1G, G,OOO,-
600, and the statement was made that with
his Vermo and Italian possessions he
could control large part of the marble
product of the world. Fletcher D. Proc.
tor, the senator's son andstbe manager of
the Vermont Marble company, says the
story is lacking absolutely in foundation.
Two remarkable young men met for the
first time in Boston Monday, when Wins
ton Churchill, 20, American, gave dinner
at the Somerset club in honor of Winston
Spencer Churchill, 20, EngIishman. The
American is a native of st. Louis, for
mer cadet at Annapolis, and is known to
fame as the author of Orchard Carvel. {"
The Englishman is a son of the late Lord
Randolph Churchill, and his mother was
member of the Jerome family of New
York. The EnglishmaD, who was for
merly lieutenant in the army, was cap
tured by the Beers while acting as war
correspondent He escaped from the
prison at Pretoria, and is now in this coun-
try to lecture on his experiences. He has
written two or three successful books, and
was elected to Parliament recently.
Robert M. Collins, who is remembered
by Vermonters as a Middlebury college
boy, has returned recently from China,
where, as correspondent of the Associated
Press, he entered Tien-Tsin and Pekin
with the allies. Mr.. Collins had charge
of the Associated Press bureau in Manila
before he went to China, reported the
peace conference in Paris, and was for
merly connected with the Associated Press
offices in Washington and London. Mr..
Collins has this 10 say of the looting of the
Chinese cities: "Who were the worst
hooters? Well, the British were the most
successful, because they were most sys-
tematic. They went about 1t as a regular
piece of business; sent out men with carts
and wagons under command of officers.
Their experience in India had made them
connoisseurs in things oriental, and they
selected only the best of the silks and en-
broiderles, the rarest of the jade and the
finest of the jewels and left the rest for the
less expert looters. The japanese did the
least looting and the Americans were next
to the laps in this respect"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-21
BOttlIng Up the Coal supply.

When John D. Rockefeller wishes to
give a million dollars to his pet university
all he has to do is to mark up the price of
lamp oil one cent gallon, and the dear pub
lie will pay the freight, while halleluiahs
are sung and devout thanks are given to
pious John.
The price of oil has been increased 30
per cent within the year, and total of 4s
per cent has been paid on the heavily wat
cred stock. A monopoly which is more
burdensome, and which affects every
household of the country to greater ex-
tent than the oil trust, is the combination
of railroads and banking interests which
have bottled up the supply of the anthra-
cite or hard coal east Of the Mississippi.
A few independent operators own mines
outside the trust, but these concerns are at
the mercy of the trust, having no outlet to
tidewater except through the railroads
which are within the combination. An
extortionate freight rate is charged on hard
coal. The rate is the same TO the mines
! owned by the railroads as to those of the
independent operators, so that the charge
of discrimination is apparently avoided.
The rate on soft coal is only one-third that
on hard coal. The rate on hard coal is
much higher per ton than the average
charge for all kinds of freight on all The
railroads of the United States, although
bard coal is classed as the lowest kind of
freight.
The independent coal operators had ap-
parently solved the way of getting their
product to tide water, thus giving the pub.
lie the benefit of coal at reduced cost, by
securing control of the old Delaware and
Hudson canal route, which was abandoned
as worthless two years ago. The owning
of the canal route gave the right to build
the Delaware Valley & Kingston railroad,
which would be in opposition to the rail
roads interested in the anthracite coal
fields. The Pennsylvania Coal company,
the largest independent concern, was
leader in this movement. The acquisition
OF this property forced the combination,
headed by j. P. Morgan & Co., to come to
the terms of the Pennsylvania Coal CON-
pany. Ine IeSulL was budl Iue low rate
stock of the Pennsylvania Coal company
was marked up to $276 share, and the
syndicate had to buy control at that figure,
paying an enhanced value of $4,000, 900,
aud distributing over $S7, 600, 900 to stock
holders of the Pennsylvania Coal company.
All this is interesting as showing how some
one had the luck to bring the syndicate to
terms, but the result in the end means the
Tightening of the Gordon on the dear pub
lie, who in the end will have to settle the
whole deal, while the small independent
coal operators are placed in more embar-
raising predicament than before.
II there is a statesman who can devise
legislation which will remove the tentacles
of the coal octopus from the throat of the
of the public the opportunity seems ripe
for starting his name a.thundering down
the corridors of time.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-21
A Momen1ous an.s,lnn.

Arguments have been heard by the Unit
ed States supreme court in Washington
this week in two cases, the decision of
which is expected to fix the status Of Por-
to Rico and the Philippine Islands and
other insular possessions acquired through
the war with Spain, with respect to the
United States proper; to say whether their
people are citizens, and to indicate wheth-
er the constitution follows the flag. The
two cases were heard together.
One, entitled Fourteen diamond rings,
Emil j. Pepke, claimant against the Unit
ed States," concerns the right of the Unit
ed States authorities to collect customs du-
ties on articles brought from territory or
part Of the United States. Pepke was A
volunteer soldier who served in the Phil
ippines, there came into possession of
these diamond rings and brought them
home with him on being henorab bly, dis
charged from the service. On refusal to
pay duties on the rings they we're seized by
the customs officers at Chicago. Pepke's
case rests upon the constitutional proyis-
ion that 'all duties, imposts and excises
shall be uniform throughout the United
States" His attorney is Charles H. AL
drige of Chicago, solicitor-general of the
United States under the Harrison admins
tration. Attorney General Griggs appear
ed for the government. The other case.
in which ex.Secretary Carlisle is one of
the counsel, raises substantially the same
questionable right of Congress to impose
the existing reduced customs duties on i'm
ports from Porto Rico.
John b. Goetze in June, 1899, imported
from Porto Rico a quantity of leaf to-
bacco through the port of New York, and
protested against the assessment of duty
on the importation, claiming that the to-
bacco was not subject to duty because
"Porto Rico at the time of the importa-
tion was not foreign country, and be-
cause, therefore, the imposi ition of duties
on goods broughtsfrom place within the
territory of the United States into a port
of the United States is not lawful and val
i'd under the constitution"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-21

A commission which has been in session
in Montreal several days has as its object
the harmonizing of the fish and game laws
Of the Cadadian provinces and the adioin-
ing border states of Maine, New Hamp-
shire and Vermont. The resolutions
adopted by the commission will be submit
ted to the legislatures and the Canada gov
ernment as basis of enactment. For
years the licenses for seine fishing which
Canada has issued have allowed Canadians
to destroy annually hundreds of wall-eyed
pike during their migratiOns to the spawn
ing beds in Missisquoi bay, while the laws
of Vermont and New York prevented any
such wholesale raid upon the fish in these
states. An important step toward ending
this abuse in Canada came in the adop-
ton by the committee in Montreal of a
resolution recommending that all net fish
ing be prohibited in Lake Champlain in
the spring cf the year in NeY York, Yer
mont and the province of Quebec. J.W.
Titcomb of St. Johnsbury, the Vermont
fish and game commissioner, who intro
duced the resolution, pointed out that a
continuation of the practices which have
been allowed just across the line would
result in the depletion of the fish supply
in Lake Champlain, and cause gseat dam
age to the summer resorts through not hav-
ing the attraction of good fishing for the
summer visitors.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-12-21
JOHN CALVIN,
90 Main street,
BrattIehOrO,
TIL HE
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