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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-17
RUSSIAN NEWSPAPER SEES
TREND OF IMPERIALISM.

Z NIIcU SEAtFN NHu r THHtt ATt
Strengthening the World Powers
which Are NoBarchies.
ST. PETERSBURG, November 16.-
The Moscow Viedomosti, an reaction
airy organ, regards American and
French imperialism as an indication
that those republics are strengthening
to real world powers, that is, monarch
les" and describes the centrifugal ten
denotes OF Austria-Hungary as demo-
cratic.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-17
Tile wEATHEn.

WASHINGTON. November 16-r7or Ohio
Fair in northern portion. rain n southern
portion Saturday. Sunday, probably rain
or snow; fresh soufh 70 east Winds.
For Western northumberland
fair and warmer Saturday Sunda
creasing eIoudiueas y pEobabiy
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the Temperature yeste VI
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20
THE RlPENING OF MEAT.

The proper ripening Of meats has ev
erything to do with their tenderness
and toothsomeness when eaten. The
chefs of the bYt hotels, restaurants
and dining cars thoroughly understand
this, and they secure not a little of
their enviable reputation as cooks be-
cause of it. Some people, and they are
not few by any means, associate the
ripening of meats with the process of
decomposition, in doing which they are
entirely wrong, and so set are they in
their whims that they will not buy
meat that has been killed more than a
day or so before. AS a result they al
ways eat tough meat, for no known
process of cooking can make freshly
killed meats juicy and tender The
principal reason why the dressed meat
houses of large cities have been able to
successfully compete with the meat Of
the local butcher is just because the
product of the city houses is properly
cured and ripened before it is placed
upon the market, and the people, find
ing it more palatable, buy it in prefer
ence to the meats killed by the local
butcher. This process of ripening con
sists simply in placing the meat in
cooler at temperature of about SO to
SO degrees and holding it there until
the muscular and fibrous tissues of the
meat become broken down. There is
no trace of faint or decomposition in
the process, and meat so kept is per-
fectly sweet at the end Of 20 or 30 days
and withal as tender as the meat of a
spring chicken. The fact stated ap-
plies to all meats, but not to fish, which
are best served when as fresh as posi-
BILE.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20
LOWERED INTEREST RATES.

No single fact connected with the i'm
proved financial condition of the coun-
try has contributed more to the benefit
of the man on the farm than this of a
lowered rate of interest Taking the
west, for instance, when the land was
first taken up from the government,
money was always very, very scarce.
Any of these first settlers will tell one
how they used to pay from % to 40 per
cent per annum for money with which
to prove up on their presumption
claims. Later the rate was lowered to
10 and Is per cent, the interest charge
where a farm was at all heavily mort
gagged eating up each year all the avail
able cash income of the farm and all
too often being from inability to pay
converted into part Of the principal,
which process has swallowed up thou
sands and thousands of the best farms
of the country. Still later the rate of
interest fell to 10 and II per cent, and
men borrowed at this rate and by in
vesting in land could afford to pay that
rate. 1t then dropped to s per cent and
within the past two years has gone
down to per cent and today a mort
gage is robbed Of over half it's terrors.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20
PASSUnPSIC.

F. H. Pierce, organist of Emmanuel
Baptist church, Chicago, and his mother
Mrs. c. K. Pierce, were in town last
week visiting relatives, They went to
Newport on Saturday, and will return
to this place again sometime this week
and remain over Sunday. Mr.. Pierce
will play the organ in the church here
next Sunday.
Frank w. Barker, of Hartford, Conn,
was in town for a short time Saturday,
having come north with the body of his
father, the late John c. Barker. formerly
of st. Johnsbury, who was buried at
West Concord, his earlier home. Ms.
c. K. Pierce, of Chicago, and Mrs.
Thomas Miles of this place are sisters of
the late Mr.. Barker and the only surviv-
ing members of the family in their gener-
alton.
Mrs. Maud Svmes did not go to Mont
real last week as was announced, but
went early this week.
Rev. Mr.. Meacham and wife, Mr.. and
Mrs. J.. Fl. Wark, Mr.. and Mrs. Milo
Larkin and Deacon !. M. Randall are
delegates to the Danville Baptist Asso-
citation held in St. Johnsbury this week
Wednesday and Thursday.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20
A SENSIBLE GIRL.

She was a bright and well educated
town girl, knew how to cook well and
keep house and could cut and make her
own dresses. Her matrimonial fate
came not as prince or a dude or a
rich elderly widower but as a stall
Wart, hard handed young farmer. Her
girl friends made fun of him and joked
her about having to feed the pigs and
milk the COWS and all that She mar
ried him just the same, about year
ago, and we saw her the other day,
just as dainty, refined and ladylike as
when she lived in the city. Asked how
she liked life on the farm, she said that
she was very happy and enjoyed it,
that there was such a sense of indie
pendence about farm life; they are not
fretting that by some turn of the times,
or of the political wheel, her husband
would lose his place; that society was
more sincere in the country and freer
from the petty duplicities and shams
of town life. She said that she could
not see that her work in the farm home
was any more burdensome than that
Of the wife and mother in the city,
where the incomes were equal. Her
friends have quit joking and plying
her and some of them are casting long
ing eyes countryward.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20
Republican District Convention.

Republican convention for the Second
Congressional District will be held at White
River Junction on Tuesday, the 26th day of
Iune, A. d. 1900, at / O'Clock p. M, for the
purpose of placing in nomination a candi-
date to be supported by the freemen of the
district at the election to be held on Tues
day, the 4th day of September next. for the
ffty-seventh congress of the United States ;
also to elect a district committee for the
ensuing biennial term.
Towns and cities will be represented in
said convention on the basis of one delegate
for each town or city, one delegate for each
thereof of fifty cast for the republican candi-
date for governor in 1896.
Delegates will be chosen at primary meet
ings called by the republican committee in
each town or city, and will provide them
selves with proper credentials, signed by the
secretary of said primary meeting at which
they are elected, and present them to the
District Committee (who will act as COM
mittee on credentials) at their headquarters
at the Junction House Immediately upon
their arrival.
Tie District Committee recomm end that the
primaries in the several towns and cities be
held on Saturday, June 16, / 600 The usual
courtesy Of fare one way will be given by the
railroads in the state. Explicit directions
for securing round trip tickets will be given
upon the blank credential sent to each town
committee.
[Signed,1
Republican Committee,
Second Congressional District.
Hardwick, Vt, May &c, 1900.
On the above representation, Caledonia
county is entitled to the following number
IF deli
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20
NEWPORT.

Rev. John Nd. Dutton, pastor of the
Congregational church here, died very
suddenly Sunday afternoon as The result
of a shock. He had been in poor health
for some time but this sudden death
came as great shock to all, and will be
deeply felt by the church and community
The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon,
conducted by Rev. c. H. Merrill, assisted
by Rev. Edward M. Chapman, both OF
st. Johnsbury, and Rev. Mr.. Flanders.
Mr.. Dutton came here from Newtonville.
Mass, and was a brother.in-law OF
Judge Thompson, of Irasburg
Judge L. H. Thompson, of Irasburg,
who has been in critical condition for
several days is still very low and gradu-
ally growing weaker.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20
THE EVOLUTION OF OKLAHOMA.

Eight years ago wild waste of prai-
RE and woodland, hunting ground for
n lot Of uncivilized red men and the
home of the red deer, wild turkey and
coon; today bsected with railways,
dotted all over with growing and
thrifty towns and the homes of very
prosperous farming community, pro-
ducer of the finest Of wheat, cotton and
corn and In the near future to be hard
ly excelled as fruit growing section,
Its people worthily demanding state
hood. Compare this rapid evolution Of
a great state with the slow and almost
painful development Of Indiana, Michi-
gan or Wisconsin, progress accom-
plished in eight years which it took eli.
Their of the states named 60 years to at
tain to.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20
A NEW INDUSTRY.

The raising of Belgian hares is be-
coming quite an industry in some parts
of this country. A California paper
which we recently saw contained sew
eral advertisements of "rabbitries," as
the breeding establishments are term
ed. This hare was imported from Eu-
rope, weighs about nine pounds at ma
turity, thrives well in confinement, is
clean and easy to care for, enormously
prolific, one doe producing five litters
Of from 10 to Is each in a season. 1t
lives on clover, alfalfa and grain. The
meat is very white and delicious and
much sought for by the best restau-
rants and hotels which pay 25 cents a
pound for the young hares at the age
of or months, when not fully grown.
Pedigreed animals Of high blood bring
as high as $3.50 each. Two or three
hundred hares may be kept on a town
lot If given proper food and shelter,
and this fact is giving the business q
big boom in the towns where the bust
hess has been introduced.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20

A portable press which would press
fax straw into small square or cylin-
drical blocks which could be burned in
an ordinary wood heating stove would
be great thing for the treeless regions
of the northwest, where common soft
coal sells at from Sc to So per ton.
There is an endless amount of this fax
straw through the territory referred to,
and could it be so prepared it would
make a splendid fuel.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20
THE TOWNS AROUND.
LYNDONVILLE.

Adelbert Eaton OF Eaton's Lecture
Bureau OF Boston, is visiting his sisters
Mrs. G. M. Campbell and Mrs. Johr
Cunningham.
Editor and Mrs. B. U. Wells have re-
turned from their wedding trip, having
been to Chicago, by the way of Montreal
They are now residing on Church street
Prof. w. E. Ranger and wife are guests
at Austin Paige's.
Miss Ada Macarthur OF Sherbrooke, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. John Cleary.
E. J. Blodgett took a vacation last
week at Lake Memphremagog, fishing.
Mrs. c. W. Staples is slowly recover
ing from her severe illness. She, with
her two children will soon go to a
cottage at Lake Morey to spend several
weeks.
The annual Children's Day concert was
given at the UuiversAlist church last
Sunday evening. Next Sunday evening
there is a Children's concert at the Con.
gregational church.
Miss Clara Shirley has returned from
Waltham, where she has been visiting
relatives.
Miss Alice Walter visited Mrs. May
Welch Dexter last week.
Miss Annie Cleary who injured her
spine by fall from her bicycle last week,
is now able to sit up.
Loren T. Huntley has purchased a
halt interest in M. J. Robinson's silver
and nickle plating business. The latter
being in very poor health is unable to
NIL all his orders alone, which was the
reason for taking partner.
George A. Cages household goods
were sold at auction last week Tuesday,
to satisfy creditors.
Between 40 and SO members of the
local Good Templar's Lodge, attended
the District Union of the order at DAN
vile last Saturday and it was reported
to be one of the largest session of the
Union, held in ten years.
There was an unusually la rye crowd
IN the streets to listen to the band con-
cert last Thursday evening. These con-
certs will be given at the band stand
on Depot Park each Thursday evening
during the summer.
Charles A Phillips and Others attended
The Congregational convention at New
port last week.
Mrs. c. ]. Bundy has been having an
attack of the grip, but is now able to be
out.
Miss Eta Currier finished her work in
mrs, Bigelow's millinery store last
thursday and has returned to her home
In Sheffield.
The concert at St. Johnsbury July a,
IN which Miss Marguerite Hall is Mezzo-
soprano soloist is to be the musical
feature of the season.
Misses Mabel and Myrtle Chapman
nave returned from Boston.
T. Inc wedding Of Jesse Spencer and Miss
Eshel Wilmot took place on Tuesday
AFTERNOON of this week.
several from here attended the Musi-
Gal Convention at East Burke this week.
=, me following delegates were elected to
~ me District convention: D. M. Silsby,
w. II. Ford and Joshua Bemis; the state
convention, G. M. Cam pbell, E. E. Gage,
- y. Norris and H. ]. Hubbard.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20

The corncribs of the west have not
been so nearly empty for several years
as they are ut the present time. The
low price of this cereal for some years
past and the increased prices of beef
and pork have resulted in the corn be-
ing converted into meat to a greater
extent than for many years. 1t is safe
to predict that there will be no 10 cent
corn again in the corn belt for some
time to come.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20
Bankruptcy Notice.
June 1s, 1900.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED
STATES, FOR THE DISTRICT OF VERMONT.
In the matter of
George W. Jenkins, In Bankruptcy.
Bankrupt,
To the creditors of George w, Jenkins
of Whee1ock, in the county of Caledonia
and district aforesaid. a bankrupt.
Notice is hereby given that on the 31st
day of May A. d. 1900, the saidlG, orge w.
Jenkins was duly adJudicated bankrupt;
and that the first meeting of his creditors
will be held at the law office of Porter
and Thompson in st. Johnsbury on the 3oth
day OF Jure, A. d. 1900, at 10 O'Clock in
the forenoon. at which time the said credi-
tors may attend, prove their claims, appoint
a trustee, examine the bankrupt and trans
act such other business as may properly come
before said meeting.
DAVID E. PORTER,
Referee in Bankruptcy.
June ~, A. d. 1900.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20

A well known western professor Of
agriculture was addressing a farmers
institute on how to grow beef animal.
Seeking to emphasize his argument
with Biblical quotation, he said,
Gwen the good book says that man
shall not live by bread alone" Then he
hesitated as if in doubt whether he had
given the quotation correctly and said,
mo, man shall not live by meat alone"
whereupon an unregenerate old gran
ger spoke up and said "All right,
brother. It's balanced ration any
how"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20
nANYILIE.

At the Republican caucus Saturday
evening the following delegates were
elected: To the state convention al
Montpelier, June z6, F. A. Emerson, D
K. Wakefield Jr., and Charles Badger
To the district convention at White River
Junction, June &c, Frank Adams, !. D
Stevens, and George Cary. These dele
gates are pledged to the support o.
Stafford.
The concert at St. Johnsbury July 4
in which Miss Marguerite Hall is Mezzo.
soprano soloist is to be the Musical feat.
ure OF the season.
Additional items on page 6.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20

Here is the latest swindle to catch
the granger with, and it has the merit
of being perfectly legal. A land specu-
lator comes a'ons and offers the farmer
big price for part of his farm. The
granger accepts, and $50 is paid down
to bind the bargain, the papers to be
made out at the end of two or three
weeks. Before the time is up along
comes Spectator No. 2 and wants to
buy the whole farm at big price.
The farmer bites and writes No. 1, Of
fering him, say, $500 to let him off. No.
reluctantly consents to this No. 2
never turns up, and the granger is out
$3.50.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20

In the spring Of the year cows as
well as men and women manifest de-
PRAYED appetite for onions and will ca
gerly eat all the leeks they can find in
the woods as well as any onions which
they can find around the premises. The
milk quickly responds to this change of
diet, and you will have no trouble in
telling when they have been eating this
food.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20

Denmark has in very few years
past been able to become the leading
butter producing country of the world
because of two livingstone that the
government instructed the dairymen
and butter makers in the science of
their business and another that the
Danish girls have been drafted as milk
ers of the COW. We could manage the
education part of this programme all
right in this country, but would get
beaten when it came to the girls.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20

The grass cut from the wire grass
sloughs of the northwest is now ready
for sale at 81 per ton for use in the
making Of mating, binding Irvine, bag
ging and other textile fabrics for which
jute has been heretofore used. In an
early day and even up to within a few
years past this wire grass was rated as
the most utterly worthless stuff pro-
duced in the northwest. 1t was of no
value for pasture grass or for hay,
and the wire grass slough was always
counted as just so much waste land I'M
less it was susceptible of easy. drain
age.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20

Men cannot do work in the south as
they do in the north. Let man from
Minnesota, for instance, locate in Ala
bama and go farming. During the first
year or so he is there he will try to in
fuse into his work the same push and
vim which had characterized his work
In Minnesota. In about three years he
gives up and will insensibly fall into
the easy and happy go lucky ways of
the old timers of the south. It's in the
climate and can't be helped, and he
soon allows himself to be governed by
the motto, "Nover do today what can
be put off until tomorrow"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20

The production of fine linens is con-
fined very largely to Ireland and this
for the reason that there is found a eli
mate specially fitted for retting and
bleaching the fiber, climatic condition
not found in many other countries.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20
RYE0ATE.

The Changers hold a picnic a Tickle.
necked pond Saturday.
There will he Christian Endeavor
social at William T. McLam's Friday
evening.
Rev. F. A. Collins goes to Greensboro
next Sunday. A prayer meeting and
Sunday school will be held at the church.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20

Hawks migrate not in a straight line
Of fight, but by series of gyrations or
circular sweeps, flying so high in the
air that it is difficult to see them even
on a bright day. They sail round and
round in focks of 20 or more, always
bearing forward in the line of their
migration,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20
EAST BARNET.

Mrs. Thomas Mason is spending few
days at her home here.
Children's day was observed here last
Sunday, and the exercises were very much
enjoyed by all. The chapel was beauti-
fully decorated with ferns and wild
flowers.
The Ladies Quartette of St. Johnsbury
will give concert in the chapel, Friday
evening, June 20. Strawberries and ice
cream will be served after the concert.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20

The possibilities connected with the
stock business in the Dakotas are well
illustrated by the success Of a young
man who went there six years ago with
$500, which he invested in sheep. By
attending carefully to his flock he was
able on the last of April, 1900, to close
put his interest for the sum of $4,000.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20

When land gets so impoverished that
no crop can be raised unless it is doped
with commercial fertilizers, it is just
like some old fellows whom we know
who cannot and will not work until
they get three fingers Of whisky and
the fertilizer is only good for one crop
and the whisky for but one days work.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20

The producer Of any kind of meats is
going to make money for some years to
come. The country is Increasing in
population and prospecting in a degree
never before known. When people are
busy at good wages, they will eat an
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20
LYNDON CENTER.

Prof. O. D. Mathewson of Barre is in
town to attend Lyndon Institute Com
mencement exercises.
Mrs. Emma Forsythe of Danvile is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. ].
Quimby.
Mrs. Mabel Flint Seavv Of Browning.
ton and Miss Glen Stafford of Everett,
Mass, are guests of Miss Cora Brock.
Additional items on page 6.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20

An acre or so of sweet corn planted
three feet one way and six feet the
other, the open space to be devoted to
pumpkins, will make an admirable lot
In which to turn the shotes next Au-
gust. There is nothing better to carry
them through till field corn is ready.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20

The increased scarcity of white pine
has led lumbermen to investigate the
merits Of jack pine for some forms Of
lumber. 1t is found that it makes serv-
ceable dimension stuff and lath, and
large amounts of it are being utilized
for these purposes. 1t had never be-
fore been considered of any value save
Tor fuel.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20

The bees have been a busy army
imong the apple, plum and cherry
blooms the week this item is written.
filently and almost unnoticed they
have perfected the mystery of plant
fertilization, not single blossom left
anvisited. No other insect does this
work so well as the bee.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20
WATERFORD.

Mr.. and Mrs. R. M. Lawrence visited
at Victory last Saturday and Sunday.
Charles Ross from St. Johnsbury is
taking the census in this neighborhood.
We are glad to welcome Mr.. and Mrs.
Stilman Cutting back. They lived here
several years before they went to Con-
cord.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20

We sometimes think that the horti-
rulturist meets with more disappoint-
ments than men in any other business.
He is the common victim of all the va
carries of climate and has to fight an
unseen host of insect pests and too Of
ten finds when he has a crop he has too
much of good thing.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-06-20

If you or yours should be sick with
some old chronic ailment and your
family physician cannot effect a per-
manent cure, don't be foolish enough
to bite at the promises of some travel
ing and unknown quack. There is just
little more of the pure and unadulter-
tied fake business in the profession of
medicine than in any other.