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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18
England's Responsibilities and How
She is Meeting Them.

Occasionally one hears comments upon
England, and her attitude toward the
starving millions in India, and some
times the person thus commenting seems
to think that England alone is response.
bic for the famine, and she alone should
care for thu starving ones. Such persons
seemingly forget that already England,
Tor what is the same thing, the India
government is already caring for six
millions of the hungry ones, and doing
about all that could reasonably be ex-
pected of her.
Then again, only a comparatively
small part of the territory affected by
the drought, famine, cholera, and plague,
is under the English government, any
way, and the suffering is much worse in
the native provinces than where England
has control. America is as much re-
sponsible there, us England.
Another fact that should be remem-
bered, is that few English or American
people care to 60 to such a region to
battle with all the horrors there, even to
life, and only those already acclimated
can do so safely.
Therefore much of the caring for the
famine sufferers is done by natives, and
as the cast pre- udice is tremendously
strong, much unjust discrimination is
frequently made, because a sufferer may
happen to belong to the lower caste.
But let us suppose that England has
not done all that she ought, or might,
even then, the poor starving wretches
are not the ones in fault, and it is not
roc I11 10 l1nA 81, IL i H. Al.
on and starve to death because another
nation has not done its duty. AS we'll
refuse to rescue drowning man because
the policeman on that beat happened to
be neglecting his duty.
The Indian Government has already
expended over $47,0OO,000 on India
Famine relief, but when one remembers
that the territory affected by the famine
is as great as all the territory this side of
the Mississippi river in the United States,
and that ninety per cent. of the farming
animals are dead, and the people are so
weakened that they can hardly have
strength to till the soil when the rains
come and that several months will pass
before the situation can be bettered at
all, it seems to be time for Americans to
ask, Am my brothers. keeper?"
The worst part of the famine (says an
eye witness) lies ahead of us. The
Boston Committee of One Hundred has
thus far raised about $4,000, and the
similar committee of New York over
100000, but this is but drop in an
ocean of suffering, and the fact that one
has contributed once does not in any
way relieve them of responsibility. The
stationers of Boston contributed over
II 900 envelopes; the envelope manu-.
tacturers of Worcester, Logan, Swift &
Brigham, contributed 100000 envelopes
in which to send famine literature; and
the printers of Boston are helping in
their way, and here and there rich and |
poor are replying to the call for help.
All New England contributions should
be sent to the bankers. Brown Bros. &
Co., so State St., Boston, and requests
tor literature and other information
should be sent to Committee of Ore
Hundred, No. Somerset St., Room 10,
Boston.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18
Art in Nest Building.

Birds differ as much in the matter OF
the artistic skill with which they deco
rate their nests as men do in the build
ing of their homes. Here is a humming
birds nest, exquisitely finished and
harmonizing perfectly with its sur
roundings, just like pretty little cot
tage environed with velvety lawn,
beautiful flowers and trailing vine over
the doorway. Here is robins nest,
built strong and substantial, like an
old Dutch brick house; here the orr
ole's home, deity fastened to the pend
ent limb Of a cottonwood or elm-a
gypsy's tent; here a sparroW's nest, a
rough, tangled mass Of the coarsest
material, utterly destitute of artistic
taste-this the wickiup of a Digger In
dian; this yelloWbrd's nest, dain-
ty structure, lined with the fugitive
thistle doWn--a young lady's boudoir;
here a crows nest, crude, rough, but a
few sticks piled together-this a poor
whites home in Florida; up there on
the loftiest tree top an eagles nest
some old baronial castle on a Rhine
crag; here a mourning doves nest, a
dozen or two sticks laid on a pine tree
lmb-this a Bohemian shanty of some
river fiat; here a quaiPs nest, warm,
roomy, comfortable and full of eggs
Of 10 IL
American farmer; up there the clus-
tering nests of the barn swallow-life
in fiat; nests of all sorts, eggs of all
colors, love songs of all harmonies, no
newfangled notions of nest building in
Queen Anne or renaissance style, but
ever the new nest built in the old way,
just as it always was built, inherited
taste and inherited slovenliness, as the
case may be, always manifest in the
work of these little architects; many
loyal to locality, always seeking the
same spot for home each year, these
true to their mates till death parts
them, as in the case of the eagle; 9TH
ers, with new loves each year, seeking
new places for home, all so very, very
like men and women. So we watch the
nest building and lovemaking of May,
the parental love toward the little ones
in June, condone the berry stealing as
we listen to the orchestral melody of
the dying night and bid these feather
ed friends of ours a sad farewell as
they leave us as the days grow shorter.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18
OLEOMARGARINE AND POVERTY.

"Oleomargarine Is the stuff that is
keeping us poor" That is the way a
bright young farmer Of Sullivan coun-
ty, N. Y, summed up the dairy situa-
ton In conversation last week, SAYS
Rural New Yorker. "There isn't one
dairyman in a hundred in the county,"
he continued, "who probably under
stands the cause Of our cheap prices
for milk and butter and the complete
wiping away of the dairy butter inter-
ests. Several years back 1 had trade
in Paterson and Elizabeth, N. j., for
my dairy butter at fairly paying prices.
l first lost my Paterson mans trade,
and when | went to see him he frank
ly admitted that in order to meet the
competition of his competitors he was
obliged to take up oleo, which had en-
tirely replaced dairy butter. The same
condition prevailed with the other New
Jersey customer. They tell me that
they now keep only two grades-the
fresh creamery and oleo. One New
Jersey dealer who runs several stores
In New York tells me that he handles
oleomargarine by the carload. On the
creamery butter he makes a profit Of
about cents pound; on cleo his
profits are 10 cents pound" "These
dealers admit to you that they ship this
oleomargarine into New York city?''
certainly, they make no bones about
1t to me. In fact, they say that they
were forced to it; that as a matter of
tact they would rather handle the gen.
ulne product, but as their competitors
are handling oleo and making 10 cents
a pound, while the profit on genuine
Dutter is only 2 cents, they think they
might just as we'll have a share of the
trade as the other fellows"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18
Savinas Bank 10 BE Wound lin

Nashua, N. H., July 17.--Judge Par.
sons of the Hillsborough county supreme
court has appointed George E. Bales as
signee of the Wilton Savings bank in the
town of Wilton, and the affairs of the
bank will be closed up as soon as the
western securities held by the bank can
be disposed of. In 1898 the bank stopped
receiving deposits, but since then the
trustees have been able to pay the de-
positors 60 percent of the amount due
them. The appointment of an assignee
was decided upon by the trustees as
there seemed to be little hope of the bank
opening its doors again,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18

Boston, July 1.-THE list of fatalities
( in the oil car tank explosion at SOmer-
| vile now numbers three, the dead being:
Joseph Hayden, 3S years, a call fireman
on hose /; Rufus Fellows, IS years,
single, and J. ]. Callahan, As years, who
leaves a wife and two children. All
three men were terribly burned about
the face and body.
1t is absolutely impossible to state ac-
curately the number of injured, as in
addition to the 20 or more known to have
been sent to the hospitals, more than that
humber received medical attention at
various drug stores in the neighborhood
of the fire or at their homes. The total
casualties will undoubtedly lumber over
bO. AS far as reports have been re-
ceived, all the injured are doing as
well as can be expected. The financial
loss will be about $4,000.
A large number of workmen have been
busy overhauling the ruins of the
wrecked and burned cars and they are
well cleared up. 1t was feared that
some bodies might be found under the
Nreckage, but this fear proved ground
ess.
The awful force of the explosion and
he intensity of the heat of the flames
Ire evidenced by the scores of cars upon
racks adjacent whose sides are badly
corched and blistered, although they
we're standing, in some instances, 100
eet away. The reflection of the fire
vas distinctly visible in Lawrence and |
lowell, a distance Of 26 miles.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18

There are no more strikingly inter-
esting people In America than these
isolated mountaineers, who make their
homes generation after generation
among the Businesses Of the eastern
section of the dark and bloody
ground" The waves Of civilization
which swept westward along the st.
Lawrence, the Erie canal and a dozen
other routes seem to have found at this
point in the Appalachians an insur.
mountable barrier and rolled back,
leaving the descendants Of the pioneers
of century and half ago with many
of the same habits and customs and
traditions dear to the hearts of their
forefathers.
A man who knows the whole country
as a child does his first picture book
told me that If any person took the
trouble to go through copy of Shakes
peare and pick out all the obsolete
words he would find nearly all of them
In common use among these mountain
folk. In their phraseology we find
"holp" for help" "hit' for sit" and
other words which, far from being cor
ruptions, are the pure old Anglo-Saxon.
Even their ballads are memories of
ages gone by, and know of one man
who, after riding 200 miles through the
mountains for the purpose, finally pick
ed up, from hearing the women sing
them, the full 10 verses of an old
Scotch ballad which proved to be iden-
teal with those recorded in a diary
bearing the date 1665.-International
Magazine.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18
PERRY & HEATH
coed Mr.. Dick.

General Dicks resignation as secre-
tary of the national Republican COM
mttee was received and accepted. Mr.
Hanna stated that the personnel of an
advisory committee was under consid-
Grafton, but that it would not be an
nourced for 10 days or two weeks.
Senator Ham announced that the fol-
lowing named had been chosen as mem
bers of the national executive commit
tee; Graeme Stewart, Illinois; H. c..
Payne, Wisconsin; j. H. Manley, Maine;
N. b. Scott, West Virginia; f. S. Gibbs,
New York; Franklin Murphy New Jer
sey; M. T. Herrick, Ohio; II. S. New.
Indiana. Chairman, NJ. A. Hanna:
secretary, Perry S. Heath; treasurer,
Cornelius N. Bliss.
Mr. Heath will tender his resignation
as first assistant postmaster general to
the president in about week or 10 days.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18

The discovery of the famous Trojan
mine in Calaveras county, Cal, is curl
GUS as an illustration of pure luck and
doubtless has heartened many dis
couraged miner. In January, 1865,
Henry Becker, German, and John L.
Trimmer, Connecticut man, two poor,
ragged, discouraged mining prospect
Hrs, went into the mountains of Gala
Yeras county to cut oak wood for fuel.
They expected to make something like
$50 or $40 each per month during the
winter by the sale of the wood. They
made their home in an old abandoned
miners cabin. A heavy fall of snow
had covered the ground to the depth of
two or more feet
One day the two men built a great
bonfire of brush. The heat melted the
snow and left an area of hot earth.
Becker determined to make an oven
out Of the hot ground, and, securing
haunch Of deer meat, he began the
digging of a hole in which to bake
1t. At the depth of two feet he
came upon a bed Of rock. He had been
prospector too long to resist the temp
tatlon of examining the rock, and, &C.
cordingly, before placing the meat in
the hole he broke off a piece of the
rock.
Then, after the venison was buried
and roasted, he examined the broken
bit OF rock carefully by the light of his
cabin candle. To his very great aston
1shment, it proved to be what miners
call live rock, assaying 5000 to the ton.
For several months Becker and Trim
mer kept their great find a secret. in
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18
LATE WAR NEWS.
Late News from China.

The following bulletins were received
here yesterday at the local branch of the
Metropolitan Stock Exchange:
New York, July II. Aspecial despaech
from Washington to the Journal says
that China's days are numbered as each
nation will insist upon an indemnity OF
$500, 100000 on account Of the out
RACES upon their citizens,
New York, July II. A special despatch
from the Shanghai correspondent of the
London Daily Mail says: The troops Of
the allied powers in Tientsin resumed the
attacks on Chinese walled city on the
morning of July IA. They made break
in the walls and captured all the forts.
The Chinese were completely routed, the
allies taking possession of the native
city and all its defenses. Thetotal losses
of allied forces in their three days fight
ing will exceed 500. the Japanese and
Russians losing heavily.
Berlin, July II. The German govern
ment has shut off all telegraph communi-
cation between the Chinese minister at
Berlin and China.
Washington, July II. President Nc
Kinley is coming on from Canton and
special cabinet meeting has been called to
consider the Chinese situation.
Constantinople, July II, The Russian
volunteer feet is passing through the
Bosphorous en- route for service in China.
Washington, July II. The japanese
commander in Tlentsin wants to push to
Pekin before the rains, while the other
military commanders believe that they
should wait until September and then
start for Pekin with an army OF $4,000
men, Many prominent military officers
say that the Boxer uprising will develope
INTO movement that will stagger the ]
world and will require hundreds OF
thousands soldiers to subdue.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18

The people who live in stagela1d
have the strangest ways. l sat in a
box in one Of the theaters one evening
and could see into the wings on the
prompt" side of the stage. A comic
opera was on. and l saw one of the
leading women come and take her
stand there in the wings, waiting for
her cue. | could see her quite plainly,
and | watched her with curiosity, won
dering If she were not cold in the tights
and thin gauze Of her scant costume
The comedian began the long speech,
the last word Of which was to call her
on. She bowed her head, her lips moved,
and thrice she made the sign of the
cross with a devoutness which left no
room for doubt that she was actually
praying. An instant later she had
frisked out on the stage with laugh
and dance step and wink that was
anything but plous. Nobody seeing
her could have dreamed that Just the
moment before she was actually pray
ing-praying for guidance in her work,
praying for strength to succeed, as
earnestly and with just as much faith
and reverence as If she-well, as if she
were anything in the world but dane
ing girl In comic opera.-Washington
Post.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18
Frolic Ended With Death.

Providence, July 1I-Percy Q. Red
path, IA years old, died Friday from
wounds made by a pair Of scissors
thrown at him during boyish frolic be-
tween him and Michael Drumgoole, aged
1S, while both were at work in the Ban
igan rubber works in Olneyville. Drum
goole is under arrest. The latter was
cutting a sheet of rubber, which Red
path was sponging Redpath playfully
shook water from the sponge in the face
of Drumgoole, and the latter in the
same spirit, says he made sweeping
pass at Redpath and the wet scissors
flew from his hand and penetrated Red
paths abdomen.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18
We always feel sorry for

We always feel sorry for the old
folks in cases like this-where, de-
priVed of educational advantages them
selves, they take pride in giving their
children the best education they can
secure, only to find when son and
daughter come home at last that they
have been educated away from the old
people and from the old home and its
associations and have nothing left in
common with the father and mother
whose self denial made such education
possible.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18
Charity.

Every good act is charity. Giving
water to the thirsty is charity; remOV-
Ing stones and thorns from the road Is
charity; exhorting your fellow men to
Vlrtuous deeds is charity; smiling In
your brothers face is charity; putting
a Wanderer in the right path is charity.
A mans true wealth is the good be
does in this world. When he dies
mortals will ask. What property has
ne left behind him" But angels will
inquire, What good deeds hast thou
sent before thee %-Mohammed.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18

Hartford, July 17-Several we'll known
men, who have interested themselves in
the case of Cross, the boy murderer, and
have worked persistently for reprieve
from the governor or a committing of the
sentence by the board of pardons, have
finally been forced to relinquish all hopes
of success in their efforts, and soon after
midnight Friday next, July 90 the lad
will be executed. The boy will be the
most youthful criminal that ever had
to pay the death penalty in Connecticut.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18
Hearst 10 the Democratic Clubs.

New York, July Nv. r. Hearst,
president of the National Association of
Democratic clubs, has issued an adj
dress to the clubs, in which he calls on
them to publicly ratify the nomination
of Bryan and Stevenson, and prepare
to defend the republic against the cor
rupt and corrupting spirit of imperial
ism" The address arraigns the Repub-
lican party bitterly for its attitude to-
ward imperialism" and trusts, and
urges all patriotic citizens to organize
to preserve the institutions of the re-
public
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18
ObIigfnR Travellers.

what is in that box you are so care
full about, If | may askY inquired the
man who had secured the lower berth
in the sleeper.
That's collection Of rare snakes
am taking to a museum. They are
too valuable to be trusted out Of my
sight" replied the man who was pre-
pairing to climb to the upper shelf.
Say, I'll trade berths with you"
"All right. I'm not particular where
l sleep."-Chicago Tribune.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18
Debs and Hartman Endorsed.

Springfield, Mass, July 1.-THE ma
tional executive committee of the Social
Democratic party met here Sunday and
elected William Butscher of New York
city secretary and Samuel Jones of
Springfield treasurer. Debs and Harri-
man were unanimously endorsed as the
nominees of the party on the national
ticket and plans for vigorous fall cam
paign projected. Springfield was chosen
as the future headquarters of the COM
mittee
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES.
Chinese to Attack Shanghai.

One hundred thousand Chinese troops
armed with Mauser rifles and modern
artillery are encamped at three points
within 40 miles of Shanghai ready to
besiege the town in the event of an at
tack by the Europeans upon the Wee
Sung forts.
Lii Hung Chang TO he Held as Hostage.
LONDON, July lit is reported that
the government had issued orders for the
seizure Of Ii Hung Chang and for his i'm.
prisonment at Hongkong pending his de-
portation to some place in India, in the
event Of his carrying out his project Of
proceeding northward by sea, in compli-
ance with the summons which he has re-
ceived from Pekin.
1t appears that Sir Henry Blake, the
governor Of Hongkong, has obtained
strong proof that the old viceroy of Can
ton, in spite of his professions of friend.
ship for the foreigners, is in thorough
sympathy and league with his old friend
and patron, Prince Tuan.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18
Women In a Serious Quarrel.

Augusta, Me, July IA quarrel that
may have a fatal termination occurred
Friday between Mrs. Mary Cosgrove and
Mrs. William Cuffin. After disputing
over sum of money, the two started
down stairs, with Mrs. Cuffin leading.
When half way down Mrs. Cosgrove is
said to have struck Mrs. Cuffin over the
head and pushed her downstairs. Mrs.
Cuftin's hip and arm were broken by the
fall. On account of her age, 81 years.
fatal results are feared.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18
"An.i.lmperIaIIsmo the KEYNOTE.

Boston, July 17.-An audience Of about
800 people attended the Bryan and Ste
venson ratification meeting last evening
In Fanueil hall. The meeting was held
under the auspices of the Democratic
members of the state legislature. The
principal speakers were T. j. Gargan Of
Boston, who declared that free silver was
as dead as Julius Caesar" James Mel
len and James II. Mellen of Worcester.
There were also a number of five-minute
speeches, The speakers for the most
part took their cue from the Kansas City
platform, and declared that anti-im-
perialism was to be the keynote of the
campaign.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18
Eiaht Candidates For Senator.

Concord, N. H., July 17.-Five hun
dred Republicans from all parts of the
state attended a meeting of the state
committee here Monday night for the
purpose of naming dates for nominating
conventions. Seven candidates for
United States senatorship had their
headquarters open, including Messrs.
Chandler, Sulloway, Clarke, Blair, Burn
ham, Quinby and Baker.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18

Worcester, Mass, July 17.-Matt Re-
gan of New York and Clint" an UNI
known, met near this city Monday night,
in private, for a 25-round bout at 14O
pounds, for $1,000 a side. Regain was
four pounds overweight, but the UNI
known conceded the advantage. After
eight rounds of terrific smuggling, Regain
was knocked out. The men were
matched to meet again for $500 a side
within three weeks
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18
HEATH SUCCEEDS DICK.
Will Resign Present Office to Become Secte.
tary Of National Republican Committee,

Cleveland, July T.-An important po-
litical conference attended by a number
of prominent Republican leaders was
held here Thursday. The meeting was
called by Mr.. Hanna to discuss and de.
eide upon the personnel of the new ex-
ecutive committee and to name a Sec
rotary of the national committee to sue.
coed Mr.. Dick.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18
Double Drowning In Kennebec River.

Fairfield, Me-, July 17.-By the cap
sizing of boat in the Kennebec river
Friday, Lora Fourier, aged IA, and
Florida Latlippe, aged 10, were drowned.
The boat also contained Daniel Day and
Nellie Burgess, aged 25. Miss Burgess
says the Fourier girl moved in such
manner as to upset the boat Day went
under the craft, but succeeded in getting
out and rescuing Miss Burgess
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-07-18
Bullet Went Throuuh Tarue,.

Attleboro, Mass, July 17.-While work.
ing in field at Hebronville Thursday.
Jean Hugo was accidentally shot in the
back by boy, who was firing at target
The ball passed through the target and
struck Hugo, who was some distance
away and hidden by a grove. Hugo's
condition is serious.