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II Is the SINE
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-17
Two Notable Irishmen: Lood Russell
and Parnell,

The death of Lord Russell of Killowen
brought forcibly to mind the Characters
les of one of the best known men in the
British empire. But to how many, l
wonder, has the contemplation of the
career of Lord Chief Justice suggested the
obvious remark that it is about time the
public readiusted it's conventional con-
ception of the Irish character? In the
last ten years, two great Irishmen Oc-
cupied foremost positions in the arena of
British law and British politics. No two
men differed more absolutely than
Charles Parnell and Charles Russell; but
both of them agreed in this; that, al
though they were the foremost Irishmen
of their time, neither of them had even
the faintest resemblance to the typical
Irishman of the English populace.
Charles Parnell, silent, austere, COM
manding the obedience rather than in
spring the love of his well disciplined
legions, was the very antithesis of the
Irishman of popular fiction and of the
stage. Cold in aspect, more reserved
than the conventional Englishman Of
Continental caricature, without even a
CLEAN of humor in his eye or a flash OF
wit upon his tongue, Mr.. Parnell was
nevertheless, as much as O'Connell ever
had been, the uncrowned King of Ire
land.
Charles Russell, man genial, full of
bonhomie, constantly mngling on equal
terms with all sorts and conditions of
men-a man who never moved his lips
from the breaker of life until the vessel
broke in his eager grasp-was quite as
little of stage Irishman as Mr.. Parnell.
He was not devoid ofhumor; but he was
totally devoid of the rollicking careless
ness with which the idle Celt confronts
the world and its cares. The tributes
paid to him at his death by the bench,
the bar, and the press concur in attribu
ting to him Just those qualities on which
the English particularly pride themselves.
He stands before us the typical Chief
Justice of England, a splendid figure of
man-stately, dignifed, worthy per-
soni6cation of Themis; terror to evil
doors, praise to them that do well.
His magnificent power of concentration,
his unwearying industry, his impatience
of rhetoric, his direct thrust to the very
heart of things, his intense practically,
all the traits which the English most
desire to see in the great judges were en-
bodied in Charles Russell.
Yet he, the Lord Chief Justice OF Eng.
land, was not an Englishman. He was
not even a Scotchman. He was an Irish
man through and through-Irish in
birth, Irish in decent, Irish in politics,
and Irish in religion. But for thirty
years Russell was almost sa supreme in the
English bar as Parnell was over the Ma
tionalists OF Ireland.-[From "a Great
Lawyer and His Career: A Character
Sketch of the Late Lord Chief Justice of
England" by W. T. Stead, in the Ameri-
can Monthly Review of Reviews for
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-17
COOperatiYe Filling.

No one was surprised to learn that the
immense and we'll known Pillsbury Mills
of Minneapolis should win the prize at
the Paris exposition for the best Ameri-
can exhibit of hard wheat flour; but it
puzzled many who also read that the
first prize for soft wheat flour was
awarded to the Alliance Milling COM
pany OF Denton, Texas, and this in COM
petition with the best mills, not only of
this country, but of the world. Here in
New England but little is known OF this
company now made famous. 1t started
obscurely, in 1886, with a farmers al
lance. The small cultivators of Denton
county got together-some 225 of them
and subscribed to a capital of $50, 900,
the par value of the stock being SIS.
They built 150-barrel mill and an ele-
vator with capacity for so, 900 bushels.
Then they undertook to make the best
flour on the market, and succeeded, TAX
ing prizes every year not only in the state
fairs, but also in the St. Louis exposition
in four successive years, last year getting
the sweepstakes over all competition.
During tine fourteen years of its existence
this company has never increased its
capital. 1t has, however, increased its
plant till it is worth $100,000; it has
paid, for several years, 10 per cent divi-
dend, and has on hand surplus OF S4O,-
900. In the history of industrial or
CARNATIONS in this country, it is diff.
cult to name cooperative scheme which
an show better record
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-17
The Muskrat's "Banana."

In the department of Mature and Sci
ence" in the St. Nicholas, we find this ac-
count. by William J. Long, of the doings
of a muskrat:
If you know where there is colony of
muskrats,- and if you don't know you
can easily find out any farmer or hunter
will show you their village of grass
houses by the river,-you can have no
end OF enjoyment by going there at twi-
light and calling them out. Squeak like
a mouse, only louder, and if there is
pointed nose in sight, making great
letter Y in the water, it turns instantly
toward you. And if the place is all still
you have only to hide and squeak a few
times, when two or three muskrats will
come out to see what the matter is, or
what young muskrat has got into trou-
Bile.
Ifyou go often and watch, you may
see a great many curious things: see
"Musquash" Chats his Indian name
digging a canal, or building his house, or
cutting wood, or catching a trout, or
cracking fresh-water clam, or rolling a
ducks egg along on the waters edge, so
as not to break it, to his little ones in
the den far below. And if you like bana-
mas, you may sometimes smack your lips
at seeing him eat his banana in his own
way. This is how he does it.
First, he goes to the rushes, and, div
ing down, bites off the biggest one close
to the bottom, so as to save the SOFT
white part that grows under water.
Then he towsit to his favorite eating-place
This is sometimes the top of bog, some
times a fiat rock on the shore, some
times stranded log; but wherever it is
he likes to eat in that one place, and al
ways goes there when he is not too far
away, or too hungry to wait.
Crawling out to his table, he cuts off a
piece of the stump of his rush, and sits
up straight, holding it in his fore paws.
Then he peels it carefully, pulling of
strip after strip of the outer husk with
his teeth, till only the soft, white, lus-
cious pith remains. This he devours
greedily, holding it in his paws and bit
ing the end off and biting it off again
until there isn't any end left-exactly as
schooboy often eats banana. Then
he cuts off a second piece, if the rush is a
big one, or swims and gets another
which he treats in the same way.
And if you are a boy watching him
your mouth begins to water" and you
go and cut a rush for yourself, and eat It
as Musquash did. If you are hungry it
| is not very bad.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-17
Poor Mans Food Best,

Professor w. O. Atwater of Wesleyan
university at Middletown Conn, who
discovered by means of his man in a
box" that alcohol was food, has now
reached the astonishing conclusion that
the poor mans food is much more nour-
ishing than the rich mans.
The full report of Professor Atwater
on the comparative nutritive qualities OF
the food used by the rich and the poor
has been completed from nine states and
one territory. The material at the dis
posal of the professor has been exhaust
i've. In general his declarations show
that the characteristic food of the poor
soups, broths and stews, which form
their principal meals-in many cases has
a higher food value than the exquisite
club dishes, largely fowl and game, which
are regarded as almost exclusively the
food of the rich.
The report of Professor Atwater con-
tains scathing rebuke to the manner
of living among the wealthy in that
there is three times as much food wasted
as there is eaten, says the New York
Press. In general he finds that the
American people could get twice as
nutritious food for about halt the money
that they are now paying.
Professor Atwater will not give out
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-17
Why Golf is Popular in America.

The game has one popularity shared by
no other game. You do not play against
the powers of your opponent-you play
against an inanimate, willess, unpre-
JUDGED gutta percha ball. Your oppon-
ent never interferes with you, may not
even speak or move while you are play
ing. The good and evil are in yourself
alone. You contribute all the energy, all
the waywardness, all the accuracy, and
all the inexplicable Vagaries to the ball.
The game is one of the best tests of self
control, because it has that unique
factor: you are left, after each stroke,
with no one to blame but yourself At
polo your opponent rides you off, at
tennis your opponent places out OF your
reach, at football every mans hand is
against you the moment you have the
ball. You have in every other game an
other mans temper and skill, another
mans temperament and will to overcome.
At golf you play against yourself, no
matter who your opponent may be.
AS a result Of this it is a game that APP
peas to men and women OF every degree
of physical and mental ability. 1t is a
game, too, that may be played between
opponents of all degrees of difference Of
skill. 1t is easy to handicap yourself
against small rubber ball; it is never
easy to handicap one man against an
other man. The man has tempera-
ment, the ball has none. You can play
with your children. or you can play with
Mr.. Travis, and you can get agood game
in either case.
If you handicap man at court tennis,
or racquets, or lawn tennis, or make him
bat at cricket with one hand, or play at
baseballleft handed you cripple him. He
is not playing his game, or even the game;
but at golf Mr.. Travis may play his best
game, and Mr.. Duffer may play his game,
and both may have hard match, by
proper handicapping, Then, again, golf
is not an expensive game, as games GO
Once you have supplied yourself with
clubs and balls, and joined golf club,
the running expense of the game is not
excessive.
These in my humble opinion, are some
of the reasons why golf has become SO
popular. First, we were ready for it
We had surplus time and money, and we
had our racial surplus of physical energy
Second, it is a most adaptable game
suited to all ages, and of such character
that it is easy to make an interesting
game between opponents of widely diff
fering degrees of skill. Third, it is no
expensive, and when it is remembered
that it keeps a man moving in the opel
air, the return in health makes it in real
ity very inexpensive From The Ris
OF Golf in America" by Price Collier il
the American Monthly Review of Review
for October.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-17

ness in its character, but when it con-
Germs the vital issue of health it is in
fnitely worse.
This touches you, if you are one of the
women who have felt inclined to take
advantage of DR.. Pierce's offer of a con-
sultation by letter, free. You have
studied the evidence which shows how
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-17
Letter from Miss Downing.

Through the kindness Of Mrs. {. M.
Stone we are permitted to publish
the following letter from Miss c. B.
Downing, a former resident of St.
Johnsbury, who has for many years
been a missionary in Chetoo, China.
Aug. 1, 1900.
From the last Caledonian received
here, see that the home friends tear
the Boxer movement is spreading
towards Chefoo. There were Boxers
here, practising in out-of the-way
places for a time. There may be
some yet, but it so they dare not
show themselves. At one time the
crowds on the streets were very rude
to foreigners, calling out Kill the
foreign devils" and stone or two
was thrown. At that time our con-
sui and the captain of the Nashville
requested US to leave Temple Hill
and come into the settlement. All
the women and children did so. The
gentlemen remained on the Hill and
kept on with the work there. The
Tautai at the beginning of the trou-
BILE sent guard of twenty-five sol
diers' to protect our houses. One
day one of the gentlemen had &C.
casion to shoot dog near the sol
diers tent. One of them was heard
to say To-day you shoot dogs, to-
morrow you will be killed" A good
many arrests have been made in vii
lagos near us, and some have been
beaten and a few leaders beheaded.
Now everything about us seems per-
fectly quiet. The Tautai has a guard
of several hundred soldiers to protect
the place and the foreigners still keep
a volunteer guard out every night.
We have always Japanese and an
American man-ofwar in our harbor,
and often five or six small boats.
Just now we have the Hospital ship
the "Relie" here filled with sick and
wounded men. You know before
this that Peking is relieved, and now
we can get reliable news from friends
there. A letter from DR.. Porter came
yesterday giving US the account OF
the taking of Peking. Surely prayer
was answered in the preservation of
so many lives. There were seventy
in one place. eighty-fve horses and
mules, and rice supplied their food.
One baby died during the siege. Rev.
Gilbert Reid was wounded but is
near well. We expect some of the
friends to come to Chefoo this week.
A letter has just been received from
one of the ladies in Picking from
which we learn that the Boxers are
not the only people to be dreaded.
She writes, "The Russian and French
are not soldiers, but wild beasts.
God pity the women, whether
heather or Christian" The city is
in confusion, loot lying about in all
the streets. Reliable word has come
that one party of missionaries has
been burned to death in one of the
houses in Tai Yumfu. Two or three
other parties known to have started
from their stations have not been
heard from.
There is an ominous silence in re-
gard to our Picking friends. No
word has come since we learned they
were about leaving for Tein Tsin.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-17
Point the World Swings on.

And Boston-Well if you have been
there an even hundred times you don't
know the "old town."
You can go to some new place every
hour for a month and at each place find
something that will interest you. Bos-
tons sacred land marks are Bunker Hill
Monument, The Old North Church.
Copps Hill Burying Ground, The Old
Cradle of Liberty, the Old State House,
the Old South Church.
It's latter day interesting points are the
Public Library, State House, Trinity
Church, Symphony Hall, the score of
magnificent public buildings dedicated to
educational work, and the great office
buildings wherein is transacted Boston's
business.
Of course in a city like the Hub there
must be amusements of all kinds, and
Boston's theatres rank among the best
in the world, while the productions
which "hold the boards" are ever the
most stupendous and brilliant that the
theatrical world can present.
lust now, in the Mechanics Fair Build
ing, there is an exhibition known as The
McICudutS anu MdHuldCluIeIS EApOSl-
ton, wheiein is assembled a vast array
of the products of the industries which
have made New England famous. The
various departments of the Fair are de.
voted to fine arts and education, food
products and the preparation thereof
chemistry and everything ralating there
to, while in applied mechanics nothing
which is of interest remains undemon.
strated.
For entertainment, the Fair has ar,
ranged for two concerts each day by
we'll known bands and during the week
beginning October Is the famous Vic
tor Herbert and his band will discourse
popular and operate music.
Don't you think that with such al
array of entertainment and sightseeing
as is at hand in Boston at present, yot
ought to take advantage of the low rate
! Fall Excursion the Boston & Maine is tt
run to Boston from St. Johnsbury OF
Oct. 1S, by regular train? The rate fol
the round trip is but $685. and the limi
on tickets allows you to remainin Boston
until Oct. 20.
This is the trip you want, so dom
miss it.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-17
BELKNAP the JeWeler
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Its reports from the Boer war have not
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-17
Twentieth Century Exposition.

This has been record breaking week
at the Merchants and Manufacturers
goth Century Exposition. Sousa direct
from Paris and a tour of Continental
Europe-where he gained great renown
as the king of d-masters-wasa mag
net that drew thousands of people to the
Mechanics Building every day and even
ing. The reception rendered Sousa at
every appearance was a veritable ova-
ton
Next week Victor Herbert and the
Pittsburg orchestra make their first APP.
pearance in Boston. Mr.. Herbert APP
peared as conductor of the Pittsburg
orchestra for the first time in November,
1898, and the success then achieved and
repeated at following concerts was with
out parallel in musical Pttsburg.
Music loving New England is awaiting
with eager expectancy the twelve con
certs to be given next week by this far
famed orchestra and its famous conduc
tor.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-17

any official figures as he is waiting to
hear from several more states and terri
tories, but his deductions are so plain
that he now has no fear that they will
be changed in any vital sense by later re-
ports. His conclusions are closely allied
to those which led President Harper of
Chicago university to conclude that a
family can easily live on % cents a day.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-17
Endorsed by Clergymen,

Gentlemen Some personal experience
enables me to heartily recommend the
use of Henry & Johnson's Arnica and Oil
Liniment. For external application in
cases of sprains and bruises it is unques-
tionably excellent. 1t takes hold and
gives relief. This is not a guess, but a
word of testimony.
EDWARD HAYES, D. D.
DR.. Halves was for many years pastor
Of the First Church, Burlington, Vt. His
testimony is the testimony of all who
use the Arnica and Oil Liniment. 1t
never fails to give satisfaction. Sold by
all druggists at 25 and SO cents bottle.
c. {. BINGHAM, W. B. EASTMAN,
FLINT Bros, F. G. LANDRY,
STANDARD DRUG STORE, STILES DRUG Co.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-17

A boquet of vioets may be kept crisp
and fresh for several days with a little
care. At night fill deep soup-plate with
cold water, place the vioIets in this and
cover with bowl. Set in a cool place.
i Ladies Home Journal.
1t is claimed that the Wesleyan Female
College at Macon, Ca, was the first
woman's college in the world. 1t was
established by the Methodist Episcopal
church south of that town, in 1886.
The tonnage of the whole mercantile
steam marine of Russia, Japan or Hol-
land does not equal the tonnage ofthe mer.
chant vessels taken over by the English
government as transports.
About one-fourth of all the agricu,
turists in Wurtemberg, Germany, are
cultivators of vineyards.
British post Offices employ 10000
women.
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-17

An organist who recently died in Swe-
den had held the position of choirmaster
and organist in one church for seventy
two years without missing a service. He
and his ancestors have played the organ
in the same church for two hundred
years,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-17
MON TPELIER AND
WELLS RIV Err R. R.
IN EFFECT OCTOBER 8, 1900.
GOING WEST.

Trains leave Wells River daily except Sum
day at $3.50, 1905 a. m, $40 p. M,
for South Ryegate, Groton, Marshfeld, Plain,
field. Montpelier and Barre.
Arrive Montpelier, 1888, 11.35 a. M,
Arrive Barre, 1905, 1855 a. M, $50
p. m.
GOING EAST.
Leave Barre at 100 a. M, 1915, 3.15
D. m. Leave Montpelier at 500 a. M, 1.15,
$40 p. m. Arrive Wells River at 9.25 a. M,
2.3S, 1927 p. m.
#Mixed
w. A. STOWELL, Gen. Mgr.
F. w. STANYAN, Superintendent.
r. w. MORSE, Gen Pass. Agt.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-17

Some less than four weeks ago the
trustees of the Kellogg Hubbard library
at Montpelier, gave over fifty books as a
beginning of library for the Washing
ton county Jail. Since then there have
been given enough more to now make
over 100 volumes. The county judges
have furnished a suitable bookcase.
DR.. w. S. Webb is about to have
erected on his Shelburne Farms new
green house about 80 feet long. 1t will
be located near the ones already con-
structed and will be used for flowers.
George 6. Bell, formerly of Burlington,
has been promoted to the head of the
carpet department in the great dry goods
store of B. Altman & Co., of New York.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-17
LEAvING LANCASTER.
THROUGH TRAINS.

Trains arrive at st. Johnsbury from Bos-
ton, Portland, Lewiston, Augusta, North
Conway and White Mountain resorts 2.23
p. m.
GEO. F. EVANS, Vice Pres. and Gen. Mgr.
F. BOOTHBY. G. P. 81 T. A.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-10-17

1lilSo III WHICH pro-
nation is so much
INDUCED as in let
ter writing. We
mean to write, but
" tomorrow and
tomorrow creep
on " and we
* II e g1ect it.
" This is bad
< enough when
the cores
+ pondence is
social or bust