St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-02-13
The New Generals.


Gen. Miles will be eligible for retire
meut by the President, as having served
thirty years, on Aug. s, 1901. Gen.
Brooke would succeed him. After them
would come Yong, Chaffee and MacAr-
| thur. and then Wood. He will be senior
General in the army on MacArthur's re-
tirement in 1909, and may then, at the
age of 40. succeed to the command and
hold it until 1924, nearly five years af-
ter the next youngest man, Gen. Bell,
has left the active list. Only four on the
list of generals, Ludlow, Hall, Grant and
Bell, are graduates of the United states
Military Academy, and so the if rule of
seniority is observed. for the next quar-
ter of a century the army will be com
manded by an officer not professionally
trained as SOLDIER New York Sun.
The Mother of History.
Anxious Inquirer. Yes, it is true Capt.
John E. Moran, commander of Company
L, 37th U. S. Vols, who has been recon-
mended for a medal of honor for gallant
conduct in battle, is former Brattleboro
boy. Glorious old Brattleboro, the
Mother of History st. Adams Messen-
ger.
Dear st. Adams Messenger: The
Phoenix has read and re-read the list of
generals of different grades named by
President Mckinley this week, and is I'M
able to find single one who is agenuine
"BrattIeboro boy" Apparently there
was some kink in the horoscope at the
time the present crop OF generals was
born, and the Mother of History" did
not get her usual honor. The Messenger
will be pleased to know, however, that
the miss was narrow one. Lieut.. Gen
eral Miles father was a lumberman
in Brattleboro, but Ashburnham, Mass,
claims the commander-in-chef as her
own. Gen. Leonard Wood first saw the
light of day across the placid Connect
cut, only a few miles from Brattleboro.
Gen. Lloyd Wheaton disported himself in
boyhood on the greensward in Putney,
10 miles north of Brattleboro and his
stepmother lives there now, but Ohio
claims him as one of her favorite sons.
Sorry dear Colonel, but Brattleboro
will do better next time Brattleboro
Phoenix.
The law forbidding the sale of cigar
cites has been in force just one month
and the good effects are already to be
seen. While good many youngsters are
still to be seen smoking them, boys do
not call for them at the stores themselves
but get some older person to purchase
them, and in consequence do not get as
many. Many of the merchants in Burl-
ington have discontinued the sale of
cigarettes entirely because the profit on
them is so small that it does not pay to
run the risk and the increased sale in
cigars more than makes up for the loss.
i Bellows Falls Times.
They say now in Washington that this
congress will spend 100000, 1000!
When 81 900, 100000 was reached few
years ago, it looked like the limit Every
dollar of this money must be earned and
paid by the producing classes of this
country, by absolutely no one else. 1t is
the tax burden which is making life not
worth living in Russia, is bending the
backs of Germany and France, and max,
ing Great Britain very tired. We shall
soon be getting into the same list. Now,
are we getting enough satisfaction, or
profit, out of China, Guam, the Philip
pines, Cuba and Porto Rico to pay?-
Boston Record.
All the books in the public library of
Chicago are to be disinfected. This
would be good thing for all libraries to
do occasionally to the much thumbed vol.
umes in che fiction department. The mi
crobes that Turk between the pages of the
histories and heavy philosophical and
scientific works will never start a general
epidemic and would be no more sedulous-