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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08
Mark Twain's Letter to Baby Cleve.
land.

Early in the administration of Presi.
dent Cleveland, Consul General Mason
at Frankfort, who is generally consider
ed the best man in the service, was mott
fed that his resignation was expected
and that Mr.. Rapp of Illinois was to be
his successor. He was packing up his
goods when Mark Twain happened
around that way and visited the consul
ate. Being informed Of the situation the
latter wrote letter to Ruth Cleveland,
the baby daughter OF the president, tell
ing her that he could not interfere in
matters of patronage because he was
mugwump, but he considered
1t shame that a man of experience and
ability like Consul General Mason should
be turned out of Office simply because
some democrat, who knew nothing
about its duties wanted the place. He
said that he was acquainted with a
great many consuls, and that Captain
Mason was the hest be had ever known,
and il her father ever consulted her
about the consular service he suggested
that she advise him not to disturb good
men merely TO give places for politi.
clans.
About a month later Mr.. Clemens re-
ceived little note in President Cleve.
lands handwriting, in which Miss Ruth
Cleveland presented her compliments
to Mark Twain, thanked him for calling
attention to the threatened removal OF
Consul Mason, and said that il he knew
OF any similar cases the president would
be glad to hear from him. Consul Gener
al Mason is still in the service and has
since been promoted to Berlin Chica
go Record. Herald.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08
There
fire 24OO

Disorders incident to the human frame,
of which a majority are caused or pro-
noted by impure blood.
The remedy is simple.
Take Hoods Sarsaparilla.
That this medicine radically and
effectively purifies the blood is known
to every druggist, known to hundreds
of thousands Of people who themselves
or by their friends have experienced
its curative powers.
The worst cases of scrofula, the
most agonizing sufferings from salt
rheum and other virulent blood dis
easoe, are conquered by it, while
those cured of boils, pimples, dys-
peptiO and bilious symptoms and that
tired feeling are numbered by millions.
Hoods TarSdpdrilid
VIII do you good. Begin to take 1t today.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08
ADVERTISING RATES.

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by the CALIFORNIAN and will be used until
further notice.
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For three months, So. For SIX months, So.
One year, IS.
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per word first insertion. (These will be set
In reading matter type and given the best
position in the paper) Legal mott, es 10
cents line, three insertions. Probate notices
$3.50 each for three insertions. Dissolution,
liberation and similar notices 81 so each for
three insertions. Card of thanks, rs cents
Obituary poetry, 10 cents a line.
DIscoUNTs.-To all advertisers using regt1-
larry three inches or more 20 per cent dis
count from the above rates. Advertisers
using five inches or more regularly, 20 per
cent discount.
THE CALIFORNIAN co.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08

Savagery.-"And do these Indian girls
never evince tendency to relapse into
their former savayery?"
Tears sprang to the eyes of the mis-
sion worker.
"Ah, yesl" sighed She "OnIy last even
ing they set the table without putting
doylies under the finger bowlsl"
But it was plain that she was by no
means disheartened, for presently a
brave smile chased the shadows from her
flne, sensitive face.-[Detroit Journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08

In his transcontinental tour President
Mckinley met, down in Texas, his old
tariff opponent, Roger Q. Mills, who
now gets an income of $4,000 a year
from his oil wells. Mr. Mills has struck
it rich and he cannot lay his prosperity
to free trade doctrines or the Mckinley
boom. Like Topsy, "it just growed."
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08

A Chinaman whose lite was heavily in
sured fell from wagon and was badly
injured. There were doubts as to his
ever getting better, and at last one of his
brother Cinnamon wrote to the insurance
company: "Charlie half dead; lkee half
MONEY!"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08
Christian Endeavor Prayer Meeting.


Topic for Sunday, May 12. "Practic'
Christianity" John iii. 14-1S.
DAILY READINGS AT WORK
May 6. Christ's humanity Mark ii. 15i
May Z. Jesus and the people. Matt XII
May 8. Practical teaching. Matt. xii
1921: John XII. 1928.
| May 9. Precept known in life. Matt. vii.
May 10. Belief and deeds. Jas l. 1927.
May IL. The golden rule. Luke vi. 81
May ~. Practice Christianity. 1. John iii.
14-1S.
SCRIPTURE VERSES.
John XIV. 13; Rom. xvi. 8, 4; Phil. ii
8, 8; Heb. xiii. IL, 10; 1 John iv. II, 20,
81 vii. 10.
LESSON THOUGHTS.
Mere promises without action, profess
sion without practice do not make real
Christianity. The rainbow is beautiful,
but we value it most because God has
fulfilled the promise which it represents.
Profession is beautiful; but only practice
gives it value before God.
There is no service like his who serves
because he loves.
Our relation to God is shown by our
bearing toward one another.
SELECTIONS.
How much we take, how little give,
Yet every life is meant
TO help all lives each man should live
For all mems betterment
When Ridley was Bishop of London he
wrote thus to a wealthy and powerful
member of the Royal Council: Christ
lieth abroad in our London streets, with
out lodging, hungry, naked and cold.
Will you not help to lodge Christ ?"
All in all issues of poor human strife
Naught brings reward save a sweet min |
istering life
Mans mission lies in goodness, mercy
love;
These, nurtured here, eternal bloom
above.
The crusaders of old used to bear a
painted cross upon their shoulders. 1t is
to be feared that many amongst our
selves take up crosses that sit lust as
lghtly,-things of ornament, passports
to respectability a cheap substitute for
A struggle never made and a crown never
Strlven for.
When the interpreter had done, he
lakes them out into his garden again,
and led them to tree whose inside was
all rotten and gone; and yet it grew and
1ad leaves. Then said Mercy, "What
means this ~ This tree" said he,
whose outside is fair, and whose inside
S rotten, is it to which many may be
that are in the garden of God
Who with their mouths speak high in
'eha!f OF God, but in deed will do nothing
or him; whose leaves are fair, but their
eart good tor nothing but to be finder
Or the DEVILS finder box [Bunyan.
SUGGESTED HYMNS.
More love to thee
Blest be the tie.
Nothing but leaves.
Only remembered by what have done.
Take my life and let it be.
Work, for the night is coming,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08
Letter from Boston.
A Breezy Letter from a City Jour-
nalist.

A Breezy Letter from a City Jour
nalist.
Many readers of the CALIFORNIAN ar
presumably too busy at present wrestl
ing with taxes and the mortgages, will
eggs shilling a dozen, to yearn for any
more Guarantee Loan and Western ven
lures. They have enough sorrowful toll
gone for nothing, already. To prevent
the confidence of Vermonters from being
again betrayed, let me allude to one of
the meanest, at the same time most
plausible swindle in the calendar, that
daily finds victims through the advertis-
ing columns of Boston daily paper.
The business chance (for saIe) ad. for
lodging houses, stores, etc. This is a
typical ad, that appeared in arecent Sun.
day paper.
$S00-18 room lodging house, finely
furnished, income 5000 a mouth. Fine
home as well as business. Owner sick,
must sell. II you haven't the money |
will loan the rest.
This is an all wool yard. wide swindle
clear through, with designs on the poor
widow, with a family to maintain, or
the honest farmers wife with visions of
riches from running a city boarding
house. To begin with So 500 would be
a moderate figure for the property as
probably less than assessed
value. 1t is the price with the loan in
JUDGEMENTS that attract of course
The unwary. On face value it is
case OF green goods, and those with
title business experience in such matters
Keep away. In case prospective buyer,
With cash in hand turns up, he is steered
'tf with plausible answer by the oily
BUSINESS chance man.
The victim probably pays half of the
800 down, and supposed loan of the
Their $500 is simply mortgage to the
mount placed on the property. Alas
n glowing expectations. The honest
wife finds that no seal-skin
icque or upright piano will come to her,
eeping city boarders. There is some
ut about the house, street or location,
oarders do not come, and the business
best is poor one. Sooner or later it
decided to admit failure and leave the
'reck, with the amounts paid in to en- t
Oh the business chance man. Some t
mes payments and taxes not being S
ept up the mortgage is foreclosed [
Gentle reader if you sigh for the rush n
I'D turmoil of the metropolis beware OF a
lie business chance man. Otherwise g
'ur stay with us will be expensive and n
satisfactory. @
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08

Energy will do anything that can be
done in this world, and no talents, no
circumstances, no opportunities. will
make two legged animal a man with
out 1t.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08

On the half mile of Beacon street be-
tween the Parker House to a point op-
posite the Public Library, the american
quarter" of our unproductve and blue
blooded race, the census taken made out
the sum total of Is children of school
age. This deplorable showing should
naturally appeal to fine sensibiIities and
thoughtful minds. At this rate we can
picture the last American as much alone
in his grandeur and native sublimity of
spirit, as was the lone Phillip of Pokano-
ket or the original Mckinley man.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08

The Hub" will go New York one
better as our new l.. road will be
completed and in active operation bv
May Is. Then we will have both eleva-
ted and subway long before the metropo.
lis gets her subway. This will be rapid
transit IN reality Tor the schedule time
on the l. will be only Is minutes on the
five miles between the Charlestown and
Roxoury terminals. New York can NO
longer speak lightly of the slow moving
Hub" and her antiquated institu
tions.
H. c. WALBRIDGE.
Boston, April 20, 1901.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08
April %, 1900.

"Since receiving your answer to
my letter l have been taking your
Vegetable Compound, and it has done
me more good than any medicine l
have ever taken. My menses are all
right now, and appear once month,
and feel so much stronger. l shall
always praise your medicine. ~ Miss
MAGGIE POLLARD, 319 So. 4th St.,
Richmond, Va.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08

For winsomeness, tact, patience and
good nature under adverse circumstances
the shop girl in the big department store
comes as near as is possible in human
nature, to the acme of perfection. AL.
though she will not be trampled upon,
she repays rudeness with politeness, and
anything approaching freshness with
ladylike department. Although her
cheek may be pale and her eye dim from
WEAKNESS, she flies at once to your aid,
and is as kind and considerable if you
only invest in pair of 1914 cent hose as
if you bought out the whole lot of fine
imported. Her smile as she hands over
the paltry packet, and the change, makes
you feel after all that life has more in it
to live for. And yet in a position re.
curing judgment, good appearance and
business ability these girls work like
slaves from early in the morning to far
into the night on Saturdays and holiday
rushes, for an average salary figure of
81 so per week.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TTRR DAY.

FoREIGN.-General Tinio, the insur.
gent leader in Luzon, surrendered on
April 20; several other prominent Fill
pinos have yielded to American troops
Fire destroyed pier and stores at San
Juan; the loss is heavy.
UNITED STATEs.-The red cap of a
cardinal was presented to Archbishop
Martinelli at the papal legation in
Washington by Count Colacicchi,
member of the Popes noble guard
Counsel for Roland B. Molineux expects
decision by the Court Of Appeals about
the middle of June, reversing the lower
court.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08

tite poor, sick at
S t % m a CHI every
morning, every
thing l eat hurts
me, am very weak,
thin, and sallow.
I" have tried a
doctor, but he did
not seem to do me
any good. -" Miss
MAGGIE POLLARD,
319 So. 4th St.,
Richmond, Va.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08

W W. VI ~ u oiSN
ness, irregular and
painful menstrual
a Ito n, and leu
corr h oe a. The
doctors medicine
did me no good.
| have taken one
bottle and a half
of your Vegetable
Com pound d, and
t h a n k S to your
medicine, my pains
are gone. Iadyise
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08

Aug. 6, 1898.
"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM: Il have
suffered since the age of sixteen with
painful menstruation. [ have been
treated for months, and was told that
the womb had fallen little. The
doctor says that is now in place again,
but still have the same pain. Please
tell me what to do" Mrs. EMMA
KUEHL, liz Trautman st., Brooklyn,
e. D., NY.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08

time.
ache and backache all the ndianoIa
there is anything about you would like special
freely Mrs No
surely help for America experienced treat
Sne mas helped of
women back to health Her address Mass
You are very foolish if you do not
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08

While entirely from periodical suffering does not
should
e. Pnkhams Vegetable Compound the thorough female
much discomfort and menstruation of its erors
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08
SCRIPTURE VERSES.

John XIV. 13; Rom. xvi. 8, 4; Phil. ii
8, 8; Heb. xiii. II, 10; John iv. II, 20,
81; vii. -.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08
SUNDAY.

FoREIGN.-The Cuban commission
which visited this country arrived back
at Havana; on the voyage from New
YORK an understanding was reached by
the commissioners as to their report to
the cuban constitutional convention
The British consul at Panama describes
the revolution in Columbia as having
degenerated into guerilla warfare.-It
is reported in Berlin that Count Won
WaIdersee may return from China in
June; the Russian troops in Manchuria
nave fought twenty engagements and
nave annlhiated two bands of Chinese,
and are pursuing a third.-A British
patrol under Colonel Dennison, has been
captured by Beers in South Africa.
UNITED STATES. Mrs. Mckinley has
been selected for the honor of launching
the new battleship Ohio, which Miss
H II peshIer is to name, using bottle
OF Nalifornla wine.-The lives of seven
persons were lost in frein Chicago, and
me th nrethen were delayed in getting to
tne scene by the refusal of freight train
eteW 10 move cars from a crossing
many persons visited the Pan-American
nApos.tion grounds and strolled through
tne Midway, all the buildings being
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08
Jan. 10, 1899.

Jan. ", 1879.
"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM After re-
ceiving your reply to my letter of
Aug. 6 followed your kind advice,
and am glad to tell you that l have
been cured of the severe pain at time
of menstruation through the use of
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. I have taken six bottles of
it, felt better after the first bottle,
and after while had no more pain
or womb trouble.
had doctored from the age of six
teen to twenty-six, and had lost all
hope, but your medicine has made
me WELL
I would like to have you use my
testimonial, so that others may see,
and be inspired with hope, and take
your medicine. Mrs EMMA KUEH1.,
liz Trautman st. brooklyn, E. D. NY.
Feb. 20, 1900.
81 saw your medicine so highly
recommended thought would write
to you for advice.
"My menstruation occurs every two
weeks, lasts week, and is painful. l
have been troubled in this way for
some time. 1 suffer from sick head
ache and backache all the time, appe-
If there is anything about your ca:
advice, write freely to Mrs pinlxhau
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-05-08
ARTHUR F. STONE,

Entered at the ST. Johnsbury post office as
Recond-class mail matter
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-01-07

l6H days TO cross--in 1885, II is just 90
years since the Britannia. of 1,150 tons.
with engines of 740 horsepower. made
it's Initial transatlantic trip in II days
and 8 hours. Ten years later the voy
age had been reduced 10 9 days 22 hours.
and rapid transit came 10 stay i'm 1867
when the City OF Paris OF the old Inman
line crossed from New York TO Queens
town in days % hours and 4 minutes.
This record was lowered by the Britain
mic two years later to days IL hours
and 81 minutes.
To cross in less than a week was now
the aim of shipoHners and navigators.
the first TO start this record being the
America, which in 1877 sped between
Sandy Hook and Queenstown i'm 6 days
13 hours and "A minutes. Etght years
later the Etruria reduced this time by
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-01-07

be a radical departure from the present
type-in fact. that the twentieth centu-
ry ocean express will be in a class by
herself. unique in every respect
They also agree that the possible linn
IL has been nearly reached In length
and tonnage in the new Oceanic-.17 0i0
tons. 104 feet long. The Deutschland is
1920 tons and CSC feet in length, and
the rival German line owning the Kali
ser Wilhelm der Crosse has announced
another ship to surpass her In every re-
speet-32S feet in length tonnage $1,000,
speed "a knots. She will be launched
two years hence.
So long as the beam Is not greatly
increased length and speed are in a
measure correlated. and 1t has been
calculated that the 30 knot express
steamer must necessarily be over 900
feet long. about 30 feet beam and over
30 feet draft Her displacement should
be about 10000 tons. as against the
Deutschland's $4,000 and the new In
vernias 21.0o0. She cannot be used for
cargo to any extent since her enormous
proportions must be utilized TO the ut
most for engines, boilers, coal and fur
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-01-07

tember last broke her own record by
the trip from New York 10 Plymouth in
days Z hours and 3S minutes. at an
average speed of 1886 knots. or nearly
27 miles per hour. She was then I'm
close competition with the Kaiser Viii
helm der Crosse. whose highest average
speed was 22.19 knots per hour.
The best time By any other ship up TO
that date was made by the Lucania -
days 20 hours and 45 minutes-in 1895,
though the Paris held the Atlantic rec
ord as far back as 1889 OF days 23
hours and minutes. Great advance In
ocean navigation has been made since
the first steamer Can American vessel.
by the way) crossed the Atlantic i'm
1918. and the first "liner"--which took
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-01-07

British admiralty, would be equivalent
TO nearly 50 statute miles-S4Q miles for
every "a hours. This would be sufficient
to cover I'm four days the distance
across the Atlantic between any "all
the year" British port and New York.
with few miles to spare for detentiona
by be way. ...,.
The highest ambition of the Atlantic
liners for the past ten years or so has
been 10 reduce the average time be.
tween New York and the nearest Brit
ish or European port TO less than I20
hours. To accomplish this steamer aft
er steamer has been built with the re-
suit that records have been steadily
lowered. and still the end of the century
finds the five day record unattained
The best time up TO date is that of the
wonderful Deutschland. which in Sep
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-01-07
HOW THEY sALuTED THE QUEEN

pretty story is told of two little
girls who attracted Queen Victorias
attention one day when she was out
driving at Osborne. On her return size
sent for .he children, requesting that
they might come by themselves, with
out the restraint of governess or moth
er They had never spoken TO a queen
before. but they had learned their Old
Testament and thought that the greet
ing fitted to king might also be coz
rect for a queen So when, hand in
hand. they came into the room where
Victoria was waiting to receive them,
they fell on their knees, exclaiming to-
gether. "oh. queen. live forever"
Needless TO say, her motherly majesty
was delighted at the quaint salutation
and expressed her pleasure in vay the
children are never likely to forget.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-01-07
a VERY POPLAR KrxG.

Although the king OF the Belgians Is
65 years old and has worn crown ever
since he can remember. yet he likes 10
forget the cares OF state and royalty
and mingle with the common people.
In fact. the charge has been brought
home TO him several times that he is
too prone to mingle indiscrlminately
with the very common people and likes
them better than he does the aristocra-
cy. Be dotes on Paris and the pretty
girls attracted thither from all parts OF
the world. and many Of the hard earned
Belgian dollars are said to have gone
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-01-07

naces. The Indicated horsepower of the
Oceanic Is $4,000. of the Campania 2s, 1000.
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse 10000.
Deutschland $4,000. Kaiser Wilhelm III
(building) $4,000, but that of the hum
dred hour express must be not less
than 10000. This will necessitate
immense triple expansion engines OF
The highest class and perhaps one
hundred boilers and furnaces. The
consumption of coal will probably ag-
gregate 1900 TO 1000 tons per diem. or
over 1000 tons for each trip. There will
be a bill for fuel alone OF az least s35, 900.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-01-07

hours on an eastern trip. and on the
following western passage brought IL
down 20 days 8 hours and 81 minutes
A sister ship, the Umbria. went an hour
better soon after, and I'm 1883 the Etru-
ria did IL in days 1 hour and go min
utes. holding the title of Greyhound
OF the Atlantic" until the Paris made
her great run of days 23 hours and Z
minutes in 1899.
As TO the steamship which the future
viii evolve for crossing the Atlantic in
100 hours, shipbuilders and engineers
are in the main agreed that there must