St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-03-27

b. all OF his planting and harvesting. Fo
e many years he has been great favorit
Is with Bowdoin boys and his home ha
lie been favorite resort for them.
New England lost one of her best
known Irish citizens in the death c
/ Patrick Donahoe, which occurred in Bos
: ton early last week. He was born in Ire
c land on St. Patrick day, 1911, and diec
} just at the close Of the Goth anniversar,
S of his birth. During all his long life h
y has been identified with the interests O
his countrymen in America, and at on,
time was generally regarded as the lead
ing Irishman in this country. He was
the founder OF the "Pilot," which became
power in the American newspaper
world. Associated with him for many
years was the late John Boyle O'Relly
and under their direction the Pilot be-
came famous. Three disastrous fires in
quick succession and some bad business
ventures swept away the large fortune
that Mr.. Donahoe had accumulated.
These great reverses did not discourage
the veteran publisher, however, and in
1878 he established Donahoe's Magazine
i'll Boston and by the same energy and
hard work that characterized his whole
life he made this new publication a sue.
cess and during his last years he has en-
joyed good income from it.
There seems to be a growing feeling
that Mark Twain in his role OF general
kicker is lowering himself somewhat in
the estimation of a majority of his coun-
trymen. The truth of many of his recent
statements has been seriously ques-
toned. The article in the North Ameri-
can Review with reference to Rev. w. S.
Ament of the American Board OF Foreign
Missions in China has caused much COM
ment and apparently the end is not yet.
Col. 6. B. M. Harvey, editor of the North
American Review, has received from PEEK
ing cable dispatch in which the Picking
Missionary Association demands pub
lie retraction of Twain's libel against
Ament, and stamps it as an utter false
hood. Mr.. Clemens will have an article
in the April number of the magazine,
explaining the Ament case, but it is
doubtful if it can be regarded in the light |
of a retraction. twill, however, be read |
with great interest.
The Army and Navy Journal OF week
says regarding one of Mr.. Clemens out
breaks against the army that it "has five
per cent Of truth in it." The statement
in question is contained in a letter in
which the humorist states that men
swarm to the recruiting offices at the
rate OF $50 a month "when invited by
the government to 60 out to the Phil
lppines on land stealing and liberty
crusade" The Journal says
that the application at the recruiting
offices during the months when recruiting
was for the Philippines and China were
nearly fifteen times what Mark Twain
says they were, or II, 735 for July, 1900,
and II, 760 for August. The average for
Tor the thirteen months ending with last
January was 5000, or 1O4,816 alto.
3ether. Commencing with last month
February the recruiting has been
wholly for the regular army, and it has
been steadily on tie increase, so that the
is that the total for March will
De in excess of the high totals for July
and August last. The enlistments for
March 6 indicate monthly total of 49,
100 applications, and those for March Is
| total of 17,144. or twenty.one times
What Mark says they are.
Charles P. Clark, famous in railroad {
ircles as fomrer president of the New 1
,ork, New Haven and Hartford rail-
Dad, died Thursday in Nice, France.
)eath resulted from heart trouble, '
rought on from overwork. Mr.. Clark /
vas born in Nashua, N. H., in 1886, and
from Dartmouth in the class
t Sc. In early life he followed mercan- /
lie pursuits and became a ship owner,
nd made a study of navigation. This
naturally led him into the
avy at the beginning of the civil war {
nd he served with honor throughout {
he conflict. In 1870 he entered the rail. t
Dad business and II years later was
president of the N. Y, N. H. and H. road,
which position failing health compelled t
aim to give up in 1899. He was one of ;
he most brilliant railroad men of this
time He found the N. Y, N. H. and H. {
road $10,OOO,O0O corporation and left
it $60,00O,O00 one. Mr. Clark was s
the pioneer in many Of the present fea.
lures in rairoading. He was the first
railroad man to undertake the quick de
livery of southern vegetables and other
freight in New England, and he was also
the pioneer Of the fast newspaper trains
from New York into New England
Nikola Tesla, the inventor, is in Pitts
burg placing contract with the West
inghouse Electric Company for the
of certain mechanical de-