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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-06-26
Christian Endeavor Prayer Meeting.

- Topic for Sunday, June 80. Whatever
I will Strive to do Whatever He Would
Like to have Me Do.p John XIV. 16; Matt
xviii. 1920.
DAILY READINGS. DOING CHRIST's WILL.
June "a. Scripture "whatsoevers." Matt
vii. 70; John ii. 10 xvi. %, "a
| June %. Great things in little. Mic v. 2;
Matt. xiii. 81, 80.
| June &c. The strenuous life. Mark xii.
1881.
June ~. In His strength and name. 2.
Cor. xii no; Col iii. 1928.
June %. The object of our endeavor Phil
/. 27; Heb. vi. 1-3.
June 20. Faithfulness rewarded. Heb. vi
1915
June 30. Whatever ~ will strive to do
whatever He would like to
have me do" John XIV 7-16;
Matt. xviii. 1920.
SCRIPTURE VERSES.
Ps. cxix. 8, II; Matt. v. 16; Gal. Y.
% &c; Tim. iv. 8, ~; vi. 5-14;2 Tim.
ii. Is, 16, 1929; Titus ii. lila; Jas. i.
21, %, 26, 27; / John ii. 13.
LESSON THOUGHTS.
st. Paul struck the keynote when he
wrote to the Romans, 81 beseech YOU
therefore, brethren, by the mercies of
God" When we call to remembrance all
the undeserved mercies of God to us,
how can we refuse a complete and willing
Observation-Disclosures he would like to
have us do"
We are members of the Christian En-
deavor Society by the will of God; it is
also his will that we serve him here
actively, as individuals and as members
OF committees. If we fail to do what he
would like to have us do in our society
work, we displease God, and are not
faithful to this trust which he has COM
mitted to US.
SELECTIONS.
The root Of all our good deeds must lie
in the profound realization that we are
children of God by faith in Jesus
Christ" and from that source service
cannot but burst forth in blessing.
Where God wants his children to go,
what God wants his children to do, if
we have fully grasped this truth, it we
actually believe it, there will be our
place and work.
care not where it is, wherever God in
his providence has put you to do your
work as man among men, as woman
among women, there, however lowlv the
lot, however humble the task there's the
place to exhibit your divine courage and
patience and faith and zeal and hope.
SUGGESTED HYMNS.
Stand up! stand up for Jesus
Search me, o Lord, and try this heart of
mine,
Take thou my hand. and lead me.
Trusting in the Lord, thy God,
do not ask for earthly store.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-06-26
The Wealth of American Cities.

There is no way in which the diffusion
of wealth among the inhabitants OF
American cities may be gagged with alb
solute precision, but the amount of per-
sonal property held in each furnishes one
test for it includes generally bonds, cash,
money, furniture, jewelry, equipages,
stocks and money invested in business.
1t is fact well known, of course, that
the general taxation of all such personal
property is impossible, that consider
able portion ofit, too, is exempted by law,
but the relation which personal property
OF one city bears to that OF another fur
nishes fair guide to the wealth of each.
By this standard New York ranks first
among American cities, but not very far
in advance of the city of Boston, one of
the Oldest and most opulent of American
municipalities, and one in which person
al property bears the relation of one to
four OF real estate value, in New York it
is only one to six. Following New York
and Boston, which are at the head of the
list of the richest American cities, comes
San Francisco with $500, 100000 of tax
ed personal property, condition
of affluence due to the vast
prosperity which has come from
the Pacific coast mines, the chief
owners of which, or their descendants,
have an actual, or at least, a legal resi-
dence in the Golden Gate city. Follow
ing San Francisco is Baltimore, one of
the most substantial municipalities of
the United States with larger amount
of personal property taxed than San
Francisco but much larger population
as well. Following Baltimore comes
Chicago and then Detroit, St. Louis,
Providence, one Of the wealthiest of min
or American cities, New Orleans and
INDIANAPOLIS York Sun.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-06-26

MCPHERSON, Georgia, will also sail on
the Mcclellan.
By an explosion in a Patterson, N. J.,
fireworks store Friday II lives were lost
and large number were injured.
The United States government sold the
Sioux City and Pacific railroad for ST.
$4,000 to the Chicago and Northwest
ern railway Thursday. The sale was at
public auction in the office of the solicitor
OF treasury department.
The new electric elevator at the Wash
ington Cd. c. monument was tested Fri
day for the first time since dissatisfaction
For two weeks it will make trips daily
weighed with 5000 pounds OF sand. If
it works without accident it will be
opened to the public.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-06-26
The Best of all.

Everyone who has used Baxter's Man
drake Bitters as spring remedy, or for
constipation, biliousness, foul stomach,
sick headache, impure blood, pronounce
it the "best of all medicine" for those
ailments. If you have not used it,
ask some of your friends about it; the
chances are that the first person you ask
will tell you that there is no medicine so
good for them as Baxters Mandrake
Bitters. Get it at any drug store for 25
cents. Guaranteed to cure or money re-
funded.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-06-26

"Those Chinese still insist on calling us
foreign devils" said one European SOL
der. I'm sorry for that" answered the
other. I'm afraid We'll have to burn
another town and destroy some more
libraries before we get them to realize
how civilized we are."-(Washington
Star
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-06-26
GENERAL NEWS.
Railroads With Tracks Enough TO Belt
the Globe Twice.

t1Ac II "ACCs
The Chicago Tribune says: That the
Hartman combine has secured control
of the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul,
and that a composite agreement has
been made to perfect a community OF
interests among roads with tracks
enough to belt the globe twice, is gener-
ally accepted in railroad circles. The
sudden departure of Mr.. Hartman for
the East, accompanied by President John
]. Mitchell of the Illinois trust and saw
ings bank, was announced in support of
the statement that Mr.. Mitchell and
other bankers would furnish the funds
for the completion OF the Milwaukee and
st. Paul transfer. 1t was asserted last
night that all the roads west, northwest
and southwest from Chicago to the Pa
cifc coast will be controlled in future by
the following interests: Lines west of
Chicago to the Pacific coast by Harri-
man, Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and the Rookie
fellers; lines northwest from Chicago, by
Hill and Morgan; lines southwest from
St. Louis, by Gould and the Rockefellers;
lines southwest from Chicago, by the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, to which
probably will be added before long the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific. ]. Pier
pont Morgan and E. H. Hartman,
however, will be the real dictators and
direct the policy to be pursued by these
combinations, thus establishing the
community of interest" which has been
the dream of Mr.. Morgan.
The railroads interested in the Harri-
man consolidation with their mileage are
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-06-26

The easy RUNNING HOUSEHOLD" is very
simple,in construction, therefore more easily
operated and less liable to get out of order
than any other machine. 1t is also a faster
sewer, as it makes more stitches to each
brating shuttle machine. 1t possesses more
space under arm than any other family sew
ing machine, which enables the operator to
sew bulky fabrics, and is self threading, ex-
cepting the eyeet in the needle bar The
tensions are automatic, which enables the
operator to sew from the thinnest to the
thickest fabric without change of tensions.
Our new self.threading shuttle possesses q
new device, which insures an even and
elastic tension that is not obtained in any
other machine.
For information or circulars call, on or
address
FRANK A, HUDSON,
Oh Portland. st.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-06-26
LEAVING LANCASTER.
THROUGH TRAINS.

Trains arrive at st. Johnsbury from Bos-
ton, Portland, Lewiston, Augusta, North
Conway and White Mountain resorts 2.21
p. m.
GEO. F. EVANS, Vice Pres and Gen. Mgr.
F. E. BOOTHBY, G. P. & T. A.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-06-26

Secretary Root has decided to send the
transport Mcclellan to Manila with the
party of congressman and army officers
who were to have sailed on the ingalls,.
She will sail from New York on Tuly 10.
The Ingalls, will go later, when she Is re-
fitted. The headquarters officers and
band of the Goth Infantry, now at Fort
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-06-26
Another Battle in South Africa.

In an engagement at Waterkloof, on
June 20, the British lost eight men killed
and two mortally wounded, and had four
men seriously wounded. In addition
sixty. six men of the Cape Mounted Rifles
were captured. Captain Spandow is re-
ported to have been wounded and one
Boer was killed.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-06-26
Ex-GOv. Cheney of New Hampshire
Dead.

Ex.Gov. P. c. Cheney of Manchester
died at the home of his son in.law, Chas.
H. Fish, at Dover, Wednesday. He was
70 years old. He had been ill since the
death of his wife several weeks ago. Mrs.
Fish is his only child. Besides having
been governor of New Hampshire, Mr..
Cheney served in the civil war and was
in the United States Senate and was Uni
ted States minister to Switzerland, on
appointment by President Harrison. He
was widely known man in manufacture
ing and banking circles, as well as in
political life.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-06-26

Members of the supreme lodge, Knights
of Pythias, from all parts of the United
States and Canada will gather in Chica-
go on July 9 to attend special session,
the first assemblage Of the kind called
since the organization of The order. The
session will be behind closed doors at the
Lexington hotel and will probably con-
tinue for week or more. The object is
to adjust the investment of the endow-
ment funds and provide for the growing
needs of the insurance branch of the or
ganization.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-06-26
Spanish in the Philippines.

The Philippine commission has modi-
fed the law providing for the use of the
Spanish language in the courts for five
years, by permitting proceedings to be
conducted in English and native dialects,
the same to be translated into Spanish
unless the litigants stipulate otherwise.
In the latter case, the records are to be
written in both languages.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-06-26
How July Fourth will be Celebrated iu
the Philippines.

Civil government will be established in
the Philippine Islands on July 4. Judge
William H. Taft will be designated as
civil governor. He will remain at the
head of the Philippine commission, which
is to be continued. The order appoint
ing him civil governor will be issued by
president through the secretary of
war. Further details regarding the new
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-06-26

The cavalry and infantry regiments
provided for by the new army law are
now practically complete and soon more
attention will be paid to the building up
of the artillery branch. 1t is estimated
that on July 1 the total of the army will
be about 10000. Enlistments are now
coming in at the rate of 600 week but
as on the three year basis average dis
charges will be about 500 week. Be-
sides the casualties it will be necessary
to keep the present recruiting force at
work to maintain the strength of the
army.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-25
Penalties for Crime. 1555.

The Gentleman's Magazine.
 In Navarro In early times murder and suicide were considered treason. and involved confiscation of property, while homicide was punished by fine. demi- homicide (slight wounds) by lighter fines. Killing from vengeance and for gain were distinguished, and murder in a church was held to be an especially odious crime, especially if the church was consecrated The Fue- ros of Etella and St. Sebastian permit the killing of a burglar. But if the owner of the house can seize such bdrg- lar he must not kill him. And if he does, and a relation off the dead man says: You have killef iy relation un- der different circums nces to what you say: he was not at your house" the slayer must then swear and under go the proof of hot iron to prove that he killed the man when in his house, and not wantonly If the accused gets over the proof of the hot iron without hurt, then the accuser has to pay. If the parties prefer to fight a duel they can do 50. but this is not the custom. |" Later or In Navarro torture became general, nd penalties more severe. For exar incendiaries and their ac- complices We're hanged and burned. The Custom of Soule (sixteenth cen- tury) orders the ears of recidivist ban dits to be cut off, and recidivist rob- bers to be hanged and strangied. Also
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-25
Journalistic Errors.

Notes and Queries.
 I do not aliude to what are obviously mere misprints such as when The Morning Fest announced at the head of it's fashionable intelligence that Lord Pa.merston had gone down into Han1p- shire with a party of friends to shoot peasants, but l refer to blunders due to gross ognoransce of a pretentious order. Perhaps the best instance was when one of the young lions" of The Daily Telegraph in a leading article enumerated the great master of Greek sculpture as Pheidias, Praxiteles and Milo, ignorant of the fact that Milo Is not a sculptor. but an island. The Times was even worse when, mistaking Prussia for Austria. it devoted a whole leader to discussing why Prus- sia had joined the Zollverein. The Saturday Review once explained at great length that the population might De nourished gratuitously on young lambs, if killed unweaned before they mad begun to crop grass. having there- !cre cest nothing t0 feed. Many vtiivr instances will doubtless occur to your readers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-25
The Suspicious Porcupine.

Atlantic. T
 What is that far below me. facin4 up the road? A four-footed animal or some kind. A bear? No; I raise my his mobile, sensitive nose to the ground, and continues to smell. and perhaps to feed, as I draw nearer and still unworthy of the creature'a notices I roll a stone toward him. At this he shows a gleam of interest. He sits up. folds his hands--or puts his fore> paws together over his breaet-looks at me. and then waddles few steps to- ward the upper side of the road. 1T se getting e::s ss ss.:.s ss.:s, ' :. to think. But he reconsiders his pur- pose, comes back, sits on end again ana folds his hands, and then, the recon noissance being satisfactory. Falls 70 smelling the ground as before. can see the tips of his nostrils twitcning. There must be something good under them. Meantime, with my glass up, come closer and closer. till am right upon him. If porcupines can shoot must be in danger of quill. Another step or two, and he waddles to the lower side of the road. He Is vacii- lating body, however; and once more he turns to sit up and folds his hands. This time hear him rattiing his teeth. but not very fiercely-nothing to com pare with the sound of an angry wood- chuck-and at last. when I chuck 10 him, he hastens his steps little. als much, perhaps, as porcupine can, and disappears in the brush, dragging his ridiculous, sloping, straw-thatched hinder parts-a combination of lean-to and Latter him. He has never cui- tivated speed or decision of character. having a better defense. So far as appearances go. he has certainly an odd one.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-25

those guiity of arson in housss and miIIs to bs beheade6 and to have thelr goods confiscated for reparation of the damage dcne. In Lagreze words: sOld Fueros, iike the General, are not as severe as when the penal system was thoroughly orgapized. It is impossi-
 ble to have any Idea of the variety and absurdity of the punishments pre- crtbed." As an illustration, the theft of q cat Is punishable by fine of the amount of flour which would cover it's whole body. if piled up around the aforesaid cat. When the offender has no flour the cat L. to be tied to his naked shoulders and then beaten to make 1t scratch and bite the thief. In Bigorre fines were less in amount than elsewhere. especially in Bearn and they could often be paid in kind.
 Whether this was attributable wholly to the humanity of the people of Bi- gorre, or to their poverty, Is not alto- gether free from doubt, for at Pam peluna, the fine for killing man was 1000 sols, or 70 measures of wheat, or barley. and of wine, while in the noun tai1s hard by 1t was -s40 sols or 12 oxen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-25
Old Iewelrv.

Among the many revtvals of old fashions for the beginning of the new .lntury none is more decided than the t-ncy for old jewelry; the older and luainter the better. Old ornaments of all kinds are available if only they be good of their kind. The rage for such things in Europe is extreme; Parisian SoIdsmiths are reproducing antique ,ewelry, and in England the pawn .rokers' shops are ransacked for what has escaped the melting pot. Great srandfathers' knee e-buckles-silvar.g gold Jr paste-make the most desirable of lelt-buckles. while nothing in neck year is more stylish than band of !eIvet ribbon fastened with an old
 hoe buckle Fashionable women who. nave inherited the ornaments of past
 enerat.on3 are bringing forth such treasures, and taking them to the .,ewelers to he adapted. Most of them seed to have something done to thdN before they can beoworn. but none ozl them are altered ortreset.J a14
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-25

- - v -c " " - " S~.' AeA --@S The President-The vote had been | taken. The ruling of the chair will b< that when the chair submitted ths question to the convention, it was ir order for the gentleman from Walker | to call for the yea and nay vote. bu not doing so, he waived his right to d( so. The call fer division was in time Do you still insist on the division.
 MT. Long (Walker)-It depends or | what kind of division it is; there il long division and short division Laughter).
 The question was put and carried. MT. Eyster of Morgan-I offer a res olution. The resolution provided for a test as to the competency of the various corps of stenographers by transcribing ani reading their notes on the floor of the convention.
 MT. Samford-Mr. President, It | strikes me that comes too late. MT. Watts-I rise to point of order. | We have awarded the work by the adoption of the majority report Mir. Samford-I rise to point of order; that the adoption of the report | as I understood it made trade with | the reporter. The contract has | already been made. MT. Watts-I rise to point of | order
 The point is sustained. MT. Pettus-I move the resolution % | to the Committee on Rules without de- l bate.
 | Mir. Cunningham-I make this point | of order; that the resolution offered by l the gentleman from Morgan is tanta- mount to a reconsideration, which mo- | ton has been made and laid on the | table.
 | The President-The Chair will state for the information of the gentleman | from Jefferson that the same point oi | order has been made by the gentleman I from Montgomery and sustained by the l Chair. s..-"
 MT. Long tButler)-1 move that. we | do now adjourn. l Seconded.
 MT. Merrill--I ask that he withdraw | the motion; desire to ask leave of ab-
 sence for next Monday.
 The President-Does the gentleman consent to withdraw?
 MT. Long (Butler. )-Yes. | Leave was granted Mfr. Merrill oi Barbour for Monday next.
 MT. Long (Butler .)-I renew my mo.
 ton.
 The President-Before putting tht | motion to adjourn, the chair Is re- quested to make the following an. nouncement. 1t is mutaully agreed tha
 the caucus of the Democratic party l which was to meet at o'clock thii
 evening to dispose of the case of MT
 Williams of Fillmore, shall be continued
 until Monday afternoon next. 4 o'clock
 Signed Gregory L. Smith: William c Fitts.
 MT. Oates-Before the motion is pu
 to adjourn wish to make remark i it is pertinent to the offer which wal
 made to test the skill of these stenog
 raphers. I am aware there is nothing
 before the convention to which my
 remarks apply, but the gentleman't
 proposition was taptamount to a mo
 ton to reconsider. but any motion tt
 test the skill of the stenographers maj
 be made not in conflict with what hal
 been done, if they wish to test it. bu not to annul the resolution for aon | tract.
 The President-The question is nov
 on a motion from the gentleman from
 Butler, that this convention do nov
 adjourn until Monday at 12 o'clock.
 The motion to adouTn was carried
 and the convention adjourned.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-25

IL va probably the Sstne q sss
 fire. One of Belo's slIete nt(1c q
 sapling on . direct Iine with CcQ
 head, but two or three iEcnoD 1@ Firing with . falling shof and .
 trigger" he had pulled juet n too quick. Of that party, Tesr91 ~ Townes were afterwards Killed m nq[' tie: Colonel Conly was ssverely W9y ' ed and lost an arm. Be1o, thg4 x311e tenant Colonel, was wounded in U of Petersburg . few days befosN eE tered by a mimic ball, half way Oetv@ the shoulder and elbow. nov44 arm by resetting about three M4- of the bone. leaving false joint. D4! Hudson. genis, warm-hearted, tCI4I Hudson, died d few years after the u11 in Alabama. M
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-25
RECORD OF DEATHS.
MT. T. c. Houghton.

MT T. c. Hougnton died at the Plant System Hospital Thursday night. He was a contractor and re- sided in Knoxville, Tenn. He had been at work on the new Jewish Temple and just as he had stopped work late Thursday afternoon, he was taken suddenly i'll and became unconscious. The sick man was taken to the Plant System Hospital where he died during the night without regaining conscious ness.
 MT. Houghton was about 70 years of age and is survived by a wife who lives in Knoxville.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-25
FIRST THINGS IN
 AMERICAN H1gxoMx.
Railway.

A railway was completed q ou1ncy. Mass, in 1927. by Gridiey Bryant eud T. H. Perkins, for the transportatlon Of the granite of which Bunker HuI monument was to be built. # Yee three miles long. This waA tho nr41 in the United States. and was oDerated by horse power. The switch was lns vented by Mir. Bryant: also tho m eight wheeled car. The wooden xazIo of the track were plated with irQn C make them more durable.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-25
A Battalion Drill.

The Montgomery Greys, Blues and Mounted Rifles gave a battalion drill on Dexter Avenue last night. The side walks were lined with a number of spectators. The soldiers were drilled by Major H. B. May who has every cause to feel proud of the manner in which the soldiers drilled.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-25
ASSOCIATE GTENoaRAPHERs.
Messrs. Walker and Hoffman Will
 Assist Mir. McGauly.

MT. Pat McGauley of Montgomery. secured the contract for reporting the proceedings of the Constitutional Con vention. and hes engaged MT. Clarence E. Walker. official Court Reporter, of Louisville. Ky, and MT. Francis O.. Hoffman, official Court Reporter, of Mobile. to assist in reporting the pro- ceedings.