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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-08-07

earth in a night and poured in from all sides upon
the barren wastes Of vacant building lots that
then went to the making up Of fully three fourths
| Of the Federal capital.
1t in the midst of this herculean task of
organization that two French aids-decamp were
assigned to duty military attaches on Nc
Clellans staff. His brilliant operations in west
Virginia against Lee, who had not yet re-
vealed the full extent of his military genius and
whom Mcclellan was destined to find again in his
front but a year later; the successes of Laurel
Hill and Rich Mountain, gave evidence of what
might be expected of the inexperienced troops
placed In his hands, He had already shown rare
strategic ability, and the president had confded
to him the task of creating the Army of the Po-
tomac from the disorganized bands which had fall
en- back on Washington under the brave and UNI
fortunate Mcdowell Surrounded by youthful cfl-
GERS, he was himself the most youthful of us all,
not only by reason of his physical vigor, the
vivacity of his impressions, the noble candor Of
his character and his glowing patriotism, but
also, l may add by his inexperience of men.
His military bearing breathed spirit of frank
ness, benevolence and frmness. His look was
piercing, his voice gentle, his temper equable,
his word of command clear and definite. His en-
enlargement was most affectonate, his reprimand
couched in terms of perfect politeness. Discreet,
as a military political chief should be- he was
slow in bestowing his confidence, but once given
1t was never withdrawn. Himself perfectly loyal
to his friends, he knew how to inspire others
with an absolute devotion.
Unfortunately for himself, Mcclellan succeeded
too quickly and too soon to the command of the
principal army of the republic. His leutenants
were as new to the work as he. They had not
been tested. Public opinion in the army itself
a judge all the more relentless for the very
that discipline gives it opportunity to express
itself-had as yet been able neither to pronounce
on them nor to ratify the preferences of the gen.
eral in chief Paradoxical it may seem would
1t not really have been better could Mcclellan
have received a check at first, as Grant did at
Belmont, rather than to have begun with the
brilliant campaign in West Virginia which
for him the sobriquet Of "the Young Napoleon"
Just at the time when joined his staf-Sept. 20,
1S6l-the exactng confidence of the people and
the government was laying on him an almost
perhuman task. In forging the pussant weapon
which later was destined in the hands of the
"Great Hammerer'' to bray the army Of Lee, he
acquired impershable title to the gratitude OF
his COmpatriOtS,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-08-07
No APPETITE.

Want of appetite means bad digestion,
biliousness, jaundice, foul stomach, sick
headache, constipation, and general
breaking down of the system.
Baxter's Mandrake Bitters are guar
anteed by every druggist in the United
States to cure these diseases or money
refunded.
Why take the risk of i'll health when a
sure remedy is so easily procured. Sold
everywhere, in liquid or tablets, at rs
cents per bottle or box.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-08-07

The plans for the new cruisers which
are to be built for the United States
navy call for vessels which shall not
only have great speed, % or % knots
an hour, but shall have a steaming "a
dius of at least 10000 miles without
recoaling. To accomplish this result
1t is proposed to equip them with three
screws, only one Of which shall be used
on long voyages, but all three Of which
can be used in case extreme speed is
necessary. This is in line with the the
ory that a cruiser should not only be q
boat which can fight when necessary,
but can get away from an enemy or
reach one in quick time.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-08-07

Is the glory of Rhode Island depart
ing? 1t is asserted that the yield of
clans in the Providence river is this
year the poorest ever known and that
1t is necessary to ransack pretty nearly
the whole of New England to scrape
up enough clans to make a good old
fashioned Rhode Island clambake.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-08-07

II, 10
S. A..
Drilling recruits in Milwaukee, September, 1851,
at the age of It, .,v
the tiresome beef stews and washed
out bean soups thrown to the dogs In
the barrack days.
Because there were so many enlist
ments in 1864 and 1865 there is a notion
that volunteers of 1861 are very scarce.
This is not the case. There were over
100000 enlistments in 1861, and as
many Of these ale now surviving as
there are comrades in the Grand Army
ranks. The veterans with titles worth
talking about earned them in the last
years of the war, but they were train
Ing for them in the ranks of the green
horns Of 1861, for who could keep out
of it with the sound Of the recruiting
drum in his ears and Father Abraham
calling three hundred thousand more?"
GEORGE L. KILMER.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-08-07

A Cape Town orator announces that
the South African war is nearly over
again and that the Doe, republics are
to be made crown colony. However,
the Beers continue to raid Cape Col
ony, while the Cape parliament is pre-
vented from sitting.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-08-07

A little boy from the slums had been
taken for the first time into the coun-
try and was discovered sitting apart on
a high bank and looking toward the
nils, to which he was stranger. One
of the teachers approached and quietly
seated himself at the boys side. The
boy turned a radiant face upon him
and said:
Teacher, is this purity things ours?
Is this all in the United States?"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-08-07

The culture and refinement Of Bos-
ton will assert themselves. The "Please
move quickly" of the Boston street
railroad employees is certainly more
genteel and courteous than the "Step
lively, there" Of New York and Chi
cago.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-08-07

The report sent out from Paris that
the friends of Prince Louis Napoleon
are to overthrow the republic and in
stall the prince as emperor of France
would seem to indicate that the hot
wave has been affecting minds over
there as we'll as here.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-08-07

The Missouri river is again shifting
Its channel and transferring territory
from Missouri to Kansas. If the Big
Muddy is to continue to be the bound
airy line between these two states, 1t
will have to be nailed down.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-08-07

The furry in stocks produced by the
crop reports justifes the farmer in
feeling that he may be quite as impor-
tanr a factor in finance as he is in pol
tiles.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-08-07

Great Britain seems to be copying
the United States in everything, in
GLIDING the torrld weather. London
has just been swept by the hottest
wave ever known in that ancient city.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-08-07

Postmaster General Smiths order
concerning second class mail matter is
likely to increase the freight receipts
Of the railroads.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-08-07

1t Is stated that ice is blocking the
coast of Labrador and damming the
strait of Belle Isle. How would YOU
like to be the Labrador iceman?
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-08-07

Young Mr.. Schwab now has a chance
to earn a part of his 100000 salary
lust running around and worrying.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-08-07

II Is htimated that there will be
soou many dents in the tin plate trust
pelore the strikers get through with it.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-08-07


captain Of volunteers Sept 0, 1861
commissions. Well, the riffraff got in
early and got home early too. What
poor timber there was squeezed in
among the three hundred thousand
grew very lonely in that company and
soon drifted to the commissary depart
ment and the wagon trains.
The struggling fights in West Virgin
Ia between Lee and Mcclellan were in
dlcative Of what the war was to be
like. There were ten skirmishes and
actions in six weeks during June and
July. In the last, at Rich mountain,
Mcclellan scattered an army and killed
its leader. That was victory, and lit
tie Mac" became the idol of the hour.
General Scott stock declined after Bull
Run. Lundy's Lane and Chapultepec
were no longer names to charm with.
Mcclellan had cleared state of the en-.
envy, and that was what the new crop
OF volunteers were out to accomplish,
piecemeal, in the whole south. 1t was a
Gilpin observer., 1901-05-30
"A Disappearfne Totnn.

Northwich. the center of the salt
industry Of Great Britain, is one Of
the queerest towns in the world. The
whole underlying country is simply
one mass of salt. The mining of the
salt constitutes the staple industry
of the district and from Northwich
alone 10000 tons of salt are shipped
annually. When the industry was
started it was considered that only
one stratum of salt existed and that
was only few feet below the surface.
Fresh water found its way to this ex-
tensive salt deposit, with the result
that the salt dissolved like snow. A
huge subterranean lake of water.
charged with 26 per cent of salt, was
thus formed. Pumping engines were
installed to convey this brine to the
surface to large evaporating pans.
The result of this extensive pumping
is that Northwich now rests. as 1t
were, upon a shell of earth. which at
times proves insufficient to support
the weight Of the town with the con-
sequence that the building are con-
stantly collapsing in every direction.
Gilpin observer., 1901-05-30
Had Spent the $1,000.

A New York lawyer, speaking OF the
recent death OF William M. Evarts,
tells how, in order to insure success, 1t
was thought best to secure the serv-
ices of the distinguished lawyer as as
sociate counsel. On securing the con-
sent of Mr.. Evarts. the question OF n
retainer was mentioned. "oh," said
Mr.. Evarts, Il guess $1,000 will suf-
fce," and the amount was paid over.
The suit was settled satisfactorily in
a short time. and the lawyer called on
.s7. Evarts to make the final payment
for the latter's services in the case
How much do we owe you?" was
asked. Call 1t s5,O00," he responded,
without n moments hesitation. This
caused a mild protest. you know,
Mr.. Evarts. that you've had $1,000"
Yes" he said. with dry smile, but
I've spent that" The $1,000 was paid.
Gilpin observer., 1901-05-30
Home for Louisiana Lcpcrl.

The Louisiana legislature has ap-
propriated $4,000 for the purpose OF
purchasing a home for lepers. 1t ia
announced that purchase has been
made of the Gustine plantation In
Jefferson parish, about eight miles
above New Orleans. The plantation
is 900 acres in extent, quite isolated
and well adapted to n leper home in
all respects The lepers are now be.
Ing cared for at Indian Camp planta,
tion in Ibcrville. but sentiment is 50
much against 1t that 1t will be re-
moved.
Gilpin observer., 1901-05-30
America ar Sea.

The stockholders OF the Leyland line
of steamers have unanimously con-
firmed the sale of the line to Mr. Nor
gan. Mr.. Mattinson, who presided at
the obsequ!es. remarked that the
Americans were evidently in the trans
Atlantic trade to stay" Mr.. Mattin-
son hit upon the precise truth. Amer
leans used to be in the transatlantic
trade, and would have remained in It
but for circumstances beyond their
control. Those circumstances have
disappeared. There is no longer any
reason why we should not acquire the
same supremacy In shipping that we
have gained in almost everything else
II we can send locomotives, which are
land ships, all over the world, and
sell them in competition with every
body. we can compete equally well in
ships. which are sea locomotives
Gilpin observer., 1901-05-30

hours struggle in the storm and before
1 knew it. l was drifting into dreams
The wind came from the northeast.
the exposure from the canon side was
from the south, the exposure from the
large peep-hole was from the west.
therefore / was well protected. My
berth was more than ten feet wide
and sloped inward, away from the
canon, so that there was comparatively
little danger of rolling off in the night.
/ slept as soundly in that queer rock
bunk as | had ever slept in all my life
before.
When at last I woke 1t was morning
and the world had changed and | had
changed with 1t. All the universe was
made of snow-my head was heavy
with snow. my limbs. my clothes, the
rocks on which lay. were all changed
TO snow-there was nothing left but
whiteness and stiffness and coldness-
snow! snow! snow!
My soul came back to me with n
throb of terror. for / suddenly realized
that the peep-hole, my egress into the
world, was filed up by this maddening
snow.
My first feeling was one OF perplexity
on that side of the rock last night
there had been but twelve inches of
snow; now there must be over fjix feet
OF 1t. On the noNheast sids3 of the
rock the wind had banked up great
drifts but here-it was preposterous!
Six feet in one night In so sheltered a
place!
Like n flash 1t came to me that the
wind had changed in the night-it had
swept around from northeast to north
west, sending vagrant flakes to cover
me In my stone bed and shutting my
little door with an immense drift.
My next feeling came quickly-de-
spair! l had no pick, no shovel, only
half-frozen hands. took my pistol
and fred but the ball made not the
slightest impression on the round,
white target-it was merely lost in its
soft depths. ! emptied my pockets in
q kind OF senseless hope that might
find something there which might help
me-a matchsafe with four matches,
three cigars. some quinine capsules
and, most useless and exasperating of
all, thought number OF small
sticks of dynamite. Dynamite! Why,
/ held in my hand the power to blow
the great rock into atoms and I was
Gagged by n snow-drift!
/ sat down to smoke and to think.
I thought OF the boys in camp, with
books. food and fuel all ready for win
ter: thought of my claim some threa
Gilpin observer., 1901-05-30
On Lost Mountain.
BY ENFIELD JOINER.


Copyright. 1901, by Daily Story Pub. Coz
Lost Mountain is the most treacher-
GUS hill in the West. l have never
seen elsewhere on single mountain
peak SO many ravines. SO many
gulches. so many boulders of almost
the same shape and size, as there are
there; and besides all these, there Is
the great Canon Of Lost Souls, SIX
hundred feet deep, winding Its sinu-
GUS way on the southern side OF the
mountain. AS to the trail, 1t never
knows itself where it means to go
In summer 1t hides under rauls, grasses
and tangling vines, and, in winter 1t
disappears in the first snow, like foam
in the wake of the vessel.
The boys at camp-we were three
had plead with me not to go to Cam
den. But how could l settle down for
the long months, shut away from the
world and letters by the great white
hills, without the one letter had been
so eagerly awaiting? l went to Cam
den and l waited until the letter came
and the very morning on which l set
out for our camp the SHOWS, which
had held off SO long, were upon me.
In spite of the indistinctness of the
trail and the snares which Nature has
set for the unwary on Lost Mountain,
don't see how it happened. The boys
said that was asleep. Heaven knows!
/ only know that l was dreaming of
what the letter said which lay close
to my heart when
Kalitan sprang back so violently
that he almost threw me from the sad
die and my heart stood still within
me, for we were hanging on the very
brink of the great Canon of Lost Souls.
For one moment We looked into the
dizzying whiteness, then some instinct
told me to dismount. My hand was
out to catch the rein, when Kalitan,
mad with terror, began to rear. Sud-
denly in frantic backward plunge, he
slipped and
l shudder to think OF 1t. The
thought of even a horse-a horse of
the camp for whom one cares nothing,
going down into that abyss, is sick
bottom of the canon is strewn with
the bones Of men who have perished so
and that the manifold-toned winds
which sweep through the canon are the
death-cries of the lost.
l shivered with dread as I stood
there and realized that l was lost on
the mountain. without horse. food or
drink and night coming on.
But my heart grew lighter as I saw,
Gilpin observer., 1901-05-30
miles below and wondered who would

mlI0b DolOW anu wondered VINO Woul0
work 1t; thought Of the woman
loved and of how the sun shone bright
ly on her in my old Kentucky home.
The day passed and night came
again. The storm had ceased, the wind
had lulled. I slept hoping that would
not wake to the horrors Of another day.
dreamed such a dream as might have
come to me in my bunk at camp-of
blasting rocks in the mine with the
powder in my pocket.
Morning dawned and a dazzling sun
with it. A fierce determination to live
came to me-to get back to camp, to
work again at that rich lode OF silver.
Certainly it was in obedience to the
laws of association that my dream Of
last night came back to me and with
it, thought which made my weak
heart throb.
If people blew away rocks with dyna-
mite, why not blow away snow? The
risk of it would be great-but-
With poor stiff hands l dug into the
blockade and finally by dint of press
ing and moulding, l made an excava-
ton of about an arms length, tunnel
folded my handkerchief and placed one
stick of dynamite on it, so that the
fuse might not touch the snow.
opened my matchbox to find
l clutched my hands in misery at
finding myself so balked-not a match
was there! l, poor fool, had wasted
them on cigars yesterday! Then de-
cided, in my desperation, to do one OIL
two things. l could risk death from
the explosion without tremor, but
felt that l could not die that slow
death of starvation-it must be either
leap into the canon or bullet
through my brain.
| But again something put saving
thought into my head. Why not fire
my mine with pistol shot; certainly
shell tearing into the magazine OF
vessel had such an effect as l desired.
For the sweetness of living. for the
woman 1 loved, for all of work and
achievement that might lie before me,
steadied myself and took aim care
| fully at the long gray stick.
| Heavens! the shock of it! l fell
prone on the rock, my head wounded
| Dy fragment VI sloue' puI "heh
looked up, there where the white snow
had been, was the blessed blue sky
shining through my peep-hole.
Some five hours later / fell on the
Threshold of our rough house at the
foot of the mountain. How good the
| food was! How warm the fire! How
soft the bed!
Lost Mountain is now, and always
will be, my happy hunting ground; but.
though I've spent many night OF late
years on it's bosom, l have never had
the desire to sleep again in that queer,
stone bunk on the edge of the canon.
Gilpin observer., 1901-05-30

and great ledge hangs above the lit
tie cavern, as if it would protect the
space which it once held. So insidious
has been the work of wind and rain
and frost, that on one side there is
no entrance to the cavern, but on the
other small round hole has been
worn in the rock shell about three feet
above the ground, SO that a man may
easily climb through. On one side was
the awful canon. everywhere else save
where the round peep-hole looked out
on the sloping mountain-side. was the
unyielding, solid rock, but climbed
myself down with an at-home kind
Of feeling. l did not mean to fall
asleep. but l was worn with my seven
Gilpin observer., 1901-05-30
AS The WORLD
r. EVOLVES
Called TO Paris.

Miss Claude Albright, the clever lit
lie contralto from New Mexico, has
Just been offered position abroad. M.
Carre, manager Of the Paris Opera
Comique, has rendered Miss Albright
the position of leading contralto in his
company and she will accept. Miss
Albright has been a resident OF Chica-
go for three years and has been study
ing In the Gottschalk Lyric School,
where she has won many friends by
her vivacity and charming manner.
Her voice is especially adapted for the
roles of Amneris, Carmen and Fides In
the opera Prophet" She is de-
Gilpin observer., 1901-05-30
CLEAR AS CRYSTAL.
Chicago River Is Now Paragon of Pur,t


The arrest of q ship steward for "de-
filing" the waters of the Chicago riv-
err with soapsuds and potato parings re-
moves all doubt concerning the COM
plete rehabilitation and renovation of
this much-maligned stream. In one
short year the most odoriferous stream
on earth, whose foulness was of world
wide notoriety and in whose bed re-
posed the accumulated and decompos-
ing refuse of great city, has been
transformed into such n paragon of
purity that soapsuds actually detile it..
Time was when copious and frequent
doses of soapsuds in the Chicago river
were encouraged on the theory that it
neutralized it's foulness and tended to
arrest decomposition. But all the soap
suds that could be poured into it could
not cleanse it, so hopeless was its con-
dition of soliditied filth.
But the Chicago river no longer of
fends the sensitive olfactories of the
strangers within our gates. That which
was the butt of merry ridicule and
Jest, whose variegated smells We're en-
balmed in rhymes of satire and deri-
sion, is thing of the past.
The arrest of the ship steward on
Tuesday was intended as n timely
warning by the sanitary board to all
who have been in the habit of acting
carelessly in the vicinity of the Chi
cago river. Stevedores who manicure
their finger nails while on the river
will be arrested. Water that is emp
tied into the river must be pasteuriZed
or boiled, and nothing in the way of
refuse will be tolerated. Lake cap.
tains who are in the habit of indulg-
ing in seaworthy profanity must have
their speech disinfected before they
pass Rush street bridge.
The Chicago river is being washed
and cleaned by the blue waters of Lake
Michigan. The drainage board is going
to keep it clean if it has to arrest ev-
cry stevedore, steward and sailor on
the great lakes.--ChicagO Record.
Gilpin observer., 1901-05-30
RESULTS OF sHooTINo WELL.
Fully 200 Feet of Pipe Crashes Through
Drrrlck'A Top.

Fu,ly 200 Feet of Pipe Crashes Through
D-rrick's Top.
A remarkable accident ccurred dur
ing the shooting" Of an oil. we'll five
miles west of this city, on the Rem
ninger farm, says Findlay. O., corre-
spondent OF the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. A 2OO-quart shot of nitroglyc-
crime had been put into the well and
Contractor Craig himself dropped the
"go-devil." The effects of the shot
were most startling. The column of
oil as usual mounted to the top of the
derrick and several score OF feet in the
air. But there was long black line
that extended still farther into the
ether and continued to project after
the flow of oil had subsided. 1t was
what is known as the casing of the
well. several hundred feet Of iron pipe
about FIVE inches in diameter that is
sunk into the WELL while being drilled
to keep out the surface fluids. Fully
200 feet of the pipe had been shot
into the air, crashing through the top
of the derrick AS the men surged
forward around the well the sections
Of pipe began to break off and fell
crashing down on the derrick. smash
ing oak timbers and falling into the
crowd. All fed for their lives. Eight
or ten sections broke off and then an
other unexpected event happened. the
balance of the pipe slid back into the
well. The men are at present at work
trying to fish the pipe out OF the well,
as the flow is partly obstructed. The
derrick is total wreck.
Gilpin observer., 1901-05-30
society Aefrels az camilie.

Miss Eleanor Mckee, formerly a So
ciety girl of Grand Rapids. Mich, and
a daughter of Major Mckee, well
known in Michigan, will add one Of
the new faces to the footlight favorites
the coming season. She is known in
private life as Mrs. Edward Dvorak.
Her husband. the dramatic teacher.
Gilpin observer., 1901-05-30
Analytic Experiments with Air.

Recent experiments made by M.
Gautier of Paris have shown that hy-
drogen is n constant constituent OF the
air to the extent of two in 10000 parts
by volume.