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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1903-06-03

had force of Is men fighting fire since
April 2S and at one time it was feared
the Loon Lake House would be destroyed,
but the wind shifted and the house was
saved.
"A good place to get twice the value
OF your money this week is at the Don
c. Stiles Co. store on Railroad street,
where they offer to give you as much
more of their choice c. c. c. Connections
as the amount of your purchase. Cut
the coupon out of our advertising col
umns and give him call.
The movement for nine hours day
is spreading rapidly. The painters and
plasterers, the carpenters and contract.
ors and the workmen in the shops of O.V.
Hooker & Son, A. L, Bragg. c. H. Goss
Co. and the Coolidge & Stevens Casket
Company adopted the nine hour day
schedule June 1.
Soda water tempting beyond words
at Eastman's.
The band stand in Court House
square has been painted and much inn
proved in looks.
Charles H. West is building modern
boat house on the site of the old boat
house near Paddock's Village bridge.
"A small wreck occurred on the st. ]
&. L. c., near Joe's Pond, Saturday
afternoon, when four cars on an extra
were derailed. Fortunately no one wa
injured.
&C. A. Miles, the express man ha
| taken the contract from the American
Express Company to collect and delive
all express east of the Passumpsic river.
There will be special meeting 0
Sheridan Council 421, Knights of Colum
bus, at their hall Wednesday evening
June 8. BUSINESS of Importance call
for full attendance.
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X. of G. Gathering.

About $50 members of the Knights Of
Columbus from all parts of the state as
sembled in Pythian Hall Friday evening
to witness the exempli6cation of the
third degree on As candidates. Daniel
Guiltinan and suite of Bennington
worked the degree in very acceptable
and satisfactory manner. After the de-
gree work in Pythian Hall was COM
pleted the entire assembly repaired to
the Avenue House where Mine Host
Eastman took them in charge and his
entertainment drew forth words OF
praise from the members. The banquet
was very dainty affair and was served
in six courses.
After the last course cigars were lighted
and the postprandial exercises followed,
Rev. /. A. Lynch performing the part OF
toastmaster in his usual happy manner.
The following g'were called upon and gave
some very interesting short speeches
John Mcdonald, John Flanagan of Mont
pelier, DR.. c. A. Provost. H. A. Dubuc ol
Montpelier, Daniel A. Guiltinan of Ben
nington, State Deputy, and Rev. W. J.
O'Sullivan of Montpelier, who gave q
very learned and interesting address or
the order. Father O'Sullivan may wei
be called the Chauncey M. Depew of Yer
mont, for he is rarely absent on occa
sions of this kind. His heavy rich voice
and command of the English language
combined with his ability as an after
dinner speaker, entitle him to be named
as one of the greatest after dinner speak
ers on this continent.
Music for the occasion was furnished
by Young's Orchestra. which was sta
| toned near the diningroom and wa
fully up to the standard reached only b,
frst.class orchestra.
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NEW ADS. THIS WEEK.

Howe Opera House.
Hot Air.. G! Stevens.
Flour-George Ranney.
Carriages-B F. Weeks.
Frezola-Lougee & Smythe.
Real Estate-R Rickaby g. Co.
Insurance-Spencer Simonds.
This Coupon-Don. c. Stiles.
Country Prices-J. 3. Tinker
Ladies' Suits-E. L. Hunt & Co.
Mark Down le-Brooks-T s-Ty1er.
Muslin Underwcar-L. P. Leach.
Mems Fancy Hose-Moore & Jewett.
Pres. of fAccount-Ellen Hogan's Est.
Pres. of fAccount--Chester Felch's Est
Com Notice Frederick hanty's Est.
Bankrupt Notice-Samuel 3. Newton.
June Has Come Summer Street Laundry.
Com. Notice-Nathaniel P. Lovering's Est.
The Old Smoker Knows-Steele. Taplin Co
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From six to eighteen per cent.

on your investn ent. Are you aware that
mine vour income for next year and forever?
No ups, no downs, no stock quotations, no
bulls. no bears, no care, no tax, no risk,
nothing more to do about It: Just do moth
;np Buy an annuity and live. Learn the
endowment of certain, secure and permanent
income as long as you live. as true as youlive
NATL Life Ins. Co of Vt tMutuaD. Organic
ed 1850. w. w. SPRAGDE,
Gen'l Agent for Northeastern VT.
st. Johnsbnry, Vt.
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palestine commandery, No. 5. KIT.

Stated Conclave, Tuesday evening, June 9.
WILLIAM WBTHERBEE, e. c.
D. M. BACON. Recorder
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Knight Of Pythias /.

Regular Convention Apollo Lodge, No
2, Tuesday evenings june 8.
c. H. CLARK, c. c.
n. w. Ellis, K. R.. S.
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tasweII Royal Arch Chapter, No. II.

Stated convocation, Friday evening
June ~.
DELos M. BACON. Secretary.
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FRATERNITY MEETINGS.

Passumpsic Lodge, No. II, r. and A. M.
Regular communication. Thursday evening
June 4.
PALMER &. PAINE, w. M.
DELos M. BACON. Secretary.
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sheridan Council, Knights Of Columbus.

Regular meetings are held the second and
fourth Wednesdays of each month in Citizens
Bank building, second floor,
d. H. HEALEY, Grand Knight.
CHAs. T. LYNCH. Rec. Sec.
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Mr.. Turner, who was taken completely
by surprise by the gift, responded most
excellently and with deep feeling. He
said in substance,
Gentlemen, Those papers are the
most valuable ever saw. This change
has given me no little anxiety, care and
thought, but have tried to meet it in a
manly Christian manner as man to man.
have been greatly impressed by the
respectful attitude of your committee
who first presented to me your petition
for a nine hour day." After briefly
sketching the movement and its results
he said in closing,
Gentlemen, My heart is filled with
gladness. l am proud of this day; | am
proud of you who have helped make this
business what it is. thank you most
heartily for this gift. The years are not
far distant when this will besa help to
me. used to carry cane for the looks.
Soon | shall carry it for support and
when | do l shall gratefully remember
that its support came from you"
At the conclusion OF these remarks
three cheers were given for Manager
Turner and the employees dispersed to
their homes.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-21

Department is faulty, the proper
remedies will be applied without
fear or favor. I inaugurated the in
vestigation with the determination
that it should be exhaustive. L am
we'll satisfied with the manner IN
which it has been conducted thus far
and am satisfied that there has been
no lack of effort or discretion and no
excess of ZEAL"
Many charges have been filed with
the Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General to whom the investigation is
confded, some of them obviously
perile. others evidently inspired by
spite and a number of the gravest
character. AS has been stated, Mr..
Beavers, Superintendent of the Di-
vision of Salaries and Allowances, re-
signed on the day he learned that he
was under Investigation. MI. Ma
chen, Superintendent of the Division
of Free Delivery, has thus far re-
fused to resign, and it is rumored
that he is bringing all of his power
full political influence to bear to save
him from dismissal, but is is general
ly conceded that, regardless of the
findings of the inspectors, a condi-
ton of affairs has grown up which
will make his resignation essential to
the good of the service. This refers
chiefly to his relations to his superior
officer, First Assistant Postmaster
General Wynne. Mr.. Machen has
not been technically suspended, but
practically all of the work of his
division is being conducted by his
subordinates under the immediate
supervision of Mr.. Wynne.
A. B. M.
Washington. D. c., April 18, 1903.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-21
Louisiana Mob Lynched Wrong Man.

New Orleans, April 15.-It is now
established beyond all doubt that the
negro killed near Shrejort by the
two police officers as the murderer of
Mrs. Frank Matthews and her little
daughter, and whose body was burn
ed by a mob, was not and could not
have been the murderer. He was re-
ported as Ed. Porter. He turns out
to be Albert Washington, from the
Vance plantation in Bossier, who
had come to Shreveport to find his
wife, who had deserted him. He was
seen at the plantation at an hour
hat rendered it impossible for him
to have committed the murder, and
in spite of the burning of the body,
he was identified by a bag bearing
his name found in his pocket by a
number of articles. on his person and
by his shoes. Cal Vance, upon whose
plantation Washington worked, says
that the victim of the mob was a
good negro in whom he had every
confidence.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-21
Land Bill Endorsed by the Irish.

Dublin, April 16.-By a unanimous
vote the Irish National Convention
convened here to-day by the United
Irish Land League, accepted in prin-
ciple the Irish land bill introduced
in the House of Commons by Mr..
Wyndham, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, and entrusted to John Red
mond and his party the task of Sc
curing in the House of Commons
amendments on various points of
vital Importance, which the National
Congress may consider essential.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-21
A Mississippi Crevasse Not an Unmiv.s
Evil.

New Orleans, April 18.-Tbe Nj,
sissippi River is falling rapidly, NJ
further damage is expected from tho
high-water now. The amount 90
damage done is much less than or;
ginally estimated, and less than n
nearly all previous high water $40.
sons. The total damage done by the
flood in the State is about S87Omo
or, with the money expended in rails,
ing the levees and closing crevasses
$1,13O,OOO. Even this cannot be con-
sidered as an absolute loss, for on
the plantations where the crops were
destroyed the cultivated land has
been MANFRED by the deposit Of a.
luvium and the soil generally ferti-
lied by the river silt and sand, and
experience has shown that a crevassp.
while preventing the oysters from be-
ing dredged, scatters the young and
increases the area of growing oy8-
tiers.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-21
The Municipal Elections in the West.

The Municipal Elections in the West.
The second week in April brought
local elections in important cities of
the Middle West, including Chicago,
St. Louis, Columbus, Cincinnati,
Cleveland and Toledo. In the last
two places there were decided vic
tories for picturesque leaders, with
radical and even socialistic tenden-
cies. In Cleveland, cheap railway
fares seems to have been the winning
platform, and in Toledo the r~e-elect-
ed mayor, an adherent Of the COM
munistic doctrines of Tolstoi, seems
to owe his strength largely to the
proletariat; corruption did not Win
in either case. Chicago has been for
some years setting the example to
other cities in municipal elections.
The good of the city is a far great
er consideration there than it IS IN
Philadelphia or St. Louis, for IN
stance, or usually in New York. Ihe
Chicago Voters League is the most
successful experiment in American
the direction or freeing city elections
from every consideration except the
city's good. In the present cleo
ton most of the candidates support
ed by it we're elected. Mayor liar
rison has his good and his bad points,
and there was in the mayOralty que'-
ton no clear division between tpV
good citizens and the bad. st. LOUIS
with the great Fair upon her hanu''
avoided the only clear moral issue OV
fore her, as neither party cared y
support the District Attorney IN III,
brilliant campaign for munlclP'l
purity. The Exposition will lncreaS'
the public plumber. Let US hope .na'
it may also, by arousing CIVIC PINI'
hasten the end of the present 1n"I'p
Ious corruption, which apparen.E
surpasses Tammany. The governILl'D,
of u great cities, is on the "n9IS'a
distinct discredit to our peoPIS.
discredit not less than is now O'l1o
furnished by the States Of DelaT1ls
and Rhode Island. We believe pyt
ever, that these things can not 5%
There are more good people pn
bad, and the time will come "r
disgust at the tyranny Of active Ion
Gals will be strong enough to '", ~.
these parasites from their ooh
pasts.-Collier's Weekly, AprlI l''
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-21
GENERAL NEWS
WHAT THE DISPATCHES TELL.
The News Boiled Down and Presented in
Convenient Form for Busy Readers.

Louisiana Purchase Exposition at
St. Louis, which will occur April
80 to May 2, promises to be n of
the most brilliant fetes in recent
years.
The bill passed by the Pennsyl-
7ania Legislature prohibiting the
sale of cigarettes or cigarette paper
in that State has become a law.
The penalty for violation is from
800 to $500 fine.
The new antitrust law of Texas
makes labor unions trusts, and every
labor combination can be proceeded
against under the act. Labor lead
ers tried to prevent the passage of
the law in its present form, but
failed.
William r. Merriam, of Minneso-
ia, Director of the Census, has re
signed, and S. n. D. North, of Mas
sa~chusetts, has been appointed to
uCCG6 Hill. 1HG SCIISuS DuICdu,
under the new law, is made a perm
anent division in the Department of
Commerce and Labor.
The Supreme Court, of Kansas,
recently decided that the Topeka
Board of Education can maintain
separate schools for white and negro
children, and can compel the negro
children to attend the negro school.
A colored man had taken his son
to the white school and the pupil
was refused admittance. Mandamus
proceedings were then brought
against the board to compel them to
admit the negro.
The new steamship Minnesota, the
largest vessel ever built in America,
and the greatest cargo carrier in the
world, was launched last week. The
Minnesota is owned by the Great
Northern Steamship Company. She
can carry a cargo that would fill a
railroad train seven miles long, or
125 trains of twenty cars each. She
and her sister vessel, the Dakota, will
carry $4,000 long tons of coal and
100000 barrels of flour.
The big packers have paid the fines
assessed against them by the SUI
preme Court of Missouri for viola
ton of the antitrust laws of that
State. There were five packing
companies involved, and each was
fined $4,000 and costs. The latter
amounted to $2,136.75, making a total
of 2 ,136.75, which went into the
State Treasury. By paying the fines
the companies avoided more serious
consequences-the forfeiture of their
right to do business in Missouri.
DIR. Adolph Lorenz, the famous
Austrian specialist, arrived in Chi
cago last week for the purpose of
removing the cast from the leg of
Lolita Armour, the young daughter
of j. Ogden Armour. upon whom an
operation for congenital d~islocation
of the hip was performed last Octo-
Der. Upon removing the cast the
limb was found to be in perfect con
dition, and the patient was able to
walk around the house without any
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-04-21
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Something About the Northern Securi-
ties Case and the Post-offce Depart
mont Scandal.


ment Scandal.
Editor of The Progressive Farmer:
Never before in the history of this
nation has the Department of Justice
commanded the respect of the great
financial Interests of the country
to the extent that it does to-day. All
talk of trust control and the power
of the Sherman antitrust law had
been received with ridicule by Wall
Street, but the Northern Securities
decision has reversed this sentiment
and it is appreciated to-day that the
Attorney General has it in his power
to D~recipitate a revolution in the
methods pursued by the great fnan-
cial interests. Attorney Griggs, at
torney for the Northern Sc
curities Company, has been in Wash
ington, on his knees to the Attorney
General, metaphorically speaking,
begging for leniency in the enforce
ment of the decree of the Circuit
Court of Appeals and all Wall Street
is watching with bated breath for the
next move of the Department of JUS
tice.
1t is admitted at the Department
of Justice that the logical course of
that department would be to follow
up the victory gained by the North
ern Securities decision by a prose
cution of the combination of the
Pennsylvania, the Reading and the
Baltimore and Ohio Railways, the
New York Central and Lake Shore
Companies, the New York, New
Haven and Hartford and the New
England lines, and so on, but it is
also realized that such a course would
be followed by a panic of the most
serious proportions, and, while no in
dication can be secured as to the flu
ture course of the Acknowledgement
it is not believed that he will care
to assume the responsibility for so
serious a campaign. In the present
condition of the stock market an in
dication of the future policy of the
Department of Justice would be
worth, not thousands but millions Of
dollars, but Mr.. Knox is as nom
commital as the Sphinx and even
the most influential politicians have
failed to obtain an inkling of his
intentions. In this connection it is
worthy of remark that the Sherman
antitrust law is not a new enacts
ment but that the recent decision is
merely an evidence of the first sin
cere effort to enforce the law.
X \
The Postmaster General has re
turned to Washington and has set at
rest all doubt regarding the author
ity of the Investigation now being
conducted in his Department. Mr..
Payne says that during January and
February he learned of certain facts
which, in his estimation, warranted
an Investigation. These he present
ed to the President, who authorized
him to proceed with inquiry at once.
Barbour County index., 1903-05-27
GOLD STANDARD MARTYR.

The Washington Poet says that "if
there be one man n no more than eEy
other citiz-n Of the q United States should
be exempt from ridicule or any other
than respectful treatment at the hands
OF the republican press, it is Grover
Cleveland" The Post explains: "When
the time comes for history to givea fair
record of the memorable conflict that
was waged and won between 1873 and
1897, the names of two champions of
the cauee OF sound money will stand
side by side, leading all the rest-John
Sherman. the hero Of resumption, and
Grover Cleveland, the gold standard
martyr" The Post is eminently correct
in stating that the republican editors or
republican politicians are under deep
obligations to Grover Cleveland; and
yet when the tina comes for the Posts
history to be written, the historian will
fnd it bit difficult to explain how it
happened that the gold standard martyr
accepted on three occasions the nomi.
nation for the presidency at the hands
of party that never claimed to be q
single gold standard dpsrtv.-Commoner
Barbour County index., 1903-05-27

THE boss busters organization has
been perfected and they bave issued an
address recounting the SINS of the
machine organization and the rotten
ness OF the republican legislature.
All the address says is true but truth
counts for little against the power of
the machine. State affairs are in a
terrible condition and taxes are on the
increase all on account of this mighty
machine but the people think too much
of 6. party name to overthrow it, The
opposition to tie republican party
alone could do 1t if they would throw
party pride to the winds and get togeth
or. to say nothing of the dissatisfied
element of republicans. b. all means
let the machine spread it on thick
Perhaps the people who pay the bills
and suffer the abuses will wake up
after awhile.
Barbour County index., 1903-05-27
A TERRlBL { SLAP!

The machines mouthpiece in this
county gave Senator Long an awful
back-handed lick last week. 1t said
that it would be an easy matter for
Barber county republicans to capture
the prize flag offered to the county giving
Victor MurdOck the highest per cent of
increase over the vote cast for Mr..
Long Last fall. In view of the fact that
this was special election and that a
light vote Is always cast at special
election, the said mouthpiece must
have figured that Senator Long is a
very unpopular man at home.
The stab was probably inadvertent
and made in an unguarded moment,
but it was mean and ungrateful meyer
theless
Barbour County index., 1903-05-27

The Chicago papers mention that there
mas been substantial advance in the
price of beef in that city. They ere
evidently recouping themselves for the
$4,000 ine imposed in Missouri for
maintaining combine contrary to
law. More recently, injlnctiors have
been issued against fourteen railroads
TO prevent discrimination 10 freight
rates, of which the beef trust w.s the
chief beneficiary. Now look out for
another advance in meat! The peo-
ple bave to pay for all these things,
an the long run Fremont (Neb. }
Herald.
Barbour County index., 1903-05-27

elections made by the late lamented
legislature has created widespread
dissatisfaction. 1t is so early that it
is impossible for the county clerks to
send out the valuations and the
school meeting will have to guess at
the tax levy. The date-June 18th
is in the busiest time of the farming
season so that those who should by all
means attend the meetings must do so
at sacrifice. The State Superintend-
ent claims that lie tried to head the
legislature off on this measure but he
was powerless. No reason can be
assigned for the change of the date.
Barbour County index., 1903-05-27
WE infer from reading the sharon AID

We infer from reading the sharon Ad
wocate that the people of Sharon town
ship are going to come before the equal
Ixation meeting next week with blood
an their eyes. Taxes have been hitting
Ms all so hard with painful regularity
chat everybody is crying for relief. Yet
we notice that Sharon keeps sending in
large republican msjorities with as
founding regularity. We have no ob-
lection to their appearing before the
Board of Equalization, we believe they
have just grievance and they are en-
titled te consideration, but they should
also 60 to Topeka and see what they can
edo with the state board. We have il
from exclusive republican authority
that valuations are to be raised and that
the state levy will be raised 81 mills
Machine politics breed high taxes.
Barbour County index., 1903-05-27
ALCOHOL AND PNEUMONIA.

Does alcohol fit a person for the sue
cessful resistance of pneumonia? The
almost unanimousresponse of the med.
ical profession is, No! The worlds hos
pital records prove alcohol an active
cause of disease and that our mortality
lists in pneumonia are largely compos.
ed of moderate and habitual drinkers.
In the Presbyterian hospital. New
FORK. we find of the deaths from this
disease that 81 per cent were drinkers
and only 20 per cent total abstainers.
Barbour County index., 1903-05-27
THE fellow who thinks that all tina,

THE fellow who thinks that all that
Is necssAary to "hsrmonizs" the Re.
publican party of Kansas is little
personal aud selfish dicker between
the leaders of both factions whereby
they are left undisturbed in their po-
sitions are very much like the ostrich
which feels itself secure from danger
when it sticks its head under the sand
aud leaves the rest of it's anatomy ex.
posed. A real, lasting and permanent
party harmony must come from some
course of action which the people will
-ous TO the welfare of the Republics n
party than factioual fight, except a
factionai truce.-Topeka Herald.
Barbour County index., 1903-05-27
DRINK IN DENMARK.

When the police in Denmark find a
man helplessly drunk in the street,
they drive the patient in a cab to a
station, where he sobers off. Then
they take him home. The cabman
makes hts charge, the police doctor
makes his. the agents make their claim
for special duty and the bill is present
ed to the landlord Of the establishment
where the drunkard took the last of the
drinks which caused his intoxicatlon.-
RAMS Horn.