St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-03-30

national fame and Is always n1gnty nom
ored and esteemed by the members of the
6. A. R., for her noble unselflsh service.
She is native of Worcester. Mass, and
belongs to fine old New England fam
some of the southern sisters, "She has
had her day; let her step aside, and let
someone else have chance" She is
modest and unassuming in her manners.
She resides at Glen Echo, just outside the
city limits, and entertained the Woman
Sufragists. 800 in number. when here at
their annual meeting. She has many
and numerous decorations. A commit
tee has been appointed to devise some
plan to harmonic and bring about a
union amongst the members. This COM
mittee consists of Senator Proctor, Rep
resentative William Alden Smith and
General F. c. Ainsworth. Miss Barton
and her party are known as "the re-
spondents" and the suspended members
are called "the claimants" Dr.. Anita
Newcomb MCGEE, wife of Prof. W. J. Nc
Gee. and daughter of Prof. Simon New
comb, the astronomer, started some
little time since with her party of trained
nurses for San Francisco, on their way
to Japan. They were delayed several
days OH their journey by storms in the
mountains. DIR. MCGEE was an active
worker in the D. A. R. society and took
charge OF the nurses sent out during the
Spanish war. Her services were accepted
by the Japanese in this war with Russia.
She is lady of resolute will, good judg-
ment, and excellent natural ability and
ambitious to take a part in the Japanese
war.
The American Tract society held its
annual meeting in the Church of the
Covenant (Presby After the
opening exercises by DIR. Lewis S. Ham
lin, Justice Brewer took charge of the
meeting. There was a most striking
contrast between the two gentlemen
who were to address the meeting, DIR.
Judson Swift, the secretary of the society
and Governor Taft, the new secretary Of
war. DIR. Swift is short and slight and
full of enthusiasm, in recounting the
great good accomplished by the society.
Amongst the well-known men converted
by reading tracts and books of the So
ciety, he named Gen. O. O. Howard.
While Gov. Taft has great corporosity
he has a pleasant face and bright blue
eyes, but when he rose to speak you felt
he could readily command the Philippines
by his look and manner. He stated he
had been in many lands and seen many
kinds of people, but the last place he ever
expected to find himself was in Presby-
terrain church, and booked to make an
address before a tract society. But he
thinks there is great opportunity for
work for all denominations in the Philip
pines. He is an Episcopalian. He made
a very good address.
Thursday evening a large company
assembled in the chapel of this church to
hear an address by DR.. Huse, the Ameri-
can missionary, who was so active in
arranging with the brigands for the
release OF Miss Stone of Chelsea, Mass,
foreign missionary in Bulgaria. Miss
Stone had been associated with them in
their work for perhaps IS years, more
or less. He insisted that he was only
one of many engaged in this work and
an humble factor, vet in his narration
you were impressed with his wonderful
tact, resolution and heroism in accom-
plishing the difficult task. He had to
keep the matter close secret for weeks.
having only one native helper to aid him
in getting in communication with the
brigands, so many and cautious were
they, fearing they might get caught or
entrapped by officials. He. as mission
airy, was carrying on his work amongst
the natives, waiting Tor personal inter-
view; finally one night four of them came
to his room fully armed and one covered
him with revolver during the CONVEX
sation, ready to kill him at moments
warning if they were betrayed. Their
terms were very. exacting and difficult.
He h., 70 70 10
have all the little Turkish gold pieces
counted out so carefully, over IA 900,
with no mark of identification on any
one of them, so they would not be found
out If one was marked and they tried to
pass it. Each sack was weighed and
sealed before brought to them, with an
armed force. Then the sacks were left
with his agent and he had to go over
them, and by degrees take them over to
his room in his boarding house and hide
them until he had obtained the whole
amount. Then be must remove the gold
from the sack and put in something else
that would weigh exactly the same as
gold and he could not use earth or sand.
Then three London correspondents, who
had followed the bags OF gold from Con-
stant1nople to this place, came to him to
know what he had done with the gold
and how he could reach the brigands and
would he dare to pay it to them before
Miss Stone was delivered and many
other questions. He dared not tell them
anything. He had already given the
money TO che brigands and trusted their
honor and promises to bring her safely
back somewhere. He had to wait, pray
and trust they would keep their word,
and after weary weeks OF waiting she
was returned. The story was more
thrilling than many novels for it was a
story OF real life and facts.
There is good deal of discussion over
the Newland bill and amendments sug-
gested. Serious objections are being
made to erecting public buildings on the
mall. Quite a company of prominent
architects of the country have been in
consultation before the district commit
tee of congress to decide the best arrange
ment to be made, and endeavor to carry
out the original plans in laying out the
city and also to decide where the new