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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-29
School Notes.

School Notes.
Miss Nellie Laughlin and Miss May
Kennedy. both teachers in the Summer.
vile schools are visiting the schools in
Batavia, N. Y. to study methods in use
there which have national reputation
They will also visit Niagara Falls during
the Thanksgiving recess.
All the schools will have the usual va
cation this week from Thursday to Mon
day.
Edward Kingsley, teacher of music
leaves today for Hartford and Stamford,
Conn.,, to study the Weaver system Of
music instruction in use in those two
cities.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-29

Kilbourn OF Barnet upon the theme,
Christ in Lite" Following brief dis
cussion of the sermon there was debate
upon the question, as it the Primary
Purpose OF Prayer to Secure ObjectiveR :
suits" The affirmative was taken by
Rev. Mr.. Cummings and the negative by
Rev. W. c. Clark OF Lyndon. The other
ministers present participated in the de.
bate after the noon hour.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-29
PERSONALS.

Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Dutton of West
boro, Mass, were guests at his cousins
F. D. Thompson's. few days last week
Mrs. Emma Holton of Lyndonviile has
been spending week with Mrs. Albert
Stone.
Mrs. Cornelia F. Bond was in Mont
pelier last week in her official capacity as
president of the Rebekah Assembly. AT
the district meeting Tuesday evening she
gave a strong address on the unwritten
work.
George Il. Hicks OF New York city is
at the home of his parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
John G. Hicks, over Thanksgiving.
Mrs. Aida Corliss of Plymouth, N. H.,
is spending few weeks with relatives
here.
Mrs. L. B. Heald of Littleton visited
friends in town last week.
Miss Cora Potter of Laconia is spend
Ing few weeks at Mrs. ]. W. Warden's.
Mrs. Clarence A. Humphrey and son
Kenneth go to Springfield, Mass, today
to spend few days with relatives.
Mrs. John Simons and Mrs. Florence
Gadapee are assisting at E. N. RandalPs
store until after the holidays.
H. o. Cushman of Boston was here the
first of the week to adjust the loss on the
fire in Mrs. Cushman's property on
Charles street. The house will be re-
paired at once and Mr.. Sanderson ex-
poets to occupy his former apartment as
soon as the repairs are completed.
Mrs. E. E. Evans went to Sugar Hill,
N. H., Monday for couple of days to
visit an aunt who is in poor health.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Simanton were in
Portland few days last week.
Frank D. Thompson went to Mont
pelier Monday to attend the meeting
called by the Governor.t to hear the claims
OF all candidates for the vacancy in the
supreme court.
Arthur G. Sprague and Charles w.
Steele saw the Yale. Harvard foot ball
game at Cambridge, Mass, Saturday.
DR.. w. B. Fitch and c. Sherman
Calderwood went to New York Monday
night for a few days.
F. Fay of East Hardwick was in
town on business, Thursday.
Mrs. o. D. Rogers has gone to Rich
ford where she will spend the winter with
her husband, who has employment there.
Mrs. Fred A. Danforth of Barre visit
ed friends here few days last week.
Friends of Miss Mabel c. Hamilton, a
former resident here, will be pleased to
read the what was said of a concert
in which she took part at Plainfeld last
week. "The concert given in the Metho.
dist church by Miss Mabel c. Hamilton
teacher of elocution in Montpelier Semi
nary, and by W. D. Shaul, student ii
the school, proved one of the creates
treats in the line OF an entertainment
that has been held in town in a Ions
time. = The group of recitation
and readings by Miss Hamilton wal
made up OF both light aud heavy selec
lions. and she handled each with skill
and ability that made her work enjoy
able"
Miss Lillian M. Squire, one of tn
trained nurses here, has been visitinI
friends in Sherbrooke and is spending
few weeks with friends at Eaton Corner
P.Q.
Mrs. F. E. Thomas of Bridgepor
Conn, is spending few weeks with BIZ
sister, Mrs. Carrie Lapage.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-29

For sale for Is cents each at
The Berrv-Ball Dry Goods Store,
Randall & Whitcomb's. Gordon's
Drug Store and James Ritchie's.
Just the thing for a Christmas
present.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-29
Blacksmith and WheeIwrighi
Horse Shoeing.

We are now situated to do all kinds OF
repairs. We also build heavy wagons and
sIeds to order. We have now on hand
three sleds, ~, 2, 21a inch runners.
Come and see us; we will use you right.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-29
Births

At North Walden, November 90, daugh-
ter to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Orion.
At st. Johnsbury Center. Nov. "a, a daugh-
ter to Rev and Mrs. Anderson.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-29
Deaths.

At Lunenburg, Nov. 20. Mrs. Archibald
Powers.
At Greensboro, Nov. "a, Mrs. Phinette
Rabbit, aged 80 years.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-29

Edw. Blair & Son,
Harvey, Vermont
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-06
NO EXCESS CHARGES
on Nickel Plate Road

Its trains are composed of the best
equipment, consisting of through vesti-
buled sleeping cars, in both directions,
between Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo,
New York, Boston and intermediate
points, with uneXcelled dining car sery-
ice, meals being served in Nickel Plate
dining cars on the American Club Meal
Plan, ranging in price from 35c to
$1.00; Midday Luncheon, SOC.
Train No. 2, leaving Chicago at 10: 35
a.. m, daily, has through vestibuled
sleepers for Boston, via Nickel Plate,
West Shore and Boston & Maine
Roads, and through vestibuled sleepers
to New York and intermediate points,
via Nickel Plate and both the Lack.
awanna and West Shore Roads.
Train No. 4, leaving Chicago at 2:30
.. M, dealy, has through vestibuled
sleeping cars for Buffalo, New York
and intermediate points.
Train No. 6, leaving Chicago at 9:15
D. nj, daily, has through vestibuled
sleeping cars for Fort Wayne, Cleye.
land. Erie, Buffalo, New York and in
termediate points, arriving at New
York City early the second morning.
Rates always the lowest. Write OF
call on nearest ticket agent, or John
|Y. Callahan, General Agent, Nicke
Plate Road, No. 113 Adams St.. Room
29S. Chicago. Chicago Depot, La Sale
and Van Buren, SITS.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-06
New York World Prophesies

To it's many valued contemporaries
and to the political oracles of both
parties The World presents it's cOmpli-
ments and renews it's prediction that
Theodore Roosevelt will be renomi-
mated for president Of the United
States in 1908-and elected.
Mr.. Roosevelt controls the republi-
can organization. The southern dele
gates will favor his denomination. The
far west will be wildly enthusiastic
for him. In New York and Pennsyl-
vania the machine will be for him. Fa-
vorite sons may have friends in the
next national convention, but Theo-
dore Roosevelt will be the real choice
of the delegates.
He will be renominated, and his cleo.
ton will follow as a matter of course,
What candidate of a hopelessly divid
ed democratic party would stand one
chance in a million against Theodore
Roosevelt?
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-06
A Nest Of Thieves

The corporation legislature in Colo
RADIO seems to have been very much
like the railroad legislature in Ne
braska. The following are some quo
tations made from speeches delivered
in the Colorado legislature during the
last day of it's session:
Il demand that we go into executive
session. The charge has plainly been
made here that corporation lobbyists
are attempting to bride members on
the very floor of this house, and be-
lieve it. What we are experiencing
now is a disgrace to the state of Colo
RADIO. call on every honest man in
this house to vote for an executive SEES
sion. democratic Floor Leader p. T..
Mcclure, speaking on the bond issue.
What have seen here tonight is
disgrace and shame to Colorado. If
this keeps up, | tell you the Fifteenth
general assembly will go down in his
tory compared to the Robber Seventh.
am not speaking to the members
now. | am speaking for myself and
for the honor of my state. l tell you
this is disgrace and shame. Re
publican House Leader r. G.. Brecken-
ridge, in speech on the war debt bill.
Lobbyists Frank Howbert and Clar-
ence G. Hamlin have been lobbying all
over this house tonight. They sat in
the speakers room, and one after an
other they called in members who op-
pose this bill, and / am told they are
offering $1,000 for vote.
IT tell you, gentlemen, it is time to
adjourn. Representative J. A. Nc.
Intyre.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-06
NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE
What Railroad Rule Costs the Citizens
of This State

The state is already in debt nearly
two million and half on which high
interest must be paid. This legisla-
ture has made appropriations amount
Ing to almost $4,000,000 more, without
any provision for the payment of the
existing debt. Taxation will bear
down very hard on the people for
years to come. 1t will be SO great that
It will retard the development of the
state. Capital will shun state where
the taxes are SO heavy. 1t all comes
about by the people turning the gov
eminent of the state over to lot OF
sel?Seeking scoundrels who when they
get a pass in their pockets, attain
the height of their ambition.
The appropriations as they passed
both houses aggregate $3,664,341, ex-
elusive of government and university
cash funds. This is ST., 761 more than
was appropriated two years ago, ex-
Guiding the government and university
cash fund Chairman Wilson of the
house committee on finance and Chair
man Good of the senate finance COM
mittee, have both made tabulations Of
the appropriation bills as they passed
the two houses and while there is
some difference, the statements prac-
tically agree. The following is the
tabulation made by Senator Good:
Cuhctatio and farmers insti-
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-06
NOSE CANCER CURED

Mr.. A. Garfield Of Tecumseh, Neb.,
suffered with severe cancer of the nose.
He has been entirely cured by DR.. T.
O'Connor and will answer any in
auiries from other sufferers. Write
him and at the same time send full
description of the cancer to DIR. +.
O'Connor, Lincoln. Neb. He can cure
you. His charges are reasonable and
terms Of payment easy.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-06

Mr.. e. Odds, Winside, Neb., was on
Mondays market in South Omaha,
with a car of cows that sold for
cents. Mr.. Odds expressed himself as
extremely well pleased with the sale.
Nye & Buchanan Co. handled them.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-06
Ole Nebraska Independent


Do you wish to sell your farm? II
so, send full description, lowest price
and best terms. Or, IL you wish to
buy a farm, ranch or Lincoln home,
write or call on Williams & Bratt,
1105 o st., Lincoln, Neb.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-06

If your wife objects to your SUBJ
scribing for The Independent, take
her in on the deal by including an or
~ for the Woman's Home Companion
at the clubbing rate of 1.50 for the two.
It will satisfy her and no further Oh.
1ections will be heard.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-06
Good Location for PopuIist PAPER

We can give any good populist who
is interested, the name of location
where small local populist paper will
be given, by one firm, at least 500
worth of advertising and 5000 worth
of job work per year.-The Indepen-
dent.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-04-06

If you have money for speculation
you will find the proposition made by
the Bueno-Ventura Oil and Gas Co.
worth investigating. 1t offers the best
opportunity for large profits.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-01
GOSSIP OF THE DIPLOMATS.
Foreign and Washington Notes.

The Sultan of Turkey some short
time since, granted an audience to
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, and was so
much charmed with that genial Amer
lean gentleman that he conferred upon
him the grand Gordon of the Chefecat,
and presented Mrs. Bacon with lot
of porcelain manufactured in the I'm.
perial potteries. 1t remains to be seen
whether the Georgian Senator will ask
permission from Congress to be per-
United to accept the order of the
Sultan.
Mrs. WI Ting Fang, wife of the for
mer Chinese Minister to this country,
has defled the time honored traditions
of her native land. by returning to
China with her feet enlarged" to a
normal size. When she came to this
country with her famous husband, Mrs.
WI had her feet tightly bound, as is
the custom among women of her rank
in China. While in this country she
had a surgical operation performed, in
creasing her feet to the size nature
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-01
@. j. Blanchard.

Ell PASO, Tex. Especially On the
Southeast border of the Great Ameri-
can Desert, where our sister republic
Mexico touches the commonwealth of
Texas on the East and the progress
sive old-young territory of New Mex
leo on the North, stands the Largest
city in the largest Congressional dis
trict of the largest State of the great
est Nation on the EARTH"
To the Fastener who first visits this
charming city and enjoys the hospital
ity which its citizens know SO well
how to extend, the question is upper
most, what makes a city here? After
journeying more than 500 miles across
Western Kansas and the Panhandle of
Texas, the short grass country, where
it is all one vast cattle range, down
into the adobe hills and sage brush
wastes of eastern New Mexico. there
is a reason for asking this question.
You naturally want to know from
whence comes all this hustle and hustle
with all these evidences OF progress
and substantial growth. All your no.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-01

intended them to be. Mrs. Wu's Wash
ington friends, with whom she keeps
up a steady correspondence, state that
she is able to walk now with COM
fort.
BY the will OF the late German
Field Marshal, Count Won Waldersee,
commander of the allied troops during
the Boxer uprising in China, his in
sigma of the Order of the Black Eagle,
set with diamonds, was sold for the
benefit of the needy soldiers in his old
regiment. Count Won Waldersee's wife
is a Miss Lee, of New York, and as
serts a most powerful influence at the
Berlin Court where she succeeded In
securing promotion after promotion for
her husband.
DR.. Wallason, the Cars American
dentist, lives in st. Petersburg in a
palace in a quarter reserved for Grand
Dukes and Ambassadors. 1t is furnish
ed with such exquisite things that each
room represents fortune in itself.
Wherever the Gar or Czarina or the
Grand Dukes are, they always send
for DR.. Wallason, and he is kept busy
travelling from one end of the big Rus
sian empire to the other.
In the same way, DR.. Thomas, an
American dentist at Vienna, has been
for many years an intimate friend OF
the Emperor, and has never betrayed
| the Emperor's confidence by a single
| indiscreet utterance.
The German Emperor's American
dentist not such a very long time
since committed suicide.
Each Earl of Oxford, at his burial is
driven in his hearse three times round
the church before his remains are fin
ally laid to rest. The origin of this
queer custom, according to family and
local tradition, Is that Horatio, second
earl Of oxford, destroyed the tomb
of the Scalmers, former possessors of
Warrington Hall, in Norfolkshire, and
one of the unhappy ladies of this fam
| lily, finding no rest. still haunts the
churchyard, always searching for the
remains of her relations. 1t is to mol
| lily her spirit that this weird drive of
| the hearse round the churchyarG takes
place on the occasion of the obsequies
of every Earl of oxford. The present
Lord oxford, whose wife is Louise
Corbin, daughter of d. G.. Corbin, and
niece of the great railroad magnate
Of that name, is at present travelling
in this country. van Calava.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-01

RUINS OF OLD SPANISH CHURCH.
tons long held and regretfully let 60
of, are that this sunny land of the
border is the land of manama, of to-
morrow; that its day of awakening Is
not yet come. Well, wake upl Life
is just as real, just as earnest and as
strenuous in FL Paso as in New York
or Chicago and when you rub up in
business against the Ell Pasoan you
need all your shrewdness and business
acumen.
The Old and The New.
Ell Paso is old-very old, and Ell
Paso is new, too-very new. This de-
lightful paradox is full of surprises
and charms. Right up against the old
Spanish dwelling of adobe with long,
low windows, heavily barred, and its
patio in the center, you are likely to
find a modern office building with ele-
vators and electric lights.
Something of a feeling of living in
the past comes over you when you en-
ter one of the old churches, down here
churches erected more than 300 years
ago. The solemn silence of these
shadowy halls has been broken by the
prisons of countless thousands and
softly intoned ayes were echoing here
long before the eyes of the Anglo
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-01
AN EYGLISHNAN WITH HUMOR.
How He Held His First Job and More
over Cot Raise in Wages.

Herbert Kelley, one Of the leading
actors of the present time, Is an
Englishman, but, unlike the usual type
from the Island has n deep sense OF
humor. In speaking of his first visit to
this country, he describes his exper-
fence something like this:
"Yes, | was a bit green when came
over to this country, and 'ad to tike
hanythink in the wy Of a job. l got
started in a department store on 9th
avenue, and the hoorwalker s'ys to me,
"'Now, AIRY, Wen give you three
trials, and If you let three people get
away without selling them, Wen ave
to bounce you
"Well, 1 came down jolly early on
Monday, took my plice behind the
counter and w'ited for customers.
Pretty soon a Idly walked up and
asked me where she should tike the
tram for New Rochelle. didn't know,
and she went aw'y 1 looked at the
floorwalker and the fioorwalker e
looked at me. That mide one" hold
| ing up a lean forefnger. "Then man
came along and stopped to arsk me
where e could buy a at. / told I'm
where the at counter was, and e went
aw'y. That mide two. jolly poor
luck, wasn't it now? 1 looked at the
foorwalker, and that floorwalker
looked at me like 'ell, but what could
l do? Then another Idly came along
as 'ad large piece of goods to match,
and she wanted another yard of the
same. 1 took it and, pulled out hevery-
think on the shelves, but there was no
more of it left. was in bit of
funk then, for If 1 let 'er go without
mixing a sale would lose my job, so
seq:
"'Wite a bit, Idly; I'll see If we ave
any UPSTAIRS l went up, and seeing
there was no more there, either, just
cut a yard off her own goods and
brought the two pieces down, rolled
them up, took the money, and she
went aw'y. 1 'ad plenty of customers
after that, but l didn't feel just COM
forta BILE, don't you know.
1.-THE same afternoon she came back
and asked for the floorwalker.
Ere seq she, i brought I'VE
yards of goods ere to match this
morning and bought a yard more, but
when l got home l found only four
yards in my own piece. Can you ex-
pin that pleaseT'
i eMneu an dWeu anu lIicu "
measure the goods and hattempted to
tell the Idly that she must be mistaken
about 'er own piece, but she only
glared at me, and in jlffy she was
hup to the 1loorwalker eXpfnin' the
cOnditi n of affairs. 'Er tone hindu
Gated that she was mad, and l said to
meself, carry, you're a dead 'un."
"The floorwalker called me bout,
8 II
the first party wanted a tram-car, and
the next a 'at, and this one wanted
more goods when we admit any. /
'ad to sell FER some'ow, or lose my job,
so l give FER bit from 'er own piece:
The foorwalker looked so bloomin
mad for a bit that l thought my time
was come for sure, but then e
started to larf, and e larfed till
thought ED bust Then 'e sez, AIRY
seq e. I guess Wen ave to keep you,
and raise your wages And e did,"
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-01

less sounds which we cannot hear, and
colors as different as red from green.
Of which we have no conception. These
and a thousand other questions re-
main for solution. The familiar world
which surrounds us may be a totally
different place to other animals. To
them it may be full of music which we
cannot hear, of sensations we cannot
conceive. To place stuffed birds and
beasts in glass cases, to arrange in
sects in cabinets, and dried plants I'm
drawers, is merely the drudgery and
preliminary of study; to watch their
habits, to understand their relations to
one another, to study their instincts
and intelligence, to ascertain their
adaptations and their relations to the
forces of nature, to realize what the
world appears to them-these con-
stitute, as it seems to me, at least, the
true interests Of natural history, and
may even give us the clue to senses
and perceptions Of which at present
we have no conception"
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-01

Saxon had looked upon Plymouth
Rock.
In the first half of the Sixteenth
Century the Spanish Conquistadores
seeking new fields of conquest for the
Grande Valley. They found pastoral
settlements of Pueblo Indians prac-
ticing agriculture through the aid of
irrigation, carrying the precious waters
of the Rio Grande out upon the desert
and reaping harvests from fields which
had been in cultivation beyond the
traditions of the Oldest members of the
tribe. Spanish settlements followed
the conquerers. With the ready adap-
liability of the early explorers they
utilized the old irrigation systems.
Thresh by Tramplidg Of Goats.
The unprogressiveness OF the Span
lard is no where more strikingly re-
vealed than in the Rio Grande Val
Sey, where the descendants of the early
Spanish explorers are to-day engaged
in agriculture in just the same man.
ner as their forefathers practiced 1t,
and indeed with methods strangely like
those in the days of Abraham. You
can see them reap with the sickle and
thresh by the trampling of goats.
Progressive Americans settling in the
upper reaches Of the Rio Grande in
later years, showed small regard for
the settlers in tho lower valley. Soon
their long lines of broad canals began
to make sad inroads in the water sup
ply which was needed for the old
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1905-11-01
Weakness of English Colo mics

The new commonwealth of Aus
tralia does not seem to be getting on
very well. The population in the ten
years ending with 1901 was 3,771,715,
the increase being 597 ,462. The whole
island continent has less population
than the city of Greater New York.
Long a dependent upon England, it
has not developed internally. "Were
Australian ports" says the Sydney
Bulletin, "shut by hostile warships
tomorrow, the commonwealth would
be without guns or cartridges for its
troops, without ships or the means OF
making them, without fabrics fol
clothing, without machinery for mine
or railway, without even paper on
which to print its Journals. Australia
would have to beseech the grace OF
some master, crawl to the hand OF
whatever power was for the time mos
strong o. lapse into savagery."