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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-22
Savings Bank VS.. Life Insurance.

The reader who has followed the inves-
tigation of the New York lite insurance
companies will not wonder that the
dividends to policy holders are much
smaller than the interest paid depositors
at savings banks. Reckless manage
ment, enormous salaries, and graft eat
up millions. In this connection the New
York World says:
The Equitable, Mutual and New York
companies have almost the same amount
OF assets as the savings banks of New
York state. Yet their dividends are only
a third the interest the savings bank de.
positors receive. TIER dividends last
year were only Is per cent as compared
with the saving banks 3 4 per cent.
The policy holders fail to receive two
thirds OF the profits from their own funds.
In the aggregate this diversion in these
three companies alone amounts to over
$40 900 900 year.
Part OF these millions, as the testimony
proves, goes to the inside syndicates
part is swallowed up by the leechlikt
subsidiary banks and trust compauie.
which the directors and officials own
part is transferred to- the officials pock
cts by manipulation. Large salaries anC
lavish expenses take other millions. AL
told the policyholders in these three
companies IT ceived last year in dividend.
only S14 665 600, as compared with
$50 929 CIT received in profits by the
savings banks depostors from an invest
ment only slightly greater in amount.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-22

Gov. Bell is to given credit tor desire
to give all the candidates who desire to
succeed the late Judge Start on the
supreme court bench fair hearing. Just
now be is attending the annual meeting of
the National Grange at Atlantic City, N.
T., but hereturns to his native state next
week and has announced that he will be
in Montpelier on Tuesday, Nov, %, from
$50 to to meet any interested in any
of the candidates for the appointment.
There are about score of Vermont
LAWYERS who are in the list of those
mentioned for the place and Gov. Bell
has no easy task before him. Caledonia
county has two candidates, Harry
Blodgett of St. Johnsbury and Walter A.
Dutton, the present executive clerk. The
new Judge will be appointed soon after
the Montpelier conference and will prob
ably preside at the December term of
the Caledonia county court unless the
lucky man is Mr.. Blodgett or Mr.. Dut-
ton,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-22
Fight Over Pure Food.

Thomas E. Lannen, OF Chicago, secre-
tary of the Federation Food Manufacture
ers' Association, who has recently been
in Washington, D. c., processes to be-
lieve that the association be represents
will be in favor of pure food bill at the
coming session OF Congress. "We believe
that food regulation should be placed in
the hands OF the department ofcommerce
and labor where it belongs" he says,
instead OF in the hands of the depart
ment OF agriculture, which is not proper
ly concerned with matters OF Interstate
commerce, but with farming. The food
men OF the country are opposed to giving
the food commissioners, Doctor Wiley, or
any other official, the arbitrary powers
they now enjoy under the present food
laws, which the Hepburn bill would con-
fer upon Doctor Wiley, as chief of the
bureau of chemistry. The food manu-
lecturers want new food law, but they
want the states and the government to
recognize their constitutional rights" 1t
is evident from the tone of Mr.. Lannon'S
talk that the old fight against the pure
TODD legislation such as the people of the
country would like to have will be re-
newed at the coming session of Congress.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-22
To Vermont Life Insurance Policy
Holders.

There is only one way to secure fairness
and honesty in the management OF lite
insurance. The policyholders must pro-
tect themselves.
1t is evident that the grafters and rob-
bers and salary grabbers of the insurance
companies propose to hold on to their
Offices until forced out.
Protest and condemnation and de-
mands that they retire fall UNDECIDED
upon deaf ears and shameless consciences.
No single poIicyholder, working alone
can do any good He is as helpless as
man on log in mid-ocean. Only organ
ization can have any effect. The one
man power, by control of proxies, must
be strangled. 1t is still exercising its
czarshlp in all the grating companies as
strong as ever.
| propose state organization Of
holders OF lite insurance policies to pro-
tect the great and vital interests which
all policyholders have in these sacred
trusts which we really own.
We not only want to protect ourselves
from the reckless use of our money for
unlawful purposes; but the reckless use
OF 1t tor lawful purposes, such as extrav-
agant management, particularly in the
payment OF colossal salaries, which
these robbers vote to themselves by our
permission. That these salaries are not
earned and never have been is clearly
shown by their own testimony of their
dellnquencles, lack OF knowledge and
awlessness in the management of our
money.
1t the policyhoders of the different
states-in large states by minor d.
Vision-will form organizations to take
united action they can resume control of
their own money and enforce honesty in
place of robbery.
lrequest every policyholder in Vermont
to write me giving the number OF their
policy and the company in which it is.
There will be no cost or obligation to
you in furnishing this Information. As
soon as 1t lsreceived and tabulated / will
announce the results and make proposals
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-22
A Prohibition Admiral.

Lord Charles Beresford of the British
navy is a pronounced advocate of tenn
perance and his position will strengthen
the prohibitory wherever the union jack
flies.
II do not believe alcohol in any form
ever has or ever will do any one any
good" be says. 81 am now 60 years old
and since have entirely given up wine,
spirits and beer, find can do as much
work, or more, physically and mentally,
than when | was 80. am always well,
always CHEEKY, always feel fit.
"If young men would go without
liquor for three months l believe they
would be convinced that liquor is I'M
necessary"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-22

and the smaller pieces bear the letter
e" The great tray is inscribed as
follows:
Presented to
President and Mrs. Edward Dwight
Eaton
as token
of affectionate esteem
by
The Board of Trustees of Beloit
College.
November IL, 1905.
The presentation OF the loving cup
took place Sunday evening. Nov. 1 1, at
about eight O'Clock when the members of
the faculty and their wives assembled at
the Presidents residence and the cup
was rendered to President Eaton in an
informal way by Prot. Wright. The cup
bears this inscription:
To
President Edward Dwight Eaton
With the Love and Esteem
The Faculty of Beloit College.
November IL. 1905.
After the presentation, the cup was
filled with grape juice and all present
drank according to the custom suggested
by the loving cup. The incident was not
without its pleasant features, but feel
ing of sadness prevailed.
The cup is thing of beauty and
represents the highest art of the silver
smith. 1t stands nearly eight inches in
height and by coincidence the pattern
and the engraving is very much like the
tea service.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-22
High Commendation for Poultry.

Burditt Bros. of Rutland. VT, are per.
haps the most extensive dealers in -four
grain. feed, etc, in Rutland county.
They are, therefore, in close touch with
the farmers OF that vicinity and know
their needs. They speak OF their trade
in Poultry food as follows. I'VE have
handled Pages Perfected Poultry Food
tor several years and find the same very
satisfactory. We can highly recommend
it. Enclosed find check for $3O.65 to
cover invoice of March 9, 1904"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-22

|
the hannts OF the wood folk follow him
to the briny deep to find Matwock, the
polar bear, and where the salmon jump.
Coming just as the holiday season ap'
proaches we predict great sale for this
charming nature book.
Government Regulation of Railroad
Rates, by Hugo Richard Meyer. Cloth,
DID. 4S6. Published at $3.50 by The
Macmillan Company, New York.
This is a timely publication by the
assistant professor in the University of
Chicago and be says his conclusions
are the result OF ~ years of study OF
the railway problems. The author
frankly says that the book is issued just
at this time lest Congress may be led to
enact ill-considered laws granting dan
gerously enlarged powers to the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, and Prof.
Meyers conclusions are that disaster
would follow policy of fixing railway
rates either by this commission or the
government itself In the first part of the
book the anthor presents the results OF his
studies where the railroads are owned by
the government as in Germany, Austro-
Hungary and Australia, and where the
roads are under government control as
in France and Russia. The authors con-
cusions are that state influence hampers
the usefulness of the roads and from this
he deduces in the last part of the book
the unwisdom of government regulation
of railway rates.
Whether one agrees with Prof. Meyer
or not in all his conclusions the reader is
forced to admit the thoroughness of his
investigations and his exhaustive treat
ment OF the subject. This matter will
surely be warmly debated in the next
Congress and Prof. Meyers book will be
an authority for one side in this great
question. The argument is summed up
in the last paragraph of the book and
here follows:
1.-The verdict OF the experience of the
countries OF continental Europe and OF
Australia, as well as the verdict of the
experience of the United States, under
both the federal Interstate Commerce
Commission and the several state
commissions, is unmistakable. 1t is i'm
possible for the state to conserve and
promote the public welfare by interven-
ing in the regulation of railway rates,
beyond the point of seeking to abolish
secret personal determinations guaran-
teeing that all rates shall be reasonable
per Sc, and providing that those rates
which involve the question OF relative
reasonableness shall embody compro-
misses which were made with intelligence
and in good faith"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-22
New Publications.

The Overall Bows. A first reader by
Eulalie Osgood Grover, PIP. 1914. Pub
lished al 40 cents by Rand, McNally &
Company, Chicago, Ill.
When Miss Grover published the Sum-
bonnet Babies Primer she awoke and
found herself famous. 1t was the most
attractive book, for children that had
been published and the editions were
printed by the thousands to satisfy the
growing demand from all parts of the
United States. The Overall Boys can
hardly be called its sequel, in the parlance
OF story writer's, but it may properly be
called it's complement, for the child who
has one of the primers will cry for the
other. Miss Bertha L. Corbett, who
created the sunbonnet baby, is also the
illustrator OF this book and her clever
work adds much to the primers attract
veness. 1t is interesting to know tn at
the demand for this book was created by
little folks who, after finishing the Sun
bonnet Babies Primer, cried like Oliver
Twist for more. The author is most
pleasantly remembered in st. Jobnsbury
and has many friends here who are high
ly pleased at her success in the education-
al world. Even the old folks catch the
spirit of youth and after reading the
book echo the wish which appears as the
epilogue
81 wish could live in the land of books.
With all the Kings and Queens and Cooks,
With M oily and May in their bonnets blue,
And perhaps an Overall Boy or two"
Northern Trails. By DR.. William ]
Long. Cloth, PIP. 800. Published a.
$3.50 by CHM & Company, Boston.
"The call of the wild" takes this clos,
student OF nature farthest north and al
a result we have before us studies of thu
daily life of the polar bear, the whit
wolf, the Esquimaux dogs, the salmon
and other denizens OF cherries Labrado
and Newfoundland. Readers of "Littl
Brother to the Bear" and DR.. Long
other books will welcome this one as i
covers field which is rarely visited b,
naturaists and tells much that is new
about the creatures of those semi-arcti
regions. In the preface DR.. Long ably dc
tends himself against the critics VIII
have claimed his stories were based O
imagination rather than on observatio
and says, Every smallest incident re
corded here is as true as careful and az
curate observation can make it." Hi
remarks on instinct and intelligence az
well put and he has clearly establishe
his right to attribute actions of will
animals to certain degree of intelligenc
and the possession OF the same facultie
that are so highly developed in man.
The book is proiusely illustrated b
Charles Copeland and young and oil
will take real pleasure in followin
Wayeeses, the great white wolf, over II
northern trails OF the Labrador coas
will gladly accompany the author
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-22

Ian Maclaren is retiring from the Con-
gregational ministry. iii were begin
ming ms cad OF closing my career" be
said, Il woull be careful about three
things in particular: would preach
shorter sermons; should be more at
tentive to my English, and l should
preach more comtortingly."
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-22
A Friendly Hint TO the Republican
State Committee.

1t may not be out of place just at this
time to remind the Republican state
committee that never in the recent his
tory OF American politics, if ever before,
has the newspaper been so much EN-.
ployed by both parties as medium tor
the dissemination Of their arguments as
paid advertising matter as in the vari-
Gus state campaigns that closed in to-
days election. Day after dag page after
page OF this literature has appeared.
Republican sheets containing Democratic
arguments as well as campaign material
for their own party, and vice versa. The
best newspapers in the land have sold
their advertising space for this purpose,
and the constant increase Of the practice
emphasizes anew long growing i'm
preston that one of these days political
advertisements in the newspapers will
60 long way toward superseding the
paid stump-speaker.
AS one OF the cow Bird" of 1904, The
Messenger humbly submits the potent
suggestion OF these facts to the fourteen
Elder Statesmen OF Vermont and begs
them to accept renewed assurance OF its
distinguished consideration [St. AL.
bans Messenger.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-22

for some kind OF organization, which
you can join or not as you choose.
Address:
JOSEPH AULD.
Editor Daily News,
Burlington, Vt.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-22
Current Press Comment.
The Governor as an Organizer.

Gov Bell has just been down this way
and organized a Grange in Johnson.
This is the first Grange organized by the
Governor in this county, but he has put
in good work in that direction in other
parts OF the state. 1t will be observed
that he does not confne organizing
Oranges to the second district. In this
respect he is organizer for the entire
state. 1t may be that little later he
will do some organizing of different
character-in the second district.- Nor
risville News and Citizen.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-22

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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-22

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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-22

Entered at the st. Johnsbury post office as
HSrond-class mail matter.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-22

quest OF Waptonk, the wild goose; learn
for the first time the habits OF Pequam,
the black fox or fisher, and then leaving
the hannts of the wood folk follow him
to the briny deep to find Matwock, the
polar bear, and where the salmon jump.
Coming Just as the holiday season ap.
proaches we predict great sale for this
charming nature book
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-22

The last vesper service conducted by
the one who has just resigned the presi-
dency OF Beloit College was held in the
college chapel on Sunday, Nov. II.
Special music was arranged tor the occa-
sion and President Eaton, Mrs. Eaton
and the audience were much Effected.
President Eaton's address was from the
text found in Cor. 3:11, For other
| foundation can no man lay than that is
laid, which is Jesus Christ"
He referred to the great foundation OF
character building as evidenced in the
life of the college. He also referred to
the elections of last Tuesday, showing
that the protest against misgovernment
in municipal affairs indicates that the
public conscience is we'll founded. Refer.
ring to the foundations of the college he
said that they were laid in faith and
prayer. The high moral ideals then set
have ever been before the college and are
in the college today. The President
spoke in behalf OF the compulsory attend
ance at religious exercises. He said that
there has been tendency to leave the old
spirit OF the college behind and to make
it into small university, but that he
had always been opposed to it because
the high religious ideals could not be
carried out if the college was turned into
university. The religious life OF Beloit
college has always been one OF The
choicest treasures to its graduates anC
President Eaton expressed his salts
faction that the faculty, trustees anc
students had adhered to the old custom
of compulsory attendance at religious
services, Tor no student could attend tn,
required services for four years withou
getting some upliit in the spiritual life
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-22

The Beloit Daily Free Press gives an
interesting account of two presents
which President Eaton received, both of
which came as pleasant surprises to him
self and wife.
One is solid silver tea set of seven
pieces, costing 500, from the members
OF the college trustees anu the other is a
magnificent silver loving cup from mem.
bers OF the college faculty.
During the absence OF Mr. and Mrs.
Eaton from their home Saturday even
ing, ames Moore and wife OF Chicago, of
the Board OF Trustees, and resident
trustees went to the house and placed
the silverware upon the dining table.
Then they turned on the lights in the
house and awaited the return of the
president and his family. There was no
speech making and President Eaton saws
that it was we'll that he was not expect
ed to attempt to make speech then, for
he surely would have failed. He was so
| taken with surprise and overcome with
emotion that he could hardly think, to
say nothing OF finding words to express
himself
The silver set is magnificent and as
costly as the solid silver and gold can be.
but 1t has greater value to MIR. and
Mrs Eaton than that of silver and gold
because OF its associations and the spirit
represented in the git. The silverware
is OF colonial pattern, simple in design,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-22

rytAan Building, St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-11-22

THE CALIFORNIAN co.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-09-11
GOOD GAME COMING Up.
Tennis Representing PARK City and
Eureka to Play In salt Lake.

The managers OF the ball teams ropgo-
sDntIug PARK CIty lnd Eureka held
meeting last evening "A which the follow
lowing agreement WINS entered into:
"Salt Lake city Sept. l0 1905
"TlIs agreement is entered into tblF
day between Manager Shout2 of tho EI-
r,ke baseball team and Manager Brandt
of the Park city baseball team for
match game Of baseball 90 boz played at
Walkers field ON Sept d. beginning ut
$3.50 p. m Billy Dutch ia agreed upon
as Umpire The uuoup3 of the tctmH
shall bo selected from among the follow
ing players;
"For PARK CiU Fulmcr Mars Dnd,
VIII Smith A. dunn Taylor spl'mau
James Ryan Berry, and perll CIV 4h.ll
Doc allowed Goo pitch CasuotUu m ,I-r
Fulmor is sick and unable o. play Eu.
rekus lineup shall h' selected from
lioG9ssor Chi,roT Is isuascr iItwl1
Douglas Moor Beck Hahn. cook. Jou.
sen Mexican The game is for t side
bet or Slm 90 hc deposited with W. ID
RishCl ou con- before Thursday Sept
o. and the gate receipts to ho divided %