St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-11-21
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Dear CALIFORNIAN:

to send you few med1tations on
matters and things alive
around the political hub of the country,
and hope you may find time avail
able" In any event it is a mental tonic
for me to get in communication once
more with dear old Caledonia county.
left for the south the next day after
the September election, after having
helped save the state, and at once ran
into month of the hottest weather
then prevailing anywhere ON earth,
verify believe For three or four weeks
it was too hot to eat, drink or even use
cuss words, except as the latter were
necessarily applied to the mosquitoes.
All of Vermont never saw as many as
infested my room every night for a
month, and could only lie awake and
strike out wildly and uselessly in all
directions while wishing that was
back 1000 feet nearer heaven than St.
| Johnsbury" where Burns used to adver-
tise mo hay fever nor mosquitoes and a
spring in every bed" The insect part of
this may have been true, but as to the
beds-well-that even may have been
true before the war
Anyway, what with the heat and the
purring insects / wanted Danville and
wanted it mighty bad and quick. / loved
it still, the stiller the better, but twas
out of reach. l pulled through some
way, but will never look like anything
again. Lost lots of flesh, blood and
moral rectitude and must grub along
with the dense and impenetrable
mysteries of Washington cooking and
the benefcent influences of Congress till
after the Fourth of March. AS soon
thereafter as the Lake road and fish
worms are thawed out, / will again
breathe the lively and bountiful air
of Danville.
The first OF the week I read in local
paper that there had fallen a foot of
snow in northern New England and
that blizzard weather prevailed. This
made my diet of coal gas and cabbage
here little pleasanter by contrast. As
for the weather here. it has been ideal
Indian summer for the past six weeks,
with only an occasional wet day.
Haven't seen any frost yet, except ON the
democrats since election tho the de-
ciduous trees have mostly dropped their
leaves because of senile debility of the
latter. Many trees beside the ever
greens, however, like the Green Bay,
Laurel and Magnolia, are yet in glossy
plumage and remain so the year round.
Late flowers, including many roses are
blooming in front yards, and in mine
the chrysanthemums of varied colors are
making a magnificent showing. A
luxuriant little cotton patch has also
struggled bravely to reopen, but the
: late sharp air is evidently too much for
it.
Since the cooler weather and the cleo
, lions the city has thoroughly awakened
from the lassitude of the torrid season.
and everybody is "hustling." The city
has comparatively little manufacturing
or wholesale business, tho Just now a
e recently organized combination of bust
, ness men has started in to secure new
. industries of that character. The multi
tude of elegant department and retail
stores are now filling up with holiday
goods, everybody is back in town. and
! the city is livelier than | ever saw it
: before at this season. Announcements
7 are being made and dates fixed for the
social functions of the official set, the
4 milliners and tailors are deluged with
! work. Automobiles are more plenty and
t dangerous than ever and the "cool beer"
e signs are being replaced with legends
: appertaining to Tom and Terry, the
It popular cold weather twins.
q Also, Congress is coming back, col
d lectlvely and Individually This always
: starts the ball rolling here, and is the
h only thing that will If this city wasn't
e the seat OF government it wouldn't
l. amount to as much as Willoughby Lake
y In sugaring. Take out those connected
e IN one way or another with Congress
/ and the departments and the remainder
would only consist of an old ladies'
. home and the Congressional cemetery.
+ AS 1t is, Washington is it from December
LIST till Congress adjourns.
= This latter, in the odd years, is fixed as
March Fourth by limitation. In the
even years it continues as long as the
president can stand Congress and Con
gress can stand the heat. This wear It
adjourned July 2nd The session begin
nng the first of next month will end
March Fourth, tho it may be immediate
y followed by an extra called session of
the newly elected Goth Congress. This
VIII depend entirely on Mr.. Roosevelt's
view OF the necessities of the case.
lhere are rumors already that
session may be called to tackle
the tariff reform proposition-but This is
not at all likely. The administration Is
SAID to believe that the verdict of the
recent election was in favor of leaving
the tariff alone for the present. It
would seem to be justified in this belief.
TOO. II no extra session is called, which
nov, seems very improbable, then the
newly elected Congress will not have a
chance to do mischief for a whole wear
Meanwhile those fellows who have been
aeieated VIII serve through the coming
session, their terms not expiring till