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500. 600 FIRE ~ RENSSELAER,.
twenty-five Families Made Homeless
Albany and Troy Called on for Help.

Albany and Troy Called on for Help.
ALBANY, Oct. o.-Twenty-hve families
were rendered homeless and property valued
at $4,000 was destroyed tonight by a fire
which started on a dock in Rensselaer,.
The fire ate its way through a hay shed,
where it started, consumed an ice house
and then reaching Broadway, spread both
north and south, licking up everything in
it's way. The Rensselaer, fremen called
for help from Albany and Troy and both
responded. Tive I've companies of fire.
men fought the blaze for three hours before
il was under control.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-07
BROOKLYN ASSEMBLYMEN.
Nominations Made IN the various Dis
trIcts Last Night.

The Republican Assembly conventions
for the nomination OF ~Assemblymen were
held last night in Brooklyn and these can
didates were selected:
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-11-07

Entered at the St. Johnsbury post office as
second-class mail matter
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-11-07
In MemOriam.
Milo jenkins 183O-1oO6.

Milo Jenkins, son of Rev. Lewis and
Polly (Griswold) Jenkins, and grand
son of Lemuel Jenkins, a soldier of the
American Revolution, was born in Burke,
November 25, 1880, and died in Burke,
November /, 1906, in his seventy-sixth
year. He was the sixth child in a family
of twenty-one children, only three Of
whom now survive. He was educated
in the common schools. He married for
his first wife Amelia, daughter of Jacob
and Sally (Pierce) Sanderson, June IS,
1855. They had five children, Adna A.,
Fred Elmon, Harris E., Charles A., who
died in infancy, and Willie L. Mrs.
Jenkins died December g. 1866, and
March 5, 1868, Milo Jenkins married for
his second wife Ellen A., daughter of
Captain Asa c. and Asenath r. S.
George Ethridge. To this union one
child, Nellie Amelia, Mrs William H.
Jeffrey, was born.
In 1928 Mr.. Jenkins represented the
town of Kirby in the general assembly of
Vermont. For more than half a century
he was a devout and consistent member
of the Methodist church; for 26 years a
faithful steward and was a most gen
erous contributor to all its needs, and
charities. From his early manhood he
has been an important and valued factor
in the spiritual and moral unbuilding OF
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-11-07

maximum days work for public EN-
plovees and a bill introduced by Mr..
Grafton of Burlington making such a
provision was killed by vote of $50 to
7.
Tuesday was the last day for introduc-
ing bills except through committees or
by unanimous consent.
Friday is Vermont Historical Society
day, and on that evening Judge Wendell
P. Stafford viii speak at public meet
ing in representatives hall on The Lite
of Thaddeus Stevens" A delegation
from the Vermont Society of Boston will
be at the capital on Thursday and Fri
day. They will come in special Pullman
cars and will occupy the car during their
stay here.
The bill introduced by Representative
Ray of Rockingham, to take the cedar
bird from the protected list has very
properly aroused the lovers of birds to
protest, and Chairman Evarts of the fish
and game committee has been informed
as to the real situation. 1t is true that
cedar birds feed on fruit to a certain
extent, the same as many other birds,
but the department of agriculture at
Washington is authority for the state
ment that of the birds examined, their
stomachs contained only five per cent. o.
cherries, while the rest was wild fruit and
| insects. The cedar bird is one of the
handsomest birds in Vermont and tc
take it from the protected list woule
mean it's determination. The Vermont
Bird Club and the various Audubon
societies are interesting themselves il
defeating the bill and defending the cedar
| bird as we'll
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-11-07
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
THE CALIFORNIAN COMPANY.
ARTHUR F. STONE,
Editor and Publisher.

pvthian Building, St. Johnsbury, Vermont
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-11-07

this community. Sound and sturdy of
body, strong and sane of mind, frugal,
thrifty and Industrious, patient, orderly
and law-abiding. He had an abundance
of humor, and saw the quaint and anus
ing side of life. His judgment of men
was exceedingly accurate and at the
same time charitable.
Those who knew him intimately will
continue to remember him for the
splendid qualities of mind and heart
which endeared him to us and will ever
make his memory precious.
There are bellows far out in the ocean
Which never will break on the beach,
There are waves of human emotion
Which can find no expression in speech.
In his long life of honest endeavor how
much there must have been of courage
and conquest, courage to meet the
inevitable discouragements, disasters
and defeats incident to life, for this man
hewed his own way, Nothing came to
him by favor, nothing unearned. Friends
he had, but it was because loyalty and
| unselhshness had no room there, because
honor, integrity and purity of life had de-
served them. So much affection and so
generously expressed, so much patience
and forbearance, such genuine comrade-
ship between parents and children has
rarely been seen. In his home love was
king. No mans nature was warmer,
none was more compassionate. His
heart over-fowed for his fellow-man and
his sympathy with them and his desire
to better their condition characterized
his every act
Ofrevenge or resentment or intolerance
he was incapable His soul was the
abiding place of the sweetest and rarest
of virtues. To know him was to like
him. and to like him was to love him
1t is men of his character that elevate
| the standard of mankind.
He cannot die who truly lives
For virtue has immortal breath
IT'S but the sowing of the grain
| Which blossoms into life again
| And finds perfection in its death.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-11-07
An Act to Regulate the Price of Tele-
phone Rates.

Up to the present time, regardless Of
the fact that over seven thousand five
hundred independent telephones have been
introduced along the line of Passumpsic
division of the railroad between Canada
and White River Junction and from Wells
River to Concord, N. H., on Concord and
Montreal division, and the outlying
towns along said lines, not one of these
telephones have been allowed single
railroad office along one of these
divisions, much to the discontinue and
inconvenience of the many patrons of the
line. A privilege is now asked of these
roadsto install phones and booths in
the railroad stations, free of charge to
the company, and for the convenience Of
the general public, This is as it should
be- There should be no discrimination
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-11-07

between telephone companies IN TINS
respect The patron of phone should
be as much entitled to use an lhuepehs,
pent telephone in transacting, raliroaa
business, as to use Bell or phone oi
any other system. The Independent
line of telephones have come to stay
and this fact being universally KNOWN
they should be placed on the same OASIS
and allowed the same rights OF every
other established line.
To further these rights and to place
every telephone company III the state On
the same footing, an act to regulate tne
price OF telephone rates and rentals IN tne
state ofVermont is now being introduced
before the House at Montpelier during
the present session. This act is to snow
no discrimination in prices to any pat
ron, the lowest price any telephone com
pany sees fit to make in any county 10
be the price for said company wherever
they do business in the state and that
no telephone company doing business IN
this state give a cash or service rebate TO
any patron which they do not give TO
each and every one OF their patrons IN
the state. A fine established by law is
to be imposed against any telephone
company in the state failing to comply
with the above law the States Attor-
ney to investigate and see that the law
is enforced.
AS all of the above interests and is toi
the benefit of every citizen in the state
and as these independent telephones arr
penetrating every county in the state
the matter should not be passed owe
lightly by members of the House and i
probably will not be. :
The bill is being introduced by ]. 6
Turnbull, the representative from Bar
tom Newport Express and Standard
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-11-07
MidShipman Wanted.

Congressman Haskins is requested by
the Navy department to nominate one
principal and three alternates for APP
pointment as midshipman for entrance
at the United States Naval Academy,
Annapolis, Maryland, in June next. The
candidates must be actual residents of the
Second Congressional district. Appli-
cants are requested to communicate
with Mr.. Haskins at once giving their
full name, residence, place and date of
birth, height and weight No candidate
will be considered who will be under 16
or over 20 years ofage on the third Tues
day of April, 1907, when the first ex-
animation will be held.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-11-07
Concerning Jubilees.

A writer in the current Harpers Week
ly, in the course of some "reminiscences of
the days Of Queen Victorias jubilee, re-
calls the following conversation between
two old Scotch women which was over
heard one day on street corner in Lon
don:
"Can we tell me, wumman, what is it
they cali jubilee!'
well, it's this" said her neighbor,
when folk has been married twenty.
five years, that's silver wuddin'; and
when they have been married fifty year:
that's a golden wuddin'. But if tn,
mons dead, then it's jubilee
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-11-07
FareWells to Judge Ide.

We have received since our last issue
more Manila papers containing accounts
of the numerous functions incident to the
departure of Judge Henry c. lde and
daughter from the islands. One OF the
pleasantest dinners was at the Army and
Navy Club and given by the Vermont
Association of Manila. Herbert Gale
was POSTMASTER at this gathering and
speeches were made by Judge Amasa 5.
Crosfeld, Commissioner Worcester,
Charles H. Burritt, Albert W. Hastings
and Governor lde.
One of the most representative gather
ings was the complimentary banquet
rendered the retiring and incoming
Governor General at the Metropole Ho-
tel on Sept. 10. The chief note of Gov.
Smiths speech was the tribute he paid
to the retiring Governor, saying, IF this
banquet is a welcome to me it is at the
same time a sad farewell to the man
with whom would rather serve indefi.
nitely than serve without him for a
moment"
Chief Justice Arellano referred to Mr.
lde as the "selfpossessed, wise and just
ice-loving statesman. Senior Herrera
said that Mr.. Ide had been just and inn
partial to all and had held an even
balance for which everybody, Americans,
foreigners and Filipinos alike, honored
and respected him. Judge Kincaid said
the situation which the retiring Gov.
ernor General had left would constitute
a monument to the memory of Henry
Clay Idle more enduring than shaft O.
sculptured marble.
Of the numerous press tributes to Mr.
Ides success we print the following from
Ell Adelanto:
Today Mr.. Ide ceases to be Governor
General and Mr.. Smith becomes oul
Chief Executive. Leaving these Islands
after six years of residence among us
Mr.. Ide will take with him remem
brance of the satisfaction which i
generally felt by the people. This i
shown by the many manifestations O
sympathy and affection and Mr.. Id
may with pride point to the fact that al
men of all parties would have welcomes
his permanency here as our Governor.
The Inauguration of theme Governo
General occurred on Sept. 20, and opene
with the reading Of the following des
patch from Secretary Taft:
The President directs me to advise yo
that your resignation of the office {
Governor General is accepted, to tax
effect upon the installation of yor
successor, James F. Smith. In acceptin
your resignation, the President wisht
to express his high appreciation of Il
great value of your earnest and alb
service for the last six years to tt
Government of the United States and
the people of the Islands, as Commi
sioner, Secretary of Finance and Justic
Nice-Governor, and Governor Genera
and sends to Goyernor-General Smith /
congratulations on his accession
Office and his sincere belief and wi
that he will continue your work a
policy in maintaining a governme
in the Islands solely devoted to the W
fare and progress of the Philippi
people
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-11-07

The most perfect laws that
could be devised by the wit of
man or the wit of angels would
not amount to anything if the
average man were not a pretty
decent fellow. | base my firm
belief in the future of this country
on nv belief that the average
American is a pretty decent
fellow Theodore Roosevelt.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1906-11-07

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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18

admirable camping ground, ana in this
capacity 1t was used repeatedly, first by
tho Southern army and then by tho
Northern army. during the war between
the States. Perhaps the largest body of
troops that has ever camped here at QUO
time was Sheridan's cavalry. as it adj
vanced IN the peninsula at the time
or the battle of Malvern Hill. Forty
thousand men. including wagons. horses
and everything else that accompanies an
army, settled down for the night at
Stirling"
Every fence on the place was burned,
and every available article OF food was
consumed.
Fortunately, the buildings We're all left
intact. over and over was the house
searched from basement to attic, not even.
II bureau drawer being overlooked in the
pursuit. for booty. but they little dreamed
that the family plate. the accumulation
OF generations, and much OF 1t bearing
the ancestral coat-of-arms, lay buried
beneath one of the brick floors In the
basement. whore 1t remained until peace
WIS restored,
Many curiosities. such as h1ass ana
pewter ware and newspapers published
during the curly history OF the couutia.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18
Fairbrother's Fancies.
Being Some Suggestions on Things We See

This is an age of theories. There is
nothing much in science that is a fixed
Tnct--,iniess it happens to be the rule of
mathematics, and wouldn't be surprised
II one OF these days some fellow didn't
come along and prove that two and two
do not make four. And j am about to
say that III all the theories recently put
out, the germ. theory appears to Inc to
be one of the most reasonable. How
ever, this does not carry with 1t the
proposition that there is any medicine
that Will kill germs I am simply talk
ing n new view of the germ in the
{ abstract, and presenting TO Times-Dis-
patch readers theory l have long
cherished.
have read, and we all have read.
many books ON Napoleon. Some have
landed him to the skies, others have
roasted him TO a finish. Some have
named him the human butcher-others
have written him the greatest military
genius the world has ever known. Be
cause he Wore q uniform and carried u
sword he was placed among the dis
tinguished Of earth-but / am going to
set up the notion that he was q germ.
Flo was brought into the world to do
certain things, and he purified tho coun-
try where he worked. When the Black
Plague sent its millions to their graves.
1t was merely Il germ in motion. 1t ac-
ccmpllshed a purpose, all for some good
reason, and the Black Plague has not
appeared with it's devastation for many
Years, And yet no one ever wrote q
book playing the Black Plague up as
senius--but it was. 1t did stunts that
We're greater In its line than disease
y has ever done. Had Napoleon been any
thing but a germ in pants he never
could have ACCOMPLISHED what he did
accomplish. and this is not saying any
thing against him or for him. 1T is
merely suggesting that it is possible for
human germs to exist and wear uniforms
mud carry swords and do things. Those
who think this over and do not SEQ
clearly what j am trying to prove will
a te furnished chart upon application.
s 5'4l lis frequently the case that, when.
scmo fellow brother strikes tile ceiling,
nguratvely speaking, we hear some one
who believes in npt quotations, telling
t,s that whose diggeth n pit shall fall
therein" and then they let it 60 at that.
But those who quote should remember
that oftentinles 4, man falls ins u pit
Mat lle did not dig. The world Is too
prone to believe that n man voluntarily
goes wrong when he does go wrong, but
lf We will take time to figure 1t out.
We must conclude that 1t Is quite often
& .he case that some one who Is not sus-
pected digs pit for the other fellow.
lit Is a very easy matter In this world
.or a man to fall. He may so down
because of his own folly, and often
docs, but many times he is the victim
Of the thing called fortune; the victim
tf the thing called hate: the victim
a'8the thing called envy, Tb,re are other
sands OF traps than, hear trans, and some
At them are set for men, Whenever I
Gee u fellow hard hit by the Rates. !
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18
Swell New Suits.
Four Specially Attractive Ones.

AT s205o.-very Stylish Suits fancy gray
lures 25-inch trimmed with sefstitchcd bands
fancy buttons; skirts made with plated
in front. thoroughly stylish suit sos
AT s35oO-very Nobby Pony Jacket Suits. OF English
Tweeds fancy checks and stripes and Chiffon Panamas
coats made with fancy OF Persian trimming
trimmed with buttons; skirts circular
AT s45.oo.-very Stylish Suits of Chiffon Panama;
coors, light Alice blue Elton
Jackets, made peatcd with of taffeta
baby Irish lace and fancy brads elbow
turnback cuffs. finished pleatng OF
lace: skirts made circular with
bottom
AT s50b0-yery stylish High-Grade Suits of yole
colors, black navy reseda, violet. Alice blue
white; Eton Jackets tucked
trimmed with fancy braid and peatings of white
taffeta skirts made tucked with handsome silk drop.
Semi Made Robes.
New. rich tasy designs Embroidered Batjstc in
pink light blue, white and Alice blue
$3.50 $3.50 1880 s24 so
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18

!! always want to know whether or not
lie was the architect of his own failure,
or whether it was brought about by
human agencies. When man voluntari-
~ fills his hide full of booze day in
and day out; when he finds that il is
more enjoyable for him to be away
from home than at home: when he con-
cludes that the world owes him n living
and that he will not work and will buy
II OH time at his grocers' or his butch-
ers-that man has dug the pit, and
he falls into it, and he should fall into
II, But when ! see n fellow with worn
and bleeding feet trying to climb a steep
and slippery hill, and sliding back as
far as he climbed each day; when know
that he wants to he honest. but cannot
pay his debts; when / know that he Is
sober and decent--I am not going to cry
out that he dug a pit and fell into
it. He simply lacked somewhere and
somehow the turn of the cird to light
on his feet, and the world owes him a
helping hand, but It won't reacn it out.
A helping hand is q figure of speech
but 1t means more than many men
imagine. L saw a young man once who
was up against it--hard UP against 1t.
He came to me, and wanted to tell mo
his tale of woe. He was seedy in APP
pearance He needed many things. and
appealed to me. Just why it did I do
not know--perhaps / had turned away
twenty others Just as deserving. But I
Twas i'll position to listen to him, and In
position to give him employment if he
made good. He needed a shave and hair
cut; he needed shoes, he needed clothes;
and, worst of all, he wanted food, His
story was not unreasonable. Above all,
he insisted that he never drank whis-
key--but was simply and truly victim
OF what the world has dcnoninated Hard
! Luck,
took him In gave him orders for
what lie needed. and tho next day hes
reported for duty-he was q newspaper
reporter--and the lowest salary was his,
eighteen dollars a week. He worked and
he made good. IIe has for years been
the managing editor of a great news
pnper;:is a man of affairs-and mad q
letter from him recently. In 1t ne SAID
lgthnt had L turned him down--lt was his
last appeal--that he certainly would have
committe suicide--that the world seemed
absolutely deaf and cruel, He had fallen
IN a pit--but he had not dug it--and the
further he went to find some one to .be-
lieVe him the more seedy he became-hnd
desperation, finally, would have ended
| 1t all.
Why I heard him in his last appeal
why 1T was that I listened and pitied.
do not know-but 1t seemed as though
some good angel, not of earth, had fol-
lowed tho fellow and determined that he
had a mission to perform. After he got
on easy street he talked to me often
about the change, and told mo in detail
This story. IT was simply ~ series OF
disasters nothing for which he could have
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18

byter in tile Church OF England. During
his rcctorship he performed the mar
rage ceremony that made Mrs Martha.
Gusts and General George Washington
one a. handsome slab in the burying-
ground OF Stirling" marks the grave
OF Elizabeth Soan Mossoin. and. no.
wlthstanding the fact that 1t has been
exposed for nearly century and a half
to the changes OF the elements tho date
or her death being April, 1859, the, inc
scription Is still perfectly lcglblc.
In l77l t"Stirllng' was purchased by tho
late Frances Jerdone, of louisa county.
He never made his home here, preferring
TO reside at his plantation In Louisa.
known as "Jerdone Castle" hut gave It
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-18

Mrs. r. A. Ayers and to the late, Judgs
H. S, *. Morlson
Owing to u misunderstanding about the
new circuit being created IN Southwest
Virginia. Judge 81. a, W. Skeen lid ips
hold court here last week and this week.
According to the proposed change Scot
county will he taken. from the rwentN-
fourth circuit and placed IN IL new cir
Russell and buchanan, The proposed new
Judge, Hon w, y. Burns, Of Russell, will
Scott county, Mi Burns Is profound
lawyer and q gentleman Of the highest
character.
The failure to have court this month
is great disappointment, as there is
much Important business to be disposed
OF. Many condemnation cases are pending
on the South and Western Railroad az
q consequence.