St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-04-10
It VIII Be a Great Roosevelt Year.
The Current Events Man,

- The Current Events Man.
St. Johnsbury was honored and we
Il represented by Rev, DR.. Edward |
o Eaton at Andrew Carnegies "peac
evening" at his New York home Frida
0 evening when several hundred person
interested in industrial peace met to tai
e things over, The meeting was inspire
by the National Civic Federation. bu
, Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie made i
a personal affair by welcoming eacl
guest as he arrived Among the notec
capitalists were August Belmont ant
President Vreeland of the METROPOLITAN
Street Railway, while the labor organ.
izatIons were represented by Terrence Y.
Powderley and the former president OF
the Central Federated Union. One of
the best things said by Mr. Powderley
was this: eff you owe dollar, pay it ;
II you owe a grudge, forget it," The
meeting was intended to be forerunner
OF the National Arbitration and Peace
Congress which convenes in New York
next week and of which Mr.. Carnegie is
president. This will be attended by
many distinguished foreigners, including
William 7. Stead, the editor of the
Review of Reviews, Maarten Martens
and several European delegates to the
next conference at The Hague. Rev. DR..
Eaton will attend the Congress as the
delegate from the North church in St.
Johnsbury.
The Russian Douma is attracting the
attention of the world, though it has
had little chance so far to accomplish
anything. But they have some members
who are not awed into silence by the
autocratic government and Kiesewettes
OF Moscow is one of them. In a letter
to the writer from Russian residing in
Europe this incident of the days work in
the Douma is given:
Premier Stolypin ended his speech by
saying, If you say to us Hands up' we |
shall answer you: You cannot frighten
us
"kiesewettes, who is for organizing a
committee at once to help the furnished.
replied, we shall watch the bureaucrats'
we shall force them to show us how
they spend the money for the famine, and
II we see irregularities we shall not crv
Hands up but Hands off,"
In this war of words between Harri-
man and the President it is interesting
to note that Sidney Webster, to whom
Hartman wrote the letter that has
made all the trouble, is a brother-inlaw
of Stuyvesant Fish. And you will recall
that Mr.. Fish is the man that Hartman
deposed from the presidency of the Hi
nois Central railroad after many years
OF faithful service. Mr.. Fish had made
the road one of the best managed in the
United States with none of the Hartman
shady financing. If revenge is sweet,
Mr.. Fish has certainly had his innings
or Mr. Hartman is the most cordially
1ated rich man today in the United
states The New York journalist who
made this discovery has this parting j..
shot at the railroad magnate:
As final thought, turn to vour book S
shelves and read that wonderful tale of |
7 onore de Balzac "The Rise and Fall of t
caesar Birrotteau." Whenever Won en-. S
COUNTER the name of Birrotteau" read
hartman; and when his perfumery I
.rade is mentioned read successfully
any one of the dozen railroads he has
grabbed from their stockholders.
The death on Saturday at his home in
Cobalt, Ontario, of DR.. William H.
Drummond was sadly received in st.
Johnsbury, where he has many warm
friends and where he has delighted
audiences more than once with his hab-
liant poems. These have been published q
in three volumes, "The Habitantp
Johnnie Courteau," and THE Vow
ageur, and the collection is treasure
in our literature. The Springfield Re- /
publican draws striking similarity to
DIR. Drummond's poems and the WRITINGS
of distinguished Vermonter when Il
says
But one other writer has known how
to represent the French English dialect
perfectly, and that was the late Row.
land Robinson, author Of 'Danvis Folks
but Mr. Robinson gave the compromise
with Yankee talk, as heard in Vermont
whereas DR.. Drummond knew and repro.
duced the pleasing iargon of the woods.
men,. the river men and the common
habltant of the Cauadas."
II only poor habitant farmer an, rpebho ,
know noting at all, N'Oe
But deres wan ting I'm alyvav wisbir, "a,
OATS wen | get de call gu '
For travel de far-away Journey ev,rv ,,,a,,
on de worl' mus 20 = wan
He'll be wit me de leetle Cure ,fo-o IT,,
leftn dis place below. ~
A" For / know I'll be feel more easy Il h.,.
sttin' dere by de bed :" "s
An he'll geev' me de good-bve nessaoe o,,, S
place hees han on ma head ~ al 6
Den I'll hol if he'll only let me dat hon, :
till de las las breat' nan .
An bless leetle Fader OHara de C,ro 90 /
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