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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-11-27
Governor Hughes
Allen Fletcher.

Mr.. Fletcher's home paper, that is if
he has home paper, The Ludlow Tri-
bune, takes hand in the Hughes-Fletcher
controversy as a sort of friendly auxili-
airy to the Clipper-C argu-
ment over the question "Why is Allen
Fletcher more like Gov. Hughes than
any man in Vermont public life today"
The Tribune says:
The St. Johnsbury CALIFORNIAN and
The Burlington Clipper are having
good-natured tilt over certain "speci-
fcations' called for by the former and
furnished by the latter by way of back
ing up its appreciative references to Allen
M. Fletcher, of Cavendish, as available
gubernatorial timber and a possible
candidate. The Tribune does not know
whether "the gentleman from Caven-
dish" is coming definitely into the field
or not. That is a matter for him to de-
eide at the proper time And it is posi-
BILE that we might not fall in line with all
the specifications" put forth by The
Clipper. But we could mention several
things which, if Mr.. Fletcher becomes
candidate, would give his candidacy
peculiar strength. His attitude on ques-
tons in which the people of the state are
directly and vitality interested-as, for
instance, the equalization of taxation,
the oversight of public affairs, is plain
matter OF record. His entire freedom
from political obligations and entangle-
ments, and an, independence of action
unmarried by antagonists or vindictive-
ness, from "speculations" which go to
make up strong platform on which he
might go before the people if he so chose.
Thanks, editor of the Tribunel Your
specifications are one degree less nebulous
and vague than the Clippers. Tell us
please what Mr.. Fletcher's views are on
the great question of the Equalization
of Taxation" This question is large
enough so that the governor has APP
pointed a commission of our ablest men
to investigate and report. Mr.. Fletcher's
views may help that commission as
well as the general public to better grasp
The situation. If Mr.. Fletcher has a plan
to submit which will make the burden
fall equally on rich banker and poor
wage owner the CALIFORNIAN will be glad
to publish it.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-11-27
Col. Haskins' Interview.

Arguing on the assumption that an al
legged interview with Col Kittredge Has
kins, printed in Washington, New York
and Boston papers, was correct, a great
majority of the Vermont newspapers
have paid their compliments to the rep
resentative in Congress from the Second
Vermont district. Some admired the
colonePs courage but others INDUCED IN
sharp criticism, declaring that he was
not in touch with the prevailing senti-
ment OF the state on the question of the
next Republican presidential nominee.
Now that the shouting and the tumult
have ceased Col. Haskins has a few
words to say for himself in comnlunica-
ton printed in another column of The
Phoenix. He shows that he was not
interviewed with a view to publication,
but that a private conversation was
made the basis of a story by a news
paper man, and that statements which
he never made were attributed to him.
while other statements were so garbled
as to be misleading. Col. Haskins' per
sonal choice for the presidency is Speaker
Cannon, and in his letter expressing this
preference he is speaking only for him
self. Col Haskins' frank and manly ex-
PLANTATION will be read with interest
throughout the state, and especially in
the newspaper Offices where the question
OF the authenticity of the alleged inter
view was not considered Brattleboro
Phoenix.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-11-27
Few Here Know This.

when an eminent authority announced
in the Scranton, (Pa) Times that he had
found new way to treat that dread
American disease, Rheumatism. with
just common everyday drugs found in
any drug store, the physicians were
slow indeed to attach much Importance
TO MS claims. This was only a few
months ago. Today nearly every news
paper in the country, even the metro
poltan dallies, is announcing it and the
splendid results achieved. 1t is so s;mnle
that any one can prepare it at home al
small cost. 1t is made up as follows.
Get from any good prescription phar-
macy Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half
ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce:
Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla. three
ounces. Mix by shaking in bottle and
take in teaspoonful doses after each meal
and at bedtime. These are all s;mnIe
ingredients, making an absolutely harm
less home remedy at little cost.
rheumatism, as everv one knows. il
symptom of deranged kidneys. 1t is a
condition produced BY the failure of the
kidneys to properly filter or strain from
the blood the uric acid and other matter
which, it not eradicated, either remains
IN the blood, decomposes and forms
ABOUT the joints and muscles, causing
the untold suffering and deformity Of
rheumatism.
This prescription is said to be a
splendid healing, cleansing and invpor-
ating tonic to the kidneys, and gives
almost immediate relief in all forms Of
bladder and urinary troubles and back.
acne lie also warns people in leading
new York paper against the discriminate
use OF many patent medicines.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-11-27
The Century and St. Nicholas.

The most important writings yet given
to the world by the gifted blind and deaf
girl, Helen Keller, will be printed in The
Century during the coming year. The
poem is her first published poetical ex-
preston and is called "A Chant of
Darkness" The essays are most elo.
quent description of the world in which
she lives-a world in which the five
senses are reduced to the three senses of
touch, taste, and smell. Miss Keller
shows, how, by correspondence and
analogy, she gets her ideas of sight and
hearing; and how she does in a way,
really sense many common sounds. The
essays will be published under the title
OF Sense and Sensibility"; and should
prove OF rare interest to the thoughtful.
The new volume of St. Nicholas is to
have richer store of stories, long and
short than ever-"The Gentle Inter
ference of Bab," to run through several
months, by the author of From Sioux
to Susan" and "Fritzi," Agnes McClel-
land Dalton; another of Mrs. Frances
Hodgson Burnett's Queen Silver-Bell'
fairy tales, "a Spring Cleaning Story"
and short stories by Elaine Goodale
Eastman, B. ]. Daskam, Rebecca Hard.
ing Davis, Temple Bailey, Capt. Harold
Hammond, the author of "Pinkey
Perkins," and scores of other friends of
young readers.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-11-27
PRESS COMMENT.
Not Afraid Of a Referendum.

1t may be that H. n Turner of St.
| Johnsbury is in favor of the re-submis-
sion OF the localoption liquor law to the
people. The Messenger would hardly
have assumed, upon mere inference,
either that a man of his breadth and ex-
perience could have so misjudged the
temper of public sentiment in this state,
or that he would be willing to see
another referendum of the same question
so soon. However, if there actually does
exist genuine popular desire for
another referendum of the liquor law and
it makes itself Enthusiastically visible in
due time, it will be the duty of the next
legislature to take the proper steps to
carry out the will of the people. AS a
matter of sober fact, law in a state of
continual referendum, revision, and up
set in many respects, is worse than no
law at all. Even an inferior law, set
tied and positive and habitually recog-
nized and enforced, is better than this
persistent agitation for ideals that does
not leave us much nearer to them when
the dust settles. But if our friends, the
prohlbitionlsts, want to take an actual
count of how many friends the new
liquor law has gained since 1903 let
them come on with their referendum
when they please Adams Messenger.
This editorial sounds like a second
cousin to one that might have appeared
in The Vermont Issue, the organ of the
Vermont Anti-Saloon League during the
referendum agitation in 1902. When
the Prohibs were in the saddle they
feared referendum and fought it tooth
and nail. The local-option advocates
are the ones who now fear referendum,
and, strange to say, they use the same
arguments against referendum now
that the Prohibs used in 1902. What
there is about referendum to be dreaded
is past our comprehension. The towns
and cities OF the state have to go through
a referendum every year whether they
care to or not, and if the towns can
stand the strain annually the state ought
to be able to derive benefit therefrom
once in tve or ten years. We do not be-
lieve that Vermont will again adopt pro-
hibition, but fit does all will have to
submit to the will of the majority, grace
fully or otherwise.
we ASK tne contemporary a few queS-
tions. When the majority of the great
Christian bodies of the state declare for
does that not Indicate a
real popular desire" for referendum or
of that sort? What deter
mines popular desire" in this state, the
churches and the Christian people
associated Herewith or the saloons and
the rabble that follow in their wake? If
once in five years is too often for refer
'ndun what is the proper period If
once in five years is too frequent for the
state why isn't every year too frequent
or the town? Why are papers like thee
Messenger, which were so anxious for
referendum in 1902, now so anxious that
here should not be referendum p Bel
ows Falls Times
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-11-27
In Line for Higher Honors.

Judge W., P Stafford, still of Vermont,
but tarrying for time on the Supreme
court bench of the District Of Columbia
until higher honors seek him, which
many OF his Vermont friends believe will,
is again in the lime light as trial Judge in
the famous Bradley case, Mrs. Bradley,
the respondent being charged with the
murder Ex-senator Brown Barre Times.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-11-27
The Christmas Tree Slaughter.

The fact that license is required of
Christmas tree buyers in Vermont may
tend to prevent wholesale destruction, If
it operates as it did last week in Rox.
bury. Buyers made their appearance in
that town but when they found that
they would be required to pay a $50
license fee they gathered up their be-
longings and left for Maine, where
there are no restrictions as to the
traffic. Perhaps the papers which be.
came agitated over the Christmas tree
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-11-27
Congratulations All Round.

The Bellows Falls Times has added
Simplex type setting machine and new
dress Of type throughout to its equip
ment. The Barton Monitor has moved
into a new office. The Manchester
Journal has changed to better quarters.
The Dandy Mirror has pulled up stakes
and moved from that town to Rutland.
The trend in Vermont newspaperdom is
always toward bigger and better things.
= Randolph Herald and News.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-11-27
Agrees with our couclu.i0ns

A man is advertised by his loving
friends, but when the loving friends in.
dulge in hattering laudations the man in
question who is decorated with the sac
charine gobs looks silly. The Burlington
clipper may think that Allan Fletcher OF
cavendish is more like Gov. Hughes
than any man in public life" in Vermont
today, but we opine that the ST. Johns.
bury CALIFORNIAN is nearer right when it
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-11-27

says that "Mr. Fletcher is no more like
the New York governor than scores of
other Vermonters in or out of public lite.
Il Brattleboro Phoenix.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-11-27

We are glad to give the stock little prominence at this tmest
very seasonabe and feel that our linens deserve little more
than common notice being considerably undepCed on the present
market besides the stock Is unusually large and varied
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-11-27

THE CALIFORNIAN co.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-11-27

Entered at the st. Johnsbury post office as
second-class mail matter.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-14

FOR SALE-One minute washing ma
chine, with fly wheel, any child can
operate it; see them at Seaney q
Browns, 915 Main st. 14-lt
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-14

The following letter was picked up
in the streets of Longmont the other
day. says the San Francisco Call:
MY darling Frank swallowed the
postage stamp that was on your last
letter, because | knew that your lips
had touched it, and oh, Frank, | felt
so happy afterward. Put two stamps
on your next letter"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-14
CITY ADVERTISEMENT.
APARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
Office of the Board.
Richmond. Ind. July 18th. 1907.
I, WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN:

once OF the bO1fu.
Richmond. Ind. July 18th. 1897.
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN:
Notice is hereby given by the
Board of Public Works of the City of
Richmond. Indiana, that on the 18th
day of Juiy. 1907, they approved an
assessment roll showing the prima
facie assessments for the following
described public improvement, "a au-
thorized by the Improvement Resolu-
ton named:
Improvement Resolution No. 76f9oe.
Providing for the Improvement OF
North 18th street by the construction
of cement sidewalks. and cement
curbs and cutters and storm sewer
from Main street to North .'E" street.
Persons interested in or affected
by said public Improvement are here
by notified that the Board of Public
Works of said city has fixed Wednes-
day. July 24th, 1907. as a date upon
which remonstrances viii be received,
or heard. against the amount assess
ed against each piece of property de-
scribed in said roll, aud will determine
the question as to whether such lots
or tracts of land have been or viii be
benefited in the amounts named on
said roll or in greater or less sum
than that named on said roll.
Said assessment roll showing said
prima facie assessments, with the
names of owners and descriptions of
property subject 10 be assessed, is on
file and may be seen at the Office of
the Board of Pubic Works of said
city.
CLIFTON w. MERRILL,
WATSON p. O'NEAL
b. h. JOHNSON.
Board of Public Works.
july 13-6t
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-14

The District of Columbia has the
greatest population a square mile of
any section OF this country. The fig
ures are slightly more than 1888. In
Alaska there is only one person to ten
square miles. Rhode Island is second
to Washington with 407 persons a
square mile.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-14
For a Little Cash.

And easy payments per mo. Can sell
a room house for $500: 5 room
house for $3.50: a room house for
$1,000: ) room house for 81 200; want
cash to loan on good titles; have cash
to loan on good titles. s. X. Morgan.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-14

FOR SALE-100 piece fine Haviland
dinner set. latest style and decora-
tions. cost $500: only $4,000.
Never been used, at Wilkes. "a n
9Th st. 14-1t
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-14
CITY ADVERTISEMENT.
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
Office of the Board.
july 13-6t

DEPRR MEN Or PO6IiC WOhNS
Office of the Board.
Richmond, Ind, July 10th. 1907
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN:
Notice is hereby given by the
of Richmond, Indiana. that on the
10th day of July. 1907. they approved
an assessment roll showing the prin,a
facie assessments for the following
described public improvement. as au-
thorized by the Improvement Resolu-
ton named:
Improvement Resolution No. 78-1906,
Proving for the Improvement of
South 9th street by the construction
of cement curbs and cutters on both
sides thereof, from South "A street
to South 3D. street.
Improvement Resolution No.. 111-1907,
Providing for the Improvement of
North IL street by the construction
of cement sidewalks on the south
side of said street from the alley be-
tween North 10th and 18th streets to
North 18th street, and on the North
side of said street from North 10th
form width of five CD feet
Persons interested in or affected by
said described public improvement
are hereby notified that the Board
of Public Works of said city has fixed
Friday. July 10Th. 1907. as date
upon which remonstrances will be re-
ceived, or heard. against the amount
assessed against each piece of prop
erty described in said roll and will
determine the question as to whether
such lots or tracts of land have been
or will be benefited in the amounts
named on said roll, or in a greater or
less sum than that named on said
roll.
Said assessment roll showing said
prima facie assessments, with the
names of owners and descriptions of
property subject to be assessed, is on
file and may be seen at the office
of the Board of Public Works of said
city.
CLIFTON w. MERRILL.
WATSON p. O'NEAL.
b. Il. JOHNSON,
Board of Public Works.
July 11-6t
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-14

FOR SALE@Four registered snort
Horn and Polled Durham bulls. w
B. EIlwood. Centerville. Ind. LIT
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-14
July 11-6t

hND MARKERS
We have a iarP- stock TO select
from. Prices reasonable. Richmond
Marble and Granite Works, John
Hallowell, Prop. Is S. 10th.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-14
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
TO OWNERS OF JERSEY COWS.

70 OWNERS OF JERSEY COWS.
Highland Lad No. I21 {Polled)
grandson of the Richest Mixer in the
Pan American exposition. Dam took
first place, Ohio and New York state
fairs, will be found at my farm, 8
miles west of the city. o. E. Fulg-
hum. 12tf
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-14
FOR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
cHIRoPoDIsT AND MANIcURING

Mrs. Ina Parks Saline. 9041a Main
street. Phone 1104.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-14

WANTED-One hundred old feather
beds, highest prices, cash pai6
Send orders to the Indiana Feather
Company. VIII call; Windsor Ho
tel, Bell Phone 45R. lit
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-14
PENSION ATTORNEY

And NOTARY PUBLIC.
with an office on the first floor of
the Court House. will give you best
Alonzo Marshall, Richmond, Ind.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-14
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-Gas ranges, lamps and
burners, Huddleston Bros, Phone
21S
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-14

FOR SALE-The famous South Bend
Malleable Range, not the cheapest,
but the best range made; see them
at Seaney & Browns Hardware
store 915 Main ST. l4-lt
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-14
WANTED-REAL ESTATE.
DYEING AND CLEANING,

DYEING, Cleaning, Pressing, Goods
called for and delivered Twentieth
Century Dye Works. Robe & Hill.
Props, 1011 Main ST.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-14
WANTED.

FOUND-The best place to buy Grav-
ell Rubber, Asphalt, Two and Three
ply Roofing building and carpet pa
per, Skaters felt, Roof Paint. Roof
cement. Pitch and Tar. Whistler the
roof man, 1926 Main st.
Phone 773.
Thur Sun Mon, 3 mo.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-14

FOR SALE-Store fixtures, Halls
iron safe, type writer. complete
graphophone outfit, etc, at Wilkes
"a N 9Th St 19-1t
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-14

FOR SALE-Household goods at 100
South 9th street. 1f-2t
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-14

FOR SALE-Household goods; 100 S.
9th ST. 1f-2t
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-14
FIRE INSURANCE

FIRE INSURANCE.. S. Zeller, Z
n. 9th st. Phone SIT. LOOT
WANTED-For Fire Insurance in
good reliable companies cali ON the
Richmond Insurance Agency, IL
South 7th street Tel. Il. City and
Country Solicitors war ted 6-tf
Fair play., 1907-11-16

mined faces; men with their coats
buttoned tight and shoulders thrown
back for the rush to which, by com.
parison, that of football team is
child's play. Every man in that
crowd was a picked man, picked for
what was coming Each felt that
upon his individual powers to keep a
clear head to shout loudest, to forget
nothing to keep his feet, and to stay
as near the center of the crowd as pos
sible, depended his floor honor" per.
haps his fortune, or what was more
TO him, his clients fortune. Nearly
every man of them was a college
graduate who had won his spurs AT
athletics or seasoned floor man
whose training had been even more
severe than that of the college camp.
us. When it was known before the
opening OF the exchange that there are
to be things doing" in a certain
stock, 1t is the rule to send only the
picked floor men into the crowd.
There may be fortune to make or to
lose in minute or a silver OF a min.
u'N' foi ipSbdh,S, int man WHO tnat
morning was able to snatch the first
5000 shares sold at l40 could have
resold them few minutes afterward
at l52 and secured $4,000 profit. And
the man who was sent into the crowd
by his client to sell 5000 shares at the
Opening" and who got but 14O when
the price would be 152 by the time he
reported to his customer was man
to be pitied. Again, the trader who
the night before had decided that
sugar had gone up too fast, and who
had "shorted" (that Is, sold what he
did not have. with the intention of re-
purchasing at lower price than he
sold 1t for) 5000 shares at 40 and
who, finding himself in that surging
mob with sugar selling at 152, could
only get out by taking a loss OF 500,
600, or by taking arother chance OF
later paying 162--such a trade, wns
also to be pitied.
(s"26 Broadway" Is the Wall stree, M
ure Of speech for STANDARD Oil," which
has its homo there.j
ITO ~ Con5lNuona
Fair play., 1907-11-16
MARK TWAlN's RENTED CAT.
Humorist Furnishes Something for
Scribes to Puzzle Over.

Mark Twain, as Is his custom, hides
himself during the summer from the
head hunters, those persons seeking
autographs, photographs, or inter-
views. This year he selected Tuxedo
Park as his retreat, renting an old
colonial house until the latter part Of
September, when he returned to his
New York home. There. during the
heated days, Mr.. Clemens wandered
about the country byways or spent
the time in various shady hooks in
his grounds.
A visitor who succeeded in discov-
ering his whereabouts found the great
author in his famous suit of white
flannels, seated under tree petting
a kitten.
Where did you get it?" queried the
friendly intruder.
For a moment there was a twinkle
in the aged humorists eyes; it was
succeeded by solemn look as he re-
piled: 81 rent it from a neighbor.
You see, l cannot afford cat-hot
even a young one"
Subsequent inquiry proved at least
the first part of Mr.. Clemens state
ment to be true. He had actually
rented the kitten for the summer sea-
son. What does he pay for it? No
body knows what Mark Twain pays
for anything. All the world is inter
ested only in what Mark Twain is
paid.-The Sunday Magazine.