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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-09-09
LOCAL GATHERINGS.

Kicker & Cary are exhibiting fine
string of dozen yoke of oxen at the
Lancaster Fair this week.
"A. G. Knox's Grout automobile
caught fire Saturday afternoon from
escaping gasolene and for few minutes
there was a lively blaze. The wood
work of the machine was quickly de-
stroved and the machinery was saved.
Ticket Agent Henderson sold 900
tickets to the Sherbrooke fair last week
This is the week of the Barton fair
and special train leaves St. Johnsbury
on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at
SIS a. m.
The police arrested one party for
drunkenness Monday evening, charged
with the second ofense, and he settled
with the court yesterday morning by
paying the fines and costs amounting to
$2110.
Randall & Whitcomb have bought
the newspaper business of F. 0. Clark
and are now handling the Boston dailies.
DIR. Charlotte Fairbanks, who has
been practicing medicine in Philadelphia,
has returned to St. Johnsbury to locate
permanently and will soon open an
office
Miss Marion Pirrell is a new
patient at the st. Johnsbury hospital
and Mrs Blair of Peacham has been
discharged.
beginning next Sunday vespers at
Notre Dame church will be held at four
o'clock.
W. L. Pope, restaurant keeper, has
filed petition in bankruptcy. He has
liabilities of $16S6.65 and assets of $2,-
O12, of which $3.50 is claimed exempt.
John NJ Perham has purchased a
REQ automobile.
Call at the Berry-Ball store and see
the new line of Copley prints which they
have added to their stock. They have
over 100 pictures, and will take orders
for framing any pictures they sell.
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The Caledonia County Fair.

Next week comes the 72d annual fair
and these are busy days in the office of
Secretary Braley The entries for live
stock and poultry are pouring in every
mail and Mr.. Braley has already en-
gagged Miss Hooker to help him and will
increase the clerical force later in the
week The entries in cattle will be larger
than ever before. Many of the old ex-
hibitors from Maine New Hampshire
and Canada have already entered as
well as several new herds. George c.
Cary will have an unusually large ex-
hibit, T. G. Bronson OF East Hardwick
will have a large herd of registered Jer-
seys, and the Simpson Brothers from
Lyndon and c. F. Thresher of Peacham
will exhibit milking Shorthorns for
which premiums are offered this year.
The poultry exhibit looks promising as
one New York exhibitor has written to
enter a carload. Another New York
farmer wants to enter a carload of hogs
so the prospect of having a great show
of swine is excellent
Vermont is the home of the Morgan
horse and all lovers of horses will be in
terested to learn that the entries for gen.
tlemen's drivers will exceed all previous
years.
The races are filling up and the direc-
tors have decided to have named green
race on Thursday afternoon which is at
tracing much interest
The vaudeville attractions are sure to
interest young and old and cushions can
be rented for the grand stand, a new
feature which will appeal to many who
have spent the afternoon on the board
seats in the grand stand.
Again as last year the ladies of the
Brightlook Hospital Aid Association
will conduct 5-cent lunch counter at
the south end of Floral Hall. The ladies
appreciate the patronage given them
last year, and hope to serve more people
and give better service than before.
Remember the name "Brightlook.
Do not forget to look up the forestry
exhibit in Floral Hall under the auspices
of the Womans Club United States
maps of National Forest reservations
will also be on exhibition. Branches
from the various native evergreens and
decduous trees will be gathered and
presented by our school children.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-09-09

There will be change of time on
the Lake road September 13, in the
night train that runs between Portland
and St. Johnsbury. Beginning that date
the train will leave Lunenburg coming
west at 10.45 p. m. Going east the
train will leave here at 245 a. m, as
before.
"A meeting of the Woman's Auxiliary
of the Y. M. c. A., will be held this after
noon at O'Clock at the Association
parlors. A large attendance is desired
as special plans for work are to be con-
sidered and reports from different COM
mittees given. A small pamphlet con-
tanning the constitution of the Auxiliary
and list of the officers, committees and
members, will also be distributed.
Jason NJ. Cady is distributing some
very useful campaign folders which have
recently been issued by the Prudential
Insurance Company of America and
which will be very handy for reference in
the next two months.
st. Johnsbury Academy opened the
fall term yesterday and there is a fine en-
tering class of 70 boys and girls. The
total registration is not yet complete,
but Principal Howand thinks it COM
pares favorably with last year. There
are II girls in the Charlotte Fairbanks
Cottage and about 20 boys have taken
rooms in South Hall which has been
splendidly renovated for boys dorm
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-09-09
NEW ADS. THIS WEEK.

Gasoline Engines-A. Z. COUNSEL
Passumpsic Telephone Co.
Boston & Maine Excursion.
Fire Insurance-Crawford RauneY.
Prices Cut-Cash Book Store.
New Music Hall.
Insurance--W. w. Sprague & Son.
County Fair-F. n Brown & Son.
Sterling Range-C. II. Goss Co.
Pictures-Berry-B Ball Dry Goods Co.
Deposits-First National Bank.
Clothing-F. Z. Harris.
Dollars Saved-A. G. Knox Co.
Guns-Welcome B. Eastman.
Coal-Moore S, Co.
Pres of cc't-May L. Badger Daniels Est
Watch Found.
Table Girls Wanted,
House to Rent.
Cook Wanted.
Rooms to Rent.
Watch Fob Lost.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-09-09
Mystic Star Chapter. No. %. O. E, S.

The regular meeting will be held Wednes
day evening, Sept. 9.
MRs.LUELLA E. HART. Worthy Matron.
Mrs. CARRIE GAGE, Secretary.
st. Johnsbury Woman's Club.
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Passumpsic Lodge, No, ~. P. and A. M.

REUBEN C. CHENEY, H. p.
DELos NJ. BACON Secretary.
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ARTHUR G. SPRAGUE, w. Nj.
DELos NJ. BACON, Secretary.
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Regular Communication, Thursday even
ing Sent 10
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FRATERNITY MEETINGS.
Haswell Royal Arch Chapter. No. IL.

Stated convocation, Friday evening, Sept
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A Popular Pastor Caned.

At the last conclave of Palestine Com
inandery, Knights Templar, the retiring
prelate, Rev. A. Francis Walch, was pre-
sented with gold-headed cane as fit
ting recognition of his interest and devo-
ton to the order. The presentation
speech was made by William S. Boynton
who was prelate before Mr.. Walch and
the latter gracefully responded. Mr..
Walch left for Manchester, N. H., the
last of the week.
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Modern wOodmen of America.

Regular meetings of Asisqua Camp No.
S149, are held first and third Tuesdays in
each month Next meeting Sept. % 1908.
Y. ]. PICKERING, Clerk.
DAVID IRWIN. V. c.
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Regular Convention of Apollo Lodge No.
2, Tuesday eve, Sept. 10.
a. L. MARSHALL, G.. c.
II. w ELLIS, X. r. 5.
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THE COPLEY PRINTS.

Published by Curtis and Cameron.
We are sure customers know enough about these
prints omake it unnecessary for to say We show
lover hundred pictures for opening small number are
nmed and will take orders for framing any picture we
al Price of the prints 500 $500. We show pic
lures by the following artists:
Abbey Alexander Bancroft Barse 8eleCour Benson Blake
@hded Blum. Cox Wright Pyle Remington, ShaW. Rogers
e Knight Cot RurneJones Thompson Taylor, French and
NG fifty other artists
Cameron.
You are invited to these pictures shown on second floor
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Palestine COmmandery, No. S, K. 7.
Stated Conclave, Tuesday eve, Oct. 9.
FRED c. BECK. L. c.
DELos NJ. BACON. Recorder.
The National tribune., 1908-12-24

Veterans everywhere will be startled
to learn Of the death of Maj. Joseph
w. Wham. Paymaster. u. S. A., retired,
who dropped dead on the morning Of
Dec. 81, on a street corner in Washing
ton. The cause was cerebral hemor-
rhage. Maj. Wham had a special rec
ord. He was one Of the substantial
young farmer boys who enlisted at the
first call of the President for volun-
teers, in the 21st Ill. These were all
clean-iiving, well brot up boys, and they
were so disgusted with their Colonel
getting drunk that they demanded of
the Governor another head for their
regiment and the Governor responded
by giving the commission to an ex-Cap-
tain of the Regular Army who was then
doing duty in his Office as a sort of
head clerk. This ex-Captain was named
u. s. Grant, and he commanded the
regiment with great ability until he
was commissioned a Erigadier- General.
Maj. Wham went thru the war in the
21st ILL.,, ana was highly commended
for gallantsy. especially at Franklin.
Gen. Grant. who never forgot the men,
bers of his first regiment, appointed
him Paymastnr in the Army. Maj.
Wham was grand man. devoted to
principle and to his comrades who had
stood by him in the defence Of prin-
ciple.
The National tribune., 1908-12-24
DEATH OF MAI. GEO. M. LAUGHLIN.

DEATH OF MAI. GEO. NJ. LAUGHLIN.
Maj. George McCully Laughlin, one
of the three surviving members of the
second generation of "Pittsburg Steel
Laughlins," died at his palatial home
lin Pittsburg, Friday evening, Dec. il,
after a long battle with pneumonia. He
had celebrated his seth birthday only a
few weeks before. The Laughlins were
old Scotch-Irish stock. and for three
generations have been prominent
among Pittsburg's steel manufacturers.
Maj. Laughlin left his studies in WASH
ington and jefferson College to enlist
in the 155th Pa, receiving commits
sion as Second Lieutenant. He was in a
little while in command of his company,
which he led thru many of the fiercest
battles of the war> His last duty was
on the staff of Maj.-Gen. Charles Grif-
fin, commanding the Fifth Corps. AS
such, Capt Laughlin helped to carry
out the terms of surrender at Apo
mattoX. He was brevetted Major for dis
tinguished gallantry at the Quaker
Road. In consideration of this, his
college bestowed on him the degree of
Master of Arts, the same as if he had
completed his course. Immediately upon
being mustered out, Maj. Laughlin en-
tered the firm of Jones G. Laughlin,
which was then one of the leading man.
ufacturers of steel, and he remained in
1t until his death. He made a partial
retirement as vice chairman in 1900, to
gain leisure to devote himself to mat
ters of culture and public benefit. He
was charitable man. and unostenta-
tious in his generosity. He was particu-
larry liberal to his alma mater, WASH
ington and Jefferson College, and alto
gether gave away millions of dollars
Besides being an active member of thel
G. A. r. and his regimental associa-
ton, he belonged to the Loyal Legion,
Sons of the Revolution, the leading
clubs and National Arts Club of New
York, and other literary and artistic or
ganiZations. He is survived by three
children, two OF whom continue in the
steel business, and the third is Charge
d Affairs at Athens.
The National tribune., 1908-12-24
THE sARAGosso SEA.

Our Biographies are threatened with
the loss of well-known feature In the
disappearance of the Saragosso Sea,
which has always had quite a little
space in the descriptions and has fig
ured in many stories Of voyages. The
sea is broad expanse of still water.
between great currents. and in this
calm spot collects much Of the wreck
age of the Atlantic. The still water has
an area of nearly the size Of continental
Europe. and is elliptical in form. In ad-
dition to the wreckage, which is carried
to it by the great currents. is a mass of
seaweeds which floats on the surface.
1t lies between parallels 20 and S5
North, and between longitude 80 and go
West. The captain of British vessel
who recently arrived at Norfolk. Va,
says that for some reason, all the sea-
weed and wreckage has disappeared
from this great expanse and 1t Is
now clear water, with nothing to indi-
cate its borders.
The National tribune., 1908-12-24
THE Hx-rRIseNpRs OF WAR.

Chairman Sulloway, Of the House
Committee on Invalid Pensions. regards
the Prisoners Of War Bill ~ claim
and not penAon. and. therefore. IL
disposed to send 1t to the War Claims
COMMITTEES. He made known this dis
position at tho visit Of the Prisoners OF
War Committee, and his view was ably
combatted by President Harry White.
Gen. White. who served two terms in
Congress and has been for 20 years
Presiding Judge on the Pennsylvania
bench. showed himself quite Is familiar
with Congressional practices and the
legal view Of the matter as Chairman
Sulloway. In his address before the
Committee he showed clearly that the
Prisoners of War Bill could not be con-
sidered as a claim. as the ex-prisoners
had no legal claim upon the Govern
ment. The bill was in the nature OF a
"bensvolsnce" and came under pre-
cisely the same classification as PEN
sions generally. It was something for
Congress to grant, not as a matter OF
right, but as a matter of justice and
gratitude, and, therefore, clearly within
the province Of tho Invalid Pensions
Committee. This view Of 1t will be
strongly supported by Representatives
Ansberry, o.; Wsisse. Wis; Holiday,
Ind, and others. Mr.. AnsSsrry will
make motion at the regular meeting
of the Committee early in January to
report the bill to the House. and there
will be a test Of strength a. to whether
this will be done.
The National tribune., 1908-12-24

Nothing has gone up by such leaps
and bounds as our consumption of
sugar. Only few years ago. 1t was re-
garded as astonishing that We consum-
ed a pound Of sugar per capita Per
week, tho this left US behind Great
Britain, which then got away with
about so pounds per head per annum.
This again was far ahead of any other
country in the civilized world. In such
countries as Russia and Austria the
people do not eat more than a pound of
sugar a month. Now, the Census Bu-
reau informs US that every American
citizen eats about half his weight in
sugar every year, or, say, rs poundss
This would be 81 pounds a month, or
more than a pound and half q week.
At an average retail price of 5 X cents
a pound. the people pay the enormous
sum of $372,000,000 year for sugar,
or moro than $1.00o.000 a day. We
only produce 21 $40 per cent Of this at
home, and get but II 5-10 per cent
from our insular possessions. For the
first time last year the beet sugar pro-
duction in this country exceeded the
cane sugar product. In fact, the beet
sugar nearly doubled that of the cane
sugar. being ss7.000,0oO pounds for
beets to only 544,000,000 pounds for
cane.
The National tribune., 1908-12-24

During the year 1907 the mines Of
the United States produced 4,374,s27
fine ounces OF gold. valued at $90.435.-
700, which was decrease in value over
the previous year Of nearly $4,000,0o0.
The production OF silver. for the same
year was 56,514,700 fine ounces. val
ued at $s7,2sS.700. or a decrease in
quantity Of $500 fine ounces, and in
value OF s95S.78o. 1t will be seen that
the decrease in tine value Of the prod
uct is out Of proportion to that in the
quantity produced. This is accounted
for by the slump In the value Of silver
during the year. Colorado led all the
rest Of the States in the production Of
gold, with an output of 1,010,921 fine
ounces and a valuation of s20,S97,600.
Alaska came next with S94,424 fine
ounces, value dat $1S,4ss,400. Califor-
MIA came third and Nevada fourth. Col
orado also led in silver, with a produc-
ton Of 11,495,400 fine ounces, but
close to her were Montana and Utah,
each with moro than 100000 ounces.
Silver was produced in % States, tho in
several Of them the production was as
low as 100 ounces.
The National tribune., 1908-12-24
THE ENCAMPMENT AT SALT LAKE
CITY.

Col. Frank NJ. Sterrett Is in Salt Lake
City helping awaken strong interest
in the coming National Encampment.
He tells the people there that they may
expect $4,000 visitors. who will leave
at least $75o.o00 behind them. He be-
lieyes that the railroads will grant a
rate approximating one cent mile. No
organization that visits the city pays it
as well as the g. A. r. Not only do
thay take rooms for a longer time, but
they buy much to take back home with
them. If every visitor leaves an aver
age of $40. and It Is impossible to see
how he can get along with less. the
aggregate will be three-quarters of a
million dollars.
The National tribune., 1908-12-24

That famous fine Of $2s,00o.o00 on
the Standard Oil is now before the Su-
preme Court of the United States. The
case comes UP on a petition by the
Government for writ Of certiorari for
review of the decision Of the circuit
Court Of Appeals for the Seventh Cir.
cult, which reversed Judge Landis's inn
position of the fine upon the company,
The case is being fought out on purely
technical grounds as to whether the
Government can take an appeal in q
criminal case. The imposition Of tbs
fine was an act Of criminal jurisdiction.
and the company's lawyers hold that
the Government cannot appeal from ths
decision Of the Circuit Court since II %
against the policy Of the law to review
q Judgment in favor Of the accused.
The National tribune., 1908-12-24

The revolution in HAITI has actually
revolved. Gen. Antoine Simon has been
duly elected by the Congress which was
rounded up by the Provost Guard for
this duty and they say The election was
unanimous. This was likely to be the
case, since the Provost Guard probably
announced that the election was to bs
free and untran,meled. but that they
would blow the head off Of any man
who didn't vote for Simon. Our State
Department has promptly recognised
the new President, It Ia said by some,
with undue haste. since it is less than
a month since the former legally elected
President was rushed OF to the French
cruiser to save his life. The Command.
er Of the Cruiser Des Moines has been
ordered to fire 81 guns in honor Of ths
new President and things will 20 on
quietly for several weeks perhaps un-
til some gentlemen who are anxious to
nave dip into the custom house re.
ceipts can assemble mob big enough
to down Gen. Simon.
The National tribune., 1908-12-24
A. GRATEFUL WIDOW.

While 1t is all right and proper to
laugh at the biunders In spelling and
grammar Of men and women who have
had ample opportunities to ACQUIRE an
education, this is cruelty unjust when
tho efforts to express themselves are
made by mple-hearted men and wo-
men, whose hard lives have given them
little opportunityoto to acquire the NICE
ties Of orthography and composition.
Then the mistakes in spelling and
grammar become pathetic. They speak
of the hard. .neare-flled life Of the writ
er, and every letter is eloquent of strug-
gle. Not the least Of these struggles
is to properly express that which is felt
far more deeply by the uneducated
writer than by some superficial person
who may have little more education.
OF this character is letter recently
received by the Commissioner of PEN
sions, and whose every letter and line
expresses the supreme gratitude of the
writer laboring with the unaccus,omed
pen to convey that which is in her
heart. We give 1t with spelling and
punctuation exact. 1t is not something
to jeer over. but to start the tears in
the eyes Of every properly sympathetic
person:
deare sir ! got my Pension Papers
All right. 1 do thank you with ali mi
hart / cant thank you 9 nought for
what you have done for me toung cant
express mi thanks hope god will bless
you All the dayes of youer life time 81
never should have got 1t IL you dident
for me and do prase you i cant thank
you enought do wish you all the con-
health Pease and happiness / am now
going to take my Pension money and
bye me little home so as to have one
of my one and be q somebody the rest
OF mi dayes
ma god bless you
The National tribune., 1908-12-24

The joke as TO infant Industries that
should have grown up long ago receives
a severe jolt ever so often. Some
years ago a woman in Oshkosh, with
more than the usual resourcefuiness of
her sex. saw that there was an oppor-
tunity TO get her daily bread and oleo-
margarine by making flies for fish
hooks. 1t was a happy idea She soon
not only had all that her nimble fin
gers could do. but the business grew
until she has now in her employ 100
other women engaged in decorating fish
hookSwith feathers. She has the usual
struggle with the labor of Europe and
finds that the protection of S5 per cent
on foreign flies is not enough. Her
representative, Mr.. Davidson, Of osh-
kosh, sympathizes with her. and u try
eng to get the Ways and Means Com
tnittee to increase the duty on the for
oixn flies.
The National tribune., 1908-12-24

4, Acute trouble at the pie counter has
developed ia Kentucky Senator-eiect
William o. Bradley strongly recon-
uends n. A. Moore for Postmaster at
Paris. and Moore has the support of a
large number of citizens. but Bradley
was an active Fairbanks man and tried
TO carry the State for the Vice Prcsi-
dent. Therefore, on the recomrnenda-
fion Of the Republican Chairman, the
President has reappointed ]. L. Early
wine as Postmaster. Earlywine was an
original Taft man and did his best to
counteract Bradley. As Bradley is not
yet in the Senate, all that he can do is
10 request his Republican colleagues in
the Senate to hold up the nomination
until he can qualify as Senator and op-
pose IT in person.
The National tribune., 1908-12-24

Is life to become merely a series of
dreary numbers? The last few years
have been changed in filling up every
mans head with schedules of numbers
for everything and everywhere The
old-time. easily remembered names are
being discarded and instead of a man
living at Pogue's Corners he now lives
at 6725 1a6th Street, his telephone
number is NJ 1906. and he does business
at 925 18th Street. and so on. The
Pennsylvania Railroad proposes to add
ifnmeasurabiy TO this wild welter of
arabic figures 1t is considering a plan
for designating the stations by num-
bers instead of names. According to
this the grand divisions of the road
viii be each made a thousand section"
with the numbers running consecutive
ly- On the main line from Philadelpbia
the stations will run from / to sss.
the Western grand divisions will run
from 1000 to 1893, while the minor
divisions would be divided into hun
drsds. The main reason given for this
change is that brakemen per-
sist in calling out sheh euphonsous
names az Possum ffo,!ew ana podunk
Center in a way to b unintsIligible. Is
1t TO be supposed that the braksmenI
win treat ndtrs numbsts ahy better?
The National tribune., 1908-12-24

The death of Commander Sharer, of
the Department of Ohio. G. A. r., an-
Tanees to the position OF Commander
the Senior Vice Commander, DIR. Geo.
A. Hall. OF Lima. DIR. Hall has been
prominent in the G. A. R. all his life.
has served ON the Council of Admins
tration, and has held every elective
Office in the gift OF his Post He is
well known in Ohio as a Republican
leader, particularly in the Fourth Con-
fressional District. where he was a
lieutenant for Senator Sheridan and
later for Senator Marcus A. Hanna. He
served two terms as Postmaster of
Lima.
The National tribune., 1908-12-24

The latest fad upon which the doctors
are going to extremes is Light Starva-
tion." DR.. J. Frank Wallace. Norris
town, Pa, and q physician Of much
prominence. claims that many IL not the
larger proportion of the Ills to which
humanity Is subject are caused by lack
of sufficient sunlight. He says that
light starvation" causes criminals,
and that It is directly the influence
which brings about tuberculosis, skin
neuralgia, pneumonia, anemia.
nervous disorders. and thirst for drink.
He gives the history OF a thousand
cases directly traceable to lack of light.
and which were cured by . proper treat
ment Of sun rays.