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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-02-05
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 his
claims. This was only few months
ago. Today nearly every newspaper in
the country, even the metropolitan
dailies, is announcing it and the splendid
results achieved. 1t is so simple that
any one can prepare it at home at small
cost. 1t is made up as follows: Get
from any good prescription pharmacy
Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-haf ounce;
Compound Kargon, one ounce; Com
pound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces.
Mix by shaking in bottle and take in
teaspoonful doses after each meal and
at bedtime. These are all simple ingredi-
ents, making an absolutely harmless
home remedy at little cost
Rheumatism, as everyone knows, is a
symptom of deranged kidneys. 1t is
condition produced by the failure of the
kidneys to properly filter or strain from
the blood the uric acid and other matter
which, if 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 invigorat-
ing tonic to the kidneys, and gives al
most immediate relief in all forms Of
bladder and urinary troubles and back
ache. He also warns people in leading
New York paper against the discriminate
use of patent medicines.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-02-05
Change in Night Telephone Rates.

The New England Telephone & Tele-
graph Company has announced that on
and after February LIST, 1908, the night
rate for toll service will apply between
the hours of 10 p. m. and 4 a. m, instead
of between p M and a. m.
An official of the Company SAYS
This change is necessary on account of
the practice which has grown up of de-
ferring calls which would ordinarily be
made through the day, until after 6 p.
m, when the night rate goes into effect.
The result of this practice has been to
crowd a very large number Of calls into
a short space of time Immediately after
6 p. M. The effect of this congestion of
traffic is to place such strain on the
plant and operating force that neces-
sarily large number of calls are lost or
delayed.
THE original object of this night rate
was to attract toll business at a time
when the lines were not being used to
any great extent and when consequently
the operating force could handle more
calls. The result has been that the
general practice of deferring calls until
after six o'clock has overcrowded the
lines and necessitated the employment OF
a largely increased operating force which
can be utilized only during rush hours
As matter of fact in some exchanges
the number OF calls handled during the
early evening hours is twenty per cent
greater than during the busiest hours of
the morning. The effect of this couges-
ton together with the added difficulty of
getting efficient operators for night work
is bound to have detrimental effect on
the service.
There is no comparison between the
night rates for telephone and telegraph
service. because telegraph messages are
filed at any time for night transmission
upon the agreement that they are to be
sent at the convenience of the Company
and are not to be delivered until the next
day.
"A telephone message however re-
quires facilities for immediate trans
mission. For immediate transmission
and delivery the telegraph companies
always charge the full day rate no mat
ter at what time of the day or night the
message is filed.
THE Company believes that this
change will take a severe and unneces-
sary strain off the plant and operating
force by cutting out the rush hours and
distributing the traffic more evenly
throughout the day; and that for the
same reason it will greatly improve the
efficiency of the service TO the general
public"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-02-05
For Rural Delivery Patrons.

Postmaster L. D. Hazen desires to call
attention to the practice of some patrons
of rural delivery of placing loose coins in
their boxes each time they desire to dis
patch letters instead of supplying them
selves with postage in advance Of their
needs.
This practice imposes undue hardship
on rural carriers in removing loose coins
from boxes and delays them on the ser
vice of their routes.
The postmaster, therefore, urgently
requests that patrons of rural delivery
provide themselves and keep on hand a
supply of stamps consistent with and
in advance of their needs. 1t is also very
desirable that rural patrons place in
their mail boxes small detachable cups of
wood or tin in which to place coins,
when necessary, in purchasing supplies
of stamps.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-02-05

Through the courtesy of the Brooklyn
Standard Union we are able to present
to our readers the picture of the hospital
soon to be erected at Valetta. Henry
L. Clapp, who is so well remembered
here, died at Villa Dammit in Valetta last
May, but made all the plans for the
hospital while on his last visit to this
country.
Mrs. Clapp was formerly Mrs. Emilia
Dammit Gonzales of a prominent Malta
family. 1t will be called the Dammit
Clapp hospital and will crown St.
Iulians, one of the most commanding
heights overlooking one of the harbors
of Malta, upon a site exceptional for
salubrity and with far-reaching views of
land and sea. The well known order OF
"Blue Sisters" years ago discovered the
advantages of St. Julians for their work
and the zammit-Clapp hospital will be
under their direct supervision and adj
muistration their own buildings being
in immediate proximity and all lending
themselves to great and systematic
charity
Mr.. Clapp during the last few years of
his life says the Springfield Republican,
gave unlimited time and thought TO the
development of the plans for the hospital,
the acquisition OF land for it, and the
study of the details of its operation.
President Roosevelt, for whom a ward
will be named, was so far interested that
a letter of COMMUNICATION, bearing his
autograph signature was treasured by
Mr.. Clapp for deposit in the corner
stone. and many Americans, former
friends of Mr.. Clapp, have cooperated
with him in working out the idea, both
in construction and administration. 1t
was the purpose of Mr.. Clapp that the
hospital should be solutely free, with
out restriction of race, color or creed
and that particularly to all his country
men, officers in either service, or civilians,
should be afforded place of refuge and
recovery from the ills which flesh is heir
to. Since Mr.. Clapp's death last May,
Mrs. Clapp has zealously prosecuted the
work; the legal and other obstacles
incident to the enterprise are rapidly
disappearing and the Dammit Clapp
hospital has become a certainty of the
near future.
Mr.. Clapp was born in Chicopee, Mass.
then Cabotville, in 1886. the son of Rev
Sumner G. Clapp, then pastor Of the
Second Congregational church, and Mrs.
Camelia (Strong) Clapp. A few years
later Mr.. Clapp was called to St. Johns
bury where his son, Henry attended the
Academy. He also studied at Phillips
Andover and entered Amherst college,
but his health prevented his graduating
and he went abroad for few years of
travel. When he returned he entered the
Boston Office of the Fairbanks Scale Co.,
of which Franklin Fairbanks, Mr. Clapp's
brother-in-law was the head. Several
years ago Mr. Clapp retired on account
of failing health and went abroad.
Through his marriage with Mrs.
Gonzales, who was formerly Miss
Dammit, he formed lasting tie with the
island of Malta.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-02-05

no formal announcement had been made
of any of the candidates, it had been
assumed that there would be a tri-
angular contest between Lieut.-Gov.
Prouty of Newport, Mr.. Fletcher and
Hon. led A. Stanton of Roxburv.
The early withdrawal of Mr.. Fletcher,
who had many friends throughout the
state, clears the political atmosphere.
1t means, we believe, an easy victory for
Mr.. Prouty who is splendidly equipped
for the office to which he aspires and
which he has richly earned by a public
service full of usefulness to the state and
its citizens.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-02-05
Profitable Poultry.

A valuable leahet on the egg and
poultry business will be sent free, post
paid, to any one sending his name on a
postal card to c. S. Page, Hyde Park,
Vt, saying thereon that he saw this
notice in the St Johnsbury CALIFORNIAN,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-02-05

G. B. Judson of Richmond has growing
in his house a cutting of the rhubarb, or
wine plant, which has upon it eleven
stalks, some of which measure seventeen
and eighteen inches in length and over
one inch in diameter. 1t is said this
plant can be grown in the house success
fully for winter use and Mr.. Judson's ex-
pertinent would seem to justify the
assertion.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-02-05
Liberality in Computing Interest on
Savings DepOSitS,

The Hyde Park Savings Bank has al
ways paid interest from the beginning of
the quarter on deposits made before the
middle of the quarter, In other words,
they pay interest from January LIST on
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-02-05
Mr.. Fletcher WithdraWS.

The surprise of the week was the with
drawal of Hon. A. M. Fletcher of Caven-
dish from the gubernatorial race. While
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-02-05
Laundry Lyrics
A la Mother Goose"

LITTLE JACK HORNER
Hid in the corner
While his shirt was in the wash"
He had taken it where
They do nothing but tear,
Till he'd come to his last. b'gosh!
OLD MOTHER HUBBARD
Went to the cupboard
To see if the clothes were clean,
But when she got there
The sight made her swear
Not piece was fit to be seen.
LITTLE MISS MUFFET
She got in huff at
The way her shirt-waist was done "
Said she: ITO be frank,
This is decidedly rank, p"
And she came to us on the run.
And so you'll agree
There's but one way to be
That's careful, prompt and 0. X.
And if you patronize US
There'll be an end to all fuss
And, besides, you'll find twill pay.
Summer Street Laundry,
A. W. ADAMS & SON. Prop'rs.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-02-05
WESr

g. ". Frasier Il
store which he VI
into the one Lad
move his stock 4
Cabot store.
The Ladies AID
D. W. Choate|
Supper from 5 tol
Mrs. Harry Cra
st. Johnsbury Hid
Carl Morrill,, |
relatives, has god
to work.
Mrs. Jennie NJ
sister, Mrs. A. w.
Mrs. Carrie q
Walden Friday I
judges in the sped
test.
Mr.. Frasier has
into the Perkins U
There will be 4
entertainment att
for the benefit of |
Charles Swasey|
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-02-05
A II

Frank Ada
i'll with grip e
better. +
Mr.. and Mr.
rented Miss Be-
have gone to Il
Isaac Green &
Mrs. Kate G
visiting friends
now gone to q
has a position
Dana Badger
teaming busia
also the carryin
sion will be give
The regular a
be held Tuesd&
stead of the usu
a social hour. 1
William Friend
accident slight 4
week. remains n
the doctors fed
monia. He waS
gearing, crushiH
arm SO badly "a
amputate it ADD
had four ribs ID
on his head, 4
lacerated. He
Relief Hospital 4
on without ann
his Suffering VI
fortitude. Il
The lecture %
Town Hall, Fa
largely attendd
weather and q
those present 81
able. II
The Woman'
Union will meet
Thursday afterH
Rev. ]. F. SchA
preached in excM
Miss Maggie \
is visiting at WI
The score of
Wednesday eyed
favor of the ST. ii
The Ladies Al
gational church !
nesday afternooa
10. Il
Miss May WI
winter term of
been Teaching II
home Sa turday.i
Mrs. Henry I'd
with the grip. Il
Miss Harriet
was in town a
account of the Il
A. c. Palmer
about the same.i
DR.. F. Il. Beck u
Tuesday. Il
The mission stJ
day evening viii
The class will
Labrador, and
extended to tho
Congregational
+. E. Tinker va
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-02-05
Anti-Sa

At the ninth (
board Of trustees
Saloon League n
day resolutions "A
dun Of the liquo
the state were ad
officers were chd
cipal G. HI. DunN
vice-president, RI
Waterbury secod
Wheeler of Burlin
dent, c. D. Gay
tendent, Clarence1
ton euitOr OF VefI
Davenport of Bar
editor and mana
Burlington treas
OF Burlington. "A
Burlington. Rev
boro and Rev. FL
bury served on
riiittee. Il
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-02-05

School closed ID
, "a. Miss Esdo1
one year. Il
Francis E. Kid
of Greensboro, N
Jan. 25, at Hard
Miss Mary Pal
visited her iather|
Mrs. Grace Blet
ing relatives in q
Miss Lena Bro5
field. Il
Miss Ella DavH
successful term d
2 last week Tuea
The worst storl
here Saturday al
0rrin Swallow
or a few weeks.
Mrs. Nellie Casi
parents, Mr.. and
The Ladies Aid
Mrs. Jason HutcA
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-02-05

We will pay N
Calves Carcasses
entrails out, il
frozen, fresh and
not be good after
II you have Car
or Hogs. write US
them at fair price
disease, well bled
We pay the freigu
shipped il quaint
more. G. S. Pag9
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-02-05
Chi|dren's Coats.

so ChidrenS Coats to II years prices 60C on the dollar
We have good assortment of all grades of Winter Coats alb
great reduction We might have had but it is our policy
have what the people want the profit does not always
company the sale. They come again.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-12

guests were entertained in the grand ballroom of
the hotel by some brilliant musicians of the party,
and it was arranged that at the close of the
musicale, jolly, eccentric and wealthy Horace
Taylor would allow his electric moving-pictures to
be presented.
Among these pictures-the last to be shown,
indeed-was one of great fire, that by the rarest
good luck had been caught 1t was the burning
of a huge factory, and it secured so that it
might be given almost from the start and for sew
eral of the most exciting minutes of it's duration.
The smoke, the escaping employees and attaches
all of the commotion, and the gallant rescue of
handsome young woman by a gentleman who
sprang from a cab. Even the movements of this
gentleman in carrying the girl across the street
were given, and the scene closed with the one
tableau in which George Ellis had caught Sam
Dawson with his kodak snapshot
Mr. and Mrs. Ellis sat together and saw the
shimmering pictures come and go. When the last
scene of the fire picture came and the woman
recognized the little tableau that her husband
had secured she comprehended the pusilanimty
that had inspired the trick. Then when the
lights were turned on, Nan gave to George Ellis
one look of ineffabe horror, mingled with the
deepest contempt and disdain, and she said:
81 shall make my arrangements to go home
to-morrow-alone"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-12
The Poet S Plant.
By JEAN WATTS.

Give me to strike a note unheard before;
I would thesis add to poetlore;
long, hidden pathway to explore
Thus to the sage the Poet made complaint,
Whose bootless quest had left him sore distract,
Whose heart with hope deferred, sick and
faint
Quoth the sage, and he raised his eyes of blue,
Shaking slowly his head of hoary hue,
The song may be old, but the singer new.
If we could only know, could only understand
That happiness to Heaven pertains, not to the
earth,
That this is but garden, where with harrow
placed,
To break and tear as wills the Master, souls
bent,
And crushed and bruised and 1itted to His use,
Who plans
And with relentless. powerful skill pursues those
plans.
If we could only know, could only understand;
We would not lag, and wiring our hands, and cry
aloud,
That it was necessary we should happy be;
That we should laugh, and sing and dance, and
love wthal;
That we should gather gold with all our hands,
and more;
That flowers should spring up everywhere and
fringe our paths;
If death and misery and sin have taken root
On this fair globe, it's not for as the discipline,
We cannot bear, to anything but happy be-
You see cannot know, cannot understand.
eve so blind, so deaf, so all-absorbed in
self
That this is not our home that we but larry here
To tit us FOR the Land VI Lear beyond the SKY;
Affections fires, Martyrs uplifted hands, Vain
tears,
LIES fleeing joys, but polish and make bright
the gems,
Whic hgo to make the precious savior's recon-
pense.
"Souls which have overcome"-the swelling
anthem rings
In Heavenly Choirs; by faith we see, and seeing
know:
We suffer, yes, and debut it's at His commando
The way is dark and lone, Oh, yes but It's the
test,
Look up The Master knows, and He can under
stand
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-12

George Ellis most readily accepted the pleas
ant deputyship to which he had been commenced
by his friend Sam Dawson; and by the gracious
assent of the lady herself, became her most ire
quent and faithful attendant and escort, she
accepting his dutifu attentions as the first trlend
of her fance.
Dawson had not been a whit too extravagant
in his talk when he told Nan Huntington that
Ellis would not care to give such attention to
any other girl on earth, but frank and generous
Sam Dawson had not so much as dreamed of the
real reason for quiet, taciturn even sly, George
Ellis preference of Nan Huntington.
Ellis was in love with the girl himself
This very willing deputy-lover frequently
spoke of his friend and high principal to Miss
Huntington, and always in extravagant terms of
admiration, emphasizing his fondness for the big
souled man with the suggestion that Dawson was
so broad and all-encompassing in his capacity for
affection that he could love anybody, who was at
all lovable.
Now and then Ellis mentioned, in a good
humored sort of way, some of Sans faults, and
excused them in the same breath. And one even
ing some weeks after Dawsons departure, he
told in an apologize manner of having seen his
friend take pretty woman into a cab the day he
left for Mexico, while driving to the station. He
had taken snapshot with his pocket camera at
the couple, and with great good-humor he exhib-
tied to Miss Huntington the interesting result of
the Photographic pleasantly
Yes he was going to save it to show to Sam
when that important individual should return, and
rally him about it.
he came back. Then it would be great fun to
spring it on him. OF course, Also the little
episode was a perfectly innocent one Mr.. Ellis
was kind enough to suppose.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-12

Nan paed and became nervously mirthful amid
these sallies and the photograph was particularly
interesting to her
Sam had near as possible to keeping
his promise about taxing the capacity of the
postal system, for his letters to Nan were volumi-
nous and frequent loaded down with love of her
and filled in the interstices with descriptions OF
the country in which he was sojourning and his
own experiences
In Mans next letter to Sam she limited at the
girl he took into his cab the day he went away,
and in due letter came from Sam con-
tanning a fippant allusion to the incident, the
details being omitted for the conserving of his
modesty as a heroic life-saver.
Then his letters ceased.
fever of the region had seized Sam Dawson
in it's all too ardent embrace.
Handsome insidous wonderfully entertaining,
when he chose to be, and possessed of many
accomplishments, it may as well be confessed,
now that George Ellis away from Sam DaW-
son the love of Nan Huntington and when Sam
had so far recovered after a months Illness
and three months absence-to read his letters
and comprehend their meaning, he read one from
Nan in which their engagement was declared to
be at an end.
Even in the weakness of his convalescence
Dawson brave and strong at heart His
pride which was high and uncompromising,
closed all utterance as to Nan, and his business
interests had become more and more imperative
in their demands for his attention. This latter
the stricken accepted as blessing.
The months marched along in imposing pro-
cesson, bearing the verdant and befowered ban
ners of spring, the glorious colors of summer and
the rich garlands of autumn, in the grand parade
Dawson remained in Mexico and the postal sys
tenn had long since been relieved of the burden
that he had imposed upon it as between himself
and Nan.
Near winter came the marriage of Miss Hunt
ington and Mr.. Ellis: a magnificent and ultra
fashionable affair. honeymoon trip to Florida
of the programme that followed
One evening in December. at the famous
Ponce de Leon, of ancient ST. Augustine, the
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-30
IAr: TWENTIETH CENTURY IouRT1

So be careful what you write"
The first brain splitting puzzler is,
What will you be in if you answer
wrong% And if you're not pretty
quick at this sort of nonsense you
will not write on the card, 1.-THE
soup" The next question is, where
did you go at the st. Louis Exposition
to have some fun?" "Pike" This
rare and delicious fish having been
successfully captured and enjoyed,
the attention is drawn to the third
proposition.
what is the only country Russia
has ever whipped?" If history is
your favorite diversion you will know
that it is Turkey, and the butler will
have the pleasure of presenting "a
piece of that delicious fowl.
what famous singer spent most
of the winter in America after an
absence of some years." Patti.
Further along the list comes the
bunker, "If your opponent on the golf
links did you one more hole what
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-06-30

would you consider YOURSELF" Pos
sibly, If the victory is not too recent,
you might own to being beat"
After the vegetable has been masti-
Gated the thrilling question to be an
swered is, what would you do If
pistol were pointed at your head?"
Quail, no doubt, il you happen to be
of the fair sex.
What would bread be With"
Butter.
1.-The unfortunate person will find
his allowance is in what?" Pickle.
what were the beaus of olden
times often called?" Macaroni
what was the name of Noah's Sec
ond SOM" Ham.
"If you girls wanted to go to Japan
what would you say to your father?"
Lettuce.
The next apropos query would be
for most persons rather an easy one.
with what do the children cele-
brate the Fourth of July?" Crack
ers.
When the sweet course appears
these two questions VIII nave TO be
answered before one is served:
"If woman, what do you do when
you see a mouse?" Ice cream.
Where does a man put an engage
ment ring?" Lady finger.
Where do you go after the play
for support" Cafe.
These are merely few questions
given by way Of suggestion, but, Of
course, each hostess must be guided
in her selection by the menu. The
mistakes in answering the questions
will be delightfully."- funny, and fancy
the sport to be had in jollying the
guests who get the most impossible
mixtures and the poor unfortnnates
who are ravenous with nothing more
substantial than pickle and a
cracker to satisfy their appetites
Three minutes is the time allowed
for answering each question. The