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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25

There seem to be more senior wrang-
&lers than mathematician in the Sen.
ate.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25

Yuma dispatch says that the Colo
RADIO river is experiencing the greatest
rise In It's history. Is it being revised?
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25

Never dream dreams unless you can
keep on dreaming to the end
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

This is the list OF contents of the
June Forum: Shall Incomes be Tax
ed?" Henry Litchfeld West; IA Per-
sonal Visit to George Meredith" Gal.
braith WEIGH; "F'orsitan," poem, Brian
Hooker; Unrest In Modern Art, Ar
thur Hoeber;; Noon in Garden"
poem, Charlotte Elizabeth Wells; THAT
Universal Language Montgomery
Schuyler; THE Paucity Of Themes in
the American Theater," Clayton Hamal-
ton; Hope, Z sonnet, Reginald NJ
Cleveland; The Pan-Amelican RAIL
way" Edwin Maxey Z. g rar1linta xiv
xvii, ]. G. Snaith; New Light on
Z Carlyle" William Lyon Phelps: James
Huneker, lndividualist," Edward Clark
Marsh; The British Colonial System, Z.
Anne G. Porritt; Chant Royal poem
Marion Cummings Stanley. and The
Cost of Technique in Fiction Philip
Tillinlaha st.--45 East Forty-second ST.,
New York =
The joys Of vacation time are wildly
recalled by the picture of Old SWIM
MIN Hole which adorns the front COW
or page of the June American Boy
The contents are both varied and in
teresting. The opening chapters OF a
hne serial dealing with the opening
days of the American Revolution are
Is Con-
tinentals Mt Lexington, and the boys
will get from it a glimpse OF the stir-
ring history of those fateful times.
Winning His Shoulder Straps is con-
tinued four chapters. OF the splendid
short stories in his fssu c. there are;
The Honor Point. u story of a boy's.
sacrifice for his honor; For Mothers
Sake, an English school story OF BRAY
cry: In Old Panama, telling OF a.
perilous adventure: The Lure of Rod
and Reel, a delightful story of fishing
and Dunn, Spiro, Spero, an Inspiring
story Of a boys heroism. This issue is
particularly fortunate in Interesting.
and instructive articles, among them
being: "A Boy Blacksmith WHO Went,
to Congress: New Way to Help Boys Z
Leaving School; How to Speak n
Piece and The Sneak; How to Play.
Baseball. The First Baseman, by
Frank l.. Chance. and The Pitcher, by
Wild Bill" Donovani How to Make
a Canvas Canoe; Speed Swimming;
The Battle of Bunker Hill; Company
for Boys, and many others.-The
Sprague Publishing Co, Detroit, Mich
Tho June number of the North Amer
lean Review opens with an article by
Archibald r. ColqIlloun on THE Acbii-
les Heel OF Germany w. D. HoweIls
presents a study of Robert Herrick.s
Novels Judge "A. T. Clearwater criti-
cises severely the loose conditions un-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25

1t is far harder to mend ones ways
than to mend the highways.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25

If hit hard enough, the hit bird does
not futter.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25
Proof Conclusive.

81. Lawyer (cross- exalnining) You tes-
tilted that Miss Smythe was walking in
her sleep. How do YOU know she was
asleep"
Witness Well. a mouse ran across
the floor, right in front Of her, and she
never even batted an eye.-Chicago
Tribune.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25

Never say to a phonograph what you
would not say to a mans face.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25

f Most men have more money than
brains, and they haven't much money
either.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25

Abdul Hamid is said to have taken
to dry farming. After his stormy reign
he must find it rather dry.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25

One Of the advantages of standing
pat Is that those who do it do not
even have to pretend to think.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25
Couldn't Sion Hin,

! Blox-Newpop Is a great boaster.
Kno3-That's what. Why. only yes
[,terday he was boasting about how
loud his baby can cry.-C Chicago News.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25

Tho servant girl leads the hire life
while her mistress leads the gay life.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25

Somehow or other prohibition has q
strong tendency to decrease the nuns
her OF snake. stories.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25

A weeks vacation IS about tho most
vacant thing in the world
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25
I why is This?

.All the worlds a stage
But YOU never see a crowd of girls
hanging around a boiler factory to
watch the matinee idols come OUT
Louisville Courier Journal.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25

Strange that the candy trust never
tried to gobble up the sweet girl,
graduate.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25

Chung Sin caught Leon Ling in flag
rante dellcto but he hasn't been caught
since.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25

The horn Or plenty automobile
horn.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25

S The 'leap Of death isn't in it with
the leap out of the frying pan into the
fire.. n.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25

Wears wife--"There! knew 1T
would be wet simply because an =
ranged TO have my garden party to-
day" Vicar embarrassed, but con-.
strained to supply a. more satisfactory
reason) Dwell, my dear, you know we
had the prayer for rain on Sunday
week. Punch.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25

Howell How is your boy getting
along at college7 n.
Powell-He seems to havelearned one
thing. all right.
Howell--Whatis that?
Powell-That it would he disgrace
for his father to die richie Chicago
News. ~
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-25

"A pessimist, e says the Philosopher
of Folly, us one who, when he has the
choice of two evils, chooses both and
sticks around to wait for rnore,''--
Cleveland Leader.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-09
PRESS COMMENT.
Judge Stafford's Plea for the Negro.

Our Vermont jurist and publicist Judge
Wendell Phillips Stafford of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia made
animpressive plea for justice to the negro
at a meeting of the national negro con
ference at Cooper Union the other even
ing.
ut will not do to shut your eyes to
the real causes and results OF the war,
Judge Stafford said, especially now
when northern influence and southern ill.,
Justice strike hands to keep the black
race in a new bondage as helpless and
hopeless as the old As member of the
white race and turning for the moment to
white men, say that our race will de
serve any calamity the presence Of the
black race may bring. We brought it
hereby theft and force. We owed it lib
ertv and we gave it chain. We owe it
light and we gave it darkness. We owe
it opportunity and we hedge it around
with restraints. We owe it the court
house and we give it the lynching tree.
America did not choose the great doc
trine OF equal rights-that immortal
truth chose America. 1t has nodded
her from the beginning; it will mold her
until l end; but, il it cannot, it will
cast her off with the wrekage of the
past and take up some other nation that
shall be found worthy =. Burlington
News
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-09
The University Of Vermont Summer
School.

The summer school of the University
of Vermont will open Monday, July IL,
and close Saturday, August 7. On ac-
count of the tercentenary celebration the
date of opening is one week later than it
would have been.
The summer session is intended pri-
marily to meet the needs of teachers,
principals, supervisors, and Others en-
gagged more or less directly in school
work. The curriculum contains much
also suited to the needs of undergrad
yates wishing to do work which may
count towards college credits, and of
graduates who may be looking forward
to an advanced degree.
Instruction will be given in Greek,
Latin, English, German, mathematics,
pedagogy, agriculture, manual training
and home economies. Other studies may
also be pursued by special arrangements
with instructors.
Instruction will be given by members
of the university faculty. also by Prof
A. H. Gilbert of the Kentucky State
University and Prin. c. H. Morrill, of the
Randolph normal school
A bulletin giving detailed information
may be had on request addressed to the
University, Burlington.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-09
YOUNG MEN WANTED.
United States Government Gives Railway
Mail Clerks $500 Year to Start and
Increases to $1,000.

4uCIehSeS 10 $lZUO.
Uncle Sam will soon hold postal exam
nations in the vicinity of ST. Johnsbury
and throughout the United States.
About 42,053 positions were filled last
year and it is estimated that SO 900 will
be filled this year. Any ambitious young
man with only a very ordinary educa-
ton can readily pass. The government
wants young men with common sense to
take examinations for railway mail
clerks and postoffice clerks and carriers.
and the Government Positions Bureau,
of Rochester, N. Y, with its peculiar
knowledge of the requirements of the ex-
animation, can fit any young man in
short time to pass. A government posi-.
tion means steady work, good pay, and
a yearly vacation. This thoroughly
equipped Bureau also prepares men and
women for Government examinations, as
stenographers, typewriters, internal
revenue and custom house clerks, store
keepers and gaugers. No matter where
you live, city or country, you have,
under the civil service, as good chance
to secure good government position as
anyone else. There is time to prepare
tor the examination soon to come, and
any reader of the CALIFORNIAN can get
full information how to proceed free OF
charge, by writing The Government
Positions Bureau, 1873 Hamlin Bldg,
Rochester. N. Y.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-09
Free for Librarians.

The Vermont State library commission
will hold its annual institute OF instruc-
ton Tor Librarians at Middlebury College
July II to II. Monday evening a recep-
tion will be held in the Egbert Starr
library. Tuesday the annual meeting OF
the Vermont library association will be
held. Wednesday morning the practical
work will be begun and two sessions Of
three hours each will be held daily until
Friday light, A picnic and attractive
excursions are planned and provision
will be made for social enjoyment. No
charge will be made for tuition or in
struction. The secretary of the COM
mission, Miss Frances Hobart of Cam
bridge, will answer inquiries regarding
rooms. which should be engaged before
June 20.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-09
Eastern Star at Burlington.
Most cordially yours,
CHAS. w. STEELE, Pres.
St J. A. A umni Assn.

At the meeting of the Grand Chapter of
Vermont, Order of the Eastern Star, at
Burlington last week the following
officers were elected: Grand patron, Dr.
F. X. Stoddard OF Shelburne; grand ma
iron, Mrs Christina Borland OF London
derry; associate grand patron, A. G.
Spaulding of Ludlow; associate grand
matron, Mrs. H. L. Stillman of Benning-
ton; grand secretary, H. L, Stillson of
Bennington; grand treasurer, Ella F.
Fraser of Windsor; grand conductress,
Mrs. Ella W. Weeks of st. Johnsbury;
associate grand conductress, Mrs. %. N.
Coy OF Windsor; warder, Mrs, Gertru lie
Buell. of Strafford.
The appointive officers are as follows:
Grand lecturer, Mrs. Ruba c. Hanley of
Richford; assistant chaplain, Miss Emma
A. Hough OF White River Junction; grand
marshal, Mrs. Abbie D. Stone OF Barre;
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-09
Gift from Philippine Party.

As remembrance of the Philippine
party conducted by Mr. Taft while secre
tary of war handsome and unique
volume has been devised. 1t is the idea
OF Miss Mabel Boardman, and is a col
lection of congratulatory sketches, in.
scriptions, verses and epigrams contri
buted by members of the Philippine
party at the dinner given by them on the
eve of the Inauguration Of Mr.. Taft as
President. The text is all hand written,
and is on vellum of exquisite quality. To
each member of that extensive party
making good ship-load, at least page
is devoted. The book is hand bound and
beautifully fooled is the full-crushed
levant cover of dark red, the tooling
being a special design worked out by
| Mrs. Ward Brown. The cover has on it
horiated wreath of dull gold, which
circumscribes this:
ITO William Howard Taft, from the
members of the Philippine party"
The frontispiece of the book represents
Mr.. Taft as a jolly Cupid in Billiken
attitude, his face wreathed in that in
fictitious smile of his, his eyes merrily
twinkling and his culver hanging reck-
iSooiJ ilOih q NOlnCi Va Ills LII ODC Dul
empty of darts. Before him PROSTATE
and making obeisances are Representa-
tive and Mrs. Longworth, Representa-
tive and Mrs. Sherley Mr.. and Mrs.
Bourke Cochran, who became lovers on
that trip.
The title page is hand illuminated. In
other artistic respects the volume is a
treasure for any man to have.
And personally there is much to excite
the risibilities and yet tender regard.
Following the title page is the leaf given
over to MIR. and Mrs, Longworth, Mr.
and Mrs. Sherley and Mr.. and Mrs.
Cochran. There has been comment that
their signatures are remarkably alike.
At the top of the page Mr.. Cochran
writes this SENTIMENT
1.-The happiness of the matrimonial
unions he has promoted augurs bound.
less happiness for the political union he
is to maintain"
The border was drawn by Mrs. Cock
ran.
Representative Gillett of Massachu-
setts, who was of the party, wrote
We are Tafters
Some said grafters,
Some said missionaries to the Philippines.
We lived In palaces;
Made love to Aices;
Our business was In matrimonial lines.
Senator Warren of Wyoming went to
"Evangeline" for inspiration, and he
wrote:-
And we who knew we'll of his patience, his
kind and cheerful forbearance,
Who know that his heart is attuned to his
country's welfare.
Confident, look to the future and see there
A happy and prosperous nation of S0,000,-
ono of Tafters.
Reflect how mortified we Filipinos
would have been had we allowed him to
take the veil and be buriedin the supreme
| court" wrote Gen. Edwards.
"L'Envoi," poem by Miss Boardman.
closes the book, which consists of several
hundred pages.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-09
White Mountain Balloon Trip.

Another starting place and date have
been selected for the attempt to cross
the White Mountains in balloon to be
made this month by Charles J. Glidden,
Professor w. H. Pickering and Law B.
Benton. Rutland will be the scene of the
start and June Is the date. The change
of site was made because Rutland is
better located for the tripthan Pittsfeld,
and the mayor and the Rutland Improve
ment Association have offered induce
ments to the aeronauts in the wav OF
supplying gas for the Massachust it's,
the balloon that will be used.
1t was originally int nded to start June
Is at st. Johnsbury, but this place was
abandoned owing to inability to secure
gas The starting point was then
changed to Pittsheld, and Mr.. Glidden
made arrangements to speak there the
night before. On this account when the
starting point was changed to Rutland
it was necessary also to change the date
The start will depend upon wind and
weather, and it may be decided to start
at night so as to cross the mountains in
the daytime.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-09
A. L. A. at Breton Woods.

The 31st annual conference of the
American Library Association will be
held at Breton Woods, N. H., June 28-
July 5. Headquarters will be at the Mt.
Washington House and rates are from
$3.0Oupwards. Rooms may be reserved
in advance by addressing j. |. Wyer, Jr.,
State Library, Albany, N. Y. The post
conference trip will be four or five days
coaching trip through the mountains
and few days outing at Maine beach.
All Vermont librarians planning to at
tend are requested to notify Miss Frances
Nj. Pierce OF Ludlow.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-09
"0ur Policies"

Senator Borah of Idaho is pleasantly
remembered in St. Johnsbury and else
where throughout the state as the most
vigorous and eloquent speaker in the
last campaign. In the course of his
speech on the income tax in the Senate
he said:
"No man is politically so short-sighted
or politically so blind as the man who
thinks that the steamer Hamburg
carried away the policies and principles,
the public interests, the aroused public
conscience, and the searching inquisitiye
public concern which this remarkable
man bequeathed to his countrymen."
The steamer Hamburg was the boat
that carried Col. Roosevelt away from
New York.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-09
From Jail to Work House.

The Legislature of 1908 passed a law
providing for the commitment to county
jails of all prisoners convicted of intoxi-
cation, breach of the peace and vagrancy,
when their sentence did not exceed one
year in length. AS a result of this law
the county jails of the state are crowded
with prisoners and the house of correc-
ton of Rutland has not enough prison
ers to work its marble polishing plant.
In Caledonia county no work is fur
nished the prisoners and when few
weeks ago two were sent to Rutland it
seemed to those especially interested in
the discipline melted out to these offend
ers, that the after effects would be more
lasting if they were compelled to work
out their sentence. 1t is good news that
Gov. G. H. Prouty and Horace F. Ora
ham, state auditor, were in consultation
over this matter at the state house in
Montpelier last week, and if the opinion
of the auditor that it will cost the state
$4,000 year more to care for its pris-
oners under the present law than it did
under the old law is correct, the more
that are sent to Rutland from the jails
the better it will be for the state. AS re-
suit Of this interview it is probable that
within short time the Governor will
transfer from the several county jails in
the state large number of prisoners to
the house of correction at Rutland,
where they can be kept at work.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-09

Editor Lamberton of the Essex Juno
ton syndicate is receiving deserved COM
pliments over his literary production
"The Post Humorous Writings of Cham
plain" The booklets kindly satire on
Vermont politicians and others prom
inent in state affairs and has met with a
very favorable reception throughout the
state. As humorlst Mr.. Lamberton
easily takes first rank among the journa-
lists Of the state.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-09
Fee Solution Proves Costly.

1t would appear that the legislature
made a mistake in shifting as many
prisoners as possible from the House
OF Correction to the county jaiIs, first
because the move has attracted more
prisoners to the state. largely tramps
looking for lpdging in the winter months
without being obliged to work, and
second because il has cost the state a
greater sum per capita to keep prisoners
in the jail rather than the House of Cor
rection. The move was made to cut off
the fee system as far as possible, bur it
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-09
Natures Invisible Walls.
Editor CALIFORNIAN:

Editor CALIFORNIAN:
1t is possible that some of our local
students of nature have never thought
OF the fact that we are very near to one
of natures invisible walls. That
nature has her boundaries = lays out
certain tracts for certain kinds of trees
and flowers and birds with as much care
as gardener divides his little plot OF
ground for his various kinds of fruits
and flowers, is we'll known to nearly
every one; but a certain interest exists
when we are near one of these
boundaries, which, though invisible, is
as effective as though wall in reality.
If we take seat in one of the cars
leaving the North Station at Boston
and travel northward, we see on every
hand from Boston to St. Johnsbury
groves of white pine. AS we leave St.
Johnsbury and travel northward, we
miss these groves of pine, and in their
place we see the fir trees and the spruce.
Barnet is really the northern boundary,
for this locality, of the white pine trees.
We see, of course, some scattering pines
even north of US, but when we leave
Barnet we leave the habitat of the pine
trees behind us. This is also true OF the
oaks. And again, there seems to be an
affinity between these trees and certain
flowers and birds. We have to go to
Barnet for our arbutus, and we have to
go to Barnet to hear the whippoorwll.
Each year the arbutus blooms and the
whippoorwill sings just below US, but
it is unlikely that a whippoorwill's song
was ever or will ever be heard in St.
Johnsbury, or that our hillsides or val
leys will ever be made fragrant by banks
of arbutus.
This is true of other flowers and birds,
but these have mentioned illustrate the
fact that there are these invisible walls
beyond which certain trees and flowers
and birds are forbidden to go and are
held well within these limits by natural
laws.
| five take a step farther south, say to
Wells River, we shall find the red headed
woodpecker and hear the melodious song
of the brown-thrasher. Still another
step southwark, and we find the meadow
lark and the quail.
If we 60 to place as near to us as
Goss Hollow, we are likely to see birds
rarely il ever seen nearer to us, such as
the three-toed woodpecker and the
crested titmouse. And just step
farther westward-on the Walden range
of hills, we shall find the Canada jay,
very rarely, if ever, seen in St. Johnsbury
Ofthe many species of humming- birds,
only three or four species are permitted
to grace our United States, and only one
species, the ruby-throated humming
bird, is seen east of the Mississippi river.
And SO we might go over the whole
world and find these same conditions
certain species of trees and flowers and
birds in certain we'll defined fields.
Ofcourse the bulk of our birds are mi
gratory, but the highways for their de-
parture and return are also we'll defined
and part of their habitat
With the above in mind, it intens6es
the interest when some bird or flower is
found outside its habitat, for it means
the existence of some unusual conditions
in nature.
c. H, HORROR.
St. Johnsbury, June 1 1909.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-06-09
Ricker'S Local Market.

The receipts at W. A. Ricker's market
for the week ending June 7, 1909, were
Poultry, $50 lbs. a 10 cents.
Lambs, 100 "a to Az cents.
Hogs; $50 a 512 to 6s4 cents.
Cattle, 40 "a 212 to 412 cents.
Calves, $50 a 3 to 51a cents.
Mich Cows, $27 to $50.
Wool, rs to 80 cents.
All markets steady.