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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26

lengths. He would have received the
same actual quantity of wood for $3.50
less.
1t also makes considerable difference to
the seller whether wood is chopped or
sawed. If chopped, the chips are lost.
Where the logs are large this loss
amounts to no small total In a cord OF
4-foot wood, with sticks inches in di-
ameter, the chip loss is from six to eight
per cent; and of course, the shorter the
sticks arecut the greater the loss. If the
wood is sawed, the sawdust loss is
scarcely the halt of one per cent.
The difference due to spaces between
the sticks of course depends very much
on the shape and size of the stick.
Straight, smooth sticks leclose together,
and cord contains more wood and less
air. For given lengths, sticks of soft
woods are usually straighter and
smoother, and when stacked lie closer
together. But whatever the kind, cords
of long sticks are pretty sure to contain
more empty space than cords made of
short pieces. Likewise, cords of split
wood contain less than cords of round
sticks, The finer the wood is split, the
more it makes. Hence wood dealers are
often willing to sell kindlings, all sawed
and split, for the same price per cord as
unsplit wood. They get back the cost of
labor in the increased bulk.
A cord (128 cubic feet of 4-foot hard
wood usually contains about 83 cubic
feet of solid wood; cord of 3-foot wood
averages 8312 cubic feet; of 2-foot wood,
"a feet, and of 1-foot wood. 50 feet.
The conifers, softwoods, contain 90 to
SO cubic feet. Thus the purchaser re-
ceives on an average about two-thirds of
a cord of real wood and one-third of a
cord of spaces.
In some countries wood is bought by
weight, and the buyer comes more near
ly getting what he bargains for; but even
then he may miss it if he receives green
wood when he wants dry. According to
timber testing engineers of United States
Forest Service, wood may lose half or
more its green weight in seasoning.
Cedar for lead pencils is bought BY
weight in this country. The pieces are
SO small and of such irregular size that
they can not conviently be stacked and
measured as cordwood.
The bulk of nearly all woods decreases
as seasoning goes on. A hundred cords
green will make from 80 to 90 cords
when dry. This is a factor of no small
Importance to dealers who handle large
quantities.
Woodlot owners and farmers who have
small forest tracts from which they ex-
pect to sell cordwood, are no less inter-
ested than contractors who buy and
sell large quantities. 1t will stand them
in hand to know how much difference it
makes whether wood is cut long or
short, chopped or sawed, whether the
sticks are round or split, whether large
or small, and whether the measurements
are to be made while the wood is green
or after it is seasoned.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26
PRESS COMMENT.
Slow Progress.

1t will be seen by figures given else
where in this issue that the average
monthly salary paid to the teachers in
the Ludlow schools, exclusive of the
high school, reaches the princely sum of
thirty-hve dollars and seventy-six cents
Ludlow is doing about as well IN this re-
gard as other towns in the state. But
this is not saying much There are num-
erous business openings which offer the
bright young girl more satisfactory re-
turns than the amount quoted above
and it is not to be wondered at that so
many of those who possess the quaifica.
tons OF a successful teacher prefer TO
enter some other field of activity in which
the financial inducement is so much
greater than the state of Vermont sees
mt to hold out for those to whom it
would look for the development of it's
BOYS and girls. There is something
wrong with system which calls upon
young men and women for SO important
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26
The Deadly FLY,

That the most dangerous animal on
earth is the common and despised house
fly is the conclusion, not of sensation
mongers, but of cool-headed and cautious
scientific investigators, writes Frank
Fleischman in the issue of Harper's
Weekly for May 22d. Experiments and
Investigations, he says, have shown
that, by his continual transit between
the filth in which he breeds and the
dining-room table, he conveys the germs
of typhoid and other intestinal diseases
upon his legs. 1t is the elimination of
the fly season in August that comedies
with the annual typhoid epidemic
throughout the country. Photographs
which illustrate this article show the fly
maggot being Matched out in stable
sweepings, waste paper, old rags, and
old flock bedding The article contains
detailed explanation of the fly sravages
and the methods which should be adopt
ed to keep away the plague, with its
typhoid sequela.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26

While we are sorry for any editor who
gets into trouble with the courts, the
fine of 5000 imposed upon Editor
Hildreth of the Newport Express and
Standard for his severe criticism Of a
supreme court decision will have a
salutary effect all over the state. We
pride ourselves too much upon the
privilege of free speech and overstep the
bounds of propriety too often in attacks
upon state and local officers and even
against the leaders in all our national
affairs. Those in authority are entitled
to respect even il we do not agree with
their views and opinions.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26
Judge Stafford to Preside.

A public meeting is to be held in Coop
err Union, New York, on the evening OF
Nav 81. in connection with a national
conference on the status of the American
negro, to be held on May 81 and June 1.
Judge Wendell P Stafford will preside
over this public meeting and the speakers
will be Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Clarence
barrow, Prof. John Spencer Bassett. DR..
I. Milton Waldron, and Prof w. E. B..
Dubois. Among other speakers at the
conference will be William LLOYD CARR
son, Edwin D. Mead, Bishop Alexander
Walters, DR.. William Buckley, and Kay
Stannard Baker.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26
Is 1t in Your Home?

The one evening paper OF unquestioned
authority is the Boston Evening Tran
script. While printing the very latest
news covering every phase of the world
doings, it never caters to the sensational
and its many special departments in
Guiding matters of interest to all men,
bers Of the household make it the ideal
family newspaper.
For nearly four score years the Tran
script has stood for all that was best in
journalism, steadily increasing its con-
stituency during that time, and today
ranks as one of the leaders in the news
paper world.
Any of our readers who are unac-
quainted with the merits of the paper
would do we'll to send for sample copies
free for the asking) and they will readi-
ly see why the Transcript has such high
reputation.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26
Commissioners Notice.
ESTATE OF CHARLES ADAMS.

he undersigned, having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the district
OF Caledonia, commissioners to receive. ex-
anime an and adjust all claims and demands of
all persons against the estate of charles
Adams, late of Peacham, in said district
deceased, and all claims exhibited in offset
thereto' hereby give notice that we will
Inef NEE; ior the purpose aforesaid. at the late
ISsluehce In the town of Peacham, in said
DISTRICT, on the 18th day of Iune and 4th
gay OF November next, from 2 O'Clock M,
unln o CLOCK p m, on each of said DAYS
ana mat six months from the sth day of
N Gay, a. u. 1909 is the time limited by said
Sourt LOT said creditors to present their
Chains to us for examination and allowance.
Datea at Peaeham. VT, this 23rd day of
ELIJAH w. LYFoRD,
WALTER N BLANCHARD.
Commissioners
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26

The postal receipts throughout the
country are pretty good barometer OF
general trade conditions and the receipts
from the fifty largest Offices in the
United States for the month of April
show an increase of 10 per cent over
April OF the preceding year. That this
same condition exists locally is evidenced
by the fact that the postal receipts at
the St. Johnsbury office in April, 1909
were 20 per cent. larger than in the
corresponding month Of last year.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26
For Sale.

In an Ohio town there is still maintain
ed stage-coach system of transporta-
tor. the steeds whereof are of that sad
appearance presented by the horses at
tached to the Fifth Avenue line in New
York not SO many years ago.
one cay a Cincinnati man, visiting the
town ID question, boarded stage, hav-
ing no other currency than fve-dollar
bill. This he proffered to the driver.
Inc latte took it, looked it over for a
moment or so, and then asked:
Which horse do you want, Bill?'-
Harper's Weekly
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26
Hurt at WilliamStOwn.

Wells NJ. Badger, formerly OF St. Johns
bury, met with serious accident at the
home of his son, E. j. Badger in Will
Jamestown, last week. Mr.. Badger went
to the barn and in some way he fell from
the barn door and struck upon rock.
His son was just driving into the yard
as the accident occurred and got Mr..
Badger into the house. Medical aid was
summoned and it was found that three
ribs were broken and that there were
symptoms of internal injuries. Owing
to his advanced age, his recovery will
necessarily be slow.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26
Automobile
Service.

Jack" Bertrand has established an auto
mobile service for St Johnsbury and vicinity
and will carry passengers from the depot to
any points on Main, Summer or Spring
streets, South Park Railroad street. Sum.
merville and Paddock Village as far as Emer-
son street for Is cents. Beyond these points
and before a. IN. and after p. M the price
VIII be % cents. Parties taken out by the
hour or day at reasonable rates.
For further information or for orders in
quire of Lurchin & Lurchin. Railroad street.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26
Franchise for washingtonians.

Judge Staffords plea that national
rather than local suffrage be granted to
the permanent residents of the District of
Columbia signifies desire for the right
to vote for president and a member of
Congress, but as President Taft prompt
ly pointed out, such a departure could
not be made without amending the
federal constitution. 1t is certainly
anomalous, and in some respects, unjust,
that people who live in the District
should thereby be deprived of voting
privileges in connection with the pres
idency and Congress. Such capitals as
Paris and London are largely under the
direct control OF the national govern
ment, particularly Paris, but the inhab-
itants are not disfranchised thereby.
The Parisians are really governed by the
project of the Seine and the project of
police. both officials appointed by TIE
president of the republic and serving for
terms Of no fixed period, but the Paris
ians also vote in parliamentary elections.
Our federal constitution, however, is an
insuperable bar to granting to the Dis
trict of Columbia electoral votes for
president or district representation in
Congress. The District steadily gains in
population, police census this year re-
vealing $4,000 inhabitants, an increase
Of 5000 in the past year. A proportion
of these are government clerks and their
families but as Washington grows in at
Effectiveness as a residence city, its per-
manent population will steadily aug.
ment. -[Springheld (Mass.) Republican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26
New Pensions Granted.

An increase in pension las been al
lowed George W. Shores of Cranky, at
the rate of SIS per month from April 6,
1909.
A pension has been allowed Mrs. Diana
Cady of Clark, at the rate of SIP per
month from January %, 1909.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26
Senator Page Presents Petition.

Senator Page presented a petition in
the U. S. Senate last week from Hon. T.
J. Deavitt of Montpelier, urging that the
present system OF pension vouchers be
abolished and that pensions be paid di-
rect to pensioners, upon maturity. The
petitioner says that il business men were
as dilatory in meeting their obligations
as the government is in paying pensions,
their paper would soon go to protest.
Mr.. Deavitt has calculated that it costs
the average pensioner 81 year to ex-
ecute his quarterly pension vouchers,
under the present system and that pen
sioners who do not live close to the pen
sion agencies or postotfices have to spend
approximately SIS year in travelling ex-
penses. Mr. Deavitt has had long ex-
perience in pension matters and his sug-
gestion is certainly worthy OF more con-
sideration than it will probably receive
at the hands of the Senate. Mr.. Deavitt's
proposition is practical business sug-
gestion that would tend to economy in
the pension department, as we'll as reliev-
ing veterans from annoyance and expense
in securing their small stipends from the
governmental Mortified News.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26
St. JOhnSburY Forty Years Ago.
[From the CALIFORNIAN. May 21, 1851

The Caledonia base ball club also
Danve reoganzed Saturday by lively between the H. line at
the election of the following Conway and Portland. That
B. of the line the l,amole
Charles Howard pres c. Valley between Cambridge and
Weeks w. H. Preston Swanton is to be surveyed
Howard, Sam' medatey
n Burdck and Henry 7. Dole
Messrs Randall & Son. drug
Parker & Younes store at gss, putting in marble
;sbor was entered SATURDAY. walnut
night their safe blown open, and sneVs lhey are having
steele inside carried off nice thing
which contained $500 in postage
stamps and about $4,000 in
promssory notes. An ecclesiastical council
held at the North church the 10Th
instr called together by the action
IN Richmond market o of nasor Rev z Crn-
MONDAY lou tuo OF putter were mings, gnng his pastoral
sold, the prices paid ranging from office
35 to SO cents pound
Mrs. Elliott of Morgan, aged
Engineers work the 90 has had II children grand
line between the Conn and children and 80 great grand
Notch of the White Mountains, children.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26
The Manchester Daily Union.

The Manchester Union goes to press
two hours later than any Boston paper,
and therefore gives later news than any
other morning paper arriving at St.
Johnsbury.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26

Never dispute the right of way with an
automobile. 1t is better to smell the
backwash of a gasoline engine than
birthstone beyond the banks of the
Styx.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26
Annual Meeting.

Notice is hereby given that the ninety
first annual meeting OF the Vermont
Domestic Missionary Society will be held
in the Bethany church, Randolph, VT,
on Wednesday, June 9, 1909, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon, to hear and act
upon the annual reports of the treasurer
and the directors, to elect the required
officers, and to transact any other nec-
essary business.
c. H. MERRILL. Secretary.
St. .Johnsbury, May, 1909.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26
Congregational Convention.

The one hundred and fourteenth annual
meeting of the Vermont Congregational
Conference formerly the Congregational
Convention of Vermont) will be held at
Bethany church, Randolph, June s, 8, and
10, 1909. Each Congregational church in
the state is entitled to representation by
pastor and one delegate.
WILLIAM COTTON CLARK Secretary
Lyndon, VT, May %, 1909
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26
Whitfield Right Down.

The annual statement Mutual Life OF New York shows
these facts Received policy holders since organization in
numbers ST. paid to policy holders or their beneCdeS
SS36OOOOOO still held trust policy holders S539000OO0 ex
benefits to policy holders amount received from them
100000 Margin of above policy liabilities soCdd
surplus 5OOOOOO larger and percentage of income used for ex
pense 1908 smaller than Whdny other company Annual dividend
STALE on both old and raised four times in four years
ROYDEN w. CHENEY.
Assistant Manager.
Avenue House, St. JOhnSbury VT
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26

service and gives comparatively, so little
in return and the best educational re-
suits cannot thus be secured.-[ Ludlow
| Tribune.
On this important matter OF proper
compensation for school teachers YER
mont progresses away from the stan
dards of pioneer days with the celebrity of
frozen molasses. Farm hands, mechan-
les, clerks in stores and employees in other
trades and lines of business in the state
have seen their wages gradually increas-
ed so that they now have comparative
rank with the workers in similar lines in
other commonwealth, but in paying
the educational instructor, the moulders
of the minds of the growing generation
we cling to the ideas inherited from days
when the teacher of the district school
"boarded round" and shivered in the at
tic chamber.- Bennington Banner.
Vermont College Endowments.
The three degree-giving educational
institutions of Vermont are getting on
their feet, so to speak in a financial
meaning, thanks to wealthy individual
we'll wishers and collective subscribers of
smaller amounts to endowment funds.
The university of Vermont, although
still far short of the halfmillion mark,
is nevertheless making some progress
toward its ambition, and the amount
already subscribed will add materially to
the work which the university is able
to do. Middlebury college has just made
a whirlwind attack on the individual
pocketbook of it's friends and, coupled
with a.generous gift of DR.. D. K. Pear
sons, has collected a clean 100000
towardits betterment. Now comes Nor
witch university with the receipt of
100000 bequest previously noted
from Col. Curtis S. Barrett's estate.
Col. Barrett was Vermonter and for
mer student of Norwich, and his fine be-
queathment indicates what strong hold
the institution and his state had upon
him.
None of these recent accretions to their
former endowments was large, but still
of sufficient Importance to materially in
crease the possibility of all three institu-
tons. There ought to be much more
coming to all three of them later on
Barre Times.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26
TERMS OF THE CALIFORNIAN.

Entered at the St. Johnsbury post office as
second-class mail matter.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26

Engineers are at work on the
line between the Conn. river and
the Notch of the White Mountains,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26

Mrs. Elliott of Morgan, aged
90, has had II children, 80 grand
children and 80 great grand
children.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26
ut. bloomsbury Galrdunian
WEDNESDAY. MAY %. 1909.

Pythian Building, St. Johnsbury, Vermont
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26

In the Richmond market on
Monday 160 tubs OF butter were
sold, the prices paid ranging from
35 to SO cents per pound.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26

An ecclesiastical council was
held at the North church the 10Th
inst, called together by the action
OF its pastor. Rev. E. c. Cum
mings, in resigning his pastoral
office.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26

One year to any address, SI'29
Six months, 80
Three months, %
Ciergymen in Caledonia County, S1oo
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-05-26

Messrs. Randall & Son, drug
gists, are putting in marble
counters and black walnut
shelves. They are having a
nice thing.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-08-27
When Smartness Doesn't Pay

y London clorhier WAS never known
TO acknowledge that he didn't have
anything that Il customer might ask
for. One day Il customer entered the
shop and asked if he had any trousers
made especially for "a one-legged u
Certainly replied the merchant.
What kind Ito You WANT
Dress pants. The best you've got"
said the msn.
Hurrying to- the rear of the shop the
enterprising merchant siezed Il pair of
trousers and shipped off the right leg
with Il pair of shears. Hastily turning
under the edges he presented them to
the customer.
That's the kind | want. What's the
price,
Thirty shillings."
We'll give me a pair with the left leg
of"
y month later the clothicr WAS pro.
nounced cunvalescent and OH the right
road to recovery.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-08-27
Silver Slab Exhibited

The finest single specimen that has
arrived ~ yet for the Mining Congress
exhibit, is Il slab that came in Saturday
from Austin. from the 700. foot level of
the famous Frost shaft-ncar the June.
ton of the shaft aud the tunnel Of Aus .
tin Manhattan mine.
The slab is some 30 inches In length,
averages six inches in thickness and IL
nearly two feet wide. The official dc.
scriptiOn is '~stGphanito, pyratgyritc.
prousitc, and ioditc." IL is II grayish
colorcd slab Of stone, with dark colorcd
parallel bands, with II stccly glitter.
weighs $50 pounds, and carries silver at
the rate Of more than 1000 ounces Ia tho
ton.
The silver fairly stands ont Un II. and
it IL a striking example Of tho orc that
made Austin famous in the early lays.
II also represents the tho character of
much of the ore Of the old Constock
] tdc and will bring rccOllcctions of tho
old dayst0 many Of the old timers who
remember the early days N Austin, yir.
ginia City and other old camps of the
state.
Some fine exhibits arrived yesterday
and today from a number Of districts.
There is II fine display uf copper and
lead ore from Sodavillc; copper ore
from Ida; gold and silver from Horn.
silver; gold orc from Ramsey; cinnabar
from Bonita; and rich ORE from tho
Luckyboy.
There are also u number Of shipments
that have not yet been unpacked. DO.
nanZn.
Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1909-08-27
Coming Back From Spirit Land

While all the relatives except the
father of Mrs. Mary Olcson of Marshal.
town, who had passed beyond before.
were gathered about her bedside and
supposed from her appearance that she
had Just died. she raised her head. OPP
cncd her eyes and said:
I'm not dead. I've come back. But
I'm going Dol saw the golden gate
and the angels. and was in papa's
arms"
And then she sank back upon the
pillow and in another minute she was
gone.
lips of the dying to make. No one can
tell how many thousands have had and
Just before death been able to describe
IA similar experience. But in every
such report it is of cngrossing interest.
The whole world catches with avidity
at anything that purports to bc a
glimpse of the other world. And every
time such a circumstance us that of Mrs.
'|' ON'''Hs w WI INtSllbl hllt"
what il signifies.
BY some. such testimony is taken at
It's full face value as conclusive evidence
Of the existence of n spiritual world.
Others oppose to this the theory that
these visions are but immaginings Of
dclirium. or that they are due to the
concentrated suggestions Of u lifetime
upon minds made peculiarly susceptible
to such impressions 10y the progress of
disease and the near approach of dissc-
luton.
Neither of those who interpret the
phenomenon recorded ut Marshalltown
ns Il reality nor those who regard il as a
suggestion or tclapathy can Inc assisted
IN their convictions by tho result Of the
recent and still continuing research in
the realm Of the occult. For while this
investigation has increased the proba.
bility that the mind may receive i'm.
nrcssions Of mundane origin IL
has made many phenomena applicable
by suggestion and tclnpathy that were
considered incSpliCablc without the al.
mission of extra mundane agency. St.
Joseph Observer.