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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-02-10
A Lincoln Letter.

The CALEDoNIAS presents to its readers
this week in fitting recognition of the
centennial of Lincoln's birth a letter
which was found by Walter w. Husband
and which we believe is now published
for the first time. 1t is the commission
to Major General H ooker to succeed Cen
Burnside and contains much good advice
as well as friendly spirit of criticism.
1t is most interesting sidelight on
those strenuous times and also shows
the great burden OF responsibility which
President Lincoln had to carry. The let
ter here follows:
Jan, &c, 1868
MAJOR GENERAL HOOKER,
GENERAL:
l have placed you at the head of the
army OF the Potomac. Of course have
done this upon what appear to me sui
fclent reasons, and yet think it best for
you to know that there are some things
IN regard to which | am not quite satis-
fed with you believe you to be a
brave and skilful soldier, which of course
like. | also believe you do not mix
politic' with your profession, in which
you are right. You have confidence in
yourself, which is valuable if not ndis.
pensable quality. You are ambitious,
Which, within reasonable bounds, does
good rather than harm; but think that
during Gen. Burnside's command of the
army you have taken counsel Of your
ambition, and thwarted him as much as
you could, in which YOU did a great
wrong to the country and to a most
merltorious and honorable brother
officer. have heard in such way as
to believe it, OF your recently saying that
both the army and the government need
ed dictator. OF course it was not for
this, but in spite OF it, that have given
you the command. Only those generals
who gam success can set up as dictators
What now ask OF you is military sue
cess, and | will risk the dictatorship.
The Government will support you to the
utmost Of its ability, which is neither
more nor less than it has done and will
dofor all commanders. much fear that
the spirit which you have aided to iniuse
into the army, of crticizing their com
mander and Withholding confidence from
him, will now turn upon you. will as
sist you as far as can to put it down.
Neither you nor Napoleon, were he alive
again, could get any good out of an
army whlt such spirit prevails in it,
And now, beware OF rashnessl Beware
OF rashness But with energy and sleep
less vigilance 90 forward and give US
victories.
Yours very truly,
A. LINCOLN.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-02-10

The gift has been applied to repairing
the building 1t is all clean now with
fresh calcimine and paint and vanished
desks. The rest of the money will go
towards the new dormitory and its site.
We greatly need this dormitory, because
there are many young men and women
who live in small towns or on ranches
far from the cities, and can have at best
only an education received from schools
of lower grades, unless they go away
from home In all Utah there are very
few high schools. There is no city high
school in Proto.
am so glad you are interested in and
care for Proctor Academy. If you were
here and could see the influence it has
had here, your interest would increase,
and you would be glad for everything
you had ever done to give life to this
good school
Yours in the Masters service,
MARY DREW
= From Vermont Missionary.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-02-10
Lincoln Dreaded to Punish.

The attitude of President Lincoln
toward the death penalty in the army is
one which army men and civilians have
never ceased to discuss. Lucius f. Chit
tender, in his introduction to Lincoln
and the Sleeping Sentinel" the little
volume which the Harpers have just
printed, narrates how the gentle Presi-
dent shrank from confirming a death
sentence as if it were a murder by his
own hand They say that destroy
all discipline, and am cruel to the army
when now and then | will not let them
shoot a soldier" said Lincoln once, but
| cannot see it. If God wanted me to
see it He would let me, and until He
does shall go pardoning and being
cruel to the end" An old friend calling
upon the President by appointment
found him with pile of court-martial
records before him. GO away, SWEET ="
he exclaimed. with intense impatience.
Tomorrow is butcherng day, and |
will not be interrupted until have
found excuses for saving the lives of
these poor fellows"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-02-10
HOWe'S Moving Pictures.

We may read in newspapers what goes
on in every corner of the globe. but at
Lyman H. Howe's Lifeorama seen at
New Music Hall on Thursday evening
the spectators actually can see what
goes on. The new program chronicles
in pictures the facts and events OF last
month-last week--of yesterday. For
instance it illustrates the last Grand
Prix automobile race at Dieppe prob
ably the last the French government
will ever permit. The fatalities, the
maddening speed of cars hurlirg them
selves around the most dangerous
curves, the dare-deviltry of drivers
playing momentarily with DEATH make
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-02-10

The many friends in this section of
Congressman Samuel w. Mccall of Mas
sachusetts, are interested to know that
he is still considering the offer made him
OF the presidency of Dartmouth College.
The trustees do not require final deci-
sion until early next summer. The offer
comprises a salary OF $4,000 year and
a residence Mccall is one of the most
brilliant men in the Republican party
and most influential member of the
House of Representatives. Mrs. Mccall
was Lyndon woman so the decision of
her husband interests many persons in
this community.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-02-10
All In the Same Box.

Lincoln Steffens, the master muckraker,
is quoted as saying in recent address in
the city of Boston: "In Rhode Island l
found corruption from the top to the
bottom and from the bottom to the top.
Worst of all the people themselves in
that state are bad. New Hampshire,
Vermont and Connecticut are worse
than Rhode Island. Finally l had to
give New England up in despair" 'Tis
indeed sad, sad plight in which we find
ourselves. And it's about as the Spring
field Union says: "If Mr. Steffens cannot
point the way to salvation where may
the people OF these states seek regenera-
tion?" The only consolation is that if
we're all bad we ought at least to be a
congenial bunch of reprobates.-[ Brat
tleboro Reformer.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-02-10

this feature of the new program one of
breathless interest. 1t is spectacular in
the extreme. With cars skidding at all
angles, overturning, crashing through
fences or shooting Spast the camera with
the speed of an arrow, the picture can be
relied on Tor all the thrills it implies.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-02-10
To Rout tuberculosis,

The Vermont board of health is pre-
pairing to do thoroughly a most useful
service this year in having a travelling
tuberculosis exhibit in Vermont The
exhibit will include maps of the state
showing the distribution of the disease
in localities, model house porches for
tuberculosis patients to sleep on, models
of open windows, etc The exhibit
accompanied by lectures, is designed to
be, and will be, most effective way of
giving the people practical information
as to tuberculosis, its prevention and
cure. The prosecution Of the campaign
all through The state will see, soon or
late, the archrenemy, the White Plague,
in full rout = Rutland News.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-14
ETHAN ALLEN HITCHCOCK DEAD.
Secretary Of the Interior Under Nc
kinley and Roosevelt Has Passed
Away, Aged "a Years.

Washington, D. c., April 9.-Ethan
Allen Hitchcock, Secretary of the In
terror under Presidents Mckinley and
Roosevelt, died here this morning at
II o'clock, aged "a. He had been crit
ically i'll for several days, and his
death was not unexpected.
Mr.. Hitchcock had been ill for some
weeks. He contracted a severe cold
while in the West and as his condi-
ton became more serious he hurried
o Washington to place himself in the
hands of specialists who had ATTENDED
him during his official career here. He
suffered from complication of kid
ney, heart and pulmonary diseases
Ever since he reached here he has
been confined to his bed and constant
| ly attended by his physicians and
trained nurse. His condition had be-
come steadily worse during the past
few days and last night all hope OF
his recovery was abandoned. His
strength had become exhausted, his
advanced age had prevented any rally
through the early morning hours and
death had been momentarily expected
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-14
Tribute Paid to Dead Man.

New York, April 9.-Flags flying at
half-mast above the city hall and po-
lice headquarters today marked the
arrival on the steamer Slavonia of the
body of Lieutenant Petrosino, of the
New York police department, who was
while engaged in a specially impor-
tant task of protecting America
against Sicilian criminals The police
department, city officials, Italian, Ital-
ian societies and citizens will unite
in giving further expression of trib-
ute to Petrosino on Monday, when his
funeral will be held.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-14
DEMOCRACY'S POSITION.
Senator Taylor Takes Stand for the
South.

'tI have been battling for 5U years
for Democratic tariff principles and |
would not surrender one jot at this
late day. The Republican party has
fastened this pernicious method of
taxation on the country and if it must
continue / am only pleading that there
be no discrimination against the
South
Senator Robert E. Taylor of Tennes-
see stated the above when asked
about the attitude of the Senate mi
nority in the forthcoming tariff fight
The Tennessee senator's views are in
accord with those of nearly the entire
Democratic membership in the upper
branch Of Congress.
"When the Republican party" add
| ed the senator, places a high tariff
on manufactured articles and allows
the raw material to come in free, it is
simply taking the cream from the
South for the enrichment of other sec
tions of the country and giving us nc
benefit whatever. We of the Soutl
have borne more than our share o1
the burdens and we want our share o
the blessings. 1t will be the aim o
the Democrats to equalize the duties
and stand firmly against sectionalisn
in the tariff bi1l''
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-14
'''.. '....,QUO" CASTRO.
Where Will He Next Turn
Up?
He Doubtless Now Realizes That He
Is a Man Without Country,
and That the Paths of
Glory Lead But To
the Grave.

Fort de France, April 10.-Cipriano
ignominiously expelled tonight from
the island of Martinique by the French
government. He protested to the last
against his expulsion, but his pro-
tests were in vain. He is now on
board the French line steamship Yer
sailles bound for ST. Nazaire, France
Official notice was served on Castro
this morning of the decision of the
French government that he must
leave the island of Martinique within
nine hours from the receipt of such
notice, and that the commissary OF
police at Fort de France had been
charged with the execution of the or
der. The ex-president was furious
out the day for some excuse that
would be satisfactory, whereby he
would not be compelled to obey the
order, and to this end late in the day
he summoned a lawyer and physician
to certify that he was unable to leave
the country.
The governor of Martinique and the
public prosecutor, however, refused al
extension of the time, and about
o'clock the commissary of police, ac-
companied by a large force of gen
darmes, proceeded to the hotel where
Castro was stopping to remove him
forcibly, if necessary, to the steamer
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-14
FLORAL FEATURE OF THE 10Th.
Will Excel Anything of Its Kind Ever
Before Attempted in Charlotte.

Charlotte, N. c., April 12.-The flo
raj parade on Taft Day" during the
Twentieth of May celebration in this
city will excel anything of it's kind
ever before attempted in this city. Mr.
H. C. Long, who is the chairman of
this committee, has secured the con-
sent of the regents and chairman of
the local chapters of the Daughters of
the American Revolution, the Daugh-
ters and Children of the Confederacy
and the Colonial Danes to participate.
A general invitation will be extended
to out-of-town members of these or
CARNATIONS to participate, also attrac-
tive prizes will be offered for the best
decorated vehicle Or automobile.
The Industrial and commercial pa
rade of handsomely decorated floats
on May 20 will be a special feature OF
the celebration.
The committee of this parade asks
any parties who desire to have a float
to write them at once so as that full
information may be sent them. 1t il
Iprobable that some 80 or 40 floats will
Icompete for the prizes that are beins
offered and it will be an opportunit,
for advertising rarely equalled in tn,
State.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-14
EASTER SUNDAY.

A Day of Natures Smiles and Church
observance and Church-GOing in
GoldsbOrO.
Yesterday was an ideal Easter, and
gloriously was it observed in the
churches of Goldsboro and by church
goers. 1t was a cloudless day, and
newborn leaves and bursting buds
and full-bloom flowers breathed from
every bow and fragile stem the mes
sage of Immortality, while, too, upon
the graves of loved ones i'll the ceme-
terry the fragrant floral tributes
breathed of faith in the resurrection.
Indeed, it is upon His victory over the
grave that the faith of countless mill
lions rest. Out Of His triumph over
death has come solace to troubled
hearts since that far period when
those who came early to the sepul-
chre found the stone rolled away and
heard the announcement, "He has ris-
en- as He said" Without this assur-
ance-without this faith, what would
life be?
Answering the doubts that arose in
the minds of some of the Corinthians,
as to the resurrection of the dead, St.
Paul said: eff there be no resurrec-
ton of the dead, then is Christ not
risen; and if Christ be not risen, then
is our preaching vain, and your faith
also vain
R01I hot
sage in which is described the glory
that is to follow the transformation of
the body as it passes from the life
that now is unto the life that is to
come. No doubt rested in the mind of
St. Paul, once the unbelieving Saul,
nor is there doubt in the hearts of the
faithful throughout the world today.
They know that He has risen and that
He is able to raise up those who COM
NIT their way unto Him.
So the glory of this Easter morning
is never clouded by doubt nor marred
by unbelief. Every flower that smiles
from it's stem, every blade that bends
to the breeze, bears testimony of Him
who loosed the bonds of death and
prepared the way to "the city not
made by hands, eternal in the heav-
ems"
81 co." he said, "to prepare a place
for you. And if I go and prepare a
place for you, 1 will come again and
receive you unto myself; that where
am there you may be also"
Hence Christians rejoice in the
newer, fuller realization at Easter OF
the fact that, though mortal, they are
troubled at times and burdened, they
are to find peace and rest and are to
enjoy again the love and companion
ship of those who have gone before.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-14
DEATH OF SWINBURN.
''FrOm Too Much Love of Living. From
Hope and Fear Set Free.o

London, April 1O.-Algernon Charles
Swinburne, the poet and essayist, died
this morning. He had been suffering
with influenza, which developed into
pneumonia.
Mr.. Swinburne took his customary
daily six-mile walk on his seventy-sec-
ond birthday, which occurred last
Monday. His entire household, in
Guiding Theodore Watts-Dunton, poet
and novelist, previously had been
prostrated with the influenza and later
Mr.. Swinburne himself was attacked
by the disease. Mr.. Watts-Dunton is
now on the way to recovery.
It is understood that Swinburna had
expressed the wish to be buried not
far from the sea. His body probably
will be inferred in the family vault on
the Isle of Wight. 1t is expected
however, that the dean and chanter OF
Westminster Abbey will offer a place
in the poets corner
| Algernon Charles Swinburne, known
as one of the first of the living Eng
lish poets, was born at London on rhe
9Th of April, 1887. His father, AG-
miral Charles Henry Swinburne, was
the son of Sir John Edward Swim
burne, the sixth baronet of that aris
tocratic house. His mother, Lady
Jane Henrietta Ashburnham, was tn,
daughter of the third earl of the hous,
of Ashburnham. Despite his nobl
blood and the position that he wa
lentitled to, he entered Balliol College
Oxford, as commoner at the age O
20. He did not remain there lon
enough, however, to take his degree
but went to Florence, where he spen
considerable time with the late Waite
Savage Landor
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-14
First Cotton Stalk Paper Mill.

Cordele, Ca, April 12.-Dirt was
broken here today on the first cotton
stalk paper mill ever erected. The
Southern Cotton Pulp and Paper Com
pany has been chartered, with a capt.
tai stock of $175 900, and the material
is on the ground.
The capacity of the plant will be 25
tons per day. About 40 tons of cotton
stalks will be consumed in making a
days output. News print paper will
be the principal product.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-14
Song, children Sing. "

Song, children Sing"
Pantomime, Nearer, My God. to
Thee"-Annie Smith, Mary Spence,
Eunice Taylor, Virginia Kendall and
Gertrude Griffin. The hymn was beau
tifully rendered by Miss Pearl Brinson
and Mr.. Leslie Yelverton.
1.-THE Day Star'-Heathen Mother,
Lucy Gray Gatling, and child, Mabel
Davis. Kings messengers, Alma Biz
zell, Blanche Moye, Roland Castex,
Ethel Lashley, Maggie Powell, Vann
Castex, Ethel Miller, Josephine Shan
non and Sallie Darden. Light Bearers,
Dorothy Allen, Evelyn Bass, Margaret
Edmundson, Elizabeth Simpkins. Es-
telle Powell, Kathleen Best, Katherine
and Grace Grantham.
Recitation, "a Million a Month Are
Dying''-Alta Perkins.
Recitation, Pennies, Nickels. 1imes S
and Dollars"-Bert Griffin.
Collection Miss Pearl Brinson sang
as an offertory "Vouchsafe, o Lord, .
etc
Doxology, Rev. E. H. Davis.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-14
MISSION SERVICES.
All This Week-Every Evening in
Mary's Catholic Church at arY IN.

Mars's cathollc churcn a, ,,Srsss ~~'
AS previously ats oed in The
Argus, there 1seun in St. Mary's
Catholic Church in this city last night
a mission, which is intended as an op-
portunity for all those seeking the
truth to learn the doctrine of this
church, whether they embrace it or
not.
Rev. Father Flemming, a priest of
the Paulist order of the Catholic
Church, will conduct the mission and
preacher rather expound the doc
trine of the church, AMI all non-Cath-
olics are cordially invited to hear him
every evening this week at 8 o'clock.
Nothing in Father Flemming's lee
lures will be said to wound the feel
ings of the adherents of any other
church.; neither will the doctrines or
tenets of other churches be assailed !;
but the doctrine of the Catholic
Church will be fully expounded, with
out reservation or equivocation, and
his hearers will be left to think it
over with all their doubts removed
and their consciences awakened to the
responsibility of individual salvation.
Father F1emming is profound
scholar, an earnest priest, an eloquent
preacher, an orator with the gracious
charm of unconscious power. His
opening sermon last night was as
beautiful and unjarring as a river OF
,c1 hon of CT
towards that eternity of enjoyment in
the approving presence of God to see
whose face is the reward of the faith
full
The real object of this mission is to
expound and explain Catholic doctrine
and practice. The subjects to be
discussed during the mission are the
following: Christ the Redeemer,'
Christ the Teacher" "Christ's
Church." 'Christ's Virgin Mother,
"Christ's Earthly Dwelling Place,
Holy Eucharist" "Christ's Hospital
(Purgatory), Christ's Remedy (Con-
fessionaD." Christ and the Bible"
A very interesting feature of this
mission will be the Question Box,
which box will be placed at the en-
trance of the church and into which
all are invited to place any writer
questions concerning the doctrines
and teachings of the Catholic Church
of which explanation may be desired
These questions will be answered eacf
evening before the lecture.
| the mission
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-14
Easter Social DOings.

Miss Mary Dortch entertained the
x Y q Club this morning at her
home. A feature of the occasion was
an Easter egg-hunt, Sallie Darden
winning the prize. Each guest was
presented with an Easter chick.
The guests present were Leah
Slaughter, Mary Michaux, Elizabeth
Dortch, Vann and Roland Castex, Lucy
Gray Gatling, Eunice Freeman, Sallie
Darden, Catherine Gulley, Eleanor
Morgan, Julia Allen and Ethel Miller
Refreshments were served
Virginia Allen gave an Easter egg
| friends Saturday afternoon, after
which refreshments were served.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-14
st. Mary's Catholic.

In ST. Mary's Catholic Church the
Easter floral decorations were superb
ly beautiful, and the altar at high
mass, with it's wealth of flowers and
burning candles was indescribably
beautiful and impressive. The cele-
brant was Father Price, of Raleigh,
and the choir was assisted in the al
ways grand music by Misses Estelle
and Essie Edwards and Mr.. Leslie
Ye1verton. The sermon was by Father
Flemming, and was an eloquent and
persuasive plea for christian living
to put on the armor of Him who is
as the eternal reward of the faith
full,
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-14
NO. 80
FLORIDIANS LYNCH NEGRO.
John Smith, Who Dragged Miss Nary
Steel Ewing From Her Buggy Two
Miles From Arcadia, is Taken Away
From the Sheriff and His Deputies
and Strung Up to a Tree.

Arcadia Fla, April 11.-John
Smith, the negro who yesterday drag
ged Miss Mary Steel Ewing from her
buggy, two miles from Arcadia, in an
attempt at criminal assault, was taken
away from the sheriff and his depu-
ties at an early hour this morning
and hanged to a tree.
The story of the attempted assault
is as follows:
Miss Ewing, who had been to the
city on a shopping tour, was return
ing to her home, four miles from the
city, when the negro sprang into the
buggy, seized Miss Ewing and dragged
her into the bushes, throwing her
iown and choking her. The young
woman begged, fought and prayed to
the black field to let her go and Of
fered to give him 500 in cash if he
would accompany her home, but Ills
did not stop the brute, who was about
to force his victim into submission,
when Miss Ewing, in her struggles,
saw Will Knowles and his brother
walking some distance from the scene
With renewed vigor she screamed and
this attracted the Knowles brothers
who rushed to her assistance The
brute made his escape and after TAX
ing Miss Ewing to her home, the
men rushed to this city, spread the
news and bloodhounds, followed by a
posse of three hundred men, were
soon on the trail The negro was
was found at turpentine camp, taken
before his victim who positively iden-
titled him. Sheriff Freeman and his
deputies succeeded in placing Smith
in Jail, but being afraid of an attack,
attempted to spirit the black brute
out of Arcadia when they were met
by an automobile party, held up and
forced to give up their prisoner.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-14
Coal Barons in COnclaye.

New York, April 12-Heads of the
coal trust met in executive session
here today to consider action to COM
pei the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea to again sign the agreement as to
wages, ETC.. which has been in effect
for the past three years.
In case the miners refuse to sign,
they are threatened with reduction in
wages, ten-hour day, and lockout.
Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-04-14
Death of William ID. Best.

William D. Best, a young business
man of Fremont, died Friday about
noon at his home in that place, aged
81 years. He had suffered from Sc
we're rheumatic attacks for some time.
Surviving are his wife, who is a
daughter of Mr.. John Dees, and a
child few months old, and several
brothers.
Funeral services were held at his
late home today at / O'Clock.