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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28
ArbOr Day Proclamation.

The custom of setting apart a dav in
each year, to be known as Arbor dav, is
a wise and profitable one, for it serves to
bring to the attention of the public the
Importance of the great questions of
forestry, which are so vital to the well
| fare OF our state
1t should be the purpose of this day to
give instruction in these matters and to
stimulate an interest in them to the end
that we may all better understand the
true value of our forests, the best
methods of planting trees for shade and
OF identifying our parks and private
grounds.
The indiscriminate cutting of our
forests without any attempt at preserv-
ing the smaller growth of our valuable
trees is fast destroying the supply of
lumber, as we'll as diminishing our water
resources, and will soon create condi-
ton which will be most unfortunate.
Our state has taken long step for
ward by securing the services of an
expert forester. Let us follow his teach
lngs and thus preserve rather than des-
troy our forests.
This year-being the three hundredth
anniversary of the discovery of Lake
Champlain by Samuel de Champlain-a
celebration in commemoration of this
great historical event is to be held during
the week beginning July fourth, and all
should join to make this week one long
to be remembered.
When Champlain first beheld our
beautiful lake, its shores were covered
with dense forests, and he, being lover
OF nature, speaks in his narrative of the
magnificent pines which he saw.
What, therefore, can be more fitting
than to plant trees in honor of this
great discover?
The custom of observing Arbor dav
should be encouraged and perpetuated.
Therefore, | designate Friday, Nav the
seventh, A. D. 1909, as Champlain Ar
3or day, and recommend that on that
day appropriate exercises be held in our
and that individuals, societies
ana schools plant, at least, one tree, to
De known as Champlain tree.
Given under my hand and the seal of
me state at Newport. this 18th day of
april, IN the year of our Lord one
-housand nine hundred nine and of the
Independence of the United States the
'ne hundred thirty-third.
GEORGE H. PRoUTY.
BY the governor:
AARON H. CIRCUIT.
secretary OF Civil and Military Affairs.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28
Middlebury College Summer Session.

That Vermont does not propose to re.
main behind other states in educational
matters is evidenced by the announce
ment of Middlebury College of its sum-
mer session to be held July 9th to
August 18th. A faculty of % has been
secured, and As courses will be offered.
These will not be confined to the old line
OF academic instruction, but will include
courses in domestic science and house
hold management, physical education,
illustrative drawing, metalcraft, pottery
and plastic art, wood carving, etc.
Several courses in biblical literature,
philosophy, and christian doctrine will
appeal to ministers and Sunday school
teachers. In recognition Of the appropri-
alton made by the last legislature, tut
ton will be free to teachers in Vermont,
and also to clergymen of the state. The
tuition for Others will be $40. Economi-
cal boarding arrangements, including
rooms and board for men and women
in the college dormitories, have been
arranged. A special feature of the ses-
sion will be series of popular lectures
by leading educators and other eminent
men. Mlddlebury is an ideal place for
summer session, and it may be hoped
that the attractiveness of Vermont as a
vacation resort will become more widely
known through this new departure of
the college. Dean Walter E. Howard is
the director of the session, and has all
the arrangements in charge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28

President Taft and the other by former
townsman. Judge Wendell p. Stafford.
The parishioners of St. Marks Cathe-
dral at Salt Lake City, Utah, are soon
to present to the Cathedral a memorial
pulpit of brass and black walnut, at an
expense Of about $500, as a memorial to
Rev. n. F. Putnam, who was for nine
years the rector there. Mr.. Putnam was
also the first rector of St. Andrews
church of this place.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28

The appointment of minister to Spain
came to our distinguished townsman un-
sought and unexpected and was the re-
suit of an interview at the White House
soon after President Taft was inaugural
ed. The President was kind enough to
say that he considered Gov. Ide an asset
rather than liability of the present adj
ministration and then gave him his
choice of several attractive foreign APP
pointments. Gov Ide selected the court
OF Madrid and the President immediate.
ly made the appointment. Minister Ide
follows long line of distinguished diplo-
mats at the Spanish court including
Washington Irving and many others OF
lesser fame.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28
YOUNG MEN WANTED.
United States Government Gives Railway
Mail Clerks $500 Year to Start,
and Increases to $1,000

Uncle Sam will hold an examination
for Railway Mail Clerks in St. Johnsburv
and throughout the United States on
May Is. Many ambitious young men
with only very ordinary school educa.
ton, can readily pass. The government
wants young men over Is with common
sense, to take examinations for railway
mail clerks and carriers, and the Govern.
ment Positions Bureau, of Rochester, n.
y, with its peculiar knowledge of the re-
quirements of the examination, can fit
any young man in short time to pass
A government position means steady
work, good pay, and yearly vacation.
There is time to prepare for the May Is
examinations, and any reader of the
CALIFORNIAN can get full information
how to proceed, free of charge, by writ.
ing The Government Positions Bureau.
$40 Powers Block, Rochester n. Y.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28
TO DAM CONNECTICUT.
Chicago Capitalists Planning to Build
Three Dams between Littleton and
Monroe.

Monroe.
A power project of st upendous proper.
tons is being promoted by Chicago men,
involving the construction of three dams
on the Connecticut river by which more
than 5000 horse power would be gener-
ated, and the expenditure of between
$4,000 900 and 100000. C.E. Ever.
EFT OF Chicago, presenting capitalists in
Chicago and New York, is the promoter
in charge of the project, and he is firm in
the belief that no such power opportuni-
ty is lying idle in all New England as
exists on the Connecticut river between
Dalton and Monroe.
The plan contempates the erection of
three dams, one of which will be 16O feet
high, claimed to be higher than any
other dam in the country, while the
second will be about 100 feet and the
third about 80 feet. The first, and big
gest dam, will be built across the river
at Monroe, where there is a natural
gorge. tor the foundation of the big dam.
This dam alone would probably cost at
least $2,000,000. The second dam
would be located at Lower Waterford.
and the third at North Littleton, so
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28

The CALIFORNIAN was much gratihed
by letter from the secretary of the pen
sion committee of the Boston and Maine
system thanking this paper tor printing
the pension bill now before the Massa-
chusetts House. The secretary, Mr..
Bedell, said your paper reaches large
following of our employees and the article
in question will do a whole lot in the
way of educational and missionary
work -
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28
ready to welcome and take care of them.
- Hartford, CT, Courant.
A Minimum Salary Rate.

In fixing a minimum figure of 5000 pei
year as the salary for a Methodist
minister, the Troy Conference took q
departure not without significance The
step means that preacher shall be as
sured of a decent living and that the
church that cannot find the stated
amount Tor a preachers support need
not apply.
All this is not only evidence that the
management of religious enterprises is
! approaching business goal, even if such
| a course must diverge from landmarks
established by sentimental and doctr-
nal differences. The effect cannot be
otherwise than favorable to a rational
federation of denominations. Metho-
dist church, for instance, which cannot
raise the minimum salary, is more likely
to combine its spiritual interests with
those of some other denomination in the
same town, thereby to share in much
more effective accomplishment, than if it
could worry along with underpaid and
Indifferent pastoral leadership.
Further, the step ought to be benehci-
al in deterring from entering the minis
try young men whose limitations CON
denim them in advance to mediocre rank
in the preaching profession. The $500
minimum mark advertises a position in
which that sum must be earned as we'll
as received, because under such restric-
ton, the law of natural selection will
become operative to certainty. This
should mean the raising of the standard
1f work in one OF the great professions.
On the whole, then, the action of the
Troy Conference seems to be one that |
,ther conferences and other denomina-
ions may properly consider most ex-
client example to follow Burlington
Upper.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28

A delightful article in the April Century
on the late Joel Chandler Harris states
the great story teller's position on the
temperance question. When the pro-
hibxion wave was sweeping over
Atlanta he remarked on the street one
day that about the only way to secure
prohibition in city was for leach man
to organize prohibition society in his
own gizzard."
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28
The Lake Champlain Historical
Booklet.

1t is evident that the proposed celebra
} ton Of the 300th anniversary of the dis
covery of Lake Champlain and of Yer
mont by Samuel Champlain, to be cele.
brated in the Champlain valley during
the week of July 4th and beginning on
that date, will be an unqualified success.
Unless all signs fail it will be the greatest
event ever promulgated in this state.
The Lake Champlain Commission have
just issued, through the Capitol City
Pass, Montpelier, an edition of $4,000
booklets for free distribution among
the school children of Vermont. This
booklet contains thirty odd pages, and
was prepared by Horace W. Bailey of
Newbury, one of the Commissioners. 1t
contains in every page, matter of histori-
cal interest relating to Lake Champlain
and the Champlain valley, written in
short sketches. easy of comprehension by |
the boys andgirls composing the member
ship OF our schools; and Of great interest
to lovers of Vermont history, citizens at
home and friends abroad. To know the
author would be to PREJUDICE his work as
exceedingly loyal to his native state,
and no one will be disappointed.
The commission, cooperating with the
state department of education. selected
Mr. Bailey for this work which has been
conscientiously performed without COM
except the pleasure generous
soul may reap from the knowledge of
having done good thing for his fellow
men.
The Booklet contains on its cover a
nap of Lake Champlain drawn by John
'ixley Clement of the Rutland High
school.
The Champlain Arbor Day Proclama-
ion by the Governor. {
A Foreword.
Dedication.
Biographical Sketch of Champlain. $
,hamplain's Narrative of the discovery of /
he Lake of Vermont, and of his battle I
With the lroquois. :
A Sketch of Lake Champlain. ,
Followed by brief historical Sketches k
IF Isle LaMotte, Crown Point, Fort I'll t
onderoga, Burlington, Vergennes, AL :
urgh, St Adams and Swanton. Mr..
ALLEY also treats some of the historical
uestions in dispute, and describes the :,
ledals designed for distribution among !,
he school children. The booklet also G
ontains a brief, well told, history of the o
elebraton in it's various stages, the P
allure OF the celebration, the places and -
ates where the principal events will g
axe place. A program for the use of t
'hools is suggested for Champain Arbor q
ay MAY y and the planting of ~
hamplan Tree. The climax is reached 81
y patriotic poem by Rev. A. J. Hough. il
This little unpretentious booklet is a st
-rong factor in Vermont history, breath :,
lg in its every line pure patriotic senti- q
lent. The commission will retain for T
S own use another edition of this book.
t and copies can be had, postage paid
n 20 cents by applying to Lynn NJ. D
-ays, Secretary, Burlington, Vt. The b
nds derived from this sale will be added &C
} the Champlain Memorial Fund. ~
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28
Vermont Personals.

twill be of interest to many people
here to know that a dinner is being
arranged for by the city of Washington,
D. c. for the President, at which only
two addresses will be made, one by
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28

unfair to say that it was succeeded by
the sound Of gurgling, however.
Although Senator Page insisted that
his sugar was pure and Senator Bradley
that there was mot a headache in a
barrel of his whiskey, subj" Senator Cal,
linger as the only real physician in the
senate is fearful of the consequences to
senatorial stomachs growing out of the
combination.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28

1t is pure! The sealed lead packets of
"Salada" guarantee you tea free from
artificial coloring matter, dust, dirt and
all foreign substances. Ask your gro.
Ger for it.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28
ut. 9uhnshur. Galrdunian
TERMS OLE TIE cALEpoNIAN.

Entered at the St. Johnsbury post office as
second-class mail matter.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-04-28
A Model Accounting System.

THE CALEDONIAN CO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-29
HE ROBBED THE SHERIFF
Floyd Brooks While Chained Plays a
Joke on Wi1kerson-

Sheriff John Wilkerson tells good
one on himself in connection with his
recent trip to Oklahoma after Floyd
Brooks, the boy who stole $500 from
his mother. Wilkerson went down at
night, and got no sleep. The next
day he started back with his prison
er, and decided to take little snooze
So he produced pair of handouts.
locked one to his own wrist and the
other to the wrist of his prisoner, hid
the key where Brooks could not get
it without waking him, and dropped
off" When he awoke, the boy was
still attached. and seemed to be en-
joying the ride. He was landed at
the county Jail. and then Wilkerson
proceeded to check off the effects of
, the prisoner. who had been stripped
of personal property at the time OF
his arrest. The collection of pocket
knives and other small trinkets did
not tally with Wilkerson's list. A
little dollar watch. purchased by
Brooks before leaving Topeka, was
missing. The sheriff took long
think, and then went up to the cell
room where Brooks was confined. AS
he suspected, Brooks had sold the
watch to a fellow prisoner.
While Wilkerson slept, Brooks, who
seems to be one of the born, not
| made kind. reached out his loose
hand, opened the sheriff's valise, ex-
tracted the pet watch and tucked 1t
into his shoe. AS slick piece OF
larceny. Wilkerson considers it the
| best he ever heard of.
Mrs. Ida Bailey, mother of the boy,
who was so anxious to have him ar
rested, now desires to back out. But
she wants her money. Wilkerson
| captured the boy before he had a
chance to spend all the money, and
recovered $3.50 of the $780, Mrs.
Bailey wants the money all right. but
the county attorney says she cannot
have it until the boy is tried for theft.
If she fails to prosecute. as she prom
ised to do, the expense of capturing
the boy, about $50, will be deducted
| from the recovered Wad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-29
CHICAGO FANS REJOICE.
Over Announcement of Pitcher
Waish'S Return.

Chicago, April i229.-Faithful fol-
lowers of the Chicago American
league team are frantic with joy over
the report from Meriden, Conn, that
Pitcher Edward Walsh is on the way
west to begin his seasons work He
will hold a conference Immediately
upon his arrival with President
Comiskey and Manager Sullivan, and
the salary question, which has been
the cause of his failure to report
hitherto, will probably result in a
compromise
President Comiskey has not heard
from the pitcher. since February.
Walsh was holding out for salary of
$500. He was given a substantial
bonus for his great work of last sea-
son and Comiskey evidently thought
he would be content with this and
the prospect of another one at the
end of another seasons toll.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-29
FOR LONG Time LEASE.
Rentals for Term VIII Amount to
Seventy Million Dollars.

New York, April 29.-what is said
to be one of the most important realty
deals in recent years has been COM
pleted by the firm of Gimbel Brothers
OF Philadelphia, which signed a lease
for the property on Broadway be-
tween Thirty-second and Thirty-third
streets on which they will at once
commence the building of a depart
ment store. For the first 81 years
of the lease the total rentals will
amount to more than 100000 net
This, and four subsequent twenty-one
year terms making the lease extend
over period of los years, will
obligate the leases to make a total
payment of sixty million or seventy
million dollars in rentals alone ex-
elusive of taxes and other charges.
The property covers 5000 square feet,
or thirty-two city lots.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-29
GAGGED THE BABY.
Geraldine Farrar Is Accused of Stiff
ling the Little ones Cries.

Pittsburg, Pa. April 29.-An Incl
dent not on the bill of Madame But
terny' occurred at the Nixon theater
with Miss Geraldine Farrar in the
leading role. Miss Farrar stands ac-
cused by many women in Pittsburg of
mistreating a baby on the stage, while
she was singing and the grand opera
star is Frustrated at Hotel Schenley
over the storm of adverse criticism
raised. The mother of Miss Farrar
says there was no mistreatment of the
baby carried by her daughter. but
many in the audience will not believe
this.
An infant had been borrowed by
the theater management for the use
of Miss Farrar, who had the part of
Butterfly. The baby seemed restless
in the arms of Miss Farrar and as she
reached a high note it let out a lusty
discordant yell followed by repeated
cries. What happened Immediately
after perhaps will always be in dis
pute. The major part of the audience
however, assert that Miss Farrar
clapped her hand over the mouth of
the infant hushing its cries, while she
sang on and a moment later put it un-
der the folds of her kimono ANY,
way its cries were suddenly stilled
, Many women left the theater.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-29
BEATEN and ROBBED.
Brutal Daylight Highwaymen All but
Murder John G. Hayes.

New York, April 29.--John G. Hayes,
superintendent of the Peoples Coal
company of Scranton, Pa, was at
tackled by two highwaymen in East
Eighteenth street before daylight to-
day and was so brutally beaten while
being robbed, that doctors in Bellevue
hospital say his condition is serious.
After being knocked unconscious with
a club and kicked until his face and
body were badly lacerated and bruis-
ed the footpads hurled him to the
bottom of a basement areaway. There
he was found some time later by ten
ants of the house who heard his
groans. The thieves obtained a gold
watch, a $500 diamond ring and fifty
dollars in cash. Mr.. Hayes was in
New York on business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-29
TO MEET OLD BOARDERS
Mrs. Judge Cochran Has Asked For
mer Patrons to Banquet.

New York, April 29.-The widow of
Judge Cochran. formerly of Arch
street. Pittsburg, will tomorrow after
noon hold reunion of the men who
were boarders in her Pittsburg home
fifteen and twenty years ago. The re-
union and dinner will be at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. E. c. Seamen in
West Thirty street, New York.
When Mother" Cochran conducted
the boarding house in Pittsburg most
of her boarders were railroad clerks
in humbe positions. Those who Will
have dinner with her tomorrow have
attained distinguished positions since
then. They are: T. w. Gallagher,
general freight agent of the Ba1ti-
more & Ohio railroad, with head
quarters in Baltimore; T. G. Smiley,
general freight agent of the Western
Maryland at Baltimore; Oscar A:
Constans, general freight agent of
the Baltimore & Ohio at Pittsburg;
F. F. Rowland. traffic manager OF
the Brunswick Steamship company In
New York, and j. F. Constans. gen.
eral freight agent of the Chicago,
Peoria & ST. Louis railroad at Pitts
burg.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-29
FEAR LEGISLATION.
Lobby to Protect Against Railroad
Measures at This Time.

Chicago, April ga large party
of Chicago manufacturers and mer-
chants has left for Springfield for the
purpose of influencing the legislature
to take no action on any of the bills
affecting railroads now before the two
houses.
The argument they will use is that
the recent panic threw 100000 men
engaged in the manufa cturer of rail-
road supplies in this state out of work,
and that, while business has improved
sufficiently to admit of 100000 of
them being taken back. the situation
is still SO delicate that return to
normal conditions will be seriously
retarded by adverse legislation.
The trip was arranged by the Rail-
way Business association, a national
organization of manufacturers of rail-
road material, equipment and sup
plies and contractors in railway con-
StructiOn