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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-02
The Horses PRAYER.

A request for large copies of, ssThe
Horses Prayer was received re-
Gently by the Massachusetts society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails from the metropolitan park
commissioners, who desired to frame
them and hang them in the park de-
partment stables.
Many of the large Boston mer-
chants have placed the prayer in con-
spicuous places in their work and
private stables.
Through the kindness of Police
Commissioner O'Meara and Acting Fire
Commissioner Carroll, it has been in
stalled in all of the police and fire
stations.
The prayer which was originated
by Francis H. Rowley, is as follows:
The Horses Prayer.
To Thee, My Master, I offer my
prayer: Feed me, water and care
for me, and, when the days work is
done, provide me with shelter, a
clean, dry bed and stall wide
enough for me to lie down in COM
fort.
Always be kind to me. Talk to
me. Your voice often means as much
to me as the reins. Pet me some
times, that I may serve you the more
gladly and learn to love you. DO not
jerk the reins, and do not whip me
when going up hill. Never strike,
beat or kick me when do not under
stand what you want, but give me a
chance to understand you. Watch
me, and if I fail to do your bidding,
see if something is not wrong with
my harness or feet.
Do not check me so that I cannot
have the free use of my head. If
you insist that I wear binders, so
that I cannot see behind me as it
was intended 1 should, I pray you be
careful that the binders stand we'll
out from my eyes.
Do not overload me, or hitch me
where water will drip on me. Keep
me well shod. Examine my teeth
when I do not eat; [ may have an I'LL
cerated tooth, and that, you know, is
very painful. Do not tie my head in
an unnatural position, or take away
my best defence against flies and
mosquitoes, by cutting off my tail.
I cannot tell you when / am
thirsty, so give me clean, cool water
often: Save me, by all means in your
power, from that fatal disease-the
CHAMBERS. I cannot tell you in words
when I am sick, so watch me, that
by signs you may know my condi-
ton. Give me all possible shelter
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-02
A Chance for Sanity.

Two recent occurrences in the con-
duct of large quasi public corpora
lions indicate that more intelligent
efforts may soon be made in the
regulation of 1.-The great interests"
of this country. One is the state
ment Of Charles S. Mellen, presi-
dent, of the Boston and Maine rail-
road to the people of New Hamp-
shire, and the other is the public
statement of the financial condition
of the Western Union Telegraph
Company. Speaking in Concord
Pres. Mellen said
We shall not interfere in any way
with the election of members of the
legislature, or of other public Off
GERS.
We shall not give or offer to any
public officer, directly or indirectly,
any consideration which shall tend
to influence him in the performance
of his public duties.
We shall do away with the lobby,
in the sense in which the term is
commonly used. We must, however,
employ the ablest talent we can Sc
cure to present to the legislature our
views upon pending legislation af-
fecting our company. At the end of
the next legislative session there will
be no complaint about the pernicious
activity of any lobby employed in our
interest.
Our business before your legisla-
ture will be in charge of our general
solicitor, E. J. Rich, who under
stands the changed policy of the
company, and is in hearty accord
with the same. I do not believe
either you or will have occasion to
criticise any act of his.
New Hampshire owes very much
of it's present business life to its rail-
roads New Hampshire's summer
business could not exist and conces-
sions by the railroads make many
of the states largest manufacturing
industries possible. So if the rail
road is willing to follow honorable
methods in it's dealings with the
state the people of the state certain
ly should deal fairly with the rail-
road.
The Western Union directors have
had new and complete appraisal
of all it's property made by expert
and disinterested accountants and
engineers in order that they might
know where they stood. The result
is that thes urplus reported as $751;
867,461.68 when the present man
agement secured control has been re-
duced to $5,136, 318.70. Further the
directors have made this fact public
together with full statement of it's
financial condition. This is a very
unusual proceeding on the part of
such corporation. But it is most
encouraging to know that the
directors are ready to take the
shareholders and the public into
their confidence and let them know
just how their business stands.
With two such powerful corporations
as these assuming their present
positions a responsibility has been
placed on the public of meeting them
half way and treating corporations in
a sane way.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-02
vermont's Two-FoId Remedy.

There is this point of difference
between the decline of the rural
population in the middle west and
the decline in Vermont; the loss in
the former is not due to the aban-
donment of agricultural pursuits or
the disuse of land, but rather to the
development of machinery, which
cuts down the number of farm-hands
needed to carry on the farms, while
in Vermont the loss is accounted for
largely by the abandonment of
farms. Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Iowa,
Indiana, and Missouri all show the
same proportion of decrease in rural
sections as does Vermont. 1t is
pointed out that the remedy for loss
ofpopulation in the middle west states
is more intensive farming, such as
market gardening, horticulture and
viniculture, the conduct of which
does not permit the general use of
machinery, because the processes, as
the New York globe says, are too
varied and delicate for machinery
more farm hands than are now en-
ployed
Such being the case, Vermont has
a two-fold remedy for the recruiting
of it's rural population, which has
been showing steady decline for
decades. The first remedy lies in the
filling up the waste farm land with
people and the return to farming as
a pursuit. Then, when the abandon
ed farms are again taken up and
when the land is again cultivated.
we can turn to the other remedy for
increasing the population, which is
the intensive farming which is
recommended for the middle west.
Better still, we can begin the inten-
sive farming at the same time we are
filling up the farms with people from
other states and other lands. The
growth of the great markets of the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-02

responsibility is thus centralized.
His position seems to be well taken.
Mr. Titcomb is also leyel-headed
when he advocates the repeal of the
law permitting the shooting of does.
With the increase of the gun license
from SO cents TO 81, as advocated by
the commissioner, the salaries of
county Wardens could easily be met
by the income of the department. We
views prevail and, more than that,
that the state will be able to retain
his services as commissioner
Mortified News.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-02

The action of the house in killing
the bills allowing the chairman of
the public service commission to
maintain a state Office at Newport
and providing for election of
representatives by plurality vote on
the third ballot will generally COM
mend itself. To establish state Of
fees on wheels to move about wher-
ever a state official happens to re-
side would be bad policy and if a
man cannot secure majority Of the
votes cast in his town he has no right
to represent it in the General AS
sembly of Vermont,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-02

measure of return-to-the-farm
movement and the bettered condi-
lions of farm life will attract people
to the farms of Vermont to make
good the past losses to the large
cities. Thus Vermont has an at
tractiye possibility, and the most
powerful means at hand at present
toward attaining that possibility is
the proper degree of publicity, as be-
fore mentioned. Let the newspapers
and the public do their part toward
advertising Vermont.--[B Barre Times.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-02

Chaplain Ford of the House of
Representatives is applying to the
members of the house the religious
Congregational methods that have
proved SO effective in Windsor state
prison. That is going after the Yer
mont solons some but we hope it
will ger enough of them on "the
anxious seat" to drive them all home
by Thanksgiving
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-02
Both Speedy and Effective.

This indicates the action of Foley
Kidney Pills as S. Parsons, Battle
Creek, Mich, illustrates: ST have
been afflicted with severe case of
kidney and bladder trouble for which
l found no relief until used Foley
Kidney Pills. These cured me en-
tire1y of all my ailments. 1 was
troubled with backaches and severe
shooting pains with annoying urinary
irregularities. The steady use of
Foley Kidney Pills rid me entirely
of all my former troubles. They
have my highest recommendation. -
G. C. Bingham.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-02
Teacher Training Courses.

A bill introduced last week by
Doctor Bryant, the member of the
House from Ludlow, Oh. 65,) pro-
viding for teacher training courses
in high schools and academies, is one
that deserves a careful considera-
ton of the members of the General
Assembly.
The bill provides that any high
school or academy of the first-class,
employing three or more regularly
employed teachers may establish a
teacher training course under the
direction and approval of the super
intendent of education, preference
being given to those institutions
which can best serve the rural
schools. Provision is made that no
approval shall be given to any in
stitution which has less than ten
members of the senior class and
graduates willing to pursue such a
course and teach IN the public
schools of the state and which has
less than three elementary graded
schools available for observation and
receive from the superintendent of
practice purposes
Graduates from such a course may
education certificate licensing them
to teach in the public schools of the
state for a period of five years.
/ When the proper conditions are COM
piled with the state treasurer is au-
thorized to pay such sum not ex-
ceeding $500 provided the school
authorities pay at least $500 for the
salary of a special teacher for the
teacher training department. The
act is to take effect July 1, 1911.
The intent of this bill is to raise
the standards of teaching in the
Tn CT
the standard at present is low, and,
as result, our educational rank is
far from what it should be. The
rural schools today are at a dis
advantage with the schools of the
villages and cities and this bill is
designed to aid in equalizing condi-
tions.
There have been normal courses
in few high schools and academies,
established without state aid, but
the teaching was purely theoretical,
and not of the character contemplate
ed by the Bryant bill, as no practical
work in the grades was given.
With the conditions imposed it is
not probable that teacher training
courses would be established in more
than 10 or Is institutions. This
would not involve a serious financial
burden on the state and it would
be difficult to get better returns on
the amount of money invested. With
a teacher to whom the sum of $1,000
was paid very efficient work should
be secured One such teacher in 10
or Is schools distributed about the
state wisely would tone up our rural
schools to a notable degree. Rural
teachers may be educated in this
way much more easily than when
it is necessary to go far from home
to secure the training needed. This
method reaches the would-be teach
ers near their homes at minimum of
expense. The work would be design
ed with particular reference to the
needs of the rural schools. 1t ap-
pears to be genuinely progressive
measure and one that ought to result
in raising the educational standard
Of Vermont to point where we need
not apologize for the ranking of the
schools of our state.-EMontpelie
Journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-02
A Good Newspaper.

The News and Citizen was thirty
years old last week and is enjoying
pretty good health, thank you. 1t has
seen other newspapers come and go,
not only in other parts of the state,
but right here at home, and, strange
as it may seem to few, lives to tell
the tale. This paper is no expert
ment, it has become a fixture and no
well regulated household can be
without it.-[News and Citizen.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-02
Fish and Game Laws.

State Fish and Game Commits
sioner John w. Titcomb urges the
appointment of salaried game war
den in each of the IA counties of
Vermont. He points out that Rut-
land county has at the present time
two chief wardens and IL deputies.
He urges that better service can be
secured throughout the state if war
dens are paid stated salary during
certain seasons, and authority and
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-02
viii it be girl scouts next?

Mr.. Otto Paul, Milwaukee, Wis,
says Foley's Honey and Tar is still
more than the best. He writes us.
s'All those that bought it think it is
the best for coughs and colds they
ever had and l think it is still more
than the best. Our baby had bad
cold and it cured him in one day.
Please accept thanks. &C. c. Bing-
ham.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-02

Pres. Taft has appointed William
H. Lewis, colored, and an assistant
district attorney of Boston, to be an
assistant attorney general of the
United States. This is the highest
Office in an executive branch of the
government ever given a colored
man. He is graduate. of Harvard
and has practiced law since 1895.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-02

The man higher up is being
brought to justice with encouraging
regularity. A. P. Heinze, brother of
F. Augustus Heinze, is serving ten
days sentence in The Tombs prison
for assisting Tracy Buckingham, a
witness wanted by the federal grand
jury, to escape to Canada.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-02

TERMS OF THE CALIFORNIAN.
One year to any address, $50
Six months, rs
Three months, so
Clergymen in Caledonia County, $1.oo
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-02
The Record Of ST Years:

l. Since it began business in 1S43. The
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New
York
Has paid to policy holders
1891, AZ, 264.3 S-
Has accumulated for pol
icyholders 55S,02O, 1O6.97
Total benefits to policy
holders aggregate ST AS, 49, 41.3o
In 81 years it has received
from policyholders 1904, PSI, 1885
The excess of benefits TO
policyholders is $145, $50, $3.50
2. That is to say, in the 81 years of
it's existence The Mutual Lite has paid to
policyholders, and has accumulated for
policyholders, more than $145, 100000
in excess of all that it has received from
polcyholders. The gain has, of course
accrued chiefly from earnings on invested
funds.
8. During its career its total payments
to policyholders have exceeded those of
any other company by over $1S5,00O,
900.
4. Since organization the Company
has paid in cash dividends to policyhold-
ers the sum of Sal ,S77 ,50O.96. This is
greater than any other company has
paid in dividends by more than
500, 100000.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1910-11-02

Entered at the St. Johnsbury post Office as
second-class mail matter.
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AnvERrIsING RArEs.


Local notices, wants, for sale etc, 2 cents
per word first Insertion. Legal notices 10
cents aline, threeinsertions. Probate notices
So 90 each for three insertions. Dissolution,
liberation and similar notices 81 80 each for
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obituary poetry, o cents line.
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This paper is entitled to a place on the
Printers Ink Roll of Honor.
THE CALIFORNIAN co.
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THE CALIFORNIAN COMPANY.
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Editor and Publisher

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WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER ?. 1910.
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The excess of benefits TO
policyholders is $145, 18o,912.8O
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-31

those people and nations prospcred
when labor was honored and the Ia
Oorer respected. How they declined
when poverty was dcspised and the
poor man cast out because his raIment
smelled of the cattle. They became go
foolish that even learned men would
discuss on such subjects at rs IL prop
er for person To eat an egg laid by
a hen on the Sabbath dayT''
QUEEN OF THE HOME.
When Rome fourished. the woman
was called the queen of the home. Tho
men fought the battles OF the nation,
bringing the plunder back to admin
ister to the wants of the home. But
times changed. woman forsook her
calling; took part In public affairs and
became mere butterfly of society, en-
gaging in such pastlmes as we see to-
day. pink teas and like frivolitIcs. yhe
ceased to be mother. leaving that to
the numerous slaves. Women dres ,ed
In gowns costing fortunes; labor was
deSplsed; human slavery prevailed.
wealth reigncd and the perpetulty u
the nation was gone
The civilized world was In this con-
dit1on when virgin gave birth 10 n
child In a manger; miserable circum-
stances according to society OF the day
And when the Savior grew up and was
selecting his apostles he did not go to
the wealthy, but chose poor, lowly Ilsh-
ermen with the smell OF fish about
them. and others of humble occupation,
and today these humble men are look
ed upon and called saints. He exalted
motherhood. defending the sanctity OF
woman, placing her where she Is
queen of home; mother of man; form
er of character, she that holds the
destiny OF the race in her hand. he
exalted labor to It's proper place, max.
Ing II honorable for man to earn his
daily bread In the sweat of his face
And mingling among the poor class
he has proven himself today the
Savior of the race. And in his time Is
the ono practical demonstration that
man can live together In equality" said
the speaker. mo man said aught WIS
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-31

great the wisdom and tho love that
filled the courts OH high"
Elder Joseph r. Smith, Jr.. read from
the fourth chapter of Malachi IN which
the Lord tells OF day coming when
those that do wickedly shall be de-
stroyed; when tho hearts of the fathers
shall be turned to the children and tho
hearts OF the children to the fathers.
The speaker declared that prophecy
relates To tho day in which we live"
He believed there was not another
chapter In the Scriptures that has been
so much misunderstood and has been
so variously interpreted. "And yet
this Is simple" said Elder Smith. with
tho light of the gospel VIC have received
through the instrumentality of Joseph
Smith, the prophet of the living God
who was raised up to fulfill this proph-
ccy. And much of this chapter was
quoted to him on the 21st day OF Sep
tember, when the angel Moroni ap-
pcared to the prophet and instructed
him concerning this work We Lat
ter-day Saints accept tho gospel as re-
vealed In the Bible as far as II has been
translated correctly. In these days
many false EllJahs havo appeared
among the children of men. men who
claimed to be the re-incarnation OF the
prophet of ancient times. But how
foolish for man to attempt such a
thing, when the Lord has promised that
in the latter days he would send the
real Elijah; not in a re-incarnated
state, but with the same body. purified,
which he possessed when he lived upon
the earth before. He appeared to the
Prophet Joseph Smith in the Kirkland
temple the 3rd day OF April. 1886. and
conferred upon him the priesthood re-
latlng to the fathers and the children,
"a wing that the time had come for the
fulfillment of the words rs spoken by
Malachi when he said that Elijah would
be sent to turn the hearts of the fathers
to the children and the hearts of the
to the fathers. lest the whole
earth be smItten with curse where
upon he bestowed the keys upon Jo
seph Smith.
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In New York In 1869. and in various
other cities and states. and In Eu-
ropean countries societies have been
formed and men are devoting their
lives to this gathering of genealogical
statistics. Some OF the states arc TAX
Ing up the matter OF keeping conf
plete records. And by this work their
hearts are turned towards their faith
crS. They do not understand why
they are performing this great work.
but they are doing IL because this
spirit has taken possession of them.
The hearts OF the people OF this nation
are turned in that direction. and to
me this Is another testimony of the
divinity OF the mission of the Prophet
Joseph Smith. and a proof that Elijah
did come and reveal these keys.
No other people believe In the sal
no other people believe that Elijah was
to come TO restore these keys. and II
was promised II he did not come the
earth would be smitten with a curse
The Prophet Joseph Smith said we
cannot be saved In the Kingdom OF
God without our dead. and 1t is high
time that the members OF the Church
Obtained the names OF their dead an
cestors and go to the temples and per-
form the work for them"
At the close OF Elder Smiths ad-
dress the choir sang an anthem.
ELDER NEPHI L. MORRIS.
Elder Ncphi l.. Morris, the next
speaker. read from Apostle Paul where
he declares. Il am not ashamed of tho
gospel OF Christ. for 1t Is the power
OF God unto salvation" He likened
the gospel to a great searchlight on
the tops OF the mountains, Its rays
penetrating into the obscurity OF the
past. shedding the light OF the gospel
of Christ upon tho present generation.
And Ike the apostle of old. l am not
ashamed of the gospel. and l believe 1t
to be the power of God unto salvation
to all who believe and obey"
Elder Morris spoke of the condition
of society among the Jews, the Romans
and the Greeks at the time of the
coming of the Savior He told how