St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-08-09

AUGUST 9, 1911.
their tempers when particular mea-
sures of control are under consider
ation.-f The New York Globe.
Burlington's Auto Fire Truck.
Burlington has made a number of
laps in the race of progress since It's
firemen paid more attention to get
ting first stream" and lighting over
the question whether any of the vol
unteer companies should be allowed
to use a horse in helping to get its
hose cart to the fire quickly and thus
enjoying an undue advantage over
rivals. This was never demonstrat-
ed more conclusively than in con-
nection with the response of the au-
tomobile fire truck to the appeal of
our neighbors of Shelburne for help
when change in the wind threaten
ed the destruction of the farmhouse
on the Bartlett place in addition to
the barn already burned.
Chief Niles and another member
of the department caught the time
when the machine left Burlington
station number one, and the machine
pulled up at the scene of the fire
mile or so beyond Shelburne village
after a remarkable record, having
covered eight miles in eleven min
utes. 1t is easy to believe the won
derful tales of some of the residents
along the way. One man who lives
north of Shelburne village said when
he heard the horseless but by no
means noiSeleSS machine coming and
saw the headlight, he thought one
of the Rutland locomotives had left
the track, and the next moment and
for the next ten minutes he was try
ing to get the sand out of his eyes.
This harmonizes with the remark of
the Burlington man in response to a
query whether he saw the automo-
bile fire truck on its way to fire:
mo, I could not see it go by. All I
could do was to smell it.
Inasmuch as the machine will
weigh four tons, the speed at which
it cap safely proceed is remarkable,
but this element of safety is assured
lin part by double tires. The actual
expense of the trip was fifty-eight
CENTS Burlington Free Press.
The farmers Vacation.
1t is not SO very long ago that the
ordinary farmer never took any reg
u1ar holiday. In the older part of
the country you used to find a host
of men in that business who had not
slept outside their homes for untold
years.
Some of our farmers have now ac-
CURED a familiarity with Pullman
cars and automobiles. But even they
rarely secure understudies that can
fill their places for any given week
or fortnight in the crisis days of
summer.
1t would be like Napoleon desert
ing his troops at the turning point
of Waterloo. The fatal failure to
cultivate or harvest crop at a psy-
Geological moment may mean the
throwing away of the whole season.
work. Then comes the time when
the cumulative results of farmers
past experience count at their high
est value. The cloud no bigger than
mans hand, meaningless to his as
sistants or his boys, to his eye train
ed to note the slightest gradations
in atmospheric change, may be the
sure herald of the long expected
rain.
But that does not mean that the
farmer gets no vacation. If he
knows his business, he gets away
sometime for sight of the big world
in the cities. And he returns with
the feeling that life under the sun
and stars is financially more profit
than sky scrapers and soft COAL
Lancaster Gazette.
The Hedgehog Humbug.
''The hedgehog industry appears
to be thriving in Bolton, Waterbury,
and Grafton. The sum of $1,441.20
was paid in In those three towns in
five months in thirty-cent bounties!
Belgian hares don't seem to be in it
with hedgehogs in Vermont as a pay
ing proposition on the farm. Fair
Haven Era.
This is the same old humbug that
has been exposed over and over, sina-
ply paternalism run mad. It illus
trates once more the narrow-gauge
craftsmanship that SO often inter
feres with the adoption of a high
plane public policy and sacrifices a
principle for the sake of giving a
few local constituents an opportunity
to hunt at public expense.
If hedgehogs were great and
threatening public pest and did mis-
chief that extended beyond the
chance damage to individual timber
owners, it would be a different mat
ter But, under present conditions,
the man that will not do as much for
the protection of his own property
as he asks the state to do for him,
should lose it.-[St. Adams Mes
senger.
Start Right.
Start right young man, says the
Springfield Reporter. cit is not
what you get in salary at the start
that counts 1t is the opportunity
for promotion, if you deserve it.
OF one thing you may be abso-
lutely sure, you will get promotion
| if you deserve it. If not by your
employer, then by someone else.
The world is looking for young
men who are in earnest; who are
interested in their work; who are
ambitious.
There is sure promotion for those