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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-09-18

egates even with all the disputed
ones counted against him and his
delegates were not unseated.
In Washington the Roosevelt men
asked to have delegates seated in
place of the Taft delegates when the
Roosevelt delegates were selected by
a packed committee constructed in
direct opposition to the majority vote
of the regular committee.
In Texas the Roosevelt men asked
to have delegates seated who were
elected by the vote of Cecil Lyon,
who cast votes for ninety-nine coun-
ties that chose no delegates at all
and in part of which there was not
a single republican vote cast.
These things were not done and
because they were not the Roosevelt
men are crying steal. With any voter
claim that it would have been a
square deal to have unseated the
regularly chosen delegates and put
in their place men chosen as detailed
above? Yet there are thousands OF
voters throughout the country fight
ing against Pres. Taft because these
specious claims were not recognized
We know of nothing more unreason.
able and unfair than the attitude oil
these men. The facts clearly indi
cate that instead OF making a stea
at Chicago the republican party pre-
vented one of the most dishonest and
unwarranted steals from being per.
lpetrated and every voter who believ-
es in political honesty should sup,
port them in their work.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-09-18

1t has, of course, long been obvi-
Gus TO any thoughtful observer that
system of distribution which calls
for several milk carts daily on the
same street and ice carts, grocery
wagons and marketmen going over
the same routes, is a costly method
of distribution of the common and
everyday necessaries of life. Just
how costly, however, has perhaps
never been so definitely demonstrated
as in the report by the committee,
with William Church Osborne as it's
chairman, which was appointed by
the New York legislature to study
food prices and market facilities.
The committee appears to have made
conscientious investigation, and
it reports that New York city has to
pay $3.50, 100000 a year for the
mere local handling of its food sup
ply This simply covers the cost be-
tween the railroad terminals where
food products enter the city and
the kitchens where they are prepar-
ed for the tables. That is to say,
the committee finds that the cost
at the terminals of the total bulk of
food of all kinds that enters the
city is $3.50, 100000, for which the
consumers have to pay $50O,O0O,-
600, and it is to be noticed that the
investigators do not charge all the
enormous difference to the retailers
or even principally to the middle
men. 1t is due chiefly, it would ap-
pear, to the costly and wasteful
method of distribution, and that is,
indeed, presented as the substance
of the whole difficulty. 1t is some
thing, perhaps, to have learned this
much definitely, although almost
any one might have reached the
same conclusion by the simple pro-
cess of observation. The committee,
feeling that some sort of suggestion
as remedy is required, recon-
mends the establishment of depart
ment of markets for every city,
which should have sanitary and
economic charge of the total food
supply. This, however, would sweep
away the entire system of distrfbu-
ton as it now exists, and it may be
doubled whether the public is ready
for so long a step in the direction of
socialism. Each housewife, pre-
sumably, will continue to prefer her
own marketman to that of her next
door neighbor, her own milkman
and her own iceman. The privilege
of individual preference comes high,
but it is likely to be insisted on by
the consumer, at the same time that
said consumed complains of the high
cost of living Manchester Union.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-09-18
Politics i'm Town

We regret that an attempt has
been made to prevent St. Johns
bury from having a representative
in the legislature this fall This
town has no senator for the first
time in many years and with no
member in the house the eighth larg-
est town of the state will have no
voice in legislation if the plans of
the protestants are successful. OF
course they may not succeed as the
house is the sole judge of whether
a member shall have his seat or not
and the house may decide after hear
ing the facts not to unseat DR.. AL
drich.
The provision of the state consti-
tuition which it is claimed has been
violated reads:-"Nor shall any per-
son holding any Office of profit or
trust under the authority of Con-
gress be eligible to any appointment
in the Legislature or of holding any
executive or judiciary office under
this State"
1t is only on technical grounds
that DR.. AIdrich can be unseated.
He was acting as alternate pension
examiner at the time he was elected
representative and sent his resigna-
ton 10 Congressman Plumley the day
following election. So morally there
is no valid reason why he should not
serve his town as representative and
we are inclined to believe the best
interests of the town will be served
if he is allowed to take his seat and
sit throughout the session of the leg
islature.
Threats are heard about exposures
of political methods that have been
followed in this town that will be
made as the result of this protest
against the progressive representa-
tive. We hope they will be carried
out not because we believe that all
the charges heard on the street are
true but because we believe that
some candidates for office have re-
sorted to methods that undermine
and defeat good citizenship. We
hope this will be done not as mat
ter of political pique but by all good
citizens in an effort to stop some
things we believe have been wrong
fully done by political aspirants. At
the same time it will prove the dis
honesty of many charges being re-
peated about the streets and if faith
fully carried out leave us in a more
healthful civic condition.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-09-18

are however a goodly number of nice
cement buildings and business
blocks. The government is now
finishing it's second large block for
offices since the earthquake of
1907. Everywhere about the city
appear the fallen walls and heaps
of debris caused by the earthquake.
In many ways this terrible calamity
was blessing in disguise. 1t has
furnished work for many people
that otherwise would have been
idle. Besides it has brought more
money into circulation and greatly
improved the city. The city is great
ly over-crowded with people, many
of whom are constantly saying:
Minister, minister, give, give, give"
Surely man has to learn how to
say no, although he might wish to
do otherwise.
The worst thing we have to con-
tend with is the dust, which is blown
in every direction and lodges upon
everything in the house. During
my first year here, which is past,
we have had about four hard show
ers. Beyond this we have not had
six sprinkles of rain sufficient to
lay the dust. Our water supply is
getting low. Our greatest fears are
that the Bubonic Plague may be
brought here from Porto Rico or
Cuba. Should this occur l fear it
would do more harm than the
earthquake did. The present health
board are taking every precaution
and it does not seem that the disease
is spreading very rapidly in the
above named places.
H. J. FARMAN.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-09-18

of the nine contiguous units the
rate will be five cents for the first
pound and three cents for each adj
ditional pound up to IL pounds.
This is within the first zone, always
up of nine adjoining units. The sec
ond zone is any postof1ce outside
your unit but not farther than $50
miles from the center of that unit.
This same explanation applies to
every parcel post unit in the United
States. Each unit is forever fixed,
but the zones are measured from any
unit
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-09-18
Advice to BOYS and Girls.

Save your pennies and send them
to the Hyde Park Savings Bank.
That Bank receives either pennies,
dimes or dollars.
Why?
Because it wishes to encourage the
children to be frugal and to have a
little bank account of their own,
even though the initial deposit is the
smallest possible sum.
Children who commence an ac-
count on a penny, a nickel, or a
dime, often grow into capitalists lat
er on.
The way to become a capitalist is
to cOmemnce now to save the pen
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-09-18
The Chicago Steals

People still talk as though there
was a steal of delegates for Pres.
Taft at the national republican con-
vention in Chicago, even Mr.. Roose-
welt repeats this charge in his trip
through the West. Now let us look
at who the Roosevelt man asked to
have seated in the place of the Taft
delegates in some Of the states
where the loudest protests were
made.
In Kentucky the Roosevelt men
asked to have three delegates un-
seated and three Roosevelt men who
admitted they had never been elected
as delegates seated in their place.
In Indiana the Roosevelt men at
tempted to prevent the seating OF
1O6 Taft delegates to the state con-
vention who were elected at a pri-
mary where the vote for Roosevelt
delegates was 400 and for the Taft
delegates 5000. Had they succeed
ed in doing this they could have
elected Roosevelt delegates to Chic
ago. But they did not and
the Chicago convention seated the
delegates regularly elected at the
regular state convention.
In Arizona the Roosevelt men ask
ed that certain Roosevelt delegates
selected by the direction of minori
ty Of the county committee which
acted in direct opposition to the vote
of the majority of that committee be
seated but the Chicago convention
accepted the verdict of the majority
In Michigan the Roosevelt meI
asked that the Taft delegates elected
at the regular republican state con.
ventiOn be unseated because they
claimed that some of the Taft dele.
gates were not legally elected. But
Pres. TAFT had a majority of the del
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-09-18
Reforming the High school

Colebrook, N. H., has undertaken
a task that will be watched with
great interest by all people interested
in public education. 1t has a high
school that for years has been run
as a regular New England school OF
that grade. Now it proposes to con-
tinue as a high school but will en-
large so to give an education to
those young people who ought to re-
main and grow up with the coun-
try. In other words it will attempt
to educate those young people who
cannot enter professional life fol
practical work in the home commune
| ty. To do this it has built a green
house, a dairy laboratory, a domestic
arts department and workshop which
will include a carpenter and a black
smith shop and will give complete
courses in agriculture and domestic
science.
Speaking of this plan State Super
intendent H. G. Morrison says
Its purpose is not primarily to
make good farmers, or skilled me-
chanics, or professional housekeep-
ers. The primary object is the edu-
cation of the boy and girl to be-
come a sincere and efficient and hap
by man and woman, capable of be-
coming an educated worker with ma
terial things, capable of getting life's
happiness out of work rather than
out of the leisure which comes after
work if indeed it comes at all. A
further purpose is to educate the
strongest youth toward the farm and
the industries instead of toward the
professions and business exclusive
ly."
CoIebrook cannot claim the dis
'tinction of being the only school
that is trying to educate boys and
girls for the life they are to live as
the st. Johnsbury Academy has al
ready established manual training
department for the same purpose.
But it indicates the grow
ing demand for this kind
of training and no doubt these insti-
buttons will prove pioneers in an
important movement. 1t will mean
much for the country if the high
schools are made the trainers OF
strong men and women for the i'm
mediate territory in which they are
located.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-09-18

Every biennial election from six
to ten towns fail to elect town rep
resentative on the first ballot and a
few of them have a prolonged strug-
gle and in still fewer cases fail to
elect a man at all. Then follows the
agitation for the election of repre-
sentatives by a plurality vote. We
admit the inconvenience of more
than one ballot and that the contin-
ued fight often leads to the election of
man little considered at the open
ing of voting. But it must be re-
membered that the towns that can
not elect a representative by a ma
jority vote on the first ballot are ex-
ceptions and not the rule. There
fore in an overwhelming portion of
the Vermont towns the majority
rule is no drawback and it must be
admitted that a majority vote is
much safer than plurality vote. So
we hope the people of Vermont will
leave the law so it will best serve
the majority and not attempt to
change it to reach a few exceptions.
When legislation is based on excep-
tons it is temporary and confusing
and therefore undesirable.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-09-18

st. Johnsbury with something like
thirty gradeI crossings within it's
limits and a record of shocking ac-
cidents thereon that may not be
Iequalled in the whole state should
act. 1t should send a petition to
the public service commission asking
flor the adjustment of the two
grade crossings just above st. Johns
bury Center on one of which occur
red the double fatality of last
Thursday. With probably the
largest number of grade crossings
of any town in the state and many
of them of the most dangerous kind
the town has sat idly by and allow
ed other towns to reap the full ben
eft of the law compelling the elm
nation of dangerous crossings. 1t
should do so no longer. No town
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-09-18
Commissioners' Notice.
ESTATE OF ELISABETH D. GREEN.

The undersigned, having been appointed
by the Honorable Probate Court for the
District of Caledonia Commissioners. to re-
ceive. examine, and adjust the claims and de-
mands of all persons against the estate of
Elisabeth ID. Green. late of Waterford, IN said
District. deceased, and all claims exhibited I'm
Offset thereto, hereby give notice that we
will meet for the purpose aforesaid at the
dwelling house of Madison Higgins, In the
town of Waterford, in said District, on the
10th day of September and 22d day of Feb
ruary next from 2 O'Clock o m, until &
O'Clock D. M, on each Of said days and that
six months from the 9th day of August, A.
d. 1912, is the time limited by said Court for
said creditors to present their claims TO us
for examination and allowance.
Dated at Waterford this 9th day of Aug
ust, A. ID. 1912.
Jesse CARLTON,
GEORGE s. WALLACE.
Commissioners.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-09-18

Just how can progressive whose
biggest cry is that the people should
rule justify vote for Fraser Metz
ger for governor when the people at
the ballot box were against him
three to one?
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-09-18

meeting is necessary simply a prop
erIy drawn and signed petition and
the proper state authorities would
then take charge of the matter and
do what justice requires.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-09-18

Entered at the st. Johnsbury post
once as Becond-class mail matter.
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Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-01-05
~. A9<0

On the Eva plantation, in the Ha-
waiian Islands, the average depth OF
blowing is 30 inches. This plantation
produces the largest crops of sugar
cane to the acre in the world.
Natures plan of improving soils is
to use cover crop of weeds, grass,
shrubs or trees and to subsoil by
sending the roots down one, two, three
or four feet, as the case may be, thus
airing and enriching the subsoil with
out bringing it to the surface.
In the farmers cooperative demon
stration work the Importance Of a
deep and thoroughly prepared seed
bed, like a garden, has been most
widely demonstrated. Thousands of
tests have been made each year by
exact and painstaking farmers to an
extent that leaves no possible room
for doubt as to the great value OF a
deep and thoroughly prepared seed
bed
Concretely stated, deep, thorough
ly pulverized seed bed filled with
humus has the following advantages:
Cd 1t provides more food, because
it increases chemical action and null
ttplies bacterial life in larger body
of soil
(2) 1t stores more moisture and it
loses its moisture less rapidly on ac-
count of its cooler lower strata and
the presence of more humus.
(3) 1t allows plants to root deeper
and find permanent moisture.
(4) 1t increases the number OF roots
that plant will throw out.
60 1t largely obviates the necessity
of terracing, because 1t holds so much
water in suspension that heavy rain
falls will go to the bottom and be held
v by the drier earth above until they
can be absorbed by the subsoil.
CO. Humus enables the soil to store
more moisture, increases its tempera-
ture, makes it more porous, furnishes
plant food, stimulates chemical action
and fosters bacterial life.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-01-05
RAINY DAY DUTIES.

when God sorts out the weather
and sends rain, why, rains my
choice" A rainy day is often as bene-
fetal to the household as 1t is to the
soil, as such a day is one usually Tree
from outside Interruptions, and much
may be accomplished without inter-
ference. There are always things that
have been put off for more time; ar
rangement of closets and boxes and
drawers, the looking for the piece OF
trimming or article in some maya
zine; all of these things take time,
and many cannot be begun and left
unfinished.
Rainy days are good days to plan
for future work, to finish up that lit
tie piece of sewing that has waited
SO long; in fact each household will
find Just the needed time to accom-
plish so much that has been waiting
for a more convenient season.
A scrap book that money couldn't
purchase may be made in odd mo-
ments and the time never be missed.
Cut out from catalogues and period
icals pictures of authors and other in
teresting people with an autograph
when possible and any interesting
clippings about them pasted on the
same or opposite pages. This scrap
book can be handed down with up-to-
date additions to several generations
Of children and prove both instructive
and entertaining. Very young chill
dren may have their minds stored
with valuable knowledge without the
effort of study by simply having these
pictures to look at and the people
there pictured told about in story
form
When going out on rainy day,
protect the feet, as damp feet cause
many kinds of trouble.
A very nice arrangement to wear
under long coat on rainy day is a
strip of half-inch black elastic with
an eye on one end and hook on the
other. Slip around the body, having
it drawn tight, and pull up the skirts
all around. The elastic will hold
them up out of the wet.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-01-05
inexpensive Water System.

shown at A. this pipe being used as a
service pipe. 1t was run to the house.
barn and the garden, taps and hy-
drants being installed where wanted
This system held $50 gallons OF water
and for the purpose intended was am.
pie in size. The intention is to house
in the barrel tank to keep out the
frost. Such a water system placed in
the barn Lett would provide plenty OF
drinking water for quite lot Of stock
as Well as serving for fire protection.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-01-05
WATER SYSTEM NOT COSTLY
Nine Barrels Connected Together by
Means of Two-lnch Pipe Found
Quite Practical.

A Missouri farmer lacking the
means to install more expensive wa
ter system, constructed the one here
with Illustrated. Plenty OF pipe was
at hand and the only question was a
suitable storage tank and the necessary
labor to erect the system. AS shown,
nine barrels were connected together
with two-inch pipe, set up on end and
separated by two by six-inch timbers.
The barrels were elevated ten feet
high on suitable platform and con-
nected together at the lower end by
one and one-quarter-inch pipe as
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-01-05

new standard of marital happi-
ness has been established by Chicago
couple who revised the usual prom
ises. The husband agrees to give his
wife all his earnings and to allow her
to be boss of the family, while she
promises to let him buy his own CT
gars and to feed him we'll The prom
ises are not romantic nor even pictur-
esque, but this couple are proving
their constitutional right for the pur-
suit of happiness on a practical work
ing basis.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-01-05
HEADS RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT

Although the active efforts in the
men and religion forward movement
were begun only short time ago,
practically all of the seventy-six cities
participating have reported complete
organizations and campaigns under
way. The general headquarters in
New York city is being kept in close
touch with the work all over the coun-
try.
The general interest which has
been manifested by the leading bust
ness and professional men is espe-
cially encouraging to the men in
charge of the movement. James G.
Cannon, who is here pictured, presi-
dent of the Fourth National Bank of
New York, is chairman of the general
campaign committee and he believes
the effort will be the most significant
made by the church in the religious
history of America.
One of the extraordinary incidents
of the campaign in Grand Rapids, oc-
crrrad at a mass mRatiOp WHARF Rev
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-01-05
HERO OF THE AMERICAN NAVY

Rear Admiral Melville had won
fame for heroism in Arctic explora.
ton as naval engineer and construc-
ton as a naval engineerandconstru
tor. He was a member of De Longs
party, which sailed for the Arctic re-
gions from San Francisco in 1879 in
the Inflated Jeanette, and he COM
manded the boats crew which es-
capped from the icy wastes of the Lena
Delta after the wreck of the expedi-
ton. He afterwards commanded the
expeditions which recovered De
Longs body and the records of the
Jeanette, for which services he re-
ceived gold medal by special act of
congress. But that is another story.
Rear Admiral Melville entered the
navy as an assistant engineer at the
beginning of the Civil war. A New
Yorker by birth, he had received his
education at the Brooklyn Polytechnic
institute. He served throughout the
war and was subsequently stationed
Of variO1,s navy wards Tn 1897 tho