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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-11-12
RODE A SLAVE ship
julius c. Salina, Veteran of the
Civil War, Had Remarkable Ex-
perience in Childhood.

Few indeed are the men living who
can say they have crossed the At
lantic on ship loaded with human
slaves, fought in Civil War for their
liberation and enjoyed the so years
of development accomplished by that
race under freedom. Yet this is the
distinction claimed by julius G. Sal
ina, an aged veteran of this village,
residing with his wife at IA fremont
street Mr.. Salina shows the effects
of age and sometimes his memory
halts little and his hearing is de-
fective, it sometin es being difficult
for him to understand a questioner,
but given the opportunity he can re-
late a most interesting series of ex-
periences before and during the Civil
War. Mr.. Salina is Spaniard, hav-
ing been born on board his fathers
vessel just off the docks at Madrid
after the family had taken the ship
to come to America The family
was taken to Charleston, S. c., and
made their home there until the
death of the mother, the father con-
tinuing his trade of plying a slave
ship between Africa and Havana.
While very young Mr.. Salina accom-
panied his father on one of the trips
after slaves. He has very little
memory of that trip, but says the
method was for his father to load the
ship at Charleston and Havana with
rum, molasses ami snowy trinkets
and start for Africa When the ship
reached the African coast negro
chiefs would visit the trader and
then disappear inland. The next
day they would return with three or
four hundred followers and they
would be packed on the ship in ex-
change for the cheap merchandise the
trader had to offer.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-11-12
Would Eliminate Prouty

In speaking of the reported pro-
motion of Charles A. ProIty, the
Montpelier Journal says the people
are so proud of Mr.. Prouty's success
that "they are ready to recognize
and reward his conspicuous service
to the nation in a proper and fitting
way, and so it happens that he has
been proposed as a candidate for
the United States Senate
But Mr.. Prouty has
that he may not be in such close
touch with the Vermont sentiment
as to warrant him to accept such an
honor. And his obligation 10 the
has singled him out to carry on
the railroad valuation work would
prevent him from permitting his
name to be used" The Journal
even thinks that it would be a
breach of faith if Mr.. Prouty were
to become a candidate.
Evidently the wish is father to the
Journals thought but alas, fly has
got into the contemporary ONT
ment. President Wilson has not ap-
pointed Mr.. Prouty as chairman of
the board of physical valuation,
claiming he can not be we'll spared
from the interstate commerce COM
mission at present. This doubtless
is only a blind for the placing of
some democratic friend in this re-
sponsible position.
Mr.. Prouty has not said whether
or not he would become a candidate
for the United States Senate but
there have been no developments in
Washington that would prevent him
from doing so with perfect proprie-
ty. More than a year ago Mr..
Prouty announced he should retire
from the interstate commerce COM
mission at the completion Of his
present term in December, 1914.
We understand that is still his inten-
ton. Whether or not Pres. Wilson
will be influenced by Mr.. Prouty's
special fitness as the head of the
board of physical valuation of rail-
roads more than by the desire to
reward some political friend we do
not know. But it can be safely
stated that Mr.. Prouty is not yet ell
minated from senatorial POSSIBLE
ties If he consents to become a can
didate. The people of Vermont need
not commit themselves on the SEN
atorship just yet unless they desire
to do So
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-11-12

Thompson and Watson presiding. 46
were sustained, or 81 per cent; and
Of the Is cases OF Judge Powers, only
10, or As per cent, were sustained
The average percentage of deci-
sions sustained, it will be seen, has
not varied greatly, as between the
superior judges and under the old
system where supreme court judges
were also county court judges, but
the advantage, OF one to 10 per cent
is in favor of the Superior judges.
Certainly, If the Caledonian's indict-
ment of the superior judges of the
present is well grounded, it is even
more severe against the former su-
preme-county court magistrates.
The Caledonian does not wish to
do the Superior Judges of the state
any injustice. 1t believes that every
member of the Vermont courts is
working honestly and to the best of
his ability. 1t has the highest respect
for some of them and it believes
bench for political reasons alone. 1t
believes good service will be render
ed the state if the latter class can
be replaced by men of integrity and
ability If the News would not
undertake to defend the whole court
it would greatly strengthen it's posi-
ton. In defending the whole court it
is forced to compare the large per-
centage of incorrect work by the
present judges with the incorrect
work of the past and fails even then
to show a record that would satisfy
man in any calling except that of
a Judge. If it would confine its de-
fence to the members of the court
who have proven their worthiness by
their record it would be paving the
way for more efficiency on the bench,
higher respect for the courts and
tremendous reduction in the expense
of securing justice.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-11-12
Work of Our Judges

The Rutland News, in an article
which we suspect was inspired by a
Superior Judge of this state, criti-
cizes the editorial recently published
in The Caledonian calling attention
to the record of the Superior Judges
of the state. 1t also gives a correct
ed statement of the record of these
judges. 1t says
This is a pretty serious arraign-
ment of the superior judges, and it
is worthy of most careful analysis.
To this end The Evening News has
caused to be made by unquestioned
authority an examination Of the Yer
mont Reports, and the findings are
here given.
Starting with the four last print
ed volumes OF Vermont Reports of
the supreme court the following re-
cord is shown: Judge Miles, 81 cases
sustained, a percentage of approx
mately 90; Waterman, 81 cases sus-
tanned, 62 per cent; Hall, AZ cases
sustained, SO per cent; Taylor, Al
cases sustained, 60 per cent; Stan
ton, SO cases sustained, 81 per cent;
Butler, so cases sustained, 62 per
cent; average Of all the judges.
slightly over 81 per cent. The deci-
sions of Judge Fish are not included,
as he has been in Office only a little
over a year, and the number is in
sufficient for a fair average.
Now take Vermont Reports, vol
umes 20, 76, a and rs, being the
last four volumes previous to the di-
vision of the court by the election
of superior judges, when the su-
preme court judges presided in coun-
ty court and sat in review of their
own decisions. These volumes show
that Judge Rowell was sustained in
54 per cent of his decisions; Mum
son in 81 per cent; Haselton in Sc
per cent. Tyler in Sc per cent; Wat
son in 81 per cent; average. So per
cent sustained.
Reverting to volume 70, Vermont
Reports, Of the SO cases with Judges
Taft, Rowell, Tyler. Munson, Start,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-11-12

LaFarro when their youngest daugh-
ter, Miss Goldie LaFarro was united
i'm marriage to Roy Dollof by the
Rev. j. Q. Angel. The parlor was
prettily decorated with evergreen,
with an arch Of the same and a large
white bell hung in the center. The
wedding march was played by Miss
Leba Turner. The bride had many
presents, among them a beautiful
fur set from the groom. Mr.. Dol
lon gave his best man, bridesmaid
and pianist very nice and appropri-
ate presents. Refreshments we're
served. The guests from out OF town
were Mrs. Best from NoodsVille,
Mrs. Moulton from Troy, and Miss
DolloE from East Burke.
Mrs. David Smith died at her
home in this village Thursday night
after a few weeks illness OF can
Ger of the throat. Funeral services
were held at the nome Sunday, Rev.
J. Q. Angel oliciated and burial was
in the family lot.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-11-12
Last Weeks Elections

Taken as a whole the results OF
last weeks elections must be quite
satisfactory to the supporters OF
good government regardless OF
party Affiliations. Every one is
pleased with the crushing defeat of
Tammany in New York. Tammany
drove from the governors chair a
perjurer and political renegade and
in turn was driven from power itself.
These two things are the greatest
victory for good government i'll the
last decade. 1t is true Sulzer
was elected a member of the New
York Assembly, but that was no vim
dication for him and with his re-
cord he is not likely to be of much
influence in that body.
The overwhelming victory of the
democrats in Massachusetts caused
little surprise. With the old time
republican party divided between
three candidates nothing else could
be expected. AS the only exception
the progressives in Massachusetts did
not suffer a serious loss at the polls
in this falls state contests. 1t is
some comfort to them but not a ser
ious danger signal to the republic
cans. Mr.. Gardner was defeated
largely on the question of the re-
striction of immigration, matter
that could not be treated as a state
under any conditions, and his break
with the republican organization.
He has won the leadership of the re-
publican party and is in a position
to become a real influence another
year. The public will patiently wait
for the party to learn its lesson and
prove whether it is able to rehabili-
tate itself.
The national administration gain
ed one vote through the popular cleo
ton of a United States Senator in
Maryland and is in position now to
carry out its policies complete be-
fore another appeal to the people in
the congressional elections of 1914.
The president also won his fight in
New Jersey. So Tammany got
what it deserved and the democrats
and republicans what they might
naturally expect.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-11-12
WEST BARNET

The singing school announced fol-
this week has been postponed until
Nov. 20.
Mrs. Alden Morrill, is visiting in
Barnet.
Mr.. and Mrs. George H. Stuart OF
St. Johnsbury were guests of Mr..
and Mrs. A c. Richie over Sunday.
Miss Attic Field spent Saturday
and Sunday with Mrs. G. "A. Choate.
Mrs. Shaw of Danvilfe is spending
the week with Mrs. Jennie HASTE.
Mrs. Holmes of Jefferson, n. H.,
has been visiting her sister, Mrs.
Hayward.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-11-12
GRoTON
Death of G. Frank Heath

c. Frank Heath whose illness was
reported a few weeks ago, died
Thursday at Hanover, N. f., hospi-
tai. A few days previous to his
death. he was taken to the hospital
with the hope that he would again
be restored to his usual health, but
upon careful examination it was
found that he had a disease of the
liver which is 1ncurable and from
that time his condition grew decided
ly worse. Deceased was born in town
So years ago and one of a family
of several Children. Mr.. Heath was
quiet, home-loving man, devoted
and always tenderly caring for his
invalid wife. The funeral was held
at the home Sunday afternoon at
one o'clock, Rev. f. w. Lewis Off
ciating.
Mrs. John Hatch suffered a shock
Sunday night and died Monday eve
ming. Mrs. Hatch was 20 years old
and is survived by her husband and
four small children the youngest a
baby only a week old.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aaron Page of Til
ton, n. H., were recent visitors in
town.
Mrs. ]. L. Kicker has been quite
sick the past week.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-11-12

send money to that bank by mail
either in check, postal or express
money order or by registered mail
lit assures the depositing public
that in the nearly twenty-five
years of the banks existence not
a dollar sent to it by a depositor
has ever been lost.
A postal addressed to the Presi-
dent, Carroll S. Page, or the Treas
urer, F. M. Culver, Hyde Park,
Vermont, will promptly bring any
desired facts touching this bank.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-11-12
picture Of Mrs. BourI.e Cochran

The November number of Harper's
Bazaar has a local interest in a full
page picture of Mrs. w. Bourke
Cochran, formerly Miss Annie Ide,
daughter of Judge Henry G. Ide.
The picture is from a portrait paint
ed by r.. MacCameron. Accompany
ing the portrait is an article describ-
ing the gift of a birthday to Mrs.
Cochran when she was a little girl,
by Robert Louis Stevenson, who was
a friend of Judge Ide's in Samoa.
The correspondence between Mr.
Stevenson and Judge Ide and his
daughter is published also the deed
Of gift making the 18th of November
which was Stevenson's birthday, the
birthday of Annie Ide whose birth
day was on December rs and giving
her the additional name of Louisa"
Every year Mrs. Cochran observes
her Stevenson Birthday" in the
manner he prescribed and last year
the occasion was honored by the
presence /of EXPIRES. Roosevelt and
an original poem was contributed
by Mrs. Cockran's friend, Alice
Duer Miller.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-11-12

1t is reported from the potato
districts of Maine that the farmers
are wearing high rubber boots and
digging their potatoes through the
ice. If the story concerning the
wetness of the grounds was not so
unbelievable the statement that the
farmers there will lose from $780,
600 to 100000 as the result of
the heavy rains would sound serious.
The real facts seem to be the dealers
want to raise the price of potatoes
twice or three times as high as the
water has been.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-11-12

Those readers who enjoyed George
Harvey's writings in Harper's
Weekly so much will now find equal
pleasure in scanning the pages of
The North American Review. In the
last issue Col. Harvey comes back
with all the freshness and indepen-
dence that has given him high rank
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-11-12
THE PROSPERITY OF YER
MONT SAVINGS BANKS

Hon. f. G.. Williams, our State
Bank Examiner, has recently Civ
en- us a most fattering showing in
regard to the growth of our Yer
mont Savings Banks. He says
the increase during the past year
has been the largest Of any year
in the history Of our Savings
BanksLin round numbers, ST.
100000.
The people of our little common
wealth have not only been wonder
fully prospered during the past
year, but they have been laying
aside some of the fruits of that
prosperity for rainy day.
Go back six years, to 1907, we
find that the total deposits in all
the Savings Banks in Vermont on
the first day of July of that year
were $57, IA, 294.48; on the first
day of july 1913, they were $751;
929, 764.80, gain Of more than 53
percent in the six years most
encouraging showing.
A few of the more prosperous
Banks in the State show much
higher percentage of gain. For
instance, the Hyde Park Savings
Bank on the first day of July,
1907, had $844,158.34 in deposits.
Six years later, on the first day OF
July, 1913, those deposits had in
creased practically three-fold-to
be exact they were on that date,
$2,523, 922.73.
Had the growth in deposits in
all the banks in the State increas-
ed in the same wonderful ratio as
the Hyde Park bank they would
have today amounted IN round
numbers to one hundred and sew
enty million dollars, or substan-
tally twice what they now really
are.
The Hyde Park Savings Bank
has had a growth that is simply
phenomenal, and probably has no
parallel in any country village IN
the United States.
One does not need go far to dis
cover the reason for this. The de-
posting public is proverbially
very cautious and discriminating,
rarely making a mistake. 1t thinks
it sees in the management OF the
Hyde Park Savings Bank an adj
herence to certain well-nown fl
nancial laws which, if closely fol-
lowed always lead to the port OF
safety.
Not a dollar lost by a poor note
IN nearly twenty-five years is a
statement that can be made by
very few banks in this country,
but it can truthfully be claimed
by the Hyde Park Bank.
What does it mean? Simply that
the management Of that bank not
only possess banking and business
Judgment of a high order but it
means as well, that they are most
painstaking and diligent In scru-
timing all securities offered as
basis for loans.
The Hyde Park Bank pays four
percent per ahnu1n, compounded
semi-annually, pays all taxes; and,
as a basis for the claim which it
makes that it is perfectly safe to
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-11-12
Pain in Back and Rheumatism

Torment thousands of people
daily. Don't be one of these suffer-
ers when for so little cost you can
get well rid of the cause. Foley Kid
ney Pills begin their good work from
the very first dose. They exert so
direct an action On the kidneys and
bladder that the pain and torment of
backache, rheumatism and kidney
trouble is soon dispelled. G. G.
Bingham. Adv.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-11-12
among the editorial writer's of

Gov. FIetcher's Thanksgiving pro-
clamation is one of the most sensible
ones written in recent years. There
is very little advice in it to the AL
mighty or the people but it appoints
the day and suggests a proper way
to observe it. That is enough and
the people will do the rest.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-11-12

If any issue OF this newspaper
does not carry the advertising of a
particular store, that stores friends
will conclude that the merchant
must have had nothing of interest
to say or to offer to them at that
particular time.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-11-12

Entered at the st. Johnsbury post
office as second-class mail matter.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-11-12

Local notices, wants. for sale, etc,
cents per woBd first insertion. Legal
notices 10 cents a line three inser-
lions. Probate notices $500 each for
three insertions. Dissolution. liberia
ton and similar notices $3.50 each for
three insertions. Card OF thanks, rs
cents. Obituary poetry, 10 cents a
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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WEST BURKE

A very pretty wedding took place
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs George
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BOatOn-Eagle News Co. 597 Wash
ington and 76 Summer Streets.
LyndOnvllle-Campbe g. Blodgett.
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WEDNESDAY, NOV. IL, 1913
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-19
OPENING DAY
SIMPLY BULLY
CROWDS WAIT IN SNOWSTORM
FOR OPENING AT MISSOULA
MERCANTILE COMPANY.

Facing the wind and snow of one of
the most disagreeable mornings Mis-
SCUBA has experienced this winter
not on account of cold but rather the
unpleasantness of the wet. driving
good-sized Grove was wait
ing before every door of the Missoula
Mercantile company's store at the
opening hour yesterday. When the
doors We're swung back the. people
roWde in upon the opening of the
big stores annual clearance sale like
sheep sWooping down upon a salt lick.
If Roosevelt had walked through the
NJ. NJ. yesterday and had been asked
afterWard what he. thought of the
crowd for an opening day of a midi
winter clearance sale, he would un-
doubtedly have said: why, this is
bully A %standpat republican would
rave mad to agree. 1t was a bully
crowd and it was a buying crowd. too.
1t was a crowd that came early, re-
manned for lunch, kept coming and
buying during the Dime hour and
then spent the wing in the various
departments of the establishment.
n sale which was opened at the
Mlssoula Mercantile yester-
DAY is not a one-department sale. It
extends through the whole store and
to every stock of goods. There is
little one car desire in the way OF
necessities of life, or the ~luxuries
but what can be readily found in some
department Of the store, to which the
sole extends, Every department man.
ager last night reported a great DAYS
business. All of the extra help that
could be pressed into service was used
during the day and yet there was not
enough to attend to all promptly. The
earnest cagerness which the people
displayed yesterday to take advantage
of the special sale offerings is no less
than a tribute to the reputation which
the establishment has acquired through
years Of honest value giving and in
strictly living up to its announced
sales bargains.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-19

portion of it. He said he understood
there was objection on the part
of some of to the fourth section
of the report. He added II am
a member of the resolutions COM
mittee and l am ready to stand
responsible for that resolution. 7
know that it is correct. But, as it
might be the cause. of unnecessary
friction, / move as a substitute for all
pending motions, that the resolutions
be adopted as read, with the elimina-
ton of the fourth section"
This motion prevailed by a vote of
3S to 6. Then the meeting adjourned
after a session of four hours and
twenty minutes.
There was one stirring incident In
the long session. Mr. Evans had
asked DR.. Craighead a question. Pro-
fessor Palmer, who sat in the audi
endn, interrupted to say Montana
has no university
Mr.. Evans replied like a flash,
Montana has a university. And any
membe of the faculty who says she
has not would better go back to where
he came FROM
DR.. C~raighead said: II saw that
Montana has no university"
what l said applies to everybody
said Mr.. Evans. And the incident
closed.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-19
SECOND PERFORMANCE
ON TUESDAY EVENING

AS stated in The. Missoulian yester-
day morning the light opera, "On a
Roof Garden" so successfully staged
and enacted by Donald Macdonald and
his company of amateur player folk,
is to be repeated Tuesday night. AT
the close of the performance. Friday
night the requests for it to be repeated
came in thick and fast and so it was
decided that the second performance
should be given Tuesday evening that
every one might have a chance to see
a real Macdonald production. The
rough edges We're worn off during the
initial performance and the second
SHOULD be. far better than the
first. The prices will be consider
ably reduced for Tuesday night.