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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-04-08

Miss Julia Walter of West Burke
is working for Mrs. Herman Butter
field.
Jennie Carter OF West Burke visit
ed in town last week.
Mrs. Esther Counter of East Burke
visited relatives in town last week
Mrs. May ellison visited her daugh-
ter, Mrs. George Phillips at East
Burke, last week.
Miss Johnson of Centervale has
been guest of her friend, Miss Grace
Carter.
The Methodist Ladies' Aid Society
met with Mrs. J. S. Butler on Thurs
day afternoon.
c. L. Hoyt, who is stopping with
his sister, Mrs. Lorinda Daniels, has
been very i'll with acute indigestion.
A social evening was held at the
rectory last Wednesday evening, with
games and light refreshments
Holy Week is observed this week
by services every day and evening at
the Episcopal church.
Albert Stone is one of the recent
sufferers with the mumps.
Charles Norris with his youngest
son, Donald, was a recent visitor
in town.
MIS-. john NOIIAS anu nIIle son
are both much better, and gradually
gaining in health.
Mrs. Maria Lanctot of ST. Johns
bury has been with her mother, Mrs.
]. L. Watchie.
H. w. Lyster was in Montreal re-
Gently to visit j. G. Eaton, who is
still in the hospital there. Mr.. Eaton
is gaining slowly and as soon as he
is able, will go to Indianapolis to
spend some time with his daughter,
Mrs. Dudley Brewer.
The Congregational Ladies Aid
Society met with Mrs. G. j. Bundy
last Friday afternoon.
The Waller children, David, Gerald
and Geraldine, were with friends in
North Troy for a week of their vaca-
ton.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-04-08

An April Fool Party at the Home of
II. A. Darling-David Silsby
Very Ill With A Shock

Mr.. b. A. Darling and Miss Louise
Darling entertained a party of ten
at dinner at Burkelyn hall the even
ing of April first. The feast was
enlivened by special features ap-
propriate to the day, and was a most
delightful party.
An April Fool trick was played
on the railroad last Wednesday,
when a freight engine burst a tire
near the Vail electric plant, and had
to limp into the yard on three legs,
holding back the express and the
mail, so that they left the station
over two hours late.
The ladies of the Universalist
church serve an Easter supper in the
vestry this Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. L. @. Todd and daughter,
Beth, from West Somerville, Mass,
spent Sunday with friends in town.
Mrs. Patton, the nurse who lives
on Smith street, fell down stairs last
week and broke her leg besides other
quite serious injuries.
ID. G.. Beckwith went to Lowell,
Mass, last week to look about and
decide whether he would go there to
work in the Billerica shops. Several
of the passenger men here have been
given an opportunity to go to Billerica
and some will go while those who are
not situated so they can make such a
change conveniently may be given
work in the freight department.
David NJ. Silsby, who came last
week to spend the summer in his
house here, suffered a shock Satur-
day and is in quite a serious condi-
ton. Mrs. Silsby was sent for at
once and came from New York to
care for him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Silsby are at
home, having been for several weeks
travelling in the south.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. l.. Wells and Mr..
and Mrs. Austin Paige were in New
port last week Tuesday to attend a
very successful banquet and Ladies'
Night given by the Knights Templar.
A little daughter was born Fri
day to Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph nj. Spenc-
er, and lived but a short time. Mrs.
Spencer is as well as can be expected.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-04-08

Herbert Clark, who has been en-
ployed by the village the past year
on sidewalk work, has moved to Bos-
ton, where he has employment Mrs
Clark has gone to Mortified, where
she was called by the death OF her
mother.
Mrs. Clarence Hudson recently en-
tertained her sister and husband, Mr..
and Mrs. Warren Oxley of Boston,
who were on their way to Chicago
Leon Densmore was in town for a
few days last week.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-04-08
FreckIe-Face

sun and Wind Bring Out Ugly Spots,
How To Remove Easily
Here's a chance, Miss Freckle-face,
to try remedy for freckles with the
guarantee of a reliable dealer that it
will not cost you a penny unless it
removes the freekles; while if it does
give you a clear complexion the ex-
pense is trifiing.
Simply get an ounce of othine-
double strength from w. b. Eastman
and few applications should show
you how easy it is to rid yourself of
the homely freckles and get a beauti-
full complexion. Rarely is more than
one ounce needed for the worst case.
Be sure to ask the druggist for the
double strength othine as this is the
prescription sold under guarantee of
money back If it fails to remove
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-04-08
Reliable-FoIey's Honey and Tai
Compound

Just be sure that you buy Foley's
Honey and Tar Compound-it is a
reliable medicine for coughs, colds,
Group, whooping coughs, bronchial
and la grippe coughs, which are
weakening to the system. 1t also
gives prompt and definite results for
hoarseness, tickling throat, and stuffy
wheezy breathing. @. G. Bingham
adv.
The Washington times., 1914-09-24
SIGNS OF A DROUGHT.

With warning armies tramnling
the vineyards of France and wineries
converted into arsenals, the lover of
the bubbling glass may be compelled
either to go dry or slake his thirst
with products of less afflicted indus
tries. The normal yearly consump-
ton of champagne in the United
States is around a quarter of n mil
lion cases, each containing one dozen
quarts, or about one bottle to thirty
FIVE inhabitants. 1t is quite certain
that the vintage of 1914 will be as
rare the dodo in the cellars of our
connoisseurs, and there is also fear
that the products of last season and
Of former vintage years of priceless
value have been commandeered by
thirsty invaders.
The outlook for the confirmed
champagne drinker is not of the
rosiest, end even now the reduced
poppings along the Great White
Way are costing appreciably more to
the pop. There is sore consolation
for the thirsty In the fact that pro-
hibition has not yet put the wine
growers of California entirely out Of
business and that beer is still orewed
IT. plenty. While the war tax bill
proposes to exact contributions from
both those beverages the added cost
should not BE prohibitive cf reason
able Use, ard, in any event, some
people can put up with the hard cider
cf New England.
The Washington times., 1914-09-24

obviously merely diplomatic, that
there is little chance Of the public
failing to strike reasonably accu-
rate average of judgment. The Dip
lomats have been entrusted, seeni-
ingly. with the task of conducting 4
propaganda to influence American
opinion one way or the other. Al
together tco many lll-conSldered
statements have been given out IN
connection with this effort. 1t IS
rather too much to presume that the
newspapers will checrfully assume
the blame for mistakes of diplomats
who are so ready to use the press for
their particular purposes, and then
to repudiate it when Developments
indicate that a faux pas has been
committed.
The Washington times., 1914-09-24
UTILIZING THETROLLEYS

Mr.. J. H. Sherman, superintendent
Of markets for the District, in the
brief time nf his official service, has
impressed the community that he is
exactly the right man in the right
place; and very important place it
is. He has not conceived that the
sum of his duty to the public was to
be represented in the testing CT
scales and coca sional prosecutions Of
people who manipulated their bal
ances to the purpose of buying at
long and selling at short weights.
Instead, he has set about the task
CT providing the city with a public
marketing establishment designed to
bring producer and consumer to-
gethar and to reduce and stabilize
the cost of living.
A day or two ago The Times
commented on the effort of the Phil
;tdelphia trolley corporations and the
public market authorities to estab-
lish a great farmers market in that
city, to which supplies should be
brought direct from the surrounding
country by way cf the network Of
trolley lines which ramifes the irib-
utary agricultural district. Mr..
Sherman, in letter to The Times
observes that such a market is part
of the general plan he has in con-
temptation, and adds:
The utilization OF the trolley facilities
Of Washington and surrounding cour-
try for the Improvement Of quantity and
quality Of locally raised produce on
the Washington market has been from
the start an essential part of the mar
kct system with which | have hoped to
equip the District if popular approval
and Congressional appropriations can
b,' secured.
We need trolley freight service in
Washington between midnight and a.
day. for the return Of emptie3 and such
outgoing freight traffic IA may develop.
As ! understand the case. legal OBJ
stncIes now exist.
Superintendent Sherman does not
indicate in his letter the nature Of
the legal obstacles. Doubtless they
are concerned NOR or less with the
generally uneconomic system OF
operating two street car organlZa-
tions in the city, and with the gen
eral difficulties of making real pub
tic service facilities out of business
enterprises whose primary purpose
is profit, ard with which the idea of
giving the largest measure of service
is decidedly secondary. Yet the ad-
vantages Of cooperation with the
public authorities in so popular a
program as this ought surely to ap-
peal to the managen,ents of the
street railways. The Times has
CROUCH confidence in the intelligence
and right disposition Of III" men who
dominate the intramural and cx-
tramural trolley services of the town
to believe they will be glad to unite
The Washington times., 1914-09-24

fortify banks instead OF relieve the
needs of the banks customers.
Hoardinr by banks is a practice
closely related to the plan put out
lately from one Southern financial
center, and criticised in this paper,
cf cutting off the banking accommo-
cations of planters unless they agree
to do certain kind of farming. 1t
was proposed to refuse credit facili-
ties to planters unless they agreed
to reduce by ore half their paintings
Of cotton for next years crop. That
would, as has already been pointed
out, amount to most extraordinary
use of the consolidated money power.
Undertaken by the banks of New
York or Chicago, it would be de-
nounced as the last tyranny of a con-
scienceless money trust. 1t is no
more proper procedure for the pro-
vincial institutions of the section
that is just now most urgent in the
demand for financial support,
1t is not possible that boarding or
refusal of reasonable credit has been
very generally attempted. The bank;
as rule are in the hands of men
who know that such procedure would
be ruinous. Those institutions that
do not realize their obligations to
their customers and to the public in
terest in general, will be reminded
sharply by the vigorous criticism
and the effective measures of the
Secretary.
The Washington times., 1914-09-24
NEW MEXICAN REVOLT.

The break between Villa and Ca
rama in Mexico has come at last
in definite fashion. 1t has been
known for a long time that the two
leaders of the revolt against Huerta
were not in harmony, and American
sentiment mas tended to the view
that Villa represented the better un-
derstanding of Mexican needs, and
the sounder program for rehabilita-
ton of the country.
An incident, as might have been
expected, led to the actual break
between the two leaders. Back Of
the incident lies a maze of conditions
which are but vaguely understood
here. Whatever the merits, the
Washington Government is placed
in a most difficult position; but it
must be kept in mind that its pos
ition is not 50 grave as III the for
mer revolt. There is at least the
assurance that this new affair will
be, so far as it is the affair of the
United States at all, exclusively our
business. There will be TO inter-
ference of other countries. What is
quite as important, there will be no
suspicion of foreign interference. 1t
will be useless for intriguing political
or business interests to attempt to
scare the American public with the
bogie of intervention. The other side
of the world has its hands too full.
II will be a fearful misfortune if
ancther outbreak of Sighting shall
result from the present conditions.
Carranza occupies much the same
position that Huerta held a few
weeks ago. He is in possession Of
the seat of government and the in
struments Of administration, but the
prepcnderance of military force is
against him; probably, also, of public
feeling. Villa has been amenable to
suggestion and counsel from Wash
irgton, where Carranza has been the
reverse; yet in the present situation
Villa is placed in the position of be-
ing apparently wrong, while Car
rama, at least in the particular in
cidert which commands attention,
seems to be within his rights,
The Washington times., 1914-09-24
HELP FOR THE HELPLESS.

Out in Detroit an organized effort
is already afoot to guard against
the city becoming host to a great
horde of unemployed The coming
ninter. 1t is proposed that an al
lance If employers be formed,
rleGged to give preference, when
erploying labor, to citizens of De-
troit; specifically 20 those who can
rrove they have lived there six
months or more.
1t is believed that widespread
knowledge of such rule would pre-
vent thousands of unemployed from
going to Detroit Last winter the
rurber of these was So great as to
present well-nigh insuperable
problem tn the municipal authorities.
That sort of a regulation in all
cities would Of course leave matters
lust where they were at the begin
ring; each community would have
It's own unemployed 20 care for. ano
On the whole it would be easier than
if they were shuff1e,l about all over
the country.
Without doubt the coming winter
is going to be a hard one for an
unusually large number of people.
Some early recognition Of the prob
ieni, and measures for dealing with
it. woold be creditable to municipal,
State, and National Administrations
Politicians will gain little by shut
ting their eyes to the problem, an
nouncing that the country is pros
porous, and insisting that there is
nc problem of the uuemployed.y Shut.
ting eyes to facts doesn't change the
facts. The facts neei not necessarily
be 4 reproach tc lny5ody's politi-
cal party; but refusal 20 admit the
facts, and to act accordingly, will
be decided reproach to every re-
sponslble authority.
The Washington times., 1914-09-24
The Way Of a Woman.

The way of a woman is Gods own way
OF making a beautiful thing of life:
OF healing the hurt of the toiling day
OF lifting with love the shadows Of
strife;
OF reaching our SORROW aDd cark and
care
with the inner sweet Of her perfect
soul;
OF giving us courage to trust and to
bear
OF helping us grow to the life that's
whole.
The way Of a woman is Gods own
creed
OF patience and sweetness through
all that comes;
The grief and the sorrow. the cross
and the deed.
The, trumpet's call or the roll Of
drums;
OF making us better that she is near,
OF keeping us better that she hath
borne
The gift of the aching heart and the
tear.
The grace Of the glory Of golden
morn
The way of q woman is Gods own law
That unto the lives around her feet
Her love shall lift US to holy awe
And make us better. and true. and
sweet,
And make us wiser, than merely wise.
And make us stronger than merely
strong,
To struggle and strive for the peace
that lies
In the rest that floats from the wings
OF song
The Washington times., 1914-09-24
BOARDING BY BANKS.

Secretary of the Treasury NcAdoo
Fas announced that Government de-
rosits will not be extended further
to banks which hoard cash instead
of using it at reasonable rates for
the accommodation of their Gus
toners; and further, that he should
refuse to make further issues of
emergency currency 20 hanks which
do not use it on reasonable terms
for The benefit of business.
1t Is manifestly impossible for the
Government to relieve business by
any possible liberality with its own
money or in issues of new currency,
if the banks shall nulIjfy these eff
forts by boarding cash. Complaints
# this kind against the metropolitan
banks were recently investigated in
detail, and it was proved that there
was no basis for the charges. South
crn banks, however, are charged
with a like course in some cases. and
the Secretary Ct the Treasury indi-
-ates by the tone of his announce
ment that he is convinced that in
some cases the charges are well
grounded.
This is time that demands the
utmost circum spect;on in the use of
al the MONEY and all the sound
credit of the country. The South has
been most insistent on getting help
from the Government, and from the
community at large in meeting tic
exigency presented by the loss of it's
cotton market. The country is will
ing and anxious that this help be ex-
tended; but it cannot possibly reach
the needy masses of people if it is
held up in transmission and used tn
The Washington times., 1914-09-24

of its existence there has been no
discord or factional strife The
members work for the single object
Of the preparation of concerts. and
as little disturbing routing of or
ganization as possible is introduced.
Around the musical director is an
advisory board. The untiring efforts
of this committee have made a pri-
mary factor in the society's success.
For the past two seasons this COM
m:ttee has been made up of E. R s.
Embrey. executive chairman; Mrs.
Embrey, Charles l. Smell. Louis
Thompson. George Davis: Miss Jane
Stier. secretary; Miss Annie Scan
nell. treasurer: John Waters. NJ.
Braithawaite; Robert n. Atkinson,
librarian.
The first rehearsal Of this season
will take place in the parish house
of st. Johns Church. at o'clock on
October S. An invitation has been
issued to singers wishing to join to
present themselves at that time for
membership.
The Motet Choral Society recently
has received two autograph letters
from Granville Bantock and from
Joseph Holbrooke, who stand among
the first of modern English COM
posers. Compositions of these COM
posers were sung at concerts last
season.
The Washington times., 1914-09-24

with the public authorities in such an
enterprise as Superintendent Sher-
man has outlined. If they take a
less public-spirited view, it will pro-
vide one more argument il favor of
public ownership.
There Is a wide field for utiliza-
tion of the interurban and rural
trolley lines hereaoouts, in serving
public market and in5ur:ng regu-
lar and fresh supplies for it. The
system of lines, while not SC goo
as many other cities can boast, is
none the less far in advance of the
measures that have been taken for
IT'S utilization in the publlc's behalf.
The Washington times., 1914-09-24

also Is a pupil of Emil Behnke. of
London. He collaborated with Mar
chest. of Paris, and with prominent
maestri of Milan, Italy. For five
years he was instructor OF singing
and choral training AT the Peabody
Conservatory. Baltimore.
In Washington Mr.. Simon has di-
rected the Musical Art Society. the
Church Choral Society, and the Po-
lymnia Chorus. which for four sea-
sons met at the home of Mrs. Her
bert Wadsworth.
Singleness of Purpose.
In his work with the choral society,
Mr.. Simon Is assisted both in re-
hearsals and concerts by Mrs. Simon
at the piano. Mrs. Simon is an ex-
ponent Of the method of Tobias Mat
thai. Of London, and also is a pupil
of Godowsky. of Vienna. The artis-
tic success of the Motet Society's
Concerts have been largely due to the
sympathy between conductor. chorus.
and accompanist. George Wilson also
has assisted ably at the piano dur
ing the past season, both as accom-
panist and ensemble accompanist.
This same harmony and singleness
of purpose exists between members
of the organization. In the six years
The Washington times., 1914-09-24

To the Editor of THE TINES
If Germans think that such state
ments as those appearing in your issue
of Monday under the name of Joanna
Bornsen are likely to do their cause any
good, they are immensely mistaken.
The whole poem shows forth clearly
just exactly the spirit which has turned
the world against Germany-the desire
TO ''smite with the mailed fist
In the beginning of this war Germany
states in its diplomatic documents that
II goes into conflict entirely on account
of being. as an ally. bound to aid Aus
t1a- In this poem and in the state
ments now coming from Germany the
1eason is given that France would
destroy German possessions" that
England is a traitor and that BEL
gium is a traitor also
Now. not only is II impossible to go
to war for events which happen after
Germany places her forces in the field
but these statements by Germans are
So ridiculous that it must mean the
writers are ignorant or suppose we
Americans are. All know that Germany
violated most shamefully its written
guarantee of Belgium's neutrality; that
1t invaded France not France Ger
many; and that England was not even
prepared and would not haze taken part
except for Germany's perfidy in de-
stroying a weak nation, regarding its
word Of honor as scrap of paper"
which meant nothing. The more of
such arguments We get the worse Ger
many's case looks.
@
The Washington times., 1914-09-24
The Silver
Lining
Edited by ARTHUR BAER.

That lull in the hostilities is the calm
Just before those Missouri mules get
there.
Don't know whether AmeriCus YES
pucci or Christopher Columbus disCov-
cred America. but were glad he did.
Ogling the spelling of East European
hanllets, looks as if the Balkan alpha
bet starts at W. and ends at =
It's almost time for the optimist to see
An optometrist
The Washington times., 1914-09-24
To the Editor OF THE TINES:


That wonderful poem The Day"
printed in your paper at the request
of Il. X NJ" is surely a masterpiece
and no doubt will be recited by all
Englishmen when they are gathered
together in reminiscent war views.
After reading The Day one is left
with the awful feeling of silent sor-
row for the woman that is left in
want. Apropos of this is poem en-
titled THE Way Of a Woman" The
poem not only makes us think of
those left behind. but Of those noble
nurses of the Red Cross and those
strong-hearted and wonderful Sisters
of Mercy, who have given up their
all to go forward and do more than
their duty in this awful war. The
name of the author of The Way OF a
Woman" | do not know. but I came
across il in copy of the Baltimore
Sun, and / submit II to your con-
sideration as many of your readers
would no doubt enjoy reading it.
Truly yours,
IRVING NJ. GREY.
The Washington times., 1914-09-24
What's on the Program in
Washington
Today.

Meetings, evening
Masonic-The New Jerusalem Lodge. No. o.
George 4. Whiting. No. -. and Temple
Moves. No. 81: Washington Chapter No =
Royal Arch: william +. Hunt Chapter. No.
16 Order OF the Eastern Star
National Union-BancrOft Council and Dahl
gren Council.
knights of Pythias- Harmony Lodge. No. 81.
odd FelIows-COlumbia Lodge No 10: Salem
No - and Excelsior. No Il.
The Washington times., 1914-09-24
Tomorrow.

Meetings. evening:
N.suniC-St Johns Lodge. No H. and Hon,
No. %: Eureka 'hapttr. No. I. and capitol
II. Cathedral. No. a. st Johns odre
Chapter. No. IS. and Ascension a. il
Order of the Eastern star.
National Union-F.ast Washington Council
and Mckinley Council
knights OF fythias-Syra cusians Lodge NO
TO- and Rathbono superior. No. "a Eath-
bone Temple. No 6. Pvthan Sisters
Odd Fellow s-Centrsl Lodge, Ne. J: Mctrupo-
lis No. IS and Phoenix No. :. Martha
waShinSton. No. Z RebekAh Lodge.
The Washington times., 1914-09-24
MAIL BAG
(From The Times Readers)

Communications to the NAH Eay must
be written on one side OF the paper
only; must not exceed go words in
length and must be signed with name
and address OF the sender The pub
iication of letters in The Times Mail
Bag does not mean the endorsement
by The Times of the opinions of the
writer. The Mail Bag Is an open forum
where the citizens OF Washington can
argue moot questions
The Washington times., 1914-09-24
AmusementS.

Bclasco-''The Money Makers" $50 n m
National-"The Better Way" SIS p m.
Poli's-''The Squsw Man" Els and l., II m
Columbia -'Neptune's Daughter" c:2J ana
$50 p. m.
Keith's-Vaudeville. 2:15 and S.I5 D m
Gayety-RurIesque. {" Is and IL d m
COsmos-EaudeVillc. continuous
Casino-NaudeVi willie. afternoon and evening
Crandall s-MotOn pictures. continuous
Nv to" diamond Palace" 2.lJ and SIS II n,