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The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-08-03
"lsve Done Smoking"

! We wish all our readers, both among cler-
gy and laymen, who are addicted to the use
of tobacco, draining the purse as we'll as
the fountains of lite by an unwise selt-indul-
gence, would adopt the resolution of the fol-
lowing article from the Peoples Joumal:
I Our friend delivered himself thus, honest
ly and in earnest. AS he emptied his mouth
of the last cigar, our mouth became iull-tul
Of blessings.
Blessed is the man himself. lie is more
wise, more clcanly, more savory and more
reasonable, than when he went smoking and
pulling about like locomotive.
Blessed is the man S wife. She is happi-
er woman for the four reasons mentioned in
the last paragraph, and many more. She
had hoped against hope for the last puff, bu,
it had been made at last. We seem to see
her face brighten, her step is more elastic,
her voice is swee,cr, her welcome to her h,ls-
! band as he reaches home is more cordial
! She has our hearty congratulations.
Blessed is the mans apparel. A certain
fragrance has lett it, but not to the sorrow of
those often in proximity to him. His ward
robe is minus a real annoyance, and plus the
bened:ction Of many friend.
And blessed is the mans health. In the
smoke and fire he so long kept under his nos-
trils, he fed an insiduous enemy. And his
whole nervous and digestive system unite in
the benediction We indite
And blessed is the mans pocket \ leak
is stopped. As much as before will flow i'll.
and less flow out We seem to hear a voice
flom that quarter, There will be better
days in this department Of our Masters do
minion."
And blessed is the mans resolution. May
it tower aloit, like granite pillar, above all
the fire and smoke that may assail it. That
last puff Be it the last . And though the
smokers will not join, there will be enough
to Join in a hearty amen
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-08-03
Great Snake Story.

/ It strikes us-we should not wonder if i
struck others also--that the following ac
count of great sea-sarpient in the London
Illustrated Times is, in spots, an exaggera
ton, or something yet less reliable. Says
the Times:
a week or two since, we quoted al ex.
tract from the log Of one Capt. Taylor
mariner, described as of unimpeachable
veracity, but who has the most marvellous
tale to tell of sea serpent that we have yet
seen. We have since received a sketch fur
nished by Capt. Taylor, representing the
scene described in his log and with the pic.
ture we repeat the story:
"On the 18th of April in lat. l2 deg.
min. Sec, and lon. % deg. % min. f., with
the sun over the main yard, felt a strong
sensation as if the ship was trembling. Sen,
the second mate aloft to see what was up
The latter called out to me to 80 up the fore
rigging and look over the bows. did So
and saw an enormous serpent shaking the
bowsprit with his mouth. There was about
thirty feet of the serpent out of the water
and | could see his tail in the water abaft of
our stern. 1t must have been at least 500
feet long ; was about the circumference of a
wide crinoline petticoat, with black back,
shaggy name, horn on the forehead, and
large slarins eyes placed rather near nose,
and jaws of about eight feet long He did
not observe me, and continued shaking the
bowsprlt. and throwing the sea alongside in
to foam, until the former came clear away
Of the ship. The serpent was powerful e.
nouSh. although the ship was carving all
SAIL and was going about ten knots at the
time he attacked US, 10 stop her way COM
pletely. When the bowsprit, with the lib
boom, sails and rigging, went by the board,
the monster swallowed the foretopmas., stay
sail, jib and flying jib, with the greatest ap-
parent ease lie also snapped the th;ckest
of the rigging asunder like thread. lie
showed off a little after this, and returned ar-
parently to scratch himself against the side
of the ship. making most extraordinary
noise, resembling that on board steamer
when the boilers are blowing off: y whale
preached within mile of the ship at this
time. and the serpent darted off after it like
flash Of lightning, striking the vessel with
his tail, and staving in all the starboarl
quarter gallery with its tail Saw no more
Of it. (Signcd)
WILLIAM TAlLoR,
Master, British Banner.
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farm, Gardfa and 4,iithtn.
From the American Agricul,urist
Prepare the Fruit Bottles.
The Best Method OF Preserving Fruit.

Cherries and raspberries now in the height
of bearing, have uShered in the fruit season,
to be kept up by blackherries, peaches ,plums,
&c, to the end of the luciuus catalogue
Thanks to recent inventions we may prolons
the enjoyment of these cheap and healthful
luxuries beyond the few short months of
their ripening and rejoice in fruits retaining
almost MGr natural treshnessw hen the plants
,ha: bore them are shivering in the winter
gale or sleeping under their snowy covering.
Before us as we write stands wide mouth
ed pint bottle or jar, inverted in small tin
"patty-pan" with cement just covering the
rim around the neck of the jar. In the jar
are peaches put up last August, the jar cork
ed, the cap and cement added and they now
look as if just gathered and made ready for
tea. Being i'll clear glass any change can be
readily noticed. Having during the year
fairly tested the usefulness of glass vessels
for this purpose, we shall hereafter discard
tin, or metal of any kind. For many fruits
and vegetables tin cans answer every pur-
pose, and if glass or earthen-ware were not
obtainable We should use tin for sweet fruits
as formerly, but the comparative cheapness
of glass, the entire absence of injury to the
articles by corrosion of the surface, and the
readiness with which the condition of the
preserves is ascertained are paramount ad-
vantages. No particular form of jar is es-
sential-any bottle with neck wide enough
to receive the fruit will answer. We gave
preference to those having fange about the
mouth, and a shoulder in the neck for the
cork to rest against because of their convea-
fence. The addition of the small pan upon
the top for holding the cement and relieving
the pressure upon the cork makes the shoul-
dered neck unnecessary.
! The essential points to be observed in pre-
serving in this manner are,
! 1st. That the articles be entirely fresh
With soft, pulpy fruits as Strawberries, this
is very important. Many who have been at
fault here blamed the bottles or cans, and US
for recommending them. Berries purchased
| in the market are often from six to thirty
hours gathered or more. Fermentation ad-
vances somewhat before it can be perceived
by the taste, and when once it has started, is
with difficulty arrested. The good house
wife sometimes introduces such fruit into
confinement without sufficient cooking-the
openings are safely closed but the working
goes on. Carbonic gas is generated, "pop'
20 the corks and out runs the frothing syrup
and the housewives hopes together. Fruits
with firm skin give less difficulty because
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-08-03
Douglas III Boston,.

Senator Douglas is making tour through
part of New England, his advent at the
principal towns and cities on the way between
New York and Boston being attended by en-
thusiastic demonstrations from his devoted
followers He reached Boston Tuesday at-
ternoon, and was conducted by a great crowd
to the Revere House. In the evening a ser
enading procession honored him with its at
tendance-Olive Stevens from the balcony
introduced him to the crowd in front, and
welcomed Mr. Douglas to the spot where
Webster addressed them in 1880. Mr..
Doug las said he was proud to speak ''from
the same balcony in advocacy of the same
principles which the immortal Massachusetts
statesman yndicated as the crowning act of
his life" Mr.. Douglas went over his stero-
typed phrases about non-interlerence and
popular sovereignty, and on the right of al!
people to have slavery if they want it.
1.-The Republican party demand the pos
session of the federal government in order
that the power may be welded for the prohi-
bition of slavery in the Territories where the
people want it, while the Southern party de-
mands the possession of the federal govern
ment in order that the whole power of the
government may be welded for the defense
of slavery where the people don't want it,
(Applause, loud and long continued.) These
two sectional parties, in direct conflict with
each other,are producing an irrepressible con-
, tiict which can never be reconciled until YOU
recur to the determination that Congress
shall never interfere with the institutions of
the people anywhere"
! Think of man standing up in the chief
city of Massachusetts and asserting that the
revolutionary sires OF those whom he was ad.
dressing, fought for the right of establishing
Stare institutions if they wanted to. MIR.
Douglas said that for several years "the
whole time of Congress has been employed
in the discussion of the slavery question to
the exclusion of important business affecting
the whole country" Indeed! and who SO
much as Stephen A. Douglas is responsible
for that We think Douglas can take the
palm for impudence from all men now on the
s:age.-Free Press.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-08-03

CsEFCLNESS OF SOOT-This article is often
wasted, being thrown into the ash-heap, or
dumped on the ground at the back door, and
no use made of it. Both science and expert
ence show that it is a valuable manure. If
used as top-dressing to grass it produces a
marked effect. When sown broadcast some
of its ammonia becomes volatilized and is
wasted in the atmosphere. Therefore it
should be mixed with water and applied as
liquid manure. Twelve quarts of SCOT to q
hogshead of water make powerful fertilizer.
1t may be applied to peas, asparagus, straw
berries, raspberries,and to nearly all growing
crops.
If farmers and gardeners more generally
considered that all fertilizers are more useful
when first reduced to a liquid state, they
would take the trouble to bring various ma
nures into this condition before applying
them. "They do these things better in
Spain'-certainly they do in England.-A-
merican Ag,icultmist
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-08-03
TO the Selectmen of the several Towns in
Caledonia county.
Master, British Banner.

wish to call your attention to the follow
ing act passed by our Legislature in 1876
entitled
AN ACT relating to inquests of the dead.
1t is hereby enacted bv the General As
scmby of the state of Vermont. as follows
SEC. |. When the se!ectmen of any town
IN thlS state or any one Of them shall be in
formed that the dead body of any person sup
posed to have died by casualty or violence, is
found lying within such townsuch >clectmen
or man may If in their opinion the public
good require 1t, but not otherwise. apply tc
any justice of the peace of the same county
who shall proceed to inquire into the caus,
and manner of the death of such person.
SEC. >. Such justice of the peace shall
have power to issue Il subpoena and an at.
tachment If necessary, to bring witnesses be-
fore him to give evidence touching the man.
ner and cause of such death, and may take
the testimony of any person ho can give ev-
idence concerning such death.
SEC. 3. 1t shall be the duty of such jus.
tlce to take the substance of the testimony OF
each witness In writing, and return the same
to the county court next to be holden in such
county together with an account of the fees
and expenses of such inquest, which after
having been duly audited by said court, shall
be paid on the order Of said court out of the
state treasury.
SEC. +. In case of felonious killing the
justice taking such testimony shall have pow
er to bind by way of recosnizance. anv wit
nesses IN the case for their appearance be
fore the county court next to be holden in
such county.
SIC. ). All acts and parts of acts incon-
sistent with this act,and also an act to amend
chapter eighty light Of the compiled statutes
relating to the duties of selectmen in cases OF
the discovery of the boGies of deceased per.
sons, approved November ID, 1850, is hereby
repealed.
SEC. 6. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved, Nov. -, 1856.
BY this act you learn that all former acts
in relation to inquests of the dead, are re-
pcaled. We now have a much less expen
sive mode of learning the cause of the deatf
OF person found dead among US. We save
at least the cost of a jury of fifteen men, a,
fifty cents for each. We have had the pres
ent law now four years, land in thattime have
frequently been called upon as court auditor
to allow accounts for the taking of inquests
and not one of them has been taken without
jury. take this method of calling voul
attention to the law aforesaid, that if an in
quest should hereafter be held in any of you,
towns, you will see 10 it that it shall be ia
ken as therein provided.
THERON HOWARD, Court Auditor.
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A Difficult Question Answered.

Can anybody tell why. when Eve was man
ufactured from one of Adams ribs, a hired
girl was lot made at the same time to wait
on her ?-ESchange.
We can, easily. Because Adam never
came home whining to Eve with ragged
stocking to be darned, collar string to be
sewed on, or glove to be mended "right a.
way, quick, now" Because he never read
the newspapers until the sun got down be-
hind the palm trees and then stretched him.
self yawnlng out, "ain't supper most ready,
my dear ~ Not he. He made the fire and
hung over the teakettle himself, and pulled
the radishes and peeled the bananas and did
everything else that he ought to. He milk
ed the COWS and fed the chickens and looked
after the pigs himself He never brought
home half dozen friends to dinner, when
Eve hadn't any fresh pomcsranates and the
mango season was over lie never STAYED
out until II o'clock at ward meeting,
hurrahing for the out and out candidate and
then scolding because poor dear Eve was sit
ting up and crying inside the gates. To be
sure he acted rather cowartily about the ap-
pie gathering time, but then that don't de-
preciate his general hopefulness about the
garden. He never played billiards nor drove
fast horses nor choked Eve with tobacco
smoke. He never loafed around corner gro
ceries while solitary Eve was rocking little
Cain s cradle at home. In short he did no,
think She was specially created for the pun
pose of waiting upon him. and wasn't under
the impression that it disgraccs man to
Tighten his wife's cares little That's the
reason that Eve did not need hired girl.
and We wish it was the reason that none of
her descendants did
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-08-03

stood than it used to be. We see that the
seats in schools are oftener accommodated to
the height of the children !: and if leaning
back is not countenanced, there is more fire.
quent change of posture and of occupation.
Calisthenic exercises, and even the inclined
plane for the relief of the backs offast-grow-
ing girls, are common ights in our day. The
Improvement is marked but the condition
Of school girls needs more consideration than
has yet been given it. Their average Of
health is far below that of boys more of
them will languish in invalidism fewer will
have genuine robust health more, in partic-
ular will die ofconsumption within ten years.
The main cause of this is the unequal deve-
opment of the faculties. There is too much
intellectual acquisition, though not too much
mental exercise, if it were made more gen
eral and there is an almost total absence of
physical education. If the muscles were
called upon as strenuously as the memory to
show what they could do, the long train of
schoolgirls who institute the romance of the
coming generation would flock mcrrily into
ten thousand homes, instead Of parting off
some to gladden. stheir home, certainly, but
too many to the lansuid lot of invalidism, or
to the actual sick-room while an intermina-
bic procession of them is forever Oh its way
to the >emetcry-the foremost dropping into
the grave while the number is kept up from
behind. Many survivor will be still won
dering, with grandchildren round the fire, that
this, that and the other pretty or clever
schoolsellow should have died so early"
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Sflffted 2oetru.
From the independently
The River Path.
by JOHN e.. WHITTIER.

BY JOHN &. WHITTIER.
The following rev and beautiful poem, from
our ever-welcome contributor, will be recog-
nized by those who have ever been near the
cottage, as a Picture of Sunset on the
banks of the Merrimac.-ED. INDEPENDENT.
No bird song foated down the hill,
The tangled bank below was still !;
No rustic from the birchen stem,
No ripple from the waters hem.
The dusk of twilight round us grew,
We felt the falling of the dew;
For. from US. ere the day was done,
The wooded hills shut out the sun.
But on the rivers farther side
We saw the hill-tops glorified-
A tender glow. exceeding fair.
A dream of day without its glare.
With us the damp. the chill. the gloom;
With them the sunsets rosy bloom;
While dark through wilowy vistas seen,
The river rolled in shade between.
From out the darkness where we trOd
We gazed upon those hills Of God,
Whose light seemed not of moon or sun.
We spake not, but our thought was one.
We paused, as if from that bright shore
Beckoned our dear ones gone before
And stilled our beating hearts to hear
The voices lost to mortal ear
Sudden our pathway turned from night;
The hills swung open to the light;
Through their green gates the sunshine showed;
A long. slant splendor downward flowed.
Down glade and glen and bank it rolled;
1t bridged the shaded streams with gold
And, borne on piers of mist. allied
The shadowy with the sunlit side .
$50, prayed we. ''when our feet draw near
The river, dark with mortal fear.
And the night cometh, chill with dew,
y, Father let Thy light break through
SO let the hills of doubt divide,
So bridge with faith the sunless tide
SO let the eyes that fail on earth
On Thy eternal hills look forth;
And in thy beckoning angels know
The dear ones whom we loved below ~
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Written for The Gale DOMAIN.
Starlight.

The gold of sunset on the hills
Buns dimly and afar,
And, shimmering thro' the maple bough
l see the Evening Star.
l mind me Of night. Lenette,
Among the years agone,
When we together watched the stars
Come trembling, one by one.
Your hand lay soft in mine. Lenette,
We walked wit. noiseless tread;
The day was dying on the hills,
But not word you said.
And when I'd breathed one little word,
I'D tried SO long to speak,
only saw the silkcn wings
DrOOp lower on your cheek.
My very heart stood still, Lcnette,
Half frozen with its fears,
A moment-and l knew that l
Was kissing off the tears.
Your eye is dim tonight, Lenette,
Your voice is hushed and low,
And, walking in the twilight now,
Our steps are faint and slow.
Not many more of summer days
Will fade thro' golden bars,
And side by side we two shall lie
At rest beneath the, stars
Then bless we Him. tonight, Lenette,
Who, all the sunlight years
Has led us. till life's evening star
On the nights verge appears.
)ANyILLE, June 10, 1860.
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An Irish emisrant hearing the sunset gun
at Portsmouth asked sailor, What's that?'
why, that's sunset" was the reply. "Sun-
set," exclaimed Pat "and does the sun 60
down in this country with such bang as
that P"
"Why don't you mount a clean collar
Brown ?" l mount one three times day.
"Yes," said Brown to the staggering Jones,
"but every ones mother isn't a washerwo-
man."
Rum, while in hogsheads, is capable of do
ing but little mischief, but when it gets into
mems heads-look out.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1860-08-03

y BIG TKEE.-Col J. S. Stevens of Cali.
tornia alleges that he recently discovered in
the Black Hawk country in Western Utah, a
peir.fcd tree six hundred and sixtv-six feet
in length. At first the Colonel and his party
OF thirty i've men supposed it to be well
defined line of drift wood deposited along the
line Of high water mark Of some ancient riv-
er whose bed is now an elevated mountain
ridge but on closer inspection it was unani-
mously pronounced one tree, as it was dis.
tnctly marked from the upturned roots to its
forks, OF which there were two equally well
defined. commencing about 100 fee, from the
roots. The tree as it lies measures 222o "such
steps as a western frontier man takes when
stepping off his distance 10 shoot at a target
and Col. $. thinks the tree must have meas
ured 200 or 500 feet in height when stand
ing. He refers to his companions to corrob
crate has statements.
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a Young lady entered shop recently and
inquired for ladies' nose. The boy present
ed them for the lad,'s inspection.
GLOW high do they come - she asked.
well, | don't know, but | suppose they
Will come abom 10 tie kH,,s.'
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kept, but they needito be thoroughly cooked

kept, but they needito be thoroughly cooked
before bottling, or they are liable to spoil.
We repeat, in closing, that though We have
made long chapter in giving particulars the
process of putting up in bottles and cans, We
find to be less trouble and labor, than the old
fashioned mode of preserving" in sugar,
while less sugar is required, and swsetmeat
or sauce is thus obtained, far superior in ap-
pearance, in taste, and especially in heal,hful-
ness.
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4. lS. G A G. E, Artist.
At ST. JOHNSBURY PORTRAIT GALLERY
rBaJIYFEs, MELAISOTYPEs, AND SIZE PHOTOGRAPH:
Better and cheaper than elsewhere.
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Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-11-09

TRUE.-A French writer, in describ-
ing the condition of women in France,
thus speaks Of their wretchedness
Daughters-no public education for
them, no professional tuition, no pos
slble life without marriage, no marriage
without dowry. Wives they do not
legally possess their property, they do
not possess their persons, they cannot
give, they cannot receive, they are un-
der the ban Of an eternal prohibition.
Mothers-they have not the legal right
to direct The education Of their children,
they can not marry them, nor prevent
their being married, nor exile them
from the paternal abode, nor keep them
there. Members Of the commonwealth
they have no power to be guardians
Of other orphans than their own sons,
Of their grandsons, nor to take part in
a family council, nor to witness they
have not the right to testify in the
State to the birth Of a child. Among
the working people what class is most
wretched? Women. Who are they
that earn from sixteen to eighteen aous
for twelve hours Of labor? Women.
Upon whom falls all the expense Of
Legitimate children Upon the women.
Who bear all the disgrace Of faults
committed from love p? Women.