St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-07-24
Public Opinion.

he reason why Massachusetts has
seemed To do more in shaping the ma
ti"mal lcgi>lati"n. lies in the fact hat
she has usually chosen men of brains
and character Ia represent her. and has
not allowed personal claims for rotation
i'll office, the clamols of locality. "r 9th
cr trivial rcaSon> to deprive her of the
services of Il valuable man when She
had found him. " orccSty Spv.
1t strikes lis that good policy for Mas
SachuScttS is equally good for Vermont.
Good roads have made the fortune Of
switzerland they are making the for
tune of Newport : and they would mike
the forum" of the Hudson river. \
broad. wcll-kcpt. macadamiZcd route.
running up tn the Highlands. with oc-
cISiunal branches. and with good side
walks. would bring back to real estate
owners. we have no doubt. the happy
hopeful times ot fifteen Years ago. The
condition of ouI country roads alone i
enough Ia send any man to Europe in
SUMMER who loves either walking or
riding. We need Il state of thugs in
which Il man need not possess horses of
matchless speed t" prevent people
giving him their dust" -Ncw York,
Nation.
Persons of the non-dog owning class
may Ice unfortunate. but we hope that
even Mr.. Bcrgh will admit that their
misfortune merits some consideration.
They are apt to think that the dog
owners have no more right To suffer
their animals to smell and snap around
the legs of the peaceful non-owncr and
-admlrcr than they have t" kick the
shinS of the same class. y lady rides
10y Il gate in the country, and ont flies
IL dog barking ut her horse. to her very
serious peril. The owner does not
seem tn he conscious that il would be-
no greater offence. nor put the rider in
greater danger. if he should stand ut
his gate and crack Il whip and fling
stones ut the horse as he passes Hr-
perS Weekly.
Sooner or later Il city will he burned
up which is built of wood. Just Us thea
tiers are, for the simple reason that the
preponderancr in them of intiammahlc
material is 81 great that any tIitling ac-
cident may lead to contlagration. and
once on fire they can never lie saved.
As pant of the necessity persistence in
Il large city, individuals must SuIrcn-
der the light to live in inllamnahlc
houses. But nothing short of ruin
seems sufficient To convince the major
ity that this is anything but tyranny. -
NcT York Tribune.
When IL man works ten hours Il day
he has to get up ut six o'clock in the
morning (if he lives any distance from
his work, ut half past iive). swallows
his breakfast and rHShcs of He
stops work ut six, gets home 10y from
half past six to seven, and gets through
his supper by half past seven. As to
get up so early he has To he in bed h>
ten O'Clock. on an average he has just
about two hours out of the twcutv-four
left for his own use, and this at time
when he Is tired ont, and when his chill
dren must he in he'd. Now is this the
kind oflite that an intelligent American.
educated i'll our common schools and
with the duties he owes to his family
and society pressing upon him, ought to
live? We do not believe it. 1t might
be very good life for IL machine. but
not for Il man, Two hours of such lei
sure as the tcn-hour working man gets
is not worth the expenditure of the
other Twenty-Five San Francisco Post
The Springfield Republican hegs the
''aggrieved statesmen" at Washington
to come on ut once with their bears.
It, rather aches to he carried off to the
shore of the Potomac. 1t would glory
in being Il martyr. Mr.. Bowlcs can't
forget his short incarceration in Lud-
low street Jail. Artemas Ward said it
would have been ten cents in jeff. Da-
Wis pocket if he had never been born
and MIR. B"wles would rather have been
ut least ten cents out of pocket than
have missed that opportunity of easy
martyrdom. In the Republicans tone
of gratuitous challenge there is discern
IDLE Willingness to undergo little of
the same experience again. Indeed we
fancy the ''independent journalists
would he keenly disappointed if it
should turn out that there were no gag
law" at all and that they couldn't at
tract any attention or run any risk of
notorlety, no matter how furiously they
might scold.-Aibany Erening Jo"rnal.