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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-09-28
Tnrai md STATE Jlews.

Splendid weather this year for the
fairs. Those at Bradford and Morris
vile close to-day.
The new Free Baptist church is
plastered, and is now being frescoed by
some Lowell painters.
A little girl picked up lady's
No. 81 right hand glove near North
Church, Wednesday.
DR.. Colby, of Cambridge, Mass, gave
an interesting lecture on temperance at
the Free Baptist Church, on Tuesday
evening, to a very small audience.
The annual meeting of the Vermont
Branch of the WOman's Board of
Missions, will be held in this place,
Wednesday, Oct 3Est.
The "equinOctial" was almost a
failure in these parts. 1t rained good
for few hours on the 21st, and then
cleared off as pleasant as ever.
The annual state convention of the
\. NJ. c. A. and Churches meets al
Cambridge, Tuesday evening Oct. 9th,
holding through Wednesday and Thurs
day.
Hard on the school scholars :-TC
compel them to buy blank paper to dc
their figuring on instead of using thell
States. The aggregate sum amounts to
great tax.
The surest sign after all that the
hot weather is over, is the disappear
ance of Bingham's soda fountain, anC
the temperance of Southmayd's choice
confectionery in its place.
Olive Branch Lodge No. 4, Daugh
tiers of Rebekah, will give an oyste
supper at their hall, in Odd Fellow
Block, Thursday evening, Oct. 4th
Admission, including supper, 25 cents
The public are invited.
Will some one send us the old orig
mai Mother Shipman's Prophecy 7
1t came out some years ago in variou
papers, and being very singular liter
airy production, we want to publish
IN It's entirety.
The p. & o. brought over 10
tubs of butter into this place from sta
S'l"nS west, the present week. In
freight coming east has been so heavy a
TO require an extra train or a ''helpeI
every day for more than week.
Although the autumn tints are get
ing to he very beautiful, the prOspet
Is that they will not he nearly as gorge
Gus as usual, owing to the ripening I
the foliage, instead of the usual tintir
by the frOsts.
Chief Police Ward of this place, a
rested one p. P. Morgan, at his mot
ers in Barnet, Monday night, al
lodged him in jail for larceny of a go
watch and chain of Mrs. VIM. Greelt
OF Boston. Detective Hines of Bosto
arrived same night, and Tuesday NOR
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-09-20
Thomas Carlyle's Father.

Of the five brother masons, James Car
lyle, though not the eldest, was the virtu-
al leader. The brothers usually worked
together, but it was James who acted as
''master," making contracts for building
and repairing cottages, the others work.
ing under him, if not quite as servants,
yet in some sort of dependency. James
Carlyle was acknowledged far and wide,
not only as the most skillful man at his
trade, but sagacious in all his undertake
ings, and with a store of knowledge, de-
rived from study and observation, that
was the establishment of strangers with
whom he came in contact. He was par
ticularly noted for his habit of using
quaint and uncommon expressions, de-
rived, probably, from extensive reading
of old books, chiefly such as related to
the times of the Reformation and the
deeds of the Covenanters. There now
lives at Ecclefechan, where she was born
and spent all her life, an old lady, past
ninety, yet still full of intelligence and
vivacity, Mrs. Mulligan, who remember
ing James Carlyle most distinctly, was
able, when asked, to give a singularly
striking account of him. "Old James,
aye! What root (originaD of bodie
he was" the old lady exclaimed, with
singular animation; faye, curious bodie
he beat this warld. A spirited bodie; he
would sit on no mans coat-tails. And
sic stories he could tell! Sic sayings.
too! Sic names he would give to things
and folk! Sic words he had as were
never heard before!'' Continuing her de-
scription of James Carlyle, of whom she
evidently was sincere admirer, Mrs.
Mulligan added, in answer to question,
ut is not true that he was ever an elder
of the kirk. He never belonged to the
auld kirk; he and all his brothers were
members of the Relief Church here. He
never held any office that knew of; nay,
not he; but he always spoke out his mind
at meetings." And, in answer to another
question, the old lady went on with her
description of James Carlyle: "He was
the best of the brothers; there Gamma be
any dOOt about that. But l think they
sometimes led him into trouble. He was
a good scholar, he could do his ain bust
ness we'll, and was looked up to as a
knowing bodie. He had old fashioned
words, like nobody else. He red muckle;
he was great talker, wee gifted with
the tongue. 1t was muckle treat to be
in his house at NIGHT, to hear him tell stO-
ries and tales. But he was always a very
strict old bodie, and could bear no con-
tradiction." Such was James, the father
of Thomas Carlyle.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-09-20
The Origin of Vaccination.

All honor to the name of the immortal
Jenner, who sleeps in his quiet grave on
the green cliffs Of FolkestOne. What a
glorious morning "for England, home,
and beauty" was that of the 14th of May,
1856, the birthday of vaccination! On
that day matter was taken from the hand
of Sarah Nelmes, who had been infected
while milking her masters COW, and this
matter was inserted by two superficial in
cisions into the arms of James Phipps, a
healthy boy of about eighteen years of
age. He went through the disease in a
regular and satisfactory manner; but the
most agitating part of the trial still re-
NAMED to be tried. 1t was needful to as
certain whether he was free from the con-
tagion of smallpox. This point, so full
of anxiety to DR.. Jenner, was fairly put
to issueon the first of the following July
| Smallpox matter, taken Immediately
from a smallpox pustule, was carefully
inserted by several missions, but no dis
ease followed. Now, by this one simple
and brave experiment upon the lad james
Phipps, DR.. Jenner established law
which the experience of millions upon
millions of human beings, in generations
since, has only served to strengthen. 1t
is wonderful, too, to think that there can
be single individual in these islands who
cannot see, at a glance, the simplicity,
beauty, and truth Of this law. There is
no contagion in the world SO certain and
sure as the contagion of small pox-not
even that of hydrophobia or rabies in
the dog. The very emanatiops or exha-
lations from the body of any one sick of
the small pox, is breathed by a healthy
person, are, in many instances sufficient
to induce the disorder; and yet there is
this healthy young boy, James Phipps,
who receives the smallpox matter into his
very blood, and still he does not take the
disease !-CdsselEs Magazine.
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disfavor, and ceased to be sold at the
roadside inns and taverns, formerly their
principal depots; and none were made in
that old English town, except, suppose,
now and then a painful on the sly, by
some white-haired old baker, just to see
that the cunning had not left his hand,
or perhaps for his pretty grand children
who had heard their fathers talk many a
time of the battle Of Bsnbury Cross, and
wondered how the cakes tasted whose
name had passed into proverb.
Now, when Charles IL. became King
of England, that monarch "who never
said foolish thing and never did wise
one" the Banbury bakers began to see
bright times ahead of them, and to get
down old dusty receipt books that had
been laid away ON the shelves by their
fathers with leaf turned down at "Ban-
bury cakes" For Merrie Monarch had
come to rule them who lived for the in
diligence of his appetite and cared little
for matters of state or party quarrels.
And so once more the time came when
hungry, belated travellers, stopping at
English inns on country roads, were
served with tankards of foaming ale and
hot Banbury cakes to send them on their
way rejoicing.
At the present day these cakes are
more widely sold than ever, and in 1S41
five thousand were sold weekly, large
shipments being made to America and
India. On the marriage of Victoria AIDE
laide, the Queens eldest daughter, to
Frederick William, of Prussia, the Ban
burians rebuilt the cross in honor of the
ceremony. Every year they exhibit a
pageant in which lady, beautifully
dressed, rides through the town upon a
white horse. She is preceded by Robin
Hood, Little John, and Friar Tuck; a
company of archers, with bands Of music,
flags and banners, follow. After march
ing up and down the principal streets
they halt in front of the cross, where the
lady, Maid Marian, distributes to the
poor people of the town baskets of Ban
bury cakes.-Christidn Union.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-09-20
BOstOn's Opinion Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hayes.

President Hayes strikes observing peo-
pie favorably, in the first place from his
robustness of form and remarkable cranial
development. Here is man, most peo-
pie say, fitted by nature for the easy dis
charge of great responsibilities. From
him is naturally expected that self-poise
and equanimity indicating large reserve
power available for sudden emergencies.
Beyond any requirements, the result of
culture or experience, his whole presence
conveys the idea of a stalwart manhood,
which cannot be too highly rated in these
days, when strong masculine traits have
passed out of fashion in some circles. His
individuality, however, is not of the OBJ
trusive or offensive kind, but of the quail
ity which might be anticipated in per-
son of large sympathies, cautious meth
DDS, and intuitions detracting in no whit
from the general society of the man.
President Hayes does not appear as
though out of place in his present posi-
ton. 1t fits him we'll. In it he admir-
ably represents the highest type of West
ern civilization. Run through the whole
list of public men belonging to the West,
and more complete personi6catiOn OF
what is best in politics or more salutary
in National affairs cannot be found than
Rutherford B. Hayes. With all the mem.
bers of the brilliant Cabinet around him
and he has Cabinet of which any ma
ton might be proud-his manly figure,
honest, brave, thoughtful, and occasion
ally lustrOus cOuntenance, together with
the quiet, unmistakable force which forms
an essential feature of his individuality,
mark him as a leader, even among the dis
tinguished personages whom he has des-
ignated to assist him in administering the
Government.
Mrs. Hayes has already won her way
into the good graces of the ladies of Bos-
ton. Her demeanor in public fully meets
every requirement of the term ladylike in
the widest scope of the word, without the
least faint of weakness. Her quick, OBJ
servant eye, expressive countenance, mod
est, dignified demeanor, freedom from
vulgar display, and the ease and success
with which she wears the honors incident
to her position, have given her an elevat-
ed position in the esteem Of the feminine
portion of Boston society as a woman
every way qualified for the position in
life to which she has been called.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-09-20
The Mosquito.

There must be some wise reason for
everything. Therefore, there must be
one for the mosquito. 1t is hard to be-
lieve so; but came to the conclusion,
the other day, after a battle with a very
savage one, that they were sent 70 pre-
vent any one from being even for mo-
ment contented with this wicked world.
When the baby is in the cradle sleeping
the sleep of innocence, do they not bite
his cherubic nose and waken him to
shrek and cause his mother, who has just
declared that she is "rid of him for an hour
or two, thank goodnessl" to feel like
shrieking alsol
Do they not come at the time when ma
ture is brightest and people likelie,t to
he happyl Do they not sting the lone
fisherman, and change rejoicing in his
magnificent bite" to misery, because of
their bitesi
DO they not hum fiendishly between
ones eyes and the pages of delightful
book, and cause one to lose interest in
the bewitching heroine and gallant hero,
just as they areabout to go down together
in the briny deep, or just as the cruel
rival is creeping up behind with a dag
gera And do they not fiendishly perse-
cute those otherwise blessed people-the
lovers who take moonlight walks, and
cause them to cease kissing each other,
10 ordertos slap themselves We all know
they do Evidently, mosquitoes were
sent here for the purpose of giving happy
people something to be miserable about.
Mary Kyle Dallas, in N. Y. Ledger.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-09-20
How to Learn to Swim.

Every boy should know how to swim,
and girls, too, for that matter. How
many tragedies WOULD be avoided if
youth would but acquire the simple art
of learning how to swim! 1t has been
we'll said that man is the only animal
that loses himself in the water. As the
season of swimming is at hand, we ap-
pend directions for acquiring the art of
swimming, as furnished by correspond
ent of the american Agriculturist:
When l was boy learned to swim by
means of swimming board. This is
the safest method possible. If corks are
used they may slip from around the
breast down beneath the body, throwing
the head below the surface, and putting
the wearer in danger Of drowning. Some
country boys get two bladders and then
tie them together with short cord, and
use them as supports. They are the
most dangerous things possible for boy
to have. The board is perfectly safe, and
one may learn to swim in very short
time by using one. 1t should be over
four feet long, over foot wide, and two
inches thick, made of soft white pine or
cedar.
To use it boy wades into the water
up to his shoulder, then taking hold of
the end of the board he pushes it before
him-towards the hank, and not into
deeper water-springs forward with his
feet, and throws himself flat upon the
water. This movement carries him along
few feet. He them draws up both his
legs at the same time, keeping the knees
as far apart as possible, and then strikes
out with both feet, not straight back
ward, but sideways, just as frog does.
The stroke is made slowly, and is re-
peated again, drawing up the legs slowly
and steadily. The board keeps the head
above water. When the ley stroke has
been learned, one hand is taken from the
board and the stroke learned, or the chin
may be rested on the board while the
stroke is taken with both hands. This
is very good plan, as it compels the
swimmer to keep his hands under the wa
ter, which he should always do. By-and-
by the board may be pushed ahead, and
the young swimmer may swim after it,
always keeping it within reach. When a
number Of boys go to swim, they should
always have two or three of these boards
with them for use in case of any acct
dent.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-09-20
TennysOn.

The great poet enjoys the comforts of
life in quiet, unobtrusive fashion. His
house is modern Gothic, designed in ad-
mirable taste, with wide muilioned win
dows, many-angled oriels in shadowy re-
cesses, and dormers whose gables and
pinnacles break the sky. line picturesque
ly. Within, everything is ordered with a
quiet refined elegance quite in keeping
with the character of its owner. The
hall, in spite of its richly tassellated
pavement, has a delightful sense of cool
ness in its half-light. The lofty rooms
have broad, high windows, the light from
which is tempered by delicately colored
hangings; walls of the negative tints in
which modern decorators delight, dia-
percd with dull gold; and paneled CELL
ings of dark y-stained wood with mould
ed ribs and beams. High-backed chairs,
of ancient and uncompromising stiffness,
flank the table, typifying the poets stern
er moods; while in cozy corners are COM
Portable lounges that indicate tendency
to yield sometimes to the seductions of
soft dreams and inspirations. There are
no glazing colors. The paintings are
good; among them an excellent copy of
the Peter Martyr, which is doubly valu-
able since the destruction of the original
But there is one room in which all that
is most interesting in this house centers
The door opens noiselessly, and the tread
Of your feet is muffled as you enter dim
corridor, divided from the room by a
high screen. The air is heavy with the
Odor of an incense not unfamiliar to men
of letters; and if you could doubt whence
it arose, your doubts would be speedily
dissolved as the occupant of the chamber
comes forward to meet you, the insepara-
able pipe still between his teeth.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-09-20

THE MAN WHO SToPs HIS PAPER
Philip Gilbert Hamerton, in his admi-
rable papers on Intellectual Life" thus
talks to the man who stopped his pa
per-" newspapers are to the civilized
world what the daily house talk is to the
members of the family-they keep our
daily interest in each other, they save US
from the evil of isolation. To live as a
member Of the great white race that has
flied Europe and America and colonized
or conquered whatever territory it has
been pleased to occupy; to share from
day to day its thoughts, its cares, its in
spirations, it is necessary that every man
should read his paper. Why are the
French peasants so bewildered and at
seat 1t is because they never read a
newspaper. And why are the Inhabitants
of the United States, though scattered
over territory fourteen times the area OF
France, SO much more capable of con-
certed action, 50 much more alive and
modern, so much more interested in new
discoveries of all kinds, and capable OF
selecting and utilizing the best of them
1t is because the newspapers penetrate
everywhere, and even the lonely dweller
on the prairie or in the forest is no intel
lectually isolated from the great currents
of public life which fow through the
telegraph and press"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-09-20

WE are complaining of hard times in
this country. In India the sum of $685.
500, 900 has been expended in appropria-
tons Of from two to three cents per day to
keep the people from starving-that is to
say, the aggregate of time during which
the people of the famine districts have
subsisted on such allowances would be a
year each to over 100000 of people.
The price of glass of larger beer per
day to each would be opulence and JOY to
the starving myrisds. In the best times
they have not had the price of tolerable
cigar per day on which to subsist.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-09-20

TEA AMONG THE CHINESE UPPER TEN.
The upper classes in China, from very
long experience in the matter, select the
very choicest tea which they Can afford
generally the young leaves from old trees.
A few Of these leaves are put into cup,
and water, little short of the boiling
point, is added. As soon as it is suffi-
GENTLY cool, which does not take many
seconds, for the cups are very small, the
beverage is quaffed, much after the same
manner as the Turks do coffee, SO hot that
it is commonly asserted they drink it
boiling BY the above quick method,
they skim, as it were, only the superficial
flavor Of the leaf, which is very capable
of yielding up, when required, bitter
extract which they avoid. This is the
prime source where the "used leaves"
spoken of by analysts, come from.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-09-20

Fun is like murder, in that there are
two kinds of people who ought not to be
punished for committing it: those who
cannot help it, and those who do not
know they are guilty of it. But any in
dividual, who with malice aforethought
and no provocation, goes to work to be-
funny ought to be put out of the COM
munity. Some men are so charged with
wit they can no more hinder its fash
than summer cloud bristling with cleo
tricity can smother up the lightning.
Such men are public blessings. Again.
fthere are humorous people, full Of oldest
conceits, all their own, who make dull
outlooks sunshiny. They may not be he
roic characters, or even self-sacrificing;
but martyrs are not grilled on gridirons
every day, nor countries saved at regular
intervals; so the hero market is never
exhausted, while the demand is constant
for these gay peace-makers. Their value
never fuctuates. We have heard of a
home possessing one-a house wherein
the cook gets periodically, as the humble
preacher puts it, "fearfully and wonder
fully mad" She strides up stairs to give
"warnin'," putting, blowing, squirting
out wrath, like an over-hot tea-kettle.
The good man, who can't help being
funny, sits in judgment on her case.
The result is always the same. Bridget
steals sheepishly out; at intervals through
the day, she filings her apron over her
head and relapses into wild levity. Ask,
"What ais you Biddy2' And the answer
is always the same: so, but the mas
Their passes such comics on me-" The
baby cries after him, MS the true soothing
syrup, and the children get joked out of
awkwardness, meanness and juvenile frail-
ties. The little mother, tired and just
ready to scold, turns sharp corner into
some closet and laughs Historically at
his timely jest. Woman-like, if he can
make her do it, he shall not see his tri-
umph.
But to the real subjects of our scrutiny:
The people whose fancies are as dry as
the remainder biscuit after a voyage"
but who cherish the idea that witlicisms
are as easy to make as good resolutions,
if one just goes systematically to work.
1t would be revelation to them to
realize that one joke differs from another,
as fy-specked lemon-drop, out of an
antique grocery, differs from strawberry
crisp with dew.
Let man be lacking in almost any
other mental endowment, and if he does
not openly acknowledge it, he is particu-
Iarly careful to avoid any strain in the
direction ofthat missing link. What man
ignorant of time, rhythm, notes, and the
whole theory of music, ever offers to lead
choir or to perform solo in public Z
Where is there one, without mathemat-
ical mind, who longs to calculate eclipsess
But the world is overrun with people
who are forever trying to be funny, al
though they have not wit enough to salt
them.
If the good God gave you the gift of
wit, use it we'll; if you are without it, take
heed to old Thomas-a- Kempis: "What
thou art that thou art, and thou canst not
make thyself other"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-09-20

ENGLISH FOOT- BALL.-Our English
games are, as a rule, manly and healthy,
demanding courage, endurance, and fine
temper; but in some cases they can hard
" be called sane. To the uninitiated on
locker, the game of football is one of the
most mysterious performances which it is
possible to contemplate. 1t would ap-
pear to be called football, on the lucas a
non lucendo principle, because the ball is
hardly ever kicked. After the first "kick
off, it is seized by one of the players,
who runs with it in his arms AS fast and
as far as he can. His opponents forth
with set upon him, and, if possible, knock
him down. Then there is general strug-
gle for the ball. Of course, the posses
sion of it lies between two or three men
in the centre of the throng; but all the
rest close around them with the exception
Of certain persons who, appointed for the
purpose, with hands on knees intently
watch the ''scrimmage." Every one in
the main body pushes and struggles as
vigorously as may be, and the outer ones
put down their heads, and butt like goats
against their friends. There is nothing
to be seen but writhing, swaying. con-
fused mass of humanity, from which a
column of steam rises into the wintry air.
At length, those in the centre are com
PEELED to drop the ball, and after innu-
merable kicks at each others shins, it is
pushed out Of the little forest of legs,
whereupon one of the outside watchers
makes q snatch at it and carries it few
yards, when he is in turn set upon by his
adverssries, and the same scene is re-
peated.-7issley.