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Grandma, why don't you keep a
servant any longer? p Well you see.
my child, | am getting old now, and
can t take care Of Que as / used to.
you know"
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20 AND SEE the Elegant Styles OF
" SPRING aud SUMNER HATS, NECK
WEAR. RUSHINGS, Dress Goods, etc,
beautiful and cheap, Il
mch30- BUCHANAN s BARNES.
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A man directed in his will that hi,
body be east into the river IN order
that his wife might be thwarted in her
determination to dance upon hi,
grave
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Bz5- Friends Now Is the accepted
time. BriOg in your advertisements
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(iloica Annie.-

ESOR sale by the barrett
Il BoNDuRANT s DREwRY's.
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His traudu.eucy thinks that all or
posing senators viii be his friends be
fore long lie proposes to satisfy
al parties, and establish au era Of good
feeling How doe,h he propose TO
satisfy the people Of South Carolina,
and Lou.>iana aud make friends of
Morton and Blaine? How will lie
,lfi-ty Cham ber'ain and Packard, and
ceu-e PiDchback to feel good He
mfy make rope out Of sand or stop
wompu'- tongue. but he will never
oe able to satisfy all parties ia the
country - Frankfort leoman.
The paterual author of an heiress
was approached by youth who re
4ue~fed few moments conver-ation IN
private, aud began. Il was requested
to see you Sir, by your lovely dau4ht-
er Oar attachment Young man
interrupted the parent bri>kly /
ion't know what that girl Of mine Is
about You are the fourth gentleman
@ho has approached me this morning
on the subject have given nv con-
seut 10 the others, and l give it to you;
God bless you
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Grotrr5
You Can Save Money.

u Hereafter, more than heretofore, ME
THENY DEBOW, will make specially
Of
~ PROVISIONS,
Cabbage, Potatoes, Mince Meat. and eve
rything of the kind We will sell on the
smallest possible profits. [novl7
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CLOTHING FURNISHING GOODS,

supervision with the largest and
selected stock Clothing brought to Hickman.
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Borfrees Patent EsupIex

CORSETS-csll and see them AZ
mar2S-2t J. n. PLAUT Il BRO.
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TREsH GARDEN SEED-Fivc Cents
4 paper-at CANN0NS
mar23 Drug Store
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AvnTmEls aiEssACEE.


Jamie Grjssiagers Spine Cured By
Prayer Hurrisb4rg Doctor Pnz
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For Madame Borlres. r.'eot Doper coral'he be
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-04-13
A Little Acrobat's Pitiful Story.

The officers of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children re-
Gently received information that the
schooner John Colby might be expected
in New York about April 4, and that on
board of her would be found young
boy sadly in need OF their care. 1t was
further learned that the child in ques-
ton, known as "Charlie," had been with
Murray's circus, which disbanded lately
at Key West after tour through the
West Indies. The little lad, only four
years old, had been used in gymnastic
performances by well-known acrobat
named "Dick" Rivers, and had been
When the circus disbanded the boy was
placed on the schooner John Colby,
which was to bring to New York car
go of circus machinery and horses, while
the remainder of the party came by
steamer. No reason seemed to be as
signed for this course. Although the
captain and crew were ordinarily hu
name, yet the boy, it is affirmed, must
have felt the lack of care.
The officers learned on Wednesday
that the schooner had arrived and was
lying at the dock at Seventy st.
They Immediately went there and were
told that the boy had been taken in
charge of a man named Leach to the
Bulls Head, hotel at Twenty fourth
st. and Third-ave. and Il great resort
for shOwmen. 1t was also stated that
the boy would start last night for
Western Illinois to join another travel
ing circus. Armed with a writ of habeas
corpus the officers hastened to the Bulls
Head and there found the little boy in
the hall and at once took him in charge.
The landlord made no objections when
he learned the authority of the officers I;
but not so with the man Leach. He
swore right royalty and was only quiet
ed by the presence of two policemen in
citizens's clothes. The boy was taken
to the Supreme Court, but the Judge
having left, the officers intrusted him to
Mrs. Webb at the Central Station. His
condition was pitiable. His little body
was covered with sores and bruises, the
result of beatings and neglected bites
from mosquitoes and vermin. Portions
of his clothing clung to his body and
were removed with difficulty. The child
is very bright, with fine eyes and golden
hair. He says Mr.. Leach is his father,
but that person appears to make no
such claim upon him.
The officers have been told that the
boy was trained for his performances at
the training school of one Eaton Stone
of Franklin, Essex County, \. j., and
that there the treatment was brutal.
The boys mouth was bandaged or filled
with sawdust, lest the cries wrung from
him by whippings apd blows should be
heard. 1t is also alleged that Rivers
was cruel in his treatment of the lad
while travelling in Cuba. The officers
say that if there were no other evidence
the condition of the child's body would
be enough to convict Rivers and Leach
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-04-13
Husbands, Love Your Wives"

If all husbands loved their wives
with that sacred devotion which char
acterized the late heroic Mr.. Bliss,
there would have been less need of this
sweeping injunction of scripture, which
is as high as heaven, broad as earth,
and should be needed and practiced by
all who have entered the matrimonial
state. There is a striking analogy be-
tween the heavens and the spirits of
mortals. What married life does not
experience its cloud and sunshine, its
dark, stormy days? The causes are
varied, and sometimes unavoidable.
Many times it is found that the taste of
the husband widely differs from that of
his wife. Their early training has been
quite different, while nature, perhaps,
has widely diversified herself in the
pair. As the wife is the most precious
gift OF heaven to man, though she may
be the weaker of the two, is it not the
more necessary that her tastes be in
dulged, and she be fondly, dearly low
ed? But alas, how many forget their
privileges and their solemn obligations
How many husbands these cold, wintry
mornings allow their wives to rise in
the gray twilight, while the bowling
wind hurls the snow against the window
pane, and build the fire and get break
fast while they lie snoring in their
warm beds
have III mind, just now, husband, =,
who, when his good wife called him to
breakfast, came down stairs rubbing
his eyes and sat down to the meal
which his wife had prepared. "Wife,
why didn't you make my coffee strong
er? You have got too much pepper in
the hash Your mullins are not half
baked your pie is too sweet wife,
what in thunder have you been about
all the morning? | should think that
YOU were crazy; another morning if
you don't get a better breakfast than
this, | will make a row, now don't you
forget so saying, left for the tavern.
He didn't realize that his wife had all
the children to dress, wash, comb, and
hardly enough fuel TO get a meal. AT
noon. he comes home. ''Well, wife,
what kind of stuff do you call this for
nv dinner? Mush and mOlasses,-
confound it ! very little will you get
down my neck of this stuff. Why didn't
YOU cook regular dinner? | amt
going to stand such works much longer"
He ate few mouthfuls, buttOned up
his coat, took his hat, and as he slam
med the door, Hang such wife as
this !" and off he goes to the billiard
saloon. He little realized that his wife
has had to wash, sweep, mop, get the
baby to sleep, skim the milk, churn,
work the butter and do many other
things before dinner. Night comes,
and 50 does the fault-fnding husband.
well, wife, why amt supper ready
Take up these potatoes id quick or
will get coffin for you! Why amt
these potatoes done9 Where did you
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-04-13

tinels is ever heard in front of his apart
ments at the capitol. He has been for
three-fourths of year in perfect hell
on earth. He was at the head of a
government that could do nothing but
exist in lifeless way, under the pro-
lection of federal bayonets. What sat-
isfaction is such a life to cultivated,
quiet, domestic man, natural scholar
and student, having little in common
with South Carolina politics and pis-
tolls? He has only sought to maintain
his position through the most devoted
loyalty to the principles of civil liberty
to all men. He is believer in equal
rights, and in the capacity of the negro
to take part in government, and his
policy is to teach them, and not drive
them with the shotgun and revolver.
He believes that, if he is overthrown,
free speech is at an end in South Caro-
lima, and one of the most important re-
suits of the war lost.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-04-13
School Ma'ams.

The pathetic story of the Wisconsin
girl who was driven into insanity and
suicide by the drudgery of teaching a
district school has already been told in
this column. Her fate enlists the sym
pathies of The Milwaukee Sentinel.
Give years in district school," it says,
Twill break down the strongest woman
in the world, physically. Flowing, hod-
carrying, blacksmithing, buying and
selling, writing and preaching the
teaching" This is saying good deal.
A teacher is ordinarily employed in the
school-room about seven hours, and she
has vacations of at least ten weeks dur
ing the year. She has less physical
fatigue to endure than wOrkingwomen
in shops or factories her working time
is shorter; she has more rest. 1t was
not physical fatigue that unhinged the
mind of this delicate Wisconsin girl it
was the discipline, the worrying, the
nerve-grinding, the Oul-harrOwing it
was not WEAKNESS of body, but weari-
ness of soul that tortured and wore out
her life. Probably she did not have the
physical basis for any serious work i'll
life, and, at all events, she had not
learned the art of arranging her life out
of school hours so as to get relief from
hel drudgery and worriment. The
naughty boys and stupid girls were
never out of her head her exhausted
spirit worried over them in her dreams.
Happily, her sisters in this calling do
not teach school "a hours day; they
learn to forget for time the things
that annoy and fatigue them: and SO
they find health. and not death, in their
school-rooms indeed, they have better
health than other workingwomen.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-04-13
The Rights of Women.

In an eloquent address at Dayton, o.,
recently, Col. Robert Ingersoll, speak
ing of women, said:
| believe that woman has the same
rights that man has. He has the COM
plications of business, which, of course,
no woman can understanding
calico at tour cents yard and selling
it at four and half; wonderful COM
plicatiOns! | despise IL man who says
to me, Il am the head of the family ;"
and talks of what he will make them
do. In the family where there is kind
ness and love, the woman moves in the
perfume of light. never growing old to
him. and his is ever the same young
and handsome face that she first knew,
and thus they grow old and pass away
to the grave with the prattle of children
in their ears.
| believe that woman is a human
being. She has often to support her-
self, and every avenue should he open
to her. Why should some ignorant,
mean lOut make laws for magnificent,
educated woman? There are always
some men who ale afraid women will
get ahead of them. The lower and more
ignorant Il man is, the more he is OPP
posed to and maltreats woman. That
manner OF looking down on woman
that some husbands have, if | was a
woman, | should rather he knocked
down every Monday.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-04-13
Animile Statistix.

Kats are affectiOnate, they luv young
chickens, sweet kream, and the best
place in front of the fireplace.
Dogs are faithful, they will stick to a
bone after every boldly else haz deserted
it.
PARROTS are eazily edukated, but they
will learn to swear well in haff the time
they will learn emmy thing else.
The birds eat bugs and worms for
plain vittles, but their dessert konsists
ov the best cherrys and gooseberries in
the garden.
The owl iz only picture Ov wisdum
by dalite, when he kant see emmy thing.
When it Gums mite hiz wizdum wholly
konsists in ketching field mouse, if he
can.
The donkey il an emblem ov pa-
chunce, but if yu study them klOsser
yu will find that lazyness il what's the
matter ov them.
The eagle il the monark ov the skies,
but the little king bird will chase him
tn hiz hiding-place.
The OK knoweth hiz masters krib,
and that iz all he duz kno or care about
hiZ master.
Munkeys are imitatiff, but if they
kant immitate sum deviltry they amt
happy.
The goose il like all other phools-
allwuss seems anxious tn prove it.
If mules are ever meek it iz simply
becauze they are ashamed ov themselfs,
but mules are hibrid, amt accountable
for emmy thing.
The bees are a bizzy people; rather
than be idle they will rob each other
ov their hunny.
The kockroach IL a loafer, and don't
seem TO live so mutch on what they eat
az what they kan git into.
Ducks are only cunning about one
thing; they lay their eggs in stitch sly
places that sumtimes they kant find
them again themselfs.
The mushrat kan foresee a hard win
ter and provide for it, but he kant
keep from gittin' ketched i'll the sylliest
kind of trap.
Hens kno when it IL a-going to rain,
and shelter themselfs, but they will try
to hatch out glass egg just az honest
az they will one ov their own.
Mudturkles are the slowest ov emmy
four-legged kritters, and yet they are
allwuss on the move, trieing to git sum-
WHARF else.
Hornets hav more fight in them than
emmy thing ov their size, but there iz
no method in their madness they will
pitch into a Westinghouse when they
are furious, just az anxious az they
will into a sleeping baby in its kradle.
The crow il the most nat'ral ov all
thiefs they will steal and hide what il
ov no use to them nor emmy boldly else.
Ants are the bizzyest ov all the little
or big bugs, but a large share ov their
time iz spent in repairing their houses,
which are bilt WHARF folks kant help
but step on them.
Flies toll not, neither do they spin,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-04-13

Conditions Favorable to the Develop
ment of oratory at Rome at the Time
of Cicero.
In 81 B. c., the year in which Cicero
entered upon his remarkable career of
OratorN, Rome was in state of turmoil
and civil strife. The people had by no
means forgotten the disgraceful massa-
cres of Marius and Of SulIa, the former
of which took place seven, aud the lat
ter, one or two years previous.
One of the first orations of Cicero was
in defence of man who was falsely
accused of pan ricide: thus in defence of
the right the slumbering eloquence of
the great orator was aroused. We see
this farther illustrated in the case of
l.. Junius Brutus; his faculties were
aroused by the wicked deed of SeXtuS
and after this he played an important
| part in deed us well as III word, in the
expulsion of Tarquin.
Again, great offenders against the
state were indicted before the people
/ VI NClC prosecuted III llIC Coul 10. MS
encouraged forensic oratOry. At the
time in which Cicero delivered his Cora
tions in Catilinam,n the city was dis
turbed by the revelations of the dread
ful conspiracy of Catiline it was against
this Catiline and other conspiratOrs that
he vented all his eloquence on these oc-
caSions.
The assemblies of the centuries and
of the tribes, as well as the senate,
afforded an ample field for the develop
ment of Parliamentary speaking, and,
as Liddell says, ''the faculties of the
Romans seem to have readily adapted
themselves to the requirement."
Oratory was the popular literature of
Rome at that time; the student after
learning grammar and reading Latin
and Greek poets, went to the famous
haunts of Grecian learning, to obtain a
little knowledge of philosophy and
geometry; but to turn his attention
chiefly to oratory.
Printing was unknown and, cOnse-
quently, books were very scarce and
bevond the reach of the multitudes.
Hence their views must be moulded by
their public speakers one who could
not thus effect the minds of his hearers,
was not good orator. 1t was an i'm
portant end to be sought, to choose such
language to express his thoughts, as
most effectually to move the masses.
In the senate, the destiny of millions
of people was decided in order to de-
eide it Alright, every measure must he
deliberated upon and considered care
fully before its adoption. This also
had tendency to promote public
speaking, as it encouraged deep thought
on the part of the speakers and the use
of suitable language to express their
ideas.
The question arises, why, i'll the high
state of civilization at the present time
and in the centuries which have elapsed
since the time of Cicero, have there not
been orators whose elOquence has been
felt as that of Cicero. Simultaneous
with the fall of Rome, literature, which
had sat enthrOned in all his majesty at
Rome. was lain PROSTATE and powerless
at the feet of the hordes of barbarians
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-04-13
Written for the st. JOhnsbury Caledonian.
An Old Mans Story.
WHICH WILL BE WELL FOR BOYS TO READ
AND REMEMBER.

An Old Mans Story.
WHICH WILL BE WELL FOR BOYS TO READ
AND REMEMBER.
l never stole any thing but once.
About sixty-seven years ago, some of
us boys went bathing in the '.Branch"
west of Lyndon Corner. We left our
clothes in a clump of bushes then stand
ing in the bend of the Branch, not far
from where the culvert now crosses the
road. | came out of the water first,
and on the ground | saw a pistareen,
then quite plenty in this country, and
which passed for 20 cents. l put it in
my pocket. When the other boys came
out, one of them said he had lost 20
cents. We all began to look for it, but
finally gave up the search in despair.
That afternoon l spent the money.
l did not sleep that night, but wept
much. The. next morning the family
with whom l lived thought was home
sick, so they gave me basket of pota-
toes for nay mother and let me go home
and spend the day. Oh, how much l
wished had twenty cents that could
restore the money | had stolen! A few
years later | went into the tannery
building which stood near where the
silver dollar. There was no one in the
room, and took the bright money into
my hands. | then thought OF my suf-
ferings with the pistareen, and l at
once put it back upon the desk and left
the building.
When seventeen years old, | left Yer
mont for Boston. Pistareens were then
plenty; | had such Il dread of them
that it seemed as though half of Our
currency was pistareens. When twenty
one years old | returned to Lyndon. In
one of the stores | saw the very man
from whom | stole the money when we
were both boys. He greeted me cor
daily, and handed him half dollar
with merely the remark that it was
money | owed him. The next morning
he wanted me to tell him what it meant
as he had no recollection of any thing
due him from me. | then told him the
story of how | had stolen the piece o1
money when we were boys together
| would not have told him or any one
! else for any consideration before | haG
made restitution, but after | restored
the money | felt better to tell him
Stripes or imprisonment would have
been easy to bear to what | endured
from the purloining OF that pistareen.
| am now seVenty-One years old, anC
have often done, and still do, many
| things that are wrong; but stealing ha.
not been one of my sins. | would urg,
the boys to beware of the first offence
If had resisted the temptation Oh tha
day | went in bathing with the boys il
the Lyndon Branch, it would hav,
saved me years of pain. When the evi
one comes to tempt you, say as did ou
Saviour, ''Get thee behind me, satan.
a boy that does wrong cannot be happy
not even in this world, although man.
think they can.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-04-13
One Way to Settle Doctors auarrels.

A doctors quarrel has been brought
to an end in Buffalo. About year and
a half ago Charles Bergman, a carpen-
ter, was run over by cart and serious
ly injured. He first sued the owner of
the cart for negligence and caTelessness
in causing his injuries, but was non
suited on the ground of his own con-
tributary negligence. He then sued
the physician who had been attending
him. In the complaint it was charged
that the patients sutferings had been
caused by malpractice, inasmuch as the
physician had not discovered that the
limb under treatment had been dislO-
Gated. Was it a dislOcation or a fTac-
ture ? That was the question at issue,
and there was a startling conflict of
medical testimony. The court finally
appointed IA commission of medical eX-
perts to examine the patient, and, as
they reported that it was a case of
fracture and not of dislOcation, the
plaintiff was again non-suited. One of
the physicians, who held stOutly to the
theory that there was dislOcation, at
once opened a series of articles on the
case i'll medical journal, and the doc
tors quarrel was renewed. Meanwhile
the unfortunate carpenter was suffering
in body and mind. He was unable to
walk his house was heavily mOrtgaged !;
he was poor; he had not paid his law
yers. Last Thursday he fastened a
piece of bed cord to an iron staple ir
the ceiling, and, tying the other end
around his neck, swung himself off into
the next world, where there will oe no
carts and neither fracture nor disloca-
ton. Before strangling himself he had
the forethought to commit his body to
the kind offices of the physicians whom
he had set at loggeIheads. The post
mortem examination showed cOnclu-
sively that there had been fracture
but no dislOcatiOn.