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MY Good Word toward You.
JFR %: 10.

have loved thee with an everlasting
love. Jer. 3l:3.
have blotted out, as thick cloud
thy transgressions, and as cloud, thy
sins. Is. IA: %.
have heard thee in time accepted
and in the day of salvation have sue
cored thee behold now is the accepted
time, behold now is the day of saliva,
ton. 2 Cor. 6:2. Is. 40: 8.
Thou shalt net be forgotten of me
Is. 44:2
am with you, saith the Lord Of
Hosts: According to the word that
covenanted with you so my Spirit
remaineth among you. From this day
will 1 bless you. Haggai 2: A, 5, 10.
Not by might. nor by power, but by
my Spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts
Zech. A: 6.
Call unto me, and will answer thee,
and shew thee great and mighty things
Jer. 80: 3.
There shall be showers of blessing
Eze. "a: %.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-01-11
Alone with Jesus.
BY C. L. B.

D. ". LIE DE-
Alone with Jesus! 1t is our only
hope. We must be alone with him
sometimes, or we can never know him
with heart-knowledge. We mustspeak
to him and listen to him; we must
drink deep of his spirit, and become
acquainted with him as he spoke and
acted in the pages of the New Tesla
ment, and as he speaks and acts now,
the same Jesus, or we can never be
united to him by that heart-tie which
will last when all other ties are break
ing, and will satisfy our souls with an
all-sufficient cOmpanionship as we sail
out alone with Jesus into the unknown
ocean of the future.
What do we know of that future ex-
cept that we "depart to be acih Christ ~
1t is all we certainly know. 1t is enough
if we are acquainted with him here-if
we are accustomed to being with him,
and know that he surpasses and eXcels
all other friends as the sun surpasses
the stars in brightness. If by faith we
have had a daily vision of Christ here,
we shall be satisfied indeed when the
hour comes in which faith may be
changed to sight. To die "alone with
Jesus" will be no solitary exit from this
world, but a rapturous sinking into the
arms of our Best-beloved. If with him,
then all is right
Why is then this blessed Being, on
whom all our hopes of salvation de-
pend, through whom alone we ever re-
ceive the forgiveness of single sin, OF
the strength to do a single good action
why is he too often dim and shadOwy
Essence, beloved name indeed, but
not real and loving Presence-as real,
more real than any other absent friend?
Why is Jesus, who walked the hills of
Galilee man among men, who after
his resurrection still ate and drank with
his disciples, who assembled in bodily
form to the skies-why is he removed
promised he would be with us Away,
even unto the end of the world
1t is our own fault. 1t is because we
do not seek him where he is to be fOlnd
in his word. If we professed to love
a friend most dearly, yet never sought
his society when present, and never
read his letters when absent, would not
the love between us grow cold, and we
soon cease to be one in spirit9 just so
it is with Christ. Our love to him will
not sustain itself and grow without
something to feed upon, any more than
our love for earthly friends. 1t requires
the nourishment of loving communion
to keep it bright and warm-the food
of the Word to feed upon, as is con-
stantly told us in the New Testament.
Our love is starving for want of person
al intercourse with our blessed Saviour.
There is another food, divinely-ap
pointed, the heavenly mama that has
fed and cheered many hungry soul
the blessed sacrament of the Lords
body and blood, in which Jesus appears
so evidently to us, that we often feel as
though we had in very truth seen him
and talked with him. Many Chris
tan, who starves at distance from his
Lord at other times, is so filed by this
blessed feast, wherein the gracious Mas
ter comes to sup with all who artake
in faith-so filed, l say, by the light
and love of Christ, that he thinks he
can never again leave his blessed COM
pany, but must walk with him constant
ly in sweet communion.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-01-11
Answers to Questions in English Lit.
erature.
No. 3.


L. "The Game and Plays of Chess"
2. Lord Bacon. 1920.
B. Samuel Butler 1t was written to
carieature the Puritans, and published
in the reign of Charles II.
4. Richard Wilmington, merchant
OF London, who was made Lord Mayor
three times during the reign of Henry V.
5. Mrs. Barbauld.
6. Sir Walter Raleigh.
z. Colonel Titus, and in it he boldly
advised the assassination of Oliver
Cromwell.
8. During the reign of Charles H.
Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham, Ash
ley and Landerdale, became the CHIEF
advisers of the king. Since that time
the word cdbdl, derived from the initials
of their names, has been used to denote
clique of political schemers.
9. "The Heart of Mid Lothian by
Sir Walter Scott.
10. Probably about the fourteenth
century.
III. Henry w., by Shakespeare.
IL. Thomas Rem, Bishop of Batf
and Wells, wrote the famous Morning
and Evening Hymns. Perhaps the lat
ter, beginning:
GLORY to Thee, my God, this night
For all the blessings of the light;
Keepme oh keepme. King of kings,
Under Thine own Almighty wings'-
is the most familiar to us. 1t was writ
ten in 1897, and closed with the dox
ology
Praise God from whom all blessings iow"
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Correct Penmanship.

If there be one necessity more press
ing than another among the minor de-
tails of business practice, it is the need
of good, clear comprehensive penman-
ship. We believe that progress has, in
deed, gone so far as to reject forever
the ridiculous balderdash that all great
men have been poor writers. In our
history, without going any farther, the
proof has been in the other direction.
| The signers of the Declaration of indie
pendence were, almost without excep-
ton, good penmen, and no one who has
ever seen the bold, round, manly sig
natures of Washington, Hancock and
Franklin, will readily forget them.
At the present time, there are, no
doubt many among our prominent pro-
fessionals, who write ''poor fist" as
the phrase goes. Indeed, we know one
eminent jurist now on the bench of one
of our highest Courts, whose GEOGRAPHY
conveys to the beholders the idea that
frightened beetle had first crawled
through the ink and then scanpered
over the paper. No mortal but the
Judges secretary, trained to the work
for 25 years, can read the hieroglyphics
and his worship is very frequently non
plussed himself, when he comes to look
at his own NJ. S. after the lapse of a
few days.
But professional men have some
shadow of excuse in the multiplicity of
their engagements and the haste with
which they have to prepare most of
their documents. In business life, the
same defence will not pass. INDEBTED
'is" increased ats" that look like "I'sn
'u's' for "n's" and ems" for ''w'sn are
intolerable in a commercial writing.
Everything there should be perfectly
legible and explicit, and, hence, one of
the indispensable requisites for appoint
ment in such service, should be good
handwriting. The blunders, delays
and losses that result from deficiency in
this respect, are incalculable.
Says an admirable and thoroughly
experienced authority in European
commerce, "the employee must execute
with the utmost care, all the different
portions of the work with which he is
entrusted, from the very smallest note,
to the most important account. A well
written note f1atters the eye of the re-
cipient, and is easily read. The effect
is still more noticeable, when the arti-
Gle is letter, bill of lading, or an ac-
count. Neat, well kept documents ia
vorably dispose the party who takes
cOgnizance of them, and they form an
opportunity to render the relations one
has, at the moment, with customer
or a correspondent agreeable"
These conclusions are too apparent
for dispute, and all young aspirants for
rapid promotion in commercial houses,
will do well to bear them in mind, as
being absolutely essential, even where
other high requisites exist already.
With such advantages of instruction
as are held out in every village of the
land, the young man who presents his
claims for cOunting-house employment
in an unintelligible scrawl, makes a
prima .tacie confession of negligence or
laziness that few wise heads of any
business concern will overlook.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-01-11
How to Keep an Umbrella.
From the Oil City Derrick

Lien me yer umbrella a minnit !"
Such was the exclamation of Jones
as he rushed into the Office of Squire
Lickshingle, yesterday.
Certainly, certainly, "said the squire,
laying down his newspaper, and taking
fresh chew of fne-cut; ''glad to ac-
commodate you" and he opened a
drawer in his desk and began rum
maging through his legal forms and
blanks.
the green gingham relic, and was pre-
pairing to fly with it.
"StOp, stop, stopT said the squire,
raising his hand majestically mot too
fast, young man. Wait till | make out
the necessary papers,"
Jones dropped the umbrella. On his
corn, of course. After pumping his
lame foot up and down, aud tying a
hard knot in his countenance, and IN
doing it again, he echoed:
"The necessary papers ~
eyes," said the squire, sternly, "the
necessary papers," and he continued his
search among the blanks.
The right one found, he filed it out
in a jiffy and handed it to Jones to
sign.
AS Jones read the paper his knees
knocked together. 1t was a mortgage
on his house and lot as security that he
would return the umbrella in good
order within fifteen minutes. He fall
tered.
"Wh-why, squire, 1 only want to
borrow your umbrella to run across the
street with. Tll fetch it back in two
seconds"
The squire showed his spectacles up
over his bald spot until they formed
two skylights in his intellectual roof,
and looking Jones full in the face,
said:
"YOu only want to run across the
street. You'll return it in two seconds.
Young man, that's what they all say.
take no stock in it. Man wants but
little here below, but, by the Good
Samaritan, when he wants his umbrella
he wants it. 1 have known people in
my time who have listened to the song
of the siren, who came to borrow UNI
brellas, until she has transformed them
into people without an umbrella be-
tween them and the pelting storms.
am not one of that kind. l have lived
a long time. l have accumulated a
fortune. Why For the simple rea-
son that l have not spent my substance
in buying umbrellas. That umbrella
which you hold in your hand is GER
tainly not of uncommon beauty, nor il
it of great value. 1t is simply ging.
ham umbrella. A green one at that
} But it answers the purpose for which
etc. have had it since l was a boy
Why? Because no man, neither {
son of man, has ever taken it beyond
the range of my vision without frs
signing over his estate that he would
return it in good condition. 1t may no
r seem neighborly, but it's business
Here is the mortgage there is the UNI
brella; without beats the rain of heaven
You have your CHOICE" and the OLE
man resumed his newspaper.
Jones thought of his wife and babie
and the pleasant home that was all hi
own. Then he looked at the rain tina
= was pounding at the doors and win
dOws, as if to get in out of the wet.
I glance at his new overcoat, and Jone
E was decided.
s cpl risk" he said, and, stepping t,
e the desk with measured tread and slow
he clapped his name to the mortgage
Y and was off with the umbrella.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-01-11

DOUBTS REMovED.-As to all worldly
amusements, if you have the least doubt
as to your conduct-if there is the least
conflict between inclination and duty,
go in prayer to the Saviour, and ask
him what you ought to do, and then act
as you believe he would approve if he
were present with you. If there is the
least doubt, is it not best to err on the
safe side, and rather keep too far from
the world, than to go too near to it?
Take such a course, that if all were
to initiate your example, it would make
the church holy and spiritual, and
useful church, and give you, personally,
the highest and best influence as de-
voted and faithful Christian. -Leafet.
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HoMEoPATHs AND ALLoPATHs MAX
ING Ur.-The London Lancet notes the
gradual healing in that country of the
longtime differences between allopaths
and homeopathic. DR.. Richardson in a
recent article says that many of the al
lopathic physicians have renowned all
the heresies of the past in the treatment
OF acute diseases; while homeopathic
physicians have, on their side, almost
entirely abandoned the use of globules,
and have substituted doses in tangible
form, their rule being to give dose
sufficiently large to effect its purpose,
but not so large as to discomfort the
patient. Both schools now use alike
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-01-11

anodynes, aperients, opiates, anesthet-
les, tonics, galvanism, hydropathy,
Turkish bath and mineral waters. In
short, he says, we define our practice as
rational medicine, including the appli-
cation of the law of contraries, but plus
the application of the law of similars.
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Questions and sAnsipers.

Under this head we propose to print questions.
Answers solicited the following week. If not COR
rect, or not sent in before answers will be publish
ed in two weeks after the questions appear
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1878-01-11
DESIRABLE RESIDENCE
FOR SALE.

The subscriber wishing to change his place of
rISesldence, VIII sell his place Railroad street
Inc mouse is new, in desirable location and is
thoroughly made in every part and of the yerv
pest material. 1t is furnished with water. heated
Dy good furnace, and is in every particular a
valuable location. There is connected with Il a
GOOD barn, garden, and another building lot
The place must be sold and will be sold cheap
st. Johnsbury, Dec. H. s.15
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FOR SALE.

O. anaoie residence just outside of the yillage of
o.: onnspury, between Fairbanks village and the
t ar ground, with twenty acres of land adioinin9
S ene premises Buildings new and in good Condition.
Az % sprng OF water on the place. and running to
small fruits t Woi S1 SToSked with
st. JohnsburY Nov. &c, 1871. = " y;
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GTATE OF VERMONT CALRpoyr, n
= In Probate Court, holden at the pr,s isl,l
in st; Johnsbury, on TIE 10th day of De geSlf u
d. 1877. 'Sehlbei
John c. blanchard, Administrator dbl.
with the will annexed upon the est Oohlil
iel Haskell late of Peacham, in saiS Of Q,
deceased, makes application to sai iip r. dist
license to sell the whole of the real ESTE. our
deceased, except the widows right Of t. q b
Therein, representing that said sals !. uollat.
for the payment of the debts of said deoa neces
charges of administration upon said estoeaa'7i
Wheredpon it is ordered by said COM e
application come under consideration sn5 mat
on the 18th day of January, A D. ISIS Inv y, o. 9 b
bate Office in st. Johnsbury and il l. az a. .at 1
dered, that all persons interested be nofisi t9e
by publication of notice of this Applicant lr,
der thereon, three weeks successfully in \, aug
DOMAIN, printed at st. Johnsbury. beora4 . ,ls q
of hearing, that they may appear at said , ,il
place, and if they see cause, object there, 4r
By the Court, Attest,
HENRY FRENCH Pa
A true copy of recOrd.-Attest, -''9''-'
gil HENRY FRENCH p.
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Estates.

CTATE OF VERMONT. CALynov,.
- In Probate Court held at tho p VA ,DlsIRJ,,
St. Johnsbury within and for said hl!?oate Ofs
18th day of December, A. d. 1871 D'S'rici :, =.
An instrument purpOrting 10 bo
and Testament of Timothy WevmovI,.Iqh me Last b
net. in said district, deceased hun; a. late o.
to Court by Joseph A. Gould. the eng eng prs,s
named, for Probate: 'Cl'or tIs
1t is ordered by said Court, that all
cerned therein be notified to appear at person,
Johnsbury ON the 18th day of ,,T Olee n
1878, and show cause if any they ma ',,GGaryr A
the Probate of said Will; for wbicdS nave IA,
further ordered, that copy of the ra puIpos
order be published three weeks succe ascord q,
CALIFORNIAN, printed at st. JohnsburTyS' n,
BY the Court, Attest,
A true copy of Record, Attest - Resae
GIL HENRY FRENCH D,
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TO MY PATRONS G. OTHERS.

shall remove my office Jan. l. to the rooms
formerly occupied in Union Block, which have
retted and refurnished with especial reference to
branches.
Special attention paid to preserving the natural
teeth. Artificial teeth made Gold, Silver, Al
uminum, Rubber and CeulOid.
Nitrous Oxide Gas for extracting teeth without
pain constantly on hand.
Gold and silver plates repaired
C. d. NEWELL, d. d. S.
st. JOhnsbury, Dec. IS 1877. s-11
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STATE OF VERMONT, CALEDONIA plsTp,c7 o.
- In Probate Court, held at the PrO6at, Ga
st. JOhnsbury, in said District on the 1st Jal
January, A. ID. 1873 ''' way
Horace Drown, executor of the last viii b..
testament of Elisha Davis, late of Sb4tFaif
said district, deceased, presents his admiDi,t,,,
account for examination and allowance, and rs.
application for decree of distribution and +
titiOn of the estate of said deceased.
WhereupOn, it is ordered by said O..
that said account and said Applicant
referred to session thereof, to Be hi
the Probate Office in said St Johnsbnr
the 18th day of January, a. D. 1873, for l.
and decision thereon; and, it is further OF
that notice be given to all persons intereste
publication of the same three weeks succe,,
IN the CaledOnian, a newspaper published
Johnsbury, previous to said time appoipt
hearing, that they may appear at said tim,
place, and show cause, if any they NAV have. s.
said account should not be allowed. and such
cree made.
By the Court, Attest.
HENRY FRENCH, Registe
A true copy of record, Attest,
lO-l2 HENRY FRENCH, Registe
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LOVING FRIENDs.-Never cast aside
your friends if by any possibility you
can retain them. We are the weakest
of spendthrifts if we let one drop OF
through inattentiOn, or let one push
away another, or if we hold aloof from
one through petty jealousy or needless
slight or rOughness. Would you throw
away a diamond because it pricked
you? One good friend is not to be
weighed against the jewels of the earth.
If there is GOODNESS or unkindness be-
tween us, come face to face and have
it out. Quick, before the love grows
cold Life is too short to quarrel in,
or to carry black thoughts of friends.
1t is easy to lose a friend, but new
one will not come for calling, nor make
up for the old one.
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PATENTS.

~ -
r.. H. f ID d Y.
No. &c State Street opposite Kilby Street Boston
Secures patents in the United States; also in
Great Britain, France and other foreign countries
Copies of the claims of any Patent furnished by
RENTING dollar. Assignments recorded at
Washington. No agency in The United States pos
superior facilities for obtaining Patents
acertdining the pdtentabitty Of inUentiOns. L. II.
EDDY, Solicitor of Patents.
TESTIM oNIALs.
Il regard Mr.. Eddy of the most successful
official intercourse. CHAS. MASON.
Commissioner of Patents.
Inventors cannot employ a person more trust
worthy or more capable of securing for them an
early and favorable consideration at the Patent Of
fce."-EDMUND BURKE late Commissioner of
Patents"
Boston, October 10, 1876.
X. Ii. EDDY, Esq.-Dear Sir you procured for
me- in 1si0 my first patent. Since then you have
acted for and advised me in hundreds of cases and
procured many patents reissues and extensions.
have occasionally employed the best agencies in
New York, Philadelphia and Washington, but 1
still give yOn almost the whole of my business in
your line and advise others to employ you.
Yours truly, GEORGE DRAPER.
Boston Jan. l. 1S7S.-1y
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IINh IItENJH Pe71
A true copy of record.-Attest ''s''e'
Gil HENRY FRENCH Pa.
G. CHAMBERLAIN,S Esr rn

FzzRRaA. n G. ChAMB BdIid h5 ESTATE
Honorable Probate Court for the district 81 ny Z
MIA commissioners, to receive, examine .yt |a-
all claims and demands of all persons agsi ia. az
tate of Ezra G.. Chamberlain late of p. sL ,lsa
said district, deceased represented insolTaT,'
term of six months from the Sth dav of i H., any
1877, being allowed by said Court to tbe D zen
of said deceased, to exhibit and proTs Tsl'
spective claims before us: Give potcs t .i
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1912 MARTIN S. HIDDEN (COmmfs
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summoned, but could hold no inquest,
as there we're no remains to view. A
Roman Catholic priest read the burial
service of the church, on top of the
furnace, shortly after the accident.
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1873 Diaries 1873

THE LARGEST STOCK 1 ever had can now
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