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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-18
The Perils of Iced Tea.

Beware the cup. In these days of
raging thermometers and busy CorOn-
ers it is fraught with peril. 1t amazes
us, sometimes, to think how long the
people of America have been permitted
to go on dallying with this living death,
unwarned by the monitions of science.
1t is seldom that scientific men have
been so criminally negligent as they
have shown themselves to be in this
matter of iced tea. They have been
prompt enough to warn us of the poi
sOnous qualities of everything else we
like to eat or drink from the bill of fare.
and starved us down to a bran bread
diet, and now comes along DR.. Holland
in Scribner for July, and assures us that
the Graham system of diet starves more
New Englanders to death in six months
than die from all other causes in year.
Blessed be the name of DR.. Holland for
that statement He doesn't put it quite
so strongly as that, but that is the way
we believe it. Scientific men, learned
men in the professions, have compelled
us to drop the luscious rawberry in
terror, by screaming out to us that it
would give us the hydrophObia. They
have made us heart-sick with apprehen-
sion by showing that the tempting
peach In our hands was reeking with
the deadly prussic acid. They have
hlled our ice cream with poisonous i'm
purities. They have forbidden us to
drink water that has passed through
IRON pipes, or lead pipes, or that has
stood in wooden vessel, or lain in a
cemented cistern, or rippled from the
rock of the hillside, impregnated
with, heaven and chemistry only
know what, awful substance, until one
restriction after another has made it the
only safe way for man to get drink
OF water for him to lie down on his back.
open his mouth and wait for the show
er. Science has kindly warned us of the
death that turks in the coffee cup. The
cup that blesses the breakfast table i'm
pairs the digestion. Large doses of if
produce palpitation of the heart. 1t is
adulterated with Venetian red and ma
tive sesquiOxide of iron. 1t has also
warned us against the use of warm tea.
bread and butter, meat, vegetables.
fruit, roots, berries, milk and similar
articles of food. Singular enough, Sci
ence has not yet assailed iced tea.
But it will not do to permit people to
enjoy this cool, delightful beverage,
simply because its taste is grateful tC
the wearied system during this scorch.
ing weather. We must do our duty
though science may shrink from it. and
the people may cry out against us
There is danger in iced tea, and if yor
would live long and we'll, shun the cool.
ing cup. We have not the space to de.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-18
London Letter.

DEATH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL. HOW
THE EX-EMPREss RECEIVED THE SAD
INTELLIGENCE. ''MY SON, MY POOR
SON ~ RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES.
LONDON, June %, 1879.
To the Editor of the Caledonian:
No event, not even the assassination
of the Gar or Kaiser, could have made
Il more profound sensation in Europe,
than the death of the Priuce Imperial
has created. The French Republic
was, to all appearances, firmly estab-
lished, but the comments of the conti-
mental press, and the shock created in
every European capital by the tragic
intelligence, shows how ineradicable
was the idea that the House of Bona
parte would ultimately succeed to the
French throne.
No positive intelligence of the death
of the Prince was received at Chisle-
hurst, the home of his mother, until the
morning of June 21st. The duty of
breaking the fearful news to the ex-
Empress fell upon Due de Bassano. He
asked permission to see the Empress.
She knew that the Prince had been
very ill and noticing probably from the
expression OF his countenance that he
was greatly troubled, begged to know
at once all he had to tell her. He said,
"Madame, the Prince is very ill, more
dangerously i'll than he was when we
last heard" Immediately her Majesty
exclaimed, 81 will go to him; l must
co." to which he replied nothing, and
retired. A quarter of an hour elapsed,
and then he returned to her. He told
her that further news had come, which
made the aspect of affairs still graver.
She cried out, 81 will go at once where
is he 7" To which he replied, oIt is too
late, Madame" on hearing which her
Majesty burst into flood of tears. ex-
claiming, "AlOn fills, mon pauvre fills ~
my son, my poor son y t...
The principal religious functions re-
lating to the death of the young Prince
will be solemnized on the return of the
body to England. 1t is not expected
till the middle of July. In addition to
the mass at Camden-house at which
the Empress was present, three masses
were solemnized yesterday at Chisle-
hurst Catholic Church, at each of which
reference was made to the event which
has filled this pleasant country village
with mourners. A constant procession
of black -clad visitors from London and
Paris passed from the station to the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-18
A Ride on a Safety Valve.

Jimmy Carr came to America in
1885," says the Cincinnati Enquirer,
land took up his abode in this city
soon afterward. Liking the country
he settled here to work at his business
OF machinist and engineer, and was al
ways good citizen and faithful en-
ployee. He was rather old to begin
the profession of arms when the war
began, but he did the next best thing,
he went into the navy, enlisting as as
sistant engineer on the steamer Queen
OF the West, a freight boat which had
been bought by the government and
altered into a ram here in Cincinnati.
The vessel, which was under command
of Captain Elliott, Was ordered South,
and it was at the battle of Memphis
that Jimmy Carr met with this partic-
ular adventure, which made him a hero
in as peculiar manner as ever hero
gained the title. We give the tale as
he tells it: ..... ..
lit was on the 9th of june said jim
my, that Memphis was taken. 1 re-
member it well, for it was hot day,
and l was in hot place, too, can tell
you. The fleet was laying five miles
above Memphis, and the Queen was
volunteer that morning. Early in the
day we got orders to move down tow
ard the rebel batteries, but had no
sooner got within range than the
"Johnniesn opened fire on us. Our
captain called on Curtis, the first en-
gineer, to let loose, and he did, and we
were soon steaming down the river.
We weren't long under way until we
had one hundred and fifty pounds of
steam on, and still rising. Curtis de-
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tailed me to look after the boilers-we |
hau four which were on deck-and
went off to my post. The first thing l
notlced was that the safety-valve wasn't
weighted heavy enough for the extra
pressure, and the steam escaped.
couldn't see anything lying around to
weight it down with but large lump
OF coal. lifted that on to the lever,
but it was no use, as it was tumbled off
IN minute or two. By this time we
must have had fully two hundred
pounds of steam on, and on looking out
l saw the rebel gunboat, the General
Lowell, steaming up and firing at US.
We had no guns aboard and only eleven
sharpshOoters, and the shot was flying
around US pretty lively. Iknew it was
the captains intention to try to sink
the Lowell, and l saw that it would
never do to allow the steam to escape
as 1t was doing. l had to think quick
there was nothing near that l could
weight down the valve with, but was
bound not to be beat, and 1 just got
astrlde of the lever myself and sat
down on it. 1t was pretty hot, but
stuck it out. l looked out and the
Lowell was only couple of hundred
yards off. She stopped to round-to,
but the Queen was too quick for her,
and wit.I a rush, we were into her, just
astern of the wheel, and almost went
clean through her. / was so excited
that l never took my eyes off her when
we were coming up, and just bore my
weight down on the lever, never think
ing to hold on to anything. When we
struck, the shock was so terrible it just
knocked me head and heels over the
boilers. Curtis was watching me, and
thought was killed, and halloed out
"There goes poor Jimmy )" but wasn't
gone. l was stunned for II minute, but
jumped up and climbed over the boil
ers and straddled the lever again, this
time taking a good hold. ..
The Lowell sank in about five min
utes, but we had hardly time to get
clear of her before another rebel craft,
the Beauregard, steamed up toward us.
We treated her the same way as we
treated the Lowell, but this time | kept
my seat and clung on for dear life, and
the shock didn't knock me off. Soon
after the Queen, having nothing more
to do, drew out from the fight and l got
down from my perch. felt a little sore
and had few burns-for it was hot
place | was in-but that was all the
worse l was fol the adventure
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A Wonderful Natural Fountain.

One of the most wonderful natural
phenomena ever witnessed was seen by
a large crowd of people few days ago
at the home of Mr.. Peter Taylor who
9iVes just outside of the corporation.
For some time Mr.. Taylor has had a
number of men boring for water in the
southwest corner of his grounds. When
a depth of about one hundred and fifty
feet had been reached Mr.. Taylor heard
peculiar rumbling sound, apparently
issuing from the hole, and judging that
something unusual was about to hap
pen, warned his men to move to a safe
distance from the well. Scarcely had
they done so when fountain of muddy
water shot straight up into the air with
terrific force, carrying up the boring
pipe with it as far as the fastenings
would allow, and scattering the mud,
water and stones in all directions. The
subterranean noises appeared gradu-
ally to increase in violence and as they
did so the expelling force, whatever it
was, seemed to be proportiOnally aug
mented until the cOne-shaped column
obtained a height of fully one hundred
and fifty feet. Some idea of the mystic
riOus subteranean power which sup
piled the motive for this exhibition of
natural water works may be conveyed
by the fact that stones weighing fully
five, six, and even eight pounds were
shot up into the air to a considerable
height, while showers of round pebbles
of smaller size fell like hailstones upon
circle of several yards around the
hole. One large sized stone struck a
timber of the derrick in its upward
course, and glancing off, was thrown
several hundred yards into Mr.. William
Taylor's grounds on the opposite side
of the road.
The wind was blowing pretty strong
from the south at the time, and the re,
suit was that the roof of Mr.. TaylOr's
large brick hOuse-One of the largest in
tOwn-and its south side were bespat.
tered with the muddy mixture, there
being actually puddle of clay, pebble:
and water several inches deep on the
roof. Showers of the same mixture were
carried clear over the house and fol-
some distance along the street north OF
his lot.
After the extraordinary spectacle had
lasted for nearly an hour and a half
the fountain appeared to make one last
W uO uoJlGE Judu lGS UeSU-
and then gradually to lose its ascending
force. The series of jerking leaps-foI
the expelling power seemed all along to
be irregular and intermissive rather
than cOntinuOus-became weaker and
weaker; the steady whirring sound
which accompanied the exhibition, and
which can best be described as resem-
bling very closely the noise of steam
fire-engine, gradually lessened and at
about 6:30 Mr.. Taylor was rather re-
lieved to find that his magnificent but
incOnveniently powerful llawn-sprinkler
had disappeared, for the present at
least, within subterranean recesses.
The rumbling sound continued for a
few minutes and then ceased, though
the water which filed up the pipe to
within twenty-three feet of the surface
of the earth was disturbed for some
time after by bubbling agitation =
Sdrnid (ORt) Observer.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-18
SQuibs.

One touch of honor makes the whole
world grim Yonkers Gazette.
Girls, don't throw your cast-off shoes
in the alley ways, for alley gators are
dangerous.-[W Whitehall Times.
AS soon as tramp is able to ride in
car he calls himself a tourist.-New
Orleans Picayune. -.... ~.
"What's de time o. day, ole oman ~
said a cOlored countryman to Aunt
Mllly, trying to poke fun at the brass
chain that held her front door kew
around her neck. "Look at de town
clock, chile. Dat's built for poor folks.n
"Have you any object of interest in
the vicinity ?" the tourist asked the
Burlington man. 81 have,n eagerly re-
piled the other, "but can't get at it to
show 1t to you. It's ninety days' note
and its down in the bank now, drawing
interest like horse race or a mustard
plaster"
Nothing surprises young man more,
says the New Orleans Picayune, than
the shape of his head as he sees it for
the first time after his head has been
cropped close. His ears appear to be
out OF place, and there is a general con-
nectlng link look about him that he did
not expect.
A ceuntryman saw for the first time,
a school girl going through some of her
gymnastic exercises, for the amusement
OF the little ones at home. After gaz-
ing at her with locks of interest and
commisseration for while, he asked a
boy near by s'if that girl had fits y
Mo-" replied the lad contemptuously.
that's gymnastics" 'tOh, tits. bey
How long has she had 'em ?D =
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VOLUME 42---NUMBER 2l9O.

was ever made for water drank at the
Saratoga Springs. In 1876 the Congress
and Empire Spring Company, after
spending many thousand dollars on their
park, began to charge for admission to
that enclosure, but the water of either
of the two springs thus enclosed, the
Congress and the Columbian, was ac-
cessible from without. The HathOrn
Spring is the most convenient to the
principal hotels and to the public gen.
orally, and everybody drinks its water.
The new policy of the proprietors is
looked upon with favor, for the price of
admission is so small as not to exclude
anyone, and at the same time revenue
can be derived from it for keeping the
place in repair. Marked changes have
been made in the enclosure and in the
approaches, so that the public have no
reason to complain that free drinkin&is
no longer allowed. The new plan will
distribute the tax which was formerly
paid by the few bibbers who were dis
posed to fee the r-boys.-Corres-
pOndence EUening Post.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-18
Other Mothers.
BY MRS. N. 2. BUTTS.

BY MRS. NJ. F. BUTTS.
Mother, in the sunset glow,
Grooming child-songs sweet and low,
Eyes soft shining, heart at rest,
Rose-leaf cheek against thy breast,
Thinkest thou of those that weep
Ger their babies fast asleep
uIls.o Cne evening dews lie wet
On their broidered coverlet,
Whose cold cradle is the grave,
Where wild roses nod and wave,
Taking for their blossoms fair
What a spirit once did wear7
Mother, grooming soft and low,
Let not all thy fancies 60,
Like swift birds, to the blue skies
Of thy darling's happy eyes.
Count thy baby's curls for beads,
As a sweet saint intercedes,
But on some fair ringlet's gold,
Let tender prayer be told
For the mother, all alone,
Who for singing maketh moan,
Who doth ever vainly seek
Dimpled arms and velvet cheek.
-Christian Uni
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st. Johnsbury Church Directory.

ADvENT-Paddock Village. Elder L. C. & Mrs.
MoKInstry. Pastors. Sabbath Services at 1890 a.
Prayer Meetings at 1870 p. M. Sunday, Tuesday and
Friday evenings.
REFORMED Recommendations Hall, Rail
road street w. r. Laird, supply. Sabbath ser
vices-Preaching at I0:3G a. m. and 300 p. Sab
bath School at 200 p. III. Wednesday evening
prayer meeting at 1870 o'clock.
BArTIsI-Railroad Street, Corner Maple. Rev.
E, T. Sanford, Pastor. Preaching 1880 A. M. 5.
School IL M, prayer meeting 6:3O. Prayer meet
ings Wednesday evening at 1870.
FREE BAPTIsT-Main Street, Corner Prospect,
hams, Spring ST. Sabbath services at 1920 \. Nj.
and 6:3O p. NJ. sabbath School at 1900 M. We'd
nesday evening prayer meeting at 1870.
CHURCH OF THE MEssIAH-(Universalist East
ern avenue, corner Cherry street. Rev. Il. Nj. I'll
lotson, Pastor. sabbath services at 1:45 and $3.50
Z. M. Sabbath SCnool at IL NJ. Wednesday even
ing prayer meeting at 1870
METHUDIsT-Central, street. Rev. Z. S. Locke
Pastor. Residence head of Summer Street.
Sabbath services at 1890 A. M, and 630 Z. NJ.
sabbath School at 1900 M. Wednesday evening
meeting at 1890
NoRTH CoNGREGATIoNAL-Main street. corner
Church. Rev. Henry W. Jones Pastor. Sabbath
services at 1880 A. NJ. and $3.50 p. NJ. Sabbath
school at 1:45 P. M Wednesday evening meeting
at 1880.
SouTH CoNGREGATIoNAL-Main street. Rev
Edward I. Fairbanks, Pastor. Sabbath services
at 1890 A. M. and $50 z. Nj. Sabbath School at
1900 NJ. Wednesday evening meeting at 1880.
ST. ANDREws-(Epsc Main street Rev
N. F. Putnam, Rector. Services on Sundays at
1880 a. m, and p. m. Holy days and Fridays at
a. m. Wednesdays at 1880 p. m. Sunday School
at $3.50 p.
ROMAN CATHOLIC Ic-Cherry Street. Rev. j. A.
BoissOnnault, Parish Priest. Mass and 10 a. m {;
Vespers and Benediction at 3 D. M On the
second Sunday of the month, service at $50 a. M.
and p. IN. At LyndOnville same day at 1890 a. M.
st. Johnsbury Atheneum.
LIBRARY AND READING RooM-Free to all. Open
from NJ t11 -
to 12 Saturday evenings.
ART GALLERY-Open Tuesdays and Fridays.
W. W. THAYER Librarian.
Telegraph Office.
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Sweden teaches lesson to the labor
strikers OF America and England. When
the miners there struck recently they
sent in request to the authorities that
the public houses should be closed, and
during their voluntary idleness they
passed great part of their time in
psalm singing, varying the exercises by
occasional cheers for the King.
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ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS.
Boston and intermediate offices. Arrive 500 d
m. Close $50 I'm.
Boston through mail. Arrive LAO a M Close
500 pm.
New York and the West Arrive 225 and IL 25
M, SIS pm. Close S45 m and 500 p m.
Newport and the north. Arrive $50 m. Close
4.30 pm.
Portland and the east. Arrive II 20 M Close
1100
Swanton and intermediate offices. Arrive 2 90 D
m. Close 1.30 pm.
Waterford Arrive g 20 m. Close 4.45pm
North Danville. Arrive $50 m. Close $50 a
West Concord and East ST. Johnsbury. Arrive
9.20 m. Close 4.30 p m.
CHAS. P. CARPENTER. I'd. P. NJ
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Trapelers' 6nide.
Portland a Ogdensburg r. R.-June 80, 10.
TRAINS MOVING EAST


MAIL-Leaves Swanton 800 a. m, Cambridge
Junction 725 Hardwick s.46, East Hardwick s.5s,
Greensboro 9.O7, Walden 9.32, Danville 954 St
Johnsbury arrive 25 leave 1O.45, East st. Johns
bury 1859, West Concord 11.l0 Miles Pond II 30
East Concord 11.4O arrives at Lunenburg l.5O
Portland at 5.57 p. m.
MIXED.-Leave Swanton 100 a. m, Cambridge
junction 1904. Hyde Park Ills, Hardwlck 30 p.
M, East Hardwick 1.22 Greensboro Lag, Walden
2.34, Danville SIG, arrives at St J0hnsDGry 42o
leave 500 East St JOhnsbury 522 West Concord
542 Miles Pond 20, East Concord, 6.S7, arrive at
Lunenburg 100.
TRAINS MOVING WEST.
MAu-Leaves Portland 500 a. m. Lunenburg
1 ~ n m East Concord 2.04, Miles Pond BIB,
West Concord 2.32, East St. JOhnsbury 242 arrive
ST Johnsbury 2.55 leaves 430, Danville 502 Wal
den 5.2s, Greensboro 5.52 East Hardwick 600,
Rardwick 6.12, Cambridge junction 7.35, arrives
at Swanton at 900 p. m.
MIXED.-Leaves Lunenburg 600 a. M, East
Concord 622 Miles Pond 6.3s, West Concord ia
East St. Johnsbury 7.36, arrives st. Jolnsbury 9Ot
leaves 5.52, Danville 9.55, Walden 1884 Greens
boro lila East Hardwick 1I.29, Hardwick IL Al
Hyde Park l.24 p. H., Cambridge junction $50
arrives at SwantOn 600.
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The Legend of Jesus and the Moss.
In the desert of Encedi

In the desert of Engedi
Lies valley deep and lone;
Softly there the mild air slumbered,
Lovely there the sunlight shone.
In the bosom of this valley,
By the path that leads across,
Lay a modest velvet carpet
OF the finest softest moss.
But the careless traveller, passing
Needless of it went his way;
Thus this miracle of beauty,
Lone in hidden glory lay. ..
Bloom and sunshine, sweeter, brighter,
Him from distant mountains greet;
On to that, the stranger hurries,
Passed the moss-bed at his feet.
Then the moss-bed sighed, complaining
To the evening dew that fell;
And its tufted bosom heaving,
Thus its plant began to tell:
"Ah men love yon bloom and sunshine,
Long'its rosy glow to see, ....
Feed their eyes on loving flowers,
Whilst their feet tread rude ON me-"
Now when mellow rays of sunset
fingered golden ON the trees,
Came a weary pilgrim slowly
From the bordering forest leas-
This was Jesus, just returning ....
From his fast of forty days;
Worn by Satan's fierce temptations
He for rest and comfort prays.
Sore, his sacred feet are blistered,
Wandering DER the desert sands;
Torn and bleeding from the briers,
Sufferings which the curse demands.
When he came upon the mOss-bed,
Soon he felt how cool and sweet
Lay the soft and velvet carpet
Meath his wounded, bleeding feet.
Then he paused and spake this blessing:
'Gitt of my kind Fathers love;
Fret not little plant, thy record
Shineth in the book above.
By the careless eye unheeded,
Bear thy lowly, humble lot;
Thou hast eased my weary walking,
Thou art ne'er in Heaven forgot"
Scarcely had he breathed this blessing
On the moss that soOthed his woes,
When upon its bosom gathered,
Budded blOomed lovely rose.
And its petals glowed with crimson
Like the clouds at close of day;
And the glory on the MOSES,
Like the smile of cherubs lay.
Then said Jesus to the flower:
"MOss-rose, this thy name shall be,
Spread thou DER all lands the sweetest,
Emblem of humility.
And to lOwly MOSES budding,
Which have sOothed pilgrims pain,
Thou shalt tell the world what honor
All the lowly, lovely gain"
Hear his words, ye lonely children,
By the world unseen, unknown;
Wait ye for the suffering pilgrim
Coming weary, faint and lone.
Keep your hearts still soft and tender,
Like the velvet bed of moss;
God will bless the love you render
To some bearer OF the Cross.
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THE POULTRY WORLD is sent postpaid for 81 .25
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