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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-09
Stand by Him.

1t is discOuraging, is it not, to see one
whom you have been trying to aid in
his efforts to live good life, relapse
again, perhaps for the twentieth time ?
You feel as if all your labor were thrown
away utterly, and as if You might as
well let him and his salvation drop.
Sometimes you can hardly help having
sort of personal feeling, too, as if he
had insulted you by making light OF
your efforts to help him. But do not
be disheartened. There is Just one
way, with Gods help, to save such a
man. Stand by him. No matter how
often or how low he may fall, be true
to him. No matter if everybody else
gives him up, keep hold of him and let
him realize that upon you he can de-
pend absolutely for all right sympathy
and wise help. Where would you be,
perhaps, if you had had to fight his
temptations Where would You be
with your own present temptations, if
Christ and Christian friends had failed
to stand by you ? Rally your courage,
then. Summon your patience. He ap-
preciates, somewhat, if not fully, some
times, if not always, what you are to
him, and it is added help to him in the
resistance, however faint, which be-
makes to evil. God appreciates it, too.
Cheer up then, and stand by your
friend. -COngregdtiOnaliSt
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-09
Choir or Congregation P

DR.. Holland, in IA discussion of church
music i'll Scribner for May, writes as
follows: =
For ourselves, we are very much
afraid of the movement toward congre-
gational music. The tendency thus far
has been to depreciate not only the
quality of music, in the churches, but
the Importance of it, and to make pub
Tic worship very much less attractive to
the great world which it is the church's
duty and policy to attract and to influ-
ence. The churches are full, as a rule.
where the music is excellent. This fact
may not be very flattering to preachers
but 1t is fact, and it is quite a lepiti-
mate question whether church has n
right TO surrender any attraction that
Will give it hold upon the attention
OF the world, especially if that attrac-
ton Is an elevating one and in the di-
rect line of Christian influence. Con
gregational singing is well enough in
It's place and proportions, but veTy lit
tie OF the inspiration of music comes
through 1t. 1t is, indeed, more of a
torture than pleasure to many musi.
Cal and devout people. The ideal ar.
rangement, as it seems to us, is frs,
class quartette, made up of soloists
VINO take prominent part in the pub
lie service, with single choral in eacI
service given to the congregation t,
sing: In this way, the two Offices %
music IN public religious assemblies
seem TO be secured more surely an,
satisfactorily than in any other.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-09
Life the Time for Influence.

While cOnversing lately with friend
who was observing that there was little
or no sale for the "livesn of certain
personages who, when living, were
highly distinguished, a gentleman re-
piled, "True, such memoirs are not in
demand. Who cares for dead man in
this busy, bustling age ?" The question
sounded brusque, but it expressed an
obvious fact the movement of modern
society is so active, and the deeds of
countless living actors are so constantly
before the public eye by means of the
press and telegraph, that the images
of men but recently active, yet now
either retired or dead, are crowded out
of sight-forgotten like dream of yes
ternight. This fact may be humiliat-
ing to the vain man who aims to make
his name immortal on earth but to
him who seeks the Immortality of his
influence here, and the hOnors of heaven
in the hereafter, it causes no sense of
modification, but only a stronger pur-
pose to make his passing labOrs as pro-
ductive as possible of human good, and
of a quality to command the approba
ton of his Lord.-ZiOn'S Herald.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-09
An Odd Freak of Nature.

AT the Cape of Good Hope, near Ia
BILE Mountain, the clouds come down
very low now and then without drop
ping in rain. At such time, if trav-
eIeI should go under tree for shelter
from the threatening storm, he would
find himself in drenching shower,
while out in the open air, away from
any tree or shrub, everything would be
us dry as a bone.
The clouds or mist is rather warmer
than the leaves, you see, and so, when
it touches them, it changes into cling
ing drops, which look like dew. Fresh
drops keep forming they run together;
and, at length, the water drips off the
leaves like rain. And this process goes
on until the clouds lift and the sun
comes out again.-St Nicholas for May.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-09
Where it Rains Every Day.

At Para one day is like another. The
mornings are cool and pleasant. From
ten till two the heat increases rapidly,
commonly reaching 92o or 93o Fab
renheit. A little later great black clouds
appear in the east, spreading rapidly
over the sky and turning the intense
glare to twilight darkness. In few
minutes the rain comes pouring down
in great dense masses, flooding the
streets, hiding vessels on the river
drenching unlucky boatmen and thell
passengers, and then-ere we know It,
the shower has passed, and the sun
looks down brightly on the freshened
earth. Sometimes the first shower is
followed by another one, and even a
third after that the clouds disappear
or hang like purple curtains on the
western horizon. By sunset the ground
is dry, and all nature is smiling.
This is the rule all the year round
only the wet season, extending from
January to May, is distinguished by
more copious showers, sometimes last
ing until evening, with an occasional
day or night of continued rain, while
in the hight of the dry season, week
may pass without any showers at all
but even then the ground is watered 10y
the heavy dews.-Scribner's for May.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-09

trade or occupation to another. They
20 through college, perhaps, with no
definite idea as to what is to become OF
them after the course is finished. They
study little law, and then a little
medicine, and then very likely, take up
the position of a country pedagogue,
because it requires less energy of mind
to make that choice than to follow up
the preparation for a professional ca
reer. Or if they adopt some definite
profession, they shift from place to
place, staying nowhere long enough to
win position OF reputation. Their lives
are "a series of beginnings, each with a
little less hope and little less heart IN
it than the one before. In how marked
contrast with such lives is the career OF
a man who sets out with a logged de-
termination to accomplish certain re-
suit Deficiencies of preparation, dis
advantages of environment, discourage
ments OF any sort, count for nothing
with such man. The very stars III
their courses fight for him, and before
the might of his concentrated energies
all barriers give way.--OncOns'dered
TrifeS IN Boston Journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-09

(including his wife) that will pull, and
harnesses them to plow which would
be fine Curiosity for one of our agrl-
cultural fairs, since it is simply some
sticks of wood bound together so that
the sharply pointed end of the main or
handle piece, is dragged along little
under the sod. Yet we must not for
get that much nearer home like lack
of progress is seen for in parts of Mex
leo an almost exactly similar excuse for
a pillow has been used for 300 years, and
may perhaps be used for 300 more
st. Nicholas for May.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-09
The Use of Small Means.

The use of small savings has not been
enough insisted upon. We have had
plenty of light on cooperation in labor
and in expenditures, and there has been
no end to the wild schemes for making
men wealthy by short and easy methods,
us by il redistribution of property, the
limitless manufacture of paper money,
etc. But the slow, simple, oldfashion-
ed plan of providing for to-morrow's
contingencies by setting aside portion
of tO-day's receipts, has fallen sadly in
to diSuse. 1t is tedious business, and
not at all i'll accord with the prevailing
desire to'get rich all of sudden and
with trifling eXertiOn. We are all ia
miliar with the calculation which shows
how much ten cents day, or twenty
cents Il day, laid aside and put out at
interest will amount to, twenty, thirty,
forty years hence. But we smile at the
figures as a mere freak of enthusiasts,
and squander every day upon insig
niticant enjOyments or out of sheer
carelessness sums of money which, if
saved, would make the "rainy day."
which lies somewhere in waiting for
most of us, Il good deal brighter than it
is likely to be otherwise. 1t is prOba-
bic that the ''hard times" from which
we are emerging, have helped to teach
this lesson, among others, and that
more people than formerly will be dis
posed to test the utility of small saw
ings. 1t is bad enough, out of an in
come of twenty pounds to spend twenty
pounds and make no provision for the
future, but the trouble with most of us
has been that we have been spending
the extra shilling which was not ours to
spend. Hence eur settlements" at con-
less than one hundred cents
on the dollar Unconsidered Tiifes, in
Boston ,LOMrnnL
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-09
Imprisoned Miners.
THEIR MIRACULOUS ESCAPE,

THEIR MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
Six men and boy were imprisoned
in coal mine at Wilkesbarle, Pa.
which caved over them Tuesday, and a
large gang went to digging for them
with the hope that they might be taken
out alive. At nine o'clock Monday
morning the relief gang succeeded in
reScuing all the men who were taken
out of the mine alive and well, but suf
tering very much from exhaustion and
want OF food. The men were impris-
Oned over four days, and their escape
from the awful death which threatened
them was miraculous. Reliefs of labor
ers have been constantly at work night
and day, and finally they succeeded in
making channel through fifty-foot
block of coal. The imprisoned men
had built a fire, and sustained them
selves on the meat of a mule which was
caught with them in the fall. A stream
OF water running through the mine
quenched their thirst. They were found
in good condition, having suffered very
little from the confinement.
The entire party used all possible
dispatch in getting out of the mine, and
reached the surface shortly after {
O'Clock. The crowd that had assembled
was very enthusiastic, and cheered the
rescued men and their plucky deliver,
ers repeatedly. The men were the,
sent to their homes. They state tina
during Saturday and Sunday they coul(
hear the rescuing party firing blasts
and when the blasting ceased they be.
lleved the work had stopped and they
were abandoned to their fate. They
also state that they could have subsist
ed at least two weeks longer, had i
been necessary, upon their supply O
Jerked mule meat. The boy, upoI
reaching the surface, leaped over tn
enclosure at the mouth of the openin!
and ran rapidly homeward.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-09
Questions and eInsmrrs.
United States History Questions.
No. 10.


l. The most important event that
occurred in September, 1862.
,. What followed on January l.,
1863.
3. The battle that was considered
the turning point of the war.
4. When was Richmond evacuated ?
D. When and where did Lee surren-
der?
6. What was the pecuuiary cost of
the civil war?
Z. What event turned JOY into grief
just at the close of the terrible conflict ?
8. Who succeeded Lincoln in the
Presidency ?
9. What resolution made in Con-
gress concerning him
10. What were the Reconstruction
Acts
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-09
PATENTS.

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Copies of the claims of any Patent furnished by
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sesses superior facilities for obtaining Patents o.
dcertaining the patentabiity of intentions. r. II
EDDY, Solicitor of Patents
TESTIM 0NIALS.
II regard Mr.. Eddy as one of the most successful
and capable practitioners with whom l have had
official intercourse CHAS MASON.
Commissioner of Patents.
Inventors cannot employ person more trust
worthy or more capable of securing for them an
early and favorable consideration at the Patent of
hce."-EDMUND BURKE, late Commissioner OF
Patents
Boston, October 49, 1876.
r. III. EDDY, Esq.-Dear Sir you procured fol
me, in 1910 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
still give yOn almost the whole of nv business in
your line and advise others to employ you.
Yours truly, GEORGE DRAPER
Boston, Jan. l. 1s79.-1y
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-09
Gods Faithful Care of the Believer.

He is faithful to forgive us our sins,
and to cleanse us from all unrighteOus-
ness. ! John l:9.
God is faithful, who will not suffer
you to he tempted above what We are
able; but will with the temptation
also. make a way to escape, that We
NAV be able to bear it. l Cor. 10: l3.
The Lord is faithful, who shall stab
fish you, and keep you from all evil
2 Thess. 3: 3.
He preserveth the souls of his saints
Ps. 81: 10.
The Lord forsaketh not his
saints they are preserved forever. Ps'
81: %.
The eyes of the Lord are over the
righteous. / Peter 3: II.
Who are kept by the power of God
through faith unto salvation. ! Peter
/: ).
Faithful is he that calleth you.
TheSs. ): "a.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-09
How They Tickle the Ground in Mo
rocco

oh every side, as you travel through
the country you cannot help NOTICING
the fertility of the land. Delicious
fruits grow almost wild in great album
dance,-oranges, pomegranates, apri-
cots, peaches, ounces, almonds, vines
and tg trees. Wide fields of grain
wave before your eyes, as surely they
would not were it not that the sol
barely needs to be turned over; for
'hIough all the centuries since this
coast was first cultivated, not one par
'leie OF Improvement do the indolent
people seem to have made In theil
clumsy methods.
w hen native farmer finds he can nc
longer SIT in the sun and postpone hi
pnloWlng, If he is 10 have any crop al
a'l' he catches donkey and "a goat, OF
COW and mule, or any other creature
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-09
BUILDING MATERIALS

For sale, timber, ioice, boards, ,clapboards and
laths, cedar and spruce shinge, DOORS windows,
blinds, mouldings brackets, ladders, hardware for
building, lime, paints, wall paper and everything
necessary for building 1 will not be undersold or
qnderbid by any one that will pay 100 cents on the
dollar. Give me your plans and let me job and
you will not have any more trouble about it. Blinds
in the white, or painted trimmed and hung TO or.
der. For want of space, L will not name the bull
dings that have built, being over so in number
mostly dwelling houses, stores and horse barns,
scattered all over this village. So my references
are all the leading business men and the men
have built for in this town. L deliver lumber and
material to all parts of the city.
Thanking my numerous friends for their liberal
patronage, l am now prepared to do all kinds of
work by the day job at prices suit the times.
L will furnish all the materials for building not,
as desired by parties wishing to build. 1 take jobs
from the bottom of the cellar to the top of the
chimneys. Plans and specifications furnished when
desired. BY being prompt and attentive to bust
ness, hope to merit continuance of Your past
favors, and share of the public patronage.
WANTED-Fifty Thousand feet of clear dry
spruce bass and pine lumber.
Residence opposite the passenger depot, across
the river OFF Water Street, Summerville.
st. JOhnsbury, March, 1879.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-09

% If your coal fire is low, throw on
a tablespoonful of salt, and it will help
you very much.
% For ear ache, put some live Goals
on I'm plate, sprinkle some brown su-
gar on them, set funnel over it, and
then hold the child SO that the smoke
can go into the ear.
p The Philadelphia Times thinks
there is one financial scheme on which
all parties can unite, namely, the aboli-
ton of twenty-cent pieces.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-09
Form a Purpose and Stick to II

The difference between success and
failure in life is not nearly so much a
matter OF natural endowment or of adj
outrageous position as it is a question
OF grip The man who doesn't know
now to let go is the man who, in the
long run, accOmplishes the work which
ne sets himself to do. The reason that
we see around us so many useless lives
is that great many men are ipcanabIe
Oh FORMING any strong purpose and then
sucking to it. They oscillate from one
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-09

STATE OF VERMONT. CALEDONIA .I-I..r .
DIN Probate Court, holden ut the Probate u..,
ST. Johnsbury within and for said district 900 '
25th day of 4 pril. \. ID. 1879.
Harvey =. CalderwOod. guardian of i, I'm Of. h.
sington, an insane person of st. ,Iohnsbury iu 81.
district makes application to said Court Got
ccnse to sell the whole of the real estate uf
said ward, representing that the sale thereof
necessary tor the purpose of paying expense
maintaining said ward aud family, and pay iu-
Just debts, contracted before and subScguyui 90. .
appointment as Guardian.
Whereupon it is ordered by said court. tu.I -.
application he referred To session thereof o..
held at the Probate Office in said ST. Ju.r-I .r
on the Eth. day OF May. y. ID. 1S7g. fr .....
and decision thereon and it is further ..u
ed that all persons interested he uoutiy. Hr... .
publication of notice of said application l# ....
thereon, three weeks sucCcssiVcly i'm tL. .....
MAN, printed at st. Johnshury, before said ,....
hearing, that they may appear al said luuu
place. and If they see cause, object thereto.
BY the Court, Attest
1881 HENRY FRENCH Eu-.-...
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-09
origin of the Names of the Months

To Roman deities and rites are due
the names of the months March, April,
May and June to the gods July and
August to the rulers of the Augustan
age,-Julius Caesar, to whom divine
honOrs were accorded during the con-
sulship of Lepidus and Plaurus, and
Augustus. The four following months
were numerically designated, and re-
mind us of the time when December
was the tenth month, January an an
cient king and deity. February denot-
ed publication. During this month the
Romans were purified, and the Termi-
MALTA closed the year.
How anomalous the date of to-day,
Thursday, March %, A. D., 1878. Thor,
the giant deity of the Vikings, Mars,
the old Roman god of war and carnage,
and Our Lord, the Prince of Peace and
Savior of mankind, in whose hand in
the fullness of time the years will all
be gathered, are here recorded. The
days and months may vanish unnoted-
the years are the only real landmarks
OF time, and their only imperishable
chronicle is A. D., ''In the year of our
Lord."-Sunday A. fternoon for May.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-09
FARM PROPERTY
AT AUCTION!
ANNOUNCEMENT.

The friends end patrons of W. Il, HORTON
Will De glad to know he is now in Boston SELECTING
New Stock Choice Woolens for Cents Su;ts
which will be made up in the most approved stvls
at 5. Jewett's Sore on Railros Street.
My stock will be ample to select from. Tho
goods Will be well made and prices will be verv
low Please call and leave your measures
s. JEWETT
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-09

q Fresh, law oysters are obnoxious
10 the Chinese palate: In China, after
oeing taxi from the shell they are
plunged into boiling water, then expos
ca III the sun until thoroughly dried.
In such condition they retain their del
icacy and native flavor for long time.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-09
DA UCHI'S ADVERTIsEWENTs
NEW' RZCH RL00D.

Parsons Purgative Pills make New p;o.,
blood, and will completely change the blood in H.
entire system in three months Any person = N, ~
be restored to sound health, if such thing he
slDie Sent by mail for letter STAMPS
JOHNSON & CO., Bangor, Me- "a Q, o.
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w. ]. BRAY, Contractor and
Builder.
JOBRING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.

Having worked at building for fourteen years,
and being contractor and builder for the last six
years, have worked and built from the plans and
drawings of L. Packard, architect of this place and
having built good share of the best buildings
outside of the Fairbanks in this place, my work
and close attention TO business has gained for me
the reputation for doing the most and best work of
any iObber and builder in this place. can build a
house in a she, ter space of time than any other
builder in the place, for keep good carpenters,
masons and painters, so that can have the work
all going at once. am better prepared than ever
before having all the appurtenances for hOisting,
moving repairing, remOdeling and erecting bull
dings of every description. As my business is in
ton in work and prices, and do good share of the
building in this place.
Ennr Ill Einnds Of