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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21
Floors Versus Carpets.

There is strong protest offered in diff
ferent ways and from different sources,
against our long established practice of
making poor floors with the design of
keeping them covered with carpets
stretched and fitted to every part and
tackled down. Carpets in daily use can
not be kept clean except by very fire.
quent shaking and beating, and they
retaining impure gases, hiding the
finest, most penetrating dust in their
meshes and underneath them, and by
giving off particles of fine wool into the
atmosphere, with other dust, as they
are swept or walked upon. There is a
demand for better floors, not necessari-
ly inlaid or mosaics, of different kinds
of precious wood, but made double, of
strong seasoned wood, that will not
shrink or warp (spruce, however well
seasoned, is almost sure to warp), and
then carefully finished so as to be dura-
BILE and easily cleaned. Carpeted floors
seem a relief to the hOusekeeper when
once the carpets are procured and fitted
to the room and tackled down, because
they do not show the dirt as the bare
floors do. But oh when they do get
full of dust And when house cleaning
time comes, and they must be taken up
and shaken and whipped as they well
deserve With warmly made floors
and large, warm rugs, couldn't we do
without these denominations, even in
winter? Certainly our rooms would be
cooler and sweeter in summer. But in
that case we must take more pains with
our floors, and we must have some
thing better than the common unpaint-
ed ones. Oiled floors are better liked
than those painted, even for kitchens.
Women find that they can oil their
floors themselves, and many kitchen
floor has, within few years, been made
decent and comfortable in that way.
Boiled linseed oil is used, and two or
three coats are put on, one after an
other, us fast as they are dry. Floors
of alternate boards of different kinds of
wood are pretty for some rooms, aud
sometimes border made in this way,
with diagonal stripes, bOrdered by a
straight board on each side, or wood of
two kinds laid in checks or diamonds,
is very satisfactory. These bordered
rooms are especially designed for par
lors or rooms where heavy bordered
Val lCb vi liSII 10 W
merely cover most of the floor, leaving
a margin of about two feet around the
edges-a carpet which can often be car
ried out and shaken free from dust.
Oiled floors do not need hard scrub
bling like Imprinted floors, but simply
a good washing, with warm mot hot)
water, often changed, as you go over
it. Strong suds, of course, will gradu-
ally remove the oil with which you
have filled the pores. Grease spots do
not have the same effect as upon an
unpainted or unoiled floor, which must
be kept free from grease in order to
look well, for now you have it creased
all over; whatever grease gets on it
now, which cannot be scraped or wiped
up, may be thoroughly rubbed in
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21
A Cleanliness That May Be Sinfulness.

With all due respect for st. Paul in
pronOuncing cleanliness next to godli-
ness, believe that extreme cleanliness,
which requires the life-servce of any
human being, to be not merely neat to
sinfulness, but actually it, What | do
indOrse is sense of general wholesome
ness in and about house, clean cook
cry, clean dish-cloths, clean table
cloth and bright china and silver essen
tials. That there are mud-tracks on
the floor, fiy-specks Oh the window
panes, dust on the top of picture frames,
finger marks on doors, or carpet that
has not had a thorough sweeping for a
mOnth,-such things are of minor i'm
pOrtance, and ought to disturb the hap
piness of no woman who desires to use
her time for better work. 1t is plain
that housekeeper must put limit
somewhere to her labors, or else give
herself to hopeless drudgery. What
health and absolute comfort demand
should be carefully attended to; but
beyond that the work becomes, in a
large part, Improbable drudgery. 1t
makes nobody better or happier-often
the reverse-while the best that can be
SAID OF it is, that it gratifes in a way
the small vanity of the woman who
does It, She likes to see things look
clean /! so do all of us. And she is
spurred on by some secret impulse to
clean and polish, and sweep and brush,
ana scrub and scour, as if by such work
eternal life were to be won. The force
OF habit finally becomes such she can't
lie down for a nap and get a wink of
sleep, If she knows that the mantel-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21
How God Forgives.

Thou, Lord, art -. ready to forgive.
Ps. sc: 5.
Thou hast cast all my sins behind
thy back. lisa. 80: IL.
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity OF
thy people thou hast covered all their
sin. Ps. SIS: 2.
None of his sins shall be mentioned
unto him. Eze. 80: Is.
He will abundantly pardon. lisa.
55: Z.
As far as the east is from the west, so
far hath he removed our transgFesslons
from us. Ps. 103: II.
. Their sins will remember no more.
Heb. 10: IL.
have blOtted out, as a cloud, thy
sins. lisa. "A: %.
L, even |, am he that blotteth out thy
transgressions for mine own sake, and
will not remember thy sin. lisa. 1925.
ForgiUing one another, eUen as God for
ChriSt's sake hath forgiven you. Ep. 4:32
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21
The Girl to Get.

The true girl to be sought for. She
does not parade herself as show goods.
She is not fashionable. Generally she
is not rich. But, o! what heart she
has when you find her, SO large and
pure and wOmanly. When you see it,
you wonder if these snowy things out
side were women. If you gain her love
your two thousand are millions. She'll
not ask you for carriage, or first
class house. She'll wear simple dresses
and turn them when necessary, with no
vulgar magnificent to frown upon her
economy. She'll keep everything neat
and nice in your sky parlor, and give
yon such a welcome when YOU come
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21
The Matter with Women's Shoes.
[Dr. bio Lewis.


Let me give YOU the result of my OBJ
servation and thought The sole is too
narrow My friend, Mrs. c., in reading
the chapter in ''Our Girls" devoted to
"Boots and Shoes" came to say that,
although she was great sufferer from
corns and a general sore and crippled
condition of feet, her shoes were never
theless enormous, twice as large as her
feet. She wished would see if it was
not so. / examined the shoes and
agreed with her that they were too
large. AS she stepped, it was doubtless
true, as she said, that her foot rocked
over first on this side and then on that.
Now it pressed over on the outside,
rubbing down over the edge of the sole
and touching the ground, and perhaps,
if the ground was at all uneven, on the
very next. step, her boot would rock
over on the other side of the sole. Such
friction between the little toe and the
big toe joints against the upper leather
must inevitably produce cOrns. | think
the majority of shoes are too large.
Mrs. C. wished me to accompany her
to the shoemaker's and see what |
could do for her relief, for really life
was becoming torture. We went to
her own shoemaker. Mrs. G. hObbled
to a seat and declared -
81 won't try to walk again, there! !"
Her shoe was removed and Mr.. Shoe
maker marked around her foot, while
she was standing upon it. We measur-
ed the mark and found that it was ex
actly four inches. That was the width
of her foot when she stepped on it with
out shoe. Then we measured the
sole of the shoe she had been wearing
and found it two and half inches.
Here was the secret of the whole
trouble.
A pair of shoes were made for her at
once with soles four inches broad.
Now she can walk for hours without
a pain in her feet.
There are millions of poor sufferers
in the country, who are limping and
hobbling through the world, who might
be perfectly relieved and cured by the
Sama means
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21
Qnesfiuns and Inswers.
United States History Questions.
No. I6.

NO. ~.
l. Who settled the boundary line be-
tween Maine and New Brunswick
2. Give an account of the "Dorr
War"
3. What exciting question agitated
the country during the closing months
of President Tyler's administration ?
4. By what means was the news of
the election of President Polk transmit
ted from Washington to Baltimore?
5. The dispute which gave rise to the
motto "Fifty-four forty, or fight ?"
6. The cause of the Mexican war?
Z. The terms of peace2
8. The difference of political opinion
concerning the Mexican war?
9. What caused sudden emigration
to the Pacific coast in 1882
10. How long did Gen. Taylor re-
main in office?
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21

niece has not been busted or that there
is bit of thread or a scrap of paper
living on the carpet. l doubt if any
woman so hampered with care for
small things can rise to large and just
of life, and understand in
its true sense that life is more than
meat and body more than raiment. 1
believe in giving some good food to the
mind every day of ones life, though
the kitchen floor has not been scrubbed
for fortnight, or the parlor windows
rubbed for a month.-Correspondent in
Rural NelU Yorker.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21

home that you'll think your parlor
higher than ever. She'll entertain your
friends on a dollar, and astonish you
with the thought how little happiness
depends on money. She'll make you
love home, (if you don't you're a brute,)
and teach you how to pity, while you
scorn, a poor fashionable society that
thinks itself rich, and yainly tries to
think itself happy.
Now, do not, l pray you, say any
more, '1 can't afford to marry" Go,
find the true woman and you can.
Throw away. that cigar, burn up that
switch cane, be sensible yourself, and
seek your wife in sensible way.-Ot-
iver Wendell Holmes.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21
In Insolvency.

The undersigned hereby gives notice.
pOintment as Assignee by the Court OF L..
within and for the district of CaleduIl Dr..
tate of Charles 5. ScrutOn of Rycg1tr b..
trict, and State of Vermont. adiudgcd
debtor upon his own petition, and a'
debted to said estate are required
ments to me forthw with.
JAMES WHITE As.
Dated at Ryegate. VT Mar. 4th IN
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21
Petition for Discharge in Bankr.

In the District Court of the United STATE,
District of Vermont. In Re. JUDSON
DICK, Bankrupt.
DISTRICT OF VERMONT, SIS.
Notice is hereby given that a petition
filed in said Court, by j J. Burdick, of =
bury in said district, duly declared a bank
der the act of Congress of March 2d ],
discharge and certificate thereof from all
and other claims provable under said act,
tbs 18th day of Apr. 1879, at o'clock \. :
the Hon. HoYT H. WHEELER, Judge Of sd.
at the q. 5. Court Rooms in Burlington ,a~
for the hearing of the same. when and
creditors who have proved their debit, go
persons in interest, may attend and >hHF
any they have WHY the PRAYER of said .
should not be granted
Dated at Burlington, on the 9th dav of "
I2-H B. Il. SMAII.ET =
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21

Ella A. Mills, a johnson young wO-
man of %, has saved %, lC0 byEorking
10 years in Il Manchester, n. H., mill,
and the other day she lifted s 300
dollar mortgage on her fathers farm,
and gave him Il lite lease of the proper
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21
M. j. CALDBACK.
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER,
Makes Jobbinu a SpeciaItv

The best references can give is the work done
ior number of prominent citizens of ST Johns
pury, including Wheaton Livingston, Caleb III
tabrooks and Others " arreh Hs
l have for sale Lath Single. Clapboords ona
Timber Of all description. respectfnlIv so1;c;t n
share Of the public patronage. SV So.si
Resldenee, Harrison Ave. Summeryille St 4
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21
NOTICE..

The subscribers desiring to close out their win
ter goods, will sell their Cloakings Winter Dress
Goods, Shawls, Scarfs, Nubias, Leggings Ladies'
and Gents Underwear, Cardigan Jackets, and
Blankets AT COST and all other goods at greatly
reduced prices.
We keep constantly on hand a good line of Dry
and Fancy Goods and Groceries. Please call and
examine prices before purchasing elsewhere.
A. c. g. IL. A. BABBITT.
st. Johnsbury Jan. Q, 1879 63tf
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21
Petition for Discharue in BapE,
DISTRICT OF VERMONT. -.

District OF Vermont. In Re. C. II
WEEKS, Bankrupts.
DISTRICT OF VERMONT. -.
Notice is hereby given that petition
filed in said Court. by George H. w..
John NJ. Weeks, of Lyndon, in said dis
declared bankrupts under the act of Co.,.
March I'd. 1867, for a dischargc and .
thereof, from all their individual and .-
ship debts and other claims proyahlr u
act, and that the 18th day of April. Isl 90
\. NJ, before the Hon. HoYT ii. WHEEL
of said Court, at the Z. s Court Eo~.
lington, is assigned for the hearu- t
when and where all creditors who h4
their debts, and other persons in iutrr-
tend and show cause if any they ha-
prayer of said petition should not be .
Dated at Burlington, on the 10th day
1914 b. b. SMALL
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LIBERATION.

This certfes that have given my s0n-RoMU
AID q. RICHARD-hs time during the remainder OF
his minority and shall not claim his earnings mol
pay his debts, after this date. l.. o. RICHARD.
st. Johnsbury, March l, 1879. n-13
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-03-21
TOSEPH HOUSTON'S ESTATE.

II OSEEh hOOOION > Eo y y T..
- The subscribers, having been appur
Honorable Probate Court for the distHr
mia. commissioners, to receive, examine
all claims and demands of all persons aga
tate of Joseph Houston, late of Walden
trict, deceased. represented insOlvent. and.
of six months from the 18th day of Frbr
1879, being allowed by said Court to Oh. !
of said deceased to exhibit and prov.
spective claims before us: Give noH,-I
will attend to the duties of our appou
the dwelling house of deceased. in w
said district, on the 9Th dav of Anril
23d day of ugust next, at 9 O'Clock in til,
ON each of said days.
DAWSON S. FERG USONJ
72-74 ERASTUS E. DUTTON coon
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Oysters! Oysters!
MATTHEW'S g. PETTENGILL,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Oysters.
st. Johnsbury, Vt.
Burlington and LamoiIIe Railroad.

Commencing January 9Th, 1878, trains will
run rs follows:
GOING EAST.
MIXED leaves Burlington at 100 n. M arrives at
Cambridge Junction at 1905 n. m.
MAIL leaves Burlington at 4:J2 y. m, arrives at
Cambridge Junction at 6:45 p. m. connecting
with Express train for st. J0hnsbury and all
Eastern points, arriving in ST. Johnsbury at
1000 p. m.
GOING WEST.
MIXED leaves Cambridge Junction at $50 n. M.
connecting with Mail train from Swanton and
intermediate points arriving at Burlington at
1920 q. III.
MAIL leaves Cambridge Junction at 1910 p. m
connecting with train from Newport, St Johns
bury, and all Eastern points, leaving St Johns
bury ut $3.50 a. m arrives at Burlington at
$40 p. III.
MORNING AND EVENING TRAINS make close connec
ton at Burlington and Essex Junction with
Central Vermont trains North and South.
ALL TRAINS arrive at and leave the Central Yer
mont Depots in burlington and Essex junction.
Tickets for sale at all stations, and by H. N Dru-
ry Ticket Agent. Burlington. VT.
ID. C. LINSLEY,
Nj. L. SPRAGUE, General Manager.
Gen. Fr't and Pasr Agt.
Burlington, Vt, Jan. IL 1873. lott
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Farm for Sale !!

The Truman Prescott farm, near the village of
CT Jobnsbury containing about seventy acres of
land is for sale Credit will be given on large
norton of the purchase money. Enquire of
Poi''"- VI HENRY G. IDE.
St Johnsbury VT, Feb. Is, 1879. 69-73
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JERSEY STOCK!

.Saa II you wish for a COW that gives rich
S%&5sE milk, one-fourth cream which makes
TT nice Gilt Edged butter try the Jerseys.
--zA-4x- The young calves are easily learned to
drink. mature young usually giving milk before
two years old, are hardy and gentle. Bear good
keeping and kind treatment. but will do better on
short feed and dry pastures than the larger breeds
and excellent dairy co10S. When giving milk do
not take flesh but all extra feed goes to produce
milk. They take flesh very easily when
not giving milk making the very best of beef
VIM. ID. BRONSON, of East Hardwick VT. has
made a speciality of them for Dairy Cows, and has
been very successful in raising good cons. He now
offers few choice animals for sale.
Nov 20. 1878.
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Bankrupt.
DISTRICT OF VERNuNT -.
Notice is hereby given that @ pgtitla-
filed in said Court, by Frank Carter yi .
in said district, duly declared O bEsr
the act of Congress of March I'll. l-6'.
charge and certificate thereof FROM -
and other claims provable under said
the 18th day of April, 1879. at o'tl'ts
fore the Hon. HoYT II. WHEEIEE. JUL
Court, at the Q. S. Court Rooms in bH
assigned for the hearing of the san.
where all creditors who have proved .
and other persons in interest. may attrl.
cause If any they have why the prdNr.
titiOn should not be granted.
Dated at Burlington on the 10th day
1914 b. b. SMALL
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use. The kind that are always wanted
l. Honest. b. Obedlent.
3 Pure. Z. Steady.
3. Intelligent. 8. Obhging.
a. Active, 9. Polite.
5. Industrious. 10. Neat.
One thousand first-rate places are
open for thousand boys who come up
to this standard.
MANY of these places of trade and art
are already filled by boys who lack
some of the most important points, but
they will soon be vacant. One has an
office where the lad who has the situa-
ton is losing his first point. He likes to
attend the drinking-saloOn and the the
atre this costs more money than he can
afford, but somehow he manages to be
there frequently. His employers are
quietly watching to learn how he gets
so much spendIngmOney; they will
soon discover a leak in the money
drawer, detect the dishonest boy, and
his place will be ready for some one
who is now getting ready for it by OBJ
serving point No. and being truthful
in all his ways.
Some situations will soon be vacant
because the boys have been poisoned
by reading bad books, such as they
would not dare to show their fathers
and would be ashamed to have their
mothers see. The impure thoughts sug-
gested by these books will lead to vi
cious acts the boys will be ruined, and
their places must be filed. Who will be
ready for one of these vacancies 7
Distinguished lawyers, useful minis
tiers, skillful physicians, successful mer-
chants, must all soon leave their places
for somebody else to fill one by one
they are removed by death.
Mind your ten points, boys; they will
prepare you to step into vacancies in
front rank.-New York Observer.
WHAT is CASTLE SOAP "A sub
scriber wishes to know how this differs
from other soap. The hard soaps made
in this country are almost exclusively
from animal fats; in the south of Eu-
rope, where the olive grows abundant
ly, the poorer kinds of olive oil are used
for soap making. Common soaps are
soda and animal fat. CASTLE soap is
soda and vegetable oil. In making
CASTLE soap, great care is taken to
avoid an excess of alkali (the soda),
only just enough being used to neutral
ize the oil. On this account the soap is
so much milder, and may be used on
wounds and other surfaces where COM
mon soap would irritate and give pain.
The notified appearance of CASTLE soap
is due to Il small quantity of solution of
cOpperas (sulphate of irony which is
stirred into If bafnra II hardanS. this
leaves BLUSH odor of iron in the soap
which, when exposed to the air, be-
comes changed to the red oxide. White
CASTLE soap is also solid, which is the
same as the other without the coloring.
Though called CASTLE, it is by no means
made in Spain, the largest
share coming from the South of France,
and indeed it is generally known in
Europe as Marseilles sOap.-4merican
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Economy is Wealth.
HOW TO SAVE MONEY.

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Prof Schem's Illustrated History of
THE WAR IN THE EAST,

Or the conflict between Russia and Turkey, is the
only success of the year Agents everywhere do
well one sold 300 No other complete work. Con
tains full statement of the Eastern question and
complications. Has $50 pages and 125 engravings
Price only 81 co. Best terms ever heard of. Agents
Cincinnati O., 1875
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Petition for Discharge in Bankr

District of Vermont.
Notice is hereby given that petition
st. JOhnsbury, in said district duly dec.r-
rupt under the Act of Congress Of MAJ
for a discharge and certificate thcTeG
his debts and other claims provable Dr.
Act, and that the LIST day of Apr. ISIS a-
A. M, before the Hon. HOYT II. WHEEL
of said Court, at the U. ). Court Room
or Burlington, is assigned for the hear.
same, when and where all creditors
proved their debts and other persons
may attend and show cause if any they
the pray er of said petition should not b.
Dated at Burlington, on the 9th dav of 4.
lib b. B. SMALLEY
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SAVE COST.

All bills due F. Z. Richardson. and the firm of
Hovey & Richardson must be settled in 30 days TO
save cost. +. Z. RICHARDSON.
Feb 81 1913
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A Thousand Boys Wanted.

There are always boys enough in the
market, but some of them are OF little
use. The kind that are always wanted
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Building Lots.

lots sitnated on a commanding plateau, skirted
on two sides by the Passumpsic River and over
looking Railroad Street, Summerville, Paddock s
VILLAGE and portion of st. JOhnsbury Plain.
For beauty of scenery and healthfulness OF To-
cation this situation is unrivalled. Those desiring
homes will never have a better opportunity Ior
securing the most desirable location and on the
most reasonable terms. No fancy prices asked
Lots will be sold at prices ranging from SLSO TO
$3.50. If j. l.. PERKINS.