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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-07-02
Trauelrrs' 6nide.
Portland & Ogdensburg r. R.-June rs, 80
TRAINS MOVING EAST

TRAINS MOVING EAST
MAIL-Leaves SwantOn 6.35 a, M, Cambridge
Junction 7.4s, Hardwick 900, East Hardwick 9.I4
Greensboro 524 Walden 9.45, Danville I0.0S st.
arrive 1O.4 leave 0.50 East ST. Johns
bury 11.01, West Concord IL. TO- Miles Pond IL .2s
East Concord ll.35, arrives at Lunenburg I1.45,
Portland at 5.57 p.
EXPRESS-Leaves Haauam 200 D. m Cam
bridge Junction 3.44, Hardwick 5O4 East Hard
wick Sic Greensboro 5.24 Walden $50 Danville
COL, st, Johnsbury $40, E. St JOhnsbury $50, w.
Concord 6.5s Miles Pond lib, E. Concord 100 Lu-
nenburg 7.3O, arrive Fabyan's $40 p. m.
EXPRESS No. 13-St. Jotnsbury to Fdbyans-
Leaves st. Johnsbury 3:l0 p: ~, Il. st. Johnsbury
800, w. Concord 3.2s Miles Pond 343 L. Concord
$50, Lunenburg 400 arrive Fabyans $40 p. m.
MIXED-Hyde Park to st. Johnsbury-Leaves
Gas, Greensboro 100, Walden 7.35, Danville 500,
arrive st. Johnsbury s.45, M.
MIXED-St. JOhnsbury to Lunenburg-Leaves
st. Johnsbury AS D. m, E. st. Johnsbury sos, w.
Concord ), 25, Miles Pond 05, L. Concord 622 ar
rive Lunenburg 6i5 p. m.
TRAINS MOVING WEST.
MAIL-Leaves Portland s.25 a. m. Lunenburg
1.50 p. m, East Concord 202, Miles Pond 2.10,
West Concord 229 East St JOhnsbury 236 arrive
St Johnsbury $50, leaves 25s Danville $50, Wal
den 3.52, Greensboro 4.12, East Hardwick All,
Hardwick 4.33, Cambridge Junction 5.54, arrives
at SwantOn at IT'S p.
EXPRESS-Leaves Fabyan's 7.45 a. m, Lunen-
burg S.45, East Concord s.55. Miles Pond 9.0l, w.
Concord 9.17, East st. JOhnsbury 924, St JOhnsbu-
ry 935 Danville 1909 Walden 1890, Greensboro
105l, 4. Hardwick 1859, Hardwick 1l.09, Cam
bridge unctiOn IL -, Maquam Bay las p.
MIXED-St. Johnsbury to Hyde Park-Leaves
st. Johnsbury 4.40 p. m, Danville 5.35, Walden
80, Greensboro So, E. Hardwick l.O6, Hardwick
7.25, arrive Hyde Park $50 p. III.
notwithstanding to St. Johnsbury-Leaye
Lunenburg 600 a. m., E. Concord % Miles Pond
6.3S, West Concord TIA L. st. Johnsbury 1856 ar.
rive st. JOhnsbury 500 a IN.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-07-02
Two Ways of Destroying Schools.

The Wisconsin Journal of Education
says: There are two or three ways of
destroying our public school system.
The first is employing incompetent
teachers, whose sole recommendation
is that they will teach cheaply. Sec
ond, by the parents having such con-
fidence in the teachers and school board
that they will never visit the schools
for themselves. The third is for pa
rents to take the word of their children.
and on the strength of their report to
lind fault with the school. five would
have good schools we must have good.
competent teachers, and there is no
person who is really qualified to teach
a good school but that knows himself
to be able to earn more than the mere
pittance some would dole out to him
for teaching in almost any other call
ing. Then patrons of the school must
show a lively interest in the same and
encourage the teachers and pupils to
earnest work thereby. a.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-07-02
Beating a Conductor.
From the Detroit Free Press. /


A passenger going west from Detroit
by rail the other day had a pass to
Chicago. When the conductor took it
he asked several questions to satisfy
himself that the pass had not been
transferred, and the holder of the
pastebOard didn't take it as good
naturedly as some men would. He
didn't have much to say, but he was
determined on revenge. AS soon as
the conductor left the car the man
changed his seat, removed his linen
duster, took off his hat, and looked like
different person altogether. After
the train left the next station the CEN
ductor came along, with an eve ont
for new passengers, and presently
reached out for the holder of the pass.
II havn't got any ticket,n was the
surly answer.
"Then you must pay your fare.n
"I won't do it.n
"See here" said the conductor as he
began to wake up, "you must either
pay your fare or produce ticket. II
not Pll drop you on the road!n
"DrOp and be hangedln
1he tram was not stopped, but afte,
a run of 10 minutes it reached a station
and arrangements were made for bonn
cling the man. When all was complete
he showed his pass.
WHY didn't you tell me you had a
passYn roared the conductor.
"Why didn't you ask me?n sbouted
the traveller.
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fered from them as impertinent or
weak minded people. There was an
ar OF imperialism about all that was
done and said for Grant, and the major
lty felt that their voice was to be sti-
fled by the cunning movements of the
men behind Grant. That Grant him
self had imperialistic designs, nobody
believed, but the movement by which
1t was sought to nominate him was
worthy of the minions of Napoleon III.
me ambition of Conkling was to put
Ia IN the White House man who would
De SO deeply in his personal debt that
sne executive power would in effect be
MS, as we'll as the succession. He
would rather be president-maker, with
MS ,n own opportunity for Office lying be-
yond' than to aspire to the executive
once at this time. He had behind him
the su6servient delegates from New
York, Pennsylvania and Illinois. and
nearly near 2oo delegates from the South,
VINO obeyed like so many slaves the
command to s'stick,n '-'0
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How Garfield Gathers Facts

Uarheld credits the success of his
DA.oi,po[aneons speeches, noted for the
fiUn vi information, to his system of
nAi1g what he is likely to want in his
oddulng dg or study, by noting it down in
iarse leather blank book. arranga6
ei'I ihdeX and classification division
.he name, author, page and subject
lnatIer. A Cleveland corresnondent
VINO visited Gartield's home was shown
ni In arilliui OF those memorandum books
en- mere were many hundreds of PAGES
li'ieu with scraps, annotations. picked
sentences, incidents and vitti,ismS
from collection of authors and nawS-
papers. representing the best thouobt
III the literature, modern and ancient
OF almost the entire world. Resides
these quotations there were numerous
thoughts of his own upon the innumer-
able things he had read during the
course of his prolonged studies. and
which be had embalmed in black and
white when the idea was warm and
living in his brain. All were arranged
IN the incest order, and through the
series of books one could follow the
trail of the great debater's readings
from their beginning almost to the
present time. Thus for the wear 1859
you find the first annotations on fDan-
cial subjects. These are at first some
what struggling, mixed in with more OF
less OF the classic poets: then thev be-
come more frequent until they outnum-
Der all other topics, and are full of
.Iooke's History of Prices,r and "Sir
Archibald AllisOn," when Garfield fol-
lowed Pig Iron Kelley into the history
OF France and England, to the discom-
hture OF the old man and his soft mon
ey friends. Reinforcing his scrap book.
the general has large case of pigeon
holes holding, perhaps, so boxes labeled
The press" "French Spoliation. y
Tariff" Geneva Award" General
Politics." estate Politics." "PubIic
Men," parliamentary Discussions. y
"Anecdotes," electoral Laws and
Commission" ETC., filled with the
choicest references and bits of current
literature on the various special topics,
and continually replenished from everv
product of the printing-press He is
thus able to prepare in an hours time
to speak with detailed intelligence on
any question that may be sprung in the
House of Representatives. In case he
wants to talk against the democrats
when they are yelling fraud" and de-
nouncing the electoral commission. he
goes to his box and runs over the news
paper clippings on that subject, and is
almost sure to find just the thing he
wants-sOme ugly fact that the oppo-
sition has forgotten, because none of
them have taken the care to preserve
1t IN the cold eXactness of black and
white. "Oh," said the general, .Td
rather have this old hen-coop, which
has cost me 20 years of mental toll to
stock, thousand times over than Sam
Tilden's barrel and all it contains.n
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waiting for Something to Turn up

Il doan' go a cent on de man who
am waltln' fur sunthin' to turn mn
began the old man, as service was
opened. "Dar was ole Uncle I,nlxe
de waited, an waited, an waited. an;
waited, an at last suthin' turned m
II was de ole mans toes! Oar was
olg Ben Smalleys In de spring or de
laii' IN winter or summer, in good times
or Ill bad, he was allus lookin' for snn-
tnln to turn up. 1t never occurred to
MIN that his own Efforts would count
fur anytin', but he'd sit an sot an, sit
an toast his big shins an fill up on In
Jun meal an wait fur sunthin to turn
up. All dat eber turned up fur him
was a sentence of six months in de
Work-house. Oar was Sir John Dor
Key, who was well known to moas' of
you. He was waiter. He'd sit on de
fence an plan air-castles, an den foil
OH an find himself in de mud. He
went to bed at night an got up in de
mawnln wild a feelin' dat snnthin
would turn up. P'raps you remember
what did finally happen. His ole
woman ran away wild a better man. am
or John turned up at de bottom of de
:looer; L tell ye dat waitin' an 'spect-
IN an wishin' dOan' pay. One good
days work at dollar am a half viii
put mo- shingles on de cabin roof dan
Ill ue waltln' dis side of de grave.D
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fascinating girl from whom he had
parted so many years before.
Poor Emma, how you must have
suIered J" he said, compassionately.
a. but do you forgive me ?" she asked
Certainly, say no more about it.
NJ Ou must not stay in this wretched
P'aSe. a.V Is your mother living ?D
..IW, ..IuWes, sir; in the country"
ba, you'd you not like to 90 back to
oa a.Wth with the children ?n
ans, les, sir; but 1 have no means.n she
answered, sadly. '"e
~ not trouble yourself.n said Mr.
recon1 "as soon as you are sufficiently
udIvered nndNed will care for that part Of the
anvthr!!aklng. Let ME know if there is
tbsnhng else 1 can do for Won. No
comm, he added, as the poor woman
ment heed @ a grateful acknowledge
1mC: 1rI: ''Good-bye.n
Ynn Ynrs was the second parting.
n,dg noung ladies, you are accnstomad -
pfess your gentlemen friends to nartato W
ot %. wine, pause now, and ask vonrsaIrae J',he
sue Question, whether you are nranare5
Iof the miserable fate of a dInnt ard,a a
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-07-02
The Publication of Full Reports of
Crime.
BY REV. CHARLES F. THwING.

''He is said to be victim of yellow
covered literature of the basest sort.
and read with eagerness the detailed ac-
count of the Crue murder. He has been
attending school this winter, and was
regarded as boy of average ability.
and was the last boy to be suspected of
committing so terrible a crime"
This paragraph refers to Dillingham;.
who recently shot and killed his aunt,
in Londonderry, N. H. 1t is an indica-
ton of the terrible evil wrought, not
merely by 'yellow-covered literature y
but also by the detailed reports of
crime published in many daily Jour
nails.
The disastrous results following the
constant reading of bad books and sem
satIonal story papers, are generally ac-
knowledged. But the evil consequences
OF purusing the full reports OF crimes
which many of the dailies publish, are
not commonly recognized. These con-
sequences are in their working widely
spread. The average circulation of the
seven dali y newspapers in Boston ap-
proaches 200, 900 copies and of the fifty
of New England, 100000. Each of
these papers is read by at least three
persons. In New England alone. there
fore, not less than million readers ne
ruse the story of every murder, suicide,
and assault committed within her lin
It's. Another consequence of these full
reports is corruption of the thoughts.
The narrowing details of the scene are
constantly before the mental eve. The
reporters pen points the details with a
vlvIdness as horrible as it is real. In
the mind minutely cognizant of the re-
ports of crimes, pure thinking is not
possible. A further consequence is the
narrowing of the feelings. These re-
ports produce an unnatural excitement.
Ihey arouse the lower appetites and
desires, without strengthening the
higher. An additional effect is the
deadenlng of the conscience. The read
ing OF these accounts dulls its sensitive
ness. They so habituate it to the pres-
ence of crime, that it cannot decide
with readiness upon the rightfulness or
wrongfuiness of an act. And a final
consequence is preparing the way for
iurther crimes. The murders commit
ted Immediately after any homicide of
peculiar ghastliness, always bear to if a
singular resemblance in at least a few
features.
These disastrous results grow from
the present system of publishing re-
ports of crimes.
The blame of the system of publica-
ton rests in the first instance upon the
public, whose morbid curiosity Graves
these detailed accounts. But the nroN
portion of the citizens of either Nov
England or the whole country demand,
ing these full reports, is, 1 believe. verv
Snnall. dna IL Is composed, to a very large
uegree, OF the lowest elements of soci-
ety. Inc better classes not only do not
demand, but they even abominate the
present method. But blame rests also
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-07-02
Elephants Sportinp.

The wallOwing of half a dozen ele-
phants IN the Frog pond this morning.
was the wonderous sight that will long
be remembered by the thousands Of
bostonlans of all ages and conditions
WI VINO thronged the knolls in the vicinity.
me picturesque strangers from India
anu an Africa were not less delighted.
1hey seemed to quaf the Cochituate
ana sport IN its wave with as much
Susto as II they were reveling in some
senhote tributary of the Ganges or the
Nlie IN their native jungles. Seen at a
tiCCie distance the huge gray backs of
Tue tropical beasts loomed up like Cane
a anh rocks at the head of the pond. At
hrst they stood almost motionless hnt
as as the reality of the treat and thair
ii,oerty came to be fully believed in
CneS grew quite demonstrative. and
HMniing not only to wet their "overalls y
ouC 10 lie down and roll-aII excent the
venerable leader, who seemed to have
something 81, akin to a religions resnect
IKE faklr of India, for the ancient d;rt
on his shoulders, and carried if Gac,1 ~ ~
lrS nIs tent unprofaned bv the ablntion
ne younger elephants trumnted cnrr
eu up Their trunks, stuck ont tbe;r ta;Is
as straight as pokers, as in tbe nic+m"ao I,',nS
u elepilant combats, and finally stooned
uown and buried their immense heads
uhuer the water, remaining there SO
.onS that people who did not see tho
Ups vi tnelr trunks above the surface
ti,lought they were drowning. Two of
nem soC 10 tWlnlDg their trunks, one
round the other, so as to hrino
their fiabby lips into a clumsy oscniass =
ton. For moment the show business
was forgotten, and the proboscidians
returned to their native sportsMand
yet not wholly forgotten, for one de.
generate yOungster of the herd Went
round the plashy margin of the pend
holding up the end of his trunk like :
contribution box for the apples ant
peanuts of the small boy who was OF
hand in his usual force on such occa
slons. After some enterprisine pbotop
rapher-where the artists ? Hunt al
ways longed for chance to paint al
eLephant)-had secured several picture,
OF Ine oathlng monsters, they demure-
~ followed their trainer and n caIic,
horse from the circus back to tbei,
tents, adding no doubt the grateful tes.
timony of denizens of two more GRAND
divisions of the globe, that Boston com.
mon is the most beautiful snot in tho
world. Direct descendants of some nj
the hrst families of the Garden of Eden.
they ought to knOw.-BOSton Tran.
script. 1'"''-
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SQuibs.

lake care of the pence and tbe
pounds will take care of themselves y
FOR saying this the Boston Trapscrint
lhtlmates that Benjamin FrapkIin,s
mead was put on one-cent postage
stamp.
For the encouragement of young au-
thors, Barnum receives spring poetry
at the doors of his circus.
lien dimes make one dollar" said
the schOol-master. "Now 90 on. sir.
len dollars make.one-what2n "They
make one mighty glad these times.n
said the boy; and the teacher. who
hadn't got his last months salary vet.
concluded the boy was about right
detroit Free Press.
A practical view.-Miss Anne X.
lwho is showing her aunt Jerusha from
SkOwhegan the beauties of art): "This
is 1ltlan's Venus. Isn't she beautiful
See the grace of her pose" etc. Aunt
Jerusha: oval, naow! she is a pretty
faIr-lookin' gal, but it's dreadful un-
healthy to sleep with your arm under
your head"
"Where are you going this summer?n
asked Quarterpercent, the broker, of
one of his customers the other day.
"GoingY Well, with Water-power
down to 81, Erie selling for 35, and the
copper mining stock 10 feet below low
tide, thought some of going to the
almshouse, but l rather guess | shall
try the old style-creditors meeting
70 cents, with my own notes, running
II, IL and "a months, you know. Soon
as that's settled rll go TO Saratoga
must make something somehow, YOU
knOw.n
Teacher, to boy who has to be cor
rected frequently: "Can you tell me
where the Blue Ridge is?" Boy Grub
blng his shoulder); "No; but / can
tell you where the black and blue ridge
ls." He is treated more ridgerously
than ever now. 80 .
A day or two ago, as bootblack
was passing a down town bar-room
and fruit store, he picked up stub of
cigar from the gutter and went into the
store and asked for match. He was
met with the reply, "We don't keep
matches to give away.n The bow
started out, but stopped at the door.
turned back, and asked the proprietor
do you sell 'em?" He purchased a
box, paid his two cents, and lit his
STUMP, aIUef WHICH he closed the box
and asked the proprietor to put it on
the shelf and "next time a gemman
asks Tor match just give um one ont
of my box"
A census enumerator called at a
handsome house, No. Gramercy park
the other day and officially accosted
the elderly gentleman who lives there
me following conversation ensued.
what Is your name?n "SamueI i
III. On the whole, do not think
have anything to communicate on the
subject" "Where is your home 9n
In the White House, but I was cheat
L beg your pardon, 1 live here now -
wv nat is your occupation?" 81 am a
can Ahem; you had better see Mr.
Faulkner about that" ''What is vonr
age" 81 am one with 100 cip6ers
you can figure it out yourself.n aGra
you marriedP' "Now, really. as to
that you must ask Mr.. Watterson y
Have you any family7n sI can't un-
dertake to answer any questions of that
KIND. am in the hands of nv friends
and from them you can obtain any
proper information And the door
closed. "ooA
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swell, L don't like such fooIing."
EENop I aitbar y

ell, DON'T ike such foOling."
"NOr |, either"
The train went on, and the man put
on his duster, traded hats with q pas
senger, and again looked like some one
else. He changed his seat to the front
end of the car, and was seemingly
sound asleep when the conductor again
had occasion to pass through. He
took two fares and then held out his
hand to the traveller. There was no
response. He shook the sleeper gen
tly, but the latter slept on. Then he
shook him good and stout and called
"ticket" in his ear.
''How dare you shake me around in
this mannerW shouted the man as he
awoke and stood up.
"Ticket, please"
"But l don't pleasel How dare you
come to me every time the train leaves
a station?"
The conductor looked down the aisle.
thought he saw the man with the pass
IN his old seat, and said to the other:-
"Come, sir, don't bother me. | want
your ticket"
'YOu can't have it.n
I'Then I'll put you off!n
iOl VIC DuI,
seeing a general grin all around the
car, he stopped and looked more close
" at the man and recognized him as
tne one with the pass. He went out
without word, and, when he returned.
nan nan an hour later, he expected another
Irap. lie looked carefully over the
car, and was going slowly along in
search of new faces, when a man with
his coat off, and under the influence of
liquor, called OUT
SHAY, captain, hain't got any tick
An! you can't beat me again-knew
You as soon as l entered the carr
cnuckled the official, and walked on
with broad grin on his face.
IL was not until he saw the shirt
sleeVed man get off at the next station
Cnat he knew he had been mistaken
again and had let him travel for noth-
ing, while the man with the pass was
In the smoking-car. P''~' was
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VOLUME 43---NUMBER 224O.

upon a5large number of journals. Edi-
tors and publishers are aware of the
evils wrought by full reports of crime,
yet for pecuniary reasons, they persist
in the publication of them.
The remedy of the evil is not the
law, for whatever is akin to censorship
of the press should be avoided. The
remedy is the hearty expression of pub
lIc sentiment regarding the danger
The sentiment is, so far as | can dis
cover, right and just, but its expression
should be more general and foIcible.-
SIS. Times.
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DARK HoRsE.-The term GDark
Horse" now so thoroughly domestica-
ted in political jargon, originated in
tennessee. A sly old chap named sam
Flynn Travelled about the state wears
ago with E'Dusky Pete" a coaI-black
stallion, shambling along as if it was
only "a likely hoss" until he had fixed
his bets, when "Duskey Pete" swept
abont the track like the flyer that he
really was. Flynn had arranged his
bets at one snch country race, when
Judge McMinamee, who was the turf
oracle of that part of the state, arrived
on the course, and was made one of the
judges. AS he took his place in the
stand he was told how the betting ran.
and of the folly of the owner of the
strange entry in backing his ''plug" so
heavily. Running his eye over the
track, the judge instantly recognized
'.Pete," and he said, "Gentiemen.
there's dark horse in this race that
VIII make some of you smell hell before
supper" The judge was right.
pete" the "dark horse" laid back
until the three-quarter pole was reach
ed, when he went to the front with
rush and won the purse and Flynn's
bets with the greatest ease. Ever af-
ter the hOrsemen of the vicinity fought
shy of clark horses.n
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100 ACRES

OF hrst-rate land on which is a good House and
Barn, with an orchard of about 100 thrifty annie
lage adjoining the farm of Albert Lawrence known
as the Laundry place. This place is in good condi,
ton and will be sold cheap. Inquire of
N. P. BOWMAN.
St. JOhnsburY June 10 1890 "a 90
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Notice to the Village People

Of St gohnsbury. A new team and newly painted
coach is now run from the St. Johnsbury House to
all trains both day and night All coach orders
left at the office Of the st. Johnsbury house will be
promptly attended to.
39tf JFRRy DPFw
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East st. ,JOhnshury

Oon9regationGL-Rev. F. b. Phelps Pastor
Sunday services at 10.45 a.. and $50 D. m Sab
bath school at 1900. Wednesday evening meeting
at o.3O experience and Enquiry meeting at par
sonage Friday evening at $50.
Methodist.-Rev. j. Morse, Pastor Sunday
services at 30 ID. III.