St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-01

a week or so after they have been re-
solved into dust and dissipated into the
houses, stores and inhabi-
tants' lungs, will not prevail. 1t is
great relief. and so simple that it seems
a pity no one ever had the backbone to
insist on it before.
For very many years, In fact, from
the very beginning of steam ferry boats,
one steersman to IA boat was considered
sufficient, and prOprietors of ferry
lines, old sailors, and the rest of the
world, secuted the idea of any possible
danger from such condition of things.
Some Bohemian last year wrote a SEN
satiOnal article about the disasters that
might occur should a pilot suddenly
die at his post, and singularly enough
the very next day one did die in his
slip, and another was disabled in mid
stream and his boat was capsiZed, the
passengers escaping narrowly with
their lives and the rest of their posses
sions. The other day another veteran
of the East River currents collapsed.
He had been invalided from the Fulton
Ferry, and had received IA position on
the Annex Line which connects with
the railroads in Jersey City, but was
evidently rather shaky, as his son was
in the habit of reinforcing him with his
presence every night. No doubt Il
most worthy man, it seems hard that
he was not pensioned, if in such cir
cumstances as to render it needful. 1t
was cruel to him and might have been
disastrous to others to keep him at
work.
Sneak thieving is nothing very new,
nor is the following case very novel,
but the artist being rather of a more
finished style than most, gives me the
occasion for a little homily which may
act as one of the drops that wear away
the stone and change things. A Miss
Eva Jacobs, alias, etc, etc, has been
arrested in Brooklyn after Il brief but
brilliantly successful campaign. Pref
ty, young, ladylike, no one took her
for thief, and when she called at a
house with some plausible story or 9th
er she left pleasant impression when
she happened to see the people. If
they were out, and she generally man
aged to time her visits when they were
out, the pleasant way in which she
said she'd wait always imposed on
the servants, and she then helped her
self to anything she could find and de-
parted. In six weeks she had accumu-
lated many hundred dollars worth OF
plumber. Unwarrantable intrusion by
perfect strangers has been developed
by an excessive good nature in this
Countrywide only country where it has
ever found any sort of foOthOld-mto
an intOlerablc nuisance. In business
hours we are interrupted while en-
gagged i'll the most important concerns
by impOrtunate women, sometimes ell
egantly dressed, peddling books OF
pictures, men come III with jewelry on
the installment plan, or cheap station
cry, girls and boys come in with match
es, feather busters, or Peter Cooper
cushions, and so it goes. AT Oul
homes, the door bell rings like the
alarm bell at an engine house, with
the incessant clamOr of peddlers of an
even more various sort. They have nc
shame nor any regard for the fitness OF
things, or their own or their victims
wasted time. From the ragman or fish
peddler to the bogus clergyman with a
forged subscription list, there is a con
slant stream of people we don't banker
to see. Many of them are thieves
Many become so, tempted by the
opportunities they encounter. 1t Is
our own fault. 1t is a free country,
and may man not claim freedom al
home or work from such nuisances
There was deaf mute wedding the
other day which attracted considerable
attention, the groom being quite a
prosperous manufacturer and the bride
II very charming young lady. This
city is certainly foremost in the world
in the matter of educating people SO
deeply afflicted, and it is wonderful
how their intelligence. is brought out
by the excellent training they receive
here. The commandments of the
asylum on Washington Heights are
occasions of great interest and the
pupils are, in many cases, as clever as
those with more abundant natural gifts
at other institutions of learning.
The world didn't come to an end on
the 10Th, as some wiseacre predicted
and many thousand of other wiseacres
believed. The story was actually given
out that the Quakers, of all people III
the world, had given complete ere
dence to the prophecy of Mother Ship
ton, or her latest interpreter, and had
distributed their property. Not very
likely.
The pawnbrokers are sorely exer-
cised about a proposal to charge them
: 900 for a license. A small proper
ton of them favor the idea, under the
conviction no doubt that their smaller
competitors would be crowded out and
their increased hanls of the widows
all and all that sort of thing would
compensate them. There is quite a
fight among the shent per shent fratcr-
nifty. RADIX.
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