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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-29

town: Twenty-six years ago tonight,
and at this very hour, our class were
on the top of Greylock to spend the
Fourth of July. AS we were about to
lie down for sleep, Garfield took out
his pocket Testament and said Il
am in the habit of reading Il chapter
every night ut this time with my
mother. Shall | read aloud y All as
scented, and when he had read he asked
the oldest member of the class to pray.
And there in the night, on the noun
tain-top, we prayed with him for whom
we have now assembled to pray.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-29

A striking illustration of the force of
habit is found in the cause of recent
terrible collision on the Troy and
Greenfield road, by which three men
were killed and two wounded. The
engineer who lived the longest after
the accident was providentially the
only man who could tell how the col
lisiOn happened. He had received
orders to meet the accommodation at
ZOar, but had been in the habit OF
meeting at Charlemont and this habit
was so fixed in his mind as to cause
him to forget the new order and
plan as usual to meet at the old place.
The results were terrible, and he paid
the penalty of forgetfulness with his
life. He was an excellent engineer,
always faithful to his trust until habit
fairly drove out the recollection of a
change in orders.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-29
Oar New York Letter.

THE DOLEFUL DUMPS AND DELIGHTFUL
pELIvERANCE OF DICK DEADEYE-A
DASUING AND GOOD SAMARITAN-A
WASHER MASHED CHEAP TRANSPOR-
TATIoN TEMPTATION FOR VACATION
IsTs-THE BLISsFUL BANANA AND
BROKEN BONES-IMPORTED BANDITS
AND SPECIMENS OF HOME Production
THE END OF \ LITTLE TROT IN LEN
INGTON AVENUE.
New YORK, July -. 1881.
To the Editor Of the Caledonidn
Dick Dcadcyc has turned up in Il
new role and been the occasion of a
succession of interesting manifestations
of human nature. He was an English
man by the name of Fairwcather, who
fell into very foul weather, an actor
and church chOriStcr down on his luck,
with excellent testimonials, who
couldn't get work and was stranded
penmiless in Gotham, which is so heart
less to robust people who unfortunate
ly suffer hunger, perhaps, more severe
ly than the weakly. Among the poor
fellows property was false beard and
wig. He put them on for the double
purpose of exciting compassion and
of disguise, so that under happier cir
cumstanccs no untowaTd recognition of
his former restitution should afllict
him. His makeup showed the excel
lence of his histrionic training, his
rich, cultivated voice attracted the at
tention of connoisseurs, and when he
trilled out noble old English ballad
in Madison Square throngs pressed
around him and dropped nickcls in his
outstretchcd hat. \ kindly policeman
informed him that he was violating a
city ordinance and tcnderly helped the
apparently feeble old man from the
precincts of the park, but his wig was
disarrangcd, and on being removed, as
he stood revealed the erewhile sympa-
thizing crowd turned on the supposed
impostor i'll fury. He was arrested and
next day one of the elected Dogberrles
who disgrace the very name of justice
| in our police court sentenced the man
/ to six months in Jail. The papers took
it up and the poor stranger has found
friends. employment and release. A
capable man of good character, he had
met with nothing but rebuffs, one of
them from St. Georges Society, which
Is supposed to help Britons III such a
scrape, but spends nearly all its money
in salaries and most of the balance in
grand annual dinner. New York is
called the City of Charities and de-
serves the name, for no other city in
the world has so many, or on the whole
so admirably managed institutions for
the relief of the sick, the poor and the
distressed but all the same 1t Is more
inhOspitable to strong men III search of
work and not charity than, | believe.
any place under the sun. 1t is good
place for strangers with empty pockets
to steer clear of. A terrible struggle
for bare existence is before such before
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-29
To Mrs. Garfield.

Miss Frances E. Willard, on behalf
of the National Woman's Temperance
Union. has issued the following mes
sage of coincidence to the Presidents
noble wife:
Our hearts and hopes, our prayers and tears,
Our faith triumphant Ter our fears
Are all with thee-are all with thee"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-29

The Emperor of Russia is to be for
mally crowned in short time, it is an
nounccd The ceremonies will be mag
niiiccnt and imposing, and millions of
dollars will no doubt he expended dur
ing the occasion. Then, after all is
over, the new Gar will go on with the
rigorous policy of his predecessors, his
subjects will smart under oppression
and he will hide from their wrath in
fear of his life-and by-and-by, doubt
less, will come the news of another as
sassination. The royal family of Rus
STA, while in constant fear of nihilistic
attacks, do not seem inclined to vary
the programme by extending to the
masses the privileges which will tend
to alleviate their condition and make
Russia more civilized.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-29

The fact that there are Office seekers
so lost to deccncy as to he lowering
around the White House now should
bring blush to the cheek of every 10y
al citizen. Yet reports from Washing
ton declare that there are men so full
of the ofice-holding mania As to be
siege the officials at the White House
during this critical period. No words
are too severe to utter i'll condemnation
of such disgraceful action, and the in
dignation which it has aroused is only
a natural feeling, which should be en-
phasizcd by summary dealing.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-29

hoped that the time is near when from
the vocabulary of the Republic there
shall be dropped the sectional use of
the names North and South, giving
abundant opportunity for "an era of
harmony and peace" The North has
something to do in this regard, as well
rs the South
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-29
ST. cSulnsburp Galedunian.

Gov. Plaisted, of Maine, has a sum
mary method of dealing with his
council. Recently the council declined
to take immediate action on an APP
pointment of the governors, and insist
ed on postponing it; whereupon the
governor declared the council adjourn
ed without day-which the council
maintain lac has no right to do without
their assent. The governors peremp-
tory action has not been generally
approved.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-29

Mr.. Depew, the cX-candidate for
Senator from New York, predicts that
est personal power that American poll
ties has ever known since the attack
upon him has so aroused the people.
1t is held, too, that the prospects of Il
Republican victory in New York next
fall are excellent. The disaster at
Washington will have tendency to
bring out full vOtc-and the defeat
of Conkling reveals state of affairs
very encouraging to New Workers who
are sick of the machine and hungry
for more strictly popular govern
mcnt.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-29

Certain lawyers are finding a good
deal of fault with the district attorney
for his treatment of Guiteau's case
thus far. They are very anxious that
he shall have counsel assigned him,
hut Guitcau wants no counsel, as he is
a lawyer, and will try his own case.
No doubt District Attorney COrkhill
will do his best III dispensing of the
assassin 1t is only natural that there
should bc fault-tinding by outsiders,
but the government will not he discon-
ccrted by these ambitious individuals
who want finger in the pie,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-29

One county in Arkansas still seems
to be at the mercy of the kukluX. We
referred some time ago to a threat
made against a Judge and an editor in
Perry county, Ark, and Il warning to
them to leave the county. They obey
ed the summons for the time being, but
soon returned, and affairs reached such
a crisis that the governor was compel
led to call out the troops. a truce fol
lowed, but this has been broken at
length by the assassination of the
aforesaid editor, who was shot on
Thursday night in front of his office.
Certain portions of Arkansas are sadly
in need of reconstruction, and the gov
ernor of that state should leave no
stone unturncd until every vestige of
kukluxism is rooted out. Speech and
opinion should be as free i'll Arkansas,
or any portion of the South, as ut the
North. There is now no excuse for the
federation of any doctrine opposed to
this.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-29

England's sympathy with the people
of the United States in these days of
anxious SORROW is very grateful, and
will not he forgotten. The following,
from the London Standard. shows how
great an interest is felt in our national
calamity:
In England every incident of Presi-
dent Garticld's illness is watched with
keen and mournful interest. Had he
been a British statesman il would have
been hardly possible for the English
people To have manifested truer SEN
timent of sympathy than that which
they have extended to his family and
to his country. In no part of the Uni
ted States will the news that Mr.. Gar
field is ont of danger he more ioyfully
received than in England. In no part
of the Union will tidings of death.
should that melancholy event occur,
excite deeper or more genuine feeling
of SORROW than they would produce
through Her Majesty's English speak
ing dOminiOns.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-29

The people who periodically prophe-
sy that this country is going to the
demnition dogs will do well to get on
their feet once more and to aid them
in this, the following extract from a
late editorial in the London Times -a
paper not particularly friendly to
American institutions quite just
and assuring:
1T should not be forgotten by those
who criticise America, from within or
from without, what ii gigantic expert
ment it is that she is working out.
Without an example i'll history, with
out long traditions of her own, she is
solving the problem of governing "A
whole continent by means of the free
votes of its people. 1t is small wonder
that the experiment should not always
go without ii fault, but the American
people have at least the merit that they
are perfectly alive to their own faults,
and that, when the faults become in
tolerablc, they set themselves to cure
them. The time has not yet come
to despair of the republic"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-29

The telegraph announces the death
of Hon. Nathan Clifford, the senior ASSOC
ciatc justice of the L. 5. Supreme Court,
which occurred on Monday morning, at
his home in Cornish, Me. Justice Cliff
ford was born at Rumney, \. H., i'll
1903; had an academical education :;
began the practice of law in 1897 cleo
ted to the state Legislature i'll 1880 :;
held the office of attorney general of
New Hampshire four years, and was
first elected to Congress i'll l6:'S. He
was appointed to the bench of the Su-
prcme Court by President Buchanan
in 1858, and was one of the hardest
workers on the bench. He was presi-
dent of the electoral commission in
1876. He knew well the duties and de
mands of his responsible position, and
cndcavorcd to meet them fairly. He
leaves Il widow and Il grown-up family.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-29

Levi Robbins of Copenhagen, \. Y,
aged 100 years, has Just signed the
temperance pledge for the first time.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-29

That the Chinese are not in love
with our civilization-in fact that they
are trifie afraid of its Influences
by an order from the
Celestial government for the abandon
ment of the school at Hartford, Conn,
organized for the education of Chinese
youth. and the recall of the students to
China. 1t is said that this action is
due to a belief among the rulers of the
Flowery Kingdom that it is wiser to
keep the young men of that nation in
ignorance of outside civilization. A
kingdom which entertains such con-
sentative notions can not be expected
to expand very much. Doubtless there
are many things which Americans
know. that the Chinese will do well to
fight shy of; but a complete withdraw
al from educational facilities to be OBJ
tanned here seems a little too muchee.
The Boston AdUertiSer regrets that
new Olh representation III th'
United States Senate for the next two
or three years will not likely he a
"brilliant" one. That reminds us of a
certain professor i'll this state who con-
graduated the graduating class of the
institution with which he was connect
ed on not being "brilliant''-and then
went on to mention one or two so
called brilliant graduates of his own
acquaintance whose career i'll life had
been anything but successful. If New
York's chief representative has been a
brilliant" man, he has at last come,
out of the little end of the horn. Now
let her try somebody who lacks Il rep
utation for "brilliancy,n and possibly
she will find the exchange a profitable
one. Brilliant men are not always
the most successful. 1t is sound com
mon sense and an honest purpose that
tell in the long run.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-29
SILVER WARE.

Full Tea Sets. Ice Pitchers Cake Baskets CaStots
Buffers, Pickles, Etc. Full Line
Of Rogers e. Bros and
Reed & BaTt0ns
Silver Plated Table Ware
Don't buy until you call and get prices
Goods Warranted Exactly a. Represented.
Particular attention paid To Watch Repairing.
and satisfaction guaranteed.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-29
T. C. SPENCER,

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ST. JoHssBURY, VT.
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RADIX
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-07-29

Railroad Street.
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-07-14
Pastures.

A great mistake is too often made in
the management OF pastures. Though
we call u pasture grasses perennial,
vet they as really reproduce their roots
every season as they do their tops. The
early spring growth is largely given to
the reproduction of roots for the sum-
mer work. The material for this root
growth is elaborated and prepared in
leaf or blade. and if this be largely di-
minished while this material is being
prepared. the root-growth is arrested,
and with this the ability Of the pasture
to make a heavy summer crop, or to re-
produce itself when pastured close, is
proportionally impaired. Short pas
lures in May VIII insure short pastures
the whole summer. Ii a good root
growth be secured in May. grass will
hardly be short in August, though it be
hot and dry. A portable fence is n
great convenience in the management
Of pastures. BIZ this stock can be con-
fined to lots of desirable size and not
suffered to range the whole pasture.
An advantage OF long pastures that is
often overlooked is the fact that there
is a constant ratio between the top and
root of grass, and therefore the more
the top is grown the greater
the amount of vegetable matter
contributed to the soil, as q
q fail crop of roots decay every year. to
enrich the land. Pastures are general
ly left to take care of themselves, but IL
they are ON apdsomewhat worn. a top
dressing of stable manure, OF a mixture
of one hundred pounds of bone and
plaster. each, per acre. sown broadcast
in the spring will pay a good profit
Homo and Farm. So
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-07-14
Cunning OF the cumming Bird.

A friend has informed me of an in
stance in her experience where the
humming-bird has shown nor cunning
than its little brain would seem capable
of manufacturing. The incident &C.
Cured in Nineland, n. j. In an I'M
used apartment of the house where the
lady. was staying, n OF the huge
spiders common in that region had built
its strong web unmolested. Passing
into the room n summer day, she
spied a ruby-throat, which had flown in
through the open vine-clad window,
struggling frantically in the net of Dame
Arachnid. The more the birdfluttered.
the worse were its filmy wings tangled
and fettered in the spiders meshes; and
unless help had been given. there is
little doubt how the catastrophe would
have ended. The lady hurried to the
relief of the piteous prisoner. and hand
ling it with the utmost care, freed it
from the coils fastened to its feathers
and binding its feeble members. As
the bird lay in her palm at the end Of
the operation, it gave two OF three
gasping breaths and was still. livery
muscle relaxed as in dissolution. The
kindhearted lberator suffereda pang OF
distress from the conviction that she
had killed the delicate creature by too
rude q touch. After some moments OF
fruitless mourning. she laid the limp
body down and turned sadly away.
Quicker than thought the little trickster
unfurled its wings and shot out of the
window. Had j. swooned from fright
in the LADIES' hand. and recovered with
the change of position? or had it actual-.
ly feigned death. in order to facilitate
escape, n some larger birds are known
to do?-1S Sara 4. Ha5tGrd ~ Ha
pey's Xagasine
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-07-14
A Royal Tross 'au.

The Viennesc read with great inter.
est the descriptions OF the troSseau
which the Princess Stcphanie ! = uoht
with her. 1t had been exhibited 1t the
royal palace at Brussels. and the descrip-
tions OF its fairy-like materials. and the
exquisite works of art in gold and silver
embroidery and laces of marvellous deli
cacy, were most exciting. Amid allth'
bridal glories one table in the middle of
the hall was heaped up with linen and
household goods, which attracted the
attention of the ladies. 1t may inter-
est lady readers to know that the
chemises are fringed with costly lace
and with lovely bosoms OF artistic work.
manship. Then there were jackets,
corsets. jupons, handkerchiefs. fchus,
cravates and other most charming OBJ
jects necessary to the feminine toilet.
Near these were coStlier presents OF
dresses and jewelry. The bridal dress
was of the traditional cloth of silver,
richly ornamented with embroidery de-
signs representing oak, laurel and o
branches. intertwined with bouquets of
orange blossoms. the whole, both for
design and harmony of color. forming a
robe such as connoisseurs declared was
never seen before. The waist and
arms were decorated with delicate sill
yer lace, the train of the same material
as the robe and embroidered to match.
1t was four meters long and four wide.
The bouquets and designs in high re-
lief on the train have occupied many
industrious hands for owe three
months. The Queen of the Belgians
wore q dress at the wedding which was
composed of azure velvet. the train.
with rich silver embroidery, falling
over a similarly embroidered under
dress of dead blue satin. 1t was very
tastcfully decorated with silver lace.
and the draping and arrangements OF
this matchleSs robe were such as to send
those who have seen it into ecstasies.-
TIenga Letter.
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-07-14
Proper Care Of The Orchard.

Speaking of poor orchard manage
ment. Mr.. Barry says that he has seen
trees standing in grass neither broken
up nor manfred for many years, max
ing q feeble and stunted growth, and
producing heavy crops OF fruit, one
half or One-fourth of which NAV be
merchantable, the balance hardly worth
picking up. We find orchard after
orchard in this condition. This will
not pay. Trees may be kept in a vigor-
Gus and healthy condition by proper
tillage of the soil, abundance of fer
~tilizers. and judicious pruning. These
involve labor aud expense. but you
cannot grow fine fruit without both.
and y good deal of them. A fruit tree
shows neglect very quickly. In his
pear orchard. TO lessen the chances of
blight. he Stacked of in both cultiva-
ton and manure. The result was. in
two years, one-half his crop was cuils.
His trees. instead Of making stout
shoots twelve to eighteen inches long,
made scarcely any growth at all He
had observed similar results in the case
of, other fruit trees. In some soils,
especially in those of a light and sandy
nature. 3 moderate top-dressing every
year is necessary; in others, every sec
ond year will be sufficient There can
be no rule laid down. The trees and
fruit viii tell what is wanted---Rtrai
Ncp Yorker.
The Red Cloud chief., 1881-07-14

There are two broods Of these flies
produced in one year. the first bgood
appearing in early spring. and the Sec
ond . few weeks before the whea: Il
ready to be harvested The flies OF the
second brood deposit their eggs upon
the Young winter wheat; hence. they
can maintain themselves only in dis
tricts where this cereal is grown. whilS
in localities where spring wheat alone Is
raised. they will be almost il not entire
ly unknown.
As a preventive against the attacks Of
this insect, many authors recommend
MOI 10 SOW the grain until ali the flies
have been killed By the frost; but this
remedy will never be very generally
adopted. rs laie-sown wheat is very apt
20 be winter-kilied. Others recommend
sowing the wheat that the flies will be
enabled To pass through their transfer
nations before winter sets in; but this
plan will be objected 20 on the same
ground as the first, a wheat too far adj
vanced is about as liable 10 be winter
killed as the late sown wheat is. Farm
ers usually know the date for sowing
w~inter-wheat 50 that il win be most
likely to withstand the winter. and
they are not willing to SOW il either
earlier or later than this date without
very good reasons for SO doing. One
of the very best remedies for prevent
ing the attacks Of this iiy is that Of sow
ing a narrow strip of land around the
field intended for winter wheat about
three or four weeks before the time for
sowing the regular crop. When the
wheat in this STRIP is well up the flies
in the vicinity will deposit their eggs
upon il, and. after wait ng a week or so
for this to be accomplished. pillow under
this strip with the rest Of the held BY
this operation the progeny of all the
flies in the immediate vicinity viii be
DESTROYED. and unless other fies make
their appearance later in the season
from adjoining fields the regular crop
will en- ,oy perfect immunity from their
attacks. II cannot be too strongly
urged that all the farmers who grow
whit ,r-wheat in districts infested with
this fly shonld adopt this method; for il
only one here and another there adopt
it. the lies from the fields Of those who
have neglected to do SO will stock the
fields of their more careful neighbors
with eggs in spite of all the latter can
do to prevent il. and thus the indus
trious and Thoughtful farmer must SUI
fer for the negligence of others.-D
IS. C0qniilen, n G~ernlantOUn Tee
graph.