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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02
Professional Thieves
And The Detectives,

By Allan PinkertOn. A collection of his most
remarkable Detective stories, facts, thrilling and
hazardous cases. taken from private records, and
Never Before Published Profusely illustrated
low in price and sells very rapidly Send for large
circular and special terms. Address,
1918 81 COrnhill, Boston.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02
Capt. Eads' Ship Railway.

The suggestion of ship railroad
dates back from the adventurous epoch
and from the busy brain of COrtez.
The "wild surmise" which held Balboa
"silent upon a peak i'll Darien" very
soon gave way to "A depressing convic-
ton that there was an obstacle in the
way of Columbus idea of reaching
the East by way of the West, and Cor
tez was not content with merely con-
quering Mexico as long as ANYTHING re-
manned beyond. He made a personal
exploration of the COatzacoalcos, the
river of the isthmus, with a view of
establishing a portage across the short
path to the South Sea, for the rich COM
merce of Zipangu and far Cathay.
Spain thought well of the project, and,
after three hundred years of thinking,
issued decree in 1914 authorizing the
attempt. But the revolution had al
ready started, and prevented all further
proceedings until 1912, when the re-
public granted concession to Don
Jose de Garay to build railroad there.
The Garay concession lapsed, al
though the government of the United
States was prepared to pay fifteen mill
ions of dollars for a right of way across
the isthmus, and authorized the com
missioners of the boundary treaty to
offer that sum TO Mexico. This too
fell through but after the gold discov-
cries of California our government kept
its eye on the isthmus, and has since
made two surveys for the purpose OF
determining the practicability of a
canal. These surveys were made by
General Barnard in 1851, and by Com
modore Shufeldt in 1870; but it looks
as if the isthmus was waiting for the
ship railroad, for in the interval three
successive concessions were made to
Mexicans, and one to an American
company, yet the Panama Canal
twelve hundred miles farther away
from US, was begun before the Mexican
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02
DA UCHY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

ID -BEATTY'S PIANOFORTES-Magni
De holiday presents. square grand pianOfOrtes,
four very handsome round corners rosewood cases
Ogue prices $500 to $1,000; satisfaction guaranteed
or money refunded, after one years use; upright
pianOfortes, 1925 to S225 catalogue prices $500 to
$500; standard pianofortes of the universe, as
thousands testify; write for a mammoth list of tes-
timOnials. Beatty's cabinet organs, cathedral,
church, chapel, parlOr, $50 upward; visitors well
comei free carriage meets passengers illustrated
catalogue holiday editiOn) free. Address call
upon DANIEL +. BEATTY, Washington, n. j. IS
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02
. GREAT OFFER FOR
HO VS. y!

Pianos and Organs at extraordinary low prices
for cash Instalments received. Splendid Organs
s45, $50 800 up. Magnificent n octave Rosewood
Pianos stool and cover, only $3.50. Warranted six
years Illustrated Catalogue mailed. Agents
wanted HORACE WATERS g. CO, Manufac-
turers and Dealers, Broadway, New York 1915
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02
A Word to the Girls.

Come here, sis, and let me give you
a little talking to. | wish to speak to
you of your mother. 1t may be you
have noticed a careworn look upon her
face lately. OF course it has not been
brought there by any act of yours, still
it is your duty to chase it away. l
don't mean for You to run at it and
shake your skirts and tell it to "shoo''
as you would hen, nor do l expect
you to get on the other side of the
fence and throw old oyster cans and
pieces of barrel slaves at it. But
want you to get up tomorrow morn
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02
SquibS.

The English papers accord to Amer
lea the praise of turning grave subjects
into grim humOr. One of these says
"a cute Yankee advertiser has been
utilizing the walls of cemeteries by
adjoining them with the following leg
end in gigantic letters Use Jones'
bottled ale if you would keep out of
here.'n
1t seems that competition has forced
the price of false teeth down so low
that it isn't really worth bOdy's while
to cut his natural Ones.- Burlington
Hawkeye.
A good many fathers have ascertain
ed that the man was right who said &:
Learning is well enough, but it hardly
pays to give 5000 education to s.
boy"
An exchange innocently speaks of
"the hustle" in Vassar college on the
day the fall term closed. Girls will be
girls, and it may he taken for granted
that there is always more hustle in
Vassar than in any boys cOllege-al-
belt the boy has the reputation of being
the nOisiest animal.
A correspondent asks how to treat
fowls. Treat them kindly and with
consideration. The aching void in the
breast of the modern hen is want of
sympathy. Always look on them with
bright smile. Hens are warranted to
flourish under this treatment.
A brother arose in weekly prayer
meeting in New Jersey and said
"Brethren, when | consider the short
ness OF my life feel as if l might be
taken away suddenly, like a thief in
the night"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02
THOSE WONDERFUL CURES

Sssspapsr Adssrtising Bureau. 10 Spruce 81, N Z.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02
They Have Come and Gone.

For weeks we had looked forward to
their coming. We lOnged to greet the
dear children once more under the old
roof where they were born and nurtur
ed. At length, in the kind providence
of God. they came, and cordial was the
meeting and the greeting. Pleasant
was the intercourse that we had to-
gether from day to day as we cOnvers-
ed of the past and of the future, and of
all those things dear to our hearts.
Morning and evening, as in days gone
by, we bowed together around the fam
lily altar, and ON the holy Sabbath
walked again to the house of God in
company.
But time fingered not. Sooner than
we wished, vacation was over, and
again we must part. The dear ones
must return to their several places of
business. The reluctant farewells
were spoken, and once more the aging
parents were alone.
And so it is in this transitOry world.
A young couple are united in marriage,
and start in life together. Children,
one after another, are born unto them.
Gradually they grow up, and mature,
and one after another take their de
parture, and go forth into the world.
In time the last is gone, and the pa
rents, now wrinkled with age and care,
and sprinkled with gray hairs, are left
alone again as when they commenced
life together. Occasionally the chill
dren return, but it is only for brief
and hasty visit. Saddening thought |!
1t is no more to stay. 1t is no more to
make the old family mansion their
home. How true it is, that we are but
strangers and soiOurners here Well
were it for lis did we realize this great
truth more fully, and live as pilgrims
do, seeking better country, even an
heavenly, where we may all meet at
length, and dwell together an unbrOk
EN- family forever!
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02
GOOD ADVICE.

In this changeable climate we are 50 liable to
sudden colds, that frequently run into lung fever
deep seated cough that it Is but the dictate OF
prudence to have Hatch's Mixture on hand TO re-
heve and cure at once. Many live remote from q
doctor a drug store aud are not able TO send at
once for the medicine, meanwhile domestic RENE
dies do not reach the case and the disease makes
rapid progress which requires time and energetic
action to avert This could have been prevented
by the free of Hatch's Mixture at the first
WhOoping cough spasms may be almost entirely
allAyed by frequent small doses Of Hatch's Mix
ture- Group can be broken up and the child in q
peaceful sleep in q short time. Lung fever con-
gestion or a hard cough broken up and healed at
once This IL why we emphatic in our ad-
vice To keep Hateh's Febrifuge Mixture constantly
ness. Do not sleep until you have procured . bot
tie Of HAtch's Mixture and box OF Hateh's Man.
drake Liver Pills. The formula Of DR. Hatch 3
Pills il q fay0rite prescription Of best physi-
sians now, for constipation indigestion, bilious
and liver complaints. The best family pin made
For sale 1t ali the stores i0-Is
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02
w. j. BRAY,
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDER,
r. r. Street, st. Johnsbury.

can build or repair house in as short a space
OF time as any one in this part of the country for
keep all kinds of workmen MasOns, Carpenters,
Painters, Laborers and teams that / can do any
and all kinds of Jobs by the day by contract and
at the lowest cash prices for good work ON short
notice. will furnish all the material for building
or not as desired by parties wishing to build Asr
keep constantly on hand all kinds of building ma
terias, timber, iost, boards, clapbOards, lath,
dar, spruce and fir shingles, doors windows,
blinds brackets, mouldings, ladders hardware,
lime, paints, wall and building paper, and every
thing necessary for building. take Jobs from the
bottom of the cellar to the top of the chmneys and
completely finish them ready for occupancy with
out any delay as keep all kinds of work going
al the same time. l attend to my business person
ally, so that know that il is moving. BY being
prompt and attentive to business hope to merit a
continuance Of past favors and share of the pub.
lie patronage. % If April LIST, 1850.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02
DR.. IRA HATCH'S FEBRIFUGE
COUGH MIXTURE.

The old standard remedy for Coughs, Colds, In
huenza, Group, Whooping Cough, Asthma, Lung
best remedy that medical science has ever produc-
ed. This is a well established fact supported by
the testimony of hundreds of best citizens and
needs only trial TO convince anyone of its truth
fulness.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-02
If You Wish to do Business,

You must tell the public of that fact, and when
you have once begun, you must keep telling them
Of it, Your surest, cheapest and quickest way to
tell them Is by advertising inthe Newspaper eircu
tang among the.people you want to reach
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-06

The city that throws the lightest vote in pro- portion to it's population is Providence, whose ratio is to II 3O45. With popula- ton of 104 $50 Providence cast but 9,275 votes in 1880, a less number than was cast by Worcester with only 5s, 295 of population, by Toledo with only 5O,143, or Hartford with but #, 553. The light vote of Provi- dence is owing to the laws of Rhode Island affecting suffrage.
 John M. Wilson, United States Consul at Panama, does not think much of the pros poets of the De Lesseps canal. He says there are about forty Frenchmen down there, about half of whom appear to be running lines in various directions, while the other half are commissaries and so on. There are besides about hundred Jamaica negroes engaged in cutting brush. Wyse has returned to France. Nothing like serious work has yet been at tempted Six stations have been established on the proposed line across the Isthmus, but no houses have been built, and the men are living in tents. The rainy season has begun, and the men will soon be driven out of their tents by the storms. The truth is, says Mir. Wilson, Eft does not look to me as though De Lesseps ever intends to dig canal there. He estimates that it will cost $90,O0O, 900, when everybody else who knows anything about such matters says it will cost nearer ten times that sum; that the canal will be finished in ten years, and that in the mean time people who buy stock shall receive five per cent. interest upon it's par value. Thus interest alone will add from five to forty per cent. to the cost of the canal. But I don't believe any canal will be built there. De Lesseps is great diplomat, but poor fnan- cier; and if he really intends in good faith to dig canal think he will fail"
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-06
HAT HAT


 Noah was pretty muscular sort of fel- low On one occasion he even went so far as to pitch the ark.
 A medical writer says children need more wraps than adults. They generally get more. Boston Transcript.
 When the right hand of an orator foreets its cunning, he must strike out with his left -Neao Orteans Picayune.
 When baseball club is beaten without making run, they are said to be white washed, " but we notice they generally look pretty black all the same.-BoSto7. C0nanle7.- ctGL Bulletin.
 Cruel chance placed two tails on one kitten in a Chicago litter, and when it catches sight of one on each side of itself and tries to cap ture both, 1t flies around lively enough to make horse laugh.-Boston Post.
 A New York clergyman has an elaborate new bonnet placed on the pulpit before him every Sunday. He's going to make the ladies of hls congregation keep up an appearance of giving attention to him, anyway.-Bost0n Post
 A meditative man was roaming through an anatomical museum, and came across the skeleton of a donkey. Amp he said in reverential awe, as he adjusted his green derfulIy made. ."-Sctentifc Amertcan
 Valuable information from a bachelor: May is one of the unlucky months for mar riages. The other unlucky months are Jan uary, February, March, April, June, July, August, September, October, November and December. Cou7Ier-Joav7aal.
 Can anybody tell us why a woman, emerg- ing from crowded car, always makes be lieve she is going to get out at one side of the platform, until two or three men have jumped of in the mud, and then steps off at the other side? She always does it and we want to know the reason why.-Phizadel- phi6 Bulletin.
 A sympathetic small boy: Papa: That picture shows the story of Prometheus and the vulture devoured it, and every night it grew for him to eat it again" Sympathetic child: Poor, dear old vulture! How sick he must have been of liver every day ?'- Rome ". Y.) Sentinel.
 The young man who hammers his thumb nail this spring while putting down carpets, or who is violently caught under the chin by a clothes line when he goes out in the yard after dusk, should remember that in the re- vised edition of the New Testament the words have been changed to ''hades" and condemnation. ."-Chic.
 A story is going the rounds of certain case in which well known member of the Schuylkill bar defended a man charged with stealing some picks. The evidence did not strike the jury conclusive, and they ac- quilted the defendant. Upon learning the nature of the verdict, the gentleman who was acquitted approached his lawyer and whispered loud enough to be heard by those who stood near, "Mr. -, must 1 give the picks back ?',-PtttSb1,rQ IeLegrdGh
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-06
Clocks in the Earthquake.

IFrom the Stockton (CaII Independent, April 1Ith1
 The most curious circumstance connected with yesterday mornings earthquake was the stoppage of all the pendulum clocks hanging against eastern walls, showing that the vibration was north and south. Clocks hanging against other walls were not affected. In the jewelry store of Charles Haas there is calendar clock which, on Sat- urday night, was about five hours fast It was impossible to put the hands back without disaranging the gearing, and the only way the hands forward until they remarked the right time. As this process required about fifteen minutes, and was exceedingly tedi- ous, MT. Haas, when he left at 9 o'clock, stopped the pendulum, intend ing to regulate the clock on the follow ing day. The earthquake saved him the trouble When he came to his store yester- day morning the timepiece was ticking away rke pawnbroker, and, what is still more remarkable, 1t was correct to a second The town clock is propelled by a pulley and tackle, and consequently such a mild convnI. slon as that of yesterday morning did not dis turb the serenity of it's equanimity: The final cataclysm will probably set the old Janus- laced chronometer back few moments, but earthquakes never will. No material damage was effected by the tremblor, as far as we can learn, except the shatterinie of a few nerves and the loss of sleep attendant upon the excitement. The plastering of ceilings In several houses was badly cracked, crock cry thrown from shelves, chimneys toppled from lamps. besides numberless unimportant occurrences of a similar character. At the jail Officer Fields thought, on awakine from sound sleep that the prisoners were trying to break out. The prisoners thouoht somebody was trying to break in
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-06

The late James T. Fields once read @ poem of his own composition before the Mercan- tile Library Association of Boston, in which the following lines occurred:
 s'If words are things, as Mirabeau declares,
 What enormous weights go up some pulpit stairs"
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-06

D. O. Mills, of New York. has bought property at the corner of Broad street and Exchange Place, in Hartford, for $6s7, 800. and proposes erecting new building to cost $1,O0O, 600 in the place of the old build ings.
 The New Hartford part of the history of Litchfisld county has been completed and re- turned to the publishers of the work It YVES prepared by Mrs. Captain H. R. Jones, who has been gathering the material therefor for several years. The book will contain steel engraving of Captain J. c. Smith, formerly one of New Hartford's most prominent men, also 8 wood cut of the Hon. F. M. Chapin. The article on Barkhamsted was written by Judge Jones, who also assisted in preparing the centennial history of that town.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-06

Bankers in New York are said to object to the policy of the director of the mint in coining gold in small denominations, the pur pose of that policy being to encourage the people to take the gold up and absorb it in the coinage of the country. They want it in larger denominations because it is easier and more convenient for those who hold large re- serves of it. The objection to the larger coin is that it prevents the common people from using it, and allows of it's being more readily collected and sent away when the flow of gold runs out of instead of into the country. When it is scattered through the channels of trade it is given up slowly.
 Some gentlemen in Massachusetts inter- ested in protecting the morals of the young have brought before the Legislature of that State bill conferring authority upon the judges of all courts of record in the State to exclude minors as spectators at the trials. It has been found that the trials of certain cases, especially in the larger cities, have at tracted crowds of young men who have got from them their first real knowledge of the details of criminal life. This practice is be- ieved to be vicious one, fatally corruptipg to those who habitually indulge in it, and in furious to public morals. The authority asked for would, of course, be exercised at the discretion of the courts but that it should be given them is held to be of the first importance by many persons who have watched the progress of this increasing evil
 The Hon. George K. Nash, Attorney Gen. eral of Ohio, has given an opinion that the chartering of union marriage-endowment associations and the like in that State would be contrary to the public welfare and conse- quently unlawful. He points out that they are calculated to present money considera- ton for persons to remain unmarried for long period of time that they may obtain the full benefits of the associations They diff fer, he says, from life insurance companies because the benefits of the latter are depend ent upon the happening of an event beyond the control of man, whereas in these pro- posed associations the principal benefit is constantly increased for the period of 10 years by voluntary deferment of marriage contract, which it is the policy of all civilized nations to encourage and promote.
 The Cincinnati Board of Trade has com piled table showing the population of ff- ty-nine cities of the Union, the vote cast in each at the last presidential election, and the ratio of that vote to population. The ratio in Boston was 1 to 6.7e72; New York, to 5.sT4s7 Philadelphia, l to 4.s719 Brooklyn, to 5.27S9; Chicago, to 6.IIs3 St. Louis, to 7.8671; Baltimore. to 5.9166; Cincin- nati, l to 4.s06o; New Orleans, to g. 8994 Albany, to 4.I675, Indianapolis l to 3.S6O6; New Haven and Hartford, I to 4.55. The average ratio was to 5.74o7.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-06
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Forty-four apostles of Mormonism have left New York city this week to spread their religion in the old world. In due time they will return with hundreds of converts. How long is this going to continue?
Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-06

According to the statement of the auditor general of Pennsylvania, the Standard Oil company has avoided the payment of taxes for the past eight years, and now owes the State of Pennsylvania $3, IA, s73, which it is proposed to collect. The fight will be an interesting one.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-04-27
True Temperance Gospel.

From Northeastern Christian Id
rocate: Temperance people spend
too much time and eXpend too
much force in antagonizing each
other. u j i The editor of this
paper is thorough Prohibitionist.
lie believes in laying the AK at the
root of the upas tree, and extract
ing it utterly from the ground or
scaling the citadel of the enemy,
spiking his guns, blowing up his
easements, leveling his walls, and
driving him from his accursed
stronghold forever; but he recogni-
yes the fact that there are hosts of
people who prefer to lay siege to
the enemy, trench and train long
guns upon his ramparts, to cut off
his base of supplies, his provisions
and ammunition, and thus compel
him to unconditional surrender.
We believe the storming party of
Prohibitionsts and the trenching
party Of gradual approach with
long guns should work in harmony.
The end, the glorious end of all tenn
perance reformers, must be ultimate
Prohibition, either moral or enforc-
ed but he that helps to make licen-
SEES higher, he that labors to make
treating unpopular, disgraceful,
and criminal, as it ought to be con
sidered he that steadily refuses all
distilled alcoholic drinks he that
labors to enforce laws against the
sale of liquors to minors or to con
frmed drunkards, is a friend of the
cause Of temperance. Give him
warm hand, and pray that he may
have increasing light, SO that ulti-
mately he may be in favor of more
radical measures"
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-04-27
Licking Sores.
gems.

The Christian htelijgenccr strikes
at the disposition of some persons to
find species of comfort in the in
constituencies of Christians with the
following incident about certain
blacksmith: can old gentleman, Il
deacon, one day went into the shop,
and the blacksmith soon began
about what some Christians had
done, and seemed to have a good
time over it.
The old deacon stood few min
utes and listened, and then quietly
asked him if he had read the story
in the Bible about the rich man
and Lazarus? Yes, many time,
and what Of it?' We'll, do YOU re-
member about the dogs-how they
came and licked the sores of Lag
arusY Yes, and what Of that p
We'll, said the deacon, do you
know you just remind me of those
dogs, content merely to like the
Christians sores. The blacksmith
suddenly grew pensive, and hasn't
much to say about failing Chris
tians since"