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

they can even get footing in the COM
peting crowd.
Another more or less theatrical per
son has come to well-merited grief.
He was IA ticket-taker, usher, book
keeper or something of the sort at IA
minor theatre, Harry Miners to wit,
and was pTe-eminently ''masher.'
His last exploit was To drug and betray
a coasting schooner captains wife who
was foolish enough to tlirt with him,
meaning no harm. Then he tOrmented
the very life of the disgraced woman.
his reckless actions making her the
talk of the neighborhoOd, and when
challenged by her husband with a
villainy not common even with scoun-
drels of this class, coOlly acknowl-
edged the connection. The husband of
course sought for divorce, hardly cred
iting the possibility of the innocence
of the poor woman. She, crazed by
the injustice. and the thought of be
ing deprived of her children. called for
her seducer and deliberately shot him,
and few will blame her. The act, des-
perate as it was, redeemed her mis-
fortune and she has been reconciled to
her husband Fhe traitorous cause of
the trouble is dead.
The railroads are cutting rates at n
most ridiculous rate, and ii is becoming
every day more and more of a tempta-
ton for people debatingas to where they
shall spend their vacation to follow the
Star of Empire and trot on the track
of the Setting sun. The roads are
dusty, however, just now, and I'm go
ing to the Catskills, where the moSqui-
toes do not buzz and the candy and
dime novel fiend do not make one
afraid that they'll he egged into COM
hitting homuncUlicide.
Oh, that | were like Sir Boyle
Roche's bird, and could be III two
places or more at once! The accounts
of the cruise of the Atlantic Yacht Club
make ones very mouth water, such
lovely weather as the boys have had
for their white winged craft, and SO
well have their darlings behaved; and
then again, in spite of the attractions
of forest and mountain scenery, purling
brooks, the dolce far niente i'll the wei
coming embrace of hammock under
shady tree. the delights of perch on a
campstOOl with easel before one and
eager brush transferring "reminiscences
of the light and shade and color of a
perfect landscape, one feels regret at
parting even for IA brief space from the
suburban home where the garden Is
Just putting forth its choicest glOrleS
in earnest as il result of patient watch
| fulness and care What Jolly thing
vacation is, anyhow. May YOU and
all your readers ENJOY years As I'm
bound to enjoy mine.
A regulation has just been made
against throwing banana skins on the
/ side walks and cross walks. 1t is sur
prising what number of accidents,
and many of them serious ones, are
caused each year by this petty out
come Of selfish indifference to Other
folks welfare. on the part of perhaps
peaceable and well-meaning citizens
The ordinance is a good one, but viii
of course soon become "A dead letter
Some poor culprits will fall victims t.
the zeal of some ignorant policemen
and then we may break Our legs again
without let or hindrance. There are
regulations against allowing passen-
gers to stand in cars and stages, bu
illtA nave HtNtI bttu tlll'lNNAl W III
knowledge. If we had fewer laws anC
less severe penalties, but an ineXora
bic iniliCtiOn of punishment i'll every
case where law is broken. without fear
favor or excuse, we'd have less erin,
and fewer petty annOyances, which g
so far i'll the aggregate to disturb one''
enjoyment of things.
There is quite fuss over the extra
ditiOn of an alleged Italian bandit wh'
was kidnapped III New Orleans, anC
brought on here by New York de
tectives. If the prisoner is the MAJ
he is claimed to he he is IA pretty hare
case but we needn't look with sucI
utter horror on Italian bandits. w
can discount them right here. Tn
other day. rs the boOkkeeper and III
f assistant from one of our largest brew
cries were driving to the bank witt
$4,000 to deposit they were chased b.
an express wagon, driven to the cur
and robbed in broad daylight i'll Lex
ington avenue, right in the view q
perhaps 10000 people. The affair oc
cupied but Il minute or two and tn
robbers got away. There wasn't Il pc
~ liceman visible within blocks of tn
pace tlneIt pTopdplN Ntl' Il upHSll w
, tifying the inner man i'll cool saloon
hard by,) and as the reins of the brew
cry buggy were cut, the unfOrtunat
bookkcepcr who, like most Germans @
anything of "A literary turn, was near
; sighted, and whose spectaclcs fell Ot
: his nose. couldn't do much in the wa.
of keeping his ASSISTANTS in sight. tn
moneys gone, and that's undoubtedl
the end of it. 1t was certainly Yer
bold robbery.
RADIX.