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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16
An independent In washing.

There is now a stalwart revel in
Washington. The men who lisped the
praises of Garfield when he came into
power, and the men who spoke of his
suffering and probable death with
tremulous voice, are not heard in the
hotels, or the streets, or in the depart
ments. His sun has set, and the titful
wOrshipers of the capital who have
praise for every ruler and contempt
for every ruler of the past, now speak
of Arthur as the savior of the party !;
the statesman of the age the candi-
date of 1884. Blaine is about to retire
to his quiet home in the Pine Tree
state. Window has gone and is now
his own successor in the Senate. Mac
Veagh has gone amidst the jeers of the
now triumphant public plunderers he
had the courage to grapple with while
supported by the president. James is
limited to the New-year, when he will
give place to his stalwart successor.
Hunt and KirkwOod will be unknown
in and about the administration 20
days hence, and it is now probable that
even Lincoln will not survive the gen
eral wreck of the policy upon which
Garfield laid the foundations of his ad-
ministratiOn. In the selection of the
successors of the Garfield cabinet, no
Garfield man will apply. Democrats
will be generously considered by the
new administration when necessary,
but the Garfield Republican will ever
be a stranger to the Arthur reign.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16

How the "men- folks would fret and
sweat, grumble and grOwl, if they had
to chop, NOV, or whittle, or do any
cutting, with blunt or round edge i'm
plements. Yet nine out of ten of
''wOmen folks" do most of their cut
ting up of meats with dull knives
round edged, made barely disable by
rubbing them on a stove tOp-with an
outlay of unnecessary strength and pa
thence; bread slices are haggled into
thick and thin forms, with dull, over
thick knives long beating instead of
cutting the hash meat fine; and it
makes one ache as badly as their
hands or fingers ache-tO see women
try ing to go through or shape a piece
of cloth with shears or scissors loose
or rickety at the joints, and as for cut
ting edges on the blades, there are
none. :. THE REMEDY First, we
would say, let every woman, young or
old, learn to sharpen implements, if
necessary taking lessons of the men
folks, or some one else. Second, let
every man, who is n man, having a
house and deserving one, give person
al attention to the household cutting
implements. Ten minutes a week, or
twenty minutes month, of an evening
or rainy day, will suffice to sharpen
the shears and scissors clear to their
points, tighten the joints to make the
blades meet through their whole length
not so tightly as to strain the fingers
or so loosely as to let the cloth turn
through uncut. Also, to grind off the
round of the kitchen cutting and chop
ping knives, and put an edge ON them
ditto the table knives Orange Judd,
in American Agriculturist.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16
Gleanings.

1t is proposed to celebrate the 250th
anniversary of the settlement of Port
land, Me-, on the Fourth of July next.
The portrait of Garfield, which is
hereafter to honor the Scent postage
stamps, is said to be a striking likeness
of the late President.
The latest device for superseding the
cash boy in large retail stores is sys-
TEN of troughs, along which roll hollow
balls, carrying money and change to
and from the cashier.
President Garfeld's memory is to be
hOnored in London, by the founding OF
Garfield House." A lady has given
81 $50 to a committee for this purpose.
The wives of Governor COlquitt and
of Ex-Governor Brown, of Georgia,
will, it is reported. show their house
wifely qualities in an fashioned
spinning match at the Atlanta EXPOSE
ton.
A curious blunder, the London Echo
thinks, has been made by those who
put the sphiDxes III position at the base
of CleOpatra's Needle. "TwO of these
sphinxes," it says" are now i'll their
places; but, instead of the faces being
turned toward the spectators, they are
turned toward the needle, while the
spectators view the sphinxes' tails.
The result is ludicrous. Moreover, the
impassiveness which is the main char
acteristic of the face of sphinx is not
well preserved indeed, one of the
bronze figures seems to be laughing at
the oddity of its position
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16

The elevation of Arthur to the Pres
idency is strongly analogous to the
accession of Fillmore in 1850, after the
death of Taylor. Like Arthur, Fill
more was at war with the President
and had a party of his own in New
York. He sought to make his faction
the party. as Arthur now seeks to
make stalwartism the Republicanism
of the nation, and Fillmore failed dis
astrously-his party carrying only
four states at the next Presidential
election. Then Fillmore represented
the conservative element of the party /;
now Arthur represents only the Grant
restoration and the reversed suprema-
cy of the spoils system. l believe that
his rule will be fearfully disastrous to
Republicanism and possibly end its
triumphs in our history. With the
independent elements of Republicanism
stOutly and boldly confronting the
spOils system in city, state and nation,
and with hostility to Grant and Grant
methods intensified by the betrayal of
the government from Gartield's reform
policy to the policy of the spokesman,
there can be little to inspire the better
elements of Republicans to follow Ar
thur in his Inauguration of machine
power in every department of the
government. Democratic folly may
save the Arthur administration and
the party from utter destruction but
nothing less can give the new rule any
other destiny than hopeless Disaster
Phila. Times.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16
agricultural.
Hand Farmers at the West.

A farmer living i'll one of the best
agricultural districts in northern Hi
nois recently stated that he was not
able to hire a man i'll the county where
he lived who could use hand fail, a
sickle, a grain cradle, or who was will
ing to handle common hoe, or to
weed out and transplant garden vege-
tables. He went East last year, and,
noticing the methods employed by the
farmers in New England in producing
small crops and in saving things that
are ordinarily wasted on most Western
farms, concluded that he would en-
plOy one man in raising small crops
and i'll saving various articles about
his place. He wished to raise peas,
beans, turnips and beets, to have small
patches of grass cut with a scythe, and
to have a hand rake used on the fields
harvested with the mower and reaper.
He thought that there would be no
trouble in finding and employing such
a man, but he was mistaken. Most of
the young men desiring work confessed
that they did not know how to handle
Il fail, sickle or cradle that they were
unaccustOmed to the use of the scythe,
hoe and hand rake, and that they were
unacquainted with nearly all kinds of
garden work. A few old men were
found who stated that they knew how
to use hand tools, but they did not
care to take them up again at their
time of life. 1t is certainly to be re-
GREETED that the present generation of
farmers in the West have, with the in
PRODUCTION of machinery, almost entire
ly ceased to use hand implements of
any kind. There are many small but
very desirable crops that can only be
produced to the best advantage by the
employment of the kind of tools our
fathers used. The fail is still needed
for thrashing out pease, beans and
buckwheat, and grain when the straw
is to be used for filling beds or packing
purposes. There is often economy in
sowing grass in places where a machine
cannot be employed for harvesting.
All the hay or grain in most fields will
not be secured if a hand rake is not
employed after the machines have ia
ken up all they are able to do. No
field will produce its maximum crop of
corn in which the hand hoe has not
been used. Good crops of garden veg
etables cannot be raised without the
use of hand tools, and without the
work of men who will use their hands
in pulling up weeds and in thinning
and setting out plants. There is still
use for hand tools on Western farms,
and there is economy in employing
men who are dextrOus in handling
them Chicago Tribune.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16
The Car-DriVers' Thanksgiv'
ing.

81 have druv this ere carr he said,
nigh on four years, and in that time
not one of the folks as uses this line
reglar as ever AK it so much as whether
chaps of my kind has got any Thanks
giving dinner or no. And ! guess my
pardner's 'sperience (the conductOr) is
much the same as mine. Talk about a
legal holiday! There's no holiday for
MS, working as we do nigh on Is hours
a day-the year through, barrin' the
time we loses when we have to lay up
with rheumatism. Things is all wrong.
It's only the few who enjoy life, and
as for making Thanksgiving legal
holiday, according to law, why don't
they fine the companies whOt break il
by compelling their men to work full
time when everybody else is enjoying
hisselfP"
"Now where do you intend to take
your dinner to-day Z"
Fright on this ERE car-same as my
pardner. There's heaps of folks gone
to church to-day in this very car who'd
never think of applying practical re-
ligion to us fellers."
"What do you mean by practical re-
lgion Z"
"Why, by seeing if we are human
like other folks, and taking kindly
interest in our condition. Not that
ask or expect every passenger to tip us
a quarter just because its Thanksgiv-
ing, but it makes me mad TO see SC
many of the rich lolks on this line
warmly clothed, well fed and CHEEKY
looking as thinks no more of the feel
ms of a street-car driver than If he
was a maehine-and so he is. Why,
they treat the bosses better nor we.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16
Burning Corn for Fuel.

The frontier farmer has a rough and
ready way of solving such economical
problems as his circumstances suggest
1t is not here meant to be said that it
is the general custom of Nebraska and
Kansas to burn corn, but when corn is
superabundant the surplus of the crib,
in thousands of homes, finds its way to
the kitchen stove and to the heating
stove, when the farmer can afford the
second luxury. Burn food Oh, out
rage on the gifts of Providence, say
the farmers in the East. But is the
prairie farmer, who burns his corn in
his stove, right This is an econOmi-
cal question-nOthing more and moth
ing less. There is no religion in an ear
of corn that should taboo it from any
reasonable use. 1t is no more sacred
than the trunk of a lO0-year oak.
Though the plains are emerging from
them, there are yet conditions in which
to burn corn is one of the best uses to
which it can be put. Thirty eight
bushels of corn equal in combustible
matter one ton of bituminous coal.
Each yield 1900 pounds of such matter.
At the stations on the lines of the Bur-
lington & Missouri Railroad Company
in Nebraska, the farmer will obtain his
coal for 81 per ton. Corn costs the
grower l24 cents per bushel, which
pays for labor and seed, and interest
on investment and taxes. The 100
pounds of cOmbustible matter in corn
will cost the farmer SAYS, and out of
this he pays himself wages the 100
pounds in the coal cost him 81.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16

They get their meals reg'lar. We gets
'em when we can. And still they call
this Thanksgiving 1t might be to
some, it amt for me. Fellers like us
had Almost better quit living for what
good they gets in this world. G'lOng
there" and the moustache bristled still
more fiercely as the reporter got off at
the street cOrner.-[N. Y. Herald.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16
Court of Insolvency.

STATE OF VERMONT, District of Caledonia.
Notice is hereby given that the second meeting
of the creditors of VIM. II. Lynds of Peacham, in
said district insOlvent debtor will be held at a
Court of Insolvency, at the Probate Office in st.
JOhnsbury in said district, ON the 22d day of De-
cember, A. ID. 1871, at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon,
at which meeting creditors may prove their debts
and transact such other business relating 10 said
insOvents estate may properly come before the
Court at said meeting.
HENRY FRENCH Register.
st. Jobnsbury, December &, A. ID. 1881. 1916
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16

The acme of pOliteness was reached
by the Nevada mining superintendent
who posted a placard reading, please
do not tumble down the shaft.n
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16

C,TATE OF VERMONT, CALEDONIA DISTRICT 50
SIn Probate Court, holden at the Probate Office in
st Johnsbury within and tor said District, the
9th day of December, A. ID. 1851.
Francis K. Carpenter, administrator with will
annexed upon the estate Of A bel Goss late of
Waterford in said district, deceased presents his
administration account for examination and allow
ance and makes application for decree Of distTi-
button and partition Of the estate Of said de-
ceased.
Wbereupon, it is ordered by said Court that said
account and said application be referred TO session
thereof 10 be held at the Probate Office in St Johns
bury, on the nth day of December A. ID. 1881, for
hearing and decision thereon; and il is further
ordered that notice hereof be given TO all persons
interested by publication Of the same three weeks
successfully in the CaledOnian a newspaper pub
hshed at st. JOhnsbury, previous to said time APP
pointed for hearing that they may appear at said
tune and place, and show cause, If any they may
have, why said account should not be allowed, and
such decree made.
By the Court, Attest
1917 HENRY FRENCH, Register.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16
GSfalrs.
Guardianship.

The undersigned hereby gives notice that he has
been appointed by the Judge of Probate for the
county of Caledonia, guardian of Margaret Finley,
of Barnet, in said county who is insane. All per
sons having claims against said ward aud all in
debted are requested to make immediate settle
ment with the subscriber.
WIN. J. FINLEY.
Dated at Barnet, in said county of Caledonia, this
LIST day of December A. ID. 1881. 1917
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16
, 600 ACRES OF IMPROVED land

In the best part of Northern Kansas for sale or
trade. Long time given Broken stocks of Mer-
chandise paid up shares of good private enterpris
60 or mining interest taken Inquire of
1919 THEO- HURTZ, Scandia, Kan.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16
The Power Of the Cross.

Brethren, believe in the power of the
cross for the conversion of those around
you. Do not say of any man that he
cannot be saved. The blood of Jesus
is omnipOtent. Do not say of any dis
trict that it is too sunken, or of any
class of men that they are too far gone.
The word of the cross reclaims the
lost Believe it to he the power of
God and you shall find it so. Believe
in Christ crucitied and preach boldly
in his name, and You shall see great
things and gladstone things. Let no
mans heart fail him. Christ hath
died Atonement is complete! God is
satisfied Peace is proclaimed Heaven
glitters with proofs of mercy, already
bestowed upon ten thousand times ten
thousand. He'll is trembling, heaven
adoring, earth waiting. Advance, We
saints, to certain victory You shall
Lamb Sturgeon.
No matter where the skeptical
thought originates or how it gets ac-
cess to our minds, we see at once that
it fiattens the level of life and every
aspiration. 1t narrows the horizon of
our outlook and makes our character
less vigorous. The gospel is not sim
ply philosophy of religion or law of
life, but it is an apocalypse, showing
the heavens to our thought, and so
bringing its spiritual benediction to
every heart and life Rev. DR.. StOrrs
Those who go to the house of God
for the sake of social position, who
think more of the man that occupies a
pew there than of God who is worship
ped, do indeed swell the number of the
congregation without adding to it's de-
VotiOns.- Christian Secretary.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16

No family should be without LYDIA L. PINK
HAMS LIVER PILLS. They cure constipation
biousness, and tOrpidity of the liver. p cents
per box. tMayrs2
CY- Sold by all Druggists. al
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16
In insolvency..

STATE OF VERMONT, CALEDONIA DISTRICT. IS
- Court of Insolvency, December ]. A. ID. 1881.
In the matter of Buck & Wallace InsOlvent Debt
This is to give notice that the 9th day of De-
cember A. ID. 1881, Buck a. Wallace, of Ryegate,
in said district, adjudged to be insolveDt
debtors by the Judge of the court of insolvency for
said district of Caledonia petition of their credi
tors, which petition was filed ON the 5th day Of
December, A ID. 1891, to which date, interest on
claims against said insOlvents estate is to be com
puted. (The said Buck s. Wallace having before
service of notice required by Section 81 Of InsOl
veney Acts. of the state of Vermont filed in said
court admission in writing that the facts set
forth in said petition are true and founded upon
just cause, and consented 10 be forthwith adjudged
insOvent debtors without further nOtice:l
That the payment of any debts and delivery OF
any property belonging to said debtors TO them, OF
for their use, and the transfer of any property by
them are forbidden by law.
That a meeting Of the creditors Of said insolvent
debtors to prove their debts and choose more
assienees Of their estate will be held at Court of
Insolvency at the Probate Office in St JOhnsbury,
in said district the 18th day Of December, A. D.
Iss1 at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon.
BY order of Court,
uEEpU EpRNHH Daofsf.r
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16
15-I7 ''' HENRY FRENCH, Register.

nANIEL A. WALBRIDGE'S ESTATE.
~ The subscribers, having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court Tor the district Of
Caledonia, Commissioners to receive. examine, al
adjust all claims and demands of all persons against
the estate of Daniel A. Walbrdge late Of Peacham,
in said district, deceased represented lDsoiVent,
and the term of six months from the 22d day OF
December, I5s1, being allowed by said Court to
the creditors Of said deceased. 10 exhibit and
prove their respective claims before US; Give
notice that we will attend the duties of ap
pontment at the dwelling house Of the late Daniel
A. Walbridge in Peacham in said District, On the
I'D dav of December and I'D day Of June next at
one oicIock in the afternoon each OF said DAYS.
PLYNN BoLToN, }Comm'rs.
1917 ROBERT ESDEN, )
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-12-16
THE CALIFORNIAN WITH
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-25

wilkeep such crops tsrv are locked up all wintsn
were dead issues in the stock calculations Of to-day
Those questions, however, important faeters in
the situation, sud are considered by the lsaa
heads" who operate for the future and not for the
fluctuations OF the day. The market as q whelS
closed weak at about the lowest figures.
Government bonds were unusually active. partieu,
larly for the continued 5s, which sold up to 1918
and closed with that price bid-an advance from
Saturdays final bids of 30 per cent. The othss
changes are advances in the biddings Of & per cent
for the continued IS and the As The offers 10 sell
the Gigs to the treasury to-day amounted to
$3,417,2 200 all continued Is except $4,000 con-
tinued IS. The advertised amount of s2.Oo0.O00
was accepted. Annexed on the closing quotations;
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-25
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, TUESDAY OCTOBER 25, 1881.

scenes and episodes touched in with the 'enaeres'
sweetest feeling. 1t is full Of action, ana the IN
terest holds to the end and on its artistic sioo
nothing is more remarkable than the Conscientious
realism of its treatment The effect of prosperity
on the mock Prince is, perhaps more subtly studied
than that of adversely on the real Prince; but we
think it is this phase of the story to which tine
reader will preferably recur. II is this, apparently
which the author most wishes him to remember, for
he turns it upon him at parting in passage that
tells how the Kings suffering tempered the Kings
Justice when he came to his own again
More than once when some great dignitary, some
eilded vassal of the crown made argument against
his leniency and urged that some law whlch ne
was bent on amending was gentle enough LOT lts
pnrpose. and wrought no suffering or oppression
which anyone need nightly mind the Young King
turned the mournful elOquence of his great COM
passionate eyes upon him and answered.
q What dost thou know of suffering and oppres-
sion and my people know, but not thou"
II is beautiful story; airy and lawless as an
Arab tale in conception; but so solidly good and
wholesome in effect that Que wishes it might have
happened.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-25
MONDAY. Oct. PAP. NJ.


To-day's stock market was about an exact fac
smile of the market a week ago to-day. Early
prices had declining tendency and the movements
were dull. But by some kind of a prestigia-
ton tho scene was suddenly changed; dull
ness was supplanted by activity, and weakness
in prices by what seemed to be an unusual display
of strength. In fact the market was one that pre-
sents the curious anomaly of being remarkably
strong yet closes lower than opening figures for a
majority of the stocks The market was uninfiu-
enced by other than local causes. Rumors were at
a discount, and the only question discussed in
speculative circles is, what is the disposition of
the leading operators Whether the railroads are
doing paying or losing business. whether the crops
are great or small and whether or not SPECTATORS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-25
ETHIOPIAN FINANCIAL MARK ETs.

IoypoN oct 24-l2:3O D. m-COnols 99iie for money and
eF for bonds fves extended 10 three and
half per cents lO4 Atlantic and Western second
mortgage certificates 20S Erie i5sa NewIorS
Central l422 Reading 34s Newfork, ontario and West
ern S4is =
LONDON oct 4300 p. m-Pars advices quote three per
: 8 franc confines
IoYDoN oct 1850 y. mAtlantic ana Great Western
certificates 2O2 Erie, i5A do
SECOND consos l06 New York Central 42; Illinois Centr
I34 Pennsylvania Central 81 A. Reading "a Ia Milwaukee
and st. Paul common. liz
LONDON oct A-iO0 p. m.-The amount OF bullion gone
the TANK OF balance to-day Is 4l4OoO0
LONDON, Oct 24-l:40 m-Atlantic and Great western
hrst mortgage trustees certificates, %
LONDON oct 24-5 y. m.-Bar silver N quoted ~
81 sd. per ounce -, -.-,-- -. 49,. -
cent rentes "a francs 20 confines for the account
PARIS oct 2f-4:3O m.Exchange on London 70 rsrcs
2gl. confines checks