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San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-05-25

THERE are $500 postofices. in the
United States, and the number increases
at the rate Of a thOusand a year.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-05-19
VOLUME 45---NUMBER 1888.

/ the night with weird, uncanny hor-
ror, and scared all of neighbor Blythe's
dogs, or so many of them as the walls
would go round, under the barn in the
tree -bordered hollow. How thievish
and road-weary tramps had eaten of
this fruit, and had gone off down
Boundary street shouting Fire y and
had never been seen again. How one
day sandy pig, three and half feet
long, had eaten II couple of these plums
that somebody had thrown over the
fence, and then sat down in the dust of
the street and cried and sobbed with
pain and modification until the gold
en- sun went down i'm sea of roseate
splendor i'll the distant West. How
visitors, friends of the family and
guests of the home, had plucked and
bitten plum before they could he
warned; and then, with CHASTITY coun-
tenances, tried to look rs though they
liked it. The robins stunned that
tree. The curculiO never went near it.
The wandering crows of the air would
MT look at it. Nothing ever touched
It except the English sparrows. They
liked it and grew fat upon it. Moth
ing" added the Jester: nothing that
ever grew can kill the English spar
row. Robert j. Burdette, in Bur
lington Hawkeye.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-05-19
Bleed Purifiers.

This is the season of the year when
the numerous decoctions and medical
remedies known as blood-purifiers
come into active demand. Persons
have passed the long winter months
shut up i'll their houses, fresh air and
sunshine rigidly excluded because the
one is cold and the other fades the car
pets; they have eaten to repletiOn of
rich and various unwholesome foods /;
they have kept all sorts of hours ex-
cept regular ones; they have left off
with shiver the frequent bathing of
bodies that summer time induced they
have abused and Overtaxed and neg
lected their systems i'll every possible
way, until at last condition of pois-
oned stagnation is brought about, and
then they cry aloud for some magic
cure" which shall cleanse the polluted
pool of their life fluid, and quicken the
inert systems, and doctors are appeal
ed to in doletul tones for means to pu-
rify their blood, when in reality it is
not their blood but their habits which
need purifying.
Now the best blOOd-purifier known
to the medical profession is the follow
ing: First, plenty of cold water ablu-
tiOns; that is, every morning of the
year take a cold water sponge bath
over the whole body, followed by Wig
orous rubbing with IA coarse towel, us
ing quick, brisk action, the whole pro-
cess not taking more than three min
utes' time; in dressing, wear flannel
next to the skin throughout the year.
Second, eat plenty of plain, nourishing
food, plenty of rare beef and mutton,
partaking freely of fruits, fresh or stew
ed, and of vegetables, particularly the
summer vegetables as being more di-
gestible ignore artificial sweets of all
kinds, pies, hot puddings, pastries,
heavy preserves, etc. Third, plenty
of outdoor exercise every day take
good long walks, not to over fatigue,
however plenty of fresh air and sun
shine, plenty of ventilation to your
house and rooms ut all times, day and
night let the fresh air into your sleep
ing-rOOm at night, in winter as well as
summer, and see to it in every way
that you breathe pure oxygen every
hour out of the twenty four, instead of
carbonic acid gas poison; take plenty
of sleep and at regular hours, and
strictly avoid alcoholic drinks and to-
baccO i'll any form.
These four-daily cold water bath
ing, good food, fresh air and exercise
form together the only specific blood
purifier known. Medicine, drugs and
herbs will not alone purify the blood
the most they can do is sometimes to
aid and assist nature in making a start
on the right road Christian Union.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-05-19
The Arctic Tragedy.

The intelligence that Engineer Mel
ville's search for Captain DeLong and
his party ended in the mournful dis
covery of their dead bodies in the drea-
nv delta of the Lena River was not I'M
expected. There was little hope that
the heroic band would be found alive.
But there is something peculiarly trag-
ic i'll their fate.
They landed, it will be remembered,
about September II, at one of the
mouths of the Lena, abandoning their
boat, which they could not drag near
er than within a mile of the shore.
DeLong built cairn where he remain
ed day or two, in order to rest his
men, and then pushed southwark along
the eastern shore of the Lena, leaving
| his log books and some instruments on
the beach. On the 2Sth of September
he found himself on the end of a pc
ninsula, where he waited until the LIST
of October for the river to freeze over,
when he crossed to the western shore.
In reaching this spot DeLong passed
within few miles of people and sup
plies of food. Only a short distance
from his course was hut containing
sixteen reindeer carcasses, and at
another place a village of one hundred
inhabitants, where he could have found
shelter had he known of its position.
The details of his painful and laborious
march, as given in the New York Her
aid of May 6, were discovered by Mel
vile during his search, documents
having been left at various points
where the party halted. The men APP
pear to have kept up their courage
wonderfully in spite of their sutferings
There were fourteen in the party
when the landing was made. These
were Lieutenant DeLOng, Surgeon
Amber, Mr.. Collins, w. F. c. Ninder-
man, A. Gurtz, All Sam, AleXai, H. H.
Erikson, H. Knack, 6. w. Boyd, w.
Lee, n. IvOrsOn, l.. p. NOrOs, and A.
Dressler. All the party including the
captain, were badly frost bitten, the
doctor alone being in comparatively
good condition.
On the 9th of October, DeLong de-
termined to send NOros and Ninder-
man ahead. The food had been quite
exhausted, and the party was subsist-
ing on brandy. The story of the part
ing is inexpressibly sad. Noros thinks
it was Sunday when they left. DeLong
held divine service, the men seated on
the banks of the river. The men then
shook hands, and some of them had
tears in their eyes. Collins was the
last to bid them gOodby. He simply
said, "NorOs, when you get to New
York, remember me-" Those who
were left behind appeared to have lost
all hope. Nevertheless, they gave theil
parting comrades three cheers. "We
told them" says NOros, ''that We
would do all we could for them, and
that was the last we saw of them"
} NOros and Ninderman pursued theil
weary march southwark. They sight
ed deer at once, but could not get al
them. Sometimes they made kind o
tea from the bark of the arctic willow
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-05-19
Idaho's Educational Facilities.

When he had finished with the eli
one of the group asked: elbow about
education facilities ~ "That's the
only thing we lack" replied the old
man, with mournful sigh. "We've
got schools enough, but we can't keep
no teachers" "What's the trouble ?''
"Well, take my school, for instance
only two miles from the nearest house,
eminently situated on the top of hill,
and paying the highest salary. We
can't keep teacher over two weeks" D."
''Do they die ?'' "Some do, though
it's no place for dying. We had Il
young fellow from Ohio, and he met il
grizzly and whistled for him. The
grizzly cum. We had another, and
widder run him down and mar
ried him inside of Il month. The third
one was lame, and the Iniuns overlook
him. Then we tried women folks
The first one got married the night she
lit down there; | took the second
about the middle of the third week,
and the next one was abducted by II
stage robber.n 'Why don't you get
the uglieSt, homeliest woman you can
tind-some perfect old terror, like
over by the ticket window ~ "Why
don't we? Stranger, you Eastern folks
will never understand us pioneers in
the world-never. That's my wife
the identical school teacher | married
and she was the handsOmest one in
the drove - Detroit Free Press.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-05-19

81 never see beautiful lithOgraph
of a fruit tree, crowned and gemmed
with luscious fruit" the Jester went
eminent success Il neighbOr of mine in
Burlington made with plums. A
banker, Mr.. James Peasley, owned a
beautiful home surrounded with charm
ing grounds, and fruit trees were one
of his pastimes. A tree man came
along one year and sold him plum
tree. The banker had had little sue
cess with plum-trees, on account of the
rapaciOus and never satisfied curculiO.
But the tree man assured him the cur
culiO would never touch this particu-
larly beautiful variety: the AlOnzo du
Belvidere, or Light of the Harem Scar
um. The banker bought the tree. 1t
grew rs never plumtree grew before a;
IA great swelling mass of foliage that
woOed the sunbeams to play with its
dancing shadows. And fruit Every
man that went by the Peasley home
stead swOre to himself there weren't
enough dogs in the commonwealth of
Iowa to keep him on the roadway side
of that fence a week longer. 1t never
lolllths lpA piit oii5lt .Nffll. tDttlHDu
after season it put forth until it looked
like Springtime snOw-bank and
then, in the season of its fruit. it shOne
and gloried like royal purple sunset
in the bankers garden. One day |
praised the tree, and the banker gave
me of its fruit. bit piece out of
the plum, and then started home for
my gun. 1t was only few steps down
Barnes street; but twice before | got
there | forgot what had started after
| climbed over into the foundations of
DIR. Virgins house and tried to die.
Then | stopped in the vacant lot by
Mr.. Langley's cottage and ate the tops
off the jimsOn weeds to take the taste
out of my mouth. When | got home,
| sent for George Miller, and told him
the banker had poisoned me to get
some money | owed him, and wanted
George to take down my ante mOrtem
statement. But | lived and forgave
the man who had filled my young life
with bitterness and one day, stand
ing under the swaying bOughs of this
deadly Upas plnmtree, he told me all
its wOful history. How at night the
long drawn howls and wall of terror
stricken boys, lying in the sprink-
led grass of the COW pasture, had filed
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-05-19
Stories without Morals.

Henry is a boy who gathers instruc-
tion from whatever he reads. He i.
not like some boys, who read simply
for mental excitement, and who know
no more about the great lessons in
tended to he inculcated by a book after
they have laid it down than they did
before taking it up. Once upon Il
time Henry read of great man who
died from OverwOrk. "This is very
sad" mused Henry; and he made a
mighty resolve that, whatever might
be the temptation, he would never su
far forget his duty to himself and to
mankind as to die of Overwork. He
began to act upon this resolution the
very next morning. Everything he
was hidden to do he set about so slow
ly that his mother lost all patience and
said she would rather do it herself. 1t
panied her to see him SO awkward.
Henry was not Il lad who would will
ingly give pain to his dear mother; so
he very soon neglected his work alto
gether. 1t was the same mt school.
He copied his mathematical problems
from Charley Jones's slate (Charley
was studiOus boy Henry character
lied him as ''mutf," whatever that
may mean) he wrote all his history
dates on his finger nails, for conven-
lent reference during recitation, and,
by divers other ingenious devices,
most nObly kept his resolve. Henry is
now rich owner of IL faro bank.
Charles is book keeper upon the
princely salary of $500 per annum.
ii.
''lf at first you don't succeed, try,
try again" This motto was the guild
ing principle of James life. When
James first essayed to smoke Il ciga-
rette he turned deadly pale, and was
very sick but he was not the boy to
weakly succumb to so trivial thing
as IA cigarette. He tried again and
again, and, though he was repeatedly
quite i'll i'll consequence of his bravery,
he persisted until he could smoke any
number of cigarettes with impunity.
In time he conquered the legitimate
cigar itself, and now chews tobacco
with all the great efficiency of man
Of-war man. Frederick also tried to
smoke cigarette. He lacked the per
sistency of James. He was tickle in
the extreme. He wished very much
to smoke, but hardly had he puffed at
a cigarette five minutes when he
lost all interest in the diversion, and
proceeded to dispossess himself of his
dinner. Frederick not only failed wo-
fully upon this initial attempt, but he
surrendered Internationally to his in
ternal remOnstranceS and gave up the
battle forever. James has no end of
amusement in put1inr his smoke i'm tbp
faces of young ladies on the street, and
in decorating the sidewalks with fluid
tobacco while Frederick, besides los
ing all this pleasure, is burdened with
small change which might have been
so proftably expended upon nicotine
had he possessed the true manly cour-
age which distinguished James from
himself. - Boston Transcript.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-05-19
Go West.


THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY.
One John HOhl of Minnesota was in
duced to take a trip into Montana Ter
ritory, and he reports that section of
country and legitimate business pros
poets there to be one grand Yankee
humbug, perfect imposition upon the
people, and thinks the newspapers
ought to devote portion of their col
umns, if they have the interest of the
common people at heart, to contradict
ing these stories. 1t seems he had
been induced to take the Glendive
Times and was led to look upon Glen
dive as the Garden of Eden or land of
Promise. He and several others had
fully made up their minds to move out
there early this spring, but upon ma
ture reflection, Mr.. HOhl was appoint
ed to go out and look the country over.
He says Glendive has very poor
country surrounding it. Gravelly,
hard, but Il poor outlook for grass,
hardly Il foot of good farming land and
what therefore has the town to depend
on Only the wealth the poor dupes
from other sections of the country leave
there. There is but one blacksmith
shop, and while Mr.. Hohl was there,
another blacksmith got some lumber
and started to put up another shop,
but the ruling element covered the
proprietor with pistols, and he was in
formed that one shop was all they
would allow. A public meeting was
called for the purpose of organizing
the town, establishing law and order
like other towns, but when the chair
man stated the object of the meeting,
the ruling element decided it was not
necessary to have any officers or any
law. Every man should look out for
himself, and so the meeting broke up
and nothing was accomplished. Mr..
HOhl paid SI4 per week for board
while there. He says there are hun
dreds of poor fellows who have paid
their all to get there and haven't now
the wherewith to get home again. Box
cars, cotton covered shanties, and
other apologies for shelter are filled
every night with hOmesick people.
With IA few exceptions most of the
buildings are mere shanties, covered
with cotton. Mr.. HOhl called on the
editor of the Times and told him his
paper was Il swindle and did not con-
tain Il word of truth, and yet tie next
week when the paper came out it read ::
'.Mr. j. Hohl, of Hokah, was so highly
pleased with the country that he is
going back after his family" He does
not wish to convey the idea that all the
Northern Pacific country or Montana
is worthless, only that the honeyed
stories are published to deceive people
and get their money or cheap labor.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-05-19
Marry "a Gentleman.

1t was excellent advice | saw lately
given to young ladies urging them to
marry only gentlemen or not to marry
at all. The word was used in its
broadcast, truest sense. 1t did not
have reference to those who had fine
raiment and white hands and the We
neering of society polish, merely, to
entitle them to the distinction, but to
those possessed of true manly and no.
bic qualities, however hard their hands
and sunbrOwned their faces. A true
gentleman is generous and unselfish
He regards another's happiness and
welfare as well as his own. You will
see the trait running through all his
actions. A man who is Il bear ut home
among his sisters and discourteous to
his mother, is Just the man to avoid
when you come to the great question
which is to he answered yes or no. A
man may be ever so rustic in his early
surroundings, if he is II true gentleman
he will not bring blush to your cheek
i'll any society by his absurd behavior.
There is an instructive pOlitenesS in
herent i'll such character, which ev-
erywhere commands respect and
makes its owner pass for what he is
one of natures noblemen. Do not de
spair, girls there are such men still
in the world. You need not all die
old maids. But wait until the princes
pass by. No harm in "A delay. You
will not he apt to find him in the ball
room, and | know he will never be
seen walking up from the liquor sa-
loon. Nor is he champion billiard
player. He has not had time to be-
come ''champion," for he has had too
much honest, earnest work to do in
the world. | have always observed
that these "champions" were seldom
good for much else. Be very wary in
choosing, girls, when so much is at
stake. Do not mistake passing fancy
for undying love. Marrying in haste
rarely ends well. Do not resent too
much the ''interference" of parents.
You will travel long and far in this
world before you will find any one who
has your true interest at heart more
than your father and mother, and age
and experience has given them an in
sight into character which is much be-
yOnd your own. 1t is very unsafe to
marry a man against whom so wise Il
friend has warned you. | never yet
knew of IA runaway match that was not
followed by deep trouble in one way
or another, and matches made Sin
spite" are pretty sure to end in life
long repentance.- Woman at Work.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-05-19
The New Comet.

The new comet will, if the star-ga
erS predictions and calculations are
verified, come within the range of or
dinary vision early in May, first as a
faint object scarcely distinguishable,
but about the middle of the month
showing Il small and unmistakable tail.
Unfortunately for terrestrial Observ-
ers the perihelion distance of the COM
ct is very small, the comet being but
five and half million miles from the
sun ut the time of its nearest approach,
while it will remain more than eighty
millions of miles distant from the
earth. These considerations, together
with the fact that the comet appears
early in the morning when its light
will be soon dimmed by the sun, will
prevent what would otherwise be a
most dazzling exhibition. The most
satisfactory view of the celestial visit
or can be obtained before sunrise in the
morning of the days of the first week
in June. While the tail will modestly
pale before the sun, the astronomers
are agreed that the nucleus itself will
probably be visible, through a smoked
glass, i'll the middle of the day, indica-
ting that the molten mass itself is of
extraordinary dimensions. June 10th
is the date of periheliOn passage, after
which the comet will take up line OF
travel away from the earth and will
gradually fade from the human sight
until September or October, when it
will be beyond the range of telescopes.
During the next two weeks the comet
will be, early in the evening, about
twenty degrees above the horizon, a
little east of north, and take a course
toward the zenith which it almost
reaches at morning.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-05-19

and they managed to chew and swal-
low portions of their skin breeches and
the leather sOles of their mOccasins.
After several days of weary tramp
ing they found two deserted huts, and
a stOre-house in which there was a small
quantity of mouldy fish. There they re-
third day a native came to the
huts, and NOrOs tried i'll vain to
makehim underst and that there
were other men to the northward.
Ninderman's account is very pathetic.
We give it just as written to the Amer
lean Minister at st. Petersburg A: "On
the afternoon of the Odd or thareabOuts
native came to the hut, we tryed to
make him understand that there was
eleven more men north, could not
make him understand he took us too his
camp WHARF thare was six more, also Il
lot of sleighS and reindeer they travill-
ing at the time south. next morning
br0ak camp came to settlement on
the 25th, called Ajakit there tryed
again to make the people understand
thare was more people to the north,
did not succeed, Ajakit is lat 20 deg.
% min. north, long. not known as the
chart is copy, sent for the governor
to Bulun, came 9th he knew the ships
name, and knew about Nornedchawl,
but could not talk English, we tried to
make him understand that the Captain
was in starving condition or probab-
ly dead, and that we wanted natives,
Raindeer and food to get them, as |
thought that we could make it in five
or six daV to save them from starvation
but the GOvoner made signs that he
had to Telegraph to st. Petersburg, he
then sent us on to Bulun."
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-05-19
LIFE INSURANCE
AND
BUSINESS MEN,
ATTENTION

One of the old and promi-
nent Life Companies of this
country has just introduced a
new plan which answers all
objections to Life Insurance,
combines all that is desirable
in one plan, with a definite
contract in every particular,
and a plan adapted to men of
wealth or those in moderate
circumstances. Something
which will command a large
and ready sale and very easily
worked on account of its at
tractive feature as an invest
ment, income, or protection in
case of death, with definite
amount in case paid up policy
is taken. Energetic business
men are wanted as General,
Special and County Agents
to whom exclusive territory
will be assigned if satisfactory
arrangements are made. Pre-
vious experience in Life Insur-
ance not necessary. A rare
opportunity for the right kind
of men. Address with refer
ences, stating age, present OF
previous occupation, Drawer
%, Albany, n. Y, Post
Office. ,s,o
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-05-19

Honor the dear old mother. Time
has scattered the snOwfiakes on her
brow, plOwed deep burrows on her
cheek, but is she not sweet and beauti-
ful nowG The lips are thin and shrunk-
en-, but those are the lips which have
kissed many hot tear from the child
ish cheeks, and they are the sweetest
lips i'll the world. The eye is dim, yet
it glows with the soft radiance of holy
love which can never fade. All, yes,
she is a dear old mother. The sands
of life are nearly run out, but feeble as
she is, she will go further and reach
down lower for You than any other
friend on earth. You cannot walk into
a midnight where she cannot see you
you cannot enter prison whose bars
will keep her out; you can never
mount scatfold too high for her to
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-05-19

HAVE AN OPINION OF YOUR OWN
Some things become difficult to per-
form the instant it is known that we
are making the attempt. For instance,
the moment people discover that we
are trying to please every one the
chances are that we shall please no
one. Who cares for the support of
one who will shift his views to agree
with the next person he meets, and
never has any opinion of his own un-
til he has sounded public opinion At
ter all, we like people who have posi-
tive convictions and adhere to them
until there is good reason for IA change.
Milk and water men are soon found
out, and then more than a seeming
popularity is impossible. The world
is divided on most questions and the
man who tries to be on both sides at
the same time, presents sorry plight
As long as the world is divided into
parties, the only way for a man to be
really popular is to have a good rea-
son for believing and acting as he
does, to be always consistent, and to
never go out of his way seeking popu-
larity.