St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-09-08
A Heroic Girl.

A little New York tenement-hOuse
girl, whom the. Tribune tells about,
has heroic stuff in her. An iniirm old
man was tottering past her home the
other day, when a boy, who had a
piece of string with Il bent pin fastened
to one end and dead rat to the other,
skillfully stuck the pin into one of the
old mans coat tails, and then stood
with a demoniacal grin on his face to
watch the result. At that moment the
girl appeared, bounded forward and
gave the boy whack in the face.
changing his half-uttered shout of de-
risiOn into a howl of dismay. Then
she tore the string loose from the old
mans coat and flung the carcas of the
rat at the boy. The old man, who ap-
peared to he very deaf, trudged on
without noticing what had happened.
The boy squared himself in a defensive
attitude and hOwled out: ''What d
you want ter hit me fur ~ ''Teddy
Burns" she said, ''you are real mean.
Would you like to have boy tie a rat
to your grandpa's tail, just as if he was
dog p "That old feller aint your
grandpa, is he ?" ''Well, no but he's
somebody's grandpa, and with an i'm.
patient stamp of her FOOT you are n
very wicked boy :" After that parting
shot the little miss walked into the
house with dignity, and the boy threw
the rat into the gutter.
AN INCIDENT OF GEORGE p. MARSH.
The day after Fort Sumter was
fired upon a mass meeting was held at
the town hall, Burlington, and the Hon.
George p. Marsh, who had actually
| started for the cars on his way To Italy.
where he had just been appointed Min
lister, was induced to defer his depart
ure until the next train, i'll order to be
present. He made an eloquent and
| patriotic address. In the midst of il
some one, directed by the earnest
glances of the speaker, turned and saw
| two men stretching the American flag
along the front of the gallery at the
rear of the hall. A moment more and
the whole audience saw it, and broke
ont into cheering, led by Mr.. Marsh
himself. The meeting ended, within
a half hour the speaker was on his way
to Italy, never to see home again, but
with memories of the parting hour such
as are given to few.
a CHASE FOR A BABY.-There was a
funny chase for baby at Plainville.
| Conn. recently. A woman stepped
| from a train moment to question the
agent and the train pulled out sudden
! ly without her, carrying off her baby.
Her frenzy moved the good ticket agent
to telegraph to Bristol and order the
baby returned. The train dropped the
infant at FOrestville and Il good man
footed it thither and lugged the baby
back to Plainville. The mother, mean
time grown impatient, had gone to For
estville on the engine of a gravel train
So back went the good man with the
baby to FOrestville, there to learn that
the frantic mother had returned Ia
Plainville. The man then telephOned
the woman to sit still half an hour
which she did, and got back her infant
4 GoODWIFE a TREAsURE.-The rich.
est treasure man ever gets in this
world is a good wife. The poorest in
vestment he ever makes is IL poor wife
no matter how much money she may
have. Marriage is transaction whicl
should be removed as far as pOssibl,
from the mOneyed value of either par
". ne ndppleSt homes every NHeT'
have been bought and paid for by th'
mutual earnings after marriage. Moth
ing is truer than that the good wife il
the home is as surely a mOney-earne
as the husband who tolls with hanC
. and brain. The best motto for every
/ yOung man or woman is "Marry 70
love and work for riches" 1t may b,
an Old-fogy idea but millions of home
will bear testimony to its truthfulness