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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-10-27
The Masters Choice.

In fair and smiling garden, where sweet waters
played,
Grew the fairest little rosebud. all with moss Ger
laid
Sunbeams loated gaily DER it, gentle winds ca
ress'd,
Opening out the brightest blossom earths low
ing breast.
Many bright bird hover'd DER it, many velvet
bee
fingered in its snowy petals, humming tenderly.
And its sisters of the garden praised its beauty
rare,
whispered only bridal beauty should our rose
bud weari"
Softly sang the lark upsOarng, sunny skies to greet
For the brightest scenes adorning surely thou
art meeti "
Came the Master of the garden, watching day by
day.
Till he might in perfect beauty, bear his prize
away
Little rose he gently whispered, When gath,
er thee,
Where the festal banquet sparkles, wouldst thou
wish to bel
W mere InOuShnu DiOsSOHiS uiOOp upon
the air
Mid the tones of silver laughter of earth's child
ren fair
''wouldst thou be where sweetest music mingles
with the flow
OF fairy feet in joyous fitting to and fro %
Meekly dropped the messy rosebud with a smile OF
rest;
Choose for me loving Master. where shall be
blest!"
Where thou wilt, there let me scatter fragrance
rich and free,
All my beauty for thy pleasure use abundantly "
Smiled the Master of the garden with a glad
content,
As along the sunlight pathway, thOughtfuly he
went.
In the flush of golden morning, meath a sunny sky,
Came the Masters footsteps, slowly, sadly drawing
nigh.
Bending down he plucked his rosebud perfect in
its bloom,
Tenderly with binding tears bore it to his home.
In a darkened chamber sleeping lay amaiden fair,
Nevermore again to waken to the summer-airl
Stole the Master to the bedside, how'd with an
guish sore,
That his light of life had faded from him evermOre.
Then he laid the messy rosebud softly ON her
breast,
Kissed the fingers that lay folded in solemn rest
Little flower" he sadly murmured, LAY thy
beauty here!
Shed thy fragrance on the treasure have held SO
dear!"
Gently came the whispered answer, Sweet thy
choice for me;
Gladly beloved Master, will die for thee
Then across his heart came stealing like ray OF
light,
What my Heavenly Master chooses shall it not
be rightl
He has plucked my earthly treasure for His gar
den fair,
And in bright and deathless beauty shall find
her there.
He has willed that she shall blossom there fol
His delight,
So my heart o Heavenly Master, owns Thy choice
is right"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-10-27

Extract from a private letter.

Extract from private letter.
ALPINE, Sept. II, 1882.
To shake hands with yOu I'd need
an arm over 2OOO miles long, with a
twO-mile joint in it, for | am writing
you from a log-cabin over 10000 feet
higher than my home on Madison ave
nue., and over 1000 miles southwest of
Underclyffe. It's showing and blowing
outside, but there is great open fire
place in Mr.. SHELLS log cabin, the most
cheerful sort of fire is blazing in it, and
am as well housed tonight as Queen
Victoria. About $50 miles southwest
from Denver, in narrow gulch, with
immense mountains rising on the north
and south, lies little town called AL
pine, and three miles west of it anOth
er little town called st. Elmo. Both are
walled i'll by snOw-capped mountains.
Midway between these places stands
Mr.. SHELLS lOg-cabin, with mountains
in his front yard and in his back yard,
for the gulch is so narrow that you
can throw a stone from one side to the
other. Just between the mountains in
Mr.. SMELLS back yard and his lOgcabin
runs little trOut-brOOk called Chalk
creek, and ten miles east it loses itself
in the Arkansas river and the pieces
you'd find one of these days in the
gulf of Mexico. Yesterday, only ten
miles west of here, | crossed brook
which forms part of that great current
which the Colorado pOurs into the guilt
of California ; so you see | am writing
this letter where | can almost toss chips
at my pleasure into the Atlantic or the
Pacific. It's a wild place, this from
which | write you, and when | see you
I'll tell you more about it-how the
deer have made it their headquarters
and the beavers have built their dams
in the creek just below the house, &c.
have only time now to write you
about our trip up Mount AnterO-the
mountain fIOm which l sent you a
postal card a few days since. This
was written from the summit of Mount
Antero, one of the Rocky mountains
l. 4,245 feet above the level of the sea
'The view," he said, "surpasses my
expectations, but it is hard test Oh
the lungs to get it. Have been OF
snOwdrifts this morning Sept. IA
fifteen feet deep" Pixies peak is ii pit
feet.-ED.l Mountains grow most lux
uriantly in this country, while in Nan
tucket, where | spent a day three weeks
since, they cannot be raised even will
the most careful attention. New
Hampshire is a fair state for mountain
culture, and Mount Washington has
great reputation east, as you know
because it stands head and shoulder
above other New England mountains
but out here it could only make itsel
useful as a pedestal for these Rock,
mountains to pose on. You have seel
Mount Washington, Mount HolyOk
and Bunker Hill monument. Nov
pile another Mount Washington on TIA
present one, and then two Mount HOl
yokes on top of them, and set Bunke
Hill monument on the summit, and tn
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-10-27

The Rev. DI. Simeon Gilbert has re-
tired from the staff of the Advance of
Chicago and will Immediately assume
the duties of western editor of the Con-
gFegationalist of Boston, which is
about to establish a branch office in
Chicago.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-10-27
East st. JOhnsbury.

CongregationGI-Rev. f. b. Phelps, Pastor.
Sunday services at lO.45 a. and 6 30 D. m Sab
bath school at l2.OO. Wednesday evening meeting
at $50.
Hethodist-Rev. L. c. Dickinson, Pastor sun
day services at l.30 p. III.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-10-27

A professor at the Warner observa-
tory at Rochester, New York, asserts
that the comet recently discovered by
Schmidt actually touched the sun in
its periheliOn passage. 1t is the second
known instance.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-10-27
st. Johnsburv Atbenaun

Library and Reading Room Free to all. Open
from A. NJ. to II NJ. from to 6 p. M and from
! to IL Saturday evenings
Art GGllsry-Open Tuesdays and FRIDAYS
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Telegraph Office,

Western Union and " IHternGtiOnal-in ST.
> Johnsbury House. Open from a. M, to p.
sundays, to 10 a. m, To p. m. Night messages
At half rates
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-10-27

Gen. Woodford's speech in Boston
excited some dismay among the repub-
licans who invited him there. The
Traveller thinks his speech was calcu-
lated to help Butler more than Bishop /;
and even the Advertiser says that his
remarks should have been made in
New York instead of Massachusetts.
But they are timely and appropriate
everywhere in the land. 1t is not by
such speeches as this, recalling the re-
publican party to its duty, that the
party is injured. The republican
speakers who sneer at the solemn dec
laratiOns of the party platforms, who
defend political assessments and sup
port the boss system of government
these are the men who are doing the
mischief, and it is by their defeat that
the party is to be saved Portland
(Me.) Advertiser.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-10-27

The tenth reunion of the first reg
iment of Vermont cavalry will be held
at Montpelier, Wednesday, Novem-
Der lst.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-10-27
St. Johnsbury Post Office.

Commencing Oct. 9, the mails will close at the
Post Office as follows:
Passumpsic Il. X. Way Mail South 9 30 a. m.
No. Danvile, $50 a. m
st D. a l.. Z. X. X. Way Mail, East 2.15 p. IL.
st j. L. e. X. k. Way Mail, West, 2.30 p. m.
Montpelier W. River X. X. Way Mail 2.30 p.
fassumpslc X X. Way Mail. North, 43O p.
West Concord and St Johnsbury East $50 a. M
atetlOId, w. wat I d and l.. Watfd, 4.3O p. m.
Boston, New York, Conn. X. Val. Mail 500 D. m
CentTal V vermont X X. Way Mail, 500 p. II.
Collections will be made from the mail boxes
in season for the mail south in the morning
and at p. m. Collections will also be made from
the mail box at corner of Railroad Street and
Eastern Avenue, at 9 a IN. and 73O D. m
CHAS. p. CARPENTER. I'd, p. NJ.
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81. cyuhnsburp (aledonian.
G. NJ. STONE IL Co,
ADVANCE TERMS OF THE cALEDoNIAS:
PUBLISHERS

Opposite the Athenueum, St. Johnsbury, VT.
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q No Outs inserted. No objectionable advertise
receiUed and nothing but legitimate business
adUsTtisiIig solicited.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-08-31
About Smelling,

In a lecture on Smell" Prof W.
Ramsay says that there is a probability
that our sense of smell is excited by Vi
brations OF q lower order than those
which give rise to the sense of heat and
light. These vibrations are conveyed
by gaseous molecules to the surface net
work of nerves in the nasal cavity. The
difference of smells is caused by the rate
and by the nature of such vibrations.
just as the difference in tone of musical
sounds depends on the rate and nature
of the vibrations. Among the highest
substances which have a smell are sui
phuretted hydrogen and phosphoretted
oxygen, both Cd which are seventeen
times as heavy as hydrogen. Prussic
acid is fifteen times as heavy and has
smell, but all persons are not able to
detect it, and we have here the lowest
limit of molecular weight. To produce
the sensation of smell then substance
must have molecular weight at least
fifteen times that of hydrogen, and the
intensity of the smell increases as the
substance rises in weight The intense
perfume of flowers is to be ascribed to
the terpenes. of which common turpen-
tine is one, or to their products of OK
idation, and these bodies all possess a
molecular weight of 1856, which appears
to excite the olfactory nerve most power
fully.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-08-31
Bill Arp's Philosophy.

1t don't pay to get mad about any
thing, much less about politics. Get
ting mad cheats man out of his time.
He can lose day Or two days or even
a week, thinking about it and fretting
over it, and that interferes with mis- bus
mess and deranges his digestion, and
makes his family unhappy. He had
better 60 dead for while and come to
life again. Getting mad is the poorest
way to get even with an enemy l ever
tried. 1t don't pay worth cent and
always makes o man lose his own self
respect Now a man may get mad with
himself for being fool and it will do
him no harm. In fact, it may do good,
for it's q sign of repentance. l knew q
young man to go to q church fair and
the gir1S honey-fugled SIX dollars out OF
him and he went home and undressed
and tied one arm to the bed-post and
whipped himself with the other. and as
he cut himself round the legs he would
say: "You go to another church fair!
You let them girls fool you out OF your
money again! You pay ten cents for ev-
cry fool letter they stick at you! You
give half dollar for little dab of ice
cream-rn learn you some sense. I
viii, and rs he talked to himself he
kept the switch going lively. and would
dance up and down Just like he was an
other fellow. Now that is . good idea.
When q man makes fool of himself and
goes ripping around let him tie him.
self up aud give himself 3 good whip
ping, and then take fresh start in the
morning. If q man gets into fight
with another man he might accidental
ly get whipped, and then everybody
would hear Of it, but if he whips HIM
self all by himself it will do more good,
and nobody would ever know anything
about it.-AtlGntG Constitution.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-08-31
Commanding q Tavern.

A story is told of Will Underwood
who travels for a wholesale tea man of
Chicago. Like all other commercial
travellers, he has been bothered by hotel
men for testimonials" Won't you
speak good word?" and all that sort
of thing. One day he struck Ishpeming,
Mich, where Col. Roberts had just com
pleted his new hotel. Underwood
stopped with Roberts, and the latter
very properly did his best for his guest
When the time came to leave, Roberts
got into the bus to go to the depot, and
on the way down asked Underwood half
dozen times how he liked the house, if
he was well cared for, etc. Finally I'm
derwood said:
'I'll tell you colonel, the house is
the boss; nicely located, we'll arranged,
comfortable beds and polite waitersi
but there is one feature that goes
ahead of all that have not mentioned.
It places your house at the top of the
heap"
"Is that so?'' said Roberts. ''Well,
well! am delighted. All, now, what
was it that struck your fancy, WillP'
"Well, colonel, said the man of many
teas, ''you have got the-best salt or
your table of any house along the road
Com. Irdv. Journal.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-08-31
Rich and Ignorant.

It is the fashion among people who
have nothing but money to recommend
them, to affect artistic and literary
tastes, and the consequences are some
times dreadful. AS an example take
the following story, which comes to us
from one of the large cities. There is a
social art club in that city, whose MEM
bers are supposed to be thoroughly post
ed on such subjects as architecture,
painting, sculpture, beLles-lettres, house
decoration, lace, etc, from their foun-
dation in eternal truth to their utter
most heights of poetic significance. In
to this club, however, have crept some
rich and fashionable people. One of
these demanded of a friend, lately
James, what's the meaning OF this
new Word-,esthetic?"
After regarding him thoughtfully a
few minutes, James, replied
'.Ah really, ah don't know. It's not
new dance, is it?'
II think not"
"Send William for the dictionary"
William is sent, but the dictionary is
mislaid and cannot be found. Another
member enters, and they appeal to him.
Frank, we're Il little bothered about
this word-nsthetic."
" Pom my word, I-oh, see! You
don't speak it right. The accent should
be on the first yllable-es-thetic. Il
means a person who does not believe IL
Cod
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-08-31
The Freazinp Cure,

By means of freezing, parts may be
rendered wholly insensible to pain, SO
that slight surgical operations may be
easily performed. When the freezing is
long continued the frozen parts may
lose their vitality entirely, which will
cause them to slough away. By this
means eXcresences, as warts, wenS and
polypi. tibrous and sebaceous tumors,
and even malignant tumors, as cancers,
may be successfully removed. Small
cancers may sometimes be cured by re-
peated and long-continued freezing
Their growth may certainly be impeded
by this means. A convenient mode of
application in cancer of the breast is to
suspend from the neck rubber bag
filled with powdered ice, allowing it to
lie against the cancerous organ. Freez-
ing may be accomplished by applying a
spray of ether, by means of an atomizer,
or by a freezing mixture composed OF
equal parts of pounded ice and salt.
Mix quick, put into gauze bag, and
apply to the parts to be frozen. In three
to six minutes the skin will become
white and glistening, then the bag
should be removed. Freezing should
not be continued longer than six min
utes at time, as the tissues may be
harmed, though usually no harm results
from repeated freezing, if some care is
used in thawing the frozen part II
should be kept Immersed in cool water
or covered with cloths kept cool by fire.
quent wetting with cold water, until the
natural feeling is restored. Felons may
often be cured, especially when they
first begin, by freezing two or thre,
times. Lumbago and sciatica, as wei
as other forms of neuralgia, are some
times almost instantly relieved by freez
ing of the skin immediately above thu
painful part. We have cured some O
the most obstinate cases of sciatica b,
this means, after other remedies haC
failed.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-08-31
A LONG PARTING.

"How handsome he is," thinks Daisy,
as she leans over the rustic fence watch
ing the mower as with long sweeps of
his sythe he cuts down the swaths of
grass. Il really believe that a man
looks better in the toughest OF clothes
than in those stiff immaculate garments
they call 'dress-suits' is if he is
good-looking at ALL
1t is only this morning that Daisy
has come to the country, to revel in its
bracing air for the first time in her
young life.
"Where arc your roses, petP" her
| father had asked her one day, few
weeks before, waking from his business
plans to notice the pale listless look OF
his child.
II think want quiet papa. ! am
tired of dressing, calling, and parties.
Papa, may not go to the eountry-to
! nv old nurse s-instead of to the Branch
this summern
And Mr.. Nelson had answered yes.
u would like to come with you, but
business will not allow of it. So, enjoy
yourself all you can, my pet. and write
me very often"
And with these words, kissing her af-
fectionately, he had left her in Farmer
Shears care, who was waiting her ar
rival at the small station. Farmer
Shears wife had been Daisy's foster
mother, caring for her ever since her
mother on her death-bed, calling hes
weeping housekeeper to her, and laying
her child in her arms, had said:
"You have served mo faithfully, Su-
san, and know you will be kind to my
baby"
And we'll that trust had been fulfilled.
The first great grief Daisy had ever ex-
perienced had come to her when, TIVE
years before our story opens, her kind
nurse had left her fer o home of hel
own, offered her by worthy farmer.
who recognized in her just the sensible
qualities his farm needed Ia n mistress.
II is two o'clock; dinner has been
over a couple OF hours, and since then
Daisy has been luxuriating ia the wild
flowers and thousand and enc delights
new to her city-bred eyes. For the past
ten minutes she has been watching the
mower at his work. She knows that he
is Farmer Shears nephew, for she me-
him at dinner; but she only gave hin
the most casual observation then, anC
now she notices, for the first time, how
more than averagely tine-looking he is
She thinks herself unseen; but she il
not, for pair of amused dark eyes ar
watching her furtively as she peep
through the only partially concealin:
screen of wild-rose vines that trail abou
her feet, and, clambering upward, tlinl
their scented arms high over her head
making charming frame for charm
ing picture. A great red lily lifts it
tinted chalice in the centre of the mead
ow; the sunlight touches it and make
it such a thing of beauty that Dais
longs to possess it. But the scythe wit
its measured strokes is nearing its slen
der stem.
''Oh don'tn'
The exclamation is involuntary, an
Daisy fiushes crimson as the move
= glances up as if just conscious of he
presence.
= THE lily" she says, in answer TO HI
questioning look. ''Ithought you wei
going to cut it down, and it is SO pre-
ty."
Permit me-"
). 1t is the action of moment to pluc
it and present it to her, and, as he dot
= | 60, Daisy wonders asmuch at the Y0un
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-08-31
Awfnl Warning.

At one of the Thomas concerts at Chi
cago, the electric lights suddenly went
out, leaving the audience in perfect
darkness for few minutes. This was
thought glorious by some of the young
couples present, and over in the south
east corner of section B some one was
heard to say in suppressed undertone:
"Je-whillikens, Susie, what the deuce
have you got in your mouth?" just
then the light blazed up again, and a
yt&ng man was noticed holding his
hand over his mouth. A stream of blood
was trickling through his fingers, and
the expression ON his face touched the
observers heart. His girl took some
thing out of her mouth and put it in
her pocket looking panied and guilty.
She led him quietly to the door, and
they passed out Young ladies should
not wear their hairpins in their mouths.
It is not the place for them, and a
wound in the side of the jaw, made by
coming suddenly and painfully in con-
tact with cruel two-pointed hairpin at
q time when his heart is set on a mo-
ment of ecstatic bliss, might result in q
GOODNESS on the part of the young man
which would be rt-breaking g-NtL.
aCGukec San.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-08-31
An Unwritten Law.

1t is an unwritten law, we'll under
stood in journalism, that no editor is
under the slightest obligations to give q
reason for his acceptance or rnon-accept-
ance of a manuscript He is not called
upon to write private critique on the
article to the author of it. His accept
ance or rejection is an absolute and un-
questionable fact. Among amateur
writers this does not seem to be under
stood. All sub-editors and reporters
understand that it is an unjustifiable inn
pertinence to ask the managing editor
his reason for publishing or not pub
fishing any matter submitted to his
Judgment. Outside writer's and aspir-
ing amateurs rarely seem to compre-
hend this truth, and their transgressions
are largely from ignorance rather than
inattention. The nature of editorial
work requires absolute power OF deci-
sion in order to preserve the unities OF
the journal the editor conducts.
change. .s....
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-08-31
A Highly-Finished Cir,

-
A day or two ago a Brooklyn girl re-
boarding school with her degree of B.
B. and pumped down at the din
ner table to renew the acquaintance with
her family.
Il say, dad. you bet Pm glad to get
through book banging for keeps! l just
hold full hand of literature, now you
listen! Jerk the grease, will you?''
The old man passed her the butter
and went quietly on with his meal.
Its my innings for society now,
dad" she continued, land you've got
to pile up the shclSels for the shucks. =
This watermelon vine is coming forth
in Isle thread, and don't let it slip your
forgetfulness. There is going to be con-
siderable bangness on the top row of
hooks this season, and the late lament
ed is to locate thereabouts. What's the
new thing in gum chewers' row, any
how?'
The father contemplated her for a
moment in silence, and then told her
who had moved in the neighborhood
during her absence.
''Do they hook behind or are they
frOgged in front?" she demanded.
They were about her age, he respond
ed.
Anything new around at the hallelu-
jah dispensary? Got the same lung start
er in gig blinkers to do the tooth gnash-
ing?"
Yes, the same minister was there, and
everything was progressing about as
usual
..UyL,+,, hooo.~,, IS A. ,;ll,. l,ou,
who used to wiggle around here on the
marry and settle down deal? Has he
tlumed or does he still rattlep''
Her old lover had heard she was CON-
ing home, and would probably call in
the evening, the old man thought.
mo good; he's cases now. I've got
another buckle, who'll down him the
first flip out of the box! He's just I
cart for vegetables, and when hesprawls
in here the rest of these clay pipes have
got to settle, now You hear me shout
language! What's become of the ice
cream freezer that used to set him
out?''
That one had gone to Frisco. Would
MT be back till fall.
Prime calico! He always was scant
in the skirt! / told you how he and
coppered the festival to lose, and he
broke on the first hand of strawberries
Never played him again. Say, dad,
can't you open little game to-nightF'
''What kind of game to you want,
my child?''
Il want to buck you for couple of q
hundred and a half Got to flag out q
little now, because my blankets are get.
ting dim. Stand it?n
Then he arose solemnly and took hel
by the elbow and led her into the gar.
ret And there were sounds of highly.
finished young lady receiving an extrs
| polish which was warranted not to weal
off for day or two at the least But
! she had established one thing in the ole
| mans mimi, and that was the doubtful
utility OF mingiing the sexes at scholast
| ic -BrOOE[U2s E00te