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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-06-09

Four years ago ii young girl be-
longing to an influential family in Gin
cinnati was sent to a fashionable
boarding school in an Eastern city "tO
finish" She was eXcitable, fond of
glimpses of the gay world around her
and her freedom from home restraint.
In an evil hour it was suggested to
her by "A classmate as ''gOOd fun" to
answer an advertisement in IL New
York paper for ''the acquaintance of
an intellectual lady friend" An i'm
mediate reply came to her letter; a
correspondence followed with the ras-
cal who inserted the advertisement
and men who advertise for young lady
correspondents are always evil-mind-
ed-and at last photographs were ex-
changed. The whole affair seemed to
this inexperienced, innocent girl, a
harmless little drama in which she
played the role of heroine
After a few weeks her "friend and
correspondent" came to the city where
she was. An hour was set i'll which he
was to pass the window of her board
ing-house, and they were to see each
other for the first time. He was a
middle-aged man, handsome and we'll
dressed, with a melancholy, romantic
air which thrilled her heart. A meet
ing was arranged in a restaurant. To
keep the tryst she escaped in the
evening by a back window.
So far, a love of excitement, of So
called romance, outside of the hum
drum round of history and geography
of the schOol-room, had spurred her on
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-06-09

| But now she fancied herself in love.
1t would be cruelty in teachers or pa
rents to keep her from this prince
among men. What '.funn it would be
to Outwit them all and to surprise
them by a secret marriage, as he
urged
One night, therefore, she disappear
ed, and when she returned after a few
weeks she showed her wedding ring,
declaring that she had been married.
Investigation showed that the cere-
mOny had been performed by some
worthless friend of the villain who had
deceived her. Both were gone, and
no trace of them could be found.
The wretched girl, when she learn
ed the truth, escaped before her pa
rents reached the school. and took ref
uge in the city almshOuse, where she
died from shame, and from the result
of her relations with the man who had
deceived her. God, it may be, sent
death as His most mcrciful messenger
to her.
The story needs no words to point
its meaning. Innocent young girls
are too apt to carry on so-called fiirta-
tiOns, and even correspondence, for the
sake of the temporary excitement or
fun" with men to whom they are
strangers. 1t is well for them to re-
member that although the foolish dra-
ma may not end in tragedy like this,
they are endangering their good name
for life, and placing themselves in the
power of men whose characters may
he vile beyond description.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-06-09
Justice and Humanity Demand

Now that further arrivals of China
men are prohibited, may we not hope
to stop the brutality to those lawfully
here, for humane men i'll every land
already cry: "FOr shame !" Those
who would abuse dog as Cinnamon
are abused in California, Nevada and
Colorado should fill the corners of fell
Ons' cells.
We hung out our sign, "Emigrants
wantedn-nO nation barred, no ques-
tions asked. On our invitation, the
Chinaman came, IL pilgrim and "A stran-
ger, and we were in honor bound to
give him ''fair play :" but we never
did it, and all the world knows it, and
Russians may well sneer at our re-
monstrances against their abuse of the
Jew. The Chinaman is hoOted 10y the
rabble; crowded from the sidewalk
and knocked down by the drunken
lOafers beaten and driven f1Om his
mine and his works taken possession
of; and denied justice in the courts,
till he exclaims 81 am in land with
out law, among people without prin-
ciple." 1t is idle to say that it is only
the rutidR class that abuses him, as
long as no class protects him nor pun
ishes the ruffian. 1t was sad to see
statesmen, who wept over the wrongs
of our black brother in the South, turn
upon our yellow brother in the West,
who is in IA still smaller minority than
the Negro, being but II handful to his
foes. If Americans in France were
treated as we permit the Chinaman to
be treated, what furOr there would
be. Yet France never encouraged i'm
migration, as we did. The Californian
may have some good qualities which
the Chinaman does not possess; but,
if he averaged as sober, industrious,
| and lawabiding as the Chinaman, he
would save One-half his taxes, close
saloons and prisons, and discharge two
| thirds of his police. Nations, like in
dividuals, Over-estimate themselves
and disparage their neighbOrs, and we
are not so much better than the China
man as we claim to be. A great ora
tor, Mr.. James 6. Blaine, when he
raised the anti-Chinese war-cry, said
alt is the cause of the house against
the howell" This is "A fine phrase but
what does it mean? The house is not
afraid Of the hOrel, nor has it any right
to make cause against the hovel. Sup
/ DOSt II al lOlll- -lOOlll HCn lilt
eight-roOm house may turn on it, and
declare it IA nuisance, and so on up to
the palace. The common laborer, be
he Chinaman or other man, if he try
to lay by any provision for family OF
old age must live in hOvel. 1t is the
Uery best he can do. But the California
sandlOt agitator who is the prime
mover in the anti-Chinese crusade,
has shown in his various twistings and
turnings that he looks with equal ami
mostly upon all above and all below
| him. There must be but one level,
and that his own. And it is for such
men as these (the rowdies of thirty
states, who have drifted to our fur
thest shOre) that many of our public
men make themselves ridiculous in
denunciations of the Chinese; it is for
such men as these that great people
make themselves a spectacle of deri-
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Advertising BuIdOZerS.

Nearly every mail brings to this office
a proposition for advertising the vir-
tues of - bitters, the healing quail
ties of somebody's ointment, or the
pain relieving power of DR.. IS lini-
ment, and occasionally one announcing
the discovery of another remedy ''foT
the absolute and radical cure of piles
and we must say the senders possess
piles" of cheek, for the advertisements
must appear 'at head of column, next
to reading matter, or Immediately fol-
lowing marriages and deaths, on local
page" together with fifty-two patent
medicine editorials of fifteen or twenty
lines each, which ''must be changed
weekly, set in news type, and placed
in with other reading matter" For all
this the publisher is told that he can
have about twenty five per cent, of his
regular rates, payable at the end OF
each quarter, or on completion of con
tract" More than half of our state
papers bite, and accept the insult.
Patrons of local newspaper do not
care for this kind of trash it is detri-
mental to the interests of local adver-
tisers, and, i'll fact, is getting to he a
public nuisance. The local press
should first protect its home patrons -
after that do what they please. Here
is a resolution for the other state pa
pers to adopt and live up to: "Re-
solved, That no patent medicine OF
other agency advertisements shall here
after have a special position in our
columns, and all notices accompanying
such advertisements shall be set in adj
vertising tyne and put together under
an appropriate heading existing con
tracts excepted" Now, if you fellows
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-06-09
From Cowardice 10 Heroism

No man knows himself until he has
been tried, neither does he know his
friend or acquaintance till he has seen
him ''under fire" Not a few men
have reputation for honesty, who
never had the temptation fairly pre-
Sented to them to cheat. Some men
have been reputed brave, till the bat
tle-it may have been the battle of life,
or the conflict of arms-proved them
towards.
Mr. Hobhouse, Lord Byron's friend,
tells the story of Il man who bore both
the mein and reputation of coward,
and yet when severely tried came out
Il hero. This hero-cOward was their
servant, IA Greek, named Demetrius.
So excessive was his timidity, that he
would run from a barking dog and cry
like Il baby.
Byron, who had so much sentiment,
but little genuine compassion, once
showed his heartlessness Dy mounting
the poor fellow on Il spirited horse.
When the animal, in obedience to Il
smart touch of Byron's whip, dashed
off i'll mad gallOp, the two friends
rOared with laughter on seeing their
frightened servant grasp the name of
the horse with both hands and scream
with terror.
Several years after this heartless ep-
isode, the Greek Revolution broke ont.
1t proved Demetrius' opportunity.
He led the forlorn hope in the assault
of fJune -, 1922, which snatched Athens,
for il season, from the Turks, and strip
ped from him his timidity, and made
for him name in the hearts of his
people, and on the record of their his
tory.
The spark of heroism was there all
the while. But it needed the flint and
steel of the revolution to bring it forth.
"You are pale, sir! You are fright
ened, sir - said one officer to another,
who stood for the first time under fire.
Il know it, and if you were half as
much frightened as | am, you would
run away"
The mans moral courage conquered
his physical timidity, and forced him
to stand where it was his duty to
stand, though it could not control the
action of his heart.
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| her husband once a year.r

her husband once a year"
Do any of our readers object To the
foregoing style of conversation Il
so, we beg leave to remind them that
it only exhibits the practical, every
day application of a religious principle
which our government has regarded as
so sacred that for many years it has
been an effectual shield from the pen
alties of law which is openly and per-
sistently violated by whole people.
Ruth, Philip La Tours new bride,
was a fair specimen of the girls brought
up in Utah, no better and no worse
than the majority of those around her.
She believed polygamy to he right be-
cause she had been so taught from her
cradle, and she regarded her marriage
as legal and binding, because no Opin-
ion to the contrary had ever been ut
tered in her hearing. If any one had
intimated that she had wronged and
outraged Philips wife by assuming the
relation to him which she now held she
would have lifted up her pretty hands
in horror and resented the imputation
with hot words and angry tears.
1t is true that she was shallow, vain
and selfish but then girls of that de
scription may be found outside of Utah,
and MOrmOnism cannot be justly
charged with developing traits that are
quite as common among the adherents
of other systems.
She really thought it too bad that
she, who was so much younger than
Jessie, and in her own estimation very
much prettier also, should have no
more of her husbands society than the
first wife and it was an unheard-O
thing that Il bride with so many attrac-
tions should live in couple of plainly
furnished rooms, while the woman
whom she regarded only in the light of
an obstacle to her complete triumph
had handsome house all to herself.
She was fully resolved not to submit
to such an arrangement, and i'll the
end she had her way, for though she
did not succeed i'll turning Jessie out
of doors, she tOrmented Philip until,
glad to purchase peace at any price, he
bought pretty cottage for her, and
fitted it up with the best that money
could buy.
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Retired Willingly.

"GOu are living very secluded life, +"
said traveller to man ut whose cabin
he had stopped for drink of water.
Eyes, rather; got tired of society,"
''MnSt find it lonesome ont here in
the woods. must confess you like the
Arkansas woods better than do. Say
you are tired of society ?"
eyes, worn out. have been in diff
terent circumstances. Last year
lived in Little Rock. | had a fine
house and plenty of company. Ere
quently when men came III from the
country they'd stay with me, but
grew tired of company. gave up the
large house and left town."
''Got in debt | suppose"
"No didn't owe cent. Gave up
the house willingly and am much
more contented in this little hut"
every strange case don't under
stand it."
"Perfectly plain. | was in the peni-
tentiary."-[ Little Rock Gazette.
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VOLUME 45--NUMBER 2341.

starting into active life, will win sue
cess or sink into failure mainly in ac-
cordance with the amount of stimulus
under which their education has been
acquired. If they have been obliged
to labor until they have learned the
value of money; if they have been
forced into close economies, and learn
ed, also, how difficult it is to keep it :;
If they have grown up with the con-
sciousness upon them that everything
they hope for in the world must be
won by their own unaided force with
industry; if they have acquired thrifty
habits and self-helpfulness and self
st,-they enter life with great and
most assuring advantages. No amount
of wealth given to IA young man can
possibly give him so good prospect
OF true success as poverty that has
secured such advantages at these.
Twice within the easy memory of
this generation man who started at
the lowest extreme of the social scale
has risen to be President of the United
States. Abraham Lincoln rose from
his nest of leaves in Il Western log
cabin To be twice the elected ruler Of
the nation, ut most mOmentOus pc
riOd of the national history, travers-
ing i'll the passage every degree of the
social scale. The poor frontiersman's
child, the flat-boatman, the day-labor-
er, the INDECENT student, the humble
stump-speaker, the legislator, the
statesman, the President, and chief of
one of the greatest armies the world
has ever Seen,-whO believes for mo-
ment that, had he been rich at the
start, he would have ended where he
did ? 1t was the discipline of poverty
that made him what he was. 1t gave
him profound sympathy with the peO-
pie, most of whom are engaged in Il
struggle with poverty from the cradle
to the grave. 1t stimulated and train
ed his powers to their highest develop
ment, and it helped him to form those
habits of industry and economy that
are essential to the best success.
James \. Garfield, whom we have
Just laid in the tomb with tears of af-
tectlOnate reverence, was another in
stance of the beneticent influences of
poverty. He rose from as low a place
as Lincoln, and took even Il higher
flight than he. The most brilliant
man who ever occupied the Presiden-
tial chair, and rapidly becoming the
most admired and best beloved ruler
i'll the world, he was mourned when,
in realizing one of the many coinci-
dences that existed between his life
and that of Lincoln, he was murdered
by an assassin, as man was never
mOurned before. His marvellous ac-
complishments and power won for him
the respect of the great, and his sym
pathy with the humble drew to him
the hearts of the world.
"Poverty is uncomfortable. as can
testify: but nine times out of ten, the
best thing that can happen to a young
man is to he tossed overheard and
compelled to sink or swim for himself.
In all my acquaintance, | never knew
Il man to he drowned who was worth
the saving. = James A. Garfield.
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Gallant Frank Leonard.
\ THRILLING RESCUE FROM DEATH p
FIRE.

\ THRILLING RESCUE FROM DEATH By
FIRE.
Fireman Frank Leonard of engine l3
earned the name of hero in New York
yesterday by saving the lives of two
women from death by fire. A Suffolk
street tenement was on fire, and Sam
uel Fransel, his wife and girl named
Rose were cut off in the third story by
the dense smoke. Their danger was
discovered by the crowd on the street,
but no means were at hand to save
them. The excitement was ut the
highest pitch when the tender of en-
gine No. l3 ratified up at breakneck
speed. The firemen made rush for
the house, pushing the crowd back on
all sides, and an effort was made to
reach the imperiled inmates by climb
ing up the front of the store. This
was promptly abandoned us impracti-
cable, and ladders were sought. None
were on hand, but from adjoining
houses willing hands soou brought out
two, which were hastily placed against
the house. A cry of disappointment
went up, as it was seen that they did
not reach more than halfway. The
case was now desperate. Already the
imprisoned man was making prepara-
tions to throw himself into the street.
The women clung to him with de-
spairing gestures, too exhausted to
cry any longer. Half dozen tiremen
seized the longest ladder and placed it
upon their heads and shoulders.
Fireman Leonard, "A small, sinewy
man, climbed up, hatless and cOatless.
The ladder was rotten and each rmg
loose under his feet. The other lad
der was thrown up beside the first,
| and, stepping on both, Leonard reach
ed almost to the window. With COW
ardly haste the man pushed his way to
the front and hung halfway out seek
ing il foOthold, but the fireman pushed
him back, while the women pulled
from within. Then the girl Rose
swung herself out, and as she fell was
seized around the waist by the fireman
and held fast. She was heavy weight
and the ladders creaked and swayed.
One rung broke as the fireman began
the descent, but he held on with ex-
traOrdinary strength and reached a
lower step with his burden i'll safety.
Looking up at that moment he be-
held Mrs. Fransel on the widnow-sill,
about to drop INTO MS arms. III was
too late to stop her by shouting, and
if she was not caught in the fall all
three must he thrown to the ground
and perhaps killed. With great cool
ness and nerve Leonard held out his
disengaged arm, and, while slowly let
ting the girl Rose slide downward tow
ard the extended arms of his comrades
on the street, seized and caught Mrs.
Fransel as she let go her hold. 1t re
quired the strength and agility of an
athlete, as well as the courage of a
brave man, under the circumstances
The ladder held and the two reached
the street i'll safety. They were re-
ceived with shouts and tears by hun
dreds of their neighbors, who bore the
women into an adjoining house. Boil
were more than half unconscious
The man Fransel climbed down the
ladder in safety, assisted by a fireman
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-06-09
Poverty as a Discipline.
[By the late DR.. j. G. Holland. !

The following article is almost the
latest literary work done by DIR. Hol-
land. He was engaged upon it the
day previous to his death, intending
it for that department of the Century
Magazine known as Topics of the Time
1t appeared in the magazine after his
death, unfinished and unrevised, with
the added quotations from President
Garfield, of which the writer intended
to have made use
We often hear it said of a man that
he has had great advantages. We
have meant by this simply the advan-
tages which wealth cOuld buy-univer-
sity training, travel, high society, un-
limited books, etc. 1t is not often
that we hear poverty spoken of as an
advantage, yet we believe it to be
demonstrably true that, of all the ad-
vantages which come to any young
man, this is the greatest The young
man who is saved from the effort of
making his own way in the world and
the necessity of establishing his own
position, is denied the most powerful
stimulus to labor and development.
The young men who are coming every
year out of the colleges and the pro-
fessional schools of the country, and
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Invites attention to stock
received for Spring Trade,
comprising
Dress Goods and Trimmings,
Cambrics, Piques, Linen Suit
ing, Prints from sc up, Surah
Satins, Velvets and Velvet
eens, Cretonnes, Skirts, Hos
iery, Gauze Underwear, Tow
els and Crashes, Corsets in
fourteen styles including best
styles of Corded.
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sion to other nations. Many good
men have been drawn into the move
ment but, in its essential feature it is
the cause Of the roicdy lOdfer against the
patient tOiler, and not ''the house
against the howell" There comes to
our memory the words of celebrated
California divine, addressed to Cali
tornia politicians, many years ago, in
the beginning of the Chinese agi-
tation: ''Beware, when you put your
salary in your pocket, lest the eagle on
the bill shall stick his talons through
and scratch the thief of liberty In
dependent.
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GOATS AS SHEEP PRoTECToRs.-Th
farmers of HunterdOn and Somerset
counties, New Jersey, use goats to pro-
tect their sheep from dogs, and two are
about all farmer puts in with his sheep.
As soon rs dog enters a field at night,
the goats attack him, and their butting
propensities are too much for the ca
nine, who soon finds himself rolling
over and over. a few repetitions of
this treatment cause the dog to quit
the field, limping and yelling. For
merly, when IA dog entered "A sheep field
ut night, the sheep would run wildly
around and cry piteOusly. Since the
goats have been used to guard them,
they form in line behind the goats and
seem to enjoy the fun. The idea of
utilizing the goats in this way came
from the West, where they are put in
sheep pens to drive away wolves
New York Sun.
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PATENTS.
r. H. F. d D Y =,

No. 20 State Street, opposite Kilby Street Boston.
secures patents in the United States; also in
Great Britain, France and other foreign countries
Copies of the claims of any Patent furnished by
remittng dollar. Assignments recorded at
Washington. No agency ia the United States pos
superior facilities for obtaining Patents or
Icertdiring the pGtentdbitty Of intentions. X. H.
EDDY Solicitor of Patents.
TEsTIMON
Il regard Mr.. Eddy AS of the most successful
and capable practitioners with whom l have had
official intercourse. CHAS. MASON.
Commissioner of Patents.
Inventors cannot employ a person more trust
worthy more capable of securing for them an
early and favorable consideration at the Patent Of
hee.'-EDMUND BURKE, late Commissioner OF
Patents"
Boston, October I9, 1876
r. II. EDDY, Esq.-Dear Sir you procured for
me, III le4O. my first patent. Since then you have
acted for and advised me in hundreds of cases and
procured many patents, reissues and extensions
have occasionally employe ed the best agencies in
New YORK Philadelphia and Warrington, but ]
still give yon almost the whole of nv business in
your line and advise others TO employ you.
Yours truly, GEORGE DRAPER
Boston. Jan. !. lss2-ly
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LISLEIANDI KID GLOVES,

A fve-hook Kid at 81, Flor
ence Knitting and Filling
Silks in new shades, Table
Linen and Napkins, Cheviots,
Cottons, Cottonades, Tick
ings, Denims, Linen Handker-
chiefs from 5cts. up, Jewelry,
Il general line of Fancy Goods,
Ribbons, Worsteds, Canvas
es, and Yarns. New Patterns
Spanish Fichue, Scarfs and
Collars. A few Boys Hats at
half price, also extra bargains
Gents Collars and Work
Shirts to close out same, at
w. B. ANDERSON'S,
Browns Block, Main Street,
st. Johnsbury, Vt.
April n, 1882.
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st. Johnsbury Post Office.

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III. Close 9:3O and $50 I'm.
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LIBERATION.

This eertiies that have this day given my son,
John McGowAn, his time during the remainder of
his minority, and that shall net claim his earn
iugs nor pay his debts after this date.
ANNA MCGOWAN.
St Johnsbury. VT May Is Iss2 3s-H