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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-11-24
VOLUME 46---NUMBER 1865.

''What is the matter ?'' | asked when
he had almost done.
"You will be the death of me, Fitz,
if you 90 on making these little mis-
takes"
IL don't understand you" said.
"You cunning dog! Why, you have
been flirting all the evening with Kitty
Berfort saw you both out here two
minutes ago and you have fallen in
love with her like II sensible man, just
as wanted you to do"
"My dear fellow, you said it was the
boys godmother you had selected for
me, and that is Miss Fay"
"Miss Fay is one of them, Kitty Ber-
fort is the other,n and to emphasize his
words Tom Phelan struck me on the
shoulder with blow that made me
stagger.
you are brick" said to him,
seizing his hand with enthusiasm.
Poor, good-natured Tom Phelan
His eyes grew dim just for second, as
he returned my grasp.
"TOm," said, "God bless your boy ~
| spoke in such ii grave, impressive
voice that the happy father burst ont
laughing in my face. This time |
joined him heartily.
Before | left the Green Isle Kitty
Berfort and became engaged. When
her father came back from India we
were married, and at our wedding
breakfast Tom Phelan-who, by the
way, had that week been presented
with remarkably fine twins-told tie
story of my little mistakes Tinsley' 5
MapaZiup
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-11-24

was no sinner. Fact am, he was
very common sort of humpbacked
Guild pussou, an it took him as long
to add seven an eight togedder us it
would some udder men to airn two dol
lars. He was accomplished in nothing;
he eNcelled only in KILN time when
at work by de day. He would he no
better off if we pronounced forty lynn
eulogies on his character. He can be
no worse off if we tell de honest truth.
De usual emblem of sorrow will be
hung to de knob of de inner doah fur
de space of two weeks, an we will re-
member Brudder Burbanks as extreme
ly good-natured, eben if extremely
lazy Detroit Free Press.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1882-11-24

AS we Walk on lnt snbTt Oi tue OStau VI llmCf
And talk of Eternity's unknown cline
Ny wife and L.
The swell of past years rolls in at our feet,
In a rhythmical round of advance and retreat,
Going farther away with the flow of each tide
As hand clasped in hand walk side by side.
Nv wife and 1.
Thus together we've wandered, long reaches OF
Together been happy,-together shed tears,
Nv wife and 1;
The blessings Of heaven have come TO our door,
The blessings of health and of basket and store,
Friendship, fortune and favor years grew
apace
Home comforts and joys in prominent place,
Ny wife and l.
Some heavy cloud shadows have darkened our
way,
Still our path was alight meath loves purest ray
Ny wife and /
Oft wounded and grieved, sOul-weary and faint,
We kept on our way without pause, without
plant,
And when the deep waters of sorrow came near,
We twined our arms closer and walked without
fear,
My wife and 1.
And now a. steps grow shorter each day,
Bearing each others burdens we still keep our
way,
Ny wife and 1
Looking out to the future, across dark sea,
Each askingoi each, ITO whom shall it be
Given first to go out to that far away shore p
Our days to renew and TO liveevermOre,
My wife and l.
Then together once mOre-On Eternitys shore
Wen be Joined to be parted again never more,
Ny wife and /;
She, whose daily life here, ever true. ever pure,
Teaches lessons of patience, tells me how to en-
dure,
Whose life joined with mine makes heaven below
And smOoths the rough way as together we go,
My wife and 1.
should the ebb Of the tide roll in Times beach
And ruthlessy sweep away from my reach,
My wife and
BE left here alone to watch and to wait,
When she passes from sight beyond the stra
gate,
To meet me, l know, in good time, she will come
And my weary feet lead up to heaven and home
-IClark W. Bryan in Good Cheer.
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CohgregdtiOHdi.-Rev. f. b. Phelps Pastor.
sunday services at 1915 a. IN. and 6.3O p m Sab
bath school at l2.OO. Wednesday evening meeting
AT $50.
Methodist.-Rev. L. c. Dickinson, Pastor sun.
day services at l.30 p. III.
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st. Johnsbury Post Office.

Commencing Oct g. the mails will close at the
Post Office as follows:
Passumpsic Il. K. Way Mail, South, 9 30 a. III.
No. Danville $50 a. III.
st j. q l.. {. k. K. Way Mail East, 2.l5 p. III.
II. j. l.. g. X. X. Way Mail, West, 2.3O p. m.
Montpelier & w. River, X. Way Mail $50 y. III.
Passumpsic X X. Way Mail. North, 4.3O p. m.
West Concord and St. JOhnsbury East. $50 a. m.
Waterford, W. Wat'fd and l. Wat'fd, 43O D. M.
Boston, New York, Conn. X. Val. Mail, 500 p. N.
central vermont k X. Way Mail, 500 p. II.
Collections will be made from the mail boxes
in for the mail south in the morning,
and at p. m. Collections will also be made from
the mail box at of Railroad Street and
Eastern Avenue at a. m. and 7.3O p. NJ.
CHAS. L. CARPENTER, I'd, 7. NJ.
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HEALTHY TEETH. New York
Herald correspondent with the party
in search of the lost crew of the Jean
nette, has been impressed by the beau
ty of the teeth of natives of Northern
Siberia. He saw old men of sixty or
seventy with sets of teeth small and
pearly white, polished and healthy.
Decay and suffering are unknown. a
physician of Yakutsk attributed this
to the habits and the kind of food eat
en- by the natives, and to a certain care
taken by them from childhood up.
First, the natives do not touch sugar
in any form, for the simple reason that
they cannot afford to buy it. Second
ly, they are in the habit of drinking
daily large quantities of fermented
sour milk summer and winter, which is
antiscorbutic, and is very beneficial in
preserving the teeth. And lastly, they
have the habit of chewing prep
aratiOn of the resin of the fir tree, a
piece of which, tasting like tar, they
masticate after every meal, in order
specially to clear the teeth and gums
of PARTICLES of food that may remain
after meals. The gum Of resin is pre-
pared and sold by all apothecaries III
Siberia, and is much used by Russian
ladies'
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A Rare Collection of Woods.

a collection of woods without par
allel in the world is now being pre-
pared for exhibition by the directors
of the American museum of natural
history. Scattered about the third
floor of the arsenal in Central park lie
393 logs, some carefully wrapped in
bagging, some inclosed in rough wood
en- cases, and Others partially sawn,
longitudinally, horizontally and diago-
nally. These logs represent all but
twenty-SiX of the varieties of trees in
digenOus to this country, and nearly
all have Il greater or less economic or
commercial value. The twenty-siX
varieties needed to complete the col
lection will arrive before winter sets
in, il number of specimens being now
on their way to this city from the
groves of California. :. ID. Dill and ii
number of assistants are engaged in
preparing the specimens for exhibition.
The logs as they reach the work-roOm
are wrapped in bagging and inclOsed
in cases, this method being used SO that
the bark, with its growth of lichens
and delicate eXfOliatiOns, shall not be
injured while the logs are in process of
transportation from various parts of the
country to this city. The logs are each
six feet in length, and each is the most
perfect specimen of its class that could
be found 10y thn experts employed i'll
making the collection. With the spec
linens of the trees come to the muse
um also specimens of the foliage and
the fruits and flowers of the tree.
| Th sc come. from all parts of the I'm
1, H.. !, 20
as on the south, from Maine on the
east to California on the west-and
| there is not Il state or teri itOry in the
| Union which has not Il representative
in this collection of logs. On arrival
here the logs are green, and the first
thing in the way of treatment after
! their arrival is to season them Il work
requiring great care to prevent them
| from "checking,n as it is technically
called, or "seasOn cracking as the un-
scientific term for the splitting of the
wood in radiating lines during the
seasoning process. To accompany
these specimens of the woods of Amer
lea Morris X. Jesup, who has paid all
the expense incurred in the collection
of the specimens, is having prepared
as an accompanying portion of the eX-
hibition water-color drawings, repre-
senting the actual size, color, and ap-
pearance of the fruit, foliage, and flow
ers of the various trees. Their COM
mercial products, as far as they can be
obtained, will also he exhibited, as, fol
instance, in the case of the long-leaved
pine, the tar, resin and pitch, for which
it is especially valued. Then, too, in
an herbarium the fruits, leaves and
flowers are preserved as nearly as pos
sible III their natural state. When the
collection is ready for public view next
spring it will be not only the largest
but the only complete one of its kind
in the country. There is nothing like
it in the world, us far as is known Ger
tainly not in the royal museums o
England, France or Germany New
| York Times.
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st. Johnsbury Athenaum.

Library and Reading Room m,-Free to all. Ope
from 9 a. NJ to IL NJ. from to =. NJ, and frol
to IL saturday evenings.
Art Gdlery-Open Tuesdays and Fridays
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Across the Sea Of Time.

As we walk on the shore of the Ocean of Time,
And talk of Eternity's unknown cline
Nv wife and l.
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The swell of past years rolls in at our feet,
In a rhythmical round of advance and retreat
Going farther away with the flow of each tide
As hand clasped in hand we walk side by side.
Nv wife and l.
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q No cuts inserted. No objectionable ddUertise
,Hcnts rcoeiBed and nothing Jd legitimate business
IdUert,siag solicited.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-07

of eosotes.df ptb two o'clock the re
ports of rifles land !. the fierce wells oa
Indians foated dup through the little val
ley, and the camp was reused in mo.
ment.
The devils have Jumped in on Joseph
and his brother, whispered one of the
men, as he stood on knoll and bent his
head to listen
.sGood' nuff! Cowards have no bus
mess out here,'' growled the Texan
The first speaker, wheeled, struck the
ruffian q sledge-hammer blow In the face
and then running for the horses, cried
ont: @ es-z
"Come oni come on. A dozen of us
can be spared for the rescue.n
Sixteen men swept down the valley
like the wind. The firing and yelling
continued, proving that the man who
had been called coward was making q
heroic fight. In ten minutes they came
down uponthe lone camp, made light as
day by the burning wagon. Fifty feet
from the bonfire and hemmed in by a
circle of dancing, feaping, howling saw
ages, was Joseph's dead body. The
gold hunters heard the pop! pop! pop!
of the boys revolver as they burst into
view, and the next moment they were
charging down upon the demons, using
rifle and revolver with terrible effect. In
two minutes not a living Indian was in
sight. +. Joseph's brother stood over the
dead body, turning him over with his
hand. The men cheered wildly as they
looked around, but the boy looked up in
their faces without exultation, surprise
or gladness
There were three dead Indians beside
l.
menced, and the corpses in front of Jo-
seph's brother numbered more than the
victims of sixteen men.
'1s Joseph badly hurt?'' asked one of
the men, as he halted~his horse beside
the boy.
HE is deadf' whispered the white
faced defender.
''Is he? God forgive me for the part I
took last nightr'
You called him coward p cried Jo-
seph' brother, land you are to blame
for this! Was he a cowardP Look herel
and there! and therei We drove them
back from the wagon-drove them off
out here! Joseph is dead! You are his
murderersr' 4
Every man was near enough to hear
his voice and to note his action, as he
picked up the rife of an Indian and sent
. bullet through his own head. With
ordinations of grief and alarm tremb-
ling on their lips, the men sprang from
their saddles. The boy was dead-dead
as Joseph--and both corpses were bleed
ing from a dozen wounds.
'.We'n carry them up TO the train and
have a burial in the morning said one
of the men; and the bodies were taken
up behind two of the horsemen. They
did have a funeral and the men looked
into the grave with tears in their eyes,
for they had discovered tn. Joseph's |
brother was woman-yes, IL woman
with the whitest throat and the softest |
hands. 1t might have been Joseph's |
wife, or sister, or a sweetheart. No one
could tell that; but they could tell how
they had wronged her; and they said
as they stood around the grave: 1--WE |
hope the Lord won't lay it up against |
usn
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-07
Treating an Epidemic,

The epidemic which has broken out
among the bank cashiers attracts q
great deal of attention. The effect of
the disease is to make the cashier lose
all power to distinguish what belongs to
him and what to the depositors of the
bank. No system of treatment has as
yet been definitely shown to be the best,
but in two of the most prominent cases
the following methods have been adopted.
/. Newark treatment: rather homeo-
pathic. Take the cashier to court, have
him give bail, and then send him back
to the bank to straighten out his ac-
counts. BY going overthe figures again
he will be convinced he did wrong and
will agree never to do so any more.
Cure guaranteed, but the attack may
occur again.
2. Kansas treatment: eclectic a little
heroic. Take the cashier and tell him
you want your money. If you don't
get it, take a long rope with a moose at
one end. Then, holding the cashiers
nose. insert his head In the moose. Pass
the other end of the rope over the limb
of tree, then pull on that end until the
distance from the point of the rope
touching the tree to the toe of the cash
ier's boot is less than the distance from
the limb of the tree to the ground. Con-
tinue this treatment for several minutes.
Cure guaranteed. Attacks never occur
again.-Net1 York San.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-07
Superstition in Kansas.

In the third ward, says the Leaven-
worth, Kan, Times, there lives Young
couple whose married life has lately
been blessed by the advent of child
The child is not healthy one, and
when the regular physician was sum-
moned to attend it he pronounced the
disease to be marasmus. Not satisfied
with the counsel of the physician, the
family employed one of those who cure
by sympathy, laying on hands, etc
This man said the child was bewitched,
and the parents believed it. The only
question then was, who was guilty Of
the witehery. The man said he could
tell. The first woman who entered the
house, he said, after performing his in
carnations, was the witch. She must
come, he said; she win be driven to it;
she would have a burning desire to
come. Shortly afterward woman did
come into the house, and her first inqui-
ry was after the welfare of the child.
Immediately the woman was pronounced
the witch. It is said the parents of the
sick child then engaged the services of a
woman who is well known In the SYM
pathetic line, and she also pronounced
the case one of witchery Naturally the
woman who has been pronounced
witch has been placed in very unenvi-
able light, the more SO on account of
the prevalency of the superstition in her
neighborhood. She is the same old
woman who goes about the stores SELL
ing apples and pears.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-07

Of the many tricks of those who live
by their wits to take in the unwary, the
''gold nugget pin dodge" is the most
successful. This oft-practiced game
was played recently, upon a citizen who
prides himself upon being mo 5ool, -
AS he was passing the Baldwin hotel he
saw a seedy, semi-respectable looking
party, who was walking a few steps
ahead of him, stop, and Shopping appear
to pick up something bright, which,
when held up to the light, was seen to
be a nugget pin, evidently solid gold,
and weighing fully an ounce. stWhat a
lucky findr' remarked the overioyed
stranger to the citizen, as he gleefully
held it up for the latter's inspection.
''It's worth considerable, :" continued he,
land it's q windfall to me, for I'm dead
broke. / wish / could sell it,
''What do you want for it, - asked the
unsuspecting victim, who thought he
scented a chance to turn an honest pen
ny by neat business stroke.
''Well, don't know what it's worth.
I wish there was a pawnshop open.
Give me SO and you can have it. -
''Ten dollars for a $40 nugget; too
much,h - thought the victim, and then
ssCan't do it, remarked he aloud.
.'Well, am hard up. Now, what
viii you giveP" persevered the stranger,
who appeared to hesitate to take less.
The shrewd citizen finally secured the
pin for $4.50, only to find when he had
his purchase examined, thai it was
good imitation of gold, but, being only
made of brass, it was not worth as much
as he paid for it by SAB. The victim
has cut another eyetooth and declares
that he would not buy gold mine at
any price from Strangers, r. Post.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-07
a Great NaDhtha Fire.

Although the existence of the naphtha
springs in the neighborhood of Baku,
Russia, has been known for centuries,
it IS only within the last ten years that
measures have been taken for realizing
their production, by using it for light
ing purposes. From one of the chief
wells the liquid shoots up as from a
fountain, and has formed a lake four
miles long and one and a quarter wide
Its depth is, however, only two ieet, so
that in very hot summers it is nearly
dried up.
This enormous surface of inflamma-
bic liquid recently became ignited, and
presented an imposing spectacle, the
thick black clouds of smoke being lifted
up by the lurid glare of the central col
umn of flame, which rose to a great
height. The smoke and heat were such
as to render nearer approach than one
thousand yards distance impracticable.
Suitable means for extinguishing the
fire were not at hand, and it was feared
that the conflagration would spread un-
foreground in such a manner as to cause
an explosion. This supposition led
many inhabitants of the Immediate vi
cinity to remove to safer distance.
The quantity of naphtha on fire was es-
timated at four and half million cubic
feet. The trees and buildings within
three miles distance were covered with
thick SCOT, and this unpleasant deposit
appeared on persons clothes, and even
on the food in the adjacent houses.
Not only was the naphtha itself burn
ing. but the earth which was saturated
with it was also on fire, and ten large
establishments, founded at great ex-
pense for the development of the trade
in the article We're destroyed The fire
ceased of itself unexpectedly, and thus
the fears of total destruction of the To-
cal naphtha industry have been allayed.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-07

i country the present moment seems so
full of delight that there is but the
| smallest desire to project life into antici-
| patton Time ceases to exist, or at least
TO be of any account. 1t must be ad-
mitted, however, that the disposition of
| everybody nthfs lazy lotos-eating land
| to act on this is at times little trouble
some. You have arTanged to make an
excursion to a town in the interior: YOU
have fixed the day for startinc-after
having found that it must not be Tues
day, for "rletsa feletsa' (sson the third
day all fails nor on Friday for that
is their Sabbath-you have been promis-
ed guides and mules by such time; but
do not expect them there, they will not
come You go to the man with whom
you have made arrangements; he is
probably doing nothing, and he has
probably nothing to say in answer to
your complaint but please, Allah, to-
morrow" Yet if YOU manage to set
out on the third day, or before the week
has run out, you win have been treated
fairly well. They mean no NEGLECT or
disrespect: it is only their .sOld-Worid''
way. Hence their proverb, ssOnce over
the threshold the journeys half dcne. -
For travelling there are, of course, rleith-
er carriages nor roads; the roais SO
called are only collocations of mule and
camel tracks. Till within two or three
years ago there was not a single wheeled
vehicle in Morocco; bnt now there is
known to be two-the one is a yellow
antediluv1an gig, which the Sultan has
procured somehow n other, and which
figured some time ago in State pro-
cesssion, to the astonishment and de-
light OF the spectators; the other is a
wheelbarrow which gentleman recent
ly took to Mogador, and of which the
stalWart Moor to whom it was consign-
ed so little surmised the use that when
he had filled it with mortar according
to instructions he promptly shouldered
it and strobe off. Travelling on mule-
back, however, in the large, Well-padded
saddles of the country, with stirrups
like slippers, is nc great hardship to
either man or woman, and the wav il
constantly beguiled by some fresh illus
tration of Moorish life and manners. a
company of noisy country folk going to
or coming from market; troop of horse
men dashing past, with flowing white
jelabs; the ghostly-looking, silent eayal-
cade of an Arab sheik of the plains. and
his harem, swathed from view-all but.
perhaps, one lustrous eye; the astonish-
ed rustic girl. who hides her face but
not her legs: or the toilsome, almost
naked peasant dawdling along behind
his aboriginal plow. Agoat and a dom
key may often be seen yoked together.
and woman has been seen in the place
of a goat; but Whatever the team. the
plowing is always the sa1ne-a mere
scoring OF the soil, and yet it brings forth
In abundance. .-PaU Mall Gazette.
The Rock Island Argus., 1882-01-07
What NV Lover Said.

:
BY the merest chance, In the twilight gloom,
In the orchard path he met me:
In the tall, wet grass, with It's faint perfume,
tried b bup ss he wonld a. not aas es no e
So stood and blushed TIL the grass grew red,
With my face bent down above II, lGs1 81
Ma Mne be ssr cok IE hsna a. e hs sa said
To listen TO all that my lover eaidi--
o, the clover In bioomf / love It.
And the low, wet leaves hung over.
For found myseifs when iva vafnIy nis tried. sss
And ne held me there, and he raised Layhead.
While he closed the paeh before me.
And he looked down into my eyes and said
HOW the leaves bent down from the boughs
To listen TO ali that my lover said,-
U, the leaves hanging lowfy Fer me.
am sure That he knew, when he held me fast.
That must be all unwilling;
For tried to go, and wouid have passed,
as the night was come with its dews at last,
The sky with its stars was flling.
hut be ciasped me close when / would have
E And ne bade me hear his story:
And his soul came out from his lips and said
How the stars crept out by the white moon led,
To ksten to all that my lover said - =, '
o, the moon and stars in gloryI
/ know that the grass and the leaves won't tell
And I'm sure that the wind, precious rover,
VIII VIZ carry his secret so safely and wen
That no being shall ever discover
One word OF the many that rapidly fell
From the eager lips of my lover.
And the moon and the STARS that looked over
Shan never reveal what fairy-lfke spell
They wove round about us that night IN the
..-l dell,
In the path through the dew-laden clover;
MOE echo the whispers that made my heart
As they fell from the lips Of my lover.