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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-06-12

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Colman, Miss Johanna
Davies, v
Durey, Mrs N C
Dunlap, Miss Sallie
DAVIS, Miss Halle
Elliott, Mrs Lizzie NJ
Edwards, Bale
Fitzpatrick, John
Ferris, Mrs Lucy N
Farrier, Ms Caste
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Guthrie, r A
Garrett, l.
Cards, Miss Susan
Gray, Miss Maggie L
Griffin, Miss Lucy
Gehlken, Miss louisa
Gleason, Miss Carrie B
Green, Miss Augusta
Graygow, Miss Annie
Heistana, Sam
Hubbard. Mrs Julius
Holleron, Miss Kate
Hoffman, Mrs Kate
Jordon, Mrs N
Jackson, Mrs Lucy
job lson Mrs Hattie
Johnson, VIM
Klein, Ms Katie
Kemper, Mrs H
Kimsoth, Miss Mary
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-30
The Adirondack Wilderness.

The urgent necessity for protecting
generally our present forests at the
heads of all important rivers, and es-
pecially of preserving in it's natural
condition the Adirondack wilderness,
the chief source of the Hudson, is now
beginning to be widely acknowledged.
The Scientific American draws this pic
ture of some of the results which would
follow a continuance of the old system
of stripping the mountains by cutting
down the forests: There is no uues-
ton that the general clearing of the
Adirondack region of its protecting
forests would produce effects of the
most disastrous character to the val
leys of the streams flowing therefrom :;
effects like those which, during the
past few months, have brought death
and desOlation to so many European
river valleys. The rainfall of the Adj
rondack region is great the drainage
slopes are steep; and without the con
trolling and restraining influence of
the existing swamps and forests about
their sources, the rivers which drain
this northern wilderness would show
only great and sudden alterations of
Hooded and empty channels, destruc-
tive at once to the agriculture of their
valleys, to the manufacturing interests
which cluster along their banks, and
to the commerce of the Hudson, the
channel of which has already been Sc
riOusly INSTRUCTED by the detritus
washed in from unprotected hill-slOpes
and other spaces stripped of their orig
iual forests
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-30

The Japanese have more than twenty
fanciful names by which they designate
their beautiful country, but the sObri-
quet which to foreigner seems the
most fitting is certainly the land of
holidays. No excuse is too trivial for
Il Japanese to make holidays, and when
he does not make them himself, the
government politely steps in and
makes them for him. Thus, one day
in every six, called ichi roku, is a
statute holiday so is the third day in
every moon, whilst the list of national
festivals commemorative of great men
or of great deeds is simply inexhausti-
BILE. If a great man dies in England
they commemorate him by IA monument
i'll Westminster Abbey; if great man
dies i'll Japan he is remembered by a
holiday so that what with the myth
cal great men who are thus remem-
bered and the historical great men who
have died during the past five thou
sand years, it is little difficult to find
day of the japanese year which has
not the name of ii celebrity attached to
1t just as, in glancing down Roman
Catholic calendar, we find that every
day has its particular saint. But the
greatest day of the year, the festival
par excellence of the people, the festi-
val into which is compressed the essence
of the fun and enjoyment and happi-
ness of all the other days put together,
is the festival of the new year. We
may be familiar with the celebration of
the day in Paris or New York, but the
proceedings there are tame and lifeless
when compared with the spontaneous
outburst of rejoicing which character
ICES New Years day Japan.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-30
study and StimuIants.

A very remarkable and interesting
volume is about to be added by A. Ar
thur Reade to the curiOsities of litera-
ture. Mr. Reade, who is not temper
ance advocate, or any thing of that
kind, but merely curious observer of
natural phenomena, has collected to-
gether an enormous amount of testi-
mony from literary men, artists, and
others upon their experience in the use
of tobacco and alcohol He has letters
from the Duke of Argyll, Matthew Ar
mold, George Beard, Professor Blackie,
Wilkie Collins, Mr.. Edison, Charles
Reade, Victor Hugo, Mr.. Hamerton,
Thomas Hardy, DR.. Holmes, James
Martineau, James Payne, Bull Run
Russell and host of others.
The most remarkable lesson to be
drawn from this entire collection is the
fact that the majority of those whose
names are foremost in the ranks of
brain workers are remarkably temper
ate men. The greatest smoker among
them is Mark Twain, who owns up to
having smoked immOderately during
thirty eight years. His health is ex-
cellent, and he smokes three hundred
cigars month. Edison finds stimu-
liant in chewing tobacco; Bull Run
Russell is an inveterate smoker and a
good liver generally. Wilkie Collins
believes in tobacco; Charles Darwin
snuffed, Argyll neither smokes nor
drinks Arnold drinks claret Beard
believed in tea, cocoa, and tobacco /;
Professor Blackie drinks wine, but
hates tobacco; Mr.. Childs of Philadel-
phia never INDUCES Freeman stimu-
lates on sleep Gladstone takes a little
wine for his stomachs sake Hamerton
is not "A teetotaler Hardy does not
smoke; DR.. Holmes and Mr.. Howells
belive in abstinence Payn is a con-
slant smoker; Reade is a tobacco hat =
er; Taine writes on coffee and ciga-
rettes. The sum total of the entire tes-
timony appears to be that a man should
study himself, and use but not abuse
that which best agrees with his pecul-
lar Organization.-[N. Y. Commercial
Advertiser
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-30

version. and of course its sale suffers in
consequence. No, | think not. Many
wise things have been said, and, as
have admitted before, there are some
things in the revised version which |
would have had different. But we are
fallible, and did not expect to achieve
perfection. / do not believe that in my
time there will be revision of the re-
vision, for the reason that the present
work was done under miraculously
favorable conditions. 1t would be an
almost impossible task to get together
again body of men of like learning
and diversity of opinion and reach a
harmonious result. A revision of the
revision might call forth just as much
criticism as the present work has done.
The Old Testament committee will fin
ish its work next winter. The Old
Testament has been gone through
twice, and we are now going over our
work for the third time
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-30
SleepIeSSneSS.

Druggists tell us that there is il grow
ing demand for various medicines and
preparations containing Opiates in one
shape or another. People wreck their
nervous systems by inJudicious habits
of life, and the result is unsOund sleep,
dyspepsia and countless other evils. A
little advice to such persons may not
he out of place. They should, of
course, he careful to abandon that
method of life which brings them into
physical disorder. Their complaint
may be fed by tobacco narcotics
should be avoided. One cause of their
trouble may he that they take insult
ticient outdoor exercise. Perhaps they
drink too much tea or coffee or eat too
much flesh meat. There are thousand
practices allowed by convention which
are in themselves harmful and preju-
dicial to the health.
The quality of sleep may be improv-
ed by diminishing the length of time
spent in bed. A hot shower bath at
bedtime cleanses the skin and preds-
poses to sleep. Many toiling business
or literary man goes to bed tired and
worn ont, only to toss from one side to
another. His brain is hot and full of
blood, while his feet are cold. He
thinks over again the thoughts that
have been engaging his attentions dur
ing the day, or does over again the
business that has called forth his ener-
gles for twelve or sixteen hours past.
His night is round of tossing to and
f.o. Is there any wonder that, failing
TO find out what is the true and natural
remedy for his pains, he resorts to OPT
ates, which he knows will give him
temporary relief?
There is one sure and safe way to
remedy his pains. If, after leaving
work, he would take brisk walk of "A
mile or two, before going to bed, and
then after the walk would hold his
head under a stream of cold water, he
would find relief-that is. supposing he
does this when he is first troubled with
sleepless nights. But, no; if he lives
half mile OF more from his work he
takes a car home, and, throwing off his
clothes, goes To bed as quickly as pos
sible.
The want of balance between mental
and physical labor is fruitful cause of
sleeplessness. Many a business man.
whose duties keep him in an Office ali
day, would improve his health a great
deal if he were to tit up his attic as
carpenters shop and spend an hour
therein after supper. This, of course,
would be beneficial only if he happened
to have a liking for mechanics then
he would find his occupation afforded
him amusement, mental occupation and
muscular effort in just the proper pro
portions Herald of Health.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-30
Reception Of the Revised YER
sion.

The sale of the revised version of the
New Testament has come to il compar-
atiVe Staad-Still. The result is said tu
he very disappointing to the committee
on the revision, and some of the lead
ing publishers who have issued some
twenty five or thirty editions mt an cX-
pense of several hundred thousand dol
lars. \ reporter of the New York
Evening Post called upon one of the
leading church book sellers, who, in an
swer to an inquiry from the reporter,
stated that while he had sold five OF
six hundred copies of the authorized
version, not more than halt-a- dozen
copies of the revised version had been
sold. He thought the publishers would
he few who will undertake to invest
their money in the issue of the revision
of the Old Testament. He had tried
to get the new work introduced into
Sunday schools as book of reference
and a commentary, but had uniformly
failed. Some influence, he said, seem
ed to work steadily against it. Schol-
airs and students. he said, seemed to
like the book, but the general public
ignore it.
The reporter had an interview with
Rev. DIR. Philip Schatf, chairman of the
revision committee, who explained the
small demand for the book as follows:
"A reaction was certain to come Ii
il estimated that about 5000, 900 copies
of the book have been sOld-2, O00, 900
in England and 100000 in America.
That il not small sale for IA book
which may he called new edition of
an old work. The book now takes its
place upon the shelves of the book
shops, and the demand for it will de
pend upon its excellence. Fifty wears
We're required before the present au-
thOrized version made its way into pop
ularity. 1t may be IA generation before
this new work displaces She present
authorized version. In America there
have been no recent additions to the
thirty American editions of the Revised
Testament but in England the Uni
verSity presses are still bringing out
new editions. The whole body of
scholars and Biblical critics, whatever
they may think of the propriety of sub
stituting the revised version for the
authorized one, agree in considering
the revision as "A work of great value if
as a commentary solely. Whenever
the exact meaning of a passage is need
ed, whenever il is desired to get as
near to the Greek as the English Ian
guage will allow, all scholars now refer
to the revised version. OF course, crit
icism was to be expected, and has had
some effect upon the public estimation
of the work. Another obstacle To its
immediate acceptance by the public is
that the work has no sanction of au-
thority as yet. The cOnvOcation of
Canterbury will not pass upon the re-
vision until both testaments are finish
ed. Then it may authorize it, reject it,
OF recOmmit to the hands of the revis-
ers for further consideration. At pres
ent the revised testament has no stand
ing as compared with the authorized
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-30
BY Universal Accord,

By Universal Accord,
AYERS CATHAITIC PILLS are the best
of all purSativeS for family use. They
are the product of long, laborious, and
successful chemical investigation, and
their extensive use, by physicians in
their practice, and by all civilized ma
tons, proves them the best and most
ettectual purgativc Pill that medical
science can devise. Being purely veg
etable no harm can arise from their
use, and being Sugar-coated, they are
pleasant to take. In intrinsic value
and curative powers no other Pills
can be compared with them; and every
person, knowing their virtues, will
employ them, when needed. They
keep the system in perfect order, and
maintain in healthy action the whole
machinery of life. Mild. searching and
effectual, they are especially adapted
to the needs of the digestive apparatus,
arrangements of which they prevent
and cure, if timely taken. They are
the best and safest phvSic to employ
for children and weakened conStitu-
tions, where a mild but efectual
cathartic is required.
For sale by all druggists.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-30

tressed by the report that this sacred
spot was about to be sold by the Turk
lsh authorities to Christian sect which
intended to build church upon it. At
last accounts the completion of the sale
had been deferred by Raouf Pacha at
the urgent solicitation of the spiritual
heads of the Jewish community. The
intending purchaser is said to be the
Archimandrite in Jerusalem, and the
price agreed upon is ESQ.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-30

j. ii. ShOrthOuse writes in Macmillan
of Washington Irving as one who, with
in the lines which he set himself and
which he never Overpassed, was per-
haps the most perfect humorist that
ever wrote. "The charm of humOr,'
says Mr.. ShOrthOuse, Consists not
merely in laughter, or even in JOY, but
in the stirring of those sympathies and
associations which exist invariably in
the race, for we inherit IA wOrd-life and
religion, the earth's springs of whose
realities lie, perchance, too deep fol
laughter, but not, Heaven be thanked
too deep for tears"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-30

On the ascent of the Mount of Olives
adjoining the Jewish Cemetery is a
plot of ground which has been pre-
served to the Jews from time immemo-
raj as the burial place of the Prophets
Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi. He
brews the world over have been dis
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-30
THE GOLDEN CROSS
pInMO On James River Va. in a northern
n AnIIlN settlement illustrated circular free.
j. FINANCIAL, ClaremOnt, Va. ts3

V0TT can have employment at home. daytime
lUU evening, whole time spare moments, in a
new business never advertised, entirely free from
anything of a 'humbug' ''catchpenny" nature.
The work is easily done at home; pedding or
travelling necessary. Men, Women, Boys and
Girls, anywhere can easily from SOC to - an
hour, if they only know how and get started right
If sent for at once. will reveal the SECRET
and send you IS SAMPLES free that will do to
commence work on. Send Toe (silverl OF four &c
stamps for postage and packing. Address plainly
MASON & co, Montpelier, Vt. sOs3
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-30
RowELL's ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE ATTENTION OF INVESTORS

Is called to the shares of THE GREAT PLAINS
LIVE STOCK COMPANY a means for the safe
and profitable investment of sums of $40 up. The
capital is 100 600 shares of $40 each full paid and
non assessable. Company chartered by general
laws of Colorado. Interest at the rate of 20 to so
per cent per annum, payable quarterly. The very
best reference for character and qualifications of
managers, with full particulars sent application
to The Great Plains Live took Co., Denver
Colorado. SO-S3
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-30
John Bright on OathS.

A letter from John Bright, which
was read at a recent meeting of the
Hebden Parliamentary Debating sOcie-
ty, England, contained the following
passage: son the question of Oaths
probably there is nothing in the New
Testament more especially condemned
and forbidden than oaths. To those
who do not care about the New Tesla
ment this fact will be of no weight.
The practice of swearing to the truth
of anything makes two kinds of truth
or truthfulness. If Oaths are of any
avail, by so much as they make truth
more certain, by so much they lessen
the value of any ordinary statement
and diminish the probability of its
truth. If ignorant persons are not
sworn they think they may tell lies
with impunity, and their lying is made
to large extent blameless in their
eyes. | think Oaths and oath making
have done more than any other thing
to impair and destroy a regard for
TRUTH
A law has passed the California leg
islature providing a new course of pro
cedure in murder trials in which the
plea of insanity is entered for the de-
fence. Under this law the defendant
is first examined for insanity. If prov
ed not insane, he shall be tried for
murder and the plea of insanity shall
constitute an aggravatiOn of his Of
fence. If proved insane he goes to the
madhOuse for life and cannot be re-
leased unless his sanity at the time of
the murder is proved, when he is re-
leased and tried for the murder. This
will put the murderer, sane or insane,
between the horns of an unpleasant di-
lemma, and may prevent some of the
cases of emotional insanity" in which
the murderer is insane only while he
commits the crime, and RECEIVERS soon
afterwards.
On the ascent of the Mount of Olives
adjoining the Jewish Cemetery is a
plot of ground which has been pre-
served to the Jews from time immemo-
raj as the burial place of the Prophets
l. n L \
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-30

The following will be of interest to
church-goers Having entered pew,
move along. Do not block up the end
of a pew as if you did not intend to
have any one else enter it, or as if YOU
were holding it for special friends. Do
not rise to let others in, but move
along and leave the pew invitingly
open, so that they will know that they
are welcome. If a pew holding six has
five already in it, do not file out in
formal procession to let one poor scared
woman go to the furthest end. but
move along, and let her sit down at the
end next to the aisle. 1t is not neces-
sary now for a man to sit at the end
ready to rush out and kill Indians. as
possibly it was once.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-30
LIFE SIZE PORTRAITS
Confined to house five weeks. ,

Clinton, Mass, Sept l. 1882.
After being confined to the house for five weeks
with very bad cold upon my lungs coughing
violently greater part of the time, and trying
all the different kinds of medicine, l procured a
% cent bottle of Kings Juniper Tar Cough Bal
sam its effect was wonderful; almost the first
dose produced relief and before twO-thrds of the
bottle was gone it effected permanent cure. No
family can afford to be without it.
Respectfully, X. X. DIAS.
Price, 35 and IS cents per bottle. Sold by j. A.
PAQUET & CO. Railroad Street. t.Jun22 80
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-30

ia DHH lion James River, Va. in a Northern
n a n W Nsettlement. Illustrated circular free
1 ulllHU F. MANCHA, Claremont, Va ts5
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-01-05
FEMALE BETTORS,

One thousand able bodied men of
quaint old Marblehead turned out
lately to witness the payment Of an
election wager. Since the days of
old Floyd Ireson the women OF Mar
blehead have been noted for mascu-
line tastes and energy. The town
gave the biggest plurality for Butler
of any town i'll the State $50 out Of
a total poll population of 15OO-yet
Mrs. Martha Chapman had the
temerity to make a wager against
Buffers election with Mrs. Hannah
Perry. The night the wager was
paid Mrs. Perry sat as gracefully
as circumstances would allow in a
wheelbarrow gayly decorated with
bunting and Chinese lanterns, and
preceded by Mrs. Moses Sweet bear
ing banner on which beneath a
lifelike picture of fighting cock was
inscribed, 1900 Clean Sweep" was
wheeled by Mrs. Chapman from her
residence on Front street, through
State street to the square, and
around the Town Hall and back,
amid the shouts and laughter of the
spectators.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-01-05

Curious History OF WILL.-One
has heard of wills written on bed
posts, concealed in hay lofts and
flower pots, and other possible and
impossible places; but probably no
will has ever passed through
stranger vicissitudes than one ad
mitted to probate yesterday by Sir
James Harmon. The testator was an
engineer on board a Channel steamer
and made his will giving everything
to his wife, and gave the will to her.
Some time afterward they had a
quarrel, during which she tore the
will up and threw the pieces into
the fire. The husband picked up the
pieces and put them into an envelope
labeled Poison" but said he would
make new one. However, several
years afterward he died of small pox
on his steamer, and on his clothes
being searched before burning, the
envelope with the pieces of the will
inside it was luckily found and given
to his wife. This brand plucked
from the burning has now been
pieced together and will be deposited
at Somerset House-a lesson to all
time to wives not to lose their
tempers too far, if they do not wish
also to lose their husbands property,
or to save it only by u lawsuit. : Pail
Mall Gazette.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-01-05
A WOMAN AND AC CUNTS.

II i a touching sight to see a
woman make M her expenses. having
firmly resolved to put down every
cent She spends 80 As to find out how
to economics and where all the money
goes. Procuring a small book she.
makes a due entry. and on the Mon
Iav after the first Saturday in which
her husband brings home his pay she
carefully tear. the margin off news
paper. and with blunt pencil strikes
a trial balance something in this way.
John brought me home as IS and.
Il 43 / had. is 50 %, and ~ %.
lent Mrs. Dixon is $50 O3 hold on.
ought not to enter that. because when
she returns it. it'll 60 down. That
was SO 93. and what have / done
with that!
Then she pnt down the figures,
leaving ont the items to save time
a process which enables her to leave
ont most of the items to where a
round sum is involved, on the sup
position that they have already been
put down. As thus:
Six dollars and fourteen cents for
meat. and ten cents for celery, and
ten cents ON the street cars, and bad
tive-cent piece got in exchange. and
- 81 | paid the milkman-who owes
me nineteen cents that's 81. and tif-
teen cents at church, and the grocer
ies-thev were either SIS 60 or SIG 50.
and l don't remember which they
were. but l guess it must have been
SIS 60. for the grocer said that if
would give him a dime he would give
me half dollar, which would make
even change. and l couldn't. because
the smallest | had was a quarter
and 81 IS for mcnding Katie's shoes.
which is the last money that shoe
maker ever gets from me. and ten
cents for celery-no, l put that down.
Finally she sums up her trial bal.
ance sheet. and finds that it foots up
$64 80. which is about SIS more than