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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-04-20

of running together-jumbling up-the
delicate and rapidly succeeding vocal
currents of the telephone, and either
mutfiing the articulation or creating
absolute silence. Five hundred miles
of land line would make little or no
difference on the distinctness of tele-
phonic message, supposing the wire to
be well insulated from the earth but
one hundred miles of ordinary sub-ma-
rine cable will probably be quite dumb.
Indeed, some experiments made by the
writer with DR.. Muirhead's artificial
cable, show that while the voice could
be family heard through a length
equivalent to fifty, or even sixty miles,
when it came to eighty miles no sound
at all was audible. The inductive re-
tardatiOn had frittered away and blot
ted out the delicate undulations of the
vocal currents. Telephone messages
have, however, been successfully sent
by cable across the Channel, and from
HOlyhead to Dublin but in no case
has the length of cable reached one
hundred miles. The dream of whis-
pering across the Atlantic under the
roaring forties" is likely to remain Il
dream for long time to come.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-04-20

A statue of Robert Fulton has re-
Gently been erected in the National
hall of statuary in the capitol, to rep
resent Pennsylvania. Robert Fulton
is generally credited with being the
inventor of the steamboat and by
many people he is also supposed ia
have been "a native of New York Both
of these notions are erroneous. He
was not the inventor of the steamboat
he was a native of Pennsylvania. The
inventor of the steamboat was John
Fitch. This remarkable man, a native
of that part of old Windsor that is on
the east side of the Connecticut river,
and is now included in the newer town
ship of South Windsor, conceived the
idea of a steamboat while living in
Philadelphia, in l7S4, twenty three
years before Fulton started his boat.
Fitch went ahead with his idea-peti-
toned congress in 1885 for aid to build
his vessel, and submitted his model to
the American Philosophical society of
Philadelphia. He received some as
sistance from individuals, went ahead.
built Il boat, "The Perseverance" and
had it in actual operation, on the Della
ware, on the lst of May, 1887. His
engine was the first double acting con-
densing engine, transmitting power by
means of cranks, ever constructed.
The boat made several trips up and
down the river but, owing to the
difficulty of keeping the piston tight
against the comparatively rongh inte-
riOr surface of the cylinder, the rate
was slow, only three miles an hour.
Fitch then improved it, so that in l7SS
it made eight miles per hour. 1t was
then put into regular business use, on
the Delaware. Fulton saw it-and in
a later year saw Fitch's model in Paris.
where the inventor had taken it in the
vain hope of getting French artisans to
build steamer. Fulton, who unlike
Fitch, had the important aid of wealthy
friends, failed in the invention of a
submarine torpedo boat. Then he I'M
dertOOk, some seventeen years after
Fitch's triumphant demonstration on
the Delaware, to make IL steamboat to
ply on the Seine, at Paris but it
proved a total failure. He then went
to England and Scotland and studied
up the mechanism of Il steam canal
towbOat, which, built on IA wrong prin-
ciple, was trying to do work on the
Clyde. Having the means, he bought
powerful engine, of Watts invention,
in England, in 1906, and sent it to the
United States, where, in 1907, he got
it at work in the first Hudson river
steamer, the ClermOnt. This boat
made five miles an hour, up stream
not equal to Fitch's boat on tho Della
ware, twenty years before. But Fitch
was poor, and destined always to bit
ter trials and disappointments. Fulton
had powerful friends, and obtained,
unjustly, the credit of being the inven-
tor of the steamboat. Fitch died in
disappointment and obscurity, in Ken
lucky, by an overdose of opium Full
ton goes into the hall of statuary
in the capitol. But. history will yet
right this matter and do justice to
John Fitch. - Hartford Times.
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The IncOncIusive Novel.

confess that | am harrassed with
the incomplete romances, that leave
me, when the book is closed, as one
might be on waste plain at midnight,
abandoned by his conductor, and with
ont lantern. | am tired of accom-
panying people for hours through dis
standing, only to see them lost in
thick mist at last. | am weary OF
going to funerals, which are not my
funerals, however chatty and amusing
the undertaken may be. IcOnfess that
| should like to see again the lovely
heroine, the sweet woman, capable OF
Il great passion and a great sacrifice
and do not object if the novelist tries
her to the verge of endurance, in ago
nies of mind and in perils, subjecting
her to wasting sicknesses even, if he
only brings her out at the end in q
blissful compensation of her troubles
and endued with new and sweetei
charm. No doubt it is better for us all
that in the novel of society the destiny
should be decided by character. What
an artistic and righteous cOnsummatior
it is when we meet the shrewd and
tinental gaming tables, and feel that
there was no other logical end for tn,
worldly and fascinating Beatrix OF
Henry EsmOnd 1t is one of the great
privileges of fiction to right the wrong.
of life, to do justice to the deserving
and the vicious. 1t is wholesome fOl
us to contemplate this justice, even il
we do not often see it in society. 1t il
true that hypocrisy and vulgar self
seeking often succeed in life, occupy
high places, and make their exit in the
pageantry of hOnOred obsequies. Yet
always the man is conscious of the hol
lOwness of his triumph, and the wOrlC
takes a pretty accurate measure of it
1t is the privilege of the novelist, with
out introducing into such career what
is called disaster, to satisfy our innat,
love of justice by letting us see th'
true nature of such prosperity. Tn,
lives in luxury and splendOr, and die
in the Odor of respectability. His poo
and honest neighbor, whom he ha
wronged and defrauded, lives in miserl
and dies in disappointment and penu
~. The novelist cannot reverse tn
/ facts without such shock to our ex
| perience as shall destroy for us tn
artistic value of his fiction, and brini
upon his work the deserved reprOacl
of indiscriminately ''rewarding tn
good and furnishing the bad" Bu
we have right to ask that he shall re
veal the real heart and character O
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-04-20

the little Elizabeth. The COW was i'm
mediately lifted by me, and the song
completed" kathleen MavOurneen''
was sold by Crouch, the author, for
S25, and brought the publishers as
many thousands. Crouch was hope
lessly improvident, ana in his latter
days became a tramp. When Nine.
Titiens was in this country Il number
of years ago she sung kathleen Ma
vOurneen" in New York, when dirty
tramp introduced himself as Crouch,
was recognized, and thanked her for
singing the song so well. Bonnie
Doom" was the only English song that
the Emperor Napoleon liked. "I'H
Hang my Harp on Willow Tree" is
said to have been written by IA young
English nobleman in love with the
Princess (now Queen) Victoria. can
ME Laurie" is 200 years old, and was
the production of man named Doug
lass to celebrate the praise of girl
named Laurie. The lady afterward
deserted the man who had made her
famous, and married man named
Ferguson. "Sally in our Alley was
written by Carey, the dramatist.-[St.
Louis Republican. -.
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there Is ''chug chug" motion far from
pleasant. 1t does not roll as ours do
smoothly and easily, but gives an un-
| pleasant idea that there is a mechani-
cal antagOnism between wheels and
rails.
As for speed, the average is not high
er than our own; and when the road
bed, weight of rail, solidity and
smOothness are compared, there is no
perceptible advantage over It's. In fact.
if it did not look like bOasting | would
say that there is no road in all England
to he compared to the Pennsylvania
and many other roads out of New York.
To see an English train pull out with
its inclosed locomotive with a smoke
stack about twelve inches in diameter,
hear its thin, puny whistle and see the
short, bobbing, low-ToOfed, narrow, lit
tie ears, make it all seem like playing
at railroad. There is no dignity in it,
no idea of power, as when one of our
pondeFous locomotives gives its deep
basso dough and its whistle raises YOU
right ORt of your boots and inspires you
with a-sanguinary desire to cut the en-
gineer's throat. English roads cost
double what ours do, and one cannot
see where the superiority comes in. If
we expended as much money on our
roads they would be too luxurious the
whole community would break loose
and travel continually; nobody would
stay at home
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-04-20
Brother Gardner on Lawyers.

each day as look Ober my paper"
said the old man as the lights were
turned up, 81 see a case of embeZZle-
ment, wholesale robbery, breach of
trust or misuse of odder peoples mon
ey. One day it am de cashier of a
bank de mex day it am city or
county treasurer de mex it am some
confidenshul clerk or bank president,
or de teasurer of some corporation II
is an era of stealin' an embezzlin' an
fraud. No man who has money in de
hand of friend or employee feels safe
No man who depends upon another
man knows what a day may bring
forth"
"What brung bout dis state of af-
fairs ? Who profits by it Who aids
de offenders to escape p
There was silence throughout the hall
as the president paused and looked up
and down. Samuel Shin was about to
rise up and explain that he hadn't made
a dollar out of it yet, and didn't expect
to, when Pickles Smith hit him with
the big end of a potato and Brother
Gardner continued:
81 arraign de bar of de kentry an
charge de lawyers, big an little, wild
bein' de direct cause of dis reign of
knavery. Three men outer five am
honest only until der am a chance to
make haul by bein' dishonest. One
man outer three will be dishonest on
all occasions whar dar am a chance to
escape consequences. If dar was no
law to punish dishonesty, we wouldn't
find one man i'll twenty dOin' de honest
thing for principles sake. 1t am de
fear of consequences which keeps
thousands eff clerks an cashiers an
treasurers honest.
can what do de lawyers say to eb-
cry man whose fingers itch to make a
haul ? Dey might as well advertise at
reg'lar rates dat dey will guarantee to
clear 'em of de law for a sartin. Let
me steal S75, 900 in cash an nine-tenths
of the lawyers of Detroit will be eager
to defend me-IO effect a compromi>e
to hush it up to clear me of punish
ment. About de best legal talent in
America makes a speciality of defend
in criminals. Any lawyer am looked up
on as good huff fur prOsecutin' attor-
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The Methodist Ministry.

The New York Tribune, in speaking
of the annual conferences of the NJ. f
church, has the following on the min
istry of the denomination The most
striking thing about these conferences
of ministers is that the ideally least
desirable ministry is the only one that
is crowded. Every outsider says land
many insiders cOncur) that the rotary
system is Il hardship to tine pastors
No one can serve a church more than
three years. The rule is infiexible and
has been burlesqued as "a great iron
wheel" There are pastors who COM
plain, and pastors who go out. Two
excellent men leave the New York
East conference for the Episcopal min
istry this year. They are pastors OF
high grade, but they will no more be
missed than two grains of sand would
be missed by sandbank. The CON
ferences are crowded young men
stand waiting at the doors. 1t is a
hard matter to find supporting church.
es for all the effective pastors. This is
true all over the country, until the
most sparsely settled regions are
reached, and then the only question is
one of support. Given modest salary,
a Methodist bishop will always find a
man. Other churches complain that
they have an inadequate number of
pastors. The subject is discussed in
their periodicals.. Grave articles ap-
pear in the quarterlies deplOring the
fact that young men no longer enter
the ministry. But here is the largest
Christian denomination of the country
,ttl tl.In to, .,tn Ill.
unknown in other churches-a hard
ship which is believed to render that
ministry SO undesirable that bright
men would be expected to shun it
and this ministry is overlooking. There
are probably five hundred first-class
Methodist ministers who are not in
pastoral service, but weuld be if theI e
were need of them. Bright, strong
men go into this ministry and stay
there.
We believe this fact and contrast to
be one of the problems that somebody
should go up to the blackboard and
solve. The usual answers are un-
satisfactory. One is that each pastor
in MethOdism is always given place
1t is formally but not literally true
For some are for some reason standing
idle, or, what is practically the same,
otherwise employed. Beside, this mo-
tive would not tempt strong men, and
the Methodist ministry is full of strong
men, and its average of pulpit ability
is not below that of other churches.
The Methodists themselves give no
satisfactory solution. We conjecture
that the solution lies back in something
behind the forms of ministry. Bishop
Warren'S address to the East New York
conference candidates for admission
seemed to suggest a solution. He
spoke in eloquent terms of the solidari-
ty of the Methodist ministry. 1t is
compact; the sense of fellowship is
clear, strong, winsome. May it not be
that this sense of having helping and
loving arms all about One-this keen
consciousness of brotherhood makes
the Methodist ministry warmer and
sweeter to the pastors than a settled
ministry could be 4?
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-04-20

ney, while de very keenest talent am
reserved for defense of thieves, bur
glars, and odder law breakers
Time after time men have stolen or
embezzled, an de lawyers have taken
sheer of de plumber to clear 'em.
We've had half "a dozen cases right we're
within two Vars, an we am sartin to
have mo-. Let me steal n ton of coal,
an up go. Let me get my claws on
S5O,OOO an | dOan' go up for shucks. |
may he rested an toted off to iail. but
inside of week de case am settled up,
an | walk de streets hero. De law
yers return $4,000 of de money, pOck-
ct S9,95O an han me fifty as IA reward
fur bringin' IN fat case
Suppose it war known dat eberv
burglar fairly convicted would receive
twenty years in prison, wild no possibil-
ity of pardon, would we have one burg
lar whar' we now have two ? Who
makes burglary payin' purfeshun
De lawyer"
"lf clerk who embezzled was sar-
tin to receive a five or ten years SEN
tence how many cases of embezzlement
would you h'ar of in II year ? An who
makes embezzlement payin' businessR
De lawyer"
"lf dat Rochester bank president am
sent to state prison for twenty years
what will be de etfeck on odder Roch-
ester bank presidents ? But he won't
be. De lawyers have gathered to his
aid, an will defeat Justice"
81 am spokin' what believe to be de
solemn truf, when say to you that law
has become farce, an lawyers de mid
dlemen between robbers an de robbed.
De question am how to break de law
not how to enforce it. 1t am not how
to put thief into prison, but how to
keep him out. 1t am not how to pun
lsh dishonest officials, but how to gent
ly squeeze out as much as he can re-
store, an forgive de remainder. Let
us purceed to bizness, feelin' dat what
ever crimes we commit we STAN two
chances of goin' clear to one of punish
ment.-L Detroit Free Press.
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st. Johnsbury Church Directory.

AdVeHt-Paddock Village Preaching by Rev
Cbas Earl Preston of Bristol, K. L. Sabbath Ser
vices at 1890 a. M las and $3.50 p. IN SabbatI
School 10 M. Prayer Meetings at 736 d m Sunday
Tuesday and Friday evenings.
BdptaSt-Railroad Street. Corner Maple Rev
e l. Sandford Pastor. Preaching 1880 \ NJ s
School IL NJ Prayer meeting $50. PRAYER meet
ing Wednesday evening at 7:3O.
Free BGptist-Main Street. Corner Prospect
Rev II. Lockhart Pastor. Sabbath services, 1890
A. NJ, and 6:30 P NJ. Sabbath School at 10 NJ PraveT
meeting Wednesday evening at 7:3O
Church Of the Messidh-( (UniversalistD Eastern
avenue corner Cherry street. Rev. B. NJ. Tillot.
son, Pastor. Sabbath services at las P NJ
Sabbath School at IL N. Wednesday evening meet
ing at 1880.
Methodist-Central street. Rev E. W. Culver.
Pastor Residence next to the Church. Sab
bath servIces at 1890 A; NJ, and 63O P NJ. Sabbath
School at IL NJ. Wednesday evening meeting at
7:3O.
North CongregahonaL-Main street, corner of
Church. Rev. Henry W. jones' Pastor. Sabbath
at 1880.
South Congregational-Main street Rev. Ed
ward T. Fairbanks Pastor. sabbath services at
1890 A. M and 63O p. N. Sabbath School at - NJ.
Wednesday evening meeting at 7:3O.
PrssbyteridH Church-Rev. W. X. Laird pas.
tor Services ,rie at PGesbyterian Hall every Sab
PRAYER meeting Gao Bible reaJin zoU
evening 7:3O.
st. 4ndreWs-( Episcopal) Main street Rev.
r. > Fisher Rector. Services ON Sundays at
1880 a. IN. and p. III. Wednesdays at 7:3O o. m
Sunday School at l2 m.
Roman Odtholic-Cherry Street Rev. j. A.
Boissonnault. Parish Priest. Mass and 10 a. IN .
VespeTs and Benediction at 3 p. m. On the
second Sunday of the month, service at $50 a. M.
and p. III. At LyndOnville same day at 1890 a. m.
Y. II. @. A.-Meetings at the hall of the Y. NJ C.
\, Main street, Sunday mornings at $50, Satur-
day evenings at 7.3O. Young Mems meeting Sun
day at $50 p. IN. Noon meeting every day at
rooms ON Eastern avenue.
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Limits Of Telephone Action.
From Chambers's Journal. /

The power of the telephone to trans
init the voice to long distances is init
mately connected with its delicacy.
Willoughby Smith has found by exper-
iment that ii telephone will work
through a ''resistance" of wire CORE
spending to 900 miles of telegraph
line: and hence it would seem mere
chiId's play to fulfill the words of the
poet, and "waft a sigh from Indus to
the Pole" But this was only a labO-
ratOry experiment; for on actual tele-
graph lines the leakage of electricity
from the wire to the ground, damp,
and other drawbacks, render the trans
mission of speech by wire far less easy
in practice than was at first supposed.
Nevertheless, it is on record that Mr..
Edison transmitted speech over a line
80 miles long in America; and con-
veTsatiOn has been carried on over 800
miles i'll India 800 miles, from Tabriz,
in Persia, to Tiflis: and 300 miles in
SPAN, Australia, and other places
where the atmosphere is dry and pure.
In England we have not been able to
work through such long circuits, owing
to the wetness of the atmosphere but
Mr.. Van Rysselberghe, the ingenious
chief OF the meteorological observatory
at Brussels, has telephoned from that
city to Paris, distance of 2I5 miles :
and this while the same wire was car
rying simultaneously an ordinary
Morse telegIaphic message. By pc
culiar disposition of his apparatus, Mr..
Van Rysselberghe spoke to Paris by tel
ephone without any interference from
the Morse signals that were traversing
the identical wire at the same time.
The day after the bombardment OF
Alexandria, it was announced in the
London papers that the noise of the
guns had been heard at Malta by tele-
phone through 1000 miles of sub-ma-
rine cable. Experienced electrician,
took the statement with a grain of salt
because they knew that "A submarine
cable differs from a land-telegrapl
wire IN the greater rctarding effec
which 1t has on electric currents trav
cling along it. A cable has the effec
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-04-20
Remedy for Headache.

A new remedy for the headache has
been found by DR.. Haley, an Austral-
ian physician, who says that for some
years past he has found minimum dos
es of iOdide of potassium of great ser
vice in frontal headache that is, "A
heavy, dull headache, situated over the
brow, and accompanied by languOr,
chilliness and a feeling of general dis
comfort, with distaste for food, which
sometimes approaches to nausea, can
be completely removed by a wO-grain
dose dissolved in half wineglassful of
water, and this quietly slipped, the
whole quantity being taken in about
ten minutes. In many cases, he adds,
the effect of these small doses has been
simply wonderful, ul,-as, for instance, a
person who quarter of an hour
before was feeling most miserable, and
refused all food, wishing only for quiet
ness, would now take good meal and
resume his wOnted cheerfulness. If
this cure of DR.. Haley's is in reality a
practical one, he will merit for the dis
cOvery the gratitude of suffering mil
lions
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-04-20
The Gathering Place.

Life changes all our thoughts of heaven;
At first we think of streets of gold
tfwalls as white as snow, wind-driven,
Of lofty arches, grandly cold,
OF gates of pearl and dazzling light,
OF shining wings and robes of white,
And things all strange to mortal sight.
But in the afterward of years
1t is a more familiar place;
A home unhurt by sighs and tears
Where waiteth many a well-known face
Where little children play and sing
And maidens and the old men bring
Their tributes to the gracious King
With passing months it comes more near,
1t grows more real day by day;
Not strange or cold, but very dear,
The glad homeland not tar awayl
Where no sea toucheth, making moan,
Where none are poor, or sick, or lone,
The place where We shall find our ownl
And as We think of all we knew
Who there have met and part no more
Our longing hearts desire home too.
With all the strife and trouble DER.
SO poor the world now they have gone,
We scarcely dare to think upon
The years before our rest is won.
And yet our Father knOweth best
The Joy OF sadness that we need,
The time when we may take our rest,
And be from sin and sorrow freed.
So We will wait with patient grace,
Till in that blessed gathering place
We meet our friends and see His face.
-ILondon Christian Worke
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VOLUME 46---NUMBER 1886.

this passing show of life; for not to do
this, to content himself merely with
exterior appearances, is for the maiOri-
ty of his readers to efface the lines be-
tween virtue and vice. And we ask
this not for the sake of the moral les
son, but because not to do it is, to our
deep consciousness, inartistic and I'M
true to our judgment of life as it goes
on Charles Dudley Warner in At
lantic Monthly.
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st. Johnsbury Post Office.

Commencing Oct 9, the mails will close at the
Post Office follows:
Passumpsc K. K. Way Mail, South 9 30 a. III
No. Danville 9 30 a. III
st. j. q l.. &. X. X. Way Mail, East, 2.15 p. m
st. j. q L. c. r. K. Way Mail, West. 23O D. m
Montpelier & W. River, r. X Way Mail 23O y. III
Passumpsic X. X. Way Mail. North, 43O p. m
West Concord and st. JOhnsbury East. $50 III
Waterford, W. Watfd and L. Watfd, 4.30 p. M
Boston, New York, Conn. X. Val. Mail 500 p. IN
Central Vermont K K. Way Mail 500 y. III
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 Q a. IN. and 30 D. m
CHAS p. CARPENTER 2d. P. NJ.
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East st. JOhnsbury.

CongregdtionGl.-Rev. F. b. Phelps Pastor
Sunday services at 10 45 a. III. and 6 30 D. IN. Sab
bath school at 100. Wednesday evening meeting
at $50.
MethOdist-Rev. W. b. Worthng Pastor. sun
day services at 100 p. IN.
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Western Union and VI. InternationaL-in ST.
Johnsbury House Open from m to p. II.
Sundays, to 10 a. m, to p. IN. Night messages