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IT Is known that Governor Butler, of Mass
achusetts, greatly affects Harvard's degree of
IL. D., which is usually conferred on Gov
errors Of the commonwealth. 1t being thus
to some extent an imprescriPtible right, it is
not supposed his turbulent excelency will be
made an exception. Gubernatoral elections
in Massachusetts are annual, and with his
new degree we are satisfied DIR. Butter will
take the State for another year, and perhaps
run it altogether.
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TUESDAY, MAY 8. 1888.
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IATIoN.

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3 inches times the price of / with 2Oper cent on
8 inches q times inch, % per cent on, 1000
8 inches, 3 mos ~ 90 inches mos. 'ISVOo
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-22
A Wonderful Woman.

A curiosity with Doris show, that
exhibits at St. Johnsbury on the 2Sth,
will be twO-headed lady, Millie
Christine. She is light mulatto, and
was born in North Carolina in 1851, of
slave parents, who were the property
of the father of her present manager,
Joseph Smith. Miss MillH is a little
below the medium height, and posses
ses two perfect and splendid looking
heads, as well as busts. The bond OF
union begins at the waist and extends
downward, her two bodies being near
ly back to back. Above the waist she
is essentially two, but below the waist
she has but one physical organization.
She has four arms and four lower limbs,
walking on two or four feet at will.
Although two distinct persons mental
ly, she invariably speaks of herself and
is addressed i'll the singular number.
Both heads seem to be precisely equal
in intellectual attainments. A person
may open Il conversation with one
head, and the other for time will ap-
pear listless, when suddenly the head
that began the talking will cease, and
the one which appeared Indifferent will
Aalh' ~ Nilt Nhi'fi'l W lltlt lIlt blutl ltlN
off. Both heads agree entirely in ev-
erything, which is an argument ad-
vanced 10y some scientists that she is
but one intellectually, as well as phys
ically. BE that as it may, her mental
faculties and process of thought form a
most profound metaphysical problem
Miss Milie has Il most bright and hap
py appearance, and altogether is "A pre-
possessing lady that one rarely meets
Her extensive travels in European
countries have given her an air of non
chalance that is quite pleasing. HeI
conversational powers are of a brilliant
character. Aside from speaking the
best and purest English, she speaks
tluently and accurately German
French, Spanish and Italian. Mis-,
Mifiie sings charmingly, one voice be-
ing contralto and the other sopra-
no. She sings with one voice or botl
at will.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-22
Advice TO "a Young Man.

Don't lose your grip, my boy. Hold
on to yourself, and believe in your des-
tiny. There are times in the life of
every man, | suppose, when he won
ders if life is worth living when he
balances the good and evil in this
world, the pain and pleasure, the
wrong and the justice, the happiness
and the suffering, and despairingly
thinks the black side is the broadcast,
and there isn't enough good in life to
make it desirable. He thinks ''the
earth is given into the hands of the
wicked :" he sees that ''man is born
unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward"
THE wicked live, become old, yea are
mighty in power" while wisdom crieth
in the streets, homeless as tramp and
friendless as last years candidate {;
he sees the wicked man spread himself
like a green bay tree with IA home in
town, "A cottage at Cape May and "A
shooting box i'll the mountains and
only pay thirty cents on the dollar,
while honest industry pays cash for
his hickory shirt and Overalls and digs
in the street for $50 day. Then
there is little struggle, and if he is Il
man worth living, he Is going to live.
If he has a manly belief in life and its
responsibilities if he has IA manly faith
that he was put on this planet with a
mission nobler than his back and stom-
ach, destiny beyond two changes OF
raiment and three meals a day, he
will face his troubles like man, and
buffet them aside like the waves of an
angry stream, though year after year
they double and beat and break upon
him. He grows into a giant while he
faces them he develops a rugged
grandeur of manhood, and he will not
measure life by the narrow boundaries
of the cradle and the grave. A man
should be the best judge of his OWL
worth, and when lie kills himself he
must know whether OF not he didn'
need killing. He must know, especial
| ly If he he a young man, that killing
was about all he was good for. Suicid,
is a cOwardly way of getting rid o
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-22
Our GramdfatherS and Grand
mothers.

In spite of their ignorance of santa
ry laws and their disregard in practice
of all the rules of hygiene, lived to
robust old age in the enjoyment of
vigorous health. They lived on salt
provisions, with pies and doughnuts
for delicacies, scarcely knew the use of
Il gridirOn, fried their meat or boiled it.
kept open ceSspOOls under their win
dOws, and drew from the old oaken
bucket Il beverage which was in gen
eral so polluted with surface drainage
and with the contents of the neighbOr-
ing house drains that II modern sani-
tartan would pronounce it little better
than poison. But our stalwart ances-
tors knew nothing of these dangers,
and, happy i'll their ignorance, are ad-
mitted to have been more hardy, pro-
life and longlived than their descend
ants who have the benefit of all the
recent discoveries of sanitary science
Now the frying-pan is prescribed, pies
and dOughnuts are pronounced indi-
geStible and unwhOlesome, and the
family bill of fare has been revised on
scientific principles. Boards of health
investigate wells, and frighten house
holders with the announcement that
their water contains SO large a percent
age of organic matter, free chlorine
and nitrates as to he unfit for use. The
way in which our ancestors disposed of
their household drainage are pro-
nOunced wholly incompatible with IL
moderate regard for health, and sys-
TENS said to be great improvements on
ancient practices are introduced.
Every town must have its supply of
pure water drawn from distant ponds
or springs, at great expense, and as
necessary consequence its system of
sewerage to get rid of the water and
the impurities it acquires in use. Then
comes the discovery that the sources
of supply are themselves contaminat-
ed to dangerous extent, and that
water pure enough to be used with
safety as beverage is scarcely to be
found i'll any long inhabited region,
and that the sewers corrupt the streams
into which they flow, and through them
poison the air, breeding malarial dis
eases. All this is very discOuraging
1t seems that the knowledge of the CON
ditions of healthful living is incOmpat-
ible with so high Il degree of vigOr and
longevity as prevailed before these
conditions were known or regarded,
and that the attempt to live according
to the rules of hygienic and sanitary
science is gradually making the earth
uninhabtable.-[ Worcester Spy.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-22
VOLUME 46---NUMBER 1895.

lite's duties and responsibilities and
labor. A Brutus would fall upon his
own sword, rather than endure the
contempt of victor, the disgrace of
an enemy'S triumph. But Beecher,
facing trial that would appal the soul
of man of iron, lives grandly on,
without turning away his face or
swerving one foot from his path lives
to finish his work. to see his enemies
scattered and humbled, while his viii
tening hair covers his old temples with
honor. My boy, your burden will
never be so heavy that you cannot bear
1t. When it weighs beyond your
strength it will be taken away from
you, or you will he taken away from
the burden. But don't throw it down
by throwing yourself away.
think | never but once thought life
was too grievOus to be lived any long
er. The dark thought, IA blight of
wlckedness, came into my soul one day.
when | was half way up the gloomy
stairway that led to a dentists hospita-
BILE Darlor halioua tho raSt of the
way up that stairway of grOans, want
ed to die. And when the dentist, after
careful examination of Il semi-circle
of anguish that pervaded my mouth,
he told me he would have to extract
three and fill eight, felt that if | died
in that chair, all the martyrs who had
sung their triumphant way to death in
the hungry flames, in the cages of wild
beasts, in prison dens and at the edge
of the sword, would get out of the way
and hide and cOyer their abashed faces
when they saw me coming. Honestly,
my boy, that is about the way felt.
But after all, my martyrdom did not
amount to much. Thousands of COM
mon place people endure more suffer
ing every day, than you and have
passed through in all our lives. BE
brave, my boy. Look your troubles in
the face measure them by the suffer
ings of the early Christians, and you'll
he ashamed to grumble or groan.-
Burdette, in Hawkeye.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-22
HOminy and Arnica.

An old darky came into an Austin
drug store with his head bandaged up
and groaning as if every bone in his
body was broken.
whats the matter ?" asked the drug
clerk
eve have had the berry debble of a
time, me and de old woman, battering
each udder wild de chairs and sich."
''Well, what do you want ?"
eve needs some anarchy. Oar aint
no anarchy in de house. De bottle got
smashed in de fuss, and de anarchy
spilled all ober de floor"
''lf you had more harmony i'll your
house there would be less anarchy" re-
marked the drug clerk, smiling, as he
filled small bottle of arnica.
''Gou am right, boss. OATS jes what
de fuss was about. De reason we needs
anarchy is bekase dar was no hOminy
in de house, and dat's why de old wO-
man hit me wild de chair Texas
Siftings.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-22

were found living in an open shed un-
lit even for cattle, and have no means
of support whatever. Another family
of twelve dwelt for three nights after
eviction under miserable roof which
was made out of sticks and straw.
They then went to the house of "A
friend, who did not let them remain
long for fear of the bailiff. A man.
wife and five children were found
grouped round small fire in "A sand
pit without any protection at all One
family of six were living in a barn, the
mother sick and keeping warm over a
fire beside ditch in the open air. In
one case the husband had gone to Eng
land, while IA nine years old child had
managed to build hut for his mother
and little brothers and sisters. In
many cases rude sheds were construct
ed, but often whole families with little
children were compelled to live beside
fire in IA ditch or an enbankment with
no possible protection from the wealth
er, often only partially clothed, pre-
sentinG revnlting and he,-t -e.i;~ss
SiUht
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-22
The Mortgage.

We worked through spring and winter, through
summer and through fall.
But the mortgage worked the hardest and the
steadiest of all;
1t worked on nights and Sundays; it worked each
holiday;
1t settled down among u.s. and it never went away
Whatever we kept from it seemed Almost as bad as
theft;
1t watched US every minute. and it ruled us right
and left
The rust and blight were with us sometimes and
sometimes not;
The dark-browed seowling mortgage was forever
on the spot;
The weevil and the cut-worm, they went as well
came;
The mortgage stayed forever eating hearty all the
same
1t nailed up every window, stood guard at every
door
And happiness and sunshine made their home with
us more
Till with failing crops and sickness we got stalled
apon the grade,
And there came a dark day when the interest
wasn't paid;
And jhere a sharp foreclosure and kind o.
lost my hold
And grew weary and discouraged and the farm
cheaply sold.
The children left and scattered, when they hardly
yet we're grown;
My wife she pned an persisted, an l found my
self alOne.
What she lied of "a mystery" an the doctors
never knew;
But knew she died of mortgage-iust as wells
red to-
If to trace a hidden sorrow were within the doc
tors art,
They'd ha found a mortgage lying that wom-
ans broken heart
Worm or beetle, drought or tempest. a farmers
land may fall
But for irstclass ruinaton, trust a mortgage
'gaiIst them all.
VIII N Gnrlntnr
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-22

A revolving story of want comes from
the parish of Curry, Ire, when all the
tenants upon the Knox estate were re-
Gently evicted. A relief committee
having been sent there, they report in
detail the condition of the sufferers.
One family, including seven children,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-22

from the hands of the maker than the
human eye. But we much doubt
whether eyes nowadays are being I'M
proved by use. We are inclined to the
doctrine of eye degeneration, ard ear
nestly claim that the eye has full right
to come in for its share of sanitary care
and to seek to find its way back to that
perfection with which it was originally
endowed \. Y. independents.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-22
Largest Show
IN THE WORLD,
So that thousands of DcoDle may
WAIT FOR FOREPAUGH

As they do everywhere when it is
known that | am on the way with my
big show. If | did not let the people
know that | was coming, some would
he led into throwing their money away
on the small affairs that 90 about de
ceiving the people. For am sOr1'y to
say that some Showmen, who are not
an honor to the fraternity, borrow the
best lines of their advertisements from
my announcements, or give free rein to
their imaginatiOnS. Below will he
found a list of my appointments in the
state of NERMONT, each of which
will he kept, and every promise and
induccmemt held forth lived up to.
know that have got the very best
show that ever existed, and | want
every one else to know it and profit 10y
the knowledge. Iou can best Judge
of the calibre of the shows advertised
to appear in this State, when | say
that
My Expenses are daily as great as
the Receipts of any two, and that my
receipts are as much in two days as two
shows take in a week. I employ twice
as many men as two shows, and show
three times as many performers and
musicians as two shows put together.
Use three times as many railway cars,
and have the only show that will visit
this state this year with more than one
train of cars.
I
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-22
HOTEL WELLESLEY,
WELLEsLEY

W ELLEsLEN. MASS
nm be opened May 25th under the management
Of Mr. Tyler B. Gaskin for many wears one Of the
Pi"phetDrs oi the Revere aud fremont houses, IN
6ost3h. anu more recently Of the Grand Pacific
Of Nj Gaskill a manager OF I.,ding hotel. is A
proof That be van conduct the Wellesley as it has
never never DeSn maintained betore. Applications for
street
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-22
THE ONLY MILLION DOLLAR SHOW COMM

Mastodonic Menagerie.
Trained Lions.
Red and Grey Kangaroos.
Largest Giraffe ever seen.
Leviatham HippOtamus.
Double Horned Unicorn.
Animal Actors.
First Genuine Zebra Seen.
only Man faced Gorilla.
Peerless Pageant Cleopatra.
Scenes of Splendor and Beauty
Lalla Rookh Leaving Delhi.
Guards of Kedar Kahn.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-22
EVENT OF THE SEASON.

Mills, Shops and Factories of all kinds
''shut down." Colleges, Seminaries and
Schools are closed, and bosses and help.
teachers and pupils, rich and poor, old
and young, all unite in the observation
of FOREPAUGH DAY. Excursion
trains on all lines of travel, and special
Inducements Offered
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-22

The Light Of the Harem.
Costumes from Paris and London.
Slave Singing Band.
More Costly ChariOts than any Show.
More Massive Dens than any Show.
Museum of Marvels.
Giants, Dwarfs.
Wonders from Everywhere.
Bolivar, the Heaviest and HandsOmest
Elephant.
Seats tor $1,000.
Independence Drum and Fife Corps
Great Herd of Albino-eyed Cattle.
me Monsters.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-22

The advent of the Forepaugh Show is
everywhere recognized as the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-22
FULL PARTICULARS

will be promulgated in due season by
FoREPAUGH's ONE HUNDRED AGENTS.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-22
ST, c9Ohnsburn (alrdunian.
G. NJ. STONE & CO,

PUBLISHERS.
Opposite the Athen8um, St. Johnsbury, VT.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-06-22
ADVANCE TRIMS OF rHK CALIFORNIAN:

3F' ''' W "'''''' '''' Ct 'iN'iS w 'h' N0ai'
lV No Cuts inserted No objectionable adpertise-
1nenis receired and nothing bit legitimate business
ADVERTISING solicited.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-02-10
The Jersey Lily.

We were fortunate enough to see the
famous beauty, Mrs. Langtry, at
Nashville last Monday night, in San
Unequal match" We failed to dis
cover anything strikingly beautiful
about this wonderful star, save one of
her costumes. She is simply woman
of splendid form, pretty aud attract
i've face. pair of clear, bright eyes,
fresh, pure complexion, a graceful car
riage and a charming manner, but
there are plenty women in Tennessee
who can equal her in all these graces
and surpass her in some. She shows
to the best advantage in profile, the
position in which most of the pictures
of her are taken, her countenance be-
ing rather open for a pretty front face
view. e., there is most too much
opening for mouth to leave much room
for beauty. Her voice was far from
good, though at this time she was suf-
fering from severe cold, which might
have affected that to some degree.
We considered her acting and that of
her entire support decidedly tame. 1t
is said there has been considerable i'm
provement in her acting since she
came to America. If this be true,
how those New Workers who paid such
fancy prices for seats must have been
sold. Taken altogether and viewed
in the light of our exceedingly limited
knowledge of the stage and its attrac'
tiOns, Mrs. Langtry and her little show
is gigantic humbug, very large
bubble of aesthetic nothingness but
then, the heighth of estheticism with
| AWeTlCdtS nOW StculS W NC W iudhc
themselves the biggest fools on the
globe over humbugs.
And we saw Freddy" too, or al
least the individual who was palmed
of on the Nashville bloods as FREDDY
He stood about six feet three in hi;
boots, wore very consequential air, q
fifteen-dollar suit of clothes, an enor
NOUS ulster, pair of eyeglasses,
cedar.blonde moustache and white
eyebrows, and was just about as hand
some as new stack chimney out il
the barrens.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-02-10

Attic residence of Mr.. VIM. Truett,
brother-in law to the bride, in East
Nashville, Mondsy evening, Feb. 9th,
1883, by Rev. DR.. j. W. Hunter, MIR.
A. l.. Snow to Mrs. LAURA G. WooD.
LEE, both of this place.
The new bride and groom reached
home on Tuesday evening, and we're
given a most pleasant reception and
supper at the refidence of DR.. W. H.
Fleming that night. We extend to
both our heartiest congratulations and
best wishes for health, happiness and
prosperity through a long life of use,
fulness to each other and TO those
around them.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-02-10

Mr.. Gray, grain dealer of Fayett-
vile is in town.
Rev. DIR. Howard, of Tullahoma,
will hold an Episcopal service in the
NJ. L. Church, south, Thursday even
ing Feb. 18th 1883, at 7 o'clock
Both houses of the Tennessee Legis-
lature reassembled Tuesday last at 2
o'clock, P. M, after their recess.
AN extensive stock of groceries
and hardware cheap at Seitz's.
Miss Tennie Gartner, pleasant
and interesting young lady, and her
sister, Mrs. Adams, of Columbia, spent
last week visiting the family of their
uncle, Mr.. J. P. Gartner, at this place.
We were informed in Nashville the
other day that McMinnville is to be
connected with that city by telephone.
Our informant assured us that the ar
rangements were already completed
and that the connection would be made
by April.
DIR. l. S. johnson q Co. of Bango,
proprietors of Johnson's Anodyne Lin
iment, will send free to all who will
write for it reliable information how to
prevent diphtheria, the most to be
dreaded of all dreadful disease. Write
your name, postoffice address, county
and state plainly.
j. B. Harrison, of Summitville,
Coffee county was in town Tuesday,
Mr.. Harrison is well posted and under
stands all about the culture of the Irish
potato. Heg gave us very fine specl'
men of a new variety (name not known
which he thinks can be grown success
fully and with profit. 1t natures later
than the Early Rose. 1t is smooth,
large potato, resembling the Early
Rose, but of a deeper red. We will
test its merits.
The G. S. Debating Club met al
the usual place last Monday night
The following officers were elected fol
the ensuing term of one month.
NJ. P. Hoodenpyl, President.
B. b. Cohen, Vice President.
j. L. Haggard, Rec. Secretary.
R. G. Schafter, Corresponding Sec
c. 7. Thurman, Treasurer.
f. l.. Massie and L. F. Capshaw
Editors.
The first volume of the Evening
Stal" was read by G. T Thurman, on
of the editors of that o(ume. Tb
Club is progressing very successfully
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-02-10
Saturdau. Esbruaru 1Oh.. 1SSS.
CHANCERY SALE.

w. w. Fairbanks, Admir-, VS.. P. A. Hood
enpyl, ct ais.
TN obedience to decree of the Chancery
L Court at McMinnville, Tenn, rendered
in the above styled cause, will sell at the
Courthouse door in McMinnville, Tenn, on
Saturday, February 18th, 1883,
at o'clock, P. NJ, the lot of land known as
the still house place, containing about one
acre, lying in the 9TH civil district of War
rem county, on McGregor's branch, upon
which is erected large still shed, where
Fairbanks & Hoodenpyl are carrying on the
distilling business. Also, the undivided
one-half interest that Philip Hoodenpyl,
decd, had in and to the following described
tract of land, containing so acres, lying on
the Beersheba road, bounded by the lands
of Pedon, Jones, McGregor, and the Beer
sheba road, and fully described in deed reg
istered in Registers office, book 10, page ~
and n.
TERMS OF SALE-On a credit of IL
months, except 10 per cent. cash. Notes
and good security required, and lein re-
tanned. This January 18th, 1883,
j. C. BILES, C. & NJ.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-02-10
Gallatin.

To the Standard.
Our people are now hattered with
fair prospects of new rail road from
Cincinnati to Nashville via Standfor
and GAIlatin. This road would do
much for Gallatin by way Of competi-
ton in rates and freights with the
Louisville and Nashville road as well as
give us immediate access to the upper
Cumberland counties through which
it would pass. Sumner county is in
good financial condition, the result Of
abundant crops last year, and the con-
sequent shipment of live stock during
the winter. The number of mules,
beeves, sheep and hogs shipped out of
Sumner this season has not perhaps
been excelled by any county in the
state. The apples which were also
abundant rotted early in the fall, and
there is now a demand here for apples
which might be supplied by your excess
if the freights were not SO high on
them.
Dixie Williams ofLebanon organized
a Young Mems Christian Association
here on yesterday with promises of
much good to be accomplished.
The STANDARD is a welcomed weekly
visitor and is doing good work for
the agricultural and general interests
of the country. b.