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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-16
What the Vermont Tax Law
Requires.

The new tax law, as amended by
the last legislature, requires every
taxpayer to disclose all his real estate,
and all the live stock kept or owned
by him, his watches, pianos, organs,
etc. (; all his produce, the value of his
stock in trade, all goods, chattels, eff
fects and money not included in the
above questions amount of cash on
hand, debts due or to become due, in
Guiding all bank deposits except saw
ing banks, and all mortgages, notes,
trust deeds, etc. all money loaned
or debts secured on real or personal
estate debts due from insOlvent debt
Ors deposits in savings banks and
trust companies amount of money
invested in manufactures claimed tO
be exempt from taxation perpetual
or Tedeemable leases held a complete
description of all public funds held
amount and value of stock owned in
any corporation i'll and out the state
amount of property held in trust as
executor, administrator or trustee
amount of debts owing for which ex-
emptiOn from taxation is claimed,
with the name and residence of each
creditor and the amount due him,
and the amount of stocks, bonds, or
other securities exempted from taxa
ton by state or federal law, and of
money invested III manufactures
claimed to be exempt
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-16
The History of Tariff Revision.

The tariff system of the United
States has not been so frequently thor
Oughly revised that the history is ne
cessarily a long one. At the very out
set the idea of protection was one of
the bases of tariff legislation. At the
close of the war of lSl2-16 the tariff
was revised so that the average of du-
ties collected was equal to I6 per cent
| of the value of the merchandise i'm
ported. This rate was found to be in
sufficient to encourage manufacturing
enterprise, so that in 1920 the tariff
was raised to Sc per cent. This con-
tinued until 1924, when another revi-
sion increased the duty to 80 per cent
Four years later, for the purpose of
protection as well as revenue, the duty
was further increased to 40 per cent.
This increase gave offence to the peO-
pie of the cotton states and was fol-
lowed by the notification movement in
South Carolina. To avoid collision in
South Carolina and to pacify the south,
in which, because of slavery, manufao-
lures had not thrived, a compromise
tariff was agreed upon in 1882 by
which the duties were to be reduced
per cent for ten years, leaving them
at the end of that period % per cent.
This legislation was soon followed by
a general depression in manufacturing
which, in 1897, in connection with 9TH
er causes, eliminated in the prostra-
ton of manufacturing enterprise
throughout the country. In 1910 the
Whig party came into power on pro-
tective platform, and in 1912 protec-
tive tariff, imposing an average duty of
33 per cent ad valorem, was enacted.
In 1916, under the Polk administra-
ton. the Walker tariff for revenue took
the place of the protective tariff of
1912, and was in force twenty-fOuF
years. In 1857 tariff act went into
force which farther reduced the rate of
duty to 10 per cent. This prostrated
the wOolen and iron industries, as may
be found by reference to President Bu-
chanan's messages, and in 1859 and
1860 left the government with u reve-
nue. inadequate to meet the public eX-
penditures. In 1861, for revenue as
well us protection, the Morrill, tariff
was enacted in 1872 it was decreased
in 1873 it was again increased, so that
upon dutiable goods it was 43 per cent
in 1882. 1t is expected that the new
act will reduce the duty to 80 per cent
of the dutiable merchandise imported.
- Boston Journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-16

Gail Hamilton accepts IA failure SO
wisely that she almost turns it into
II success. She is quoted by Il cOrre-
spOndent of the st. Louis Globe Dem
Ocrat as writing concerning her unap-
preciated novel: at will be news to
the public that ever had Il heroine.
But it is even so, and a very nice young
woman she was, too, but nobody ever
cared anything about her. The fact is,
she was too good for this wicked world,
and she never made the smallest sensa-
tion in it. Now the people are com
planning of Mr.. Howells and Mrs. Bur
nett that their herOines are ill-behaved
and fall in love with other men than
their husbands. | made up an excel
lent heroine to Order-my own. She
was good, hearty, wholesome, hon
est girl, free and spontaneous, dutiful
and simple, She walked along diff
cult and dangerous path not only un-
tainted but interrupted by virtue
of any high resolution, but of right
instinct-into the region of perfect
happiness which ought to lie like a
lake of night around every world of
mans creating, whatever mans Creator
may find best. What was the result 2
She walked alone When am tired
or have an hour or two of leisure, | sit
down book in hand, and take sweet
counsel with the charming creature,
but nobody else ever heard of her"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-16
stephens Superstition.

Alexander H. Stephens was devout
Presbyterian, and there was lust n
touch of Scotch superstition in his
blood, which made him a believer in
omens. He used to tell of this strange
incident connected with his denarture
from Washington, March Is, 1859. As
the steamer was going down the Poto-
mac he looked back, and while gazing
on the receding dome of the Capitol,
some friends who saw his meditative
mood, approached and said, "You must
be looking up there and thinking of
your reelection to Congress ~ In re-
ply to this he said, "NO, | am taking n
last look at that dome, for | never ex
pect to see it or be in Washington
again until | come a II prisoner of
war The steamer sped down the
stream, and soon distance and the
shadows of night had hidden the dome
OF the Capitol from his view. When
next he visited Washington and gazed
on that dome he was, indeed, a paroled
prisoner of war who had just been re-
leased from Fort Warren.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-16

"Ah," said one of the country law
yers who get into Congress, upon being
introduced to Mr.. Haskell of the Bos
ton Herald at Washington, ''glad to see
you, Mr.. Haskell. You're down here,
[ suppose, picking up few items for
your paper7" The Washington iour-
nalists were amused by this because
they reckon Mr.. Haskell's income from
his newspaper at ten or twenty times
the congressman's. But it is not the
income of the man to whom this fire.
quent remark is addressed which con-
stitutes its Offensiveness, bnt the prev
alent assumptions that the main errand
in life of "a journalist is to ''pick up a
few items" Picking up items is an
honorable branch of the profession,
and one which public men are often
very grateful to have well done, but it
does not define the scope of the jonr-
nalist's work much more accurately
than "hoss cases" do the professional
labOrs of an average lawyer. This
conception of the journalists work is
about on par with that of another class
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-16

THE IMMENSELY OF ITS TRANSACTIONS.
From the London Globe. !

N@NAiNS1
In the course of five years the paid
notes amount to II ,745, 900 in number,
and they fill 13,4OO boxes, which if
placed side by side would reach two
and one-third miles. If the notes were
placed in a pile they would reach to a
height of five and twO-thirds miles, or
if Joined end to end they would form a
ribbon l2,445 miles long. Their su-
perticial extent is said to be rather less
than that of Hyde park. They weigh
over 80 2-3 tons, and their original
value was over Il $50, ,626, 900. The
greatest of rOgues might be inclined
To find some comfort in the extent and
intricacy of such a store of old paper.
Of course, however, they are most sys-
tematically arranged, and any note of
the II 100000 may be pOunced upon
with the utmost celerity and precision.
AT the end of five years these old notes
are thrown into a furnace specially
constructed for the purpose and burned.
1t is curious fact, however, that so
firm in texture is the paper of a genu-
inc Bank of England note that burning
alone can hardly destroy it. The au-
thOrities have in a little glazed frame
the remains of note which was in the
great fire of Chicago. Though com
pletely charred and black, the paper
still holds together, and the printing
of the note is said to be sufficiently
legible to establish its genuineness and
to warrant its being cashed.
There are some other notes here
which were cashed after having gone
down with the Eurydice few years
ago, and reduced to little better than
pulp. Indeed the scraps and frag-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-16
The Society Mans Expenses,

When young man, whose intelli-
gence and attractive manners, and
not his bank account, secure to him
a passport among charming society
women, finds that parties and "assem-
bly," dances and the opera, and such
like, cost more than he can afford, he
is wise, the Providence Journal thinks,
if he determines to cut the whole
thing, and brave, too, if he dares to
give his reasons. Here we
have young men all around us who
are now living beyond their incomes,
or, at any rate, not laying anything
by for the future. The class we refer
to do not spend much on themselves,
unless their generosity to others may
be called a sort of refined selfishness.
They 90 into gay society and fall in
to its ways. They see other young
fellows, who are born to wealth and
luxury, spending vast sums on mere
fancies and frivOlities now it is a
ball or party, concert or a play, an
elaborate supper or an expensive eX-
cursiOn, bOnbOns, bouquets, and a
score of other things, which some
yOung women seem to demand or ex-
pect as natural rights, simply because
some young men, with more money
than brains, can be found to bestow
them.
In a small community like our own
the amount of money which a man
on "A salary has a right to spend fOl
anything is tolerably well known, ol
very nearly guessed at, and if he is
thought to be living beyond his in
come, while it makes his lady friends
very delicate about receiving his IA
vors, they hardly see the way clear
to decline and yet not hurt his feel
ings. Expensive gifts are not expect
ed by sensible girls. In nine cases
out of ten a girl is embarrassed rather
than delighted, especially when she
cannot help feeling that the money
spent to give her pleasure could be
ill-atforded. 1t is simply delicacy,
fear of hurting the giver's feelings,
which leaves many woman in the
false position of seeming to welcome
such favOrs when she would give a
good deal to see her way clear to de-
cline them. If few of our sensible
girls, with a tact and bravery equal
to their beauty, would just express
their views about the subject, there
might be few mad men about town
for some days, but there would be few
er foolish ones in the end.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-16
Simple Remedies.

Half a teaspoonful of common table
salt dissolved in a little cold water,
and drank, will instantly relieve "heart-
burn" or dyspepsia. If taken every
morning before breakfast, increasing
the quantity gradually to teaspoonful
of salt and tumbler of water, it will
in few days cure any ordinary case of
dyspepsia, if, at the same time, due at
tention is paid to the diet. There is
no better remedy than the above, for
constipation. AS gargle for sore
throat it is equal to chlOrate of potash,
and is entirely safe. 1t may be used
as often as desired, and if little is
swallowed each time it will have a
beneficial effect on the throat by
cleansing it and by allaying the irrita-
tion. In doses of one to four teaspoon
fuls in half pint to pint of tepid water,
it acts promptly as an emetic and in
cases of poisoning is always at hand.
1t is an excellent remedy for bites and
stings of insects. 1t is a valuable as
tringent in hemorrhages, particularly
for bleeding after the extraction of
teeth. 1t has both cleansing and heal
ing properties, and is therefore a most
excellent application for superficial
alterations.
Mustard is another valuable remedy
No family should be without it. Two
or three teaspoOnfuls of ground mustard
stirred into half pint of water acts as
an emetic very promptly, and is milder
and easier to take than salt and water.
Equal parts of ground mustard and
-four or meal, made into paste with
warm water, and spread on a thin
piece of muslin, with another piece of
muslin laid over it, forms the often in
dispensable mustard plaster" II is
almost specific for collie, when ap-
piled for few minutes over the "pit
of the stomach" For all internal pains
and congestiOns, there is no remedy of
such general utility. 1t acts as a cOun-
ter-irritant, by drawing the blood to
the surface hence in severe cases of
Group a small mustard plaster should
be applied to the back of the child's
neck. The same treatment will relieve
almost any case of headache. A mus
tard plaster should be moved about
over the spot to be acted upon. for if
left too long in one place it is liable to
blister. A mustard plaster acts as
well when at considerable distance
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-16
SquibS.

A bank president left southern
town the other day forever, without
taking cent of the banks money with
him. He died. The Drummer.
A wOuld-be musical sharp, after lis
tening to solo on the cOrnet by Gel
ebrated performer, who visited Austin
last summer, turned to his neighbor
and asked: "What is that air out of ?r
"Out OF the bugle of course. Do you
think 1t comes out of his nose ?"
'ls Miss Blank at home ?" asked "A
faultlessly attired bore of the new girl.
The girl took from her pocket pho
tOgraph, carefully scanned 1t and after
another look at the features of the
visitor, answered "No, sor she has
gone to Europe" He left [Philadel-
phia News.
When Colorado man energies from
the cellar where he passes IA pleasant
quarter of an hour hiding from a bliz-
zard, he finds his house upside down
across the way, and is sure to exclaim,
81 do pity the eastern folks, who never
enjoy fresh air unless they come to
Colorado."-t Detroit Free Press.
Poet-"But, my dear sir, it is now
four years since you accepted my epic,
and no steps have yet been taken to
publish it," Publisher-"Don't be in
a hurry, young man. Homer had to
wait more than three thousand wears
before he got into print, and you will
hardly claim that your poem is an
iliad"
"JOseph Burley of Taunton has lust
had needle removed from his leg
which has been in his body twentv-siX
years" Wonderful, but not nearly so
remarkable as the case of a man in this
city who had nail removed from his
foot after it had been there fifty wears.
1t was tOe-nail, by the way.-Boston
Transcript.
A Vermont man recently tried the
power of the human eye on "A savage
bull. He will be able to crawl around
on crutches by the time the leaves of
next fall turn crimson. He will then
hire tobacco store image with glass
eye, and repeat the experiment on the
cloven-fOOted believer N. Y. Com
mercial Advertiser.
A cOuDtryman took a seat at hotel
table opposite gentleman who was
indulging i'll "A bottle of wine Sup
posing the wine to be common proper
ty, our unsophisticated country friend
helped himself to it with the gentle
mans glass. "That's cool !" exclaimed
the owner of the wine, Indignantly.
Yes" replied the other, 81 should
think there was lee in it,"
The verbiage of the law has become
proverbial. A fresh instance is fur
nished in the docket of the present
term of the federal court. One of the
cases is set down as Omitted States VS..
George Britch and Sarah Ann Britch."
OF course every reader will at once
see how much shorter and simpler it
would be TO have said merely, ''U. S.
VS.. pair of Britches." Free Press.
A Washington letter says that Miss
Bayard is not only very pretty, but
extremely bright. She was the young
lady who astOnished Oscar Wilde by
her keen repartee to his very quiet re-
mark. care you going to the german,
Mr.. Wilde 7" she asked, the night of
his lecture there. "Yes," drawled the
aesthetic, "if my lecture does not fa-
tigue me too much. Are you going,
Miss Bayard 9'' eyes, if your lecture
does not fatigue me too much."-[New
York Graphic.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-16
VOLUME 46---NUMBER 1881

was cOrpulent. | also was disposed.
as | am still, to take an interest in sci
entitic experiment. | thought would
give this matter a fair trial. | read all
the instructions, carefully followed
them, and varied the time of applying
pressure with that perfectly stiff busk,'
about which correspondents were so
enthusiastic. | was foolish enough to
try the thing for "A matter of four weeks.
Then | laughed at myself as a hopeless
idiot. and determined to give up the
attempt to reduce by artificial means
that superabundance of fat on which
only starvation and much exercise, or
the air of America, has ever had any
real reducing influence. But | was
reckoning without my host. AS the
Chinese lady suffers, am told, when
her feet bindings are taken off, and as
the tiat-head baby howls when his
head-boards are removed, as for
while was it with me. ! found myself
manifestly better in stays. ] laughed
at myself no longer. ! was too angry
with myself to laugh. would as soon
have condemned myself to using
crutches all the time, as to wearing al
ways a husk. But for my one month
of folly had to endure three months
of discomfort. At the end of about
that time | wss my own man again"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-16
Arabian Manners and Customs,

An Arab on entering house re-
moves his shoes, but not his hat. He
mounts his horse upon the right side,
while his wife milks the COW on the
left side. In writing a letter he puts
nearly all his compliments on the out
side. With him the point of a pin is
its head, whilst its head is made its
heel. His head must be wrapped up
warm even in summer, whilst his feet
may well enough go naked in winter
Every article of merchandise which is
liquid he weighs, and he measures
wheat, barley and few other articles
He reads and writes from right to left
He eats scarcely anything for break
fast, about as much for dinner, but af-
ter the work of the day is done he sits
down to full meal swimming in oil,
or, better yet, boiled butter. His sons
eat with him, but the females of his
house wait till his lOrdship is done.
He rides donkey when travelling, his
wife walking behind. He laughs at
the idea of walking in the street with
his wife, and of ever vacating his seat
for woman. He knows no use for
chairs, tables, knives, forks or even
spoons, unless they are wooden or
bone. Bedsteads, bureaus and fire
places may be placed in the same cate
CORY, If he be an artisan he does work
sitting, perhaps uses his feet to hold
what his hands are engaged upon. He
drinks cold water with spoon, but
never bathes in it unless his home he
on the seashore. He is rarely seen
drunk, is deficient in affection for his
kindred, has little curiosity and no ami
nation, no wish to improve his mind,
no desire to surround himself with the
comforts of life.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-16
Save the Forests.


Cassius NJ. Clay, whose home has
been in Kentucky for a long life.
claims that forests not only retain wa
ter, but directly affect rainfall. In
early times the loss of "A crop of corn
from drouth in Kentucky was unusu-
al ; now it is frequent. One county
is wet and another dry. If the clouds
from the Gulf are stripped of their
water before they reach Kentucky
there is drouth if they are still wet
ana are not struck by cool winds from
the north and there are no forests to
cool them, they pass on and there is
still drouth. Mr.. Clay claims that
forests, which are cool in the warmest
weather, lower the temperature by
their constant evaporation cool
current from the forest area striking
the rain clouds precipitates the water.
Where the forests are DESTROYED the
rain clouds pass along without dis
tributing their contents.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-16
When Vermont Came into fine
Union.

Vermont has been state of the
American Union ninety-two years.
She was the first neW state admitted
into the Union, March 4th, 1871 for
the admission of Kentucky, February
4th, l79l, was prospective admission,
merely Both states voted at the ma
tlonal election of 1928, Kentucky
having four electoral votes, and Yer
mont three, forming the fifth New Eng
land state, and the fourteenth state of
the Union, with more than 81, 600 inhab-
ltants and Kentucky had about "A. 900
when her admission had become an
accomplished fact, June Ist. 1892.
Georgia had about three thousand less
population than Vermont, in 1871. As
the post-revOlutionary Union was not
completed till l7S9, no state can strict
ly be called a century old but the
thirteen original states-the Old Thir-
teen-must be considered historically.
and not constitutionally, and so they
have made their way into the highest
republican rank.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-16

from the affected part. An excellent
substitute for mustard plasters, is what
is known as "Mustard Leaves" They
come dozen in box and are about
four by five inches in size they are
perfectly dry and will keep for a long
time. For use, it is only necessary to
dip one IN dish of water for a minute
and then apply it.
Common baking soda is the best of
all remedies in cases of scalds and
burns. 1t may be used on the surface
OF the burned place, dry or wet. When
applied promptly, the sense of relief is
magical. 1t seems to withdraw the
heat and with it the pain, and the heal
ing process soon commences. 1t is the
best application for eruptiOns caused
by poisonous ivy and other poisonous
plants, as also for bites and stings of
insects. Owing to colds, over fatigue,
anxiety and various other causes, the
urine is often scanty, highly colOred,
and more or less loaded with phOs-
pilates which settle to the bottom of
the vessel on cooling. As much soda
as can be dipped up with a ten cent
pie,K, dissolved in half glass of cold
water and drank every three hours,
will soon remedy the trouble and cause
relief to the oppression that always
exists from interruption of the natural
flow of urine. This treatment should
not be continued more than twenty
four hours. We have no more space
TO devote to this subject now but it
is one of universal interest and we
shall continue it. We shall endeavOr
to show that most of the diseases and
accidents that are constantly occurring,
could be remedied or avoided by re-
sorting to such remedies and appliances
as are to be found in every home
I Halls Journal of Health.