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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05

lamentation or despondingly, but in
deep Indignation because she was de
MED an equal chance in the struggle
for bread and butter.
1t was the old story. Every one with
an acquaintance among women of the
class indicated who earn their own
living-and New England is full of
them-has heard it in one shape or
another time and again; the supply of
the better class of female heads and
hands is greatly in excess of any de-
mand, and so the girl on the train was
able to find a factory employing dozens
of others like herself in simple manual
labor, and her case is not unlike thou
sands of others. 1t is useless to saw
that these women ought to become
servants, for they cannot and will not ;
they will not because of the social
aspect of the case, and cannot because
they are Yankees there may he good
"hired men" and "hired girls here.
but no genuine New Englander ever
made good servant, and it is the
servant that is demanded. The old
hired help has disappeared. OF course
there are exceptions to the general
practically the same work pay
given to men of the same mental and
physical capacity, and there are indi-
vidual women enough who succeed
better than individuals of the other
sex who are their equals; but the rule
remains. The actual difference will he
realized by remembering that the edu-
Gated man without family who merely
gets living is thought to be doing
nothing, while the woman who gains
the same is reckOned doing well. The
causes of the trouble are complex
enough-custom, prejudice, social pro-
prieties and other good reasons, and
what not-and the remedy cannot he
named 0tf-hand, nor will it come in Il
moment. The best that can be said is
that the improvement actually made
in the last generation promises well
for the future, and meantime it is Il
pity that those who are the real suf-
fererS do not Oftener make their COM
plants heard Springfield Republican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
a Flying Machine.

He. Lintield, the inventor of a fly
ing machine, has conducted an expert
mcnt with his invention between Coin
brook and West Drayton, England.
The apparatus, which is described as a
steam sailing machine, is constructed
of light wood, and is shaped like the
frame of Il four wheeled carriage, with
two large wheels in front aud two small
ones behind. Motive power is to be
obtained by steam, which will work Il
nine -bladed screw, and the inventors
idea is to propel the machine by steam
on land until it attains speed of
thirty or thirty-iive miles, velocity
which he calculates will he sufficient
to lift the machine into the air, when
it will he navigated by means of the
sails with which it is fitted. From the
result of his experiment he is confident
that it is possible to fly in the air at
the hight of Il mile. BY the permission
of the Great Western railway company
the experiment was made on the newly
finished portion of the railway to
Staines, between Coinbroob and West
DraytOn, and the inventor was accom-
panied by Mr.. Trcvithick, the locOmo-
tive superintendent of the company at
Paddington. The machine was placed
on a truck and connected with an en-
ginc, whence the steam was derived,
and the gearing was manipulated from
another truck. The operator succeed
ed in getting the machine lifted from
the truck into the air, and expressed
himself fully satisfied with the result
of the trial.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
Will Cartoons Poems.

Now that it has been decided that
VIII Carleton, the poet, will lecture in
the course here the coming season, the
public will be interested in knowing
poems We're written that have made
his name familiar one in every
household. A reporter of the Denver
Tribune recently asked him about his
poem, cover the Hill to the Poor
house." and Carleton gave the follow
ing history of it:
While at school was Interested in
visiting the almShouse and chatting
with the paupers. Among the ac-
quaintances | made there were two
very worthy old people whose children
had abandoned them in their old age.
The father told me his story. The de-
tails were not, of course, the same as
related i'll the poem, but in them was
the idea afterward elaborated. 1t was
published in Harper's Weekly at the
time, with illus rations In two months
a friend wrote me that the verses had
l'ipbbNtu Oil lillll SllNIl 6tI tllCCb llldb ut
sent check for 500 to
his parents, whom he thought had
been by him too much neglected. |
have heard of cases where people have
been taken ont of the poorhOuse by
penitent children. In this connection.
| might instance the case of an old man
who died Il pauper ut Cleveland. When
his satchel was opened and its meagre
contents examined, a copy of the poem
was found carefully rolled mp. From
these and numerous other affecting in
cidents, believe that the poem has
done some good. "Betsey and | Are
Out" has come back to me ut numer-
ous times. When stopping at a hotel
in large city recently, the proprietor
came up to me, and in demOnstrative
manner told me that those verses were
the means of reuniting himself and his
wife.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
ST. Johnsbury Church Directory.

Aduent-Paddock Village. Sabbath Services at
1890 a m l;45 and G:3O p. III. Sabbath School
IL m. Prayer Meetings at 7:3O y. m. Sunday Tues
day and Friday evenings.
Bdptist-Railroad Street. Corner Maple. Rev
+. 4 Sandford, Pastor. Preaching 1850 A. NJ $.
school - NJ. Prayer meeting $50. PRAYER meet
ing Wednesday evening at 7:3O.
Free Baphst-Man Street Corner Prospect
School at IL NJ. Prayer meeting Wednesday even
ing At 1870. Rev. ID. H. Adams, pastor.
Church ot the Messiah-t Universalist) Eastern
avenue. corner Cherry street Sabbath services
at Las $50 =. N. sabbath School at l2:3u p NJ
Wednesday evening meeting at 1870 Rev. q. W.
jenkins, pastor.
Methodist-Central street. Rev. f. W. Culver
Pastor. Residence next to the Church. Sab
bath services at 1890 A M, and $3.50 2. NJ Sabbath
school at II Wednesday evening meeting at
7;iO.
North CongregationGI- street corner OF
Church. Rev. Henry W Jones, Pastor. sabbath
services at 1870 A. NJ, and $50 Z. 81. Sabbath
school at las P NJ. Wednesday evening meeting
at 1880.
South Congregational-Main street. Rev. Ed
ward l. Fairbanks. Pastor. sabbath services at
1880 A. NJ, and $50 p. NJ Sabbath School at l. NJ
Wednesday evening meeting at 1880.
PresbyteridH Church-Eastern Avenue Rev. w
r. Laird, pastor. Sabbath services at 1880 n. M.
300 $50 =; m. sabbath school at II III. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening 1880.
81. AndreW'S-(E Episcopal) Main street, Rev
+. =. Fisher, Rector. Services Sundays at
1880 a. m. and p. IN. Wednesdays at 7:3O D. M
sunday School, at IL m.
Roman CATH ie-Cherry Street. Rev j. A
Boissonnault ? ish Priest. Mass and 10 a. III
second sunday OF the month, service at $50 a. m
and p. N. At LyndOnville same day at 1890 a. III.
T. u. G. A.-Meetings at the hall ofthe Y. NJ. c.
A. Main street Sunday mornings at $50, Satur-
day evenings at 7.3O. Young Mems meeting sun
day at 80 p. III. Noon meeting every day at
rooms ON Eastern avenue.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
The Self-HeIpful Young
Woman.

There came down on a northern
train the other day Il girl whose case
has good deal of interest to us all
because it is typical. Bright and
pretty, well educated and well bred,
she came from Il Vermont village to
work in Massachusetts factory, and
her frank talk to travelling companion
furnished abundant food for reflection.
81 have to take care of myself" she
said, land in the place | lived there
was absolutely nothing for girls like me
to do except teaching school and sew
ing; circumstances prevented my
teaching, even if | could get a school
at the small pay, and with the needle
| can barely keep soul and body to-
gether. So | come here; what else
can l do? If 90 to large city and
have the good luck to find employment
ut ali 1t must almost certainly be at
very low wages, and that would mean
a cheap clearinghouse, cheap society,
and life hardly worth having. am
everywhere at a disadvantage because
am woman it sometimes seems to
me that women are supertfuity in
this world altogether. Yes, | know
that women who take care of them
selves are not infrequently happier
than those who are married, but the
taking care is hard job, and it ought
to he easier. don't like to go into a
mill and do little stupid work all day
long, and | hope in time to find some
thing better, but if | were man
could find something now. There is a
great wrong; | won't pretend to say
what or where it is, but it is some
where And so she went on, not in
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
s.NO SllNIOck.r

a day or two ago Il man who was at
the Central depot to take Il train sud
denly cried out that some one had
stolen his valise, and he began such
hullabaloo that everybody had to he
interested.
81 sot that 'cre satchel right down
thar and stepped to the door" he ex-
planned to Officer Button, "and when
| returned it was gone"
"Well, you should have been careful.
We are not responsible for such losses"
''You amt, eh Whar's the prcs-
dent ?"
''Out of the city, sir"
"Whar's the gincral manager ~
Giles sick abed."
"Whar's the uperintcndcnt?
"WOn't he here till four o'clock"
"Wall, now somebody's got to make
good that loss, or about half dozen
men will go to the hospital for six
months apiece :"
"What was the value ?"
"Fifty dollars and not a cent less"
"What were the contents ?'
~ had twelve shirts, a new suit of
clothes, an overcoat and lots of other
things
'Was it a carpet sack -
''She was"
"One handle gone and the lock
broken ~
"Yes, one handle was gone and I
had her tied with string
''Is this - asked the officer, as he
took the baggage of a bench not six
feet away.
''Grcat snakes that's herr chuckIed
the owner.
In handing it to him the string broke,
the bag flew open, and out rolled two
old shirts, Il pair of socks and five or
six paper collars all there was in it.
"Then these are the duds you want
ed $50 for ?" quericd the officer.
"NO, sir" was the indignant reply.
81 should have taken the money for
loss of time and damage to my feelings.
I'm no Shylock, sir ~ Detroit Free
Press.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05

The notion that those who work only
with their brain need less food than
those who labor with their hands, says
the Boston journal of Chemistry, has
long been proved to be fallacious.
Mental labor causes greater waste of
tissue than muscular. According to
careful estimates, three hours hard
study wear out the body more than
whole day of hard physical exertion.
"WithOut phosphorus, no thought" is
IA German saying and the consump
tiOn of that essential ingredient of
the brain increases in proportion to the
amount of labor which this organ is re-
quired to perform. The wear and tear
of the brain are easily measured by
careful examination of the salts in the
liquid excretiOns. The importance of
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
VOLUME 47---NUMBER 24IO.

hesitate to affirm that the man stands
a better chance in life's conflict whose
school lite was eminent for brisk men
tai exercise than the man who was
more methOdically and artistically
taught. Criticisms of the old mental
arithmetic exercises, on the ground
that the problems were puzzles and
therefore senseless, have driven that
study, practically, out of the modern
school. The truth is that many man
owes his mature mental vigor to his
early wrestling with Warren Colburn'S
problems. We must have more and
better mental exercise than is furnished
by some of our theories and theorists.
or the men made from the boys of to-
day will fall before the standard in
intellectual manhood, and the free
school system of America will be
brought into disrepute. There is
nothing in the modern system of edu-
cation that needs to eventuate in lack
of mental power, but it is clearly in
danger of doing so as the high school
work of youth taught under modern
systems, is rapidly proving.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
Fowl and Potato Culture.

The NllllamStOWn correspondent OF
the Waterman says that boy in his
teens was given Il land grant of forty
five rods. He experimental with phOs-
phate. From a row on which no phos-
phatc was used he took fifty-one and
one-half pounds of potatoes. From an
adjoining one, on which he used one
half spoonful to the hill (the weight
being one and One-half pounds phos-
phatc in the ROW., he got scvcnty-four
and one-fourth pounds of potatoes.
From another row close by, in which
he used Il spoonful of phosphate to Il
hill, he got eighty-siN pounds of pota-
toes. Comparing this with the first
mentioned row it is seen that three
pounds of phosphate gave an increase
of thirty four and one-half pounds of
potatoes.
The Times tells what Bellows Falls
man has done with Langshan fowls.
Recently he shipped trio to Oakland,
California, for which he received S25.
The next day he shipped twelve fowls
to Fitchburg, Mass, and another trio
to New Jersey, and three triOs are to
be sent to Texas on the 18th of this
month, where they will be on eXhIb-
ton ut the Texas state fair at Austin
and where there is no doubt of their
sale at 80. These birds are wonder
fully hardy and productive. a pullet
which was Matched the Sd day of June.
1889, began to lay about the 18th of
October last, and did not miss over
three days up to the month of May
last, when she began to set and was
kept mt that work nine weeks, during
which she Matched three broods of
chicks and began to lay again in two
weeks after the last brood was hatchcd
The first broods were placed with
other hens, as he makes one hen do
duty for FORTY or fifty chicks.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
How 10 Save Boys.

Women who have some to rear. and
dread the demoralizing influence of bad
associates, says Il writer i'll Appleton's
journal, ought to understand the ma
ture of young manhood. 1t is eXces-
sively restless. 1t is disturbed by
vague ambitions, by thirst for action,
by longings for excitement, by ire
pressible desires to touch life in mani
fold ways. If you, mothers, rear your
sons so that their homes are associated
with the repression of natural instincts,
you will he sure to throw them in the
society that in some measure can sup
ply the need of their hearts. They
will not go to the public houses at first
for love of liquor-very few people
like the taste of liquor; they 90 for
the animated and hilarious companion
ship they find there, which they dis
cover does so much to repress the dis
turbing reStlessness in their breasts
See to it, then, their homes compete
with public places in attractivcness.
Open your blinds by day and light
bright fires at night. illuminate your
rooms. Hang pictures upon your
walls. Put books and newspapers
upon your tables. Have music and en-
tertaining games. Danish demons of
dullness and apathy that have so long
ruled in your household, and bring in
mirth and good cheer. Invent occupa-
tiOns for YOUR sons. Stimulate their
ambitions in worthy directions. While
you make home their delight, fill them
with higher purposes than mere pleas
ure. Whether they shall pass boyhood
and enter upon manhood with refined
tastes and noble ambitions depends on
you. Believe it possible that, with
eXertion and right means, mother
may have more control over the destiny
of her boys than any other influence
NNhnfnXnr
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
Criticism Of Modern Schools.

An editorial writer in the Boston
Traveller has this to say in criticism
of the modern school: We raise the
question whether modern reformers in
school methods, who are doing good
work in many directions, are not in
reality weakening their cause by lack
of appreciation of the necessity of keen,
vigorous mental exercise. There is
too much truth in the criticisms CON
tinually coming to the surface and
calling in question the superiority of
the modern school over the regime
that it has supplanted. We have more
system, better methods of instruction,
more abundant appliances for illustra-
ton, greater facilities for referring
them to books of exhaustless research,
longer school years. and infinitely more
attractive school literature; yet there
are many schools in which there is al
most entirely wanting that mental ex-
ercise which distinguished the country
school Of other days, and we do not
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05

Though we may not change the cottage
For mansion tall and grand,
Or exchange a little grass plot
For a bOundless stretch of land,
Yet there's something brighter, nearer,
Than the wealth we'd thus command
Though we have no means to purchase
Costly pictures, rich and rare;
Though we have no silken hangings
For the walls 50 cold and bare.
We can hang them DER with garlands,
For flowers bloom everywhere.
We can always make home cheerful
II the right course We begin;
We can make its inmates happy
Aud their truest blessings win;
1t will make the small room brighter
If we let the sunshine in.
When we gather round the fireside
When the evening hours are long,
We can blend our hearts and voices
In a happy, social song;
We can guide some erring brother,
Lead him from the path OF wrong
We may fill our home with music
And with sunshine brimming Ger,
II against all dark intruders
We will firmly shut the door;
Yet, should evils shadows enter.
We must love each other more
There are treasures for the lowly
Which the grandest fail to find;
There's a chain of sweet affection
Binding friends of kindred mind;
We may reap the choicest blessings
From the poorest lot assigned.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
st. Johnsbury Post Office.

Commencing Oct. 9, the mails will close at the
Post Office as follows
Passumpsic K. K. Way Mail, South, 500 a m
No. DanNille, 900 a.
ST j y l. &. IL. X Way Mail, East 2.l5 p.
1t. J. 4 l.. G. X. X. Way Mail, West 300 y. IN
Montpelier Il W. River, L. K. Way Mail 30 j.. III.
PassumpSic X. r. Way Mail North 400 D. m
West Concord and st. JOhnsbury East. SEQ H.
Waterford, w. Watfd and l. WatTd, 400 p. III.
Boston, New York, Conn. r. Val. Mail. 800 p. III.
Collections will be made from the mail boxes
IA season for the mail south in the morning
and at ( y. m. Collections will also be made from
the mail box at corner of Railroad Street and
Eastern Avenue at "A. IN. and 30 y. IN.
CHAS p. CARPENTER I'd 7. NJ.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05

the brain as working organ is shown
by the amount of blood it receives,
which is proportionatcly greater than
that of any other part of the body.
One-fifth of the blood goes to the brain.
though its average weight is only one
fortieth of that of the body. This fact
alone would he sufficient to prove that
brain workers require more food, and
even better food, than mechanics or
farm laborers.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
Nocturnal Travel.

A st. AlbanS man has been making Il
calculation about how far Il person
travels during sleeping hours. This is
the way he figures it: He finds by
calculation on one of our locomo-
tive drivers that the greatest velocity
of rotation allowable excepting the
strain due to the centrifugal force in
side the limit of safety, per square
inch on the steel tire) gives Il velocity
of lSS miles per hour, and any increase
of velocity would pass the danger line.
Taking the adhesive strength of the
tire up to the actual point of rupture,
the velocity would be about six hun
dred miles per hour. Now the rota-
tion of the earth is in the latitude of
st. Albans about eleven miles per
minute, or 660 miles per hour, and its
annual mean velocity in its orbit is
6S,0O0 miles per hour, or 1873 miles per
minute, so that every night when we
get eight hours sleep we have taken
passage on this great sleeping car, the
globe, for a trip through space of 54l,-
900 miles, with no jar or stoppagc, on
the sweep of one great curve, lit up by
countless stars and Swarms of meteOrs,
our only conductor and uperintendent,
God.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05

COngregdtoHdl-Sunday services at 10 45 a. m.
and $50 p. III. Sabbath school at 100. Wednes-
day evening meeting at $50.
MethodiSt.-Supplied by Rev G. Z. Burnham.
sunday services at l.30 y. III.
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Telegraph Office.

Western Union and VI. Internatonal-in St.
Johnsbury House. Open from a. m, to 9 D. III.
sundays, I" 10 4. m, ; to p. IN. Night messages
at half frates
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05

Library and Reading Room Free to all. Open
from 4. N. to II NJ. from to p. M, and from
! to , Saturday evenings.
Art Gallery-Open Tuesdays and Fridays.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
Complete Heating Apparatus
for SIS.

A large size BoyntOn Furnace in complete repair
with duplicate CRATE. for SIS, and fifty dollars
worth Of pipe and registers thrown in" The fur
Is nearly uewand was taken out 10 make place
for steam heater. T.. NJ. STONE.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05

Nobody has yet ventured to explain
why there is no entrance to the new
Philadelphia poStoflice on Chestnut
street, but meantime it has been dis
covered that there is none on Market
street, and there is coming to he much
wonder expressed that the architect
did not forget to put an entrance ON
Ninth street. There is, however, a
capacious rear exit to neighboring
restaurant, which the Lancaster Intel
ligencer thinks is evidence that the
architect was not entirely ont of his
mind when he made his plans.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
w. j. BRAY,
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER,
Lumber Yard and Office Opposite
Odd Fellows Block,
r. r. Street, ST. Johnsbury.

All kinds Of Building Material for sale Rough
and Dressed Lumber. Clapboards, Shingle, Lath,
Doors, sash and Blinds Brackets, Mouldings
Hardware, Nails, Lime, Cement and everything
necessary for building at the lowest cash prices.
3-tf
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05

JOB PRINTING of all kinds at living prices.
with modern type and machinery and skillfu
workmen, nearly all kinds of job Printing can be
lone n well and as cheap as in the cities
Legal Blanks. Card and Paper stock constantly
.Du hand.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-05
Justices Record in Criminal Cases.

A new blank for Justice Of the Peace. Just
printed aud for sale at the CALIFORNIAN OF
fICE. #
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Nice Calling CardS

Gilt edged IN boxes cases very neat Jus
the thing every lady wants. CAN and ser them
CALEDONIAN OFFICE.
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QPIAIOlTIOIGI AIPIHIs|!b

The undersigned is now prepared to make every
style Ot Photograph in the most perfect man
ner. | shall take special pains to
please those who have been un-
successful in obtaining sat
isiaCtOry pictures
elsewhere
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ST. Sulmsblrn Galedunian.
G. NJ. STONE & CO,

PUBLISHERS

Opposite the Athensum, ST. Johnsbury, VT
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Grauelers' 6uide.
st. Johnsbury a Lake ChampIain Railroad.
July I6, 1888.

TEAMS EAST LEAVE ST. yoHxsRUkY.