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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-05-25
Chipeta's Address 10 the Utes.
Translated by Bill Nye. /


People of my tribe! the sorrowing
widow of the dead Ouray speaks to
you. She comes to you, not as the
squaw of the dead chieftain, to rouse
you to war and victory, but to weep
with you over the loss of her people
and the greed of the pale face.
The fair Colorado, over whose rocky
mountains we have roamed and hunted
in the olden time, is now overrun by
the silver-plated Senator and the soft
eyed dude.
We are driven to a small corner of
the earth to die, while the oppressor
digs gopher holes in the green grass
and sells them to the speculator of the
great cities toward The rising sun.
Through the long cold winter my
people have passed, in want and cold,
while the conqueror of the peaceful Ute
has worn $3.50 night-shirts and filed
his pale skin with pie.
Chipeta addresses you as the weep
ing squaw of Il great man whose bones
will one day nOurish the cucumber
vine. Ouray now sleeps beneath the
brown grass of the canyon, where the
soft spring winds may stir the dead
leaves and the young coyote may come
and monkey DER his grave.
Ouray was ignorant in the ways of
the pale face. He could not go to Con-
gress for he was not citizen of the
! United States. He had not taken out
his second papers. He was Il simple
child of the forest. but he stuck to
Chipeta. He loved Chipeta like hired
man. That is why the widowed squaw
weeps over him.
A few more years and shall join
Ouray-my chief, Ouray, the big Injun
from away up the gulch. His heart is
still open to me. Chipeta could trust
him, even among smiling maidens of
| her tribe. Ouray was true. There was
no funny business in his nature. He
loved not the garb of the pale face, but
won my heart while he wore a saddle
blanket and look of woe.
Chipeta looks to the North and the
| South, and all about are the graves of
her people. The refinement of the op-
pressOT has come, with its divorce and
schools and gin cocktails and flour
bread and fall elections, and we linger
here like a boil on the neck of a fat
man.
Even while | talk to you, the damp
winds of April are signing through my
vertebrH and I've got more pains in my
back than a conservatory.
Weep with the widowed Chipeta.
Bow your heads and howl, for our
harps are hung on the willows and our
wild goose is cooked.
Who will be left to mourn at Chipe-
ta's grave None but the starving pap
pooses of my nation. We stand in the
gray mist of spring like dead burdOcks
in the field of the honest farmer, and
the chilly winds of departing winter
make us hump together like a burnt
boot.
All we can do is to wall.
Colorado is no more the home of the
Ute. 1t is the dwelling place of the
bonanza Senator, who doesn't know
the difference between the plan of sal
walton and the previous question.
Chipeta cannot vote. Chipeta cannot
pay taxes to a great nation, but you
will be apt to hear her gentle voice,
and her mellow racket will fill the air
till her tongue is cold and they tuck
the buffalo robe about her and plant
her by the side of her chieftain, where
the south wind and the sage hen are
singing.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-05-25
The Alamo Fortress.

"Remember the Alamo was fam
Gus war cry in the Mexican war which
is recalled by the reported transfer of
the Alamo to the state of Texas The
Alamo is one of the six old Spanish
missions in the neighborhood of San
Antonio, which are almost the only re-
mains of that early civilization in the
southwest. During the war for Texan
independence in 1886 the Alamo was
the scene of IA trightful massacre, the
commander, Colonel David Crockett,
the eccentric Tennessee congressman
together with all his troops, being
slaughtered without quarter. The old
missions were churches, the property
of the Catholics, but the Alamo ha,
now been transferred to the stat" o
Texas and the Lone Star flag appropri
ately floats over it.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-05-25
A Mistaken Idea.

As soon as boy leaves school and
looks about to see what he shall do
next, he is very likely to he told by
some unwise person, "The world owes
you a living" This probably strikes
the boy SAYS to himself, "If it is true
that the world owes me Il living, then
| am all right" He finds place, and
goes to work manfully but after u
time he concludes there is no fun in it,
and he stops to consider "If the
world owes me IL living, why should
trouble myself? Let the world pay
its debt to me-" Suddenly he loses his
place and has nothing to do. He is
surprised, aud wonders why the world
does not give him his due" "a nice
bed, warm clothes, and regular dinners
are good things and | ought to have
them. The world owes them to me,
and if | do not get them I've been
cheated out of my rights"
At one time this country was a
wilderness, where no man could live,
save by fighting the wild beasts.
Some one chased away the bears and
wolves. cut down the forest, laid out
roads, built towns, and dug canals.
Somebody spent vast sums of money
i'm constructing railroads, steam boats,
docks. lighthouses, schools, libraries
freely. More than this, somebody
pays the policeman, the fireman, the
soldier, sailor, the lighthouse keeper
and schOolmaster.
From the day you were born youl
father and mother have fed, clothed
aud sheltered you. 1t has cost you
nothing. None of these great public
works, roads, canals, towns, navies
and armies cost you anything. How
can you say the world owes you a liv'
ing Is it not you who are iii debt
What has boy done to deserve al
this Not thing. 1t is you wht
must pay-nOt the world. All boys
he was a foolish creature who frs
said, .'The world owes me living.
He told very silly fable. The worlC
owes no man living till he has done
some worthy deed, some good work t.
make the world better and fairer place
to live in. These old fellows who duy
canals and laid out towns, who bull
cities and invented all these splendi'
things, these telegraphs, these ships
these magnificent engines, had TIN
right idea They worked manfully
and the world did at last owe them
f living, and paid it many times oveI
, If you mean to get ont of the grea
} debt you owe the world, do something
90 to work and show you are a maI
Then, when you have shown the wOrl
You can work, it will gladly pay yOn
living, and the finer and more nObl
yOur work the greater will be your rt
ward. st. Nicholas for May.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-05-25

Two st. Louis school principals have
been tried for assault and battery with
in fortnight because of fiogging eX-
ercises, and in the last one the judge
gave a sort of extra Judicial disserta-
ton on corporal punishment and wound
up thus "Four years experience in
the administration of criminal law con
vinces me that the boys who become
criminals are boys who don't get whip
ped, and when it is remembered that a
large percentage of the bOlder crimes
known to the law is committed by
youths ranging in age from fourteen
to twenty years, the question arises, |,
it better to whip first OF imprisOn after
ward ? Boys who from infancy ar,
allowed to follow the road of their owl
vicious inclinations 90 from bad t.
worse and unrestrained to their almost
certain and ultimate ruin. The de
fendant is discharged"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-05-25
A Pistol and "a Moral.



Senator Halle of Springfield offered
to the members of the military COM
mittee of the Legislature gold
mounted revolver as a prize to the
best marksman. The contest took
place at the state camp-grOund at
birmingham, and Col. Bancroft of the
House was the winner. 1t may not
have occurred to Mr.. Halle that the
revolver has been uncommonly busy
of late, and that it is not desirable to
encourage the possession or use OF
that miSchievOus weapon. 1t is quite
possible that Col. Bancroft may be
trusted not to make an improper use
of Mr.. Haile'S gift, but the fact that
it was given shows that it is regarded
as valuable possession, and tends to
stimulate the purchase of pistols by
persons who have no more need oi
them than Col Bancroft has, and are
much more likely to do mischief with
them. In such community as this
not one man i'll thousand has any
business with revolver it can bt
used for no legitimate purpose. 1t is
the weapon of assassination, or Ot
accidental homicide. Every day.
dispatches tell of its deadly work in
the hands of a rut1iau, lunatic or 4
fool, and not once ii year do we hear
of its doing any good. Whoever car
do anything to make the carrying Ol
owning of revolver discreditable will
be public benefactOr.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-05-25
Postage, Messages and Parcels

With all our present facilities, we
are still far behind Great Britain in
telegraph, postal and express facilities
in this country. 1t is expected that
we shall have twO-cent postage, com
mencing July, 1888, but it will be "A
long time before we shall have a free
delivery in the smaller cities, to say
nothing of villages, facility which is
now confined to places having at least
twenty thousand inhabitants. Pack
ages of merchandise sent by mail are
limited to four pounds in weight, and
the charge is one cent an ounce for
any distance, whereas i'll England a
package not weighing over seven
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-05-25
slavery in Arizona.

Slavery still exists in this country
it seems, and has for generations flour
ished unchecked, because unknown,
among the Navajo Indians of Arizona.
A boy was recently killed by "Fran-
cisco Captains" band, and Agent
Riordan, when he went to look the
matter up, was informed that the lad
was a slave, "A creature whom they
thought only fit to he starved and
beaten, and whose murder was of no
greater consequence to them than the
killing of dog. He was told, more
over, that there are about 300 slaves
in the whole tribe, some of whom
were prisoners of war, while Others
had been secured by trade or pur-
chase, or had been born in slavery.
Francisco's band held five slaves be
sides the family of the murdered boy,
the descendants of two MOqui girls
who were bought for corn -four genera
tions ago. The contempt which these
Indians have for their slaves is well
illustrated by the killing of the boy.
His father, who seems somehow to
have heard of the abolition of slavery
in this country, was bold enough t.
assert his right to freedom. Where
upon the boy was killed by his mas.
ter to remind the father of his depend
ent condition. The band at larg,
thought this the perfectly natura
thing to do, and could not see why
the agent should make a fuss abou
such tritle. They were still NOR,
surprised when told they must liber
ate the remaining slaves it wOulo
! tha,- Il
and one old fellow voiced the senti
ment of the band when he plaintivel,
asked, "WhO will take care of me
my slaves are taken away 7" But tn
band finally yielded reluctant con
sent to the liberation of the slaves
and Agent Riordan is actively en-
gagged, with the assistance of tn
Indian bureau, in breaking up til
l. II
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-05-25
Memorial Day.

What mean these men by marching every thirtieth
of May,
With torn and iattered colOrs and with flowers
bright and gayi
They Nations heroes-her soldiers and
her tars-
Some are MANNED and wounded, and some wear no
Bile scars.
When country aroused by the sounds of
civil war
And the echoes of Fort Sumpter's guns were
heard both near and far.
Twas then the men you to-day. who march
with stately tread,
Went forth with those numbered mongst the
army OF the dead,
To uphold the Nations honor to preserve the Un-
ion whole,
With purpose firm aud true as the needle to the
pole.
But the conflicts long since over, and why march
they to-dayl
To honor those whO've fallen and a debt of love to
pay;
1t matters little now whether the dead wore blue
Flowers are strewn on both alike on Memorial
Day.
Then honor our brave Veterans as they honor their
dead;
What have they done for us I" methinks hear it
said;
When duty called they answered Aye" answered
every one,
To protect our great inheritage bequeathed by
Washington
Our great and glorious Union they risked cen life
to
Gave manhood unto chattels aud freedom unto
slaves.
Is honor then not due them for such noble work
well dOnel
Republics are ungrateful," but let not this be
one
And when the last great "Reveille" is sounded
from the sky,
And called to muster" by command OF the
Most High,
May comrade then be missing" but all re-
ceive their pay
In the crowns to be di stributed on That Memo
rial Dayf"
John II. Cochrane.
Thank God not called to-day
To bid our loved ones gol
Yet il they went forth to the fray,
To meet some warlike foe,
God grant that they might 20, these
Went twenty years ago.
Whose memory may every breeze
Fan into brighter glow
And may the flowers that grow for them,
Be fairest of all fowersl
Weave cross and harp and diadem,
And turn their graves to bowers.
All, sainted dead where fife drum
Nor cannon wake thee more
Dwell ever, where may all come
On yonder, shining shore
-[D. G. Carpenter, in Good Cheer.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-05-25
St. Johnsbury Church Directory.

4d1ent-Paddock Village. Sabbath Services al
1890 a, m. las and $3.50 p. III. Sabbath SchoO
IL IN. Prayer Meetings at 1850 p. IN. Sunday, Tues
day and Friday evenings.
Baptist-Railroad Street. Corner Maple Rev
f. T. Sandford, Pastor. Preaching 1880 4. M. S
School IL N. Prayer meeting $50. Prayer meet
ing Wednesday evening at 7:s0.
Free Bdptist-Main Street. Corner Prospect
Sabbath services, 1890 An, and $50 p. Sabbath
School at IL M. Prayer meeting Wednesday even
ing at 73O.
Church Of the Messiah-( (UniversalistJ Eastern
avenue, corner Cherry street. Sabbath services
at lu:3O A NJ, $50 P. NJ. Sabbath School at IL N
Wednesday evening meeting at 1880
Methodist-Central street. Rev. f. W. Culver
Pastor. Residence next to the Church. Sab
bath services at 1890 A. M and $50 P NJ. Sabbath
School at - NJ. Wednesday evening meeting at
7:30.
North CongresanOnaE-Main street, corner OF
Church. Rev. Henry W. Jones, Pastor. Sabbath
services at 1890 A. NJ, and $50 P. ~ Sabbath
at 7:30.
South Congregational-Main street Rev. Ed
ward T. Fairbanks. Pastor. sabbath services at
1890 A. ~. and $50 P NJ. Sabbath School at II NJ
Wednesday evening meeting at 7:3O
Presbyterian Church-Rev. W. K. Laird pas
tor. Services at Presbyterian Hall every Sab
bath at 1890 a m; 800 p m Sabbath school 200
Prayer meeting 6:30. Bible reading Wednesday
evening 7:3O.
st 4ndreV's-( (Episcopall Main street, Rev
+. ). Fisher, Rector. Services on Sundays al
lO.3O a. NJ ana . p m W wednesdays at 1.3O y. NJ
Sunday School, at l2 m.
Roman Cattolic-Cherry Street. Rev. j. A
BOissOnnault. Parish Priest Mass and 10 a. IN
Vespers and Benediction at p. m. On the
second Sunday of the month, service at $50 a. m
and p nj. At LyndOnville same day at 1890 a. M
Y. II. O. A.-Meetings at the hall of the Y. Nj. G.
A, Main street, Sunday mornings at $50 Satur
day evenings at 100 Young Mems meeting Sun
day at 80 p. m. Noon meeting every day al
rooms on Eastern avenue.
East st. Johnsbury.
COngregdtORdL-Sunday services at 1914 a. III
and 6 30 p. m. Sabbath school at 90. Wednes
day evening meeting at $50.
Methodist-Supphed by Rev. G. f. Burnham
sunday services at l.30 p M.
st. Johnsbury Athen@um.
Library and Reading Room to all. Open
from A N. to Il Nj. from to p. M and from
to : - Saturday evenings.
Art GalIery-Open Tuesdays and Fridays.
Telegraph Office.
Western Union and ". InterndtiOnGL-in ST
Johnsbury House. Open from a. m, to p. III
sundays, to 10 a. m. to p u. Night messages
laIf paf.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-05-25

with cousin whom she had come
from Vermont to help handle her farm.
Horace Smith, her cousin, claims that
she agreed to give him the place in re-
turn for his labors, and now, the old
lady having become dissatisfied with
her relative from Vermont and begun
cutting down trees on her own hook,
he has procured an injunction restrain
ing her from digging in the garden or
milking the cows.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-05-25
Temperance Reform in Eng
land.

Whatever may be said as to the prog
ress of temperance reform in this coun-
try, the friends of the movement have
great reason for congratulatiOn cen
cerning the remarkable progress which
has recently been made in England.
Among no people have temperance
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-05-25

Mrs. Julia Parker, one of the Smith
sisters whose farm at Glastonbury
Conn, with the excellent Alderney
cows thereon, has made them famous.
the cows having several times been
sold for nOnpayment of taxes, Is now
ninety-one years old and is i'll trouble
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-05-25

Gov. Cleveland OF New York has
signed the bill providing that soldiers,
sailors or marines who die and whose
families are unable to bury them, shall
be buried by the county authorities
and an appropriate headstone provided
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-05-25
St. Johnsbury Post Office.

Commencing Oct. g. the mails will close at the
Post Office as follows:
Passumpsic r. r. Way Mail, South, 9 30 a. m
No. Danville $50 a. m
st. j. a l.. c. X. X. Way Mail, East 2.l5 p.
st. j. & l.. &. X. X. Way Mail, West, 80 p. IN
Montpelier g. W River, K. X. Way Mail 80 p. NJ
Passumpsic X. r. Way Mail. North, 4.30 p. IN.
West Concord and st. JOhnsbury East, $50
Waterford W. Wat'fd and l.. Wat'fd, 40 p. m
Boston, New York, Conn. X. Val. Mail, 500 p.
Central Vermont r r. Way Mail, 500 p.
Collections will be made from the mail boxes
i'll season for the mail south in the morning,
and at 4 p. III. Collections will also be made from
the mail box at corner of Railroad Street and
Eastern Avenue at Q a. III. and 80 p. IN.
CHAS p. CARPENTER. I'd, z. NJ.
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HOTEL WELLESLEY,
W ELLEHLEY

W ELiEHLEN MASS
win be opened MAY 18th. under the management
of Mr. Tyler b. Gaskill. for many years one Of the
proprietors Of the Revere aud fremont houses, in
Boston, and more recently Of the Grand Pacific
Hotel Chicago The long and varied experience
of Nj Gaskill AZ a manager Of leading hotels is a
proof that be will conduct the Wellesley as it has
never been maintained before. Applications fOT
rooms may be made 70 Mr. GAskiu at l55 fremont
street
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ST. cSumsburn (aledunian.
G. NJ. STONE & Co,

PUBLISHERS.

Opposite the Athenssum, St. Johnsbury, VT.
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Justices Record in Criminal Cases

new blank for Justice Of the Peace Just
printed and for sale At the CALIFORNIAN OF.
EICE. II
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Grarelrrs' 6uide.

Passumpsic Railroad.---Nov. 9, 1882.
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Western Union and " InterndtiOndl-in ST
Iohnsbury House. Open from a m, to p. III
sundays 9 to 10 a. m, to p. III. Night messages
II half rates
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-07-27
The Whistling Oyster.

The celebrated ''Whistling Oysters"
about forty years ago created quite a
sensation at the small oyster and re
freShment rooms s;.aated in Vinegar
Yard, near Catherine-street, Strand.
1t appears, says writer in tie Daily
Telegraph. that about the year 1910
the proprietor of the house in question,
which had then, as it has now, great
name for the superior excellence of its
delicate little natives, heard a
strange and unusual sound proceeding
from one of the tubs in which the
shell fish lay, piled IN layers one over
the other, placidly fattening upon oat-
meal, and awaiting the inevitable adj
vent of the remorseleSs knife. Mr..
PearkeS, the landlord. listened, hardly
at first believing his ears. There was,
however no doubt about the matter.
One of the oysters was distinctly
whistling, or at any rate producing a
sort of ''sitfiement" with its shell. 1t
was not difficult to detect this pheno-
menal bivalve. and in a very few
minutes he was triumphantly picked
out from amongst his fellows and put
| by himself in a special tub with a
bountiful supply of brine and meal.
The news spread throughout the
town. and FOR some days the fortunate
Mr.. Pearkes found his house besieged
by curious crowds. That this Orion of
oysters did really whistle is beyond all
question. How he managed to do so
is not upon record" As may be i'm
agined, the jokes to which this fresh
wonder of creation gave rise were UNI
limited; and Thackery was in the habit
of relating an amusing story of his
own experience in connection with it.
1t appears that he was one day in the
shop when an American came in to
see this startling freak of nature; after
hearing the talented mollusk go
through its usual performance, he
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-07-27
a Terrific Combat.

Lahore india Gazette. Search
was made and leopard and a cobra
were found lying dead, side by side !;
the latter having his head completely
severed from below the hood, and the
former his tongue and left jaw very
much swollen, with greenish white
tint along the surface At the time
the two animals were found, the cobra
had its head lying about couple of
inches from the middle of its body.
This prevents one arriving at any con-
clusion as to how the wounds were in
fiicted: whether by one snap of the
leopard's jaws, or by several crunches.
The mutilated appearance of the head
and neck of the cobra leads one to
think that the leopard, being bitten in
the dark by the cobra, flew at him;
the latter at the same time, making a
second dart, wounded the leopard In
the tongue or the jaw. The leopard
then. closing his jaws on the snake,
commenced to crunch him at his
leisure. as cat would a mouse.