St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-07-13

mile to Il drugstore, and was leading
the men along, away from the home of
the child and happened to he met by
the mother herself. The child was in
stantly treated and saved, but the
nurse and her stupid assistants had on
hand IL plan of resuscitating the infant
which would have resulted in pathet-
ic little funeral next day.
The steamer Sea Bird, with perhaps
p passengers, was burned up on Lake
Michigan by cabin-man who did not
seem to know that wind would blow
anything anywhere. He threw buck
etful of ashes and hot Goals over the
windward rail of the cabin-deck. The
contents of the scuttle landed safely
among the freight on the deck below.
The man who did this then went into
the cabin to keep out of the cold April
wind. In few minutes he perhaps
was little amazed to find that the
steamer was all on fire. If memory
serves the writer he paid for his own
folly by dying in the fire and water
not long atterward.
1t is Il well-known fact to all travel
ers that the porter of sleeping car
ought to possess as much culture as
even Oscar Wilde can command. When
one of these servants is asked how far
it is before breakfast and he says, sit
amt far now" he should he taken out
and placed in some school for aiding
reason to dawn in the feebleminded.
Indeed, all these important servants
should be educated by the state or the
church or the railway until they can
comprehend that the words ''ain't far
now" convey no information. If, also,
these could be taught not to wake pas
Sengers when they are yet fifty miles
away from their destination, we should
all prefer to pay them the night before
rather than he routed so early through
the porter's fear that some might es-
cape being ''duSted off, Pay the pOr-
ter at bedtime and he will not wake
YOU so soon in the morning. His mind
is ut least capable of peace after the
payment has come. On some of the
roads which go out of Chicago there
are porters who read. ana who, in the
| long through rides between that city
and New York or Omaha, will practice
little on violin or read history OF
good novel. These are the men tit
for their post. They can answer Il
question. They know the meaning OF
questions. Ask one how much the
train is behind time and he will say,
"Sevcn minutes" or Forty minutes, =
but when YOU ask wOoden-headed
porter he will say, ats behind time
considerable maybe it'll make up Il
| little and maybe not All preachers
without charge. and all Yale graduates
who have failed in the law, should seek
| places in this Slcepin%-car service, foI
| that is where we want scholars and
| philosophers and poets to console us
on our pilgrimages. For palace cal
with an Oscar Wilde or an American
aesthetic to he its conductor would b,
immensely popular with those who had
to make long journeys. The word
'Etravcln meant ''hard labor when the
language was formed.
The works of man in the arts, and
even in drcssmalling and in cookery
Surpass those of woman only because
the masculine creature has been edu-
Gated for ages and has thus reached {
rugged kind of common sense that cal
devise ways and means. Woman re
vealS more refinement in some direc
tiOns and man more sense, but neither
class has any mental force To spare
| May the time soon come when il boot
black and barber and the butche
shall have mental dimensions grea
enough to enable them tn be equal Il
their pursuits. and that is making quit
heavy demands, for pursuit, howeve
humble, sustainS important relation
to the world