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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-23
A Weekday Sermon.

"The trouble with the boys nova
days is that they don't want to work. y
The speaker was one of Springtield's
substantial business men, and he was
addressing 4 young fellow who had
just happened into the store. In an
swer to an inqniring look from the
young man, who feared that the re-
mark was aimed at himself, the sage
continued: 81 was speaking of that
spruce-lOoking chap you met as you
came in. For a month back he hasn't
done enough work to earn his board
Ten to one he owes for his clothes on
his back, and he has just been asking
me to give him credit. No, sir; as |
said before, the trouble with the boys
is they don't want to work ~ And the
oracle brought out the last word with
sledge- e-hammer force. Nov, when
was your age" he continued, ~ had
to serve three years. apprenticeship.
All | got the first year was my board
The second year | got 800 besides,
and the third year Sl2 month. If
wanted any extra money had to work
over hours for it. But now the boys
think they can learn trade in fifteen
minutes" Humph !" And an express
sion of disgust past over the speakers
face. Every young fellow has to
have his girl and take her to the
theatre once or twice week has to
go to every dance and fair that comes
along; believes that he must wear a
stand-up collar and a dude hat as
pledge of his respectability. In short,
he wants to appear like a imam of
society So he thinks he must get big
wages the minute he begins to do any
thing, and if he can't get them he won't
work ut all. The result is he never
gets a start in business and is always
hanging found waiting for fat job.
| tell you if you ever intend to amount
to much in this world, you had better
make up your mind to start small.
Now, when | was your age" But
the listener had to hurry away, carry
ing with him, however, the idea that
the children of this generation may
not know so much more than their
grandfathers did, after all.-[Spring
field Republican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-23
SquibS.

Men grumble because cabbage is
used as a substitute for tobacco in
cigars; but they would probably
grumble more if the best Havana to-
baccO should be served with their
cOrned beef as a substitute for cabbage.
Il Puck.
The rain falls alike on the just and
the unjust but it is the unjust who
steal the umbrellas ana let the just
feel the rain New Orleans Picayune.
He invented a tail-weight to put on
his COW. The first made-a small iron
ball-wasn't heavy enough to hold her
tail down, but it broke his jaw. lie
lives in Camden, n. j.
Kentucky etiquet: "Good morning.
Is Mr.. Black in ~ "No, sab he's gone
to his business. sab" "Well, is Mrs.
Black in 2" "Dat depends sab. What
does ye want wild her2n "Why, here's
milk bill of S;2 I'd like her to settle"
"She am not in, sab" "But know
she is in" Cant help it, sab. De
orders am dat she am never in fur milk
and meat bills and sich. Good morn
in; has to go she am calm me-
Kentucky State Journal.
OscdT w llue mas received many
thanks from Mary Anderson for writ
ing a play for her. They reach him in
this shape "Declined, with many
thanks"
awe have struck smoother road,
haven't we2 ?" asked passenger of
conductor on an Arkansas railway.
"No," replied the conductor, "we have
only run off the track"
"The republicans must co." doesn't
apply to President Arthur, as he is
gone nearly all the time.
Capel is most struck in America by
! the prccOciOusness of the children.
He called with the Archbishop upon a
Baltimore lady, who said to her four
year old boy: "My son, speak to the
Archbishop" The boy readily held
out his hand and said GLOW do,
Arch"
81 don't take much stock in pro-
VERBS" said Brown to Jones. "For
instance, look at the oft-quoted one
| "A friend in need is il friend indeed
Now, most of my experience with
! friends in need has been that they
wanted to borrow. Give me the friend
that is not in need"
An Austin small boy was recently
discovered purloining some apples
from the front of a grocery store. The
| proprietor gave chase but failed to
evertake him, and was obliged to shake
his fist and shout after him, "Nevor
mind, my young kid, Pm going up to
see your mother about this" "That's
all right" yelled back the small boy.
"You just go right along up there.
Pa filled a man full of buckshot the
other day for going to see my ma, and
reckon he's got another dose laid
away somewhere for you."- Texas
Siftings.
The new queen of Madagascar's
name, being interpreted, means Cloud
full-Of-water. Long may she rain.
Lord COleridge said that John Bright
built himself up on Milton. If Mr..
Bright were an American and an Ar
kansas man, he would have built him
self up on Bacon Arkansaw Tray
eller.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-23
Our Chiidren's Bodies.

Every parent in the land should
carefully read Mr.. William Blaikie's
admirable article, "Our Children's Bod
les" in the current number of Harper's
Magazine, in which he forcibly depicts
the evil results arising from the lack
of physical training i'll our public and
private city schools, which graduate a
crowd of puny, listless boys, with
scarcely any promise of manhood about
them, and weakly girls, ''whose desti-
ny is the shawl and the sofa, neuralgia,
weak backs, and the varied forms of
Mysteries, that domestic demon which
has produced untold discomfort in
many Il household, and, we are almost
ready to say, as much unhappiness as
the husbands dram" The remedy for
this alarming state of affairs Mr.. Blai-
kle finds IN gymnastic exercises, which
he has described at greater length in
an excellent little manual for school
use, now in press, by Messrs. Harper
n Brothers, entitled, Sound Bodies for
our Boys and Girls, and also in longer
play-hours, larger Fairgrounds, and
the encouragement of all kinds of
healthful exercise. This is lesson,
indeed, which should be needed by
children of a larger growth. 1t would
be happy thing for the community if
our present fancy for copying English
fashions should extend to the active
habits practiced by those robust island
ers. The most daintily bred English
woman thinks it essential to her health
and pleasure, clad in suitable and sen
sible attire, to tramp for miles every
day, rain or shine, over hill and dale,
while her American sister finds the
walk of IA few squares beyond her
strength, betakes herself to IL fiat to
avoid the fatigue of occasionally
mounting a flight of stairs, and falls IA
prey to nervous debility through lack
of energy and occupation. The medi-
cine i'll the tennis balls which the wise
physician prescribed to the caliph
would contribute far more to her cure
than all the drugs of the pharmaco-
pHia. And instead of emulating the
dress and slang of English gentlemen,
our etiOlated city youth would do much
better to initiate the vigorous life of
these young men, who break the ice
for their morning bath, ride fearlessly,
walk scores of miles without fatigue,
explore the steppes of Asia and the
sands of Africa, and make it their high
est ambition to sit in Parliament and
administer the affairs of the nation
Harper's Bazaar.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-23
The First Thing in Education

Under our present standard for sue
cessful teaching, to the attainment of
those things which are measured by a
technical school examination, the mat
ter of health is too much ignored.
Anything that is taught in schools is of
less value than the preservation of
physical vigor. The best schools are
those where the school restraints have
the least effect upon the physical
growth and normal development of the
pupil. Muscular action for the growth
of a growing child is a necessity, and
no school discipline should be allowed
to interfere with its exercise. The
substitution of indoor gymnastic exer-
cises for those of the outdoor play
ground is condemned for many good
reasons; for while these gymnastics
may be made of great benefit to the
pupil, they beget the indoor habit
which is destructive of the proper
physical development of the child.
Muscular exercise is rather a motive
power for driving forward the machin-
cry of thought Burlington Free
Press.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-23

of the column gradually growing lOud-
er and louder and nearer, so that they
knew some news of unusual Importance
was coming by the hands of some
bearer.
AS came within hailing distance he
recognized me, and cried ont: "Ricks,
what is it ? For Gods sake. what is
it n | had grown so hoarse from con-
stant repetition of the message in the
midst of such great noise and confusion
that | could scarcely speak aloud, but,
when | got near enough, | again re-
peated ''Lee has surrendered with
his whole army to Grant" Quick as a
flash, he clapped his heels together,
and, with wild yell, turned a COM
plete somersault i'll the road, and ran
back to his commando part of the Sd
division, which had just drawn off from
the road for dinner. The assembly
was Immediately sounded, and, begin
ming with the officers and band of the
Ist regiment, and followed by the field
officers and color bearers, we marched
down the regimental front, and so
along each succeeding regiment, the
men cheering and the colOrs waving.
The quick wit of the soldier is pro-
verbal, but | never heard more
striking proof of it than on the occasion
| am describing. In one of the regi-
ments, as ! was sweeping through the
ranks, | caught the bright face of a
soldier leaning out from the lines as
far as possible into the road to catch
the first sound from my lips. 'What
is it q? What is it 2" he anxiously
shouted. ''Lee has surrendered with
his whole army to Grant," was the re-
ply. Clear and loud, above all the
voices, and, quick as the message fell
upon his ears, was his answer: "Great
God you're the man I've been look
ing for for the last four years" What
II world of meaning there was in that
PROMPT answer ! True enough, that
was the news q whole nation of wearied
people were waiting for-that was the
message the whole army had been
looking for through long campaigns of
hard marches and desperate battles
but it took the quick wit of n bright
soldier to express it tersely and aptly.
Near the rear of the corps | found
the 1O4th Ohio regiment on the road
side. The wild cheering of the soldiers
had attracted the attention of some
ladies who lived near by. Some chill
dren had run out among the men, and
their mothers, in great excitement,
came out to hear the news, and to res
cue their children from the Yankee
soldiers. When they heard it they
were as much overcome rs the Yankees
themselves, and one of them, with her
long hair streaming in the wind, knelt
down in the road, and, clasping her
children, thanked God again and again
that the dreadful war was over and
their father would soon be home.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-23
The Finish.

A veteran out West has given his
recollection of the surrender of Lee and
the cOnfederates. The relatOr was
ordered to carry the news to the rear.
He says:
''Bnt few rods back of Gen. Couch
and his staff was the head of the in
fantry cOlumn-the lth Ohio regiment.
The men saw how the right of way had
been quickly given to the horse and
rider by the general and his escort in
front of them, and as | waved to them
to open ranks, and give me the road
way, they responded with will, and
breaking to the right and left gave me
IL straight, open road to the rear. AT
the head of the column, and as often
and as fast as could repeat it to the
anxious listeners, with horse at full
speed, cried out, with the waving of
my hat, "Lee has surrendered with
his whole army to Grant" Onward
pressed my way through the surging
ranks-befOre Inc an open road, lined
on each side with anxious men leaning
forward to catch the first sound of the
good news they were all so impatient
to hear, behind me wild, exultant,
UNDERSTANDABLE crown Oh Dlen SuuueDlN
transformed into lunatics, if they were
to be Judged by their actions, pounding
each other with their knapsacks, wav-
ing blankets on the points of their
bayonets, pounding canteens with
their belt buckles, and making pan
demOnium of sounds and a circus OF
tumbling and vaulting. 1t was news
that needed no explanation. 1t car
ried world of joy and relief to those
brave men upon whom the long sus-
pense of weary marches and indecisive
battles was wearing.
1t meant no more nights on picket
duty, but final happy reunion around
the old hearthstone, where home and
all its blessings awaited them. Such
was the meaning of those brief words
that | cried out with such wild excite
ment to 10000 men, and for eight
miles, through ranks of infantry regi-
ments, through batteries of artillery
| by the ambulance and hospital trains
rode the one man to whom every eal
was turned-the one bearer of tidings
whose voice filled every heart with JOY
and gratitude.
All northern Ohio soldiers know
Gen. Jack Easement of Planesville
At the top of hill, as l neared til,
end of my long ride, | saw the LITTLE
general anxiOusly looking for th'
bearer OF the good news, for, long be
fore | could be seen, the men coul'
hear the wild cheering from the hea'
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-23
Night Life Of Young Men.

One night often destroys a whole
life. The leakage of the night keeps
the day forever empty. Night is sims
harvesting time. More sin and crime
are committed in one night than in all
the days of the week. This is more
emphatically true of the city than the
country. The street lamps, like file
of soldiers with torch in hand, stretch
away in lOug lines on either sidewalk E;
the gay-colored transparancies are
abaze with attractions; the saloons
and billiard halls are brilliantly il
Illuminated music sends forth it's en-
chantment the gay company begin to
gather to the haunts and houses OF
pleasure the gambling dens are
aflame with palatial splendor; the
theatres are wide open the mills OF
destruction are grinding health, honor,
happiness, and hope, out of thousands
of lives. The city under the gaslight
is not the same as under Gods sunlight.
The alluIements and peTils and pitfalls
of night are a hundred-fold deeper and
darker and more destructive. Night
life in our cities is a dark problem
whose depths and abysses and whirl-
pools make us start back with horror
All night long tears are falling, blood
is streaming.
Young men, tell me how and where
you spend your evenings, and | will
write out chart of your character and
| final destiny, with blanks to insert
| your names. 1t seems to me an appro-
| pirate text would be, "Watchman
what of the night 7" Policeman pac-
ing thy beat, what of the night What
are the young men of the city doing al
night Where do they spend theil
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-23

An exchange, in treating of the
transportation of emigrants, makes Il
charge which we hope is untrue. 1t
says that there are about twenty steam
ship lines engaged in bringing out
emigrants, and that thirteen of these
twelve sailing to New York and one to
Quebec-have formed a powerful com
bination or pool, and, in connection
with railways from New York are try
ing to get the whole traffic into their
hands. In order to make the division
according to the pool agreement fam
lies have been separated, and part of
them sent by one road and the rest by
another. One case is reported not long
ago where a family of four-father,
mother and two small children-were
separated, the parents being sent to
one depot and the children to another
to travel Il distance of 1000 miles. In
this instance, however, the father made
such a piteOus plea to he allowed to go
with his children that the attention of
the emigration agents Mt Castle Garden
was attracted and the family were re-
united before starting upon their long
journey.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-23
VOLUME 47---NUMBER 24I7.

eveningsP Who are their associates ?
What are their habitsP Where do
they go in, and what time do you see
them come outF Policeman, would
the night life of young men commend
them to the confidence of their EN-
plOyers? Would it he to their credit
Make n record of the nights of one
week. Put in the paper the names of
all the Young men, their habits and
haunts, that are on the streets for sin
ful pleasure. Would there not he
shame and confusion Some would
not dare to go to their places of bust
ness; some would not return home at
night; some would leave the town !;
some would commit suicide. Remem-
Der, young men, that in the retina of
the all-seeing Eye there is nothing hid
but shall be revealed in the disgrace
of the last day.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-23
Two Summer Idyls.

An humble boy, with a
Shining pail,
Went gladly singing
AdOwn the dale,
To where the COW with
The brindle tail
On clover her palate did
Regale.
An humble bee did
Gaily sail
Far over the soft and
Shadowy vale,
To where the boy, with
The shining pail,
Was milking the COW
With the brindls tail.
The bee lit down on the
Cows left ear;
Her heels flow up through
The atmosphere
And, through the leaves Of
A chestnut tree,
The boy scared into
Eternity.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-23

ev. DIR. j. F. Rankin Of Washington, ID. c.,
;luded his opening address as president OF
'ecent American missionary meeting atBrool
\. Y. with the following lines.
know no differences of race
OF frican and Saxon;
OF tawny skin, of rose-cheeked face
OF hair of crisp and haxen.
The soul within, that Is the man,
There is Gods image hidden;
And there he looks each guest to scan,
The hidden and uubidden.
In Jesus Christ are men all one
And he their elder brother;
The races various, near the sun
Why should they veI each Otheri
Or jew OF Greek, the blood the same
Within their veins that's flowing;
Or bond or free. to all the same
His dying love bestOwing.
What though my brother man has worn
The bondman's yoke and fetterl
The seofi and jeer OF pride has borne
am the more his debtor
What man is weak. and I'm not weakl
Offended. I'm not burningl
Is dumb. and 1 refuse to speakl
Is spurned, take not the spurningi
One God in love broods over ALL
One prayer to him is taught us;
One name for mercy. whom we call
Our ransom. Christ, has brought us;
One heart of meekness. lOwly mind
LIES counter currents breasting;
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-23
St. Johnsbury Post Office.

Commencing Oct. :, the mails will close at the
Post Office follows
rassumpsc L. K. Way Mail, South, 900 a. III.
No Danville 900 a. m.
St j. \ l.. G.. K. K. Way Mail East, 80 p. II.
st j. n l.. &. X. K. Way Mail West, 2.3O y. m.
PassumpSic K. r. Way Mail. North, 40 p. III.
West Concord and ST. Juhnsbury East. 900 a. M
Waterford, w. Watfd and l.. WatTd, 4.10 p. /.
Boston, New York, Conn. X. Val. Mail. 500 p. a.
Northern and Montreal mail 500 u. m.
Mail will be collec ted from the boxes at Paddock
village and Railroad street at 500 a III. and 3. IL
y. Box at Railroad street will he visited at 81
y. M, usual
The new standard time adopted by the railroads.
and which is sixteen minutes slower than Boston
time, will be taken the standard time at the
postOlice.
CHAS J.. CARPENTER 7. NJ.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-23
st. Johnsbury Church Directory.

AdVent-Paddock Village sabbath Services al
1890 a. m, las and 630 p. IN. Sabbath SchOu
Il m Prayer Meetings at 1880 p. IN. Sunday, Tues.
day and Friday evenings.
Baptist Railroad Street Corner Maple Rev
f. a. Sandford, Pastor. Preaching 1850 :. NJ s
School II NJ. Prayer meeting $50. PRAYER meet
ing Wednesday evening at 7:;i0.
Free Bdptist-Man Street. Corner Prospect
sabbath services, 1890 AN, and 6:3O =. Sabbath
school at ~ NJ. Prayer meeting Wednesday even
ing at 1870. Rev. ID. IL. Adams pastor.
Church Of the Messiah-t Universalist) Eastern
avenue, corner Cherry street. Sabbath services
at i:45, $50 P. NJ. Sabbath School at 12:3O p. NJ
Wednesday evening meeting at 1880. Rev. q. W.
jenkins, pastor
MethodiSt-Central street. Rev. +. W. Culver
Pastor Residence next to the Church Sab
bath services at 1890 A. NJ, and 63O p Sabbath
school at IL Wednesday evening meeting al
73O.
North CongregatioHal-Main street, corner OF
Church Rev Henry W. Jones, Pastor. sabbath
services at 1890 A. NJ, and 6:30 Z. N. Sabbath
school at l:45 Z. NJ. Wednesday evening meeting
at 7:]O.
South Conyregationat-Main street Rev Ed
ward 1. Fairbanks. Pastor. sabbath services at
1880 A NJ, and $50 p. M Sabbath School at II NJ.
Wednesday evening meeting at 1880.
Presbyterian Church-Eastern Avenue: Rev w.
K. Laird, pastor. sabbath services at 1880 a. H..
800 $50 p. Sabbath school at II IN. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening 7:3O.
81. 4ndre'O's - tEpiscopal,) Main street Rev.
f. ). Fisher, Rector. Services Sundays at
1880 Il. m, and p. IN. Wednesdays at 7.3O p. IN.
sunday School, at IL III.
Roman Cdho ic-Cherry Street. Rev. j. A.
liossonnaultt f ish Priest Mass : and 10 a. IN
Nespers and BenedictiOn at p. m. On the
second Sunday of the month, service at 500 a. H..
and =. M At Lyndonvlle same day al 1890 a. m
Y. II. Q. A.-Meetings at the hall the Y. NJ C.
\, Main street, Sunday mornings at $50 Satur
day evenings at 100 Young Mems meeting Sun
day at 30 p. III. Noon meeting every day at
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-23

Town LOCALs.-Every reader must
recognize the satire in the following
from the Christian at Work news
paper: Benjamin Bandanna sent us
six ears of corn yesterday 4; they were
as long as any of his ears.-Peter
Peonk's boy fired off fire cracker, and
it started off Mr.. Peonk's horse on IA
trot, to the amazement of the specta-
tors on the street.-Miss Jennie Per
nike is visiting at the Rose Cottage.
Miss Lavina Understood has gone
to COmmunipaw on visit.-John
Heavens has accepted position rs as
sistant at Theo. BOyeston's blacksmith
shOp.-Peter Piper abbreviates ca
pillary tubes with celebrity at his ton
sOrial palace.-We were very pleased
to receive Il call from johnny Quagmire
yesterday. Mr.. Quagmire has accepted
a responsible position on the New
York Evening Post (he removes the
ashes from the furnace) job Coffin,
gentlemanly undertaken, will bury any
one desiring his services with celeIity
and despatch.-New potatoes is in
market.---Mrs. Balinda Van Blunder-
buss favored us with a box of wedding
cake yesterday have received
from the fair authOress IA copy of her
book Harmattan or Sirocco. 1t is
thrilling beyond description, and sur
passes anything G. Eliot ever wrote.
Columbia brass band favored
us with a serenade yesterday
COhn, our model tailOr's daughter, has
Il new bonnet; the same is very much
admired.-Mr. and Mrs. p. Flanagan
and daughter, the popular cesspOol
cleaner, has gone to Sandlots for a
weeks visit. Good luck to them -
JOnes's ice cream is the best
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-11-23
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 aud everything
necessary for building al the lowest cash prices.
3etf
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Library and Reading ROOm,-Free To all. Open
from 4. N. to IL NJ; from to =. M, and from
To - Saturday evenings.
Art GdiisTy-Open Tuesdays and Fridays.
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Telegraph Ofiice

Western Union and VI. Interndtional-in 81
Iohnsbury House. Open from n. m, to p. II
sundays, to 10 am, to + p. IN. Night message
at half rates.
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East st. .JOhnsbury.

COHgregationdl.-Sunday services at lO.i5 a. M
and $50 p. m. sabbath school at 1900. Wednes
day evening meeting at $50.
Methodist.-Supplied by Rev. q. f. Burnham
sunday services at 30 p III.