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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10
MRS. D. A. MoRRisoN's,

-StTATE OF VERMONT CALEDONIA DITRIcT, So
> In Probate Court held at the Probate Office in
st. JohDsbury, within aud for said district the
81 day of April, 4. ID. lssf
An Instrument purpOrting to be the last VIII ADD
Testament Of James NJ Beattie late of Ryegate
in said district deeeaaed being presented to Court
by Margaret ). Beatfie the Exscutrix therein
named for Probate:
IL is ordered by said Court that all perso,s
concerned therein be notified to appear at a session
of said Court TO be holden at the Probate Office
ia St JOhnsbury, the 10Th day of ADrif
A u. 1894 and show cause if auy thew NAV haxs
against the Probate of said viii: for which
purpose it is further ordered that a copy Of the
record Of this order be published three weeks sue
cessively in the CALIFORNIAN, printed az 81
Jonnsbary, previous to said tine appointed for
hearing. "
By the Court, Attest ..
WALTER p. SMITH, Judge
SE's WALTER =. SMITH, Judge
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10

There are 1906 pupils in the Burling-
ton public schools.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10
Letter from Carroll 5. Page.
HYDE PARK, VT, April Z, 1884.

Editor (,0le60uiIn
DEAR SIR II noticed in vour lost
issue that von nav vour resnects to mo
-vitb cons;SerabIe vicor and nras,,,,,e
from the tome of yonr article that vo,,
are convinced of the trutb of what yor
aIIeoe. You saw that in 1854 ahont the
time of the drafts. I chad uroent hnsi-
ness in Canada - and did not raturn
until the war closed. or to use xour
exact Language. suutil the connt,.v
was savedr If there is any fonnda-
tion in fact for these ALLEGATIONS Won
assuredlv "seryed me right Vnfort-
nnatelySor fortunately-tbe CHARGES
made arc untrue
Ii is suscentible of proof bevond n
doubt nv the hest of dncumeptarv evi-
dance
LIST. That there never was a time
during the war. after became of mill
tarv age. that / was not enrolled in
HYDE Park and subject to all drafts
that might have been made.
9d That from September LIST. lS63.
to the close of the war. | was in Can
ada in all less than six weeks.
I'd That from the commencement
of the war to September LIST. IS63.
tbera we're No drafts in HYDE Park that
e3Oo communication money would NOT
SsttIe
Altbougb my father has been q con-
fr,nnd inv,I;d for more th.p tbirtv
Years hayinG received a eyere sninal
;niurr neariy resuIting in death he
has been nevertheless a fairly snc-
nassfnI business man and the idea that
he wouJJ have suffered me. an only
SON and withaI - minor acting solely
in obedience To his commands. to be
Jisgraced in the manner claimed by
the CoIedonjon for the paltrv sum OF
s3oO is simnIv absurd,
For twentv-five Years. commencing
of course several wears before the war,
a considerable norton of the hide.
vol and ha,.tar business at first car
ried on hv my father and larer by nv
saIf hos Haen in Canada II extends
into Ontario Ouebec- Prince Edwards
Island Nova scotia and New Bruins
wick. and although | have visited all
| =, - - -, ,,,o,,,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10
Yours truly,
CARROLL S. PAGE.

Note-We publish the above letter
from Maj. Page and take pleasure in
saying that after making diligent en-
quiry we are satisfied that the above
statement is correct, and that the as
persion circulated against his patriot
ism and copied into this paper is with
ont foundation.-[E Ed. Caledonidm.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10

Poor st. Adams has received another
blow. Its First National and only
bank has suspended with a good pros
pect Of going into voluntary liquida-
ton all hccausc of what the Messenger
calls the unfortunate speculation i'll
stocks" 10y President +. A. Sowles and
his brother, the cashier. 1t is too bad.
st. Adams was set back twenty years
10y the Barlow scrape and the Trust
company failure and this reverse, com
ing 50 soon after, will lose what little
confidence there was left in st. Adams
financial institutions. In the language
of IIillard's old sixth reader with vari-
ations, ''What has poor Adams done.
mother, what has poor Adams done "
This bit of political talk looks like
lost chicken in the Burlington Free
Press: "Now in this city, half a dozen
fellows will run the caucus and name
the delegates to the state convention
half dozen fellows will run the state
to the national convention and half
a dozen grand mugwumps will run that
convention and name the presidential
candidate. The people don't have
ANYTHING to say about it. The machine
runs the whole thing. And nine times
out of ten the machine wins the day.
The tenth time it is licked most horri-
BLY, And it may bc well To add that
this is pretty near the tenth time.
During Hon. f. j. Phelps's lecture
before the Yale Law school the other
day, on independence in Politics"
Just rs he was saying "Now the coming
man in this country and he is coming
is the independent voter" the door
opened and Il middle-agcd, intelligent
looking gentleman entered and quietly
seated himself. He evidently did not
understand the ripple Of laughter that
ran over the audience when Prof.
Phelps, equally unconscious of its
cause, continued ale is the man
whose feet are beautiful upon the
mountains. for he brings glad tidings.'
But the point was just as good and it
is matter of congratulation that the
ablest democrat in Vermont is more
progressive than most of the states
democratic bourbonS.
Boston Journal Forbes is likely tC
get into a pretty tight box if this con
troversy between the Argus and Editor
Green continues. Forbes wrote the
Argus that $50 far rs my recollection
goes, do not see but that the fact,
stated 10y you are substantially the
same as told me 10y Mr.. Greene AnG
then he wrote Mr.. Green: 81 neither
told the Argus reporter or any one
that You spoke in Mr.. Billings name
because | distinctly understood tina
You were not So authorized. ! sal'
nothing to Oviatt cmbodying the state
ment he makes that its entire boon
for Mr. Billings has been without thu
slightest encouragement from him, a
we have heretofore stated, while Ia
has been diSgustrd with the method
it has adopted and the course it ha
pursued / diSclaim all responsibility,
for the above"
fol a
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10
Black Dress Silks.
HOSIERY

Will be opened March 3Ist. We have
purchased the finest line of Hosiery
ever shown by us, representing the
latest novelties in variety and styles at
reasonable prices.
Our new Spring Stock of Baldwin
and Lumkin
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-04-10

Is complete. We have an extra
large line of Black Dress Goods with
our usual assortment of Colored Dress
! Goods in all the new prevailing cOlors.
Some very handsome patterns in Gem
bination Suitings. large stock OF
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-10-23
The Architecture of South American
Indians.

There is considerable variety in the
shape and appearance of houses made
by South American Indians, even of the
same tribe. In this village there were
three different designs. First there
was the open-sided shed which appeared
to be used in common by the whole vii
lage for cooking purposes; then there
were three rectangular buildings with
roofs sloping nearly to the ground and
sides made of split palm leaves woven
in and out between small poles, which
were occupied by the larger portion of
the villagers; and last OF all was a
large, round affair with conical roof
of palm thatch, and with plated sides,
which was occupied for sleeping pur-
poses, but, singularly enough, solely
by the men. These last four houses
were provided with narrow entrances,
but were unlighted in any other way.
Their floors were of Mother Earth,
trampled hard by many naked feet, and
their roofs inside were shiny black
from the SCOT and smoke which had ac-
cumulated there. Strung wherever
space could be found were the small
cotton hammocks of the Indians, and
beneath each during the night burned
little fire to warm the naked body of
the sleeper. In the rafters overhead,
stretched from pole to pole. were the
long, straight bows and shiny yellow
arrows of the warriors, and may be
among the lot the deadly blow pipe, or
hanging from . peg the paddle-shaped
war club used by these people. Vari-
Gus earthenware utensils lay around,
and the ingenious basket-work mata-
pie. or casSava strainer, was never alb
sent-Brttish Guinea Correspondence
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-10-23
misunderstanding.

In regard to the subject of ballooning
and the recent French experiment in
steering a balloon, it may be noted that
the analogies of nature are adverse to
the attainment of artificial flight by
means of balloon. We do not mean
by way of detail, but by way of princi-
pie. The theory of a balloon is that OF
evitation-that is to say, of counter
posing gravity by the diSplacing of
given bulk of atmospheric air by a light
er gas. That the latter method involves
the exposure of so large surface to at
mospheric currents as to require great
force to overcome the resistance of
rapid breeze by fans, screws, or other
mechanical means, is well known. But
the point to which we refer is this: In
the flight of every bisd or insect the
weight of the animal is directly utilized
for maintaining it in the air. At the
will of the bird, the feathe ed surface
that it exposes to the wind can be 50 in
clined to the movement of tn latter as
to make the creature rise or fall at wi |.
by the direct action of the wind, with
out any visible motion of the wings
From the deck of a vessel a gull may be
watched, lowering for many minutes
together, without one flap of its wings
The bird at such times is living kite,
its power of self-balance producing the
effect of the string of the kite in main
tanning a certain inclined position rela-
tive to the wind. And although some
birds of the swiftest flight have an ex-
traordinary area of wing surface in pro-
portion to their weight. others, of equal
or even superior power of flight, have
very little wing surface in proportion to
their weight. Thus the problem of
flight has been solved by nature in many
ways; but in all of them the gravity of
the living creature, far from being de-
stroyed or counterpoised, is an essen
tial element of its mechanical action.
The inference that we draw from this
is that the opposite principle, that of
deviation, is not likely to be followed
with mechanical success except on rare
occasions .-Builder.
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Firing at 4 Crisis.

Senator Fessenden was not destitute
of humor, rs has been asserted. On the
contrary he enjoyed good repartee or
a good story, and he would sometimes
illustrate an argument with an anec-
dote. One afternoon in February, 1858,
Jefferson Davis, A. q. Brown and 9TH
er Southern Senators had declared that
when the people of the North and
South got divided on any question there
would be crisis and the Union would
bs dissolved. Senator Fessenden was
not disposed to be frightened. He was
reminded, he said, of an incident which
had occurred in the Mexican war,
when general rode up to Capt. Dun
can, who was in charge of battery,
and with very grave and sober face.
said, Capt. Duncan, fire; the crisis
has arrived" Duncan turned TO his
men, who stood at their pieces with
matches lighted and ready, and gave
the order to fire! An old ar1illeryman
walked up to him and said, Captain.
do not see any OF the enemy within
range. What shall we fire at?" Fire
at the crisis" was the response; Ibid
you not hear the general say the crisis
has come! Fire at that So, said
Senator Fessenden. it is with gentle
men. think, in reference to this mat
ter. They are always charged and
ready to fire at the crisis. ! believe it
has arrived half dozen times within
my recollection.-Ben: Perley Poore.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-10-23
A Boys Ambitions.

Nearly everybody who is now man,
says the Through Mail, was once boy.
All these grown-up boys remember how
they felt the first time they saw brass
band. They felt that the president of
the United States was not to be COM
pared to the editor of the bass drum,
and that the druIn-major was at least
six inches above George Washington in
the temple of fame. Oh! how they did
yearn to belong to brass band, until a
circus came along, and then they long
ed to be the fearless equestrian or the
man in the lions cage. Congress had
no charms for most of its present mem
bers when they were boys. To be
bareback rider or drum-major was in
frnltely better than to be a member of
congress in their youthful eyes.
Then came a time when their hearts
were set on becoming a brakeman on a
railway train, and when the vision of
promotion to the conductorship of a
train tloated across their dreamy optics
they We're in the fifth heaven of delight.
Time wore on, only to rub the glitter of
the railway service off, and supply its
place with grand aspirations for the po-
sitlon Of umpire of a baseball game,
which was rapidly succeeded by an in
ordln ate ambition to be the victor of
prize-ring. After being knocked out in
one round by nearly every boy in the
community, ambition again underwent
metamorphosis, and the one thing of
all things desired was to be the reigning
monarch of barber-shop, or the un-
trammeled commander of a volunteer
fire brigade.
In d e time all the tinsel of these
high callings was but dross to them,
and to die on the battle-f field, breathing
some patriotic sentiment as the sands
OF life ran away. was the one high aim
OF existence. After one encampment
with the home militia, with beans and
bareback for menu, and a finger acct
dentally shot off for fun, no further
anxiety to spill blood by the gallon for
their country was manifested, and they
longed for more agreeable pursuits in
cident to the tranquil surroundings of
peace.
At about this point their desires took
a different turn. Their hearts glowed
with nobler impulse, and there was a
tritie more determination to do in their
composition. One determined to teach
school, and did so. To be sure he was
surprised that life was not one continu-
al round of uninterrupted jov in his
now calling, but he worries along and
the n Xt spring enters law office and
becomes a disciple of Blackstone. The
next autumn he reverts to school-teach-
ing, and school-teaching is sandwichcd
into his life in various ways and at nu-
merous periods afterwards, until he be-
comes an editor, and the prize-ring eX-
periences of his youth are repeated
again. Some years later he is elected
to congre 5, and then all the old ambi-
tons are forgotten, and give place to
designs on the senate. Only few of
them ever get there, and they at once
feel the humming of the presid ential
bee in their boanets, and eventually be-
come candidates before the national
conventions of the great parties, and
all but two get-left; and when the
election is over one of these two is also
left
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WHOLE NO. 1860.
The Bluebird.

So far as the chickadee is concerned.
| see nothing whatever to wish differ
emit; but am glad to believe that, for
my day and long after, he will remain
the same unassuming, careless-hearted
creature that he now is. If | may be
allowed the paradox, it would be too
bad Tor him to change, even for the bet
ter. But the bluebird, who like the tit
mouse is hardly to be accounted q mu-
stefan, does seem to be somewhat
blameworthy. Once in a while, it is
true. he takes q perch and sings; but
for the most part he is contented with
a few simple notes. having no SEM
blauce of Il tune. Possibly he consid-
ers that his pure contralto voice U do
not remember ever to have heard from
him any note of soprano. or even of a
meZzo-soprano quality) ought by itself
to be a sufficient distinction; but /
think it likelier that his slight attempt
at music is only one manifestation of
the habitual reserve which, more than
anything else perhaps, may be said to
characterize him. How differently he
and the robin impress us in this par
ticular! Both take up their abode in
our door-yards and orchards; the blue
bird goes SO far, indeed. as 10 accept
our hospitality outright, building his
nest in boxes put up for his accommo-
dation, and making the roofs of our
houses his favorite perching stations.
But, while the robin is noisilv and
jauutily familiar, the bluebird main
tains dignitied aloofness; coming and
going about the premises, but keeping
his thoughts to himself, and never be-
coming one of us save by the mere ac-
cident of local proximity. The robin,
again, loves TO travel in large hocks,
when household duties are over for the
season; but although the same has
been reported Of the blue bird, | have
never myself seen such n thing, and am
satisfied that as rule, this gentle
spirit finds q family party of six or sew
en- company enough. His reticence, as
we cheerfully admit, is nothing to
quarrel with; it is ali we'll bred, and
not in the least unkindly; III fact, we
like it, on the whole, rather better than
the robins pertness and garrulity; but,
none the less, its natural consequence
is that the bird has small concern for
musical display. When he sings, it is
not to gain applause, but to express his
affection; and. while, in one aspect of
the case, there is nothing out of the
way in his,-since his affection need
not be the less deep and true because
it is told in few words and with I'M
adorned phrase-yet, as said to begin
with, it is hard not to feel that the
world is being defrauded, when for
any reason, however amiable, the
possessor of such matchless voice has
no ambition to make the most of it
BrGdtord I0rrey In October atlantic.
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Mr.. CARROTS Wealth.

Mr.. Garrett himself has said more
than once during the past few months
TO gentlemen intimately concerned
with business affairs in which he was
prominent that he had so provided and
arranged in his viii that there would
be no such change in the existing status
of his holdings of various securities rs
would at all disturb other interests. Of
greatest Importance. Of course, is the
stock of the Baltimore and Ohio. of
which he was not only the largest indi-
vidual shareholder, but even a holder
to greater extent than the city of
Baltimore or the Johns Hopkins estate.
The Garrett interest, in fact,
amounts, it Is stated, to very nearly
two-sevenths of the entire capital of
the company. The aggregate capital
stock IS Sl4, ,266, or IA, 925. Go
shares, of the par value of 800. 1t is
estimated that the Garrett interest
amounts to about 10000 shares The
market quotation of The stock is us
or rs per cent above par.
Estimates of the wealth of Mr.. Gar
rett, made by persons who have had
close business relations with him, vary
greatly and range all the way from
5000, 900 to $50, 000,000 Besides the
common stock of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company, he owned, it
is said, considerable amounts of the
preferred stoc ks and bonds of the rail-
road. and had invested largely in the
securities of the branch and connecting
roads of the system. Among these
have been most prominently mentioned
thc PITT htIrcr anI TnnnnllsJvi1la tho
Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore,
the Central Ohio and the Washington
branch. He Is said to have been hold
CT, too, of stocks or bonds in various
Eastern, Western and Southern rail
ways, of government bonds. of Mary
land and Virginia state securities. of
Baltimore city stock, and of stock in
number of banks and other financial
and commercial corporations in the
city. The banking house of Robert
Garrett Il Sons has Il large and very
valuable business and Mr.. Garrett was
also a special partner in the firm of
Pope 4 Cole, extensive copper and
general metal dealers.
His investments in real estate were
very large and widely distributed Be
sides his residence he owned other
property on Mount Vernon place.
''Montebello, his country place, is
splendidly improved, embracing over
one thousand acres of fine land, and is
stocked abundantly with the best and
most valuable cattle. sheep and swine.
In his farming and stock raising opera
tons, Mr.. Garrett took great personal
interest. and also in his gardens, hot
houses, and Conservatives. His horses
Were not the fastest, but they were all
of-ine stock, and from his pairs, driv-
en- to 4 broad, strong, but rather light,
double buggy, lie got very good speed
always Besides Monticello. he own
several fine places in Baltimore Coun-
ty. In the city his real estate en-
braced factories, warehouses. office
buildings, and dwelling houses. Some
of the best warehouse property in the
city belonged to him. and he had add
ed largely to the number of his office
buildings in the past fifteen years, par
ticularly in the neighborhood of South
and German streets-DaltimOrG inner
jpu,3
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-10-23
The Missing Link.

"Krao," the so-called missing link
whose history and appearance have
considerably exercised scientists and
amused the curious in Europe. ar
rived in Philadelphia yesterday morn
ING III charge of George Shelley, who
accompanied Carl Book. the traveller,
to Siam three Years ago, when the
child was captured. Mr.. Shelley sat
last night in an upper room at the
Bingham House with ''krao" beside
him, and discoursed learnedly and vol
uminously on his little charge. The
child, who is believed to be between s
and 9 years of age, was neatly dressed
in a terra-cotta gown, red stockings
and buttoned kid shoes Heavy silver
bracelets adorned her hairy arms and
a cord, interviewer with gold thread.
encircled her waist. Though the nose
is flat. and the face ard forehead are
covered with black hair of varying
length and closeneSS, the child is saved
from responsiveness by her remarkably
large, dark, gentle. and intelligent
eyes, and her general expression of
sense and good nature.
''krao, says Mr.. Shelley. was cap
tured with her parents in January.
1891, in the wilds of the LaSo country.
in Northern Siam. All of the tribe that
have been seen are completely covered
with hair. In their natural state they
live in trees. are destitute of clothing.
and almost without language. Their
food Is fruits. fish and nuts. They have
few implements. and do not possess
the knowledge of fire. The name
''krao' is simply the Siamese for
ape.
Mr.. Shelley, who is 4 believer in the
Darwinian theory, while not pretend
inc that krao and her tribe supply the
only link between man and the higher
apes, holds to the idea that these cur
iouS people are allied to the chimpan-
zee IN many physical points. with muck
resemblance to civilized man in intel
lect. He instances a. Krao's ape-like
characteristics the following facts: She
has thirteen dorsal vertebrp and thir-
teen pairs of ribs, instead of twelve. as
IN man. She has pouches in the mouth
where she still stores nuts and sweet
meats. Her cranial measurements
correspond with those of the higher
apes. Her ears and nose are without
cartilage. Her fingers are abnormally
flexible. The hair on her body GROW.
IN directions that characterize the
Siamese hirSute growth.
krao, since her captivity. has learn
ed to read, write and speak English.
and has also acquired some knowledge
of German. From Il wild, untaught
little savage, she has developed into a
doclle, alectionate. and remarkably iu-
telhgent child. She still has recoliec-
tons OF her wild life in Siam. The
child last evening wrote her name in
full, krao Farini, with a pencil. in
Large, round. copy-book hand. picked
up a handkerchief with her toes. and
good-naturedly opened her mouth to
show where she had stored away nuts
IN her curious. ape-likc pouches
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