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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-11-27
Prohibition in the south.

One of the most cheering signs in
temperance agitation is the progress of
temperance sentiment in the south. In
a recent address, Miss Willard, who
has travelled through every southern
state in the interest of the Woman's
Christian Temperance union, says she
believes the south is ready for new
party. In every southern as well as
northern state the women are at work,
and making steady progress in the edu-
cation of the people in temperance.
The people of Arkansas at the Septem-
Der election voted upon the question of
licensing the sale of Intoxicating liquor
with the following result : For license,
81, ,597 ; against, 1888. Six counties
voted against license. Two years ago
twelve counties voted against it. The
little town of Pullman, fourteen miles
from Chicago, is practical illustration
of what a prohibitory law, if enforced,
will do. Five years ago it was not,
and now it can boast 900 inhabitants
and large manufactures Prohibition
is the absolute rule. As result, one
policeman serves for the protection of
all the citizens, and neither Jail nor
lookup is found necessary, and its
taxes are almost nothing.
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SqIIibS.

eyes, sir,h said the liquor dealer,
"it is good law that prevents any
one from opening school within five
hundred feet of liquor saloon. School
houses are the ruin of the trade any
way.n
"Yon Americans" said an English
man to IL young lady, "havc no ances-
try to which you can point with pride"
"That is very true" she assented.
"MOst of our ancestors came from En-
gland, you know"
care you going to count such small
fry as Belva and Butler ~ asked "A man
of one of the board of canvassers.
"Certainly we must do it," "Why
are you compelled tn ~ ''Becanse this
is an official count, and we must count
all the fish to get the net result. -
New York Journal.
Eli Perkins writes from Europe, "I
have seen but one drunken man in
France, Switzerland and Bavaria"
All? Same man in every place, eli
Well, come home, Eli, come home,
home. Europe is no kind of Il place
for that kind of u man. Burlington
Hawkeye.
GLOW beautiful those two old people
look, sitting together at the fireside ~
exclaimed IA sentimental young lady
"I wonder what they are talking
about ?" "Probably lighting their bat
ties over again." replied her matter-of-
fact companion.-tB Burlington Free
Press.
A gang of Italian la]Orers near Sara
toga were recently cut down 10 cents IL
dav Instead of striking. they cut AN
inch off their shovel blades at night.
The "bossn asked what it meant, and
Baldwin's Guide reports that one of
the men replied: "NOt so much pay,
not so much dirt lift; all right, the job
last the more long. Italian 10 fool
like Trlshmau he no strike"
''Dear me I'm glad this whole cleo
ton business is over with" sighed Mrs.
Crap. "WhX, do you know, Mrs,
Noddie, that for the last three weeks
John Craps been so that couldn't
understand his eurions actions. When
1 ask him if he has got plenty of sugar
in his coffee, he says, We'll / reckon
there's slight plurality and when |
ask him about the hens he says 'the
majority of them only vote once "A day,
but I've found several repeaters, and
all such stuff as that. It's no wonder
Fm nearly crazy" -.-.
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Jeff Davis Saddle.


jefferson Davis had returned to him
recently the saddle he used while try
ing to escape through Georgia in 1865.
1t has been well kept. The Macon
Telegraph gives its history. Before
Mr.. Davis capture he was watering
his horse at a spring thirteen miles
from Macon. He asked boy, who
ehanced to be there, if he wanted
pretty saddle, his object being to turn
over the saddle, which he valued high
ly, to some one who would let it fall
into the hands of some southern fami-
ly who would take care of it rather
than to be captured by the federals.
The boy replied that he would like to
have it. Mr.. Davis covered the saddle
with blanket and gave it to the boy
who placed it in the hands of Adam
Jones, who gave it to his brother, DIR.
w. l.. Jones, who has kept it ever
since. Not long ago Mr.. Davis wrote
to Howell Cobb of Athens, detailing
the circumstances, and through him it
was returned
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GleanIngS.

Mr.. Henry NJ. Stanley will, on De-
cember 3d, deliver the inaugural ad-
dress, of the new Scottish Geogranhi-
cal Society ut Edinburgh.
The widow of President Polk. who
passed her eighty-first birthday ami
versary in September last, is in excel
lent health. She is deeply interested
in politics.
Mr.. Robert Burdette, of the Burling-
ton Hawkeye, has presented a church
bell to the Baptist Society of Merton
Square, Penn. The gift is the fulfill
ment ofa desire expressed by his in
valid wife just before her death.
Miss Pearl Tyler, daughter of Ex-
President Tyler, was married in Rich
mond, Va, last week to Mr.. VIM.
Munford Ellis. The bride is Il very
beautiful woman. She wore her moth
er's marriage gown. She is Roman
Catholic.
A significant statement was lately
made by citizen of Denver, who
CHANGED to have been at one time its
mayor. "Whenever we extend the sa-
loon limit a little,n he said, "'we have
to add to the police force. And every
body doesn't seem to realize that tie
extra policeman costs more in month
than the saloon nets in Il year"
1t is a lamentable fact, us indicated
by census returns, that insanity is
more frequent among farmers wives
than in any other class. 1'ne CON
fnement to home, with its unceasing
round of monotonOus duties, is one
cause of this tendency. Farmers are
compelled to leave home more in mar
keting their produce, but their wives
do not see enough of the world to slim
ulate proper mental activity.
So large is the number of persons
taken to Bellevue Hospital, New York,
who have been made insane through
intemperance, that the insane pavilion
may well be named after this class of
patients. From five to ten persons are
taken to the hospital every day for ex-
animation, and of these the majority
are the outcome of Incorporate habits.
So far as appears, the insanity SO pro-
duced is not II form of delirium tremens
which is more or less temporary in its
nature, but Il loss of reason which may
be as permanent as from any cause
whatever. What is still more serious.
this class of sufferers has doubled with
in year, and is five times as great as
1t was five years ago. No wonder that
one of the officials ut the hospital re
marked that it was the strongest and
most practical kind of temperance les
son that he knew of.-[Churchmau.
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"IIIraIn'S Folks"
BY LUCY RANDALL COMFORT.

$50 Hiram's folks has made money,
ell ?" said old Mr.. Biggs.
Miss Paulina Prickett had invited
the Biggs family to tea, with hot waf
fles, ounce preserves, Sally-lunns, an
gel-cake, and the best quality of Y oung
Hyson, to celebrate the purchase of n
new tea set-whte French china with
IL gold band on the edge in which she
had indulged. Inviting the Biggs fam
lily, as Miss Paulina very well knew,
was better than advertising the whole
thing in the newspaper, for there was
a gOodly number of them, and they al
ways talked to everybody about every
thing. The Bigges seldom invited
company themselves, because, like
John Gilpn's wife, they had a frugal
mind, but they always came in full
force whenever they were hidden.
YES" said Mrs. IIoratio Biggs Gin
the book business, I'm told"
81 knowed a boOkmaker once" OBJ
served Miss Prickett, literally ladling
ont the golden syrup of the ounces,
''as only got ninety cents a day, and
found himself.n
THAT was book binder, Aunt
Prickett," said Esther, her niece, who
was serving up the waffles hot and
with Il cOuntenancc considerably in
famed from the vicinity of the kitchen
stove.
"Well, where's the difference ~
sharply retorted Miss Prickett.
"And everybody knows as printers
don't get no wages to signify joined
in Mrs. Luke Biggs, who wore a green
Il Ill ,l,t. Ia
cameo breastpin as large as an individ-
ual butter plate. 81 saw one standing
on the steps of a newspaper office, and
he wore dreadful shabby hat, with
no coat, and shirt as was all black
and grease spots, only fit for the wash
tub
"Printers have to dress according to
their work, | s'pose," said Luke, sur
lily.
The Biggs family had not been like
Dr. Watts's proverbial birds, which
sin their little nests agreed" HOratiO
| Biggs had overreached his two young
er brothers in business, aud had set up
E'general stOre"in Biggsville, out of
the result of his sharp practice, with a
tall, angular wife, who despised Mrs.
Luke because she had once worked in
factory, and scorned Mrs. Hiram be
cause she was teacher when her hus-
band first met her. Luke Biggs was "A
selfish, grinding, miserly sort of fellow
who drudged away on the old farm be-
cause he was too parsimoniOus to spend
! the money necessary to enable him to
enter any other business, and Mrs.
Luke's chief end and aim in life was to
screw enough cash out of her husband
To Outdress the other matrons and
maids of the neighborhood. Miss
Josepha Biggs, the unmarried daugh-
ter, made dresses for .'the genteelest
families only,n and old Mr.. and Mrs.
Biggs lived in a wing of the old home
stead, and when they were not quar-
reliing between themselves, made com
mon cause against Mrs. Horatio.
Under the circumstances it was not
to be marvelled at that Hiram Biggs,
/ who bad contrived to get an education
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train back to Biggsville.n
81 didn't know" suggested the old
woman, rather disappointed at this
sudden withdrawal of invading forces.
'but You might have come to help
nurse 'em.n
Nothing of the sort" Mrs. Horatio
answered, as, forcing herself into the
already Oyerfull hack, she slammed the
door with an emphatic bang, and
shouted to the driver to $50 on ~
"The-smalt-pox !" groaned Mrs.
Biggs senior. "And not one of the
children has been vaccinated."
"We'd better stop at the near, st
drugstore and have it done at once,r
said Mrs. Luke breathlessly.
"ltll be dreadful expensive,n said
Mrs. Horatio.
"But it'll be cheaper than having
the smallpox argued Mrs. Biggs
senior.
So, after this important sanitary GER
emonial, during which the Biggs boys
bawled as if they were being flayed
alive, the family returned, without loss
of time to Biggsville.
And Hiram's folks did not have the
pleasure, then or ever, of entertaining
their relations. In fact, they never
dreamed how near they had been TO
that happiness. The Biggsville Biggs-
es declared over and over again that
they never should forgive their city re-
lations, but rs Hiram's folks did not
know 1t, they were saved from any
overwhelming pangs of conscience.
They wrote letter to the Board of
Health reproaching them bitterly with
the bad management of the varioloid
case in Thirteenth Avenue, but they
never got any answer from that august
body. In short, the Biggs family were
very angry, but they probably would
have been angrier still if they had
known with what fortitude Hiram's
folks endured the deprivation of their
society," Harper's Bazaar.
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Educational Items.

In the "Harvard Annex" for female
students, there was fort ty-nine students
last year.
Girard college has an endowment of
$40, l35, 900 Columbia, S6,250, 900, and
Harvard, S4,500,0OO.
Woman suffrage in educational mat
ters is now established in twelve states
and several territories, and in two OF
three others women may hold office on
public educational boards.
Hawaii, with about $1,000 popula-
ton, reports 20I schools, with about
5000 pupils. Three-fOurths of these
attended public schools. More than
half the children of the nation were
receiving instruction iii the English
language.
The statement is made that of the
profits of his lectures here i'll 1882 Pro-
fessor Tyndall left SI3,OOO i'll the
hands of trustees for the benefit OF
American students who might wish to
go abroad to prepare themselves for
original research in physics.
New Zealand, with 532 600 pOpula-
ton, exclusive Of aborigines, reports
about 81 900 pupils enrolled, and Co.
900 in average attendance, under about
1000 teachers, and about 1000 children
in industrial schools. Provision is
made for normal instruction in four
schools, with l47 students for secon-
Diary instruction in twenty schools
and for superior instruction., in four
colleges, the last established in 1892.
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A plea For working Girls.
ST. JoHNsBURY, Nov. I6.

/ JOliNSBOh1, NOV. 10.
Mr.. Editor. There is n subject bear
ing on my mind which impresses me
deeply and | want to present it to the
Christian men and women of this town,
and perhaps through them it may go
farther and reach others. AS I pass
by the beautiful building which is
nearing completion for the Y. NJ. c. A.,
think that it is a good work. And
then the thought comes to me, where
is the Christian home for young wo-
men? What is being done for their
comfort and salvation Where is their
reading rooms = their free evening
classes 2 Who is providing for. them
a Thanksgiving dinner Who is try
ing to make CHEEKY and beautiful a
place for them in which to spend their
evenings or leisure hours, the few they
haveP
No doubt there are hundreds of girls
even in this town who would gladly
avail themselves of such opportunities
as the Y. NJ. c. A. offers. do not mean
of course those who have happy homes
and every means of instruction and
entertainment but working girls who
toll in kitchens and shops and stores,
and when evening comes sit down
alone in some kitchen, or a cold and
cheerless bedroom.
Go ont upon our streets any evening
after seven O'Clock and watch the
groups of young women and girls that
travel up and down and you will see
how they spend their evenings. Some
pure, fresh, sweet faces; some, alas
too many, with traces of sin and dissi-
patton. | tell you, Christians, if it
makes your heart ache as it has mine,
you will be up and doing. | am
mother; and looking into the faces of
these girls and thinking they are some
mothers own girls, my heart has
grown heavy with the burden of this
thought.
A few words in Christian kindness
TO those who employ these girls: Does
it ever occur TO you that you are to
some extent responsible for the souls
of these girls ? Do you make as pleas
ant place for them in your homes as
you canP Do you offer them good
books and papers to read Do you
place IA Bible in their rooms ? Do you
ever say, come, let us go into the
house of the Lord "Inasmuch as We
did it unto the least of these We did it
unto me-" Have We sought out the
neglected ones and brought them into
the fold? If the souls of our young
men are worth saving why not the
souls of the young women ? | beg of
you, both men and women, to think of
this matter seriously. could say
more for my heart is full; but | have
suggested these thoughts for your
prayerful consideration.
A WOMAN WHO LOVES THE
SOULS OF WOMEN.
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Helping a Pretty Girl.

Maybe man feels happy and proud
and fiattered and envied and blessed
among men when he secs pretty girl
trying to raise window of a railway
car and jumps up and gets ahead al the
other boys, and says: "Allow mePr oh.
so courteOusly, and she SAYS sob. if
you please | would be so glad and
the other male passengers turn green
with envy. and he leans over on the
back of the seat and tackles the win
dow in a knowing way with one hand.
If peradventure he may toss it airily
with simple tnrn of the wrist but it
kind of holds on, and he takes hold
with both hands, but it sort of doesn't
go to any alarming extent, aud he
pounds 1T with his list, but 1t only
seems to settle "a leetle closer into
place and then he comes around and
she gets out of the seat TO give him n
fair chance and lie grapples that win
dow and bows up his back and tugs
and pulls and sweats aud grunts and
strains, and his hat falls off and his
suspender buttons fetch loose and his
waistcOat buckle parts and his face
gets rcd, and his feet slip. and people
laugh, and an irreverent young man in
a remote seat gruuts and groaus every
time he lifts, and cries, 'Now, then;
altogether J" as if in mockcry, and he
bursts his collar button and the pret-
ty young lady, vexed ut being made so
conspicuous. says III her iciest manner,
'oh, never mind, thank you it doesn't
make any difference and calmly goes
and sits down in another scat. and that
wearied man gathers himself together
and reads book upside down-oh.
doesn't he feel just good /? Maybe
but don't be fool enough to extend any
OF your sympathy. He doesn't need it.
i Burlington Hawkeye
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Ages of European Monarchs.

Emperor William is oldest monarch
in the world. Queen Victoria is % !;
King Christian of Denmark is &c, and
hi wife, the Queen, is a year older.
The emperor of Austria is 81 and his
wife is 46, while King Leopold of Bel
GUM. 40 years old, has wife aged 80.
One of the youngest monarchs reign
ing is King Alphonso of Spain, who
has seen q years, and next to him
come King George of Greece and Alex
ander of Russia, each of whom are in
the neighborhOOd of 30. The sultan of
Turkey is AZ. King Oscar of Sweden
55, Louis Of Portugal 40, Humbert of
Italy 40, and President Grevy of
France II. The wife of the Russian
ruler is three years younger than her
husband, the wife of the German five,
and the Queen of Italy seven.
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Or Cutting l5r-s7

This will perhaps suffice for samples
of the logic contained in it, although
it loses half the quaintness in trans
lating and in taking it out of its Curl
ous setting o. II. G.
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st. Johnsbury q Lake ChampIain Railroad
Nov "a 1884
TRAINS WEST.
Road ma
st. Johnsbury Post Office.

Commencing Oct. g. the mails will close at the
Post Office as follows:
Passumpsic X. L. Way Mail, South 945 a. III
No. Danville, Us A m
st. j. q l.. G. K. r. Way Mail East els D. M
81 >. q L. I. X. X Way Mail, West, 215 p. IN
fassumpslc X X. way Mail. North, 400 p. IN
West concord aud 81. JOhnsbury East, 9.45 a.
Waterford. W. Wat'fd and l.. Wat'rd 400 D. IN
bOstoh, Ne" lork Conn. X. Val, Mail, 500 p. III
Northern and Montreal mail 500 D. m
Mail VIII be collected from the boxes at Paddock
village and Railroad street at 500 a M and 8 l. 5
y. Box at Railroad street will be visited at 30
y. M, usual.
CHAS 2 CARPENrEp L. NJ
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The state Congregational Sunday
school convention is likely to awaken
a needed discussion by its recent ac-
ton at Boston abandoning the Old
Testament in the Sunday schools, and
recommending that the next interna
tional lesson series be wholly out of
the New Testament.
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ST. Jobnsburx ath.,,.,,,

Library and Reading Room Free to all. Open
from A. ". TO 1. NJ. from . to 6 p. M and from
to - Saturday evenings.
Art GGuerV--Open Tuesdays and Fridays.
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Western Union and W. InternatiOhat-in st.
Johnsbury House. Open from a. m. to p. III.
sundays. . to 10 a H.. ) to y. Night messages
at hall rates
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ST. JOhnsbury Centre


COngTegGtiOHdt-Rev. J. n. Walker SUNDAY
services al 1916 a. m. aud SO p. m. Sabbath
school at ls.0O. Wednesday evening meeting at
Nethod'st-Suppled by Rev. Z. W. Culver.
Sunday services at l. 30 y. IN.
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Wire Staples and Punches.

Jast the thing Tor issteHing together legal doeu-
mentH manuscripts, pamphlets etc For sale az
he CAledouiaA Office n
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AdoeHt-PaddOck Village. Sabbath Services at
1880 a m, l;45 and 6:30 =. NJ. Sabbath school
L. m. Prayer Meetings at 1880 D. IN SUNDAY Tines.
day aud Friday evenings.
BGptiSt-Railroad Street Corner Map.e Rev
+. l. Sandiord Pastor. Preaching 1850 =. NJ s.
school - NJ. Prayer meeting $50 Prayer meet
lnS W Wednesday evening at 7:.iO
Free Baphst-Maiu Street Corner Prospect
sabbath services 1880 AN, and $50 P NJ. Sabbath
school at IL NJ Prayer meeting Wednesday even
ing at 40 Rev. ID. ii. Adams, pastor
Church of the Nessiah-( U Uniyersalist) Eastern
avenue, corner Cherry street. Sabbath services
al i:45, $50 p. Nj. Sabbath School at 1890 p NJ
"Wednesday evening meeting ut 1880. Rev. e. W
jenkins, pastor.
Msthodist-Cenual street. Rev. E. w Culver,
Pastor. residence next to the Church sab
bath services at 1890 A NJ, and $3.50 M. Sabbath
school at IL Wednesday evening meeting AT
1880.
North CoHgregGtionai-Main street, corner of
church Rev henry w. Jones, Pastor. sabbath
services at 1890 A. M and $50 p. NJ. Sabbaih
school at l:i1 p. NJ. Wednesday evening meeting
at 1880.
South Congregdtionai-Main street Rev. Ed
ward T. Fairbanks Pastor sabbath services at
1880 A NJ, and $50 P. Nj Sabbath School at L. NJ
"Wednesday evening meeting at 7:3O.
Presbyterian ChuTeh-Eastern A venue. Rev. W .
r. LAIRD pastor. sabbath services at 1880 m
aud $50 p. sabbath school at IL IN PRAYER
meeting Wednesday evening 73O.
81 Aadrsg 81 EpiscopalJ Main street Rev
+. = Fisher, Rector. Services ou sundays at
1880 a. m, and y. Wednesdays at $50 p. n
sunday School at IL M
Roman CdthOtie-Cherry Street. Rev. j. A
Hoissonuault Parish Priest. Mass and 10 a. III
NeSpers and Benedction at 3 y. IN On the
second sunday of the month service at $50 a. M
and p. NJ. At Lynd"nville same day al 1890 a. ~
y. II. O. A.-Meetings at the hall of the Y. NJ. Z.
A., Main street Sunday mornings at $50 Satur-
day evenings at 40. Young Mems meeting sun
day at 80 p IN. Noon meeting every day at
rooms On Main street
81. Johnsbury Centre.
COngregati0na1- Pastor sun
day services at IL A. M and 500 p NJ sabbath
School al IL NJ Wednesday evening meeting at
30 P NJ
AsthodiSt-Rev. j. W. Bemis Pastor SUNDAY
Services at II A. NJ. and 6 30 F. NJ SUNDAY School AT
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