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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-16
Bill Nye's Army Surgeon.

We had doctor in our regiment
who looked as if lie knew so much that
it made him unhappy. l found out af-
terward that he ran a kind of COW
founding asylum in Utah before the
war, and when he had to prescribe for
a human being it seemed to kind of
rattle him. / fell off'n my horse early
in the campaign and broke my leg,
rickolect, and he set the bone. He
made what he called a good splice, but
the break was above the knee, and he
got the COW idea into his head in a
way that set the knee behind. This
was bad. L told him one day that he
was blamed fool. He gave me a CT
gar, and told me | must be a mind
reader. For several weeks our colonel
couldn't eat anything, and seemed to
feel kind of bilious. He didn't know
what the trouble was till he went to
the doctor. He looked at the colonel
a few minutes, examined his tongue,
and told him right off that he had lost
his cud. He Dragged good deal on
his diagnosis. He said he'd like to see
the disease he couldn't diagnose with
one hand tied behind him.
This doctor was always telling of
his triumphs in surgery. He did save
3 good many lives, too, toward the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-16

whistle valve, and throws it open,
causing the whistle to sound.
The Newport Express thus speaks of
the late Capt. Fogg He loved this
beautiful inland sea, he loved his
boats, he loved his occupation. He
knew every foot of land bordering the
lake, every sunken rock, every dan
gerous point, and rything of inter
est in and about it, with every incident
of the early settlers round its shore.
He never tired of pointing ont the
places of interest and telling their his
tory, interspersing them with many a
joke and incident pertaining to snug
Cling, the rebellion of 81 or the earlier
history of the region. Always pleas
ant and with happy gift of interest
ing his hearers, it was no fault of his
that any tourists or pleasure seeker
ever made the trip with him without
gaining a pretty thorough and correct
idea of this section of the country. He
was also equally careful for the safety
and pleasure of every passenger and
we think we are correct in saying that
during the whole period of nearly 35
years, no passenger ever lost his life
or received serious injury on either
steamer while under his command.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-16
The Death of Barrios.

Central America politics have wit
messed good many sudden Overturns,
but never any more sudden and COM
plete than the overthrow of this au-
daciOus plot for riveting despotism
upon the group of Central American
republics. The enterprise of Barrios
had behind it quite a formidable show
of military strength by comparison,
at least, with the ordinary belligerent
movements in that region and Bar
rios himself was a leader of more than
common ability and intelligence. But
the troops of the little state of San
acknowledgements which he first di-
rected his army-fOught with such I'M
expected courage that the invaders
were driven back and the whole scheme
collapsed like "a bubble that is burst.
Barrios was 80 years old. He was a
lawyer, and a graduate of the College
of Guatemala. He came into prOmi-
hence eighteen years ago i'll the char
acteristic Central American fashion, as
the leader of a revolt which was at first
despised by the government of the
day, but which soon gathered fOrmid-
able force. After four years of fight
ing, with varying fortunes, the revO-
luton was successful, and General
Garcia GranadOs was proclaimed pres
ident, with BarriOs as commander of
the western departments. Beginning
his career as the leader of a revolt
against despOtism, the possession of
power made him continually more ar
bitrary, until he ended by being des
pot himself. Yet his administration
of affairs was marked by many public
improvements, and by energy and a
certain sort of craftsmanship, and the
republic--for the form of the republic
was preserved with the essence of des-
potism-prOspered under him at least
as well as it is likely to under his I'M
mediate successors. The time may
yet come when his dream of a united
Central American republic will be
realized, but it will be, it is to be
hoped, by means more consistent with
free institutions and more regardful of
the popular will Boston Journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-16

have that person up before the master
or mistress at once, or call into instant
instant requisition the services of the
"chucker-Out." OF course, she must
necessarily overbear great deal that
is not fit for ears polite, but so long as
it is not addressed TO her, and the per-
son using it does not make disturb
ance, that is none of her business, and
though obliged to serve the low types
of character above described, it is not
expected of her, however, that she
shall hold any conversation with them
further than the transaction she has
with any of their demands. 1t is a bar
maids ambition to be promoted from
the Bill Sykes side of the bar to that
of the masher. Here she is in her ele-
ment. She can listen to silly nothings
by the hour from dozen of nOnenti
ties, her object evidently being to keep
as many as possible of what she calls
her customers on the tenteT-hOOks. See
her in the evening, if she is at all at
tractive she is a perfect flower plat,
because of the number of buttOnhOles
and bouquets that have been presented
her during the day by her numerous
admirers. Yet her life cannot he all a
bed of roses. She is required to be on
her feet Is hours a day, every day in
the week she must live on the prem
Uses, and she is only allowed to go out
one day in every four or five weeks
she is boarded by her employer and re-
ceives for wages, with which she must
clOthe herself and always appear re-
spectacle, on an average about CD
week.
What becomes of barmaids when
the bloom of youth has passed and
they have broken down in health from
the hard work and close confinement I?
have found no one who can answer
this question satisfactorily. From the
force of habit bar-maids have ideas
and ambitions far above their original
station in life they turn up their nose
at a respectable artisan, yet 1t is not
often that those who have made so
many pretty speeches to them behind
bars, when they were young, pretty
and attractive, care to make them part
ners for life. What becomes of these
IL 900 young women 2 repeat again.
What becomes of the other IOO, 900 en-
gagged in similar callings in other parts
of the country
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-16
Animal Spirits.

'eThere is the liveliest child l ever
knew, of my own or of Others" said
lady, some years ago, of her daughter
of thirteen summers "she is every
where at the same time, upstairs and
downstairs, with the chickens in the
yard, and in the barn for eggs. It's
her animal spirits, suppose, and it's
about time for her to sober down." by
which the good woman meant she
should stay in the house and learn the
accomplishments and fit herself for So
ciety. The fate of her older sister,
languid miss of seventeen, has no sug-
gestien for the mother. This invalid
daughter has been Finished" and she
was nearly so as to the uses of practi-
cal female life. She was tired, much
of her time in bed or on the lounge,
and unfit to be married. And the
mother was about to commence a treat
resulted likewise. There are nations
and families, how fortunate, that have
escaped this notion that animal spirits
in girls must be murdered, and death
take their place in obedience to social
behests. The late Bishop WhitehOuse
once said to the writer "In Europe
| have had occasion to admire the
beauty in connection with high physi-
cal life of girls !; they ride, they row,
they swing, in connection with study
or the pursuit of accomplishments, till
they are twenty -five, or until map
riage." Let the girls then run, and do
not check them and make them feel
ashamed to exhibit vitality. Let them
fulfil their teens in company with ami
NAL spirits. Their studies and their
accomplishments will not suffer; do
not fear. Mothers, it is well worth
your time to try it Herald of Health.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-16
Fiction in Public Libraries.
Suggestions as to its Quality and Uses.

Suggestions as to its Quality and uses.
Sometime ago we took occasion to
say something about reading fiction.
We began by showing from statistics
of public libraries the strong hold this
class of literature had upon the public
mind from three fOurths to fOur-f ifths
of all books drawn being of this class.
OF course it is conceded that fiction of
whatever sort serves as recreation in
literature. that it's pursuit is in some
sort of the nature of mental relaxation,
though not always devoid of rigorous
mental exercise. Relaxation comes
from change of exercise. Fiction then
being good for mental relaxation and
this end being attainable through chan
nels from which profit may also come,
from which instruction, the develop
ment and expansion of the higher fac
ulties of the mind. and the elevation of
the moral and spiritual nature may be
derived, such works should take prece
dence in our selections. We endeav-
tain class of novels not as compared
with history or philosophy or other
departments of literature, but with a
lower grade of books of the same class.
We also tried to indicate how the child
who from his first excursion in litera-
ture had been guided into and through
these fascinating but unsubstantial
felds-fOr nearly all juvenile literature
is pure fictiOn-might by a judiciOus
selection of books presenting history
and biography in the form of romance,
be educated to taste for history, BIZ
Ography, and books of travel, from
which real and solid starting points,
departure is easily made into any of
the still higher fields of literature. We
enumerated several authors whose lead
we thought would aid in this transition
from fiction to history and biography.
Since that time there has been added
to the AthenRum several of the works
of Erckman-C hatrian, as being espe-
cially adapted to aid in this purpose.
These books are of their kind classic,
pure in sentiment, pure in style, en-
bOdying much of historic interest in
France, covering the period of the
great revolution in 1857 and through
the reign of the great Napoleon. They
are graphic in style, the characters be-
ing drawn with great distinctness and
vigor, and the incidents when not
sketched from veritable history are as
consistent and real as anything purely
historic.
1t may be, that in the case of boys
nurtured on the eXtravagant incidents
and exaggerated characters of some of
the popular books for boys now extant,
they may not quite meet the demands
of these beginnings of men," but the
fault will surely be in the vitiated taste
of the boy and not in lack of real and
genuine interest in the books them
selves. AGRICOLA.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-16
Women and Matrimony.

If marriages are less frequent than
some people consider they should he in
the world, the blame is usually cast on
masculine shoulders; and the dislike of
bachelors to renOunce their freedom is
ascribed to the distressing fact that
numbers of women remain single. In
America, however, or at least in some
towns of America, we have the word
of well known lecturer for it,--it lis
the women who detest matrimOny, or
marriage. They are getting, he frankly
warned the sterner sex, "mOre critical
as to the measure of man." and he
will have, the lecturer declared, to
come up to a higher, nObler standard,
or, whether he likes it or not, he will
perfOrce remain bachelor.
In support of this warning, addressed
to his own sex, he cited numbers of
cases which had come under his per
sOnal knowledge of women having
money of their own to spend as they
please, having their own pleasant
homes and cOngenial occupations, free
to go where they like, to do what they
list without consulting anybody, who
would grieve to call any man n master,
and would decline to marry the chest
man who ever stepped in shoe leather"
Briefly he was persuaded, unfattering
though the fact might be to men, that
American women were fast recognizing
the truth that there was frequently
"mOre pleasure, more comfort, more
happiness to be found outside of matri-
mOny," than in a welded life, which so
often brought with it cares and troubles
rather than bliss London Standard.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-16
GleaningS.

William George of ThOmaston, Me-,
received a pension of $1,000 recently
which so elated him that he has become
insane.
Rev. DR.. S. /. Prime has been con-
nected with the New York Observer for
45 years, and the fact was celebrated
the other day by little spread in the
editorial room.
The Buffalo Commercial says ::
"Winter never dared to linger in the
lap of spring in this shamelessly per-
sistent and public manner under re-
publican administration"
DR.. James L. Little of New York,
who was professor of surgery in the
medical department of the u. V. M,
died at New York on Saturday after
noon, of peritOnitis from perforation.
Gibraltar is thus mentioned in all
Spanish official documents "Our most
loyal and noble city of Gibraltar, in
the Campo of Gibraltar, the city of
Gibraltar being in the temporary Occu-
patton of the British"
When DR.. Bellows went to Abraham
Lincoln to urge the appointment of
DIR. Hammond as surgeon general,
an hour, and then when DR.. Bellows
was done said with a smile, "Well,
appointed Hammond nine days ago !;
but l do like to listen to your oratOry."
The Cathedral of the Incarnation,
erected at Garden City, l.. l., at an ex-
pense of over million dollars by Mrs.
COrnelia M. Stewart as a memorial to
Alexander T. Stewart, her late hus-
band, was informally opened last
Thursday, and will be consecrated with
imposing ceremonies in May, by Bish-
OPP LittlejOhn of the diocese of the
Episcopal church in Long Island.
DIR. John T. Nagle of New York city
makes the statement, that One-fifth of
the recent deaths from pneumonia in
that city are due to colds caught in
skating Kinks. Violent exercise in
heated room for several hours, in street
costumes, followed by a walk or ride
in the cold, and in the cities often
damp, night air, is of course more than
likely to induce inflammation of the
lungs.
A lad of 10 years living in West An
sonia was afflicted with a seed wart on
the top of his foot. A few weeks since
as the boy was standing at the table
eating his dinner, his shoe off, large
pet rooster came in for the crumbs,
and in his haste to get away with as
many as possible in a short time, sud
denly seized the wart. Before the lad
could shake him off, he, with his for
cep-shaped beak, pulled the wart out
by the roots. The wound healed i'm a
few days, and there is no appearance
of further growth.
The bell cord has been removed from
nearly all the trains of the Pennsylva-
mia Railroad, and a patent air-tube
system of signaling has been substi-
tuted. Each car has rubber tube
running under the bottom, and these
are connected between the cars in the
same way as the Westinghouse air
brake tubes. They are kept charged
with air at fifteen pounds pressure
from a reservoir situated under the
cab of the engine, and which is itself
supplied from the brake reservoir.
The rubber tube is also connected with
a whistle valve in the engineers cab. |
The conductor, by pulling cord in
the car, opens a valve in the rubber |
tube, and allows the air to escape. |
This relieves the pressure on the ]
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close of the war. He did it in an odd
way, too. He had about one more
year to serve, and, with his doctOring
on one side and the hostility of the en-
envy on the other, our regiment was
worn down to about five hundred men.
Everybody said we couldn't stand it
more than another year. One day,
h However, the doctor had just measured
a man for a porous plaster, and had
laid the stub of a cigar down on the
top of red powder-keg, when there
was slight atmospheric disturbance,
the smell of burnt clothes, and our
regiment had to apply for new sur
geon. The wife of our late surgeon
wrote to have her husbands remains
forwarded to her, but | told her it
would be very difficult to do so, owing
to the nature of the accident. | said,
however, that we had found an upper
set of store teeth imbedded in a pal
metto tree near by, and had buried
them with military hOnors, erecting
over the grave a large board on which
was inscribed the name and age of the
deceased, and this inscription "Not
dead, but spontaneously distributed.
Gone to meet his glorified throng of
PATIENTS
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The Value of Advertising.

Let us make little calculation. A
man has something to sell and he de-
sires to notify about one thousand fam
lilies, in convenient distance, of the
fact. If he writes them all it would
cost him $40 for postage and So for
stationary, to say nothing of time and
labor. If he gets a circular printed il
will cost him about 81, and so for
postage this for once. Then if he
has something to say every week, il
would cost him to notify his one thOus-
and patrons weekly, during the year,
at least $3.50. For single weeks adj
vertising of one inch we should charge
81, while in any other manner it would
cost at least so to reach the same
number,
We have merely alluded to this mat
ter to show that advertising through
the newspapers is the cheapest method
by far to reach the masses, and Il very
little calculation will show that the
prices asked are not excessive. With
everything else, prices of such work
have lessened much from former years.
We are not discussing the value of ad-
veItising nor soliciting it; it is for
every business man to determine
whether it is of any use to him. We
have never leased nor begged any man,
even in our own village, to patrOnize
us in this direction, and have now only
to say that if anyone desires to use our
columns, we shall give fair rates to all.
The average advertiser wants US to
throw in lots of local notices free this,
as we have announced, is finished.
During the nineteen years we have
been connected with the neWspaDer
we have no doubt given away 5000
worth of advertising, an amount justly
due us for labor performed. Many of
our advertisers cheerfully pay for these
local notices, but want them always in
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-16
Young Girls Nowhere.

Mrs. NJ. A. Haggard, of White Cloud,
Ks, a lady who is in her 10th year,
has since she was 50 years old, kept an
account of her handiwOrk, which fOOtS
up as follows: FOrty-five calico patch
quilts ten wOrsted log cabins; five
hexigOn quilts four silk and six cloth
quilts fourteen sofa cushions of silk
and velvet, and has four quilts ready
to Join together. She has quilted
thirty nine quilts, tackled nineteen
comforts, made eighteen rugs, sewed
rags for one hundred and forty one
yards of carpet, knitted one hundred
and five pairs of stockings, aud TWEEN
ty-twO pairs of mittens.
Among the quilts are five which
have some very small pieces one con-
tains 9,254, another 1860. another
14,28O, still another 1920, and the
last IL 900. The first and last above
mentioned are all silk. Besides these,
the old lady has commenced one in
red, white and blue, which will con
tain, when finished, g., 500 separate
pieces of material. 1t will measure
six feet by seven, and is what is called
the star pattern. 1t is very pretty as
well as II curiosity, and is about one
quarter finished.
In connection with all this work,
Mrs. Haggard is keeping an account of
the number of yards of cloth used and
the number of spOols of thread it will
require to finish it. So far, only one
needle has been used. Aside from all
this, she does great deal of house
work, besides being great reader.
Girls, where are you Echo answers,
nowhere Arouse and shake your
selves, or the old lady will have made
IA record in house decoration which
you will find it hard to beat.
One black eyed miss, when spoken
to on this subject, saucily tossed her
head, saying, Fudge I've got some
thing better to do" We suppose she
has-taking in the skating rink, or in
summer doing COney Island.
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Ghe Ga1edonian.
THE SEVEN NOISY BOYS.

/ wonder II he remembers,
That good old man" in heaven.
The class in the Old Red sehOol-bOuse
Known as the Noisy Seven"
/ wonder If he remembers
How restless We used to bel
Or thinks we forgot the lesson
OF Christ and Gethsemanef
1 wish could tell that story
As he used to tell il then
I am sure that with Heavens blessing
could reach the hearts of men.
That voice so tOuchingly tender
Comes down to me through the years.
a pathos which seems TO mingle
His own with the SaviOr's tears.
I often wish could tell him,
Though We caused him so much pain
BY our thoughtless, boyish frOlie,
His lessons were not in vain.
I'd like to tell him how Harry.
The merriest one of all,
From the bloody field Of Shiloh.
Went home at the Master call.
I'd like to tell him how Stephen,
So trimming with mirth and fun;
Now tells the heather of China
The tale Of the Crscified One.
I'd like to tell him how Joseph
And Philip and Jack and Davy
Are hOnored among the churches,
The foremost men of the day.
I'd like, yes, I'd like to tell him,
What his lesson did for me,
And how I'm trying to follow
That Christ of Gethsemane.
How many besides, 1 know not,
viii gather at last in Heaven,
The fruit of that faithful sowing,
But the sbeaves are surely seven.
o. H
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-16
Tarring a Rat.

Rats are wonderfully clean animals,
and they dislike tar more, perhaps,
than anything else, for if it once gets
on their jackets, they find it most diff
ficult to remove. Now, | had heard it
mentioned that pouring tar down at
the entrance of their holes was a good
remedy, also placing broken pieces of
glass by their holes was another rem
edy. But these remedies are not effec-
tive. The rats may leave their holes
and make fresh ones in another part of
the house; they don't, however, leave
the premises for good. | thought |
would try another eXperiment-One |
had not heard of before. One evening
| set large wire-cage rat-trap, at
taching inside most seductive piece
of strong smelling cheese, and the
next morning | found, to my satisfac-
ton, that had succeeded in trapping
IA very large rat, one of the largest that
| had ever seen, which, after | had
besmeared him with tar, | let loose in
to his favOrite run. The next night
tried again, and succeeded in catching
another equally big fellow, and served
him in the same manner. | could not
follow these two tar besmeared rats
into their numerous runs to see what
would happen but it is reasonable to
assume that they either summoned to-
gether all the members of their COM
munity , and by their crest fallen APP
pearance gave their comrades silent
indications of the misfortunes which
had so suddenly befallen them, or that
they frightened their brethren away,
for they one and all forsook the place
and fled. The experiment was emf
nently successful. From that day in
1875 till now, 1888, my house, ancient
though it is, has been entirely free
from rats and believe that theFe is
no remedy equal to this one, if YOU can
catch your rat alive. They never came
back to the house again.-[Chambers'
Journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-16
Mr.. Ambrose Arnold of westmins.

Mr.. Ambrose Arnold of Westmins-
ter, a gentleman well known in rail-
road circles, died Friday night. He
was a native of Westminster and was
50 years old. When the Vermont
Valley and Sullivan railroads were
built, he was employed as conductor
until these roads were leased by the
Vermont Central. He rose gradually
to the position of assistant general SUI
perintendent, and during ID years su-
perintendended the central and south
srn divisions of the Vermont Central,
retiring on account of ill health six or
seven years ago,