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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-28

Afghans, and hopes for their aid
against Russia Their ruler is only a
head tribesman, and the Afghans,
though a brave people, are trsacherous,
and what side they will take when the
struggle comes, or whether they will
all take the same side, no one can
know. The more conservative British
officials in India have held for half a
century that the Afghans could only
be conquered at immense sacrifice OF
blood and money, that no dependence
could be placed upon their alliance,
and that the desert between India and
Herat would make it impossible for
the Russians to successfully invade
| India if the British await their onset
at the Indus-Indid'S natural line Of de-
Tense. If war should break out to-day,
the fighting would occur a long dis
lance from the base of supplies. He
rat is about 4S8 miles from the sup
posed present southern terminus of the
Russian railway from the Caspian, and
about GOO miles from Quetta, the
present northern terminus of the Brit
ish railway from Bombay.
Great Britain's first interest is the
preservation of peace. She owns from
two thirds to three fOurths of all the
shipping aflOat. The possible effect
of war upon this industry alone is a
powerful deterrent. She rules India,
but the strength of the attachment of
her white -turbaned subjects is un-
known. She has large interest in
the Suez Canal, and to preserve her
Indian empire must keep that passage
open, and continue supreme in the
Mediterranean. Russia's great need
is also the preservation of peace. She
is badly in debt, is wrestling with in
ternal disorders, and suffering from a
long industrial and commercial de-
preston.
If war comes, it is probable that the
internal troubles of both Great Britain
and Russia will for the time be for
gotten in the larger sense of natiOnali-
ty. The result will depend more than
in most wars upon the length of the
national purse, for the liue of military
defense must be very distant from the
base of supplies. Great Britain has
unlimited credit; Russia bOrrOws with
difficulty.
Great Britain represents Western
ideas in the East. She has often ruled
harshly in India, but in any large and
long view her rule has been beneficent.
Russia represents the crushing of
Western ideas by military despOtism.
Still, the first need of the inhabitants
of Central Asia is not good govern
meDt, but government, and the Rus
slams sometimes have shown greater
aptitude in dealing with Asiatics than
the British If war is fought between
these two powers in western Afghan
istan it will be nothing less than a
contest of two civilizations upon what
scholars tell us is the old homestead of
the Aryan race, whence have sprung
the East Indian, the Persian, the
Greek, the Roman, the Saxon, and the
Slave.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-28
The Rsthetic Roller Skater.

"Can you tell me where the skating
rink is 7" asked man on Spring
field avenue car of the conductor.
"The charioteer will inform YOU"
was the reply.
The passenger sought the jehu by
the brake and repeated the inquiry.
"Wajt until the pOstillion attaches
the third horse and then l will have
time to answer" said the lynx-eyed
headlight on the car, referring to
the boy with the superannuated nag
who is posted opposite the court house
"The colosseum where they rotate
on casters is just at the brow of the
activity" he said a moment afterward.
al am going to stop there myself to re-
volve an hour or two"
"To what Z" asked the passenger
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-28
Temperance in the Northwest.

To the Editor of The Caledonian:- 1t
is not strong drink alone that is an en-
envy to society, the beginning of the
end lies in the attractions through
which the liquor seller allures his vic
Tins. Thus the work of any local tenn
perance organization must be to cOun-
teract the saloon influence. And this
influence is much more powerful and
penetrating in proportion as society is
unsettled, and the elements of which it
is made up have not yet crystallized
themselves around those centres of in
fluence which rule in old established
communities. The liquor traffic -four
ishes best in the absence of social re-
straint. 1t is particularly dangerous
in new settlements where all are en-
gagged in a struggle for a fOOthOld, and
where there has been no time to devel-
OPP a conservative temperance senti-
ment. And this thing affects us be-
cause thousands of our yOung men go
to the new settlements of the Northwest
where work and adventures are to be
had, and the saloon stretches out its
hands to grasp them before the better
influences of society have found them
observation as working man among
working men, and as such can see
what escapes the notice of clergymen
and others whose walks in life take
them among another class.
Let me take you to a new village in
the woods of the Northw est. Every
thing is new, raw, and unsettled. All
around is the forest, and the hamlet
clusters around some mills; the
hundred or two dwelling houses stretch
along one or two streets or struggle
around among the stumps anywhere
they can stand. Nothing appears sub
stantial. Houses and stores hastily
two, and few snowy houses. Snch a
village depends upon the destruction
of the woods around it, employing sew
eral hundred young men in various ca
pacities, and when they are gone its
prosperity is at an end, unless a navi-
gable stream or a fortunate discovery
of minerals or the like bives perma-
nent prosperity to the place. Failing
these, it merely becomes market for
the surrounding country, with new
class of inhabitants.
This is a sample of scores of villages,
and in such places thousands of young
men pass those years in which they
are most susceptible to good or evil in
1uence. There is an air of homeless
ness about one of these places. Now
the saloon keeper knows that to most
of the young men who have been
drawn there in search of work the sur
are not attractive, so he
tries to make his place so cheerful and
as to draw in young men who
have good wages to spend. To the
young man, who, when his days work
is done, has no home but the cherries
boarding house, he offers the attraction
of warm, weil-lighted room in the
heart of the place, where he will meet
with young men in the same occupa-
ton as himself and whom a common
interest will draw together. l speak
now of one of the more respectable of
the class, which are the worst, because
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-28
Fruit Packing.

The New York Tribune gives the
following revelations from gentleman
engaged in the fruit packing business ::
A fruit packing establishment makes
use of everything like the pork pack
ing factories, which save everything
except the pigs grunt. When we are
tons and tons of parings and cores.
These we sell to the makers of jelly.
All kinds of jellies are made of the ma
terial. You cannot buy real current
jelly in the groceries. Every bit of it
is apple, with some essence in it. But
that is not the sole use of apple par
ings. Occasionally we keep them SO
long that they cannot be converted in
to Jelly. Then we sell them to the
makers of strained honey. All the
strained honey that you see in the
market is made of it-there isn't bit
of honey about it.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-28
(Which is the Worse 2"

A little girl came in her night
clothes very early one morning to her
mother, saying:
(Which is the worse, mamma, to tell
a lie, or to steal ~
The mother, taken by surprise, re-
piled that both were SO bad that she
couldn't tell which was the worse.
"Well," said the little one, give
been thinking good deal about it,.
and l think that it's worse to lie than
to steal. If you steal a thing you can
take it back, unless you've eaten it !;
and if you have eaten it You can pay
for it. But'-and there was IA look of
awe in the little face-''a lie is for
r."-[Children's Paper.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-28
Ghe Gateduniam.
REUNITED.

As I sit in the shadows of grief by my door.
And hear the sweet music of Spring.
I think Of the songs we shall sing evermcre,
In the land where the gIorifed sing.
Oh how good it viii be when this life shall have
fed
And the soul from its letters is free,
With the living loved, and the loving ones dead
Again reunited to bel
While the lite We living is blossOmng still
With flowers sweet-scented with love,
There are others abloom on the heavenly bill,
In gardens OF beauty above.
Though sad be the parting for you and for me-
The parting much deplOre,
The sweeter indeed, will the happiness be,
when we meet on the evergreen shore.
The thought is so cheering the prospect so fair
They tighten the pressure Of pain;
SO We sing. in Gods time shall meet over there
All our dear ones in glory. again.
ID. E Dawley
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-28
A Head for Business.

Algernon "Ahl my deah boy so
glad to see you, and how is your suit
with Miss De Rich coming on"
Augustus: "Weally; my boy, can't
say that Eve made much progress so
far, but | believe I've hit on the right
idea now. Do you see this dawg ?"
"Of course. What a delightfully."-
English pug; just like the one that
Miss De Rich admired by the way"
"It's the very one, my boy. She
went into ecstacies over it at the dawg
show"
"Ah! I see; you've bought it for
her 2"
"NO; for myself"
"FOr yourself? What good can that
do you ?"
"Why, my boy, can't you see9 Ba-
jOve, the dear girl will have to take
me or lose the dawg, you know
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-28
Public Opinion.
Advice from a Republican Paper

Advice from hepuDncan Paper.
Republican papers like the New York
Tribune and the Boston Journal will
do well to lay aside their magnifying
glasses and stop their petty criticism
of things comparatively trivial until
time shows whether men like Atkins
carry the day, or whether the President
develops stamina enOug h to hold true
to his civil service reform promises.
Mr.. Cleveland has made mistakes,
some of them grievous ones, but COM
mon fairness compels the admission
that these mistakes have not been
more numerous than would be expect
ed of any new and untried man. Those
republicans will prove themselves the
true friends of their party who remem-
Der that a running fire of picayunish
criticism of trivial things disarms the
force of real and deserved criticism
when occasion for it arises Brattle-
boro Phoenix republican,.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-28

cycling the victim of rinkomania curl
ously. "To revOlve. That's the as-
thetic slang for skating" said the driv-
er as he threw the lines to his relief
and made break for the rink.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-28
Gen. Stannard at Gettysburg.

In the swale down below the ceme-
terry wall, where Hancock held the
center land in the last day beat back
Pickett's $1,000 men as they reached
our lines after their seething mile rush
loss the valley. MajGen. Stannard,
IA little old man with an empty sleeve,
is telling his story. "My VermOnters
were in the line here" he says, "wait-
ing for the attack. | had come forward
a little to take this little rise, for
knew if the rebels got it they could
reform their lines behind it. The day
was so hot that one of my regiments
let fall back into the shade of some
trees that stood here then, and they
lay down waiting. Sure enough, the
rebels had their eye on the rise, and
Kemper's Virginia brigade was headed
for it. As they came near L ordered
that regiment to take its place, and
that was the first Kemper knew that
we held it. He halted minute, then
marched to the side so as to go past
us. Then | made the movement that
| never knew to be done before. |
swung my brigade into the gap in their
lines made by his flank movement, and
began firing. 1t was right in the side
of their advancing column, and they
could not meet it or escape it. 1t
broke their line completely, as you
know, and some think it saved the
day"
General" asks one of his listeners,
chow wide do you think was the front
of Pickett's column when it reached
us 2"
Stannard answers: al have no idea
no one can tell. 1t extended all along
my front, and that is all | know"
"What of Stannard 7" does some one
ask He is messenger to the House
of Representatives, and sits during the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-28
LOOK at it QUICK
BEST HOUSE IN TOWN.
FOR SALE.

Pleasantly situated on Pearl street contains 10
large rooms Furnace heat, bath rooms, hot and
cold water, and every modern convenience Tene-
ment in l. of rooms that is always rented at good
price. Nice shed, barn and carriage shed attached
with cellar under the whole.
a most desirable place and will be sold VERY
LOW If taken at once. Owner leaving town Part
cash, balance when you get ready. Apply to
95tf J. H. CARPENTER,
IS Pearl Street, ST. JOhnsbury, VT
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-28
Coming TO Its Senses.

How long will decent men who be-
lieve in the republican party permit a
few hot-headed, pugnaciOus spoilsmen
to bring ruin upon it in this city and
country ?
How long will it be before the re-
form element, strong, courageous and
conscientious as it is when fully arOus-
ed, will take this matter in it's own
hands, go to the polls and put it's rep
resentative men in control of the re-
publican general committee, and thus
in control of the party's management
in the country.
How long shall such scenes of vio-
lence, such outbreaks of passion, such
inexcusable rOwdyism as were witness
ed at the meeting of the republican
general committee last night be per-
mitted to continue, disgracing the par
ty and making its best friends hide
their heads in shame?
How long shall men in business and
professional life, men of wealth, men
of social distinction, men of refinement,
x-payers and bread winners, refuse
to raise a hand to cast ballot for re-
form in the party's management p
ALBANY Evening Journal (republican).
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-28

session at a gallery door, holding it
open for ladies to go in and out, at
$1,000 year-this general who saved
Gettysburg.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-28
What 1t Does /:

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1t is an investment and a protection combined
1t is better than q. ). Governments, and equally
1t protects dependent ones against the contin-
gency of death.
II Is a safe sure and desirable investment and
within the reach of all
1t guarantees that a certain amount of money,
with interest will be accumulated in specified
time
The amount that life insurance would cost should
be credited profit the Bond as il takes the
place of such insurance
The instruments paid are like deposits made in a
Savings Bank and are returned to the Bond holder
at his option.
The Bond natures at a specified time at pre-
vious death for its face value, and guarantees a
definite sum in cash any year after the first.
The instruments paid on the Bond can be used in
business by hypothecating it. This is a great adj
vantage to those who may at any time need all the
money they command or raise.
The 100000 policies, representing over two bill
lions of dollars of lapsed or surrendered insurance
between 1870 and 1880 would have been saved by
these Bonds.
The Bond is not hampered by any conditions or
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leopardized-
The Bond affords the very best security and is
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Under this Bond you Pay a. you go. Stop
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greater profit"
CALL AT BLoDGETTS',
113 Eastern Avenue,
ST. JOHEsBURY.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-28
How it Looks to One Up Tree.

The jubilations at Rutland over the
result of the Page trial, the jury decid-
ing against the Rutland railroad and
giving the ex-governor a verdict of 81
and costs, give the outsider an idea of
the way in which political, social and
mercantile lines cross in Vermont. The
Page men in Rutland illuminated their
houses, and a torchlight procession pa
raded the streets in his honor. The
verdict of the jury was greeted with
cheers. All this time the anti-Page
men withdrew into the strictest seclu-
sion, after openly denouncing the YER
dict. The savagery with which the
factions into which Vermont society is
divided make war on each other is
something which has to be seen to be
appreciated, and is embarrassing to
the newcomer, who is suddenly called
to cast his lot with one or the other
Boston Transcript.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-28
OF VERMONT,

Issues Installment Bonds for $1,000 each, which
run from 10 TO 40 years.
This Bond can be purchased by either Annual,
Semi a nual or Quarterly IDstalments-
If the purchaser at any time discOn tinues his in
stalments the Company will redeem the Bond for
the stipulated sum expressed upon its face.
In event of the death of bOndhOlder the unpaid
instruments are cancelled, and the Bond falls due
and is payable in full to his legal representatives
The Bond il payable to the purchaser at an age
when he is more likely tO be dependent upon others
than others upon him, and upon which payment
NAV cease at any time without loss.
The issuing of this Bond is endorsed by the alb
lest A ctuaries of America, one of whom says that
this Company has taken the grandest step in fair
dealing within the history of Life Insurance"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-28
Courage to Correct Mistakes.

Whatever other mistakes President
Cleveland has made and stubbOrnly
stuck to, he has shown real indepen-
dence and manliness in revOking two
VIGOROUSLY unfit appointments during
the past week. Through the misrep
RESERVATIONS of personal friends of the
parties in interest he was persuaded to
appoint brother of Senator Black
burn as collector of internal revenue
in Kentucky, and Secretary Bayard to
promise the consulate at Nagasaki,
Japan, to j. Ernest Meier. Meier
turned out to be a drunkard, a dead
beat, a domestic tyrant and an unre-
constructed rebel. His wife has ust
been divorced from him because of his
brutality, and it is only a few days
since he was i'll the lookup in Wash
ingtOn for assaulting Commodore Trux-
ton because the latter refused to recog-
nize him after hearing him boast of his
treason. Blackburn was the author of
Il letter, in the early days of the war,
in which he declared his desire to
feel the edge of my knife" invoked
hell as his portion if he ever spared
one of them, and expressed his hope to
''see Union blood run deep enough for
my horse to swim in" On learning
their character and record, Mr.. Cleve-
land withdrew the appointments of
both men, declaring them unfit to hold
any Office. If he will now bounce
Kelley, who is now booked for Austria,
the record of his foreign appointments
will be comparatively clean Brat
tlebOrO Phenix.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-28
BETTER THAN
Government Bonds!
AN ENDOWMENT BOND
In the Etna Life Insurance Co.
Uneoualled Results

1ScSUuIS
End't Term. Co Reed. Co. Paid Profit to ins'd
10 years. SI6O6.77 S2195.21 S5SS.44
10 years, 1876 2O46.62 5OS.96
20 years, 31OS.2O 5S91.27 27S3.O7
Renewable Term Policies
Have cost less per 81 900 than Assessment SOcie-
ties the average annual cost for 10 years shows
At 20, S7.57. 80 $500. 4O,sIO,ss. 80, $685.
WONDERFUL FINANCIAL SUCCESS.
Assets Jan. 1, 1886, 500 I'll go
P'd insured to 1885, 549I5I43 S54 Csc, 315
Total ayments received, "a 29, T25
Showing there has been a balance of SIO656 ,647
saved from the interest after paying all expenses
Surplus S6,44O, 900. Policies go. 2S6.
Since 1873 it has received the HIGHEST per
cent. of income on its Assets has the SMALLEST
per of its Assets in Real Estate and the only
Company that has increased its dividends each year
Under certain conditions Policies INDISPUTA
BILE AFTER DEATH and NONFORFEITING.
Over rs different kinds of Policies issued.
For insurance or agency call on address
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st Johnsbury VT. Gift
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-28
DRY GOODS.

New Chambrays. Ginghams, Shirtings, and Prints
1000 yards Spring Prints at &c per yard.
% in. Figured Lawns at &c per yard.
Novelty White Lawn Dress Patterns containing l.
yards material and yards trimmings, from 50 ,;
upward.
New White Goods for dresses at bottom prices.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-28
Thirty Years. Experience
D. A. CLIFFORD,

st. Johnsbury, Vt
Vice Pres. Photographic Association of America.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-05-28
00K THIsG STOCK over

before purchasing elsewhere. / will guarantee
to discount any one in the business have now
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-07-16
IN EXnI0ded R1nm-

\ long, tank, lean and chronic An-i-Potash
Boom met the new. fat and saucy A+}aata Biz
Bold Boom, en- hot, sultry day.
who are you:" asked The B. u. 2 doom.
Il am the old Anti-Potasl room.' vas the
sad reply, as the persplratto2r rolled down. ana
It leaned heavily On the B. 3. ,. Boom for sup
port.
Don't lean on me said the 2. b. z. Boom.
Y may look strong, butI an quite young on
" i months Old, an growing rapidly, and am
mighty weak in the knees. am doing the
work which You have failed TO 90, although
yon are 50 years Old. Youare old, and tough,
and rich, and don't requireg support Hut
what causes you to look so thin oflate>'
We'll, hardly know, replied the Ant.-pot-
ash Boom. Ny physicians tel. me that nay d.
biHties have been over-rated, and that while
trying 70 whip ont all opposition by boast and
Drag, that nave proven my inability. Old
age IS also creeping on me-haFiDg fought
near jJyears before any orc knew was living
and now am unable TO perform feats that
others are doing. l am collapsed; my friends
have turned against me and call me names,
and oh LUrdy, now sick I become at the very
Sill ht Of b. =. b. Hold my head while I die
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-07-16

breaking out at viii. Indeed, the jailcr
has to sleep there now, and never leaves
the place long at time on account of the
insecurity Of the building. Considering
the fact that four or five prisoners
are compelled to constantly occupy
little cell hardly larger than 10x12, it IS
remarkable that the prisoners do not suf-
Ter more from sickness than they do,
and it is a credit to the keepers Of the
place that there is so little sickness.
\ glance at the interior Of the Jail will
at once convince any one of the wise &C
ton OF the county commissioners in de
Gliding to have a new one erected, The
new jail should be made secure, and with
a larger number Of cells. There are only
six cells in this Jail and but two arc SUI
fcientIy ventilated, those on the lower
floor having only one little opening il
! the door to admit fresh air.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-07-16
A HANDsOME DINNER SET
TO bL VI ' ~ n " 4
BY NJ, w. KING & co.

To our patrons we propose to give one
of our finest decorated dinner sets, 125
pieces, price of which is $50. To each
person buying 50. 0(cash) worth Of goods
will be given a ticket free in the draw
ing for the dinner set.
Drawing to take place as soon as tick
cts are all distributed and will be in
charge of disinterested persons to be Sc
lected for that purpose. Don't fail to
take advantage of such a chance to get a
$50 dinner set.