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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-30

Edward II. Ross of the junior class
in Dartmouth college, who came home
sick with rheumatic fever, is better
+. NJ. Thatcher, of the skating rink,
who has been quite sick at the st.
Johnsbury House, is also improving.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-30

After several cold days with some
snow, spring seems to have come
again this morning, and most of the
business men are out in their gardens
digging bait for tomorrow, as the fish
law is off at IL o'clock tonight.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-30

LIME WATCHES REPAIRED aud rated a
Il HOWARD & ROWELL'S,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-30

Mrs. j. l.. Perkins of this place,
secretary of the Vermont WOman's
Christian Temperance Union, is to
speak in behalf of that organization
before the Methodist conference at Bel
lows Falls next Saturday evening.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-30
ParasoIs, ParasoIs ]
ChiIdren'S Trimmed Hats

From l5c to s175
New Ribbons, one lot fancy Ribbon a 13c per yard,
special bargain.
NEW TIDES LACES, BUTTONS, JEWELRY,
and many other move elites
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-30

HGIe's Honey the great Cough cure. 95c, soc s. 81
Gtenn's Sulphur Soap heals and beauties 25c
German Corn RemOUer kills oOrns and Bunions
HiHs Hair and Whisker Dye-black and brown soc
Pixies 1oOthdehe Drops cure in Minute, 25cts feb
Deans Rheumatic PilLs are a sure cure Scots [s6
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-30

1t has been said that One-half the
world does not know how the other
half live. Some who went Saturday
night to the fire in the tenement house
on Clark avenue got a little idea of
how some of their neighbors exist.
Eleven families in one not large house
makes thickly settled district for a
place where there is SO much of land
and Gods pure air as there ought to
he about st. JOhnsbury.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-30

The reception room of Drs. Warn
sr 81 Tracy is being renovated, includ-
ng new papering, and DR.. Tracy's OPP
Grating room is receiving like treat
nent
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-30

- Mr.. G.. H. Marshall, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. l.. Bailey, Mrs. Sinclair and Mrs.
MatthewsOn, go to Bellows Falls the
last of this week, to spend Sunday at
the Methodist conference
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-30
SperiaI Wnhrrs.

SEND MONEY by AMERICAN EXPRESS
co. MONEY ORDERS. Receipts given Mon
ey refunded if Orders lost Sold all offices of
the Co. Payable at {, 500 places. RATES: To IS Sc
SIOsei S2o-IOc; s3O-I2c; slO-I5; ssO2Oo tinlN 3
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-30

The adjourned village meeting will
be held next Monday evening, at 7
o'clock, May 4th, at the town hall, to
act upon the article in regard to rails
ing money for current expenses, etc.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-30

"A. c. Prior has leased the store
formerly occupied by him in Avenue
house block for five years from May
LIST, and will move his stock of boots,
shoes and low prices this week.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-30

"A stock train on the Lake road
was wrecked near Hyde Park early
Monday morning. 1t jumped the track
just before reaching the "Ryder tres
tle," which is $50 feet long. The en-
CINE and four cars passed safely over,
but the four rear cars were plunged
into the carriage road, % or 30 feet.
One of the cars was loaded with corn,
one with oats, one with butter and
eggs, and the other was empty, and all
were completely wrecked. Three 20
feet spans of the bridge were torn out
and it required 10 hOuIs' labor before
trains could pass. Charles Patch, a
brakeman, was somewhat bruised but
was not so badly hurt but that he was
able to go on with his train.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-30

DIR. Hoskins calls attention to an
inaccuracy in The Caledonian of April
2, where we classed the Farmer as one
of the newspaper enterprises started in
st. Johnsbury. The Farmer was start
ed at Newport and removed to St.
Johnsbury in 1872, where it was pros
porous, the doctor says, as long as he
was connected with it, but "petered
out" as he puts it, two years after he
left. This latter fact was the main
point we had in view. We had forgot
ten where or when the paper was start
ed we only know that it came and it
went, and that like the others it was
reported to have lost money.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-30

The Burdette COW problem is still
in the air. A gentleman who met the
problem years ago when schOOl-boy
in New Hampshire, called at this of
fee Monday to tell us about it. His
problem was stated little differently,
each COW having a heifer when two
years old instead of three, and the
term of years being 20 instead of 81.
The correct result, he assured us, was
1896 animals, which beats our first
COW.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-04-30

"A merry party, made up princi-
pally of the younger girls in the Meth
Odist Sunday school, paid a surprise
visit to Miss Ermina ID. Culver, daugh
ter of the pastor, at the church parlOrs,
last Thursday. Supper was served,
and a good time enjoyed through the
evening, and one beauty of the affair
was that it was a real "surprise." The
young ladies made their friend pres
ent of about 81 in money.
1t is expected that the Montreal
and Boston day express train over the
Passumpsic road will be put on some
time in May, running on about the
same time as heretofore. When that
train goes on it is said the midday ac-
cOmmOdatiOn will be withdrawn. The
New York express train will not be
put on until the time of summer travel.
A short mountain train will run from
this place to Fabyan's, as last year,
taking through cars from Montreal
brought down on the afternoon ex-
press.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-07-08
Gladstone and Gordon.

As Caius Marcus stalked into Corioh'
so entered Gordon into Khartoum,
Alone he did it. He was outrageously
forsaken by his Government, yet for the
glorious life which he held as a baupie
he would not desert those tribes Which
had believed in him and trembllngiiy
detied Mohamed Ahmed. ''lt would
be-" wrote he. last April, 1.-THE climax
of meanness, after | had borrowed
money Of the people here, and had call
ed on them to sell their grain at low
price, to 90 and abandon them without
using every effort to relieve them,
whether those efforts are automatically
correct or not" 1t is wretched rec
ord which is written of Gladstone, that
after delegating full powers to the chiv-
alrous tanner OF wild men, great Ere
miar should stolidly strip his delegate
of all executive Importance. Whatever
Gordon should recommend was to be
denied. Whatever agreement no MADE
with his newly-adopted people was TO
be repudiated; and all the time the
standard of the new Mahomet was to be
advancing under the prestige OF contin,
uous victory. "You will eventually y,
wrote the indignant victim eight days
later, "be forced to smash up the Mahdl
under greater difficulties, if you retain
peace in Egypt" Already the blood
Of Power. the two Stewards, Burnaby,
and Earle has flowed that it might be
fulfilled which was spoken by the pro-
phet-soldier. Of the act OF advancing
to Khartoum the poets of the world are
st;n o;npinp "There has been nothing
like it," declares the editor of the VIII
miueton, N. c. Morning Star, ''slnce
Abraham obeyed the voice OF God, and
went out, leaving his ancestral home
and his country, to wander IN strange
land" OF the defense OF Khartoum,
praises are coined in new speech, and
parallels sought for. khoord-Cabool'
and Herat, and Kars, and Saragossa,
and Genoa, are named with pride; but
there the soldiers were always brave.
INV Bashi- Bazouks,' wrote Gordon,
on St. Patrick's Day, fired a volley,
then turned and fled. Nothing could
be more dismal" Perhaps, however,
| all neighboring men seemed towards
near Gordon. But Greatheart is dead.
And how of the nations? AS France,
eiohty-fve wears ago, drove one OF her
| proudest sons upon the dagger of fan
atical Egyptian, so now, Britannia, IN
attempting to fix on the necks OF the
people of the Nile yoke which zen SO
long ago from the hands OF france:
| must pause to weep over the corpse OF
a foremost Englishman, slain likewise
| by the assassin's steel. AS England
has followed France, so has she sent
Gordon to tread the path of glory that
led Kleber to his grave.-The Current.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-07-08
Girls of a manageable age in Japan
are computed to be worth $40 each.
Man,

1.-THE coming man in Congress" says
the Cleveland Leader, sis a young IT.
ishman, still under 40, who is now serv-
ing his first term. His name is John j.
O'Neill, and he comes from st. Louis.
His brain is charged with the purest OF
Irish wit, and his phiz alone would set
a graveyard laughing. 1t is small,
dark face, with short stubs of black
whiskers peeping out of each cheek,
and brown mustache hanging Imply
down under nose whose tip looks as
though it was pulled upward by an in
visible string fastened to the crown OF
his head. This face has high fore
head, and the head of which it is the
frontispiece is covered with thick
growth of brown-black hair. O'Neill
has a straight, slender form, bright
black eye and temperament as joyial
as Bacchus and as lively as that Of
Mercury. He jumps about the House
from one member to another, telling
stories, and laughter attends his every
visit. He sometimes speaks, and the
House now pricks up its ears whenever
he takes the floor. John j. O'Neill has
had curious career He started life
as a newsboy and wharf-ratin st. Louis.
He saved his money, got in some way
common-school education, and finally
engaged in manufacturing. He became
very popular in his district, and was
sent to the Legislature. Here he made
q reputation, and two years ago was
elected to Congress. He is widower.
and has a little boy of with him here
at Washington. He is great baseball
man, and he says that some people in
his district care more for the great ma
tional game than for the tariff.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-07-08
The Gordon Type Of Heroism.

Gordon's English heart or English
faith did not narrow or confine him.
His manhood was of the universal type.
Place him in China, in Abyssinia, in the
Soudan, or among English roughs, this
Sigh, delicate, and almost etfeminate-
looking man became a king in whom
men trusted. He is the most striking
example of the universalism of the hero
character in the whole range of bio
graphy. He had some force in him that
was ineligible to everything that had
in it the passions and perceptions of
man. The world will wait long for an
other such career, and longer yet, per-
haps, for another such example of SIM
plicity in character and in action. En-
gland has had heroes who loved duty
better than life, but never one before
who, while he loved life little and never
cared for it at all as an end, crowded
its days and night, in Implying rigor,
with the service which makes it most
worth living,
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-07-08
Clothes-Wringers Will Burst.

"Why, yes, of course, clothes-wring-
ers will BURST" said Barclay street
hardware dealer, in reply to a reporter 8
inquiry. 1.-The pressure on them when
thew are blocked with wet clothes in a
laundry or shirt factory is often enor-
NOUS: but unless the boiler attached to
them bursts too l don't see how much
damage can be done. Even the hand
machine sometimes bursts when the op..
orator tries to hasten the completion OF
her own work by making the wringer
do more than its share, but except the
probability of her being discharged by
her mistress, if she has one, or having
to buy a new wringer if she owned the
broken machine, don't think she runs
any risk of being hurt. :,
II can't imagine how the world would
get on now without wringingg-machlnes.
Of course it did so once, and our clothes
were lust as clean as they are to-day,
and lasted longer; but the time has long
gone by when a servant girl would
wiring a tubfull of clothes nearly dry,
with her own strong hands, and never
complain. Ask her to do half the work
now and hear what she will say. -
EeaO York San.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-07-08

1t pays the Missouri farmers to shell
their corn and sell the cobs separately.
The demand for corn cob pipes has
raised the price of the hitherto worth
less cobs to 1924 wagon load.
Dickens is said to have found the
original, or at least the suggestion, of
Sam Weller in Samuel Vale, a popular
low comedy actor, whom he saw in his
youth. Wales quaint comparisons
(Which form also one of the humors of
Sam Weller's conversation), for which
his everyday talk was distinguished,
were lavishly introduced by the actor
into his part, and made a distinct hit.
Among those which have been recorded
we find the following: Come on as
the man said to the tight boot" "'Why,
here we are, all mustered, as the roast
beef said to the Welsh rabbit " Where
shall we tiy?' as the bullet said to the
trigger al know the world as the
monkey said when he cut off his tall"
" There she is, musical and melan-
choly,' as the cricket said to the tea
Kettle
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-07-08
Ell NIahdi as a Bonncer.

In view of the fact that all of General
Wolseley's advanced commands are on
the run back to Korti, the following
from the ready rhymster of the Mime
apolis Tribune, published some time
ago, would seem to have been evolved
in the spirit of prophecy as we'll rs OF
poetry:
Yes, am the boss of the sandy Soudan,
And hardly think u more competent man
Could be found between Tennessee and Japan
Tobounce the bold British invader.
Pm twelve-f fingered, bow-legged son OF
gun.
I'm prophet from way-back--a child of tho
sun.
I'm a dandy, lallah, a darlin', a hum.
I'm a red-handed ripper and raider.
My followers number two millions or more,
And every man of 'em equal to -FOUR,
THEY'RE not much for style but they're dam
THEY'RE bad men from Keshir-el- Wadir.
FL Gordon I've captured, I'm happy to state;
III Stewart has met his well-merited fate;
I'll butcher El Wolseley If he'll only wait,
And Queen Vic will think luck has betrayed
her.
So strike. shirtless sons of the shimmerins
One more blow for your prophet chats me,
understandl,
Disembowel the insolent infidel band!
Viyisect the Internal invader!
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-07-08
just Got 1t Through His Head.

The army officers who were instru-
mental in removing Captain COUGHS
.sboomers" from Indian Territory say
that all the settlers went out and stayed
out, except one old man and his family.
They had big covered wagon, in which
they lived, and n pair of melancholy
mules. The day after the squatters
were driven out detachment OF troops
was sent back into the territory ways
and came upon the old man, who was
headed south. He was ordered out
once more and followed by the troops
clear to the boundary. Two days later
they found him on the government land
again and made him turn back. After
this they watched him. In one week 3
time they put him out eight times, and
on the last occasion they warned him
that they didn't propose to fool with
him all summer. He laughed incred-
ulously and camped just north OF the
line.
The other day while the squad was
out on a scouting expedition they came
upon the old man making his way south
once more. This time he was walking
BY the side of his mules and his wife
was driving. The Lieutenant, big,
strapping fellow, got mad when he saw
the outfit again, and, dismounting, ne
grabbed the old man by the collar and
booted him all over a quarter section OF
the Promised Land. AS the old woman
with the mules and the troops kept up
with the procession they had quite apa-
rade. When the officer stopped to take
breath the old man turned to his wife
and said:
by cracky, Sary Ann, these blue
devils is in earnest, and no mistake. It's
a bounce, and if you don't believe it
come out and try it. I've just caught
on, Mister Officer"
With that he mounted one of the
mules and in fifteen minutes the wagon
was a speck on the northern horizon.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-07-08
A Trade in Curlews' Wings.

The cowboys here, writes Midland,
Tex, correspondent, in the good wealth
er are doing a little business on their
own account by killing wolves with
strychnine for their hides. The hides
they send to Chicago, getting fair re-
turn for them. A New York woman,
who came out here to keep hotel, with
her husband, has started up an interest
in curlews' wings, which are fashion
able adornments for ladies' hats, and
the cowboys are killing curlews now by
the score: The curlew is abundant on
the staked plains, and their wings,
which are brownish green, with splashes
of dark brown and darker green, are
very good backgrounds in millinery for
a few more brilliant feathers. The cur
lew nests in the prairies by scraping up
some dry grass under tuft of gramma
grass. They drop four eggs into the
nest, and it is as rare as to discover a
four-leaf clover to find nest where the
four small ends Of the eggs are not to-
gether. The curlews' wings bring 10
cents a pair here.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-07-08

Another true source OF the MISSISSIPPI
pi River has been discovered. Probably
the voyageur of the future, who shall
set out in quest of the North Pole,
may be led there by the Father of
Waters.
1t is now suggested that the sewerage
which flows into the rivers, lakes or sea
does not represent just SO much wasted
fertilizing material, but that it is more
profitably utilized as increasing the pro-
duction of fish.
The one-man power, lodged in the
hands Of an INSCRIPTIONS manipulation
like Gould, and controlling the great
systems of transportation, Is standing
menace to the business interests of the
country.-Nashvilte american.
Woman suffrage has become a politi-
cal issue in England and Scotland.
Women have already municipal suffrage
there and it is only question of very
short time till they will vote just as
men do.-Ida n. Harper in Terre Haate
Mail.
ut is doubtful" says the Graphic,
IF there are fifty men in the United
States who speak and write the English
tongue correctly" 1t is quite probable
that every one of these fifty or less is
teaching foreign language in uni
versity.
There has never been government
in any age of the world till now, in
which organized incendiaries and as
sassins were allowed to plan publicly
and declare with impunity schemes for
the wholesale destruction of property
and life. Indianapolis NeaOs.
Colored men will do well to give heed
to the wise counsels of Fred Douglass.
If they want to be considered the equals
of white men, they must make them
selves such by their own personal en-
deavors, and not depend upon legisla-
tive acts.-jSt Paul Pioneer Press.
The average abuses and the average
injustice, through the usual prevalence
of might over right, and the impunity
of the governing element as compared
with the governed, run pretty much in
the same proportion in the east as they
do in the west. - Hobart Pasla's paper
on Turkey.
The Almighty has done much for us,
giving us prolific soil, rich minerals,
temperate climate, and every advantage
at our very doors except population to
develop our resources, and money to
enable it to do SO. These two essentials
we need and we need them badly
Mobile Register.
The Chinese are the importers of much
evil, and are the initial promoters of
one of the most vicious habits ever in
stltuted. But the Chinese question will
never be settled in the United States as
long as this country receives with APP
parent welcome all the pauper refuse of
other nations. --Minne0polts Tribune.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-07-08

seems to be room for the establish
ment of new industry when it is re-
ncmbered that we do not weave any
considerable portion OF our linen
goods which are woven and hleached.
The report suggests that we should
do more in the coarser lines of goods
than we are doing. Government las
done nothing comparatively to bring
this industry into prominence, and
nothing to direct attention TO the
merits of tibres. AS II whole, the in
dustry in this country is in its infancy.
Journal. -
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-07-08
The fax Industry in America

1t is often asked why it is that the
people Of the United States in which
the consumption of fax goods is as
large as that of any people which
can obtain cotton, do not raise the
flax rather than import it.
In the report which Nr. A. X. Tur-
ner, Jr., of Ross Turner & Co., the
president of the flax and hemp spin
ners and growers association, made
at the annual meeting of the organi-
zation in April, may be found an an
swer.
We raise an abundance Of fax, but
our farmers have not given their at
tention to raising the fbres which are
necessary for the production of pure
threads. This would require more
care and time than our people are
willing to give TO the culture of any
crop. From wheat, corn and cattle
and hogs, they can derive a ready
revenue without much care. To per-
feet flax culture with view to OBJ
tanning the best fibre and then to
prepare the flax for the market, would
require more trouble and time than
our people will give to any branch of
industry. Consequently, of S4,210
tons of flax grown in 1880, only 900
tons were prepared for fibre. The rest
of the stock used by our manufactures
is imported, the amount being 5000
tons in 1880.
The American farmer plants flax
for the seed and tow which he sells
for upholstering purposes. This be-
ing the case the duty on flax used for
spinning is not needed to protect the
growers in this country. The report
advocates that flax be admitted free
of duty. While such a change would
not effect the growers materially, it
would afford the spinning interest
greater protection, and at the same
time it would make the prices of goods
lower to the consumer.
If there was sufficient inducement
for farmers TO turn their attention to
the culture of flax or fiber, the limited
amount required for consumption in
this country would cause the farmer
who always looks for market before
he grows product to let this branch
of the industry alone. Still there