St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-09-30
PERSONAL MENTION.

MIS- joel fletcnef is spending rev
days in town with former friends.
w. FL. Herrick is enjoying trip
through Virginia with one of the Ray
mond excursion parties.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. James III. Thompson
were called to Canada last evening by
the death of Mrs. Thompson's father.
i Mrs. Helen Steele of Somerville,
Mass, has been visiting at her fathers,
Judge Ezra Parks, returning home last
Saturday.
Mrs. C. l.. Goodell returned to her
St. Louis home on Monday. Her
daughter Laura remains this year at
Bradford, Mass, academy.
l.. A. Hall and wife of Hannibal,
Mo-. are visiting his brother E. M. Hall
of this place. Mr.. Hall was born in
Hardwick and left the state 81 years
ago, this being his first visit here since.
Mrs. W.P. Smith of st. Johnsbury
hand Mrs. NIL. T. Hidden of Lyndon
are among the alternate delegates elect
ed by the state w. G. T. U. to the ma
tional convention in Minneapolis, Oct.
22d.
Alfred III. Lloyd of Montclair, N. j.,
is teaching at Phillips academy, An
dover, Mass. Mr.. Lloyd was the vale
dictorian of the class of '82 at the acad
envy and graduated from Hal ward last
July with high honors.
G. w. Graham and wife are visiting
Mr.. Graham's sister, Mrs. j. H. Hutch
inson at Portsmouth, N. H.-Mr. and
Mrs. George Fenno are visiting at
Thetford, his oldi .home.--Mrs. F. H.
Miner and child are visiting friends in
Massachusetts.
Col. A. B. Jewett got back from the
West Tuesday and G.. A. Whitcher re-
turned from Dakota Thursday. Both
report pleasant trips and finding bust
ness good.-Mrs. A. G.. Chadwick has
also returned from three months
vicinity.
THE BOY OF TO-DAY.
A fair audience heard Mrs. Mary
Livermore deliver her lecture on "The
Boy of Today" Monday evening in
Music hall, and were we'll repaid for
their trouble in going out on so stormy
an evening. The speaker was very
happily introduced by Judge w. p.
Smith,
Mrs. Livermore began by referring
to the phenomenal progress made by
this nation since it's establishment as
compared with the progress made by
the nations of the old world, at the
of the Saxon over the Latin races.
Then she spoke at length concerning
some of our peculiarities as Americans.
We have developed a genius for ac-
| curing wealth, not sin in itself but
to be deprecated when put above hon
or, cOnscience-everyth ing. We have
developed genius for education and
religion. We are divided into a great
er number of denominations than any
other nation, signifying that we are a
thinking people. Another popularity
is that we are ostentatious, and live
too much with regard for others eyes.
The speaker here emphasized the folly
of keeping up appearances simply be-
cause we want our neighbors to think
thus and SO of us sooner or later this
veneering is worn away and we stand
simply for what we are. Finally, the
besetting sin of the Anglo-Saxon race
is drunkenness.
Amid all these peculiarities the boy
of to-day-the American bOy-comes
into the world as a brainy, superior
lad. He looks into the future as the
boy of no other nation can, and has be-
fore him possibilities which no other
boy has. He has temptations, too, pc
culiar to himself and here the speaker
referred to the defalcations that have
recently occurred and vigorously de-
nounced the calling of great sins by
soft names. We shall soon have to
revise not the Bible but the decalogue
penitentiary of the United States. The
boy of to-day has in him the Anglo
Saxon genius for ruling and here the
speaker illustrated, from personal OBJ
servation, the ruling power of the boy
as revealed in many households to- day.
In answer to the question, What
shall we do to reach the fulfillment of
early promise? Mrs. Livermore depre-
Gated the idea that boy must be per-
mitted to come up "naturally." She
emphasized the necessity of bodi-
ly as well as moral training, and went
on to speak of the deadly effects of to-
baccO and intoxicants on the growing
boy. Home training came in for a
share of attention.
Mrs. LivermOre closed her lecture
with an eloquent declaration of faith
in the stability of the American repub-
lie and its institutions.
Barbed Fencing.
j. S. Sanborn's driving horse was
badly mangled on barbed wire fencing
at North Danville Sunday night. The
horse became frightened by the thun-
der storm and ran against the cruel
barbs. A short time ago one of Simeon
Belknap's horses ran out of the yard
against the barbed wire fence of B. B.