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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-04-29
RECENT DEATHS.
HON. AMOS S. TREAT.


Hon. Amos S. Treat died at his home
at Bridgeport, Conn.,, last Saturday, at
the age of 20 years. Mr.. Treat and
family were of the Raymond excursion
party to Mexico last month, and while
not vigorous man he was in usual
health and his death on the day after
his return is a surprise to other mem
bers of the party and must have come
as great shock to his family and i'm
mediate friends. Mr.. Treat was one
of those honest, straightforward, old
fashioned, sensible men whom it must
have been a pleasure to know intf-
mately, and even casual acquain-
lance Of a few weeks left an impress
sion long to be cherished. Mr.. Treat
was one of the best known men in
Connecticut,-a graduate of Yale col
lege, lawyer by profession, and a
member of the state legislature for sew
en- different sessions, and speaker of
the House in 1872. He was a member
of the Peace congress in 1861, and an
intimate and trusted friend of Salmon
P. Chase. At the time of his death
Mr.. Treat held many offices of trust in
business companies in his city. He
leaves a wife and one daughter.
MINNIE POOR.
The following is taken from the
Florida, Crescent City, Gazette of
April Is: ave learn of the death of
Miss Minnie, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. H. Poor at Groverdale, which oc-
Cured this morning. She had been
very low for some time previous with
consumption. The bereaved parents
have the sympathy of the Gazette to-
gether with those of large circle of
friends"
Mr.. Poor and family formerly lived
in st. Johnsbury Centre and went to
Florida about five years ago. Those
who remember Minnie as bright, ac-
tive girl will be sorry to hear of her
early death; but glad to know that she
had become young lady loved and
respected by all who knew her, as
the gathering of a large number of her
young friends and neighbors around
her bedside the Sabbath before she
passed away, well testified.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-04-29
WINCHESTER'S

HYPOPHOSPHATE of LIME and SODA is a
matchless remedy for Consumption in every stage
of the disease For Coughs. Weak Lungs, Throat
Diseases, Loss of Flesh and Appetite, and every
form of General Debility it is an unequaled Speci-
fc Remedy. RBe SURE and get Winchesters
Preparation. 81 and 81 per bottle. Sold by Drug
gists. WINCHESTER g. CO. Chemists,
AT No. Is Dey St. New York
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-04-29
Atkinsthe VbeeIharroxv.

The democratic party of Vermont is
small but those who sneer at the pow
err of Boss Atkins in helping defeat
Senator Edmunds make a mistake.
For some purposes a wheelbarrow is
more effective than four horse team.
Il Boston Record.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-04-29
Bound to Prove H,m.e,f. Fool.

A Vermont youth named Parsons,
who was refused by young woman
the other day, has in consequence tried
to shoot himself and hang himself, and
ragged around until he was put in Jail
for safe keeping. He is bound to prove
that the girl had good judgment, if it
takes all summer.-GB Boston Advertiser.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-04-29

noon. The river from that point
down a few miles has been above the
high-water mark of 1882 since Satur-
day.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-04-29
A Greater tban smaIIev.

Collector B. B. Smalley is down in
New York, and in talking with re-
porter about Editor Atkins's recent
editorial, says: 81 can't understand it.
Why Mr.. Atkins should concern him.
self in quarrel between republican
factions do not know" There is a
greater than Smalley, in the estima-
ton of the Montpelier democrat, and
his name is the familiar one of Smith.
Il Springfield Republican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-04-29

''The Pilgrim Housekeeper" is the
title of very neat aud attractive book
issued by the ladies of Pilgrim church,
st. Louis, containing a collection of
go pages of tried recipes contributed
by the ladies of that church and edited
under the supervision of Mrs. c. l..
Goodell. The recipes cover the whole
field of household cookery, with a val
liable department for invalids, and al
so directions about other matters
which are useful to know. 1t is also
temperance book, not a spoonful of
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-04-29

The quarterly election of officers of
Hector lodge L. o. G.. T. Monday even
ing resulted as follows: w. A. Ora
ham, w. G. T.; George L. Rowell,
w. V. T.; W. G.. Chamberlin, w. Sec. l.;
w. H. Sargent, w. F. S.; l.. c. Har-
low, w. Chap; Harry A. Powers, w.
NJ. Ida Penniman, w. g.; Albert j..
Gale, w. S.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-04-29

A small number of resident Odd Eel
lows went up to LyndOnville last even
ing to attend the celebration of the
9th anniversary by the Union lodge
No. 4. An interesting program was
presented which included an address
by Rev. D. H. Adams and readin G
and number of solos by DR.. Grow.
Caledonia Council, No. 13, r. and s.
N. elected these officers Friday even
ing: T. H. Bowman, Il. L. M; Alex
Dunnett, d. NJ; N. r. Switzer, P.
C. of W.; A. E. Pride, treasurer d.
NJ. Bacon, recorder l.. P. Hartman, G.
of G.. A. F. Nichols, c. of G. ; L. Sui
loway, marshal o. P. Bennett, stew
ard l.. B. Head, sentinel; T. H
Bowman, Alex. Dunnett and N. r
Switzer, finance committee.
Haswell Chapter No. IL, r. A. N
elected officers Friday evening as fol-
lows: F. w. Taylor, H. P; Noah
Carleton. K; C. A. CalderwOod, S.
T. H. Bowman, treasurer; D. M. Bacon.
secretary L. P. Hartman, G. of III.
j. H. Holder, P. S.. N. R. Switzer, R
A. c.; E. L. Stiles, M. Sd "; w. E.
Barrett, M. I'd "; F. w. Patterson,
NJ. 1st "; E. L. Wells, steward A
D. Page, steward N. P. Bowman
chaplain; E. F. Griswold, organist.
The new lodge room of Green Noun
tain lodge No. l, l. o. o. F., Burling-
ton, was dedicated Monday with inn
posing ceremonies conducted by the
Grand officers in the presence of a
large audience. Among the MEM
bers of the Grand Lodge present in
full regalia were N. P. Bowman, grand
master and o. H. Henderson, grand
secretary of st. Johnsbury. A grand
banquet was served and general good
time enjoyed. Monday was the 9th
anniversary of the organization of the
order.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-04-29

Stewart.
Mr.. Gladstone says there is no dan
ger in granting home rule to Ireland
The danger lies in refusing it.
| Easter will not fall on the 25th OF
April again until 1913. The oldest in
habitant cannot remember when il
came so late in the season as last Sun
day.
We have fallen upon strange times
when freight car in one of the larg-
est railroad centers in the country need
only be marked in chalk: "Boycotted,
please don't move," to prevent it's go
ing an inch on its way.
President Cleveland, referring to the
talk that is going the rounds of the
press concerning his rumOred ap-
preaching marriage, declares that ga
man, though a president, has some
rights to his private affairs"
1t is announced in New York, APP
parently by authority, that ex-Presi-
dent Arthur is hopelessly i'll with
Bright's disease, and though his cendi-
ton is temporarily improved, all hope
of his recovery has been abandoned.
The New York Tribune suggests
that if the people depend upon the Ar
Dor day custom of planting trees Gin
spots" fer preserving denuded hills and
valleys with trees, it will be some time
before the waste places are re-planted.
The Rutland Herald nails one of the
campaign stories that are afoat when
it says with emphasis, "Governor
Proctor is a strong supporter of Sena-
tor Edmunds. And he is not going to
shake any trees for somebody else to
gather the fruit"
The New York Nation has been fig
uring on the matter and decides that
in America the age at which men of
real ability are likely to manifest their
force is from 46 to &c, and gives the
record of the lives of many eminent
men to substantiate the statement.
Burlington's vital statistics show but
one death during the month of March
among those over 80 years ofage. This
recalls the remark of the man who
thought that life insurance companies
ought to charge lower rate for insur
ing those who were 80 years old and
over because so few of them die.
The New York Times pertinently
suggests that a man who gives up a
good place in which he is earning 81 a
day to wander about the streets pen
niless and hungry merely because he
has been ordered to do so by a few
reckless and headstrong men who are
paid high rate of wages during the
continuance of a strike is not hero.
He is a slave.
''The Pilgrim Housekeeper'' is the
title of very neat aud attractive book
issued by the ladies of Pilgrim church,
st. Louis, containing a collection of
go pages of tried recipes contributed
by the ladies of that church and edited
under the supervision of Mrs. C. L.
Goodell. The REGIMES cover the whole
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-04-29
LOCAL AND TOWN NEWS.
THE FRATERNITIES.
What They Are Doing in st. JOhnsbury.

Post Chamberlin has secured Major
r. III. HendershOtt, the famous drum
mer boy of the RappahannOck, for
their concert here Memorial evening.
Rev. Mr.. LamsOn has consented to de-
liver the Memorial Sc rm0n.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-04-29
Farm for Sale.

nYSPEPSIA.-Its Nature Causes, Prevention
LAND Cure. By JOHN II. MICA LvR Lowell, Mass
IA years Tax Collector. Free to any address. A.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-04-29
NOTE AND COMMENT.

Vermont is represented on the con-
gressiOnal committee by Hon. John w.
Stewart.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-04-29

Probate of Will.
STATE OF VERMONT, CALEDONIA DISTRICT Sc
DIN Probate Court, holden at the Probate Office In
ST. JOhnsbury, on the 9th day of April A D. 1886
An instrument purporting to be the last Will and
Testament, of Amasa Knapp, late of Lyndon in
said district deceased being presented to Court by
William p. HOughton, the executor therein named
for Probate:
1t is ordered by said Court that all persons con.
cerned therein be notified to appear at a session OF
said Court, to be held at the Probate Office in St
JOhnsbury ON the 18th day of May A. d. 1896 and
show cause if any they may have, against the Pro
bate of said VIII: for which purpose it is further
ordered that copy of the record of this order be
published three weeks successfully in The Caledo.
MAN, printed at St. Johnsbury previous to said
time appointed for hearing
By the Court Attest,
WALTER p. SMITH, Judge
44-46 true copy of Record Attest
WALTER p. SMITH, Judge
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-04-29

Rev. George w. Phillips, for L:
years pastor of Plymouth church
Worcester, Mass, has accepted a cal
to the Congregational church Rutland
salary $4,000.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-04-29

The New York Nation has been fig
uring on the matter and decides that
in America the age at which men of
real ability are likely to manifest their
force is from 46 to &c, and gives the
record of the lives of many eminent
men to substantiate the statement.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-04-29
3 SPECIALS THIS WEEK.

Black and Colored DRESS SILKS in Rhadmus
and Gross Grains.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-04-29

~ Black FOREIGN DRESS GOODS-fne
fabrics, new effects not found elsewhere.
Southern ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1886-18??, 1886-06-05

central country having Towns Churches, Societies United
States Mails Telegraph and Good People, witha mild climate
rich Soils many crops good water free range fish and game
fine TIMBER rich mines, choice fruits high lands and low
lands powers railroads and good markets Wheat
Maize and Cotton flourish in the same field.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-11-25
Courtesy in Travelling.
a Traveller. in Evangelist.


He lied, and he knew it, and he saw
that | knew it. His very looks told
the story, and | don't think he will
soon forget it. Sharp language, You
may say, and so it is. But listen. 1t
happened on this wise. The car was
very full, and as | entered, | saw but
one seat near the middle that had not
its two occupants. In this sat a young
man by himself, he filling balf the
seat, and satchel taking up the other
half. Stepping forward, asked him
politely: sis this seat taken 2" eyes"
he said, with some hesitation both of
look and voice. eyes, it is taken by
a gentleman who has stepped out, and
may soon be back again." AS he said
it, his look and tone satisfied me that
it was not SO, and that he knew it, and
that by falsehOod he was seeking, if
possible to keep the whole seat to
himself. every WE'LL" said, 81 will
take it till the gentleman comes back,
and if he comes 1 will cheerfully give
it up to him." So quietly putting his
satchel on the floor at his feet, and
moving his OvercOat nearer to himself
took the seat, satisfied by his very
manner, and from the fact that the
train was just beginning to move, and
that the seat had not been taken, and
that | should enjoy it to the end of the
trip, which | did-thOugh L should
have enjoyed it more if had felt that
he was gentleman, and we could
have conversed on the many topics
that SO often beguile the hours of trav-
cling: and sometimes open the way to
permanent and interesting acquaint-
ance. The occurrence set me to think
ing on Courtesy in TRAVELLING" and
how certainly the department of the
traveller shows the gentleman or the
lady, or, on the other hand, who are
the incOnsiderate and selfish, seeking
only their own comfort, regardless of
the comfort, or even the convenience,
of others. And thought if the atten-
ton of those who travel could be turn
ed to what is due to themselves as Ia
dies and gentleman, if they are such,
and to what is always due to those
who may be travelling with us, it may
be word in season to some who al e
not as cOusiderate of others as they
would have others of themselves. The
true lady and the true gentleman are
as much so in the railroad Car as in the
parlOr at home. And it is as wrong,
and perhaps more mean and selfish, to
lie about a seat in the railway car,
than about what may seem more i'm
pOrtant matters in social or business
life.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-11-25
Biting Ones Food.
The Lancet.

A curious controversy is in progress
as to the need or value of 'biting ones
food.r Strangely, as it must appear,
there are some who should be author
tiles ready to affirm that it is futile to
take the trouble to use the teeth with
which nature has provided man, in
common with most other animals, APP
parently for the special purpose of
cutting and grinding his food. Little,
if any, weight is attached to the evil
dence of facts in this dispute. The
existence of the dental apparatus
counts for nothing. Nor does it go
for much that movements of the jaw
promote the insalivatiOn of the food.
In short, mouth digestion is treated as
a myth or little better. What are we
to understand by all this ? Is it one
of the early fruits of that attempt to
pOpularize the science of physiology
which has been so persistently and
unselfishly made by the medical pro-
fessiOn in the supposed interests OF
public health and the prevention oil
disease We do not incline to mingle
in the fray, just at present at least.
Let the dispute go on and be fought
out to the bitter end. Meanwhile, we
counsel all who care for their comfort
aud who do not desire To develop the
worst form of dyspepsia, to continue
the practice of masticatiOn as before.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-11-25
The Fool and His Money.

The nottingham who puts his money
into the saloonkeepers' till is fool.
He mortgages his property and the
well being of himself and family, be-
You'd redemption. He puts himself
under power that uses him to step
upon; to grow fat upon by devouring
him and that takes the manhood out
of him.
We need say nothing against the sa-
lOOnkeeper we need to indulge i'll no
TRADE against rum; not to preach
against the drinking of Intoxicating
liquors OH moral grounds nor to say
a word about prohibition or license !;
it is enough to point to the spectacle
of the wOrkingman's delivering him
self over to degrading life, where
the brute is developed in him and his
enrolling qualities are suppressed. 1t
is the degradation of the man that is
so conspicuous; he throws himself
away and for nothing. After his hard
days labor he goes to the saloon and
in an hour he has nothing to show for
that labOr-nO nothing but stupidity, or a
drunken fight, or IL crime committed.
The workingman who can make no
better showing than this for the ex-
yes worse than ii fool, for the work
ingman has responsibilities for his
conduct that the fool has not.
The nottingham may us well say to
lis fellows Lets work hard every
day for 10 years and see how rich we
can make the salOOnkeeper on the cor
ner; we will then make him Doodle
alderman, so that he may become rich
Il, =, 4.
cities in this country, though the work
ingmen may not plan it beforehand.
What worse could IA wOrkingman do
with his earnings than to- spend them
for drink ? He might better throw
them into the river or bury them IN
the ground, for then there wOnld be no
tyrant ruling over him.
Wages well cared for will return a
vast amount of happiness to the work
ingman. Is it better to own IL home,
or to be iii the clutches of the saloon
keeper ? Is it better to have money
laid by for rainy day, or to be sunk
in wretchednesS and poverty
The saloon receives you in welcome
when you have money and kicks you
out when it is gone. 1t takes you a
man and makes you beast. 1t con-
SulllcS y our tHCI SiCS anu bhllNOo hhllO
you depart a beggar.
1t is useless to quote the figures OF
the nations annual liquor bill; to this
wOrkmen contribute millions, that
they may deprive themselves of com
forts and never get near enough to a
luxury to know what it is like. They
part with millions that might be in
vested in homes, in the education OF
children and in securities.
What many workman suffers from
to-day is want of savings. By these
he might elevate himself; he might
be "a lender instead of borrower; he
might become an employer, us well as
employed he would buy cheaper for
cash than lac does now for credit; he
would be happy i'll temperance, in a
good home, in having promising chill
dren, in the respect he would receive
from the public, in the confidence that
he would have in his manhood. Above
all, he would not be making fool of
himself by dumping his wages into Il
saloon.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-11-25

AS matter of fact and experience, a
liberal use of the teeth in feeding is
one of the essentials of easy diges ion,
and though we are not prepared 10 as
sert that it is necessary to bite each
morsel of meat precisely 25 times, it is
better to err on the side of masticating
too much than OH that of not masticat
ing enough first, to divide the food
and crush its fibers and particles gen.
orally, and secondly, to mix it so thor
Oughly with the secretion from the
salivary glands that not only shall the
act of deglutitiOn be rendered easy,
but that the food when it enters the
stomach shall have been properly pre-
pared for digestion in the gastric juice.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-11-25
BABY'S LIFE BOOK.

Many a mother keeps a "life book"
of her children according to the plan
suggested by Froebel. In the book are
records of every named physical, NOR
al and mental characteristic at the
time of development. Such books may
be made of interest and value to the
children in after years, and they are
useful to parents as aids to memory
us to physical or mental qualities, or
symptoms and consequent Adaptable
ties of their children. A lady, deeply
imp essed by the plan suggested, de-
termined to carry it out for her own
blessed baby. We give few extracts:
May 4-Freddy is three months old
to-day, and brighter than most babies
at ten. He coos and COOS out loud,
and he notices everything. 1t is per-
fectly wonderful
May l4-Mrs. B. was here to-day
with her little Sammy, who was born
six weeks before Freddie, and he, Sam
my, is no comparison to Freddie. L
really felt sorry for Mrs. B., and yet
she talked as though her Sammy was
the only baby in the world.
May l6--I really fear Frcddie's
brain is too large and too active for a
Cullu OI HIS aye. he ScoIllS 10 KNOW
everything. He looks and looks at
things so. l must speak to the doctor
about it.
May 20-Freddie laughed out loud
to-day while in his bath. 1t was so
sweet to hear him Nurse says she
never knew IL baby of his age to laugh
out like that. He certainly is a re-
markably forward child. He will lie
for half an hour at time on his back,
looking straight up at the ceiling.
Papa says there is nothing else for the
child to look at when he is fiat on his
back, and it was mean of him to laugh
about it.
June I've showed Freddie rose
to-day, and he looked at it and work
ed his mouth so prettily, just as tho he
was trying to say, "wose, pity wOse.'
He has the incest little trick of catch
ing his big toe in his hands, and look
ing ut it so earnestly He is wonder
fully clever. | never saw anything
like il
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-11-25
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
How His VIE Out-Flanled Him.
Christian Union

Christian Union.
! When | graduated from college L de-
| livered i'm Grafton on Woman Suffrage
/ showed that taxation without repre-
sentation was unjust that a denial
of the right of suffrage to women was
relic of her past servitude; that il
denied her equality with man that by
Gods decree she shared the crown and
the sceptre equally with him quoted
from Genesis to prove that she as well
as he was to have dominion, and point
ed out the fact that the ballot is the
sign and symbol of dominion. | also
referred to the prosperous and happy
reigns of Queen Elizabeth and Queen
Victoria us evidence that woman pos
sesses a capacity to reign as well as
the right. L produced a profound i'm
preston on myself, if not on any one
else, and came off the stage entirely
convinced. And this was only five
years ago. Two years ago l married !;
and my wife has in Il measure demol-
ished my argument. She has Outflank-
ed me. Her argument, i'm brief, is
this: The suffrage is not Il right, but Il
duty. 1t is very OnerOns and often
IA very disagreeable duty. If you
could get some one else to attend to
all your political duties for you, she
says to me, and leave you free to go on
with your business, you know you
would be glad. In fact, that is what
you do altogether too often. The bal
lot is burden and we women think
we have quite our share of burdens al
ready. We think we have a right to
be exempt from this one. We deny
your right to put it on to us. We
claim to be relieved from the burden
of voting along with the burden of mil
itary duty, police and jury duty, and
the like. You have no right to shirk
your responsibilities by putting them
on us. And she has taken the ground
right from under all my fine speech
about taxation without representa- ton,
and dominion, and crown and sceptre,
and all that. | wish you would tell
me how to reply to her. don't really
care very much to have my wife go in
to politics and become II voter; but l
don't like to be beaten in an argument
and burn up my graduating Grafton
in five years after it was delivered.
Yours, ETC.,