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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-02-20

with some thirty other symptoms, mark
the progress Of that terrible disease known
a catarrh. 1t advances from stage to
stage of fearful annoyances, andi neglected,
is certain to end in general debility, and
possibly in consumption or insanity. Dr..
Sage's Catarrh Remedy will cure it at any
stage. This medicine has been long before
the public. and thousands have been re-
stored to health by its never-failing virtues.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-02-20

UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE Con-
MISSIONER DORNAS B. EATON has gent
his resignation TO the president, TO
take effect March 9.
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PROTECTION INCREASES WAGES.
II hardly needs any argument to prove

A. AAt-A - A4N~>@7 sNA4t 80 NN-NAN'4N ~ -
20 tE- intelligent Iab3rer, ARTISAN ar o9.
-ra'se. a.a works for was-~-rg matter
10 what sta-try aa may be employed -
,hala protective tariff increases the rar.
ot DIS wages The strongest opponents
ofprotection admit thatrt builds u2 uew
industries and stimulates and eu.arg-s
old ones, but claim that its benefits ac-
crue to one class at the expense of an
other. None of them are reckless enough
to claim that the increase and diversified
ton OF industry, brought about by pro-
lection. does not bring increased pay TO
much Of the labor of the country To
deny this would be to attempt too bald q
deception. The most unthinhing work
ingmaa knows that with an increased
demand for labor comes increased pay
for it. This business principle is so sim
pie and the rule so universal, that no one
fails % comprehend it
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-02-20

THREE months treatmeutfor soc. Piso
asnedy ioT CsbaETh, So4d by dguxsts.
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THE FARMERS INTERESTS.

Especially is it desired in this article to
show the influence Of a protective .arif
upon the agricultural Interests Il che
country, and learn whether It's practical
operations have brought to the farmer
effects that have been Peruicious or -
nifceut.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-02-20

ROME is now said 20 be a clean city
ard the foot-pad is unknown.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-02-20
DUTY or woRKINGME<

This being rrae. how plaia. aye. how
imperative the duty thas the vast army ID
wage-workrrs IN this country insist that
such protection be accorded 20 Our indus
-ie~ as saaI make tnem prosperous,
stable, and the mo-twiIeIy dtver-e And
what Iimit.ss and uncx0iored fields tor
Iabo-and enterprise does oa- country, and
. especially the Great West present: No
other country can profit as can we by ex-
tended and diversified industry. for no
other has such fertile BREADTH with
such a wealth of natural resources. In
all the elements Of material greatness
We stand uariva,led, and with ,lch.lree-
dom and fulIness Of political rights as
give inspiration and promise 10 the toll
and genius Of the worker.
The workiagman, then, wherever ne
NAV BE-. and sn whatever department Of
labor engaged, uusts see II his duty as it
is his interest a- an Individual and as a
ci.ize---wh=sher actuated by motives Of
seIfshness or patriotism, 10 resist with
his stoutest opposition, by voice and by
vote, any man OF any party,
that seeks 70 Limit, cripple or destroy our
growing industries by Withdrawing from
them the needed safeguards of a reason
ably protective tariff.
CONDITION OF LABOR.
IN no country in the world have work
ingmen been 50 well conditioned as they
have been in the United States for the
past twenty-five years under the protect
i've tariff There have been brief periods
Of staguation in trade. when money has
been close and labor in light demand,
but the average has beer one Of good
wages and exceptional prosperity. It is
for this reason that the tide of immigra-
ton has been so overwhelming. Many
thousands of workers from the Old
World have annually fled from the pau
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CONDITION OF LABOR.

rContiuued on the Fourth Page
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-07
Mark Twain's Earthquake.

To the Editor of the Sun: Sir-As a
result of the most careful observation
of the aspect of the fixed stars during
the past two months, as affected by
the remarkable changes now going on
in the great nebula in G Cassiopeia,
| am able to state with absolute GER
tainty that by far the most awful dis
aster that has ever befallen the globe
since it's creation will occur on the Sd
of October at 9.42 in the evening. The
agent will be a meteOric stone-a me-
teOric world, indeed, since it's mass
will be One-eighth as great as that of
our own sphere. 1t will first come in
sight about half way between the con-
stellation of the Great Bear and the
north star, and will make the circle of
the southern skies, and then sweep
nOrthward with Unreasonable rapidity,
turning the night of this whole CONT
nent into a red glare of the most
binding intensity. AS it approaches
Canada it will make majestic down
ward swoOp in the direction of Ottawa,
affOrding spectacle milling a mil
lion inverted rainbOws woven together,
and will take the prophet Virgins
right in the seat of his inspiration and
lift him straight up into the backyard
of the planet Mars, and leave him per-
maneDtly there in an incOnceivably
mashed and unpleasant condition.
This can be depended on.
MARK TWAIN.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-07
SQUIBS.

Poverty is the parent of journalism
.-[New Haven News.
There is growing impression that
the dead languages were talked to
death. I New Haven News.
1t is easy enough for politician to
tell the truth. but he finds very little
use for it.-[New Haven News.
First degree, speculation second
degree, defalcation third degree, hui
initiation, prison or Canada Hart
ford Post.
When a man buys porous plaster,
whether he likes it or not, he general
ly sticks to his bargain.-[ Burlington
Free Press.
An earthquake that passes by and
leaves Virgins above ground, alive
and well, is sorry failure.-[ New
York Mail and Express.
1t wasn't so very long ago that ma
ture turned over new leaf, and yet
she is alrerdy beginning to paint the
country red Burlington Free Press.
Visitor Ito dime museum freak care
you the wild man of the woods p
Freak-"No, sir; am the man who
never says l want to know" Visitor
(astOnished)-'1 want to know Pr
Life.
There is nothing that makes young
man who has been married about a
year feel so lonely and sad as to have
to go to the store where there is a girl
to whom he used to be attentive and
ask her to show him some baby car
riages.-[New Haven News.
That abrupt, explosive, discourteous
monOsyllable "Thanks," got Roland
for it's Oliver the other day. Madam
dropped her card case in fremont
street, and brisk little newsboy pick
ed it up for her. "Thanks !" said she.
"Welk," said he, and bolted.- Boston
Beacon.
Mr.. Goodman was out in the kitchen
helping his wife sort over large guam
tity of partly decayed fruit, when a
friend called to see him and asked if it
wasn't hard work to keep at that bust
ness all day. "Oh, no." said he, "but
it's great strain on the Judgment
New York Graphic.
A Good Scheme. Brown-"Did you
go for vacation this summer, Smith 2"
Smith-"Oh, yes" Brown-''How did
yOo yOuI UuSlucSS
Smith, took my advertisement out
of the paper until | returned, so there
wasn't any business to manage. Great
scheme, ell 9"- Harper's Bazaar.
A country parsOn was indiscreet
enough to tell his village tailor that
when he wanted good coat he al
ways went to Boston. Continuing the
conversation he asked the tailor if he
ever went to church. "Oh, yes" was
the reply. "When L want to hear
good sermon 1 go to Boston," This is
told by a Boston newspaper.
elias Muller borrowed any thing from
you 2" "He tried he said he wanted
$500 for year, and that he could get
it from Schulze, but Schulze wanted 6
per cent, while he was not willing to
pay more than per cent. So I gave
him 81 and said {: Here's the missing
2 per cent. go and borrow the money
from Schulze.' ":[Wall Street News.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-07
DEFAULrrNG CASHIER GOULD.
Sentenced to 10 Years i'm Prison--A
Statement by Mr.. Gould

William E. Gould, the defaulting
cashier of the First national bank of
Portland, pleaded guilty, Thursday, to
the indictments against him and was
sentenced to 10 years in the state pris-
OH at Thomaston. Previous to his
sentence the following statement by
Mr.. Gould was read by his counsel:
81 have carefully read the copy of
the Indictment which has been furnish
ed me by my counsel. / cannot now
say without an examination of the
books of the bank that all the charges
but the fact still remains that | am
guilty of improperly using the funds
intrusted to my keeping, and that it is
just that | should be punished there
for. For this reason l do not wish to
York for my home / was sure that this
struggle, which l was making with the
vain hope of retrieving my error, must
end as it has. l then determined to
return to give my aid in explaining
the property had, and thereby so far
as lay in my power make restitution
for the wrong l had done, and to bear
with what fOrtitude | could command
the punishment which my acts should
bring to me. The first L have done,
and now it only remains for me to suf-
fer the penalty of the law.
l wish it could fall upon myself
alone. 1t would serve no good pur-
pose for me to state the causes which
have led to this crime, nor to blame
others for not having warned me. 1t
would in no wise change my RESPONSE
bility, but it will readily be believed
that in the beginning l had no design
to take one dollar from the bank that
l could not account for. My intimate
relations with the institution, it's man
agement and it's officers led me to a
different course of action in the outset
than l should have pursued under diff
ferent circumstances. But L found
myself heavy loser through the mis-
conduct of others, and that could not
make good the funds L had used. |
have tried every means to keep up my
credit. have struggled hard to ex-
tricate myself from my unfortunate pO
sitiOn and to obtain the means to re-
imburse the bank and save myself and
those connected with me from this
helpless ruin. In all this have failed.
Nothing remains to me but to undergo
the sentence which justice, tempered,
as [ hope, with mercy, requires the
court to pronounce.
National Bank Examiner Wiswell
has made his report on the First ma
tional bank of Portland, Me-, which
Cashier Gould plundered. He finds a
deficit of $l67 ,485.0I in the surplus
fund of the institution.
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that thing behind me! At last, in a
kind of nervous spasm, | sprang to my
feet and turned toward the door. The
sight froze mel There is no other
word for it was rigid. l could no
more stir than / could arrest the mo-
ton of this train now and instantly.
My very heart stopped its beating.
wonder / did not drop dead myself,
for there-not six feet from me-with
the livid pallor of death on its face,
and its CLASSY eyes glued to mine,
stood the corpse
"Then it began to approach me. 1t
did not seem to walk-it glided and
not till it reached me did it make a
single apparent movement. Then
just stand up, will your l can illus
trate better what occurred / did so,
and he rose at the same time, and we
stood facing each other in the COM
partment. l was dimly conscious at
the moment we were crossing Batter
sea bridge. The undertaken, as he
went on, repeated upon me the actions
he described.
"Then this dead thing, he said to
me, ''slowly lifted its arms and laid its
icy fingers on my cheeks and moved
them gently dOwnwards to my shout
ders pressing in hard against me all
the time on either side, as l do now to
YOU, and wherever the hands lay they
seemed to draw the very life out of
the flesh beneath them. lowly-Oh,
how slowly-they glided on downward
from my shoulders to my breast, be-
meath my coat, like this. Try to con-
ceive it-try it, if you can. Wherever
they touched they drew something
away frOm-sOme virtue seemed to go
out of me. And then the frightful
thought came to me that l was dying
by piecemeal that | was parting
with something dear to me as life-bit
by bit could feel it ebbing, ebbing,
and at last the horror grew to a con-
victiOn. This ghOul was drawing my
life's blood into his own veins was
sucking my substance What L lost
he gained. He enriched himself by
making me poor, and it would end"
"VictOria !" shouted the guard, open
ing the door.
"Bless my soul!" exclaimed the un
dertaker, "we are in | must hurry
to catch my train out" He seized his
satchel and was on the step before
could get my breath to say: "But the
story | want to hear the end of it."
He was on the platform now, ooh,
there isn't much more," he called back.
''The ghoul ucceeded-that's all !''-
and he was gone before could say
another word.
AS followed porter to cab, and
all the way home, l tried to conceive
what the undertaken could mean. How
could the dead man have succeeded
Here the undertaken was, alive and
we'll, and telling me the story. 1t was
very annoying and disappointing to be
so baked after being so wrought upon.
The undertaken had left me no ad-
dress, so that [ was, apparently, DOOM
ed never to know the solution.
Only apparently" however. When
| got out of the cab at my own door,
could find no loose change to pay the
driver, yet had some when l took the
train at Dover, my we'll furnished
pocketbook, though that, too, had at
Dover, was gone as we'll and my
watch and chain had followed suit.
1t is painful to lose confidence in hu-
man nature in this way.
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The mBn returned in about 20 min :
utes, looking very cheap and crestfall-
en-, and remarked:
"We'll have to take the body over
there on board to get into the house.
l rang the bell, and was thinking I'd
take seat in the parlor and talk about
the earthquake and the frosts and the
presidents vacation, and gradually
work up to shingles and sheds and
sudden deaths, but the minute she
opened the door she yelled out: want
to enlarge our photographs to life-size
for 50 apiece do you! Now skip or
I'll cripple your And she showed me
broom handle into which she had
driven file two feet long and sharp
ened the end"
They were hunting for board when
Jim revived and discovered that no
bones were broken. He was assisted
home and the errand of the caller ex-
planned.
"Oh, that was it ell 2" she replied,
"Well, why didn't you say so and done
with it. It's my baking day to-day,
and haven't any time to fool away"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-07
Her Name.

We sympathize with the old farmer
whose daughter was ashamed of hel
name.
When she first left her good old
country home, with its quiet, simple
ways, for Il year in fashionable board
ing school, she signed her name "Sarah
Jane Smith," and took no Offense at
being called Sally.
Three months later her letters came
home signed "Sadie j. Smith,"
Six months elapsed and she had be-
come rs. jamie Smith,"
Time rolled along, bringing in it's
wOndrous changes, and when the June
days came she blossomed forth as "S.
JEANNE Smythe."
Then her father hitched his old
blind horse to a vegetable cart, and
said
'I'm goin' ter bring that there Sal
home, an let FER know that she can't
bring odjeum OH the good old name O.
Smith by ringin' in any more ~ and
'e' changes on it. They can't nobody
say a word o. harm agin my branch o.
the Smith family. Pm proud o. it, an
glad Pm one of 'em. | reckon a month
o. right hard work in later time III let
Sarah Jane know that Jane don't
spell no JEANNE"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-07
Edmunds and the Offices.
Boston Herald

1t is charged upon Senator Edmunds
that he has recommended men to the
departments at Washington, and asked
personally for their appointment. This
may or may not be true but, if it is
true, the probabilities are strong that
they were fit men for their places.
This is certain-that Mr.. Edmunds did
not regard them as his henchmen, or
seek their political service for himself
after they were in Office. He may have
his failings, but he is not that kind of
person. Edmunds can carry Vermont
without office holders aid.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-07
Diplomacy.
.Rurdette in Rrooklun .Ennls.


The father of the family stands in a
threatening attitude, thoughtfully
trimming the larger knots off nice
long birchen rod. Before him, trem-
bling, his darling son, never dearer
than now, in his twelfth year, and but
recently in mischief. The son, break
ing the silence, which had grown pain
fully embarrassing, speaks, "Father,
the preachers in the parlOr talking to
Sophie about joining the church, the
baby's sound asleep, and mammals
lying down with a headache. Can't
we compromise this thing sOmeway for
the sake of harmony within the par
y7' And white winged peace stole
softly into that room, and folding her
snowy pinions, sat down on a hassock
as though she intended to stay there
until she Matched out Turkish lounge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-07
Breaking 1t Gently.
Detroit Free Press.

Yesterday morning carpenter who
was engaged in re-shingling a shed on
Randolph street, fell off the scaffold
and was rendered unconscious by strik-
ing On some beams on the ground. His
boss thought him dead and he called
the three or four men on the job to-
gether, and said:
"Now, boys, this is a sad case. Joe's
wife lives over on Adams avenue, and
some of US must go over there and pre-
pare her for the great shock. Pm too
excited to CO."
That was the case with the two 9TH
ers, but the third man agreed to go
and put on his coat and set off.
"Now, mind you," continued the
boss, "don't rush in and yell out that
Jim is dead, and scare the poor wo-
man into fits. Come to the point gent
ly."
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-07

democratic party has shown itself in
capable of governing. But that is the
argument of King Stork against King
Log. The democratic party cannot be
plausibly denounced as a public enc
my in the sense of the cry of 1884. Its
comparative administrative capacity is
very much feebler argument, and
necessarily the question of personal
fitness in the candidate will become of
infinitely greater Importance. More
over, whatever may be urged against
the democratic party, the fact will be
incoDtestable that the democratic pres
ident has made profound impression
of honest purpose of good government
in the interest of the people and not of
party. This fact, cOntrasted with
the peculiar objection to Mr.. Blaine,
will be of the greatest popular weight.
1t will be increased by the perception
that the president is very much strong
er than his party, and has proved his
ability to compel its half-reluctant and
! protesting support. This of itself an
swers the argument drawn from party,
and presents the question for lntelll-
gent and patriotic republicans whether,
under the circumstances and against
the renominated president, Mr.. Blaine
is the strongest candidate they can Of
fer. Undoubtedly he will be warm! "
pressed as the most conspicuous lead
er, as great party organizer, as the
republican of the largest and most de-
voted following, as the only republican
who can command an Irish democratic
vote; and the strongest appeal of all
in party convention will be the de-
claration that in view of his defeat in
1884 upon personal grounds, to set
him aside in 1888 will be to acquiesce
tacitly in the personal charges against
him. Yet that he will be really a
stronger candidate in 1888, or that the
Cleveland administration will have
been such as to make the party argu-
ment for him more decisive than in
1884, cannot be supposed. 1t will be
hundredfold easier to be an indie
pendent in 1888 than in 1884. Every
form of oblOquy and blackguardism
and falsehOOd against mugwumps has
been exhausted, and it is demonstrate
ed that to vote against an unfit repub-
lican is not to vote for national disas-
ter. Men and brethren, let us reflect
upon these things.
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PATENTS.
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EDDY Solicitor of Patents
TESTIM ONIALs.
81 regard Mr.. Eddy as one of the most successful
and capable practitioners with whom have had
official intercourse. CHAS. MASON
Commissioner of Patents.
Inventors cannot employ a person more trust
worthy or more capable of securing for them an
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fee"-EDMUND BURKE, late Commissioner of
Patents
Boston October I9, 1876
r. H. EDDY Esq.-DearSir you procured for
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Our selections for the coming for all the
departments and take pleasure announcing that
has been good fortune to show such desirable stylish
goods at the present time
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-07
DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT.

The prominent shades this Browns, Blues an
Green's which shown in great variety of combination
introducing many beautiful colorngs and effects We have
elegant line of
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-07

Black and Colored Dress goods in all the latest
ranging in price from SOC to $3.50 per yard.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-07
VELVETS and SILKS.

Fancy Vevets constitute the principal trimming for dress
goods this We have ELEGANT STOCK in all the
and leading shades Prices from 75c to So 90 per yd
New stock of Black and Colored
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the popular prices of ST. 1885, 15O It's and 100 yard
We invite special attention this department we of
fering many bargains