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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-21
SQUIBS.

In order to get ahead of Virgins,
we now predict that January will be
snowy. We shall point with pride to
this prediction further on Philadel-
phia Call.
"WeH that's new idea. | never
heard of putin spittOOns on the side
o the house before !" remarked an old
cOuntryman, as he walked up to tel
ephOne traDsmitter and made a bulls
eye the first shot, Hammond, Ind,
Tribune.
Somebody at Delaware Water Gap
was introduced to Mrs. Parvenu as a
distinguished etymolOgist." "Why,"
said the good old lady to him, 81 saw
you in our church Sunday, and
thought yOn were an EpiscOpalian."-
Boston Advertiser.
She agreed with him: otis meat
and drink to me to meet a jolly good
fellow like Smith," said Jones. DWELL
judging from the condition you come
home in when you have been with Mr.
Smith," said Mrs. Jones, with asperity,
81 should say it was meet and drink"
Minister: "YOu ought to come to
our church, John, and to our Sunday
school," Chinaman: "What fOl?" 81
want to try and make you good, and
to make you Christian" "Chlistian!
No, no. Me lather be heather Chinee.
Chinee hult nobody. Christian come
and blakee my window"
Customer-Was that Jamaica ginger
you put in that soda2 1t doesn't taste
like it. Drug Clerk examining bot
tles)- By Jove, Pve made a mistake
and given You laudanum Pm afraid
I'll have to charge you half dollar
more, sir. Laudanum comes higher
than Jamaica ginger, you know. Sixty
cents, please Boston Courier.
Bobby, precious youth of six sum-
mers, had been INDUCING in profanity,
and, in order to escape the punishment
for which his mother had made prep
arations, he crawled under a barn and
remained there in state of siege the
greater part of an afternoon. When
his father returned at night and learn
ed how matters stood, he made his
way with much difficulty, under the
barn in search of the boy. "Hello,
pa" said Bobby cheerfully, as his sire
approached, "you been swearing too9"
Il BabyhOod.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-21
The Century's Rise of Wages.

Discussing wages, in one of his lee
lures before the students of Harvard
university, Prof. Thompson gives
many facts of curious interest.
In 1893 the SchuylKill and Susque-
hanna canal company advertised for
wOrkmen, offering S. a month for the
winter months and So for summer
with board and lodging. The next
year there was debate in the house
of representatives which brought out
the fact that soldiers got but $3 a
month. A Vermont member, discuss
ing the proposal to raise it to 81, said
that in his state men were hired at IL
year, or 81 a month, with board and
clothing. Mr.. Wadsworth of Pennsyl-
vania said "In the states north OF
Pennsylvania the wages of the com
mon labOrer are not, upon the whole.
superior to those of the common sol
der"
In 1897 a Rhode Island farmer hired
a good farm hand at SO a month and
S. month was paid to those who got
employment for the eight busy months
of the farmers year. A strong boy
could be had at that time in COnnecti-
cut at ST. a month through these
months, and he earned it by working
from daybreak until eight or nine
o'clock at night. He could buy a
coarse cotton shirt with the earnings
of three such months. The farmers
could pay no better, for the price they
got for produce was wretched. Butter
sold for eight cents pound, and when
it rose suddenly to ten cents several
farmers wives and daughters went out
of their minds with excitement. WO-
men picked the wool off the bushes
and briars, where the sheep had left it,
and spun it into mittens to earn 81 a
year by this tOilsOme business. They
hired out as help for twenty five cents
month and their board. By days
woman and girl together could earn
twelve cents. AS late as 1921 the best
farm hands could be had for twenty
five cents day, or twice as much as
in moving time.
Matthew Carey, in his "Letters on
the Charities of Philadelphia" 1920,
gives painful picture of the working
classes at that time. Every avenue to
employment was chOked with appli-
cants. Men left the cities to find work
on the canals at from sixty to seventy
five cents day. and to encounter the
malaria which laid them low in num-
bers. The highest wages paid to wo-
men was twenty-five cents day, and
even the women who made clothes for
the arsenal were paid by the govern
ment at no higher rates. When the
ladies of the city begged for an i'm
provement of this rate, the secretary
hesitated, lest it should disarrange the
relations of capital and labor through
out the city! Poor people died of
cold and want every winter in the city,
and the fact seems to have made an
impression only on benevOlently dis
posed persons like Mr.. Carey.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-21
ARENAS Ward as Chief Editor.
Chicago Inter Ocean.


'The late Col. E. d. Mason of Tole-
do" remarked an Ohio man, "once
related to me this anecdote about the
lamented Artemas Ward (Charles F.
BrOwne.) ARENAS had left the Toledo
Blade and gone to Cleveland to take
city editOrsnip of the Plain Dealer, of
which j. w. Gray was editor and pro-
prietOr. The paper was small in those
days, and Gray and ARENAS did most
of the writing. One day Gray was
sick, and sent word to ARENAS to get
the paper out as best he could. The
next mornings issue contained an en-
tire page of what purpOrted to be the
first schOOlbOy essays of the leading
citizens of Cleveland, Gray's included.
In those suppOsitiOus essays ARENAS
had, with inimitable tact and humOr,
fOreshadOwed the future man, with all
his eccentricities and peculiarities.
Gray, who had got the worst scoring of
all, read the paper and sent for Arte-
mas. He responded promptly feeling
like cuiprit, and expecting nothing
less than immediate discharge. In
stead, he was heartily congratulated
and given two weeks leave of absence
on full pay. Harris, one of the alleged
essayists, gave him hat, Fairbanks
contributed pair of boots, and the
others pooled their issues and presented
him suit of clothes. He went first to
Toledo, and three weeks afterward tel
egraphed from st. Louis for money
enough to enable him to get back to
Cleveland. This episode made him
famous in the Forest City.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-21
ANTI-SALOON REPUBLICANS.
Address of the National Committee on
the Saloon i'm Politics.

The address of the national commit
tee of anti-saloOn republicans was is
sued from Chicago last week "The
time has cOme," it says, "when pOliti-
cal parties and private citizens must
take sides openly for or against the
traffic with its methods and it's results"
After dwelling on the growing power
and terrible influence of the saloon, to
the persistent violation of all law and
to economic effects, the address goes
on to say 4: The saloon power in the
United States Systematically uses its
corruption fund without scruple and
without stint to control primaries, to
carry elections by the purchase of
votes, to prevent restrictive legislation
with bribery, to Obstruct the course of
justice by tampering with juries, and
to punish with defeat public servants
who have incurred their displeasure.
Two factors combine to render the liq-
uOr traffic the incendiary thing it is
the weakness and depravity of it's
drinking victims, and mainly our ag-
gressive and criminal system of open
sale. These are the powder and the
torch whose unrestrained contact ours
es society and threatens civilization
curse and the danger would be virtu-
ally ended. Only moral pressure act
ing through the centuries can reach
the former. Only legal weapons,
whose action may be made swift and
conclusive, can reach the latter. The
saloon has entered politics with its
own methods and weapons. 1t had
allied itself with the democratic party
of obstruction and reaction, and to-
day rules that party with rod of iron.
While:thOusands of democrats are hos
tile to the liquor traffic, their voice is
silenced and their wishes ignored. The
machinery, resources and votes of a
powerful organization are thus enlist
ed to defend and perpetuate this can
Ger of our civilization. The prestige,
resources and championship of great
historic party are needed on the side
of the home and the public welfare.
The republican party is called to this
place and work.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-21
Stop the Murder.
.BrattLeborO PhRnix.


This legislature ought to take some
step to compel the vigorous enforce
ment of our state law which fOrhids
the killing of song and insect-eating
birds. 1t may be found, too, that pro-
visions of greater scope and increased
stringency ought to be added to it.
We do not know that the murder of
small birds to decorate the bOnnets
and dresses of women has become
serious evil in this state, as it has in
so many others, but we do know that
it has become quite too common
practice to kill them for various pur-
poses of taxidermy. 1t is within our
knowledge that in a certain section in
the north part of the state, covering a
portion of two towns, the small song
sters have been literally cleaned out
many killed and the rest driven away
by taxidermist who makes it his
business to shoot them and hire them
shot and then set them up to take
away and sell to visitors at popular
summer resorts. The legislature
should promptly put an end to this
whole wretched and unmanly business.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-21
And she believed him.
He Suffered Before Marryatt's Day
Mem York Times.

Neao York Times.
There is only one known instance on
record where any protest against an
cient history was heard on West Point
ground. That was during this last
commencement season, when General
King, General Francis Il. Nichols, Gen
eral Horace Porter and two or three of
their newspaper friends were met to-
gether to kill half hour that interven-
ed between a couple of events of inter-
est. General Porter of course followed
the instincts of his nature and began
to tell a story. 1t was a good story
Horace Porter never told story that
wasn't good-and the recitation was
hailed with applause. Only at its end
one of the New York newspaper men
said, with diabolical calmness 'Gen-
eral, it seems to me that somebody stole
that story from you when l was boy,
for Pm sure / came across it then in
book that was written by a person
named Marryatt."
"Ah, my friend" quoth Horace Por-
ter in quick reply and unabashed,
"you're all right so far as you go; but
the fact is that the man who stole that
story first was Aristophanes, who bold
IL put it into one of his Greek come
dies. You see that l suffered before
Marryatt's day."
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-21
Not a Bright Outlook.
Rutland HeraLd.

A single year of high license in Mis-
souri, has decreased the number of sa-
looms from 5000 to $500 and increased
the revenues from S547 900 to 81 $780,
600. This and similar results are
spoken of as better than prohibition
that does not prohibit. True, but il
$500 men can afford to pay million
and half of dollars a year for the
privilege of selling liquor, what an
enormous business they must do to
live and get rich besides, as they gen
orally do. If all America is running to
waste as fast as this, the future is not
bright, for every dollar that a man pays
out for drink costs him several dollars
in various other ways.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-21
An Opportunity.
BrGttJe6OrO PhRniz.

1t is true that the people do not
want the town system of schools, but
the reason they don't want it is be-
cause they are afraid of increased ex-
pense, and meantime the schools in
country districts are being managed
on a more and more parsimoniOus ba-
sis, and growing less and less efficient.
If the Legislature of 1886 wants to
make for itself lasting and honorable
name, it cannot do better than add to
a sound railroad commission law an
educational measure which grasps this
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-21
Burdette's Dog.
iSlIndaU-SchOOL Times.

Proofs of the evolution theory are
multiplying, Mr.. Robert j. Burdette
has been finding evidence of the de-
veloping influence of tobacco on the
lower animals. He says that only a
few weeks ago Gan Indiana man
taught his dog, very finely bred,
we'll behaved setter, to chew tobacco.
Now the dog comes into the house by
the back door, never scrapes his feet
on the mat, never goes to church, is
careless at his meals, gets burrs in his
tail, goes with lower grade of dogs,
and it is feared that he is beginning to
take an interest in politics."
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-21
Autumn Leaves.


"Danlw
"Here, sire !"
81 do perceive a growing fondness
among my ministers for autumn leaves,
and l would that this innocent predi-
lection might extend to my unrOman-
tic staff"
"Aye, sire"
"Gather, then, some of the foliage
now ready to fall in my garden, and,
having pressed them in this volume,
which contains the sound reflections OF
a great statesman, send the collection
with Mrs. Cleveland's compliments, to
my pan electric attorney"
at shall be done, sire"
"And Dan1"
"Well, sire"
abe sure you put humping big
handful between the pages where
Burke says:
"One of the first motives to civil So
ciety, and which becomes one of its
fundamental rules, is that no man
should be judge in his own cause"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-21
PATEN rs.

R. H. E ID d Y
No. IS State Street, opposite Kiby Street BostoL
Secures patents in the United States; also
Great Britain, France and other foreign countries
Copies of the claims of any Patent furnished by
remitting dollar. Assignments recorded al
Washington. No agency in the United States pos
seSses superior facilities for obtaining Patents o,
Gcertaifling the patentG6itity of Intentions. r. III
EDDY Solicitor of Patents.
ESTIHONIALS.
"Iregard Mr.. Eddy one of the most successful
and capable practitioners with whom l have had
official intercourse. CHAS. MASON.
Commissioner of Patents
Inventors cannot employ a person more trust
worthy more capable of securing for them an
early and favorable consideration at the Patent OF
fce."-EDMUND BURKE, late Commissioner OF
Patents
Boston, October 49, 1876
r. II. EDDY Esq.-DearSir: you procured fol
me- in 1910, my first patent. Since then you have
acted for and advised me in hundreds of cases and
procured many patents, reissues and extensions
have occasionally employed the best agencies in
New York, Philadelphia and Washington, but
still give yOu almost the whole of my business, in
your line and advise others to employ you.
Yours truly GEORGE DRAPER.
Boston. Jan. ]. 1SS6-1Y
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-21

A Vermont farmer, who has been
west for twenty years or more, says he
has looked the ground over that YER
mont farms are doing better for their
owners this year than for twenty five
years past.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-21

Fall and Winter Announcement I!

Our selections for the coming in for all the
departments and take pleasure announcing that
has been good fortune show such desirable stylish
goods at the present time.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-21
VELvETS and SILKS.

Fancy Velvets constitute the principal trimming for dress
goods this We have ELEGANT STOCK in all the
and leading shades Prices from 75c $3O per yd
New stock of Black and Colored
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-21
COMBINATION SUIT PATTERN;

Black and Colored Dress goods in all the latest
ranging in price from soc to 81 so per yard.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-10-21
DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT.

The prominent shades this Browns, Blues
Greens, which shown great variety of combination
introducing many beautiful colorngs and effects We have
elegant line of
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10
RESPONSIBILITY OF PARENTS.

The Influence of Fathers and Mothers in
Forming the Character of Their Chill
dren.
Happy are the fathers who take their
sons into companionship, and happy
are the sons that are so treated from
their childhood up. We know IA
Their who has three sons, and who, not
liking to let them play in childhood
with the kind of boys around them.
played with them himself in their
childish amusements. Two of these
sons are successful ministers of the
Gospel, and one publisher of religious
books.
Another father we know who took
his boys and their cousins long walks
to see beautiful scenery, or accompa-
MED them on fishing excursions. How
much those boys learned about trees,
flowers, animals and fishes, and how
much health and pleasure they gained,
can not be estimated, but they are now
in good health, several years beyond
threescore and ten. That father
watched the ''young ideas and in
sweet-toned lessons and confidential
advices taught those ideas how '.to
shoot"
Another father made his son his close
companion. They were almost always
together, and when one had to 90 on
some business-journey, the other would
invariably go with him to the convey
ance and kiss him at parting. if it were
only for day. Such another eXem-
plary son we never knew.
We have known many fathers who
paid no attention to their sons. but al
lowed them to go with any company
they chose, without warning or advice,
and whose teachings by example were
how to drink. smoke, swear, etc. The
! almost certain ruin of sons so treated
| we have very often seen and dcplored.
Generally speaking, it is the mother
who has the training of her boys as
well as girls. and it is owing. in u
lGreat measure, to the good or bad
Foundation she lays for character that
the children turn out well or i'll. Think
| of that, mothers! Are your sons polite
little gentlemen, who can not tell a lie
without weeping oyer it, and confess
ing it to the. Kind, sympathetic
mother. and receiving her gentle coun-
sci and encouragement to resist in
future the temptations of Satan? 1t is
from the mothers lips that 1.-THE sweet
story of DID, makes the deepest inn
preston in early childhood, and so on
to manhood. Should the mother, how
ever, be taken away, the father can
make himself an excellent substitute,
as was the case in the second example
of good father.
| Fathers and mothers who read this.
are you keeping the precious gardens
of your children's souls free from
weeds. and for that purpose filing
them with beautiful flowers to be
gathered from the Scriptures and good
books and papers?-N. Y. Witness.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10
NATIONAL PRINTING.
Uncle Sam the Owner of the Worlds
Greatest Publishing House.

Uncle Sam the Owner of the WORLDS
Greatest Publishing House.
The United States Government is the
greatest publishing house IN the
world. By the side of its resources
such an establishment rs the Harpcrs'
becomes quite small. The only daily
publication issued by Uncle Sam is the
Congressional Record and that contains
more matter than two ordinary issues
of a metropolitan newspaper. Origin
ally the proceedings OF Congress were
published by contract by the Globe
Company. but it was found that the
work could be done cheaper at the
Government printing office, and the
Record was established some fifteen
years ago. 1t is each morning al.
WAYS laid on the members desks be-
fore the hour of meeting A wagon
is running day and night, collecting
copy, carrying messengers with proofs
of speeches. etc; 6,4O0 copies are
printed daily. SeRenty-twO persons
are employed during the. session,
great many of whom are: furloughed
at the close of the session. An ac-
count OF the preparation and various
processes of producing this publica-
ton, the way Congressman revise and
rcwrite their speeches after delivery,
etc, would make an interesting article
of itself.
The capacity of the establishment
for speed of execution, as we'll rs
quantity of work, is practically un-
limited. The copy of bill or report
in Congress, making fifty or sixty
large printed pages, may be received
at ten o'clock in the morning. and in
two or three hours the printed and
stitched or bound copies will be laid on
the desks of members. The revised
statutes, comprising volume OF
LOSS octave pages, were printed,
bound and delivered to the committee
in two and a half days. The finest
work ever issued from the office was
The Medical and Surgical History of
the War of the Rebellion. 1t was
printed on fine paper, and contained
great number of magnificent illustra-
tons. An edition of 1000 copies was
first issued. and afterwari Congress
ordered 10000. 1t was in demand by
all the great libraries of the world.
The payroll of this great beehive
amounts in round numbers to Sl35, coo
per month. Over 3, 400 tons of paper
are consumed per month, or an aver
age of one carload per day.-Ioledo
Blade,
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-06-10

gun, or that gem made more brilliant
He. whose Affections and bereavements
soften his heart, make him penitent for
sin. correct his vices. teach him the les
son of patience. and lead him to God
as the one supreme fountain of all
good, may well adopt the words OF the
Psalmist, and say in respect to himself:
1T is good for me that have been
afflicted, that l might learn Thy stat
utes.'' Yes, affiiction was good for
that man. God chose him ''in the
furnace of affiiction," and smote him
in order to bless him. The joys he los:
were more than made up in the mer-
cies he gained. Without his Affections
he might have lost his soul; but with
them he has won the prize immortal His
eight affliction." which was ''but for
a moment" will in the end work for
him ga far more exceeding and eternal
weight of glory" 1t is true. as the
Bible tells us, and as our experience
shows, that mo Christening for the
present seemeth to be joyous, but
grievous;' and it is just as true in re-
spect to those who are properly sex
ercised thereby that it "afterward
yieldeth the peaceable fruit of right
eousness." If .'we have had fathers
of our flesh which corrected u.s." and
if 1--WE gave them reverence" not
withstanding the correction, should
..we not much rather be in subsection
unto the Father of spirits and live?"
If our earthly parents chasten us latter
their own pleasure, He chastens us
''for our profit, that we might be par
takers of His holiness" That man,
morally considered. is in sad state t.,
whom affiiction brings no blessing,
who hardens his heart under the ROD
of God, and who, consequently, sins
and suffers at the same time. The
augury OF death is upon his brow, ard
unless radically changed. the doom Of
death will be his final portion.-M i.
I,ldependent