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The Portland daily press., 1886-02-22
RANGES
RANGES !!

These prices include all the ware, pipe,
zine and freight paid to your depot.
ParlOr Stoves for the million, cash or
credit. Side Boards, Easy Chairs,
Lounges, Drapery, Shades, &c. 1000
Ebony, Cherry, Walnut and Ash Curtain
Poles 5 feet long, with brass ends, 10
brass rings, and 1 pair brass, brackets.
sent anywhere at So cents each. All or
ders for anything we have in stock
through the mails promptly attended to
and satisfaction guaranteed. Don't be
afraid to write for cuts OF Ranges or
anything we have in stock. We keep
shorthand writer's and typewriters and
are fully equipped to attend to all cor
respondence, and will endeayor always
to answer promptly. We shall be pleased
to give descriptions of any goods that
we have no photos of. Please let us
hear from you. Take advantage Of our
Winter prices. At
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-22
IN the Kinks.

BlJOU- SKATING PARLOR.
This week at the Bjou the attractions will be as
follows Today, Washington's birthday, sessions
afternoon and evening, with music at both ses-
sions; Tuesday, ladies night, the popular evening
OF the week. Wednesday afternoon, ladies' COM
plimentary, music at 2.30; evening" polo, Mystics
vs. Norths, game called at O'Clock Thursday
ladies' guess party when gold ring will be given
away Friday, foot ball polo game, called at
o'clock. Saturday afternoon, polo, Cumberlands
VS.. Buffers of the Grammar school league; eve
ming, grand excursion from Cape Elizabeth, con-
tinuouS music by the Cape and rink bands. The
steamer Cornelia IL. Will run to accommodate the
party.
GRAMMAR SCHOOL LEAGUE.
Saturday afternoon the Shailers played game
with the Buffers in the Grammar school league at
the Bijou rink. 1t resulted to 1 in favor of the
Shaiers in 40 minutes, and was good game Fol-
lowing is the standing of the clubs to date:
Club Games Played Won. Lost.
CumberlandS ............,..6
Norths --...-.-.......-......
Sha1lerS .........,...........
Buffers. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 9
POLO NOTES.
The New Englands wish to challenge the Shall
ers to play game of polo at the Bijou rink any
afternoon this week.
their game with the Tauntons, in Taunton, Mass,
last Thursday.
The H. NJ BIS of Rockland beat the Columbia
polo club of Boston the second time in Rockland
Saturday night three straight goals in minutes
and 20 seconds
The East Weymouth club has Withdrawn from
the New England league
At New Bedford Saturday the Haverhills de-
feated the home club three goals to two in 35
minutes. Orne OF the Hayerhills played great
game.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-22
Ills the BEST

81 consider Hoods Sarsaparilla the best medi
cine ever used. 1t gives me an appetite and
refreshing sleep, and keeps the cold out" JOHN
S. FoGG, LOG Spruce Street. Portland, Me.
'sMy wife thinks there is nothing like Hoods
SarSaparilla. and we are never without it in the
house" F. H. LATIMER, Syracuse, N. Y.
81 find Hoods Sarsaparila the best remedy-foY
ticket agent. p g. r. Rd.' Bound Brook n r --A'
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-22
Hoods SarsapariIIa

81 can recommend Hoods Sarsaparilla to all as
a safe, sure medicine. 1t cured me of terrible
headaches, and cured my little girl Of swellings
in her neck which had been lanced twice. MRS
F. E. LORD. Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.
81 took Hoods Sarsaparilla for general debility
and was wonderfully benefited by it," j. 2.
JOHNSON Martins Ferry. O.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-22
AND UPWARDS.

Body Brussels, handsome patterns,
$1.OO, $I.1O and upward. These goods
are prime in every particular, and it
will richly repay You to buy now even if
YOU do not want to use the Goods until
Spring. Remember, we will send sam-
pies large enough to show the quality Of
the goods on application, and deliver
the Carpet free Of freight, for Cash or
on our Special Contract System.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-22

VETANTED-Every person owning plano to
w know that all Instruments under my ex-
elusive care will be kept clean inside, rendering
them less liable TO become damaged by moths.
j. ID. CHENEY Piano and Organ Tuner p o.
address, Deering, Me. Order slate at Horse r. r.
Station, Portland Me. 15-A
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-22
Hoods SarsaparilIa

Sold by all druggists. 81; six for So Prepared
by @. /. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
apf1 dSSW1 vnrm
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-22

XETANTED-Every one to know that the ELE-
w CANT STEEL LINED BEATHEROID TRUNKS,
manfuactured by the LEATHEROlD MANUFAC-
TURING co, Kennebunk, Me-, are the ightest
STRONGEST and bests trunks in the world Ward
robe trunks for ladies and gentlemen; sample
trunks for commercial travellers, delivered any
where in New England. Send for Illustrated cir
cular. JAM
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-22
THE STATE.

Bowdoln college, Feb. 10, 1886.
The Portland daily press., 1886-02-22
To Let.


CtTORE No Al Free ST., recently occupied by
- w. A. Taylor Free St. Market Apply TO
ANDREW MOLNIX, 100 Centre st. feb9dh
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-01-28
Mr.. MOOdY's Little Story.

Moody loves horses. He has better
ones now than when he rode around to
his Chicago mission work on balky
little animal whose natural depravity
finally caused it to be consigned to the
stable for the rest of its days. A good
deacon hearing of this, came to Mr.
Moody and asked him to sell or give
the horse to his old pastor, who had Il
buggy and had been praying for
horse. He refused to give it to any
one, but said it was there, and anyone
that wanted it could go and take the
horse. But when, at its first outing, 1T
stopped stOne-s still for half an hour de-
spite all cOaxing and urging to the
contrary, and then suddenly shot up
the street like a meteor, only stopping
against a stone wall with smashed
buggy and dismounted rider, the par
son, gathering himself up, said "Well,
the Lord may have sent this horse, but
he sent the poorest one he had"
Mr.. MOOdy's driving is noted for its
pell-mell style, and as he takes the
reins we rattle off over rough noun
tain roads so narrow that our heads
and faces are in constant peril of being
scratched by the overlapping brush,
while the apples and nuts come tum-
bling down into our laps, and the
whole party often alight to walk up
some steep hill. But on we go, in and
out by-lanes, up and down hill,
through mud and water, Mr.. Moody
stopping now and then to point out
some pretty shrub or berry, or at a
farm house to say: GLOW do y do.
how are you gettin' along when did
you build your new barn - or "When
did that tree blow dOwn9 I'll come
over and preach to you sometime"
And on we go, he pointing as we ride
to a high railroad bridge. "There,"
he says, edo you see that bridge 7
Well, an excursion train went off there
i'm 1853" The horror stricken hearers
ask how many lives were lost. "None,"
he says. "How extraordinary" says
one. eyes," continued Mr.. Moody,
sit went on at one end and came off at
another"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-01-28
Gross CriIninaIity.

The man who points a gun or pistol,
loaded or unloaded, at fellow mortal,
should be struck down by the nearest
one at hand, and by any instrument to
be had. This numbering people in fun
has gone on long enough. This is a
recent case:
On Monday evening, as Mr.. and Mrs.
Harvey w. Schaschke of Elmira, N. Y.
who had been married only six months,
were retiring for the night, he took up
an old Scotch revolver, which he sup
posed was empty, and playfully snap
ped it at his wife. There was an un-
expected discharge, and the bullet
pierced her abdomen. She died on
Wednesday. The husband, who has
been a clerk in a leading dry goods
house, is frantic with grief, and would
have ended his own life had he not
been placed under guard. The acct
dent seems worse from the fact that
when he took up the pistol his wife
screamed and besought him to put it
away, so frightened was she at the
mere sight of the weapon.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-01-28
St. Johnsbury Church Directory

AdUent-Paddock Village. Sabbath Services at
1880 a. m, las and 6:30 p. m. Sabbath School
II m. Prayer Meetings at 1870 p. m. Sunday, Tues
day and Friday evenings.
Baptist-Railroad Street. Corner Maple. Rev.
f. l. Sanford, Pastor Preaching 1880 A. M. S.
School II M. Prayer meeting $50. Prayer meet
ing Wednesday evening at 1880.
Free BaptiSt-Main Street. Corner Prospect.
School at 10 M. Prayer meeting Wednesday even
ing at 1880. Rev. ID. III. Adams pastor.
Church Of the NesSiah-( Universalist.) Eastern
avenue, corner Cherry street; Sabbath services
at las P M, $50 P. M. Sabbath School at 1900.
Wednesday evening meeting at 1880.
MethOdist-Central street. Rev. L. L. Beeman
Pastor. Residence next to the Church. Sab
bath services at 1890 A. M, and $50 p M. Sabbath
School at II 90. Wednesday evening meeting at
1880.
Church. Rev. Chas. M Lamson, Pastor. Sabbath
services at 1880 A. M, and $3.50 p. NJ. Sabbath
School at las P. NJ. Wednesday evening meeting
at 1880.
South CongregationaI-Main street. Rev. Ed
ward L. Fairbanks. Pastor. Sabbath services at
1880 A. NJ, and $50 P. M. Sabbath School at IL
Wednesday evening meeting at 1880
Presbyterian Church-Eastern Avenue. Rev. w.
r. Laird, Pastor Sabbath services at 1880 a. m.
meeting Wednesday evening at 1880.
st. Andrew's-(E piscopal,) Main street, Rev
f. ). Fisher, Rector. Services on Sundays at
1920 a. m, and 5 p. m Wednesdays at 1880 p. NJ.
Sunday School, at ~ m.
Roman CGthOlic-Cherry Street. Rev. j. a.
BOissOnnault Parish Priest Mass and 10 a. IN :
Vespers and Benediction at 3 p. M. On the
second Sunday of the month, service at $3.50 a.
and p. IN. At LyndOnville same day at 1880 a. m
Y. AZ. @. A.-Meetings at the hall of the Y. M. c.
A, Eastern Ave. Sunday mornings at $50, Satur-
day at $50 p. Building opposite Soldiers
Monument.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-01-28
A BRAVE GIRL.


The Story of Ethel Spooner's Heroism.
Brave little TO- years old Ethel
SpOoner has just received $40, 900 dam
ages in the Kings county IN. W SUI
preme court from the Delaware, Lack
awanna and Western railway COM
pany. Ethel is the daughter of DIR.
Walter A. SpOOner of Brooklyn, and
her story is worthy to find place
among the tales of modern herOism.
During the summer of 1884, DR.. Spoon
er, with his wife and family, went to
pass his vacation at Orange, N. j.
They occupied house near the track
of the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western railroad, on which there are
several unprotected crossings at that
place. On November 10 Ethel was out
playing with two little cousins, and
the little chaps got on the track just
as a train was approaching. Ethel ran
and got them out of the way; but just
as she was about to leave herself, her
foot slipped down between the rail and
the wooden walk, and she could not
eXtricate it. She called to one OF the
little boys to come and help her, and
he after Juggling at his companions
leg, was about to unbuttOn her boot
when the train came dashing along
and was npon them. The child, with
presence of mind, seeing it was impos-
sible to extricate her foot, threw her
self down on the wooden walk and al
lowed the two wheels of the lOcOmO-
tive to pass over her leg below the
knee, crunching it into shapeless
mass. The leg was amputated above
the knee that same evening by local
surgeon. She has recovered from the
shock, but must use crutches all her
life. She sued for $4,000 damages.
1t was shown during the trial that at
the Greenwood avenue crossing, where
the accident took place, there were
neither gates nor flagman. The de-
Tense tried to prove by several wit
nesses that tho child was playing on
the line, and that the accident was due
to negligence on her part. After few
moments absence the jury found
verdict for the plaintiff.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-01-28
And Yet Men VIII Bite at EN-.

At the depot in this place are fifteen
grain -separators, consigned to A. B.
Rogers, who is now in Florida. 1t ap-
pears that an agent called on Mr.. Rog-
ers, last September, and appointed him
agent, agreeing to furnish the separa-
tors for $50 each, which he was to sell
for $40. Mr.. Rogers signed paper
purporting to be contract for him to
act as agent for the company, but which
he subsequently learned was an agree
ment by which he had purchased fif-
teen separatOrs at $50 each, he to set
tie for them in four months. He
claimed to be the victim of fraud and
notified the company at once, but re-
ceiyed no reply from said company un-
til the separatOrs arrived. His agent
has notified the railroad company that
Mr.. Rogers will have nothing to do
with them, etc. How much better it
would have been had he known what
he was signing instead of taking the
agents word for it.-[Montpelier
Watchman's Bradford correspondence.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-01-28
SQUIBS.

People who event South for the
winter" this year have found it Bur-
lingtOn Free Press.
No Frenchman likes to dance the
German, but he always expresses him
self as perfectly willing to make the
German dance. - Free Press.
No thermometer should fail to regis
ter. If it does not register it cannot
be allowed to vote OH the cold weather.
- New Orleans Picayune.
"Ma," said the smart boy of Parsons
vile, the other day, "when does hen
become rooster ?" She gave it up,
and the boy said: "At night of course"
-TSt Adams Messenger.
"Well," said the secretary of the
Champlain Valley Poultry association,
eff the weather isn't too fowl, | guess
we can pullet through on meeting our
expenses" -[The Messenger Hen Edi-
tor. Sault kills hens.
We read that the Poles are being
expelled from Prussia. This is in a
line with what many of our progressive
American cities are doing. All wires
ought to be put under ground.
An Ohio man claims to have invent
ed a perpetual motion. There always
has been perpetual motion in OhiO-to-
wards Washington and the government
offices. Ohio had the patent on that
long agO.-[St. Adams Messenger.
We observe than IL Fifth street sta
toner has lowered the price of stylo-
graphic pens to 81. This disposes of
the calumny that the only thing that
would not come down about these pens
was the ink Philadelphia Call.
Out in Minneapolis, man seen stag
gering along the street is never charged
with being the worse for liquor. He is
charitably assumed to be a stranger,
unaccustOmed to the exhilarating at
mosphere of Minnesota.-[Lo Lowell Cit
iZen
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-01-28
Washington Office Brokerage.

The Washington Evening Star prints
these advertisements
A LADY, being financially reduced,
n will give one half of her grst
months wages to any one procuring
her IL position under the Government,
ten per cent. of her wages afterwards.
Address II. o. Star office.
60 WILL be given by lady for a
p ~ position in the Government
Printing Office or other department,
and ten per cent. of salary as long as
position is retained. Address E. B. T.,
Star Office.
A STRANGER in this city will give a
n good percentage of his salary as
long as retained, for place as carpen-
ter or Waterman under the Govern
ment or elsewhere. Address Watch
man, Star office.
OF course no one would throw away
money on advertising for nonresident
brokers, and these little notices would
give each one of the civil service com
mission one problem to wrestle WITH
Boston Record.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-01-28
The Late Miss Bayard.

The Washington correspondent of
the Philadelphia Press says:
Nobody who ever saw her forgot her
and never saw any one she cared to
interest escape her bizarre and brilliant
charm. She shocked that large part of
Washington which exhausts its ener-
gies and its intellect in trying to recol-
lect which corner of a card to turn
down. She would take any Climber"
in the saddle, and she cleared familiar
cOnveniences with social seat SO Sc
cure and hand SO steady that there
never was II "spill," though good
friends like myself held their breath
sometimes. But under all the brilliant,
dazzling side, turned to the world
there lay an earnest, sincere nature
which put her wonderfully keen head
to solid work by her fathers side. Poor
Katie Bayard!
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-01-28
Those who object to wit are envious

Those who object to Wit are envious
of it.
Ignorance is not so damnable as
humbug, but when it prescribes pills
it may happen to do more harm
George Eliot.
No man is so perfect and holy but he
hath sometimes temptations, and we
cannot be altogether without them
Thomas a Kempis.
A thoroughly good natured man, a
real friend, is one who is pleased at
our good fortune, as well as prompt to
seize every occasion of relieving our
DISTRESS Hazlitt.
Let each man think of the circum-
stances of his life, and how its lot has
been determined. The getting up II
little earlier or later, the turning down
this street or that, the eating of this
dish or the other, may influence all the
years and actions of future life.-
[Thackeray.
Be frank with one another. Many a
husband and wife go on from year to
year with thoughts in their hearts that
they hesitate to reveal to one another.
If you have anything in your mind
concerning your companion that trOub-
les you out with it. Do not brood
over it. Perhaps it can be explained
on the spot, and the matter forever
put to rest.-[Dr. Holland.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-01-28
PHILOSOPHY BY A PHILOSO-
PIER.

My son there are just two things i'm
this world that / don't understand
about, and you have just asked me
about one of them. l don't know why
there is trouble and sorrow and toll
and poverty and sickness and death
in this beautiful world. used to know
when | was much younger, but / find
that, as | grow older, L don't know a
great deal more than | used to know.
l don't know why the best people seem
to have all the suffering and the great
sinners have all the fun. don't know
why innocent men suffer for the wick
edness of guilty men. l don't know
why the man who cast the faulty col
umn in PembertOn mills wasn't crush
ed when the mills went down. l can't
see why my neck should be broken in
a railway accident because train de-
spatcher sends out wrong order or a
signal man goes to sleep. don't see
why my neighbOr should be cursed
with i'll health and suffering just be-
cause his grandfather was a rOllicking,
hard drinking old profigate. l can't
see why l should have neuralgia just
when | want to feel at my best. |
can't understand why Lincoln died and
DdNiS lives. uOu kHOW why SOhC
people starve while worse people
founder.
Well, you say, wouldn't it be pleas
anter if all these crooked things were
Strengthened out?
Yes, oh, yes. And wouldn't l run
things a little better if L had the run
ming of theme Ye &c hold on a min
ute-ye-I don't know, really, that L
want to try. There are several things
to consider, when you sit down to run
a universe. True, if L managed things
l could make several improvements at
once. would never again have the
neuralgia, for one thing my boots
would not run over at the heels like an
italic a.; my pantalOOns would not work
up, nor bag ut the knees, and my col
lars would not climb the back of my
neck, and my mOustache wouldn't
keep waxed like a bristle at one end
and fray out like satin ribbon at the
other, and-but there are some other
things to look after.
The little matter of day and night |
think could manage for a week, may
be. but there would be an eclipse or
two to look after, an occasional rain,
some snow, late spring or an early
autumn, or capricious harvest time
to manage there are certain move
ments of the sun and other planets that
have rather delicate relations with the
earth-come to think of it, my boy, |
have never yet been able to control
my own personal neuralgia.
Now, you are very kind, but [ will
very respectfully decline the appoint
ment. | find. on looking into the
varied and trying duties connected
with the office, that my bodily and
mental strength would not stand the
great tax that would be laid upon
them. While | am in the heartiest ac-
cord with the administration, and wish
to give it, to the best of my poor abili-
ty to give it, my most earnest support
and encOuragement, yet | much prefer
to do this in my capacity as a private
citizen Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-01-28
Sc Ole Tramp"

They tell story of the manner in
which Joaquin Miller failed to keep his
engagement at a grand dinner party
given in his honor at New Orleans dur
ing the late exposition. The guests
ali assembled, but the lion of the even
ing did not put in an appearance. They
waited, but no word of apology was
received. Very much chagrined they
sat down to cold dinner and spiced
the viands with specnlatiOns as to the
cause of the poets nOn-appearance.
The next day the host, a gentleman of
prominence in commercial circles, was
seated i'm his counting room when
Joaquin came stalking in.
"Why didn't you come to my dinner
yesterday, sir 2" Indignantly demand
ed the merchant.
81 did come, but your servant would
not let me i'm" fiercely replied the
poet.
The merchant made profuse apollo
gies and FASTENED home to take his
fOOtman to task.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-01-28
Where Fiddle Strings Come From.

There is a druggist in Kingston, N.
Y, who is the pOssessOr of wonder
full cat. 1t is full of all sorts of tricks.
Over showcase is suspended a ball of
Irvine, the end of which touches the
counter. A day or two ago one of the
clerks saw the feline chewing the end
of the cord, and thinking he would
have some fun, took hold of the string
and began to pull. The animal open
ed its mouth, and the Irvine began to
come out. The clerk kept OH pulling
until he thought the cat must have IL
Irvine factory in it's stomach. How
many yards of string he pulled from
the cats mouth he cannot state, but it
made quite a big ball. The clerk says
he understands now how it is that cats
furnish so many strings for fiddles.-
IN Y. Times.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-01-28

add to the chance of frightening it.
Now let us be consistent. Horses.
as we we'll know, are just as liable to
be frightened by sounds as sights.
Therefore, let us stop up its ears.
really wonder that ear-stOppers have
never come into use. They could be
made exceedingly ornamental, and
might be adorned, like the bliHker,
with the coat of arms, or at least the
crest of the owner.
may mention that several of the
great English firms adopt similar
mode of treating the horse to that
which is employed by the one that we
have described. But / mention par
ticular firm because l have inspected
its noted London establishment, and
can therefore speak from personal
knowledge.-[J. G. Wood in Youths
Companion.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-01-28

Senator Ransom's recommendation APP
pointed an internal revenue official.
He is a temperance man, but no bigot.
One day recently, jogging along the
road, he espied the smoke of an illicit
still. Advancing toward the moon
sinner with the air of Chesterfield, he
said: "My friend, have been ap-
pointed by President Cleveland to look
after you fellows, and he authorizes me
to tell you to 60 farther back in the
woods and not to distil bug juice so
near the highway" The mOonshiner
took the hint, and the doctor is regard
ed as the true and practical civil-ser-
vice reformer. SenatorsVoorhees told
this story to the president, who laugh
ed at it until the tears came to his eyes,
because it was the latest North Carroll
Ma version of his pet hobby Augusta
Chronicle.