St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-09-20

The current number of Harper's
Weekly contains an admirable picture
of Governor-elect Dillingham; of Yer
mont, who, by the way, is As years old.
Henry NJ. Vinout is the last victim
of the cigarette. He was lately sent to
an insane asylum from Millersburg,
KY, made insane by excessive smOk-
ing.
Bob IngersOll thinks President
Cleveland's letter is the maximum of
egOtism and the minimum of logic.
The Boston Herald thinks Bob is an
expert in both these directions.
The New York Evening Post, an in
dependent Cleveland paper, finds the
lesson of the Vermont election to be
that the democrats have got to put in
some hard work if they expect to win.
The average boy of these days counts
the throwing of a stone as a very slight
thing, but a Rutland boy threw a stone
the other day that struck a little girl
and may deprive her of the sight of
IL eye.
A magazine to be called the "Home-
Maker" edited by Marion Harland, ap-
pears Oct. 1, the aim of the publishers
being to achieve a periodical that will
be of interest to every member of
household, old and young.
One Maine farmer saved his fields of
corn during the recent frosts by build
ing large fires around them, which he
kept well r~eplenished until danger was
past. 1t is claimed that no such Sc
we're frost has occurred in that state
since 1903.
At the grand army encampment in
Columbus, Ohio, Thursday, a dispatch
from President Cleveland was read,
acknowledging the receipt of an invi-
tatiOn to be present, and explaining
that it had been mislaid by his secreta-
~ and forgotten in the press of bust
ness. The announcement was receiv-
ed with mingled misses, groans and
cheers.
We sympathize heartily with a
worthy citizen of st. Johnsbury, who
came into this office the other day ask
ing if there was IL daily paper publish
ed that gave the political news of the
day in a fair and unprejudiced manner,
and commented on it in the same way.
We couldn't give him much comfort
as the C~aledonian doesn't issue a daily
edition.
The latest "trust" reported is that
of the leading advertising agencies in
the country, though it isn't called by
just that lame. These agencies repre-
the advertiser and the publisher, par
ticularly the latter, and, with a few
notable exceptions, are frauds and
shysters, who never strengthen but
always weaken those publishers with
whom they have to do.
The Advocate, the organ of the pro-
hibiGnnists in this state feemS 8"ttia ut
election in Vermont. The work now
in hand, says the Advocate, "for the
prOhibitiOnists of Vermont, is to per-
feet their organization in each town.
Hold meetings, circulate literature and
organize clubs. From every county
we have words of cheer and hope, and
a happy prospect for November"
That is a very captiOus bit of criti-
cism in which the Boston Journal in
dulges, when it calls attention to the
changes and interlineations in Cleve-
lands letter of acceptance, which it
somehow seems to know about, as evil
dence that the letter was a labored af-
fair. A good many other public men
and pretty much all public speakers
could practice the habit of erasing and
interlining to great advantage. Mr..
Blaine, for examplef Well, possibly.
Gov. Hill secured a denomination
for governor at the New York demo-
cratic convention last week. The
worst elements of the democratic party
sustain, while the independent press
sharply oppose him. In his first speech
after receiving the nomination Gov.
Hill said Let me be clearly under
stood. 1t is my sincere wish and de-
sire that every democrat in the state,
and particularly every friend of mine,
shall vote for Cleveland and Thurman
This is taken as an expression of will
ingness to bury the Ratchet on Hill's
part and lends an added interest to the
coming election in New York.
Here is a deed of heroism worthy
ternOon, Minnie, aged IL, and Maggie,
aged nine, daughters of John F.
Knowles of Middlebury, we're return
ing from school when the younger
waded into Otter Creek, "for fun"
She got beyond her depth when her
sister Minnie, who had remained on
the bank, rushed to her rescue. The
younger child was saved but in the ex-
element her rescuer was carried out
into the stream and drowned. She
was a bright, ~ine-lOoking girl who
thus gave up her own life for another.
That consumption is contagious is
coming to be accepted and recognized
as a fact. An international congress
of 500 physicians lately in session in
Paris was practically unanimous in this
opinion, going so far as to hold that
the ex~pectOratiOn of a cOnsumptive
c~arelessly spit upon hay
which the cow eats may give the ami