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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-12
A Bad Outlook for Mission Work.

The intelligence that the Turkish
government has undertaken to revise
the school laws with the evident in
tention of suppressing foreign educa-
tional institutions in that country will
excite very general interest, for no
step could be taken which would be so
distinctly detrimental to the interests
of American missionary work through
out the Ottoman empire, and those in
terests are vitality identified with all
our relations there. According to add
vices which have reached the head
quarters of the American board at BOs
ton, the new laws provide that no for
eigner shall open school without a
special firman from the sultan himself,
and forbid any Ottoman SUBJECTS at
tending such a school till he shall have
taken IL course of religious training in
one of the schools of his own country.
Foreign schools are to abstain entirely
from religious instruction, and those
already established are to he suppress
ed unless they conform to the new reg
ulations within six months. The effect
of the enforcement of such Il law upon
Robert college would be disastrous,
and tile sultan has good reason to wish
for such IL result, for no other agency
has been so influential i'm spreading
the leaven of civilization and indepen-
dence of spirit through his dominions.
Our minister at Constantinople, MIR.
Strauss, has protested against the new
law and has urged the other embassies
to unite in opposing it.-[Springiield
ReDublican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-12
Importance of Personal Cleanliness.

Very many people do not keep the
skin active and healthy as they ought !:
the fear of catching cold leads them to
neglect to maintain perfect cleanliness
of the body, and as the functions of the
skin are impaired, the work of throw
ing out waste material, which right
fully belongs to it, falls upon the inter
nal organs. They will bear the impO-
sition for time, and will labor to do
the work forced upon them, but, soon
er or later, they become weakened by
the strain, and then the waste of the
system accumulates within the body
and assists in depressing the vital for
ces. Thus, by neglect to keep the skin
in healthy state, many a person be-
comes dull and sluggish and disinclined
to mental or bodily effort; all the or
gans concerned in life share in the dis
turbance, and become INDECENT and
torpid. The need to maintain perfect
cleanliness of the body is, if possible,
greater in Winter than in Summer, a
fact which but few appreciate /; and to
the neglect of this essential may be at
tributed much of the sickness prevail
ing in the cold weather, which really
ought to be the healthiest of the year.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-12
A DoubIy Fatal Mistake.

A sad irOnic humor pervades the ia
tai accident which befel Hunters Grin
ter and Raqua, who hailed respectively
from Wyandotte county aud Fort
Scott, Kan. Rather more than week
ago they went down to Ozark county,
Mo-, on a turkey hunt. Each belonged
to different hunting party, and Meth
er knew of the others presence IN the
neighborhood. Grinter, it appears,
had the dangerous gift of being able to
initiate the wild turkeys note almost
that Raqua was willing to risk the
chances without seeing him, and
blazed away. At the same moment
Grinter heard a rustling in the bushes
where Raqua was, and supposed thai
his call had Iured turkey in his di-
rection. He likewise blazed away, and
the upshot was that the other members
off the hunting parties found Raqua
dead and Grinter dying. The intelli-
gent coroncr's jury decided that "they
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-12
Church SociaIs.

Inc Advance, after saying that it
oeieVes In church socials, saws: But
they VIII never succeed unless the con
gregatlon rehearses for them every
oaooath at the close of the preaching
service ana after each prayer and
conference meeting. Mr.. MOODY il
telling with good effect the familiar
story of the man who, after hearing
MS minister preach an effective SER
mon ON the recognition of friends in
heaven, said he hoped it would be
followed by one OH the recognition of
friends on earth, as he had attended
the services for years without any
one speaking to him. That may have
been his fault in part, but many of the
churches are suffering for a lack of
genuine sociability. Much of the Cos
pei may be put into a cheerful c0un-
tenanee and the warm grasp of a
friendly hand.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-12
ssIke'' Partington Turns up at Last.
Fall Riper NelDs.


One of Boston's queer characters is Il
man who can't for the life of him talk
correctly and who often acts very much
as he talks -queerly. When he talked
about the big yacht race he spoke of
the "Voluntary" and the 'Fizzle." He
left his office the other day, having first
put ont his sign, "Been gone 10 min
utes." This reminds us of merchant
in another city not 100 miles from Bos
ton who was trying to sell some poul
try of brilliant plumage, and said to
the would be purchaser, conserve their
foliage" When he returned from Eu-
rope he told his friends that he had
brought his wife "vermin" cloak, and
speaking of the voyage he couldn't
catch the word fraternize, but said, 81
was mighty lonesome at first, but soon
'fertilized' with the others.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-12
A Boy on a Farm.

1t is my impression that farm
without q boy would soon come to
grief. What boy does is the life of
the farm. He is the factOtum, always
in demand, and always expected to do
the thousand and one things that no
body else will do. Upon him falls the
odds and ends, the most difficult things.
After everybody else is through, he is
to finish up. His work is like a wom
ans, perpetually waiting on others.
Everybody knows how much easier it
is to cook Il good dinner than to wash
the dishes afterwards. Consider what
boy on farm is required to do,
things that must be done, or life would
actually stop. 1t is understood, in the
first place, that he is to do all the err
rands, to go to the store, to the post
office and to carry all sorts of messages.
If he had as many legs as Il centipede,
they would tire before night. He is
the one who spreads the grass as the
men cut it he slows it away in the
barn he rides the horse to cultivate
the corn up and down the hot, weary
rows; he picks up the potatoes when
they are dug; he brings wood and
water and splits kindling; he gets up
the horse and turns out the horse.
Whether he is in the house or out of
the house, there is always something
to do just before school in the Win
ter he shOvels paths; in the Sum
mer he turns the grindstone. And
yet, with his mind full of schemes of
what he would like to do, and his
hands full of occupation, he is an idle
boy who has nothing to busy himself
with but schools and chores. He
would gladly do all the work if some
body else would do all the chores, he
thinks and yet, | doubt if any boy
ever amounted to anything in the
world, or was of much use as a man,
who did not enjoy the advantages of a
liberal education in the way of chores
-GCharles Dudley Warner.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-12
More Than One "Rumv Party.
Neao York Epenipg Post (Ind.)

NeW York Erening Post (Ind.)
The "anti-saloon republicans" might
begin operations in Buffalo. The re-
publican who has been re- elected may
or is wholesale liquor dealer, four re-
publicans who were elected aldermen
are liquor dealers, and four republican
members of the board of supervisors
are in the saloon business. The Bos-
ton Journal, which occasionally re-
marks that all the rumsellers are DEM
ocrats, will be interested to learn that
of the seventeen liquor dealers elected
to various city and county offices in
Buffalo at the last election ten are re-
publicans.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-12
Rum the Anarchist of the centuries.

Gather up the money that the work
ing classes have spent for rum during
the past thirty years and 1 will build
for every working man IA house and
lay out for him Il garden and clothe his
sons in broadcloth and daughters in
silks and stand at his front door a
prancing span of sorrels or bays and
secure him IL policy of life insurance,
so that the present home may be well
maintained after he is dead The
most persistent, most Overpowering
enemy of the working classes is intoxi-
eating liquor. 1t is the anarchist of
the centuries and has boycotted and is
now boycotting the body and mind
and soul of American labor. 1t is to it
a worse foe than monopoly, and worse
than associated capitalists.-[Dr. Tai
mage.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-12
The (a1edaniam.
=. thursday, Jan. Ia, 1888.
SOME MOTHERS.
D,,tou Journal of Health

p.,tou Journal Of Health
n,turaI fault, and one ex-
Gun ,,r common, is for mothers to
freu' ',.;r infants altogether too much.
'I' 4 5oinr they Inconvenience them
Y. and injure their little ones
f1' ANY mothers say that sit takes
x" al their time to attend to the
/ %r- In almost all instances where
~ ,rue it is their own fault. When
.te had habit is formed of taking
r,te one up as soon as it shows
,fvaking, is restless and dis
~ cry. the mother is henceforth
y,ra 70 its caprices, and no tyrant
10 more exacting. This is by no
trifling matter. Into every
4 :. however poor and humble,
should bring the sunshine of hap
but does it always do this 7
4 doubtful if il single parent can be
Il TO say no and yet there are not
sr who would, if they gave honest
-ss.ion of their thoughts, say that
eoming of the little one was a
f,rtune. The reason is obvious to
DENTS Of human nature, who are
,-pced by what they see, as we'll as
what they hear, and doubt the lat
in the absence of proof.
If healthy, and a baby is properly
.r,red from the first, it ought to, in
4arIy months of life, pass fully
rttren hours in sleep. AS age ad-
s,,r, the amount required becomes
i. but even at two years, it ought to
>, thirteen or fourteen hours out of
s..pty-fou1. There are more children
do not get this amount of sleep
! N there are who do, and yet it is
Genital to their well-being. Now it
.rearIy apparent that mothers who
4 forced to ado their own work. need
Il sacrifice so much time to their in
] Is as many do, and neglect other
lportant cares it is when they do
beet their other duties that distrust
to the actual blessing in the form
Bic baby begins.
There are, of course, exceptions, but
TOO many homes evidence is not
hitting that the advent of a baby is
be or less a hardship, which is
he'd by every member of the family.
y mother, poor soul, finds her cares
nliplied, and if the newcomer Is
lubIesOme she may be forced, if not,
soon finds it easy, to neglect, or
imperfectly perform, her household
ties Disorder is most often the first
nptOn manifested, and this is soon
Iowed by lack of cleanliness, first
aIe mothers appearance, then in her
roundiugs, aud finally the little one
ers from the grave fault. The hus-
ID finds his home less inviting, and
cheering influence of the baby can
reely compensate for the doleful
ange which has taken place about
b. Both he and the mother, unfor-
pate through her own fault of man
gtment, must soon ask themselves,
Either daring, however, to breathe a
eubt to the other, "Was it, after all,
u tie best 2" Many readers will say
Nhb drawn from the fancy of the
pic. and yet some few will recog-
sFe the picture as true to life, barely
aPtIlned though it is.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-12
Pure Sarcasm.

A relative of Gen. Sherman's at
Hartsville, Ind, suddenly died Mon
day from incessant cigaret smoking.
He was 30 years old. Another cigaret
victim of about the same age is report
ed from Troy. New York and Phila-
delphia have each within "a short time
had similar cases. All these will make
excellent campaign material. There
will be a certain degree of popularity
in party cry for untaxed cigarets for
all the foolish who wish to destroy
themselves.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-12

came to their death by the hands of
each other, by some mistake taking
each other for game. or sometime
undetermined" Four or five oenera7
tons ago this tragedy would have been
embalmed in rustic ballad filled fnII
OF homely pathos and unconsciouslv
funny. In these sOphisticate DAYS a
newspaper can only chronicle the cold
facts
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-12
The Greatest of Great Walls.

Pays a correspondent of the Milling
8prld, who has recently been travel
3 IN China, "Of course we had to go
4 the great wall of China. This
'antry abOunds in great walls. Her
aaTal offences were most extensive
'aed country, walled cities, walled
aaHages, walled places and temples
~ after wall and wall within wall.
II the greatest of all is the great wall
thlna, which crests the mountain
PC and crosses the gorge from here
pc 40 miles away. Squeezing
ROugh the last deep gorge and a deep
Y in the solid rock cut out by ages
afollng wheels and trampling feet,
J reach the great, frOwning, double
stoned gate of stone and hard burn
! Orek-One archway tumbled in.
q Was the object of our mission, the
pa wall of China, built 213 years
aaore our era; built of great slabs of
y lewn stone, laid in regular cOurs-
some twenty feet high, and then
sfped with large hard burned brick,
~ IN with earth and closely paved
u The top with more dark, tawny
'eck-the ramparts high and thick
Il eastellated for the use of arms.
~ and left the great wall sprang
: up The mountain side-now straight,
=, curved, to meet the ntain
= turreted each 300 feet-a frown-
: mass OF masonry. No need to tell
81 ol this wall the books will tell you
3. II was built to keep the warlike
4. 8 Tar OUTS feet high by 40 thick,
niles long, with room Oh top for
z nurses to be driven abreast Nor
Tell you that for I400 years it
II these hordes at bay, nor that, i'll
udli, the material used upon it is
Is good and firm and strong as
q put IN place. Twelve hundred
'' TINS gigantic work built on the
- cfaggy mountain tops, vault
q over gorges, spanning wide
- netting the river archways
""se hard bars of copper, with
" gales, with swinging doors and
set thick with iron armor-a
a IN the world before which the
ie classic seven wonders, all
10" save the great pyramid
Joys. The great pyramid has
II ,'''oo cubic feet, the great wal
'oo cubic feet. An engineer in
'Id 5 party here some wears age
81 ''S his opinion that the cost o.
q vail, figuring labor at the same
81 ,, "'uiu more than equal that of al
''oO miles of railroad i'm the
States. The material it con.
you'd build a wall six feet higl
W leet thick straight around the
THIS was done in only 2(
uncut a trace of debt or bond
la greatest individual labor til,
"ds ever known.
IL " lIkiHE ~ On,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-12
Farm for Sale.

Onefourth mile outside the village limits of ST.
Johnsbury, at the head of Pleasant St. within the
village school district containing one hundred and
fifty acres, cutting seventy-fve tons of hay, and
very productive for wheat, oats, and all crops
grown in northern Vermont. A thrifty wood lot
OF fifteen acres. Well watered, with good water
at house and barns. Buildings pleasantly stuat
ed and in all respects desirable place for a resi-
dence aud for profitable farming. portion OF
the purchase money can remain if desired.
RICHARD w. PEABODY.
June 90 1887. 4tf
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-12
Desirable Property for Sale.

offer for sale my residence at the head of Main
Street. House large. convenient, beautifully To-
Gated and in a splendid neigh borhood. Good barn
Lot half an acre giving good garden.
also offer tor sale my farm consisting OF thirty
acres of good land tillage and pasture, hilage IN
high state of cultivation and less than quarter
of mile from the village. -
l want an immediate customer for either, vii
sell cheap enough to make investment an OBJECT
mean business.
Intend to remove to California as soon as can
sell and settle up my affairs. Please examine;
property will speak for itself. ,,.,>>,
ST. Johnsbury, March %. 1887.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-12
Sweet Kate Pennoyer.
Fail Riuer Ne1OS.

One of those unpublished stories
which is too good to keep is told at the
expense of the Amherst college glee
club. About 10 years ago the club
made ii trip through New York state,
and sung in Rochester at the same time
that Kate PennOyer. ii pretty stage
singer, was there. After the concert
it was proposed to serenade the lady,
and the club proceeded to her home and
struck up the familiar college hymn,
"Dear Evelna," parapilras .ng the cho-
rus thusly
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-12
Dear Kate Pennoyer,
Sweet Kate Pennoyer,
Our love for thee
Shall never, never die.

After singing the entire song the
boys waited moment for a recogni-
ton of their serenade. Slowly win
dow in the third story was raised, la
ter man clad in white and with
whiskers foot long was seen, and then
il bass solo was waited down to the
collegians:
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-12
Desirable Residence For Sale.

1 will sell my house on Webster St. in ST. Johns
bury 1t contains 10 besides bath ROOM halls,
pantry, closets, and all modern conveniences. 1t
Is new and was built ''pon honor" and not 'to
SELL Good furnace, barn and shed, with spacious
Grounds 3Otf HENRY C.. BATES.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-12
Dear boys below there,
Sweet boys below here,
Your Kate Pennoyer
Iiuas four doors halOW here

After the last words of his song died
on the frosty air the Amherst college
glee club gathered themselves up like
the Arabs, and as silently stole away.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-12
Phi. l. S.

For sale by all Druggists. Prices % cts. per
box; boxes for IS cts; or sent by mail, postage
free, receipt of price. Dr. j. H. Schenck d
Son. Philadelphia. 1913
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-12

e. " iIklns, of Idaho, owns 800
and % q blond with engaging man
Il Years old.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-01-12
Anti Apoplectine

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Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-04

WoULD-BE Congressman Lynch says
in his paper that the whole benefit OF
the tariff on anthracite coal is greedily
pocketed by the rich mine-owners,
and does not benefit the laborer. 1t
may be cruel, butt appears necessary
to remind the statesman who, with
the assistance of Mr.. Cleveland, is
Just now engaged in regulating the
affairs of this country, that there is no
protective tariff pon anthracite coal.
So far as this kind of coal is concerned,
the Pennsylvania "barons" own the
earth. Anthracite is not mined any .
where else San Diego Union.
The San Diego paper makes its ar
gument in this instance 'by its usual
logical methods. 1t simply falsi-
fies. Mr.. Lynch is not at pres
ent writing for the HERALD. He
is in Washington. The word
anthracite is injected into the
matter referred to by the Union. The
HERALD did not use it. Falsehoods are
always "cruel," excepting when they
are stupid as this is. They are never
necessary-not to people with good
cause and sufficient information. The
Union of course is outside both speci-
fications.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-04
-Anti.SalOOll. A

A joint meeting of the executive
and nominating committees of the
Citizens Anti-Saloon movement, was
held at DR.. Widney's Office yesterday
afternoon at o'clock, DR.. J. P. Wild.
ney in the chair. The question OF the
special election to be held in the
Second Ward, to fill the vacancy in
the Council, was discussed. A reso.
luton was offered to appoint COM
mittee of four to wait on both the
Democratic and Republican Central
Committees with the offer that if a
candidate pledged to an anti-saloon
ordinance is placed on either ticket
the anti-saloon movement will place
no candidate in the field, and will sup
port such a candidate. If, however,
neither party will put such candi-
date before the people, the anti-saloon
movement will themselves put man
in the field. The resolution was car
ried unanimously.
The following were appointed a
committee, and instructed to see the
Democratic and Republican Commit
tees, and report not later than Febru-
AIRY 10th: J. p. Widney, G. G. Sails
bury, Mrs. L. D. Moore, A. NJ.
Hough.
On motion the meeting adjourned
subject to call by the Chairman.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-04

that town to select a place for q
bridge between Anaheim proper and
North Anaheim. This latter locality,
from Orangethorpe on the west to
the Santiago canon on the east, is a
long stretch of country. 1t is,
moreover, very fertile and
rapidly improving section. There
are half dozen new CEN
ters OF population growing up along
the mesa. One bridge will not do for
them all. At least two viaducts should
be built across the wash-one at
Palm street, and one about East
street. The money necessary to do
this would not be large sum, and
the supervisors should grant it for so
useful, not to say necessary a pur-
pose.