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I write of it had all the requisites of q
thriving town, including population
which dripped with self satisfaction.
This very comfortable commodity was
so dense and universal that it fairly Gov
cred the place like fog.
Hillsford's most remarkable citizen was
hermit, an unkempt and eccentric in
dividual, who lived In cabin high UP
on the North mountain, and was known
as "Old Weaver" In winter, when the
foliage was less abundant, his small
dwelling could be seen from the village,
little speck of crude architecture, the
smoke from which curled sometimes into
the very sky. 1t was pointed out to WIS.,
! itors, who were told, without loss of
time, of the hermit, his civilization defy
ing habits and unspeakable appearance.
But it was difficult to exhibit the man
himself. He came down to the village
at infrequent intervals and then tarried
only long enough to procure some simple
necessities and departed without holding
speech with any one. The townspeople
had tried to break into the privacy of his
home without avail. They had been re-
pulsed with looks and gestures which
inspired fear and helped to confirm the
opinion that "Old Weaver was crazy and
had better be let alone"
And surely no man in his right mind
could live the life he lived. His hair and
whiskers showed no respect for the pre-
vailing fashion i'm hirsute trimming, and
his clothes were n slap at all decent gar
Dents. He rarely spoke at all, but when
f.e did his words were briefness itself.
In summer they who went near his
cabin sometimes found him sitting out
side reading the Bible, an occupation
from which they could not easily divert
him.
This caused some TO decide that he
was "a religious crank" and helped 10
dissipate the theory that Inc had COM
mitted some terrible crime. IIillsfOrd
was full Of wonder about the hcrmit's
past life and antccedents. hut as there
was absolutely no way OF finding out IL
was Obliged TO remain in cruel ignorance.
All il knew about him was that several
years before the time / speak Of he had
arrived in the village. purchased picce
of land on the top Of the mountain.
reared a cabin and begun life of solitude
perfectly incomprehensible 10 the people
OF the valley.
at last they mostly scttlcd down 20
the belief that "Old Weaver had bcsen
crossed in love- Everybody knew that
love, IL il did not run smoothly. could
upset people completely. This gave him
exceptional interest in Tie cyss of tie
young AMI sentimental. although the
most Imaginative among them could not
picture him a. having ever heesn p.cr-
soua-e capable q inspiring the divine
lunacy.
Never were they fully selsiSie q his
value as a ror-aufic figure until after be
had lseen written up for a New York
lO1ruaL 4 newsTaTer Correspondent,
On his sunrnCT vacation. wandered INTO
HillfO-d. ard. q cDurse, son beard
slolsf THE hETlpit, si1cs be Ezs al therB
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NUMBER 81.

yohnstown drew up Mt the door Mra
Hart touched the arm OF Judge Russell,
who seemed to DO clothed with more
authority Just then than any OF. the other
prominent citizens who lowered about,
and said: L
II will take care of Weaver II you VII
send him to my house. Ho Is q very sick
man, already greatly exhausted by his
journey down the mountain. The drive
to Johnstown might kill him." ~
"Roally, Mrs. Hart, you're always do
ing too much for others. Young DR..
Clay was In hero bit ago, and he said
the old fellow oughtn't to be moved so
far. But you'd better think twice before
you take him. He'll be an awful
charge
"Iknow that sho answered; "but I
will take him and do the best can for
him." So tho hermit was put upon the
sled and delivered at Dir. Hart's like
bale of merchandise. Tho widows un-
selflslness kindled temporary flame Of
the same nature In other breasts. and for
tho moment volunteer help was plenty.
She took advantage of somc Of this to get
her patient bathed and barbered and put
to bed In comfortable, Christian way.
Then began for her weeks Of caro-,
work and anxiety. The sewing machine
was silent, with the unpleasant conse-
Quenco of low finances. Contributions to
tho comfort Of the sick man fell away as
time passed md tho affair became an
old story. Young DR.. Clay alone re-
NAMED faithful. The donations Of others
had dwindled down to advice. All In all
Mrs. Hart had "a hard pull Of It,"
At last the hermit became conyules-
cent. Finding himself in home where
refinement and kindness prevailed. he
fell into the ways Of its inmates rs nat
urally as II ho had been accustomed to
civilization all his life. He talked gent
ally and charmingly, and seemed pos
scssed of rs much information rs any
man Of tho world. Clad In his right
mind and conventional clothes, he lost
his character OF hermit entirely. Many
of the signs Of age, too. had disappeared
under the good offices OF tho tailor and
the barber. He did not look n day over 45.
lie was quite well now, but he showed
no disposition to return to his scmi-sav-
age life, 30 far rs any one outside Of Mrs.
Hart's home knew.
Christmas was almost at hand. Hills
ioiu WIS UuSy uutluS itS pTescntS uHu
getting up festivities. At Mrs. Hart's
the preparations were on scale 30
simple that they were almost pathetic.
Two days before Christmas the town
had something new to talk about. A
middle aged gentleman and lady OF the
upper class, apparently, arrived at tho
Hillsford hotel and asked for Weaver.
While they rested and dined they were
i.l a .A.~ al.aNh Va,
queer doings. the Intellectual attempt to
Harts interference and everything.
Then they were piloted to the Hart door,
and for two days afterward, although
the town was almost eaten up by curios-
ity, it could find out nothing ut oil about
them.
1t got the whole story on Christmas
From, The WaakIv ChrOnfcln
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authority was the tacitly understood
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PERHAPS not. = said Mr. Hart ~ s,le
bcrln 90 put On hcr bonnet and cloak.
She was. perhaps. the TsBorest pcTsOn q
relincTuent and czlucation IN the town
and tic mos berIeroleut She uas q
ullour. giIrisr only dover we're a toy e
y and q CIfi q 3 yfzrsL By swing a-
tbc v-rlf olIf q siEht
AooorrTnnie-i ~ Bob,ly she senf oucT
- lIrnf-s o. sre the hermit. and 80 orce
EDeu thlf b. u1as sick unto dfzfh- A.
ti1c slr-l ui-ici v-as 10 frauTor1 k5Ia n
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OFFuCIA. DIRECTORY

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in any house. 7 speak earnestly because
i feel earnestly. / have known many
cases of apparently confirmed bronchitis
and cough, with loss of voice, particu-
larly among clergymen and other public
speakers, perfectly cured by this medi-
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was outside Of the usual and uninterest-
ing in tho place. He at once spun out Il
column and half Of solid nonpareil,
mostly speculation, tinged with senti-
ment, about the curious reclusc.
This had q good result. It dignified
ians. 1t lifted him from tho rank of a
crazy old mountaineer to an eccentric
hermit. with extraordinary sentimental
possibilities behind him.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-11
Who Marries Whom?
Waterbury, Conn.,, american.

Waterbury, Conn.,, american.
Is he married to her or is she mar
ried to him 2 There is distinction in
these phrases, though few people or
newspapers regard it,, and even the
dictionary ignores it. Tins the New
Haven News says: "The Yale News in
reporting wedding states that the
groom was married to the bride. The
might learn in the larger field is that
the woman becomes married to the
man." 1t is a commonplace of most
rhetoric teachers that it is the man
who does the marrying and the woman
who is the person married. This sim
ply follows out the idea of the garden
of Eden story that woman was created
to be married to man. The distinction
is recognized in the historic marriage
service of the Episcopal church in the
question, "Who giveth this woman to
be married to this man 7" 1t is recog-
nized again in the meaning of the
word "marry," which comes from the
Latin word mas, meaning male. RO-
man customs of marriage, as we'll as
those of all nations generally, are in
accord with this derivation. To say
that man is married to woman is
the same sort of statement as to say
that "the Hon. -and-So was given a
banquet" 1t is the banquet which is
the thing given, not the person in
whose honor it is given. 1t is the
woman who is given in marriage, not
the man to whom she is given as a
wife
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-11
Wise Words From a Wise Woman.
Frances E. Willard in Union Signal.

Frances E. Willard in Union Signal.
The well-knOwn philanthrOpist, Mrs.
Elizabeth Thompson, who gives her
entire income, which is very large, to
various enterprises for the benefit of
humanity, retaining for herself only
enough to meet the simple needs of
her quiet home life, writes me as fol-
lows, and think the words so golden
that | wish every woman in America
would heed them. Will not those of
our readers vino agree with me in this
be at the pains to clip out the para
graph, and secure its insertion in the
local papers Of their various towns and
cities, with the explanatory statement
herein made 7 Coming from such a
source, these words have peculiar
weight, for Mrs. Thompson is one who
lives her belief, and knows it's blessed
ness by every day experience
al wish the women of the world
would call on the men to give up this
wild, ungovernable chase for more
money, and the women govern them
selves accordingly. Who is the hap
| pier for such extravaganza in dress,
furniture, useless decorations, gra
equipages, etc I Are they not more or
less procured at the expense of the
moral and spiritual naturef What is
there that many men, and women too,
will not sacrifice for few dollars more
to he spent for that which enriches
them not, but makes them poor in
deed Are they wiser, better, or any
way happier for having gained this
surplus sum In my experience
have found more health, more content
ment, more kindly feeling among the
better labOring class, than have ever
seen among that class who make mon
ey merely for the sake of display
There is more truth than poetry in the
saying that enough is as good as &
FEAST Few realize the true signifi-
canoe of industry aud economy. But
why do | talk 7 | am SO weary o
words, words, words, and yet some
good may come of words. Are not al
great and good things simple 7 AND
might it not be well for more people t.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-11
The PeriIs of Damp Beds.

A respectable proportion of the
deaths that occur during the winter
season are either directly or Indirectly
due to sleeping in damp beds. AS a
matter of fact, this peril is of the great
est, and it is ever present with us. The
experienced traveller rarely hazards the
risk of sleeping between sheets which
are nearly sure to be damp, until they
have been aired under his personal su-
pervisiOn at fire in his bedroom. If
this be impracticable, he wraps his
cloak around him, or pulls out the
sheets and sleeps between the blankets
"a disagreeable, but often prudent,
eXpedient. The direct mischief may
result from the contact of an imperfect
ly heated body with sheets which re-
tain moisture. The body heat is not
sufficient to raise the temperature of
the sheets to safe point, and the re-
suit must be disastrous in the extreme,
if, as is sure to happen, the skin is
cooled by contact with a surface cold
er than itself, and steadily abstracting
heat all the night through. Country
people in particular are specially cul-
pable in this matter. A "spare" room
is reserved for guests. For weeks it
may remain unoccupied, unaired and
unwarmed. A visitor arrives uncon-
scious of the fate that awaits him he
calmly passes the evening in social en-
joyment. Later he is shown to the
"spare" room for the night. The at
mosphere of the apartment has the
chill and damp of the tomb, and the
sheets of the bed are veritable wind
ing sheets-shrouds, in fact. He is
fortunate if he escapes with nothing
more than "cold." There is no ex-
cuse for the neglect of proper precau
ton to insure dry beds.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-11
Death in the Strainer.
Mean York GrGphic


Nearly all of our cherished theories
are liable to be overthrow in this in
quiring and iconOclastic age. The
world has been confidently trusting
for generations back to the thousand
and one appliances for purifying ordi-
nary drinking water. All sorts of fill
ters are in daily use, and every bless
ed one of them emblazoned with GER
tificates of disease preventing quail
ties. Now rise up DR.. Swarts in the
Rhode Island Medical Society and de-
clares that the filters are not only
worthless, but absolutely dangerous to
health. He does more. He proves his
assertion. He took unfiltered water
and showed in it the presence of about
thirty-six specimens of animal and veg
etable matter. He poured the same
water through filter which had been
in use two days and made the astOund-
ing revelation that there were thou
sands of new germs added to it. Then
he explained that the pOisons caught
up by the filter every day of it's use be-
came the source of vast multiplied
ton of the dangerous elements in the
water, and rendered it necessarily
more impure than when not filtered at
all. His advice was that, if water fill
ters could not be thoroughly cleansed
at least once a day, it would be far
better to dispense with them altOgeth-
aF.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-11
An Amusing Incident.

A correspondent of the Leeds Mercu-
nv mentions an amusing incident at the
Italian exhibition during that part of
the performance at the coliseum where
the battle of Imera takes place. The
Carthaginians before the battle, as was
their custom in Olden times to invoke
the favour of the gods, were offering
up human sacrifices. The first victim
was beautiful girl, with long 1axen
hair, in an agony of despair, who was
led to the stake between two soldiers,
and by them bound with chains, and
then the flames and smoke from the
faggots nearly hid the victim from
view. This effective scene so impress
ed an elderly clergyman, who seemed
to think sacrifice was really being
offered, that he got upon his seat and
denounced the brutal and inhuman SOL
diers who were killing a poor innocent
girl. care we," he said, ''to revert
again to the dark days, and will a
British public in this nineteenth CEN
fury for their amusement watch human
beings being sacrificed ?n He could
not be quieted until it was explained
to him that the girl was not really sac
rificed, and that it was only repre-
sentation of what took place in ancient
times
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-11
Clutch" the Highwayman.


A highwayman has just been COM
Knitting a series of IObberies in Chica-
go. He has no fear of arrest nor the
slightest intention of making restitu-
tiOn. His occupation, indeed, owing
to the benumbed morality of large
part of the community, is dignified by
1.-The name of business"
This rObber contracted with num-
Der of men to bring him a lot of wheat,
under indefinitely heavy penalties for
failure, when he had already secretly
possessed himself of and locked up the
same grain. 1t was when these men
were frantically trying to buy the
wheat the robbery eliminated in rails
ing the price of it according to the rob
ber's estimate of the sum his victims
could pay.
If there be any essential difference
between this operation and Selling a
decOyed man by the throat and pick
ing his pocket the difference is in fla
vOr of the latter, for the reason that
the loss in that case is confined to the
individual victim and does not disturb
trade, bankrupt others nor affect the
necessaries of life. The time will come
when the saving grace of the peniten-
tiary will be utilized to protect society
against these latter day "stand and de-
/ liver" operations disguised as trade.
The only mitigating feature of the
affair is that the men who are tleeced
are themselves would be robbers.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-11
A Warning to Farmers.
Boston CultiUator.

We have had frequent occasion to
warn farmers against signing any doe
uments presented by strangers. 1t is
never safe. The Oneonta Herald adds
another instance of the folly in the fol-
lowing item. "The butter yield of
Delaware, Greene and SchOharie coun-
ties, New York, is reported to be unus-
ually large this fall. Prices have
dropped low, even for the best cream
cry butter, and sales have been low for
some time. Taking advantage of this
condition of affairs, two New York
swindlers recently appeared, and began
to defraud the unsuspecting dairymen
and farmers. The plan was to get the
producers signature to a contract to
deliver a certain quantity of butter on
specified dates at price agreed upon,
which was always from three to four
cents above the ruling market rate.
This advance led many producers to
sign the paper, and now the poor farm
ers find the papers they signed turn
out to be promissOry notes, running IN
from $25 to $4,000. These
notes having been discounted are now
presented for collection.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-10-11
Store Pay for Butter.

Why do farmers wives consent to
take store pay for their butter Their
husbands will not take it for wheat,
oats, cattle or pork. They do not
"have to-" as the saying is. Nor
should farmers wives shave to" trade
out their butter. There is not pound
of butter fit to eat that will not COM
mand the cash as readily as "a bushel of
good wheat. If those who know that
their butter is good and marketable
would refuse to sell it except for
money, it would simplify the matter
very much. Those who did not de-
mand cash for their butter would by
that act "confess judgment" against
the article they are trying to sell, and
it would soon go out of the market al
together. Then, if storekeepers would
unite in declining to buy butter, and
let it find market as grain, beef and
pork do, they might be relieved of the
most serious difficulty they have to
struggle with in the conduct of their
business.