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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-07
ALLEGED HUMOR.

Mamma-''Well, did you tell God
how naughty you have been ?" Lily
No; / was ashamed. l thought
it had better not go out of the fam
ily."
Rounder-How is it for a pass on
your road? Agent-Can't do it.
Roundabout you pass anything
on this road? Agent-Oh, yes! We
pass dividends.-[L Lowell Citizen
Tit for Tat.-Mistress Ito Bridget
is it possible, Bridget, you are
looking through my trunk ? Bridget
Calmly: Yis, Mum, an didn't l
catch you lookin' through mine the
other day?-[The Epoch.
Mother-"To think that my little
Ethel should have spoken so imper-
tinently to papa to-day at dinner
She never hears me talk i'll that way
to him. Ethel (stoutly)-"WelI,
but you choosed him, and l didn' t. ="
i Harper's Bazaar.
Henry? Wy, Henry died mos
a yeah ago, with a kyarbuncle."
Ma It's awful how many gifts
killed on dem kyars nowadays, wild
de b1lers Dustin an a-g1ttln' Scrunched
tween de kyar-buncles. "-[Harper's
Bazaar.
Good for Rheumatism.-W inks-I
forgot all about my rheumatism last
evening | went to the MINISTRIES,
and laughed straight along. Didn't
feel a twinge. Funniest end-man |
ever saw, only he was awfully hoarse.
Minks-Hoarse chestnuts are good
for rheumatism.-[New York Weekly.
No dogs allowed on the car, if
you please" said the conductor, as
the man was followed up the steps
by big dog. Is that the rule ?"
Eyes sir" very well. If my dog
can't ride, then | won't. He is as
good as | am" Don't doubt it,
sir; but that is the rule. - Detroit
Free Press
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-07

The other evening young couple
were standing in front of the court
house listening to the open air con-
cert, and each was sucking an orange.
A very pretty piece was being played
by the band, which seemed to strike
the fair one favorably, for she turned
to the young man with the remark:
What sweet symphony, Johnl"
Yes said John, yours may be
sweet, but mines sour"
Pepi: Mamma, may l say some
thing?" Mamma: You know the
rule is that you must not speak at
the table" Pepi: But may l say
just one word ?" Mamma: mo,
Pepi; but when papa has finished the
paper then you may speak" Papa
finally lays the paper on the table
Mamma: Nov, Pepi, what did
you wish to say?" Pepi: Il want
ed to tell you that the water is run
ming over the tub onto the floor in
the bathroom. = Fliegende Batter.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-07
SOCIETYS SELF-PROTECTION.

recent unhappy occurrence has
stirred the moral sense of this COM
munity very deeply, and set our citi-
zens to think seriously on the value
of character as a safeguard of society.
The obvious comment when an in
stance of illegitimate birth is made
known is that the revelation bears
with unjust severity upon the wom-
an alone, and so it does, because it
very seldom happens that she can
keep the secret of her maternity,
while it is commonly quite easy for
the man to protect himself from
proof if not from suspicion. Abso-
lutte public exposure the latter,
though he may be far the more guilty
of the two, has seldom to dread.
Many circumstances which will con-
vey to the public moral certainty
are worthless as evidence The law
no less than the nature of the case
protects the man, although the wom-
an can have no such protection.
The question then arises, what is
the duty of the community in those
cases which not infrequentlv arise,
where an honest, unbiased public
sentiment tastens upon a man guilt
which there is not sufficient legal evil
dence to establish? No impulses of
Indignation or sympathy should en-
ter into the judgment, but we have
all known instances where a moral
certainty existed without a legal
one That should be sufficient to
justify the action of a community.
In case the man implicated should be
unmarried, it is far less necessary
that its displeasure should be severe,
because while an affront has been
offered to society in the commission
of a great wrong, it is yet an offense
which lies within the power of the
parties themselves to atone for, and
not vital assault upon the founda
lions of social order.
But if he should be a citizen who
has entered into a contract with one
woman to be faithful to her, and in
that act also entered into contract
with society to preserve the unit of
civilization, the family, the case is
different and far graver. There is
nothing that man can do in a Chris
tan country that is more serious
and enduring than to marry and
found family; there is no personal
contract more solemn and momen-
tous. 1t has the earliest divine sane
ton The man who breaks that con-
tract is an enemy of the social state,
a traitor to his wife, his children and
the community at large. In his case
we'll may the conscience of the people
stir, and their Indignation exhibit
itself in a disapproval that shall be
felt. If he holds public position his
offense renders him an unfit man to
represent the community or to serve
it. Any less stringent regard for the
institution of marriage lowers the
community that condones the as
sault upon it, and renders its corrup-
ton but the work of time Spring-
field Republican.
The Pullman car company have Sc
cured control of all the other palace
car companies except the Wagner
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-07
The Free Press
FOR 1880,

THE BURLINGTON FREE PRESS enters the
year 1889 better fitted to serve its readers
than ever before. Its growth in 1883 was
its equipment is now superior to that of any
other paper of its class in the country 1t is
one of the best provincial newspapers in
America, and it is still improving.
THE DAILY FREE PRESS is doing more to
promote the interests of Vermont readers
and is furnishing more reading matter of in
terest and value to subscribers within its
field than any other paper printed. AS a
news and political journal for Vermont
readers, THE DAILY FREE PRESS is unequaed
THE WEEKLY FREE PRESS is a great news
paper. Its Sc columns are filled with the
choicest reading. It's subscription is only
One Dollar year, and in department of
business in the State of Vermont can much
value be secured for small a sum. At that
the homes of the State.
Its well known departments newS-agri-
cultural - Observation-Disclosures
ries and full local reports, entertain and
please everybody, old, middle ICED and young
If you know THE FREE PRESS you can tes
tify to it's quality; if you do not know it,
you ought tot will pay you. To try it is
the best way to learn its quality, and now is
a good time to try it.
Terms Daily, $500 year, so cents
month. Weekly, $1.OO year, so cents for
six months invariably in advance. Trial
subscription to either, 25 cents. Address
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-07
For Sale Low.

being a nice two-Story building, so feet
front. Sc feet deep, nearly new, and painted
good cellar and three other1arge rooms down
stairs.
One good pleasant tenement already to
rent, up stairs, rents for $50 a year. With
little expense two first-class tenementS could
be made down stairs. This would pay twelve
per cent on investment. Or building could
be decided for store if desired.
The above property will be sold low if sold
at once For further particulars call on
CHARLES COBB,
st. IOhnSburY Centre. VT anr
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-07

The number of millionaire senator's,
estimated now at from 80 to 80, or
nearly one-haf the entire Senate, has
been increased by the choice of Gen.
w. D. Washburn to succeed Sabin
from Minnesota Washburn is a
railroad president, is worth $4,000
600 and lives in a 81 900, 900 house
at Minneapolis. He was born at
Livermore, Me, in 1881 and is
graduate of Bowdoin college He
made his money in lumber.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-07

and greatly to be regretted, and we
have made no discrimination between
the two parties as to the corrupt use
of money We remind our correspon-
dent that it is no defence of republi
can rascality to say that democrats
are also rascals.-fHarper's Weekly.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-07
AN UNANs wERABLE RETORr.

Francis c. Long, in the African NJ {.
E. Church Review for January, takes
up, seriatim, the Indictment of Sena-
tor Eustis against the ability and
morals of the negro race. To the al
legation that 1.-The niger will steal, )"
he replies =
''In these modern days, after centu-
ries of practice, the niger steals a
chicken, the white man steals horse !;
the niger steals ham, the white
man steals hog; the niger steals
a dollar, the white man bank; the
niger steals cross-tie, the white
man a railroad; the niger steals
a constables office, the white man
steals the Presidency of the United
States"
To the charge that the negro is
morally inferior, he replies:
"Who is responsible for more than
ninety per cent. of crime committed !?
Who is responsible for the whisky
traffic, the greatest of curses? Not
the niger Who is responsible for
nine-tenths of the slums and garnb-
ling holes? Not the 'nigger. Who
is responsible for the barrel-houses,
beer-jerkers and cancan varieties, to
which the youth of the land are drawn
and taught the vicious things of life ?
Not the niger Who are the sup
porters of the lewd houses and all
therpopular places of ill-fame? Not
the niger. Who is responsible for
the dissertation of the Sabbath in this
country? Not the niger Who is
responsible for the low ebb of Ameri-
can life generally? Not the niger"
Very suggestive are such questions;
very decisive and clarifying of misty
prejudice are the answers Pretty
fair rhetoric, too, for a "nigger."
VIII Senator Eustis file his replica
ton P lions Herald.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-07

A bright Milford boy sends the
Milford, Mass, Journal this nara
tive, which uniquely includes each
letter of the alphabet with each
word:
"a beautiful cat delights every fam
lily, giving home increased joy, killing
lazy mice, not often punished, quell-
ing rat seances, trilling unearthly
vespers with x-tra yelling zeal"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-07
Photographs Taken
In all Styles.

Photographs enlarged. Crayon India Ink
and Water Color engagements speciality.
Work second to none. PaStelleS, Easels,
Cabinet Frames, etc. Picture Frames made
to order. DICKERMAN & COOPER,
Main Street, OppOSite Atheneum
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-07
Make Hens Law.

1t is a ell-known fact that most of the
Horse and Cattle powder sold in this coun-
try is worthless; that Sheridan's Condition
Powder is absolutely pure and very valua-
BILE. Nothing earth will make your hens
lay like Sheridan's Condition Powder. Dose.
one teaspoonful to each pint of food. Sold
everywhere or sent by mail for % cents in
stamps. We furnish it in 2A Id. cans price
81 90. By mail, 81 30. Six cans So 90, ex-
press paid. Very valuable circulars free
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-07

The New York Tribune well asks
whether the community has no rene
dyagainst the omnipresent and dead
ly peril Of the electric wires The
citizens of New York are apparently
wholly at the mercy of the electric
companies, and there is no visible
power to enforce the order for bury
ing the wires. Men and animals are
destroyed by the touch of the charged
wire, the details are published, the
newspapers protest, and that is the
end. The electric spell is like that of
laying Jacob Sharp's Broadway rail
road: the street was torn up, and
the community seemed to be struck
with imbecility. There may have
been some damagepaid by somebody
for the catastrophes due to fallen
wires, but the present situation is a
wantOn risk for every wayfarer.
The convenience of new inventions is
very great, but so is the new danger
that they introduce, and the moment
the character of the danger is appre-
hended the remedy should be firmly
applied. The Disagreement of streets
by the mOnstrous poles is nuisance,
but the constant and proved peril
that accompanies them is pressing
public concern Harper's Weekly.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-07
Parsons Pills

MAKE NEW RICH BLOOD
MAKE NEW RICH BLOOD
MAKE NEW RICH BLOOD
Positively cure Constipation ick-Headache,
BiliouSneSs, and all Liver and Bowel Com
plants, Blood Poison, and Skin Diseases.
One Pill a Dose For Female Complaints
these Pills have no equal. If all who read
this will send their address n postal they
shall receive FREE by mail ad vice for which
they will always be thankful. One box Pills
by mail % cents in stamps.
1. S. JOHNSON & co, BOSTON, MASS.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-07
A REMOTE PART OF THE UNION

Few people, indeed, among the
many millions scattered throughout
the length and breadth of the Union,
would believe that there is a section
of the United States where the result
of the presidential election will not be
known until July, 1889, eight months
after the official returns are published
to the world Such is the fact, how
ever. The settlers at ST. Michaels,
the Sea Islands, and those domiciled
along the banks of the lower Yukon
will remain in uncertainty as to the
outcome of the contest until after the
midnight sun has come and gone
during the midsummer of next year.
Even the denizens of Kodiak and
Ounalaska will have to wait patient
ly for the news until the end of March,
there being no communication what
ever between San Francisco and those
settlements during the winter
months. Verify, to bury ones self in
these outlying portions of the ma
tional domain is exceedingly like liv-
ing entirely out of the world.-[ The
Ia Sian
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-07
DROP

your prejudice against advertised remedies
and give ANTI-APOPLECTINE the favorite
prescription of English physicians, n trial.
1t is the only known Apoplexy Preventive,
and it is unequalIed cure for Paralysis,
Heart Disease, Rheumatism, Liver Com
plant, Kidney and Bladder Troubles, Dys-
pepsia, General Debility, and all Diseases
arising from Impure Blood and Debilitated
Nerves, Loss of Appetite, Sour Stomach and
FIatuIence cured with one bottle of ANTI
APOPLECTINE. Price, 81 90; six bottles
$500. Sold by Druggists. Send to DIR. F.
s. HUTCHINSON * CO, Enosburgh Falls,
Vt, for Health Help and testim onials from
well people who were once no better than lap
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-07

The Pullman car company have Sc
cured control of all the other palace
car companies except the Wagner
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-01-05
A Helpful Machine.

The utilization of machinery for APP
parentIy trifliug purposes, is carried to
a great extent, especially in great fac
tories where the waste of trifles would
foot up to an enormous total. A strik-
ing e1emplifcation of this is little
machine recently put in operation in an
uptown cigarette factory.
As all cigarette makers know, dam
aged wrappers will creep in among the
good ones, and certain or uncertain
number will get damaged in handling.
The wrappers are, of course, useless,
but the contents is valuable, and to
strip off the wrappers by hand is q
tedious job, costing almost as much as
the tobacco is worth.
The new machine is very simple, con-
sisting of tube about half an inch in
diameter and eighteen inches long, hav-
ing longitudinal slit in it in which re-
wolves a keen, circular knife. Through
the tube runs tape or narrow belt on
which tho damaged cigarettes are laid.
The motion Of the belt carries the cigar
cite under the knife and the paper i:
cut from end to end. Passing along on
the belt the cigarette is thrown into {
receptacle provided, and in the fall the
| naner separates from the tobacco. By
using this machine a single girl can, il
is said, do as much work as hundred
could do working by hand. Mail and
Express.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-01-05
A Tribute to the Bible.

Before us, remarks the New 70
Observer, lies q welcome sight. kC
sists of Parts !. and II. of an illusin
ed bible in the Italian language Il
issued by Signor Sonzogno, the prop
etor and able editor of the Secoa
secular paper. and the price is one q
a number. Among other things be y
"There is one book which gather
the poetry and the science Of human
and that book is the bible, and VI
this book no other work in any lite
,ure can be compared. 1t is a book u
Newton read continually, that Gro
well carried at his saddle and that v
tairc kept always on his study table
is book that believers and unbee''
should alike study, and that oughi
be found in every house. The text
be that of Martini, translated from
Vulgate, and caro- will be taken @'
sure accuracy" May this venture pr
a worthy contribution towards thsH
ply of Italy's need.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-01-05
Jaw GOuld's Doctor.

Mr.. Gould sat on the porch Of BIS
vington residence and in his lapv]
baby, the second son of his son econ
who married Edith kingdom, the Pr
actress. The report that this new CO
is to be named after his grandia'na
mistake, because his brother, novs
a year and half old, bears the n'a,|
Jay Kingdom Gould. Near BY {"
William Mum, to whom Jay Gou'
a sufficient salary to command DIS III
time. The amount is said to b. wv
q year, and that is reasonable c0n'
ing that DR.. Mum gave up 90 e'
sivc practice TO take thi' spec~
and is rather a rich man, anyhow
contract covers period OIL "
years ualcss terminated earlier "
death of the opulcnt patient i
will be seen that Gould has msa'
vestment of nearly $3.50, 600 IN D'
attendance. -[Philadelphia Tim'A
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-01-05
An Infants Remarkable Luck.

Officer Vanous, who patrols the dis
trict west of the Union Pacific shops. is
an expert catcher. Yesterday after
noon. while pacing up Chicago street,
near Twelfth, his attention was called
to volume of smoke pouring out of the
upper window of 1917, and he started
for the nearest signal box. As he was
passing the building he saw something
white come out of the second story
window, and instinctivcly put out his
hands to catch it. He succeeded. 1t
was little two-months- old baby. Its
father, L. c. Pettiford, had returned
home, filled the gasoline stove tank,
touched a match to the burner, when,
presto change, the stove exploded. His
wife was frightened out of her wits,
and caught up the baby and fred II
from the window.-IOmaha Herald.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-01-05
The Need For Salt.

The Importance Of salt as an art Gle OF
diet, according to scientific writer, Is
overrated. A continued use of large
quantities of salt produces sourvy. The
popular belief that an appetite for salt
is universal among the lower animals is
without foundation in fact. Dogs, cats
and other carniveorous animals show no
fondness for it, and the same is true of
the fruit eating animals. Even herbivo-
rous animals do not eat salt regularly
with Their food, but only at long inter-
walls. which suggests the thought that
perhaps they take it as vermi uge. In
certain Iarts OF the world where salt is
unknown, antelopes abound in countless
numbers, and in parts Of Africa where
salt is abundant, the antelopes show no
foundness for it. There are many in
stances in which f1ocks of sheep and
herds of cattle have been reared success
fully without salt. In certain parts of
Central America salt is more scarce than
gold, and to say that certain man eats
salt is to say that he is very rich. Yet
the people living there have existed fol
ages and have enjoyed the best of barba-
rOus health, without taste of salt from
infancy to old age. Salt is not in use in
Siberia as a common constituent Of food,
and the same was true Of the NORTH
American Indians previous to the discov
cry of the continent by Europeans ano
for many years after, and is still true o.
the Pampas Indians of South America.
Good housekeeping.
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ly permitted his body to be washed NJ,
vinegar, after which he INDUCED in A,
and convulsions. Il Cincinnati Euou;,.
The Stiletto.

The stiletto is q peculiar v..,,.
There is nothing of American msuuf..
ture like it. In length 1t runs from I,
to fifteen inches. The blade is .bm,|
twice the length of the handle, d.s,.J
edged, thick at the narrow guard ~,
tapering of to excessive thinness at IA,
point. At the guard the di.mst., !,
the blade is diamond shaped and a.
two extra edges run almost to IN
point.
The real edges, which are rasor shan
make Q wound which the auxili,,
edges, more blunt than sharp, .pp,.I
vate to q terrible degree. So effscu,
is it and SO murderous in the hand, !
a dexterous man, that the Italian Oh,
ern nent has recently been experiment.
ing with it as a weapon at close ouu
tiers and in the Massowah campaign "a,
eral companies were armed with shield
and long stilettos. Tho weapon is en-
ried in sheath like an ordinary dayrs
Another knife, commonly carried rd
frequently used by criminal Italisns
what Professor Scannapieco, the M,
politan fencing master, calls the md
letta." The molletta bears some res.n
blance to razor, though considersbl
longer. There is only one edge ni
the blade opens like q penknife. I
swings loose, however, and when draw
is opened by catching holt Of the ban
die with the fingers and throwing IL
blade outward. This requires practc
and dexterity. A small spring catchs
the knife and holds it open. 1t is coss
by pressure upon tiny "button" on b
handle. Though not as effective
weapon as the stiletto, it makes an ugh
wound when used by an expert and a
be opened almost as quickly as stilsts
eau U6 0IdWu rum ITO suCdtus lu6 ex
with which it can be concealed adds
the frequency of its use. The hand
is hard wood or bone.
There is an uptown established
tina, is said to import stilettos and otha
Italian weapons. A small stiletto ID
be bought for So The largest size ed
S. and IS. An imported molletta cOsa
81. The price places the real Itaia
article out of the reach of many of
knife users who failed to bring thd
cowardly weapons across the ocssi
and they content themselves with
species of small dagger, crude but
fective, and not infrequently made
themselves out of a we'll worn tab
knife.-[New York Graphic.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-01-05

A whole steamboat load of ivory has
lately come down the Congo River, in
Africa, from regions where the native
know little of its value, 10 the European
trading centre established by Stanley.
the explorer. This is good news to the
manufacturers of ivory. but better still
to those who hate cruelty. For one great
object of the African slave hunters is to
procure the human cattle that carry the
ivory to the coast. These dolorous pro-
cessions of dying wretches wearing great
yokes of logs about their necks, besides
the freight they lug, will now be less
necessary to trade. 1t is calculated that
every tusk worth $500 in London) has
cost at least one human life to get it to
the sea coast.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-01-05

Army recruits are not of first quality
nova days. OF sixteen recruits re-
Gently arrived at Livingstone, Montana,
six are in the guardhouse for serious
offenses, three have deserted, one has
been sent to Fort Benton for trial by
court martial and one was strung up by
indi Snant citizens and made to confess
where he had hidden a satchel, gold
watch and some money he bad stolen
from dead women.