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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-07-25


Liddells?"
Yes" Belle responded, her eyes
widening with a sudden recognition,
and she faltered thereafter, with
gentle sympathy: 'Ye-es. She's been
there several days I saw her out
driving with John and his mother
yesterday"
Belle found Hetty's cold little hand,
and pressed it
'-Never mind. There isn't fellow
in the world that's worth it." she
whispered. philosophically. RI dare
say he's an awful flirt Don't mind
him"
Christopher was taking q tender
leave of Dorothy, and departing, and
Mr.. Ryer was peering anxiously from
the opposite wing.
Come along" said Mr.. Jefferson.
pulling his spouse on the stage; and
Hetty was left alone.
She dropped her face into her
hands with q silent sob
She had heard of such things before
tho double love-making of bad
young men; she had read of it How
could he--how could hep He did #.
perhaps. with every other girl he met;
she had heard Of men who did.
Engaged! Yes. that was likely.
Eise Why was she staying there. who
was not relative. and going driving
With him7 He had never taken hel
driving. Nor ever would.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-08-08
A RATHER srR1KING COMPARISON.

A letter-carrier in the New Haven
post office has been arrested and is
now being prosecuted for contribu-
ting a few pieces of silver to the cam
paign fund started by a city political
committee. He ought, of course, to
be prosecuted and be made an exam
pie of, for he violated the law in con-
tributing for political purposes while
serving the government. The chief
director of this prosecution is Mr..
Wanamaker, acknowledgement
Mr.. Wanamaker contributed $780,,
900 to Mr.. Quay's fund and raised a
good deal more. He was not in the
employ of the government at the
time, and so we presume violated no
law, however near he came to offend
ing in the eyes of the moral one. Mr..
Wanamaker, therefore, cannot be
arrested and punished, but he has
since his contribution been made a
prominent member of the cabinet.
He was one of the first chosen. He
was Mr.. Ouay's man. 1t is a nOtOri-
Gus fact that if he had not given so
great sum from his own pockets,
and received SO great a one from his
friends, who might prefer to contrib
ute through a man of Mr.. Wanama
ker's professed goodness instead of
through a wicked politician, he
would not have been dreamed of by
Mr.. Quay or Mr. Harrison or any
one else but himself for postmaster
general. In view of the nature of
this series of reflections, it becomes
somewhat pertinent to inquire if it is
not making justice considerable of
farce, when man who contributes
to a political corruption is at once
made acknowledgement for it and
charged with the duty of prosecuting
letter-carrier who has inconspicu-
ously contributed but one fifty-thou-
sandth part of what his chief did.
Such a combination of circumstances
is due not to the inefficiency of the
civil-service reform law so far as its
provisions go, but the outrage comes
from rewarding men in offices accord
ing to the amount of money they
hand over to be used in corruption
Providence Journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-08-08
FA RIM LIFE IN CHINA.

A farmer may be hired by the year
for from eight to fourteen dollars,
with food, clothing, head-shaving
and tobacco. Those who work by
the day receive from eight to ten
cents, with a monday meal. AT the
planting and harvesting of rice,
wages are from 10 to 20 cents a day,
with five meals, or 80 cents a day
without food. Few landowners hire
hands, except for a few days during
the planting and harvesting of rice.
Those who have more land than
they and their sons can till, lease it
to their neighbors.
Much land is held on leases given
by ancient proprietors to clansmen,
whose descendants now till it, pay
ing from 81 to $14 worth of rice an
nually for its use.
Food averages little more than a
dollar month for each member of a
farmers family. One who buys,
cooks and eats his meals alone,
spends from one and a half to two
dollars month upon the raw mate
rial and fuel. Two pounds of rice,
costing three and half cents, with
relishes of salt fish, picked cabbage,
cheap vegetables and fruits, costing
a cent and a half, is the ordinary al
lowance to each laborer for each dav.
Aberneathy's advice to a luxurious
patient, Live on sixpence day and
earn it," is followed by nearly every
Chinaman. One or two dependent
relatives frequently share with him
the sixpence.-[ The Popular Science
Monthly.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-08-08
DEAD COLORADO MINING rows.

Rollinsville, near Caribou, WIS a
booming place in 1871, and twn
lots were at a premium. Hundeds
of people were proud to call it teir
home, and it was thought to be
founded upon a rock. Today The
rock is there, but the population las
fed to the four winds.
How is that town of Lomaon
the Rio Grande river getting OF"
said gentleman the other day Mo
had left the state in 1874. 81 vised
it just before left the territory, ;1d
l thought it would likely max, a
good place" Jack rabbits have ben
jumping through the remaining
adobe buildingsf for years.
Kit Carson had population OIL
most 10000 in 1869, and the pecli-
arity about them was that the graf
majority of them lived in dugots.
When the railroad pushed on to On
yer the following year, the residets
of Kit Carson headed the processin.
Sunshine in 1875 had a population
of several thousand, while todv
there is only a handful of people thee.
Weston tried to put on airs in 1879,
at which time there were about 300
people there. The post office still G.
mains, as do one or two stores
Along the old stage road between
Leadyille and Aspen, at what WIS
known as independence in 1880 aid
for few years thereafter, not a si-
gle soul is now living Hundreds q
deserted houses are standing tenant
less, and some of them are preten
tious. A newspaper was once pub
lished in the corporate limits of the
city, and the arm of the Washington
hand press, on which it was printed,
is now sticking out of the Office Win
dow. The proprietor was too much
to take it away.
There was great excitement at To-
nanza, in Saguache county, in 1882
A daily paper was published there ,y
w. B. Mckinney, now of the Pueblo
Press, and it was a good one, TOP.
Everything doomed except the MINIS,
and the other tenderfeet pronounced
it another Leadville. Four thousaid
people almost broke their necks 20
get there, and of all that number not
a hundred now remain.
There are many other places N
Colorado with histories similar to
the towns mentioned. Some of then
were killed by the onward march of
railroads and others because the
mines around about did not have
the value with which they were CRED
ted Denver Republican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-08-08
ACRTCTITTRAI EXPERIMENT STA =
TIONS.

Our experiment stations now en-
ploy over $40 experts in agricultural
science and practice, and are support
ed by a national appropriation of
5000, 900, to which states add about
1925, 900; $725,OOO a year may
seem like a large sum to expend an
nually for agricultural experiments,
but it is less than ten cents for each
of the 100000 farm workers of the
country, less than 21a cents for each
of the 3O,OOO,OOO of our population
directly dependent upon agriculture
for their support, and less than IL
cents for each of the 6O,OOO,OOO of
our people who consume the products
of our farms. The farming lands,
farm implements, and live stock of
the country are estimated to be
worth So, 100000. The exper-
iment stations cost us, therefore,
about 500 year for every million
dollars invested in agriculture Or,
reckoning the annual value of the
products of our farms at So, 200, OOO,-
600, we are now spending about 1914
cents for every thousand dollars
worth of products in an attempt to
increase the value of those products
in future years
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-08-08
REDUCE THE TAX ON IRON.

The United Question clubs of Mass
achusetts have been sending a num-
Der of questions on the tariff question
to prominent New Englanders. The
following pertinent reply was sent
by an iron manufacturer and protec-
ZIONIST, Peleg McFarlin, treasurer of
the Ellis foundry company at South
Carver, Mass. -
1t is palpable to my mind that the
time has arrived for a radical read
justment of the tariff, as applied to
the commodities cited in your letter.
Certainly no exigency exists to-day
Y hich can Justify a duty of $6.72 on
z ton of pig-iron, and l cannot I'M
derstand by what process of reason
ing our lawmakers defend its con-
t1nuanCe.
Protection, as a Salutary regula-
ton, should be very carefully gagged.
Carried too far, it becomes locally
prohibitory, and thus destroys that
which it was calculated to conserve
When the tariff on any item becomes
unreasonably high or unduly low,
the true friend of protection will call
for a modification. In 1872, when
the duty placed on iron was $3.50
per ton, there was a very general
feeling that it was excessive; but as
the market price of iron at that time
appropriated to $50 per ton, and as
circumstances differed greatly from
those which obtain today, no imme-
diate protest was made. But in this
Is e<<~1I
at $16.5O per ton, and other condi-
tions are radically changed, we find
the duty to be $6.72l So far as New
England is concerned, this duty is
sufficiently excessive to Subvert the
very foundations of protection. A
glance at the most reliable statistics
will show that the iron trade of New
England has steadily declined during
the last decade in a ratio that is
alarming. Unless our New England
congressman stand together as one
man, and demand and secure a sharp
reduction in the duty on iron, once
flourishing industry, which rightfully
belongs to us, which was the pride
and glory of New England, and
which, properly fostered, will afford
support to 100000 people, will be
swept away and no appreciate COM
pensating benefits will accrue to any
other section
1t is sometimes but step from the
condition which threatens disaster
to that which insures success. Re
store the former reasonable tariff
rate of "a per cent ad valorem on
iron, and, while Pennsylvania will
not sensibly suffer, New England will
feel stimulus In all her avenues of
traffic. Scores of mills, within her
borders, now deserted and silent, will
throng with workmen, and renew
the hum of thrifty industry fear
have not met your expectations in
my reply to your interrogatories, for
have applied my thoughts to one
item only in the list which you sub
mitted to me. 1t is the item which,
as a manufacturer, deem most i'm
poTtant.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-08-08
THE PHENOMENAL SEASON.

If this is the wettest season in
point of record in New England for
more than a generation-and no ont
will find any serious difficulty in be
lieving such to be the fact-it has
some compensation in the heaviness
Of the foliage and the abundance of
the verdure generally throughout the
entire region. There never was SC
refreshing a sight to the eye in this
respect as the hills and valleys of our
state at present. Even the most
sterile hills of the North are clothed
upon with green. The traveller can
pursue his way in any part without
the fear of dust before or in his eyes
We are not sure that the despairing
farmer, who has found the problem
of making hay while the sun shines
for the most part a desperate effort,
finds the same enjoyment in this APP
peal to his aesthetic sense as do the
rest of us; but he has the consolation
that this kind of a summer hardly
occurs more than once in a century.
Il Boston Herald.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-08-08
EUROPEAN ARMIES AND NAVIES.

Russia has 100000 men under
her standards, and is engaged in
placing another million on a war
footing. Her army is differed by
most efficient staff of military strate-
gists, and his soldiers are armed with
the best weapons which money can
purchase and inventive genius can
devise. Germany has upwards of
million men constantly under arms,
and is getting another million ready
to be modified at q moments notice.
The military system of France is such
that in less than ten months she
could place in the field two million
thoroughly drilled and perfectly
equipped troops, while her navy is
second only to that of Great Britain.
Italy has made wonderful strides as
fighting power during the last
twenty years Her fleet stands
good third among the navies of Eu
rope, and the 100000 men which she
has ready for action are well officer
ed, drilled and equipped. Austria
could at short notice easily double
her standing army of 100000 men.
These immense armies may be essen
tial to the maintenance of peace in
Europe, but their existence means
the greatest armed conflict known in
history when once the fire of war is
lighted
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-08-08
ABATING THE GERMAN BAND.

A resident of One Hundred and Fiji
German street band problem all by
himself a few days ago. He is fond
of music, but likes it in it's proper
place and time His business keeps
him up until 2 or O'Clock in the
morning, and of course he likes to
sleep until midday, or Whereabouts.
His home is near Pleasant avenue
Further down on One Hundred and
Fifteenth street is a boarding house
where the members of a street band
are quartered in its entirety. This
band gets up bright and early every
morning, and has been in the habit of
blowing off its first tune of the day
at the house next door to the one in
which the late sleeper lives. This
was very pleasant for the children
in the neighborhood, but it was hard
on the sleeper. Each morning he
air filled with spawned strains of the
''Miserere," or some other old timer
being all twisted out of tune He
was very patient man and could
bear much, but this sort of thing re-
peated on schedule time every morn
was more than he could bear, and it
demanded remedy.
He got one. His room is in the
second story front, and he got the
garden hose, attached it to the faucet
in the bath-tub, put the nozzle of the
hose through his blinds and waited
Outside the little brass band had just
begun it's first number. Lances of
sunlight danced on the brass instru-
ments, children ran around in high
glee, the birds chirruped, and the
man in the second-story window
kept right on waiting. Slowly the
notes of the opening piece died away,
only to be succeeded by the more or
less martial strains of the "Boulan-
ger March, The man above waited
no longer. The time as well as the
tune was ripe for vengeance. His
aim was good and there was a
strong head of water on. Down into
the middle of that "Boulanger
March" there dropped a deluge.
Right into the big round funnel of the
tuba dashed the Croton, and thence
it caromed off on to the trombone,
from where it danced over to the
cornet. All this was but half min
ute's work. Up the street and down
the street and across the street went
the band, not in a chorus, but in solo
fashion; not standing on the order of
their going, but just hustling. They
looked as though they had been tam
pering with a waterspout. The man
in the room above looked as though
he had settled an old and long score.
New York Times.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-08-08

| his fine intellectual countenance, his
| graceful bearing, and his faultless
dress, as handsome Gladstone. F"
He had already held Office under Sir
| Robert Peel; and he had been singled
out by Macaulay, who slaughtered
while he praised, as 1.-The rising hope
of those unbending Tories" of whom
Peel was then the chief All his great
work has been done since then; and
it is only fair to say that no British
statesman, in later times, has so left
| his mark on the legislation of his
country mark which will never
be effaced, and which will ever be
suggestive of goodness as well as of
greatness-of benevolence as well as
of brains His life and his work have
in the main proved united blessing
to his country and even to his age.
During all these fifty years, which
have been crowded with work and
care, Mrs. Gladstone has been not
only the wise, watchful, dutiful
mother, but the constant and trust
ed companion of her husband, shar-
ing his joys and triunphs and bear
ing with him, when necessary, the
burdens of defeat and sorrow-the
faithful, the exemplary, the helpful
wife
Latterly Mr.. Gladstone's victories
have been fewer, his defeats and dis
appointments more numerous, than
of old. The fault is partly his own.
He failed in great crisis to play the
role of great party leader. He
mistook the arena of politics for the
battlefield. He commanded where
cause the wisdom of which is doubt
full, and which experience has proved
did not and does not commend itself
to the great mass of the British peo-
pie, he brought ruin upon a great
and, for work accomplished and his
toric consistency, perhaps the most
illustrious political party the world
has ever known. No one, however,
brings the charge of willful wicked
ness to Mr.. Gladstone's door. But
he made grand mistake all the
same. He Overestimated alike the
Importance of his cause and his own
individual strength.
Mr.. Gladstone may never see his
Irish scheme an accomplished fact;
and there are many who have no de-
sire that he should ever see 1.-THE
good of Ireland and the good of the
British Empire both considered. But
because of what he has done, we join
the crowd of his admirers, and re-
joice with them on this joyous occa-
sion, wishing the venerable couple
health, happiness and longer years
Mr. Gladstone strength to undertake
and accomplish greater work than
he has yet attempted, and Mrs. Glad
stone strength to give solace and
comfort TO the closing days of the
greatest statesman of the century,
New York Mail and Express
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-08-08
PRESS COMMENTS.
Draws the Line on Pipes.

Assistant Secretary Bussey of the
interior department rules that a sol
der that incurred disabilities from a
lighted pipe which he had carelessly
put in his pocket, and thereby set his
clothes on fire is not entitled to a
pension. He had previously decided
that soldier injured while playing
ball in camp, another injured by
a dernijohn which was being playful
ly thrown about, another hurt while
engaged in a friendly wrestling
match, had all incurred disabilities
lin the line of duty" and were enti-
tied to pensions The line of distinc-
ton between these cases and that of
the poor fellow who handled his pipe
so carelessly is exceeding fine, to say
the least springfield Republican.
"Now For Iowa"
The cry now raised is, "now for
Iowa. A victory in that state
would be a grand good thing for
Chicago, and many more unlikely
things have come to pass. The pro-
hibition law in Iowa is, any way,
practically dead, and there's a strong
probability of its being repealed at
the next election. 1t will of course,
take work, but if properly agitated
it will come our way, and now is the
time to agitate. The moral effect of
the lesson of Rhode Island and Penn
sylvania, to be effective, must be act
ed upon while fresh in the minds of
the people. ''Strike while the iron is
hot" Public sentiment is a tickle
thing Reaction soon follows. Now,
therefore, is the time. In the cities of
Iowa prohibition now is a failure,
and is not and cannot be enforced.
Readjust the Iowa law, permit IL
cense to be its substitute, and the
state itself will be benefited and the
personal liberty, of which so much
was boosted by our orators on the
glorious yesterday (the 4th) will ex
ist. This readjusting can be brought
about by the legislature. A vote of
the people of the state is not necessa-
~. But whatever is to be done
should be done now Bonfort's
Wine and Spirit Circular.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-08-08
PHOSPHORESCENT FIRE.

On a recent voyage, the steamship
Manitoban, of the Allen Line, passed
through sea of phosphorescent fire
1875 miles from Cape Henlopen, of
which the captain gives the following
vivid description: Early on Tuesday
night the heavens suddenly became
overcast and intensely dark, and |
left the bridge temporarily, leaving
officer Johnson in charge. | had
hardly reached the chart room when
the cry of fire was announced on the
starboard bow. l rushed on the
bridge and found the sea to be like
mass of flame, presenting scene of
sublime grandeur. Whenever a sea
broke over the bow of the vessel, the
drops of fire spread over the rigging
and decks like the flying embers of
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-08-08
ALLEGED HUMOR.
Written With Our Five Dollar Shears.

Written With Our Five Dollar Shears.
He-Come, now; let's kiss and
make up. She-No, sir; won't He
Well, let's kiss anyhow Somer-
vile Journal.
Brown-My son, whoever taught
you to tell your mother lies? Little
Johnnie-You did, dad, and you
know it.-[The Epoch.
Ii On is the name of the manager
of the Chinese theatrical company of
New York 1t strikes us he ought to
be the advance agent Norristown
Herald.
Seedy man Ito hotel clerk Can 1
put up here for the night? Clerk (scan-
ming him suspiciously)-Well, yes, if
you have got anything to put up
[Texas Siftings.
Woman (horses running away
Dear, dear, dear, what will become
of me? New coachman (grimly)-
Madam, it depends on your past life
I'm all right.-[Puck.
Mistress Bridget, 1 wish you
would refill my inkstand for me.
Bridget upstairs girl )-Please, mum,
livery tonne Oh fills that ink-shtand Oh
gifts me hands that black they don't
git clane fur wake. Mistress-But
you surely don't expect me to fill it.
Bridget-No, mum; but Oh wuz think
in yez moight ashk the colored cook.
Il Harper's Bazaar.
A Clincher. Outraged Erin-Gin-
tlemin, / wud loike to ashk thin
Amerikins wan thing. Who doog the
canals Nv the coontry but furriners ?
Who built the railruds NV the coontry
but furriners? Who worruks the
mines NV the coontry but furriners?
Who does the votin' NV the coontry
but furriners? And who the divil
dishcoovered the coontry but furri-
ners P Life.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-08-08
Houses and Lots in st. Johnsbury
Village
FOR SALE.

rare chance for good bargains, for no
reason, except that 1 have found place
where can get more butter to put on M
bread, and 1 going to take my family
with me.
1. A new two-Story house and ell, all nm
ished in modern style and suitable for a COM
Portable home, and situated in one of the
most desirable locations in st. Johnsbury, a
little north of the centre of Railroad street.
2 Also good building lot on the same
street.
B. Two good lots on Bagley Avenue.
4 Two good lots on Clark's Avenue; one
has a cellar wall laid ready to build on, the
other is at the upper end of the street and
facing Main street.
s.. Two lots off from C1ark's Avenue, in
the hollow, with road leading to the same
street.
These lots and the house are nearly in the
centre of the village and going to be sold
Ii the house is not sold very soon it Will be
rented for one year, as 1 am going to move.
For particulars and terms address me at
JohnSbury.
loft w. ]. BRAY.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-08-08

genuine confagation, where sparks
were driven by strong wind. Every
where on the decks were found tiny
sparkling phosphorescent beads
which did not disappear until the
next morning. For two hours the
vessel was steaming through the sea
of fire, causing considerable alarm to
many of the superstitious sailors and
passengers. In the distance the sea
appeared to be breaking on strand,
but a dip of the log without finding
bottom indicated that shoal water
was not near at hand.