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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-04

snow lies on pasture or farm land OF
meadow is quickly melted and runs
off the frozen soil in rapid and de-
structive course The forest SHOWS
melt also, but the loose LAYERS OF
leaves and the easily penetrated soil
beneath absorb the water with most
wonderful rapidity Millions of lit
tie drops are following the roots
deep down to the rocky lodges that
shall guide them far off to issue as
springs days or weeks after Much
of the water is simply retained by
the leaves and the soil temporarily
this by-and-by will seek lower levels
or flow off naturally when the beds
of the rivulets are less full.
Thus we find the forests acting not
only as a wonderful protection
against floods, but at the same time
serving as reservoirs of the redundant
bounty, ready to yield it up slowly.
But if the trees are felled, all Natures
beneficent provisions are changed.
The plough, the fire, the wind, soon
remove the leaves; the thousand
rootlets that made channels to the
subsoil die, and the passages become
obstructed; the winter frOsts seal up
the ground too tight for any thaw-
ing to take place till after the spring
rains have come and gone. The lum-
Der finds a ready market. Perhaps
the same field from which it was
taken furnished profitable pasturage
or fine crops. Meanwhile, all the
valleys below are so much the more
=
1t is plain, of course, that lumber
man and herdman and farmer must
stop. They found this out long ago
in Europe; we are just beginning to
see the danger and the remedy.
Germany, especially. watches and
guards her forests. For the forest
can be used and preserved, too.
Moreover, not only is the right treat
ment of forest lands a necessity to
the welfare of the community, but it
will probably bring greater pecuni-
airy gain to the owner.
Heretofore numbering has meant
clearing the land Hundreds of
thousands of acres have been left as
bare and desolate behind the lumber
mans axe as they would be after a
fire. The practice should be instead
to remove only the oldest, largest
and best timber from time to time.
This should be done in such a way
as to encourage the growth of new
wood, but never SO freely as to eX-
pose the young trees to extremes of
wind and sun and drought. Trees
should not be felled until others are
provided, naturally or artificially,
to fill their places. Leaves ought
not to be interfered with, but the
underbrush should be kept down to
prevent the spread of fire. If expert
ment should prove that in some cases
private owners could not do this
without loss, the government should
lend its aid
Everybody remembers the foolish
monks to whom came every year
two splendid surgeons. One they
were permitted to catch and eat; the
other went off alone, but next year
returned with a companion. Pru-
dent counsels long prevailed, but at
last some special hunger led the
monks to dine on two surgeons. 1t
is easy to guess the end of the tale
Is not its application to our subject
just as plain Are we any wiser than
the monks in our wholesale destruc-
ton of Natures gifts ?-[ Boston
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-04
PRESS COM MENTS.



The attempt to throw ridicule up
on Postmaster-Gener Wanamaker's
Inaugural ton of Il policy of Sunday
rest in the post office department and
upon Secretary PrOctOr's order that
a similar course shall be pursued in
the war department, will not pre-
vent Il worthy reform from making
substantial progress. In the postal
service there has been vast amount
of Sunday work which might have
been performed on week days if ar
rangcmcntS had been made for an adj
equatc force to handle the mail at
central points. 1t has been the Gus
tom in the army to make Sunday the
day of parade inspection, which
might take place on any other day
as well. Except in time of war there
is no necessity for distinguishing Sun
day by extra duty, and in the war
department of all others, the day can
be strictly observed as a day of rest,
with no possible injury to public ser
vice.
This movement is, moreover, in
keeping with the spirit of the business
world Sunday is generally observed
as day of rest Entertainments on
this feature of the day have been
steadily resisted, and within a short
time the leading railroad corpora
lions of the country have undertaken
to limit Sunday passenger trains and
stop the running of freight on that
day.
The agreement in favor of making
Sunday a day of absolute rest is as
old as the hills themselves, and can
not beridiculed away.-[N. y. Graph
ic
Be Not Too Sure.
In Dana leader the New York
Sun delivers itself of the following
editorial progeny:
The defeat of the prohibition cause
in PENNSYLVANIA on Tuesday is much
more conclusive than anybody ex-
pected. The old ship has gone to the
bottom for certain. The first conse-
quence is that there will be no prohi-
bition party and no prohibition ma
tional ticket in the presidential cleo
ton of 1892 We mean no party and
no ticket that will be of any conse-
quence. The republicans and demo-
Gratis can alike lay their plans and
set up their issues, without paying
special attention to the liquor ques-
ton
Be not too sure of this, thou that
shineth for all The prohibitionists
are not that kind of folk. Be they
mistaken in their ambition or en-
dowed with wisdom from on high,
they follow their predictions with
the most unqualified sincerity, and
we shall be very much surprised if the
next presidential campaign does not
find them as aggressively in the field
as ever They are fighting for prin-
ciple, remember, and though you
may not believe in that principle, you
can give long odds that those who
do will not surrender it through in
fluence of any ordinary discourage
ment.-[ Manchester Mirror and Far
mer.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-04
RECKLESS USE OF FIREA RMS.

tits evident that the time has come
when decisive steps should be taken
to put a stop to the reckless and
needless firing of rifles and other fire
arms in the village and its outskirts.
1t is only a year or two since an asy-
lum employee got a bullet through
the muscles of his back while in his
house near the cold spring; not long
after this, while members of the Nc
Quade household on the Bradley farm
were sitting outdoor near the build
ings, nearly-spent rifle ball whizzed
past them and struck near the roots
of tree, where it was found and
picked up. Recently a similar thing
happened at the same place, with
a much narrower escape from serious
results. AS Mrs. McQuade was go
ing from the house to the dairy
spent ball struck her on the front of
the arm near the shoulder 1t did not
enter the flesh, but its force was
enough to cause an ugly bruise or
confusion, and disable the arm for
the time being, to say nothing of the
nervous shock. In each of these
three cases the shooting was without
doubt the work of some idle and
reckless person. 1t is kind of bust
ness that ought to be stopped
I Bratt1ebOro Phoenix
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-04
TELEGRA PHING A MOVING TRAIN

The idea of telegraphing to moving
trains had its inception as early as
1858; but of the many forms sug-
gested all were impracticable in that
they involved a mechanical contact
between the train and the stationary
conductor. Obviously, tits not feast
BILE to make circuit, either through a
sliding arm projecting from a car, or
by so modifying the track of a rail-
road that its rails may be utilized as
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-04
FARM FOR. SALE.

The subscriber offers for sale the farm
owned by the late Levi Goss. situated one
mile from Paddock Village and one mile from
Centre. Said farm contains 116 acres in high
state of cultivation, with plenty of wood and
some timber, running water at house and
barn, cuts about 40 tons hay, besides other
crops. Hay all cut with machine. The build
ings consist of house and shed, two barns
with basement, one 26x5O with silo OF 10
tons, the other 26x42, built years ago
Farm shop, granary, carriage house and hen
house This property Will be sold cheap tor
cash on easy terms or viii exchange Tor sTnaiI
place in near village u c. GOSS,
June 4, 1889. St Johnsbury Centre, VT
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-04
FARM FOR SALE.

/ will sell the p 5. Stevens farm 100 acres
land, plenty of wood and timber, choice sugar
place, nice buildings, farm in high state of
cultivation. at VERY LOW price if sold
soon. One half the purchase money re-
main on mortgage at per cent if desired.
Call on address E. p ALLEN,
Lob sIlrrrr Ncrlfr
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-04
FRANK II. BASCOM,

New England Agent,
MONTPELIER, VERMONT
Refers to following, who are purchasers:
John n. Woodfn, capitalist, Rutland, VT.
E. P. Gibson, Pres. Killington bank, %
Geo. X. Montgomery, Cashier, Rutland.
H o. Carpenter, BardweIl house, Rutland.
Col. Fred E. Smith, pres VT. Fire ms. Co.
n N. Taplin, Esq, treas. VT. Fire ms. Co.
Hon Chas Dewey, pres. Natl Life ms. Co.
Hiram Atkins, editor Argus and Patriot,
Montpelier, VT.
]. c. Houghton, Esq, treas. Natl L. ms Co.
J. G. Reed, wholesale tobacconist, Burling-
ton, VT.
Hon. A. A. Hall, st. Adams, Vt, Grand
Master of Masons.
Hon. w. d. Wilson, st. Adams, Vt, Past
Grand Master Odd Fellows.
w. A. Stowell, Gen. Supt. NJ. & w. r. r. r.
F. w. Morse, Gen. Pass. Agt., M. & W.R.R.R.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-04
Do You Want Work ?

We want good men to act as Canvassing
General or State Agents Will pay guaran-
teed salary commission For full partcu-
lars address,,
THE ROSS PUBLISHING HOUSE,
It's aug1 Albany, N Y
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-04
The Great Manufacturing Centre
OF THE COUNTRY.

The stock will in 1S months go to $3.50 per
share, and the building lots will be worth
from 5000 to $500 each, is the expert pre-
diction. Can anything be safer, can one make
money any faster honestly?
The lowest estimate of the value of this
property readily saleable, is over $4,000, 600
and constantly advancing, insuring thereby
the most advantageous inveStm possible
to offer. Remit by bank check, draft, or eN-
press to the undersigned.
descriptive pamphlet, 30 pages finely il
Illustrated, containing plat of lands, scale of
prices, maps, etc, sent upon application by
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-04
WARRANT OR NO PAY.
Two Fine Wilkes Stations

Sired ~ George Wilkes Jr., he by Old Geo
Wilkes; 6 and years of age; very sure;
dam by culo, a valuable son of Old General
Knox, els Ii Thus you see You have
the Willes blood combined with Old Justin
and Sherman Morgan through Old Cen Knox
PAVILION WILKES.
Eight Iears old, black 100 pounds. Is 3-4
hands, trots quarters in Sc seconds never
trained. to warrant S25.
HECTOR WILKES,
Sx years old, 1850 pounds, 16 hands seal
bpwn, not trained, can trot very fast to
WTrant $15- Eighteen of the progeny of
thee stations can be seen at my WILKES sta
oies Oxford, n II. Mares kept on grass so
cent per week; on hay, rs cents per week
anu y the year, $50, on hay and grain At
the oyner's risk in all respects. No business
on Sadays- Pavilion Wilkes Stables and
Big Ben Bills payable May 1st 1890.
s. 5. HOUGHTON, Prop'r.
tJui Oxford NH.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-04
NATURAL GAS
Land Improvement Co.,
MUNCIE, IND,
CAPITAL STOCK, 100000.
Par Value 500.
EMIL Paid mud Nom. ssessn HE.

President, Leon Albeit, Ex-Governor of
New Jersey.
Vice President and General Manager,
Eldbridge G. Rideout of New York.
Treasurer, William Harris, Union City Ind.
Secretary, s. c. GoShorn Muncie, Ind
Less than 500, 900 of the stock remains
for sale. Subscriptions will be received for
the balance until further notice at the bottom
price of S75 per share.
This stock company owns about 5000
valuable house and building lots in and adj
joining the city of Muncie, size 40N125 feet,
valued from $500 to $500 each, situated in
the most desirable centre of the Natural Gas
Field of Indiana. These lands to be at
once improved by opening avenues and spa
cious boulevards and erecting desirable resi-
dences and supplying natural gas to consu-
merS.
Muncie has 10000 people, Sc factories.
5000 operatives, and Sc natural gas wells,
1872 business stores, and soon will have So,
600 population. New manufactures
moving in each month, getting free light, fuel
and motive power from the natural gas, and
this city which has three railroads running
through it and is the county seat of Della
ware county, with a $500, 900 Court House
and Electric Street Cars being put in, it is
DIES fO he he
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-04
ST. per bottle, six for SIS.
WINANS MEDICINE COMPANY,
Commissioners Notice.

Commissioners Notice.
SAMUEL BRUCE'S ESTATE
The subscribers, having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the District
of Caledonia, Commissioners to receive, ex-
anime, and adjust all claims and demands of
all persons against the estate of Samuel
Bruce late of Barnet in said District, de
ceased, and the term of six months from the
18th day OF May, 1889, being allowed by
said Court to the creditors of said deceased.
to exhibit and prove their respective claims
before us: Give notice that we will attend
to the duties of appointment at the
dwelling house of VIM. II. Harvey in Barnet
IN said District, on the 10th day of July and
the 18th day of November next, at O'Clock
in the afternoon, on each of said days
II. A. GILFILLAN,
w. H BURBANK,
$40 Commissioners.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-07-04

FULL PAID CAPITAL, CAPITAL AUTHORIZED,
$75O,OOO.OO. $4,000, 100000.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-10-12

from record books in which the name of given individual Is mentioned may almost be counted upon the fingers, and 1t cannot be said that among the we'll nigh innumerable memoirs with which the printing presses of the nineteenth century have fairly spumed there are being added to the number many or luminous examples.
 It Is unhappily true-and we do not wish to cast personal reflections upon the career of any of the hard worked biographers of the time-that bio- grapher Is too often man who has found it impossible to succeed in more vital literature. In the higher walks of letters 1t is not possible to make mere industry cover all other short comings, and it should not be SO In the case of biograpical writing. That 1t is too often thus, however, is a fact SO patent that few will have the hardi- hood to attempt to deny it. It Is often said that biography is the most thankless of literary work, but this Is not due to the nature of the work so much as to the way in which 1t is gen. erally done. 1t has become the fashion to accept 6 certain substitute instead of the vital literature we should have as biography ,and the reading world, al though it will take 1t in default of anything better, will not pretend the enthusiasm which the work does not awaken.
 That this will not always be so we have confidence, and indeed the general intelligence which is pervading more and more the literary world is a guarantee of this. Biography to. day is in its infancy, but it has before 1t a noble manhood whether we live to see it or not.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-10-12
He was Consoled.
New York Sun.

New York Sun.
 A New Yorker who met a Kansas man at one of the hotels the other day heaved a sigh as he said:
 "I was in your town two years ago and that piece of property west of the railroad station was offered to me for $S0,000."
 "Yes."
 "I hear that 1t was sold last year for s75, 5,000."
 "It wss."
 "What short sighted people some of us arel Had 1 bought at $S0,000 I could now probably sell for $l00,0 Think of that"
 My dear friend, let me console you. That piece of property can be bought to-day for s15,O00. The boom has passed"
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-10-12
Photographing a Flying Rihe-B Bullet by
 EIecaricifv
Electricity.

Photographing a Flying Rifle Bullet by
 Electricity.
 From "Electricity in Land Warfare" by
 Lieutenant John Mills, C. E., |. s. A, in
 october Scribner.
 Photographs of the interior of the gun are even taken by means of the electric light, and the information ob- tained by these means is most valuable, and Is manifestly more satisfactory than that given by the method of talk ing impressions of the bore in soft rubber.
 Photography has also been made use of in studying the motion of the pro- jectile. In the case of large guns in- stantaneous views of the shot during its flight have been successfully taken by means of camera provided with a quick acting shutter. This method is not applicable, however, to small arms. A rife- bullet is a very small object, and the camera must be set very near its path in order to obtain a picture of sufficient size to be of use but the nearer the instrument is placed to the moving object to be photographed, the more rapid is the motion of the image over the plate, and no "instantaneous" or quick-acting shutter could possibly be made to operate with sufficient ra- pidity, or at the proper instant, to give 6 sharply defined picture. The desired end is accomplished, however, by the aid of electricity. The camera Is provided with an extrenely sensi- tive plate and placed in sa1lark room, through which the bullet is made to pass. The instant the bullet is in front of the camera it breaks an elec- tric circuit, producing a spark which Eliminates the bullet for an instant, and its image is impressed upon the sensitvie plate. The duration of the electric spark is almost infinitesimal, and since the plate is affected only dur ing the continuance of the spark a we'll defined photograph of an object mov- ing at greater velocity than that of sound is obtained. Such pictures show the condensation of the air in front of the bullet, the vacuum left behind 1t, and the eddies and currents produced in the surrounding atmos- phere by its motion and they afford information which is of value in de- termining the best shape to be given to the projectile in order to reduce to minimum the resistance which the air opposes to its flight, and so increase its range and effect.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-10-12
Playing the Fool.

When . man loses his temper he generally loses his common sense with it-an excellent reason, certainly, for not getting angry. The New York Stn prints a story which may be taken as . comment upon this text. The scene is laid In Pennsylvania, but the incident is of 6 sort to be met with anywhere.
 One man was driving out of town with load of bricks, and another was driving with loai of hay. Both of them tried to get the best side of a mud-hole, and the two teams came head to head and stopped.
 "You, therei" shouted the first driver In loud and angry tones.
 "You, there, yourselfl" !" replied the second, equally loud.
 "Going to turn out?"
 "Nop
 "Nor I neitherl"
 "I1l stay here year first !"
 "And Pll stay ten!"
 Both men proceeded 10 make them- selves ostentatiously comfortable and indifferent. Such other travellers as came along took the other side of the road and passed them by. It had become a question of endurance.
 At the end of an hour the hay man broke the silence.
 eff there's one thing l hate, it's human hog"
 "Then it's a wonder you haven't killed yourself before now" Another hour passed, and this time the brick man spoke.
 "Pm going to sleep; l hope you won't disturb me-" you," said the other man, from his load of hay.
 Both pretended to go to sleep, but towards night the hay man suddenly broke out:
 "Say, you're & mighty mean man"
 "The same to you ~
 "Where are you going with those bricks7"
 -Four miles out, to John Dayton's. Where Is your hay going?"
 "To Stiner's brick-yard."
 "Say, man, Pm John Dayton my self, and Pve traded this hay for brick"
 "Well, Pm young Stiner, and was driving the first load out l'
 "What fools we arel Here, take all the road I"
 "No, no, let me turn out"
 "Pll turn"
 "No, let me-"
 And in their eagerness to do the right thing the load of hay was upset and 6 wheel taken of the brick wagon.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-10-12
BIOGRAPHIES.
Boston Courier.


 Although 1t is the age of biographies the mistakes which were made in the days of our fathers are hardly less common in our own. It is true that nowadays writers are rather more par ticular about exactness in dates and kindred data, and an author will spend years in verifying some trifling detail, of no sort of significance when it is brought down to the last degree of exactness; but, after all, there has been very little real progress in the art of writing the story of the men who nave played prominent parts upon the stage of life over the methods which make the memoirs written in the days of our grandfathers so great 8 weari- ness to the flesh and SO little more.
 Perhaps the ideal training for bio- grapher is that of long and success ful career of novel writing. It is by no means true that every man who has been successful in fiction could write 6 good biography, since he must add other gifts to those which have carried him thus far on his way; but 1t Is idle for & man to hope to write a really good biography who has not that ability to perceive the relation of one life to those by which 1t is surrounded, and the art to put the facts of such . life in 6 way 90 that the impression of the whole shall be what he wishes it to be. The biographer who brides himself upon putting the data of 8 career before his readers, leaving them to draw their own conclusions and to form their own idea of the character of the man concerning whom he Is writing Is far more likely than not to have done his subject gross injustice. 1t is the business of the biographer to have an impression of the character of the man about whom he is writing, and unless he is 90 strongly convinced of the justness of his view he has no business to be writing the memoir ct all. He should know to his own satis- faction what manner of man his sub- ject was, and he should devote him. self to impressing this view upon his readers with all the vigor there is in him. The common talk about impar- tial biographies Is utter nonsense. An impartial Biography in the ordinary acception of the term is biography which is as useless and as meaningless as it is impartial. To make . virtue of not giving an opinion Is the com- mon and obvious escape from the trouble of forming one.
 The record of the facts of . mans career may not be wholly valueless, since the reader may have in his mind other fActs with which they correlate and he may have the power oflreading between tho lines and doing for him. self the work which the biographer falsely pretends to do for him when he oonfnes his efforts to collecting the mere accidental or outward fActs of . perDon1s existence. The biographies which arc to be ranked e other than - many compilations of tho extracts
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-10-12
No Library is Complete

which does not contain the works of that incomparable novelist, Charles
 Dickens. We have secured at . very
 low price several thousand sets of Dickens complete works, in fifteen volumes, which we are offering, together with one years subscription to this paper, for only $500. The books alone are worth much more than that sum, ahd our readers should not be slow to take advantage of the TO- markable bargain here offered them. Full particulars, with . description of the books, etc., are given elsewhere in this issue.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-10-12
Two Opinions.
Judge.

Old MT. Funds-"I can't see, Harry, why you find 1t necessary to draw your salary in advance, this way. Pm sure the other young men in the office arc saving up money out of theirs."
 Harry-"You're all wrong there, uncle. I never knew 6 single one of them to have more than fifteen cents in his pocket when I happened to want to borrow q dollar"