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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-05-28

Since the erection of the new line Of
telegraph poles down Eastern avenue
and the placing thereon of all the
wires that have hitherto been strung
on both sides of the street, the Elec-
trio Light company have begun some
street Improvements that were before
impossible. The light wires have
been raised from the middle to the
top of the poles, new and larger poles
have in some places replaced the old
ones and the light at the corner of
Eastern avenue and Cherry street is
to be suspended over the streets on
mast arm so as to better light the
roadway.
At the Belknap dam further i'm
provements are in contemplation by
the Belknap Water Power Co. The
two water-wheels will be raised two
feet higher and draught tubes put in
to counterbalance the power lost in
so raising. This will make the
wheels just above the high water
mark and add greatly to the value
Of the power. A new steel CRATE, to
catch foodwood and drift, will be
put in the fume and it will require
about seven tons of steel in it's con-
struction. What the company now
needs is a hydraulic governor which
will regulate the speed so accurately
as to do away with the flashing of
the arc lights
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-05-28
WEATHER-CROP BULLETIN.

This is condensed from the New
England Meteorological society, for
the week ending May %, 1891.
A general heavy rainfall occurred
throughout New England, varying
from 81 inch to 1 "a inches, and great
ly improving vegetation. Heavy
frosts occurred on the 10th which
damaged the fruit in various sec
tions. At Brattleboro apple bios
SONS were frozen so that they turned
dark brown afterward. The OBJ
server at Bellows Falls states that
fruits are damaged by frosts and
early gardens injured. At West
Fairlee the grass is green and look
ing fine. The hardest frosts were in
northern Massachusetts, and south
ern Vermont, other sections of New
England corresponding very nearly
with this vicinity
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-05-28
A PASTOR SURPRISED.

The Methodist parsonage was the
scene of a merry gathering last Fri
day night when about rs of the pas
tors flock made Mr.. Curl and his
wife a surprise party. When all had
assembled H. N. Turner, as spokes-
man of the party, presented Mr.. Curl
with purse of $40 and the Epworth
league gave the pastor and his wife
and elegant piano lamp. The pre-
sentation speeches were made by Mr..
Turner in a most felicitous manner
and Mr.. Curtis response was equally
happy. The occasion was very
pleasant one and gave all a chance
to express their affection for an ex-
cellent pastor and to congra tulate
him on being returned to St. Johns
bury.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-05-28
FATHER o,sULLIvAN,s LECTURE.

FATHER O'SULLIVANS LECTURE.
The concert and lecture at Music
hall last Thursday evening under the
auspices of the Young Mems Catholic
Literary association, was a very
successful entertainment The Cecil
ian quartet sang twice and was
heartily encored each time. The
solo, Il dreamt 1 slept in marble
hail." by Miss Trainor, was rendered
in her usual pleasing manner, and
Mr. Felch's piccolo solo met with
merited applause. Mr.. Heffernan
then introduced the speaker, Rev. D.
J. O'Sullivan, president of St. Joseph
college, Burlington, who gave very
fine address on the Destiny of young
men,"
He said that, as the champion of
young men, he always lent them a
helping hand. The destiny of young
men is the common destiny of all, to
die and go to our Maker from whom
we came. In preparing to meet this
destiny, which is inevitable, be young
men of purpose, of fidelity, of con-
science, of principle and of ideas. Be
chaste in your thoughts and deeds,
be pure in your speech and be sober
in your acts and lives"
He made vigorous plea for the
cause of temperance, portraying WV
idly the awful effects Of the drinking
habit and urging them to refrain
from the use of strong drink. 81 am
often asked" he said, what think
of prohibition. 1 invariably reply,
L don't know, as l have never seen
it work l understand that you
have but little drinking in St. Johns
bury. l am glad if it is so. In Rut-
land, Burlington and St. Adams,
where l am acquainted, there is no
pretence of enforcing the law and it
remains dead on the statute book"
Mr.. O'Sullivan is natural orator
and made many friends during his
visit to St. Johnsbury. He is digni-
fed, yet graceful, in his bearing,
pleasant in manner, is an easy speak
er and his choice Of language and ex-
preston was perfect.
The audience was small and those
who allowed the rain to deter them
from attending missed an excellent
address and good concert.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-05-28
FELL THIRTY-FIVE FEET.

AS John Walker and Isaac Archam-
bau were painting the back side OF
Randall's block Monday morning,
swing staging gave way and precip-
itated them to the ground 35 feet be-
low. They were slightly bruised and
a little lame afterwards but no
wounds of a serious nature were re-
ceived. 1t was certainly narrow
escape from serious injury and pos
sibly from death
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-03-27
Queer Facts About Beavers.

James Sherman, of Clifton, who
is trapping beaver at Knappa,
was telling recently some queer
things about beavcr-trapping. The ami
NAL, he says, hus the most acute sense of
smell of any animal that exists. In set
ting the traps you must wait till low
water, in order to have the tide when it
comes in to obliterate all traces of your
presence. When beaver is caught in
trap the other beavers at once enable
him TO make good his escape by Selling
him by the tail and hauling him away
until they release him, often leaving the
limb in the trap rs an evidence OF the
struggle that ensucd. He caughta beaver
last winter on Puget Island, and said
that it had only two toes on u hind foot,
the other three legs being amputated as
close to the body as if the limbs had
never existed.
Mr.. Sherman says there is one faculty
the beaver possesses that would be pro-
fitable and interesting study for scientific
men, and that is the power of making
objects adhere to the bottom of a stream
without any apparent means of securing
them. The beaver lives mostly on wood,
which it cuts and deposits on the bottom,
where it remains, contrary to the natural
laws, which would in ordinary cases
cause the wood to rise to the surface.
How this is accomplished it is difficult
to decide, but it is nevertheless fact,
as Mr.. Sherman assures us that he tried
it time and again. Beaver-trapping pays
we'll where any considerable number can
be caught, the average price of the furs
being from So. so to S.. 90 per pound
Cathtanaet (IHashingtoa) Gazette.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-03-27

Ever since the cattlemen have been
driven out of the Cherokee strip in In
dian Territory, alleges the Washington
Star, they have been trying to find some
place for range that would not be too
far from the markets to be available.
Such range has been found, and syn
dictate of mortgage companies in Kansas
City and Eastern cities has been formed
for the purpose of consolidating the
western part of Kansas into one vast cat
tie range. The lands in that part of the
State have been mortgaged to their full
extent by the settlers and the continued
droughts have caused such an exodus
from there that the mortgage companies
are finding themselves with thousands of
acres on their hands which they can do
nothing with in the way of selling OF rent
ing. 1t is understood that foreclosure sales
OF mortgaged lands amounting to over a
million acres hevo been ordered in the
western tier of counties, and as all this
land lies together it is to be rented to
the cattlemen or else the financial com.
panlcs will use the range themselves and
form cattle syndicate.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-03-27
An EfaIess Eden.

There is only one territory of any
size, and never has been but one, occu-
pied by any considerable population,
from which woman is absolutely ex-
cluded. Yet such place exists to-day,
and has existed for centuries. AS far
back as history reaches, to all females it
has been forbidden ground. This
bachelors Arcadia is situated on bold
plateau between the old peninsula of
Acte, in the Grccian archipelago, and
the main land. Here in the midst of
cultivated fields and extensive woodlands,
dwell monastic federation of Greek
Christians, with twenty-threc converts
and numbering more than 1000 souls,
and not one of the monestries dates from
later time than the twelfth century. A
few soldiers guard the border of this
anti-fcmale land, and no woman is
allowed to cross the frontier. Nor is
this all. The rule is extended to every
female creature, aud from time i'm
memorial no COW, mare, hen, duck q
goose has been permitted to make az
quaintance with this territdy.-Pica
y,tne.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-03-27

would harbor such thought against the
honest and faithful mail-carricr of the
mountain trails. During the summer the
search was continued by one or two
friends, but still there was nothing
learned of the fate of Swan. Another
year rolled round, and during the sum-
mer another search was made, and on the.
18th OF August, 1885, OF the bottom of
snow bank, the picks and shovels of the
searching party uncovered the body of
Swan Nilsson, and the old pouch was still
strapped to his back with the Ophir.
Christmas mail. The lock was rusty.
and the pouch had to be cut open. The.
wax on the currency package had .rotted
mole ON through the greenbacks. Some
OF the mail was moldy, but a part of it
could be read quite easily.
Recently was looking over the old
mail pouches that have been stored away
in the inspectors department of the
Denver Postoffice.
VI think that the pouch is still here,n
said the Inspector, who was helping mo
In my search. We found pouches that
had been cut in train robberics. Others
had been burned in wrecks. Each one
in itself told strange, thrilling story oil
the Western railway mail service. uHere
1T is, " said the Inspector, pulling out
from near the bottom of the pile the old
mail pouch of Swan Nilsson. The rusty
lock is still unbrokcn. Some of the hemp
rope usedato adjust it on the carriers.
back is still attached to the pouch.
"That mail pouch, " said the Inspector.
"tells thrilling story"
"Read that" he continued, handing
me the old mail pouch of Swan Nil
son.
A card had been tied to the pouch
near the old rusty lock on which was
written the following:
'iThis mail pouch was in a snow slide.
on the dead carriers back for twenty
months near Ophirn
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-03-27

Emperor Williams attack on the
classics in the German gymnasia has
been followed in England by IN attack
which, opines the Atlanta Constitution,
will carry even moro weight with
scholars and people in general Chan the
Emperor's pronunciamento. At the re,
cent conference of the head masters OF
public schools at Oxford, Mr.. Weldon,
the head master of Harrow, moved re.
solution declaring that it would be o
gain to education if Greek were not g
compulsory subject" in Cambridge and
Oxford. The resolution was supported
by the head masters of Marlborough,
Wellington, Rugby, Clifton and shrcws.
bury, and though it failed of passage il
was rejected only by vote OF thirty one
nays to twenty yeas.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-03-27

:, oouie inountalneers are showed in for
.ne winter, and it is impossible to reach
men, out as far as possible the remotest
settlements in the valleys and on the
peaks of the Rocky Mountains have tho
mail sent to them. The carriers in the
frontier OF the Rocky Mountains strap the
Inaii sack, usually No. 4, on their
packs, put on their Norwegian snow.
shoes, and with long guiding-pole
start on their weary climb over the
range. Usually there is crowd at the
iittie frontier post-oflice to wish him
good luck. Only men of known STRENGTH
ana courage can do this work, for that
twenty-five pounds of letters, papers
ana packages becomes very heavy and
purdensome in climbing the mountains.
Ihese carriers know the peaks, passes
and trails as well rs the city carriers do
the streets and numbers of their districts.
But sometimes the storms are so scvere
that even the old mountaineer orows
weak with his heavy burden and sinks
almost exhausted in the obscured trail. /
with compass in his hand he carefully
feels his way along the prccipices and
dangerous places. Although their great
overcoats aud clothing may look rough:
yet their underwear would please the
fancy of the aesthetic. The most of,
them have silk underwear, costing from
SIo to $40 suit. Under their rough;
looking gloves are handsome silk ones.
The silk keeps out the cold and retains
the heat, and if hard up, mountain mall;
carrier will buy cheap outer clothing to
save money for a handsome and warm
suit of silk underwear and gloves.
On reaching the summit of the mount
, aims the carrier straddies the pole and,
placing his snowshoes close together. be-
gins his descent. The old-timer on the
trails will go down the mountains with
the swiftness of the wind-a mile n min.
ute. But not SO the one who is inexperi-
enced, for out slips the guiding pole.
up come snowshoes, and the unfortunate
carrier, mail-saclS and all, go rolling down
the mountains, and sometimes the ice
and snow are as smooth as glass. EXPERTS
IN the use of snowshoes in !. Canada and;
Northern New York would have to look,
we'll to their laurels, competing with the
mail carriers of the Rockies IN CLIMBING
and descending the ranges where the
peaks are nearly two miles high. The
carriers of the Rocky Mountains are as
expert and agile almost as the chamois
hunters of the Alps. and the man who
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-03-27

Tho new railway to connect the Ar
Igentine Republic. with Chill, about
which so much has been written by en-
Igineers, is being built. Passing through
the Andes Mountains, there are to be
eight tunnels of au aggregate length of
ten miles. These tunnels are to be bored
by electric drills. The cataract of the
Juncalillo River, few miles away, that
has fall of 600 feet, is being already
utilized rs the power to drive the 1000
horse power engines that do the work.
The water of the river is also being util-
iizcd to carry off the earth and rock
drilled out. Boring has begun at twenty
points along the route already, and it is
said the work is being done for less thar
half the cost of any other method.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-03-27

cannot keep his equilibrium rushing
with lightning speed down the mountain
side is hardly worthy position under
Uncle Sam for this work in mid-conti-
nent.
Brave, hardy mountaineersl love
to think of their courage and heroism.
1t recalls the story of Swan Nilsson, the
Swede mail.carrier of the San Juan, who
was lost in a SNOW slide December %,
1883, and was not found for nearly two
years. His route was from Silverton to
Ophir, where only the hardest and bray
est would attempt trip through a
storm. Nilsson was warned against MAX
ing the attempt. A terrible storm was
raging between Silverton and Ophir and
those who had been longest in the
Rocky Mountains told him he cold not
reach Ophir in that mountain tempest.
But Nilsson would not listen to their
warnings and even if it were perilous, he
mustgo. TWAS two days before Christmas
and his mail pouch was larger and fuller
than usual. He spoke of the old Christ
mas Times In tar-off Sweden and how
people of every cline loved to celebrate
1t. He knew his mail pouch contained
Christmas packages from the East and
the people of Ophir would eagerly look
Tor dis coming. Out In the hiindine
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-03-27
MAIL-CARRIERS.
sEvERE WORK OF UNCLE sAspsi
AGENTS IN The ROCKIES.
Strength and Courage Needed-Ex-
pensive Undcrc1othing to Resist
the Wcather--How Swan Nil
SON Lost Bis Lille.

Delivering the mails in the mountains
in midwinter is difficult and dangerous
work, says Denver (Col.) letter to the
New York World. Sometimes the car
rier is swept away by a snow-slide, and
months roll by before the brave fellow
and the mail pouch are found. About
fifty of these mountain carriers risk
their lives daily on the dangerous trails
in Colorado, carrying the mails on snow
shoes to the further mining camps. In
Utah, Idaho and other parts of the
West, in the same manner, they force
their way over the lofty ranges.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-03-27

STORM he started on that awful tourney.
aud with many misgiving the group az
the Silyerton Postofico babe him rood.
bye. On his way back were the Christ
mas letters, packages from the East. TOYS
for children, and all those precious
tokens cf love and remembrance that
make every Christmas hallowed time.
friend accompanied him part Of
the way on the trail, and before turning
back attempted to persuade Swan Nilsson
to give up the idea of going to Ophir
through the terrible storm. .iIt wilinot
DC Christmas at Ophir, 2 said the carrier.
"uniess get there with this old mail
pouch" Giving his friend a hearty shake,
Swan readjusted the heavy burden on his
back and started on his lonely aud per-
ilous journey through the great wilder
ness of snow that cnveloped the rugged
San Juan. None but those who have
crossed the great continental divide in
midwinter can appreciate the hero;sm of
Swan Nilsson.
at Ophir the miners of the camp were
waiting aud longing for the appearance,
of the faithful letter-carrier. Christ
mas Eve camo but still Swan Nilsson had
not been spied on tho mountain trail,
where many an anxious eye had been
turned.
"Boys," said an old San j uan miner.
"yer may say and think what yer please
about it, but I'ye been in these hyer
mountains too many year, not to know
what this hyer storm means. Swan is as;
brave man as liver carried mail sack
over these byer mountains, but if he hesI
tried ter come am Altered he can't,
make it. That or Ophir Pass is an, orful
skittish place. Swan kin get through ifli
anybody kin, but as / said, am Altered
he cao't make it."
And thus while those at Silvcrton were
anxious, the miners at Ophir were be-
coming apprehensive at tho delay
Christmas came and went, and still mol
thing of the mail carrier. Searching!
parties went out on the trails, but. there
was nothing to be seen or heard of the,
lost carrier. When the news reached.
Silverton of the non, arrival of Swan still !;
others went out to hunt for him. Some
started rumor that Swan, knowing that
his mail pouch contained money and
presents, had left the country. But fewl
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-03-27
A Glorious River.

s The st. Lawrence is n phenomenon
among rivers, says Natures Realm. No.
other river is fed by such gigantic lakes.
No other river is so Independent of they
elements. 1t despises alike rain. snow
and sunshine. Ice and wind may be.
said na to be the only things that effect, its
mighty flow. Something almost as
phenomenal as the st. Lawrence itself is.
the fact that there is SO little generally
known about it. It might be safely
affirmed that not one per cent. Of the
American people are aware of the fact
that among ali the great rivers of the,
world the Bt. Lawrence is the only abso-
lutely foodless one. Such, however, Is
the case. IL
The st. Lawrence despises rain and
sunshine. It's greatest variation caused
by drouth or rain hardly ever exceeds d.
foot or fourteen inches. Tho cause OF
this everlasting sameness of volume H..
easily understood. The st. Lawrence is
fed by the mighticst bodies of fresh
water on earth. Immense as Ia the
volume of water it pours into the ocean,
any ono who has traverssd all the siri.g
mense lakes that feed IL, and for the
surplus waters Of which it is the only
channel to the sea, wonders that it is nos
even more gigantic than it is. Notion
drop of the waters of tho FIVE great,
lakes find its way to tho ocean save
through this gigantic, extraordinary and
wondrously beautiful river. No wonders
then, that 1t should dcspise the rain and
defy the sunshine.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-03-27

Japan has two telephone systems, one
at Yokohama and one at Toxic. An en-
Igineer who was educated in this country
lis at the head of tho two systems, and he
is using not only American patents but
american material. The native engineer,
IS. Oh, has just written to this country
saying that the tolls had been fixed at
1872 per annum for Toxic and $2S for
Yokohama. Yet Americans pay oil the
way from SIS to $500 for precisely the
same service, exclaims the Chicago
Post.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-03-27
HIGHER

Higheri
This shall my watchword be,
And this one thought my soul inspire
For am keen and free.
Higheri
Yea, even in defeat
Hold 1 my lofty purpose higher
And deem 1t still moro sweet.
Higher!
Though victory should smile
And bringing mo my one desire,
Should say: "Rest thee awhile.n
Higeri
This DO my shibboleth
OF those few friends whom require
And love in life and death.
Highcrl
Up to that frigid height
Where clinging needs and iusts expire
And thought flies strong and light.
Higher
God save me from old ago,
From listlcssness and eyes that'..ra
OF Thine illumined pag
Higher!
Oh let this spark divine
Leap glittering to the central FIR
The all-pervading shine.
George Horton, IL, Chicago Herald.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-03-27

Joint stock corporations, like railroas
companies and mining and manufacture.
ing companies, offer the shortest road to
wealth, admits the New York World.
The companies are capitalized not on the
actual basis of their assets, but on tn,
basis of their prospective earning pow.
ers, For instance, if company is cap.
able Of earning 5000, 900 year and
its plant costs only $4,000, 900 it will
be capitalized for 100000, 900, as its
earning power is six per cent. on the
larger amount. The sum derived from
the sale of the stock above the cost Of
Che plant is of course profit to the projec.
tors.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-03-27
John White, head teacher in the Der

John White, head teacher in the Bcrkc,
ley School, is credited by the New York
Telegram with the discovery that the
average New York school girl in hcl
teens has larger waist than her mother.
$50 much the better for the girl and the
worse for the parent" is the comment OF
the Telegram, which adds: cart and
good sense alike condemn the WASP
waist on woman, but fashion is usually
more potent than either art or physiology
after the school girl makes her debut in
society.n
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-03-27

According to some recent statistics,
published by the New York Mail and
Nspress, the wealth of the Southeastern
States has increased over 1900, ooo,-
600 in the last ten years, while the State
indebtedness has decreased S22, 900, 600.
The capital invested has increased from
s17s,Ooo,ooo to 1851, 900, 900; railroad
mileage has more than doubled owing to
the development of mines and the build
ing of furnaces, mills and factories. The
value of coal production increased ss2
per cent; pig iron, 4so; steel 4121;
cotton mills, 9S1; agricultural machin-
cry, seycnty-ninc. The value of cotton
produced during the decade was 49,
0s1 $3.50. 1888.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-03-27

Tho imports to England of frozen
mutton in 1890 amounted to over g.
00o,0 carcascs, being fifteen times as
many as in the year 1883. AS new vcs-
sells have lately been fitted up for the ex-
press purpose of plying between England
on the one side md New Zealand and the
River Plate on the other, it Is calculated
that British imports during 1891 will be
nearly half as much again as those for
the past year.