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The record-union., 1892-02-20

city. At all other times il is sunny, rest
full. slumberous and almost silent. It's
street folk are the same as of any other
southern Spanish city. There is greater
content here. No one is in a hurry.
Among the lowly folk there is less excit-
ability, greater good nature, and the lat
ter Is OF the gentle, not the uproarlous
sort. Here, as in Madrid, is your lechero
or mllkman, who drives his cows in from
the country and milks for you before
your door. The dulcero or seller of
sweets. with his songful call by day and
his tinkling bells by night, is here. The
cochero or cabman, with comfortable
landaulet and pretty diligence, will serve
yau faithfully without guile. The mer-
canchiste or notion peddler. the aquador
or water-seller, the regatero or huckster,
who has the sociable habit of entering
shop or home with his donkeys and pam
lers, the zapatero or archway shoemaker,
and the latonero or tinker, whom 1 have
found to be Spanish gypsy, are all here in
their lazy, pleasant and picturesque
ways.
By day Palma seems to the stranger to
be continuously experiencing something
like soft, dreamful buzz of activity in
all human affairs. Perhaps it is the
recreation after some great business ten
sion, you Illuminate. But no; each day
is as the day before it. Everything is
gently done. No one is astir before 10 in
the morning. Then the pretty market
attracts bevles of beautiful women and
maids. This is followed by the noontide
siesta. The shops are bright and
brilliant until evening, but every
thing is quiet and restful within. In
the evening the cafes are ablaze with
light; the parks and passeos are thronged
with gay caballeros and lovely senoritas.
Still there is hush and tranquility in all
sounds and seemings. As the night adj
Vances, in every quarter OF the olden city
is heard the mandolin and guitar, tremu-
lous, pathetic, sweet, like the echo of real
tones rather than the vibrant notes them
selves. Zephyrus breezes pulse from
Atric's shores. The shipping rocks gently
upon the star-mirroring bay. Go where
you will, ali is life until long after mid
night, but tender and subdued as if the
witchings of the tropic airs luiled to re-
pose yet withheld from sleep. And at last
as the centinelaS of the fortresses upon
the nights have chanted answers to their
challengers with: Ave Maria Purisima!
La una, Y todo sereno!' you seek your
couch in sweet old Palma of the Isles,
your heart giving back the centinela's
answer that "All is well ~
EDGAR l.. WAKEMAN.
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

Where the sunshine does not enter the
doctor must.
In watering plants put teaspoonful of
ammonia into the water once week.
Salt fish of any kind is quickest and
best freshened by soaking in sour milk.
Ripe tomatoes will remove ink stains
from white cloth and also from the hands.
y teaspoonful of turpentine boiled with
white clothes will aid the whitening pro-
cess.
Boiled starch is much improved by the
addition of a little salt or dissolved gum
arabic.
lfporlz is young the lean will break on
being pinched; the fat will be white, soft
and PUPPY.
For simple hoarseness take fresh egg,
beat it and thicken with pulverized sugar
Eat freely of it.
Kerosene will soften boots or shoes that
have been hardened by water and render
them pliable as new.
To brighten carpets wipe them with
warm water in which has been poured a
few drops Of ammonia.
To purify the air of a newly painted
room put several tubs OF water in it and it
will absorb much of the odOr.
A tablespoonful of powdered alum
sprinkled in a barrel of water will pre-
cipitate all impure matter to the bottom.
TO clear stove of clinkers put hand
full of salt into it during hot fire; when
cold remove the clinkers with a cold
chisel.
Fine shavings from soft pine wood
make pleasant pillow. They have spe-
cial curative virtues for coughs and lung
troubles.
Pine may be made to look like some
beautiful wood by giving repeated coats
of hot hnseed oil and rubbing hard after
each coat.
Streaming the face at night over a bowl
of very hot water and then bathing it
with very cold water, is simple method
of giving a Russian bath, and will tend
to make the skin whittier and smoother
and the flesh firmer.
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For the RECoRD-UNIoN.l
OHE! JAM SATIS.''

A poet sat on the bleak verge of space,
With his toes turned in ana his brains I'M
furid,
And never smile got onto his face,
And he said, with sigh, "'Tis an embryo
world,
"'Twill never get on to new ideers
But always keep on in its old axial twirl:
L never was on such dunkf of a sphere
With such an eXolete+ kind of whirl.
1.-THE seasons that come have been burgled be.
fore
Have been robbed of their buds and their
bloom;
sing, but sing vainly; and then sing more,
But l cannot create a melodical boom.
~ win jump me off here to abysses below!
Abruptly I'll HE me remotely and far:
And il l jump clear, will eat no more crow
But softly light on some nebular starp'
But never he jumped him! 1t was only a
song,
And songs never say what they sing;
He got him harp, and drum, ana a gong,
And started anew in the spring.
-SQUINK.
This is the way this word should be spelled.
I / made this one myself.
This word never had a fair chance before
one jam salts is all right; refers to the poets
altitude.
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For the RECORD UNIoN.I
IN TIP SKOOL All OH FRENCH
CORRAL,

Now on sunny days like this un,
Wen tn red-headS gin T. twitter,
An tn green begins L glisten
Thro' tn brown o. Winters litter,
My heart begins a kind O. frettn',
An round me comes kind o spell,
An once ag'in | think Pm settin'
In tn skool at OF French Corral.
An nigh my seat, up in thu corner
Tn gals come to L water-pail,
An some w'd say, Hello, Jack Horner!'
An then they'd scud away like quail,
An thro' tn winder, DER my shoulder
l could see old Neville's pasture,
An in tn middle, still, tn bowlder,
That we boys rolled down last year.
My, but wasn't Neville hoppin',
Wen that bowIder took header
Come so fast there Want no stoppln'
1t, until it reached his medder?
Bet you! An we boys a-runnin',
Tux "rounder" thro' tn pine trees;
Findin' even joyous fun IN
THROWN caps at buzzin' wild bees!
Lord Agin hear tn chafin'
o. tn pines, as if a-ruein
That they couldn' go a-laughin'
Ger the hills as we wuz dQin'.
But there! Ag'in my hearts a-frettin',
What can be tn matter? Well,
l guess it's cause amt a settln'
In tn skool at OF French Corral
ELWYN 1. HOFFMAN.
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Especial Correspondence of the RECORD
UNION. Copyright, 1891
The record-union., 1892-02-20

The following is from the New York
Observer (Pres.): There is danger in
skepticism. Have our conservative read
ers ever thought of the greater danger of
shams p asks contemporary. 1t then
exposes the danger of sham belief, which
is making believe to believe, and the
danger OF making inducements or penal
ties in order to compel belief. We agree
entirely with all it says in regard to in
sincere, half-hearted, sham believing,
and would prefer to call everything it
describes and deprecates, not sham be-
lief, but sheer unbelief. But we do not
at all agree with the writer in thinking
that just now there is greater danger from
sham belief than from skepticism, which
is disbelief in plain statements of Gods
Word. We have arrived at a period
when skepticism has attained a popular
ity through general literature and the in
crease OF worldly prosperity which puts
all old-fashioned, orthodox, evangelical
belief to test it has not had for many
years. Never until now was this spirit
Of skepticism so powerful that it could
successfully Withstand the power of both
the law and public opinion of great com
The record-union., 1892-02-20

BEEcHAm's PILLS sell well because they
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WISHES.

wish had q thousand tongues
To sing my lady's praise:
/ wish l had a thousand eyes
To see her winning ways;
l wish | had a thousand banks,
With all their legal tender
A thousand banks that I might buy
Rich presents for to send her;
! wish | had a thousand hearts
To squander love upon her
And | wish had thousand swords
To kill the man who won her.
-Puck
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PRUDENTLY break up your cold by the
timely use of DIR. Jayne's Expectorant, an
old remedy for sore lungs and throats,
and certain curative for colds.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-24
HOW THE LOON LIVES.

l have been preparing the skin of
loon, writes a trapper. | now I'M
derstand how a loon keeps warm
and enjoys life even in icy waters.
His white vest is lined with double
thickness OF fat, stitched and quilted
in among the roots of his fea thers in
an amazing way. The warmth in
side cannot get out and the cold can
not in. How huge are his muscles
and how stout his bones! He is at
the same time a sternwheeler and
sidewheeler, for under the water
both feet and wings play their part.
His outfit is perfect tor his business.
l was astonished to find nothing
in his gizzard but gravel stones and
mud and bits OF rOOtS-nOt a trace
of organic matter. Yet he seems in
good condition and the men who set
the net declared that the night be-
fore his death he was heard several
times to laugh. If any one suggests
that a looms laugh does not mean
enjoyment, what. let me ask, does it
mean? l will entertain any sugges-
tons. Meanwhile | shall believe
that loon can laugh and be happy
on an empty stomach. If so, his
secret would seem to be worth find
ing out Forest and Stream.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-24
THE WEAR ON HEELS.

Charles Schuette, the shoemaker,
said: Very few men are knock
kneed, fact that is proved by not
one pair of shoes in a hundred COM
ing in to be repaired with the heels
worn down on the inside. The per-
centage of soles worn this way is a
little larger, but that is often caused
by the toes being turned in instead
of out. About one man in ten will
wear his heels down at the extreme
rear, but for every one OF these there
are at least half dozen who will
wear the outside right to the welt
before the center shows any signs
whatever of giving out. Physicians
say that this bow-legged tendency is
the result of children being encour-
aged to walk before their legs are
strong enough to bear the weight of
their bodies, and if this is SO the err
ror must be very general. In max
ing shoes to order it is usual to run
two or three extra rows of nails or
bradS where the tread is heaviest,
and some customers ask to have iron
protectors driven in. The best de-
vice of this kind is a steel wedge
driven into the leather, which thus
cannot wear down any faster than
the steel, but the objection to this is
that when a man walks on grant
told sidewalk, he makes almost as
much noise as if he was wearing mill
tary spurs. y st. Louis Globe-Dem-
Ocrat
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-24
A FESTIVE TELEPHONE.

He was fresh from the dewy wales
of Wayback, and having come up to
town for real old rip-snOrtin2
time, the idea struck him that his
cousin by marriage-a we'll known
Wall street would be just
the man to assist him in having it.
He was received with open arms.
During the converse ton which en-
shed the eyes of the rural gentlemen
landed upon the telephone which
hung in one corner of his relatives
office. A telephone was something
new to him. He had heard of them
in a general way, but had never seen
one in operation, so expressed a de-
sire 1T see tn thing wuk."
Through this little instrument, re-
marked the city cousin. after com
hitting the customary verbal assault
and battery upon Central, Il am
able to talk directly with my wife,
who at present is in my house at
Harlem, and hear her reply distinct
ly."
"Ah, hello hello is that you, dear?
All right. l just wanted to tell you
that Cousin George is here"
NOW, cousin, concluded the
broker, handing the receiver to him.
IF you will listen carefully you'll
hear exactly what she answers
He listened. Then he backed away
from the instrument with a panied
expression.
WELL" queried the broker with
friendly smile, what did she say ?"
She sed L hope vew won't bring
tn old fool hum tew dinner
1t will never beknown exactly how
the city cousin managed to explain
things.-[From the New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-24

Purchase laundry soap by the BIO
of one hundred pounds and keep IN
dry. warm place, and it will become
hard and last much longer.
A bruise may be prevented from
discoloring by Immediately applying
hot water, or little dry starch,
moistened with cold water, and
placed on the bruise.
For neuralgia make small muslin
bag and fill it with salt. heat 1t hot,
and place it against the aching spot
it will retain the heat for a long
time and will greatly relieve.
Put teaspoonful of ammonia IN
to a quart of water, and wash your
brushes and combs, in this, and the
dirt and grease will greatly disappear.
Rinse well, shake and dry.
The air in room may be greatly
purified by setting pail of water in
a room for few hours. 1t will
absorb all the poisonous gases, and
the air will be pure and the water
utterly bad The colder the water
is, the more perfectly it will absorb
impurities-[G Good Housekeeping.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-24
PRESS COMMENTS.
A Sneak as is a Sneak.

"Sneaking prohibitionists" is the
way in which the Rutland Herald al
ludes to some of the best men and
women of Rutland. Perhaps the
prohibitionists think it takes a sneak
to catch a sneak, and of all sneaks
the rumsellers in Vermont carry off
the palm Fair Haven Era.
Sound Democrats Dismayed.
The proceedings Monday, during
which, by the help of snap rule, the
silver question was logged to the
front before the tariff bill was taken
up, cannot but carry dismay to
sound Democrats everywhere
baltimore Sun (den.)
Two Vermont Luxuries.
For cool and bracing mountain
air Vermont is not to be surpassed
by any state in the Union, while its
reputation for maple sugar has an
undoubted attraction to those who
enjoy one ofthe most delicious luXur-
les Of America.-[Troy On. W Times.
Willing to Back the Winner.
From a tiery editorial in the Re-
former last week it appears that
there is to be a raising of democrat tic
hair in Vermont in the near future
Same old game. The ms are trying
to stay in and the outs are trying to
get in. Go it, old boys; we back the
winner Bellows Falls Times.
Series of Tariff Talks.
The tariff ora tors began to fatten
the Congressional Record last week,
and that hard working periodical is
he NIT \ THAR
tributions for some moons yet. Be-
tween three and four dozen gentle
men with views upon the tariff to
unload, have inscribed themselves on
the list of speakers, and doubtless
many more are searching for Stats
tics and quotations in the Congress
sional library.
This is right. Constituents like to
get speeches from their congressman !;
congressman like to make speeches
for the instruction and wonder of
their constituents. The more speech
es the better.
Tariff discussion, it may be said,
can result in nothing practical at
present What of it? Is it nothing
to have congressman free their minds,
speak their pieces, let their statistics
rattle, and touch the heaven of fire
with paper wings?
Next month and the month after
house cleaning will be in progress
throughout the land, tleast the rural
parts Thereof The old papers under
the carpets must be taken up. The
franking privilege is good thing for
the farmers wives New York Sun.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-24
PRACTICAL SA YINGS.

Clam shells are good to scrape
kettles and frying pans.
Poor rubbers are the cause of much
can fruit spelling.
Old mating may still be service
able by putting it under carpets.
A lump of sugar saturated with
vinegar will cure hiccoughs.
To keep celery firm put it in a tin
pan of cold water, else it soon be-
comes limp.
Salt makes an extra fine tooth
powder; it keeps the gums hard and
rosy and makes the teeth brilliantly
white.
Condensed milk, beaten up with
one eggs and a little pulverized
sugar, will make an excellent filling
for cream puff.
A nice dinner dish is made by
cutting off half a head of red cab
bage, seasoning with pepper, salt
and vinegar
Use fresh, green grape leaves to
place on the top of pickles in Jars,
instead Of cloth. Change them oc-
casionally.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-24
GIRLS WHO HAVE PUSH.

There is an interesting group of
bright girls at the New England
Conservatory of Music in Boston,
who represent the quality of push
characteristic of the American girl.
There are some thirty-five of these
girls, and they are being unsteady
and vocally educa ted by The Ladies
Home Journal of Philadelphia. Some
time ago this magazine offered, as
stimulant to girls to get subscrip-
tons for it, free educations at the
Conservatory. The American girl is
quick to see a chance, and one by one
these thirtv-fve girls have come
from all parts of the country to Bos-
ton. They receive the very best the
Conservatory affords, the most
desirable rooms in the building are
theirs, and they have all their wants
carefully looked after by wealthy
periodical. Perhaps in no other
country on the face of the globe
could such a thing be possible.
These girls, too, the reporter was
told, belong to nice families, but
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-24
Application for License.
JEROME MANsFIELD's ESTATE

STATE OF VERMONT, Caledonia District, IS.
In Probate court, held at St. Johnsbury,
within and for said district, the Sth day
of March, A. d., 1892.
William Hart, administrator upon the
estate of Jerome Mansfield, late of
St. Johnsbury. in said district deceased,
makes application to said court for license
to sell the whole of the real estate of said de-
ceased, consisting of four of land,
less with dwelling house and
out-buildings thereon situated in St Johns
bury. aforesaid.
Representing to said court that it would
be beneficial to the heirs and all persons
interested in the estate of said deceased
to sell the whole of the real estate
of said deceased as aforesaid, and con-
vert the same into money; and also brings
Herewith into court the consent and aPpro-
baton in writing to the granting of such Ii
cense. of all the heirs, to said estate residing
in this state.
Whereupon. it is ordered by said court
that said application come under considera-
ton and be heard on the Goth day of March,
A. d. 500. at the Probate office in St. Johns
bury and, it is further ordered, that all persons
interested be notified hereof by publica-
ton of notice of this application and
order thereon, three weeks successfully in the
CALIFORNIAN, a newspaper printed at st
Johnsbury, before said time of hearing, that
they may appear at said time and place, and
if they cause, object thereto.
BY the Court, Attest:
WALTER P. SMITH, Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-24
Presentation OF Account.
FERDINAND DARLING's ESTATE.

STATE OF VERMONT, Caledonia District, IS.
In Probate court, held at the Probate office
in st. Johnsbury, in said district, on the Sth
day of March, A. d. 1892.
William Hart, administrator upon the es-
tate of Ferdinand Darling, late of Wheelock,
in said district, deceased presents his admin
istration account for examination and al
lowance, and makes application for decree OF
distribution and partition of the estate OF
said deceased.
Whereupon, it is ordered by said court,
that said account and said application be
referred to a session thereof, to be held at the
Probate office in said St. Johnsbury, on the
Goth day of NJ ar, A. d. 1892, for hearing and
decision thereon: And it is further ordered
that notice hereof be given to all persons
interested, by publication of the same three
weeks successfully in the CALIFORNIAN, a
newspaper published at St. Johnsbury, pre-
vious to said time appointed for hearing,
that they may appear at said time and
place. and show cause if any they may have
why said account should not be allowed and
such decree made.
BY the Court, Attest:
WALTER P. SMITH, Judge
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-24
Application for License.
NANCY STONES ESTATE.

STATE OF VERMONT, Called onia District. IS.
In probate court, holden at the probate Of
flee in St Johnsbury, on the Sth day of
March, a. D. 1892.
Rush ]. Cole, administrator, with will an
nexed. upon the estate of Nancy p. Stone,
late of Danvlle in said district, deceased,
makes application to said court for license to
sell thewhole of the real estate ofsaid deceased,
consisting of forty-siX acres of land, more or
less, with dwelling house and out-buildings
thereone. situa ted in Danvil1e, aforesaid.
Representing to said court that it w ould be
beneficial to the heirs, legateeS and deviseeS.
and all persons interested in the estate of
said deceased to sell the whole of the real es-
tate of said deceased aforesaid, and con-
vert the same into money; and also brings
Herewith into court the consent and appro-
baton in writing to the granting of such Ii
cense, of all the heirs, legatees and devisees
to said estate residing in this state.
WhereupOn it is ordered by said court that
said application come under consideration
and be heard on the Goth day of March, A.
d. 1892, at the probate office in St. Johns
bury; and, it is further ordered, that all
persons interested be notified hereof, by pub
LEGATION of notice of this application and or
der thereon, three weeks successfully in the
Caledonian, printed at ST. Johnsbury, before
said time of hearing, that they may appear
at said time and place, and if they cause,
object thereto.
BY the Court, Attest:
WALTER P. SMITH, Judge.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1892-03-24
License to sell Real Estate
E. ALMIRA FRENCH's ESTATE.

STATE OF VERMONT, Caledonia District, IS.
In Probate court, held at St. Johnsbury,
within and for said district the 9TH day
of March, a. d. 1892
Horace DEMO. executor of the last Will and
test ament of E. Almira French late of Hard
wick, in said district, deceased, makes APP
plication to said court for license to sell the
whole ofrea1 estate ofsaid deceased consisting
of a dwelling house and outbuidings and
land, situated in Hardwick, aforesaid, also
pew in the Congregational church at
East Hardwick in Hardwick, aforesaid, repre-
senting to said court that it would be bene-
fetal to the heirs, deviseeS, legateeS, and all
persons interested in the estate of said de-
ceased to sell the whole OF the real estate of said
deceased, as aforesaid, and convert the same
into money; and also brings there with into
court the consent and appreciation in writin g
to the granting OF such license, of all the
heirs, devisees and legatees to said estate
residing in this state.
Whereupon, it is ordered by said court that
said application come under consideration
and be heard on the Goth day of March. A.
D. 1892, at the Probate office in st. Johns
bury, and it is further ordered that all per
sons interested be notified hereof, by publica-
ton of notice of this application and order
thereon, three weeks successfully in the c ale
DOMAIN, newspaper printed at st. Johns
bury, before said time of hearing, that they
may appear at said time and place, and II
they see cause object thereto.
BY the Court, Attest:
WALTER p. SMITH. Judge.