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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-02-16

be open for business the hrst OF next
week.
The annual meeting of the Board
ofTrade has been postponed from
Friday evening to next Monday
evening, Feb. 20.
Eastern Star Chapter hold a
,ociable next Monday evening. Re
{reshments will deserved, after which
work will be exemplihed.
The caucus to nominate town
officers will be held at the Opera
House next Saturday at 2 p. m.
There should be large attendance.
Herbert A. Stanley has bought
tbe residence OF Mrs. Sarah Trescott
on Spring street and will move into
If this summer. Price paid, $4,000.
A special village meeting has
been called at the Opera House,
Monday evening, Feb, q, to see if
the village will vote to purchase
four shares of the water power at
$1,000 a share.
The bicycle season has begun
again. Arthur F. Walker has an
1898 Columbia in his drug store
window and Clarence NJ. Berry is
distributing handsome catalogues OF
the Victor machines
Trouble with one of the valves
in the boiler of the steam laundry
Friday stopped the supply to the
boiler. Mr.. Ward and his engineer
acted quickly, dumped the fire, and
prevented any accident.
With three social ga herings al
private residences, the Middle inter
view at the Academy, and the FIRE
mems ball at the Opera House, st
John'bury society could not be call
Ell dull last Friday evening.
Charles Thompson hurt his hanC
las, week Wednesday night Will
coaSting His hand was caugh
IN the sled and scraped the crust al
the way down the hill. 1t was
painful but not a serious accident.
The coasters are enjoying them
selves these Wednesday and Satui
day evenings; but care should b
taken to avoid accidents, which ar
very apt to occur unless special
guarded against by the coaster
themselves.
brown Brothers & Stewart, VIII
were carrying on foundry bushes
IN o. Y. Hooker & Sons building q
Paddock Village, have sold out
Hooker & Son, who will unite tn
foundry business with their ow
general machine business.
In coastng accident on Has
ings hill last Saturday evening
which involved the upsetting OF
big traverse load, Clinton r. Ca
peuter sustained bad sprain OF Ii
ankle. 1t will be some time beto
j, can get about as usual.
On Saturday evening of this wee
the third lecture in the Home cour
will occur. Rev. c. NJ. Lamson w
speak concerning James Russ'
Lowell" and an entertaining and
Structive treatment OF the ther
may be confidently expected.
The Dartmouth College glee al
banjo clubs appear in Music III
Tuesday evening, Feb. 21. Tn
have had fattering receptions
their recent New England tours, a
all Dartmouth alumni and friends
the college will want to hear the
The fifth Eastern Star Chapt
district convention will be held
Masonic Hall, Lyndonville, Feb.
1t is expected that some OF
grand officers will be present. 81
per will be served at 6 o'clock, at
which the work will be exemplit
by Esther chapter of Lyndonville.
The newly formed poultry as
ciation met Tuesday night at
Board of Trade rooms and appoi
ed committee to draw up a con'
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-02-16
WANTS r.. S. SLATER's RELATIVES.

The CALIFORNIAN received last
Tuesday the following telegram
Vacavile, Cal, Feb. 13, 1898.
Will CALEDoNIAN inquire for relatives
of Robert S. Slater. Telegraph if found
HENRY E. JEwETT.
Any information that can be given
by any reader of the CALIFORNIAN
concerning Mr.. Slater's relatives
may be communicated at onceto Rev.
Henry E. Jewett at the above ad-
dress.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-02-16
"rHE STORY or OUR POST OFFICE. "

This is the title of a new book
which is written by Marshall Cush-
ing, the well-known newspaper cor
respondent, and for four years Mr..
Wanamaker's private secretary.
Mr.. Cushing's official life has made
him thoroughly conversant with his
subject and he writes in an enter
tanning manner about the early his
tory of the postal service; the inside
working of the system, both in the
large cities and at Washington; of
the railway mail service; and also
gives much other interesting matter
about this branch Of our govern
mcnt. The book contains over
1000 pages, has nearly 500 half
toned illustrations, and is well
printed and artistically bound
George H, Frost has the exclusive
agency for the sale of the book ir
this vicinity.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-02-16
NEW ADS. THIS WEEK.


Nurses Wanted.
soecial Village Meeting
Given Away-C. II, Bagley'
New Spring suits--J. s. Meigs
nov,s Liniment--A. F. Walker
soring style Hats-J. A. Moore
New Grocery Store-E. B. Flint
NJ. Hunts Est.-com. Notice
couch No More--C. c. Bingham.
70 Cueord's Est.-Com. Notice.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-02-16
weather Record.

4, Ringhams Drug Store, for the week
ling Feb Ia, 1898.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-02-16
FROM MOOSE RIVER.

OF au unhltered sample taken from
Moose river, at the bridge in Pad
dock village, the authorities say:
THE free and albumenoid ammonias
in this water are rather high, but
not sufficiently so to condemn it,.
Two ordinary water bacilli and one
saprophytic microccus are found in
this sample"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-02-16
NEWS ABOUT HOME.

e dash in dicates below zero.
The morning call., 1893-04-02
NOT ALWAYS GENEROUS.
One Striking Case When Meanness
Was Exhibited by Lovely Woman.

One Striking Case When Meanness
Was Exhibited by Lovely Woman.
Kate Fields Washington
Lovely woman can be mean, sometimes.
The other day young pretty and we'll
dressed lady was walking down the avenue,
evidently enjoying 10 the full the delicious
spring sunshine. Suddenly she seemed in
distress. For awhile the cause was not
obvious, but as she began to make frantic
efforts to reach her united shoe the passers-
by recognized the source of her discomfort.
Before she had succeeded in reducing the
Tapping shoestrings to order ragged little
colored boy stepped forward, removed his
tattered hat, Bnelt in the muddy street and
tied the shoe with grace and dexterity. In
the woman's hand were a eardcase and a
chubby-lOoking little purse, but she walked
away with merely Thank you," and that
not very graciously given. The boy look ed
slightly astonished as be got up and brushed
the mud from his ragged trousers,
On the edge of the sidewalk stood an OBJ
servant man, very plainly but decentIy
dressed. He had watched the entire per-
fOrmance with quiet enjoyment, and as the
boy rose he took from his pocket a bit O {
paper and penciling word or two on it
called to the disappointed young Raleigh,
who was turning away:
Here, boy, run after that young lady
whose shoe you tied and give her this.
Here's quarter for your trouble. There's
no answer"
The boy went in one direction, the man
In the Other. l am not curious above the
average, but l would have liked to see that
bit of PAPER
The morning call., 1893-04-02
THE GREAT CITY OF MONTEZUMA
WRITTEN FOR THE MORNING CALL.

Mexico City was long the one great city
of the Western Hemisphere, and she still
holds tenfold more of interest and instruc-
ton to such men as Humboldt, Bayard
Taylor, Ross Browne and like travellers and
observers tina all such store towns as New
York and Chicago that can be found on the
continent.
A curious, dear old ead-and-allve coun-
try, Mexico is, and full of contradictions.
For example, she has had many, many
changes in politics, but she is still paying
pension to the dethroned MonteZumas. She
threw off the yoke of Spain after ten years
of bloody struggle, and yet Spain is still her
paradise and her Mecca.
The republic is perDetually emptied OF
her money in order that the Mexican may
smoke his cigarette and idle away his life in
Madrid or Paris. The Mexican is willing
at all times to fight for and even die for
Mexico, but he is not willing to live there !;
in the real, true paradise. And this think
is the one great trouble with this truly
great city and country. form Of our
American anglophobia.
1t might strike you as strange to say that
the capital of our next-door neighbOr is
almost as hard to reach as is Paris, but it
is. True, you can cross over into Mexico in
few hours from San Francisco, by way of
San Diego; but if you want to go to Mexico
City you must first go through Arizona.
New Mexico and into Texas. Then, you
still have twelve hundred miles of dirt and
dust and dOnkeys to get through.
Mexico is one vast and magnificent to-
morrow. IT want this done to-day" says
the American 10 the Mexican artisan or
The morning call., 1893-04-02

premises on the death of Mistress Ellen
Moon, but 1t never regained the prestige it
enjoyed during her life. and he was only too
glad when he took the position OF Superin-
tendent of the Almshouse. While he Cccu-
pied the Ivy Green as business place, the
rooms upstairs-the scene of the suicide
always remained closed. He would allow
no occupancy of that portion of the build
ing, nor for the matter of that, of the
lIving-rooms downstairs i'll the rear of the
bar.
And now comes strange part in the his
tory of the Ivy Green. The premises
were leased TO German and his wife, who
came here from Victoria. They renewed
the interior and refurnished the place,
especially the room where Mistress Ellen
Moon had found her DEATH But they did
not remain there long. Sold out for a song,
departed aud made no Sign. Then came a
succession OF tenants; but month, and in
some instances less time, let them out.
Each In his turn quietly handed the key of
the premises to the landlord without saying
a word, excepting that lie wished to give up
the place. When pressed for a reason, one
might say he did not care to stay because
he was disturbed of nights. 1t began to be
whispered about that the Ivy Green was
uncanny, that it was haunted, In fact, and
that some of the tenants had heard peculiar
noises and whisp erings and had caught
glimpses of a fag-enrobed female, who
The morning call., 1893-04-02

course costs from S. to $40 The professors
generally charge $40 for admittance to their
clinics. The physician students capable of
doing original work at the clinics and labo-
ratories are charged for one semester only.
Some lectures at the laboratories are given
free by the richer professors, but the stu
dents are obliged to paw for their own chem
icals in all cases. All fees are payable in
advance. Most of the American physician
students make a stay of ono to two years,
but good many come over for some special
study only, completing their course in from
two 10 three months"
"How do the Americans stand with the
German students? ?" l inquired.
Very well, indeed" answered nv in
formant. 1.-THE Germans have found out by
long experience that the Americans must
not be trified with. and have so far receded
from their usual bullying attitude toward
freshmen OF our species that they admit
them gladly to their yerbindungen, with
the prOvisO they shall not be asked to
engage in duels. Many Of our eountrymen
are members OF the corps, and when
ever duel or serious paukerei is
on the tapis one may be sure to find half a
dozen American students present. They
dearly love TO see the sport but have so far
failed to hear Of any American at this uni
versity who has eyer engaged in this cruel
pastime. The Germans, as everybody
knows, are fairly crazy for dueling, and
very proud of the scars that disfigure their
faces. They regard them as a sort of deco
tion by which they recognize each other as
cLdevant gay dogs Ia after life"
The American student has only one
method Of perfecting himself in his science,
namely, to study with the greatest master
of each special branch, and to do nothing
but study, utilizing at the same time the
ordinary channels of information. and at
the lowest possible cost
The morning call., 1893-04-02
Deserved to Escape.

A policeman and supposed criminal
whom he had arrested were walking beside
the Danube at Kelheim. Bavaria, recently,
when the prisoner suddenly jumped into the
river. The water was full of great blocks
of ice. stretching quite across the stream
and the man jumped safely from block to
block and reached the opposite bank. The
policeman followed, but being less agile fell
between the blocks into the river. His late
prisoner had very nice question in casu-
istry to decide, and he settled it by plung-
ing into the river, at imminent risk of his
life, TO save the life Of the policeman. He
succeeded in getting the officer to land and
then the policeman was In quandary. He
offered to state the case to the authorities
and try to get life-saving medal for his
rescuer. But the latter thought he would
rather have his liberty, and the policeman
promptly set him free and gave lin a couple
OF marks to help him on his way. The
fugitive has not since been recaptured
The morning call., 1893-04-02

servant. ''No; tomorrow, Senior" "But
tomorrow will not do" "Ah good! II to-
morrow will not do, then the day after to-
morrow will suit me better, Senior"
And yet, as you journey these 1900 miles
OF marvellous engineering up and over the
Zacatecas Mountains of snow and down
through the fervid and fruitful valleys of
everlasting Verdure, you must admit that
the Mexican can do great work and great
deal of 1t.
For Mexico never saw a wheelbarrov or
pick or shovel on all her thousands of miles
of railroad. All the dirt is dug up by a
little pointed iron bar in the hands of a
little brown half-Daked Mexican. He rakes
lifts this on his head and trots away with
it. And so you see with all their persistent
Tomorrow" their industry is simply WON
derful.
In the city of snow, Zacatecas, you see
nearly everybody arrayed in red. Pretty
Mexican girls In rainbOws of red inundate
the cars with trays of honey cake and curl
Gus sweet fruits from the valleys. Here are
the great silver mines, the greatest in the
world, after Potosi, owned and managed
little brown Mexican of Indian blood does
all the work, while the Mexican of Span
ish extraction sucks his cigarette and pat
roniZes the bulfight in Madrid.
As you descend from this silver city of
white and red you see a thousand little
and left and before, orange girls, and pretty
ones, at every station, and the inevita BILE
motherly old dame IN red handkerchief,
much like the old mammies of Virginia,
with the inevitable tamale.
The approaches to Mexico City are all of
the most magnificent and glorious sort.
You drop down suddenly out of the noun
tains, whichever way you come, from
everlasting snow into everlasting sum.
mer. But this ferVid summerland
seems to be almost entirely sea as
you look down; and, indeed, Mexico City
was once more entirely a city of the sea
than Venice. Even to-day it looks more
than two-thirds water as you look down
from the winding corkscrew mountain rail-
ways.
But the lakes are fast disappearing. The
port where COrtez built and launched his
fleet of brigantines to attack the city by
water after Ire had been driven out over the
causeway toward Chapultepec is now more
titan three miles from the water, The
great walls OF the city are still intact,
although sadly battered. They have never
been repaired since the America invasion.
In one place you see the missiles from the
invaders cannon still sticking in the huge
and high Notifications. 1t is curious fact
that Mexico City has hardly built house
or church since the revolution. If she
wants a museum, library, public building of
any sort she confscates O m monastery for the
. purpose. True, the British aud German
bankers, American express and insurance
companies and the ike have bull t
and are still building to a very
The morning call., 1893-04-02
GOLD IN A GRAVE.
A Poor Miner Who Buries a Pauper
Strikes Pay Day.

81 LOUIS dlODe-Democrat.
"A good turn will always turn up so that
you never get the worst of it," said Frank
Painter of Como, Colo. a. the Leclere Hotel
to reporter.
How do you suppose one Of the best fell
lows that ever lived became a rich man /?
1t isn't long DRY, but it shows to a finish
than square act never goes astray. even if
it does take some time in finding its way
around.
"Jere jackson came out to Colorado In
the early days without cent to save his
life. He knocked around for year and q
half and lived from hand to mouth. We all
liked him, and we knew that it wasn't his
fault that things didn't turn his way. and
none of the boys would refuse him shelter
when things came particularly hard.
well, one day Jere struck out; he was
disguised with the world in general and
with Mr.. Jackson in particular. While
plOdding along in lonely part of the eoun-
try couple of DAYS after that he came upon
the dead body of miner lying in the road
Poor devil thought Jere, I suppose
that's how I'll fetch up
''He started in to give the dead stranger
the attention that he'd like himself, and was
soon digging a grave for a man he had never
seen before.
HE didn't dig far. though. hardly two
feet. He had run across gold-gold. solid
gold. He buried his unknown friend in
another hole and quit the first one rich
man. A good turn, even to stranger, will
never give you the worst of it, F."
The morning call., 1893-04-02
Oh. Gerry.

parents. he always had warm feeling in
his heart for 'the old country" while at
the same time as a naturalized American
he never faltered In his duty to his adopted
land and never deserted a friend.
1t was on a bright Sunday In the wear
1S63-the same day the California Hundred
was mustered in on the plaza Portsmouth
Square. visible from Merchant street, look
Ing wesO for service in the Union army at the
seat of war-that tragedy was reported at
the Ivy Green. nothing less than the death
of Mistress Ellen Moon by her own hand, IL
was said. At least it was on the aftern DON
of that day her body was discovered, lying
on bed upstairs, shot through the heart.
The opinion was that the deed was done
during the preceding evening. Some per-
sons at the time, and many do to-day, ques-
ton the suicide view OF the case. They
think the woman was murdered by some
one whom, attempting robbery, she resisIed
Suspicion pointed to one man named
Golden, since dead. a tough from Victoria,
3. g.. who had been hanging around the
street for some months previously, but as no
eliminating evidence could be obtained he
was allowed 10 disappear.
Among the reasons assigned for the act
was that Mistress Ellen, by her foolish
good nature in assisting Impoverished
countrymen, had drawn about the Ivy
Green class of young aud impecuni Gus
English globe-trotters. who were rather dis
tasteful to such old friends as DR.. Colt
Judge Dwinelle, Joe Clarke and others,
and they could not take their lease in
their Inn " as cozily as formerly. They
demonstrated sharply with the gener-
Gus woman and asked her to cut the con-
nectton. otherwise they would be compelled
to absent themselves. She took their words
very much to heart and ended her life as
the quickest way out of the complication.
She wrote letter before she died leaving
her thanks and respects TO many friends,
r~"'cularly TO the members of the Press
( %, who we're paraly zed by the event, and
desired they would enshroud her body in a
British flag as a winding sheet when she
was coffiUed. Mistress Ellen Moon was
nothing il not English Her sentiment was
on, Englandl old England! my home DER the sea
Wherever wander my heart turns to thee.
She always hummed this, and IL was the
last thought In her mind when she took her
departure for that country where patriotism
is unknown.
Mr. Heating came into possession of the
The morning call., 1893-04-02

generous extent; but as said be-
fore, the Mexican of birth and fortune has
gathered up his silver and gone away to sow
1t broadcastin other coun tries than his own
And yet this is not without opportunities
and advantages. The Mexican gentleman
is truly gentleman, well Travelled. courte-
Gus and cultivated. He knows more about
music, ten to one. than the American is
quite familiar with Murillo and, indeed,
every great painter of other days; Is ouiet
truthful. refined and honest. But we rarely.
If ever, meet him in the United States The
reason Is we Americans in Mexico CITY are
such rascally set of adventurous clock
peddleTs, convicts, cutthroats OF all sorts
big and little, that he cannot help having a
bad opinion of us; and so the heaps and
heaps OF money that ought to come TO the
States from Mexico go to Paris or Madrid.
1t Is 10 be admitted that this bad feeling
toward US began with the Mexican war !:
but we have done much to keep 1t alive by
making Mexico dump-ground for all our
dirt ever SINCE And besides that, We have
more than once made monstrous exactions.
such as the 100000 600 spoliation claim after
our civil war; and now, when a payment is
made us, we weigh their silver dollars in
stead of counting them as we do our own.
although a Mexican dollar contains more
silver than ours, and Ii Is fact that in the
City. OF Mexico to-day you get 81 80 OF
Mexican coin for 81 American. Aud vet
the one Mexican dollar has more in II than
the one American dollar.
So don't you see that the Mexican has a
very solid reason, to say nothing of his
prejudices, for not caring To either trade
with US or travel with us2 We ought to
/ wipe out all claims against Mexico and do
all in our power 10 lift their money to a par
with our own.
The scenes on landing In Mexico City are
most novel. Not carriage or cab for hire.
In fact there are but few wheels to be found
on the dirty streets, but hundreds of half
naked men meet you, rope In hand. They
are called cargadoros-the same little men
who carried loads and ran errands when
Cortez came. You know he relates that
they carried the mails at the swift pace of
100 miles per day over the mountains aud
on foot.
IL you wish to move your furniture in
Mexico, even Of the heaviest sort, you call
in the little man with his rope. The city ia
gridiron Of streetcars. The cars are full,
The morning call., 1893-04-02
Decline i'm the Birth PATE

Attention has been drawn to the extraor-
binary decrease of births in France, which
has been constantly becoming more marked
for the past decade. Last year they were
99.SS7 fewer than in 1888. But France is
not alone in this matter. There has been
similar decline In hl European ma
ttons. Between the years 1869 and
1890 it is found that the birth rate
in France has fallen from Is per 1000 10
21.S; In Belgium, from 31.4 to 2S7; In Eng
land, from 34.7 to 800; in Germany, from
3S.9 TO 36.6, and in Prussia proper even
more. The last census in this country fell
below expectation in regard to population,
the figures not equaing the estimates.
There seems to be a general decline in all
civilized countries, due no doubt to the same
causes, which are not far to seek-increas
ing civilization and fewer marriages,