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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-08-31
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pingh4m's Drug store, for the week
NEWS ABOUT HOME.
Band concert tonight.

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The fall term of the Academy be-
gins next Tuesday,
The Union schools, as well as
those outside of the village, begin
tbe fall term on Monday next.
The Green Mountain Clothing
4 Company have left town and the
4 store is now temporarily occupied
/ By Switser & Miller.
The Y. NJ. c. A. lecture committee
! has cancelled its date with Congress
man Breckenridge, who was to have
! ectured here this fall.
The opening of the Horse Breed
ns meeting at White River Junction,
which was fixed for Tuesday, was
dtayed one day on account OF the
storm.
The St. Johnsbury Medical Club,
which held its monthly meeting last
Friday evening, passed resolutions
on the death of its president, DR.. H.
S. Calderwood.
There was slight blaze in the
torth end Of the Avenue House build.
ing about one o'clock this morning
Bagleys shoe store was badly dam
aged by water,
The afternoon service at the Y.
NJ. c. A. next Sunday will be ad-
dressed by Rev. c. NJ. Lamson who
will speak of the lessons of his trip
TO the Worlds Fair.
The Railroad street Baptist Sun
!.y school had pleasant outing on
RamSay's point, Paddock village,
On Friday. About $50 people par
tGpated and enjoyed themselves in
this pretty spot.
AT the Railroad street Baptist
church on Sunday evening, Rev. Mr.
Douglas will speak on topic es-
pecaLy interesting to railroad men,
and young ladies from the Perkins
Institute will sing.
Another closed pouch has been
established for the benefit of St.
ohnSbury mail getters and senders.
It's taken on the afternoon air line
south at 222, and carries mail to
Wells River. Mail Tor this pouch
Closes at 1,50 p. m.
w. F. Badger of St. Johnsbury
Center died last Thursday at the resi-
dynce of his daughter, Mrs, J, S.
Underwood, in this village. Deceas-
cd Twas 60 years old, and worked for
manyyears at the scale shops. Four
children survive him.
The next meeting of the State
sunday School Association is to be
0eId at Rutland Oct. 90, "a and %.
Nev' ID Babbitt of West Bratteboro,
secretary, left on the 2Sth inst. to at
''adthe international Sunday school
convention at st. Louis.
Mrs. Nellie F., wife of Edward J..
,S''y died OF consumption at East
maven last Thursday, aged 26. Her
''ner took her to her old home the
uay before she died. The funeral
was held at East Haven Saturday,
NeV' M. c. Henderson officiating.
-Aleck Borland and his friend,
JUN Winter of Mansfield, Mass,
n'nl to the coaching parade at
oV'alehem last week on their wheels
ooe feature of this SO mile ride is a
coast" of three miles down the long
u"' between Bethlehem and Little.
ton.
-lhe premium list and race pro-
s'amme of the Northern Caledonia
lar at Lyndonville, Sept. 2e and 81
"as been issued from the Journal
V'uce' 1t contains information o
.''Oe to intending exhibitors, and
S'Ssests a fair full of interest in all
departments.
frank Walker has sold his house
-" '"e corner Of Summer and Church
,,;,, Ive'S to Dan c. Gage. Mr.. Gage
W. n,' move the house to a vacant lot
'0'nlng his house at the upper end
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-08-31
CHURCH NOTES.

Services will be resumed at the
Church of the Messiah next Sunday
morning.
Miss Mary E. Packard sang a solo
at the South church last Sunday
morning.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-08-31
VIEW ADS. THIS WEEK.

caledonia County FAR
yotice-switser Sc Miller
1,,ction-switser & Miller
wait wait for Me--o. S. Abbott
wnnse w for sale-F. A. Carter
nv '.,oo IN scholars--E. N. Randall.
c,r % stock of woolens-J' s. Meigs'
Natter of Support-A. F. Walker
~ spaulding's Est.-com. Notice.
~ G calderwood's Est.-Com. Notice,
n,.no and organ Tuning-M. H. Eddy.
Arizona republican., 1893-07-07

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Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
Taking Back a Remark.

An old and popular Irish clergy
man had a disagreement with one of
his parishioners, man of great
wealth, but vulgar habits and abu-
sive tongue. Upon hearing from
third party that his ancestry had
been spoken of disparagingly by this
rich boor, the old parson, borrowing
a Scriptural metaphor, exclaimed,
"Why sir, my father would not have
set him with the dogs of his flock.
This remark reached the ears of the
nabob, who Immediately repaired to
the clergyman and demanded an
apology. The good old man listened
patiently to the rawlings of his pa
rishioner and closed the discussion
with the remark; did really say
that my father would not have set
you with his dogsl i was wrong,
sir. Ibelieve he would San Fran
cisco Argonaut.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
A su1tan,s Kind Reply.

The sultan of Morocco is so often
rude and unmannerly to strangers
that take pleasure in recording here
the kindly way in which he received
the request of a German prince who
some years ago came to Tangier for
his health. He was suffering from
rheumatism and brought with him
his equipages. The first day he at
tempted to drive up and down the
Malabar beach he was stopped by the
soldiers and forbidden to drive any
farther again in the city. He i'm
mediately appealed to the sultan,
who wrote back the following an
swer and had it dispatched from Fez
to Tangier by particularly swift cou-
rier: Yes, he would be delighted to
have this stranger prince drive about
his city of Tangier, and he gave him
permission SO to do, but with one
condition. Every time he drove
abroad he would please take the
wheels off his carriage, otherwise he
might run over and seriously hurt
some of the little children in the
streets. Stephen Bonsal in Century.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
TWO WAYS OF CAPTURING spoNcEs,
How the Florida Sponge Seeker Differs
From the Diver Of the East.

How the Florida Sponge Seeker Differs
From the Diver of the East.
The methods employed in gather
ing sponges in the Mediterranean
and Florida are very different.
In the cast divers are employed.
The diver a carried down by a
broad, fiat slab of marble of about 25
pounds weight, which he holds at
arms length in front of him, and
which be uses to guide his flight, to
protect his head when he first
strikes and to keep him down when
he walks on the bottom.
Fifteen to twenty fathoms is the
average depth, while two minutes is
the usual duration of the dive. Each
diver puts the sponges he pulls into
net bag that hangs from his neck.
When he is ready to ascend, he
jerks rope and is quickly pulled to
the surface.
In this country sponging crew is
divided into twos, each pair consist
ing of a ''sculler" and hooker, y
supplied with a small yawlboat
known as a dingy. The former
stands in the stern of the dingy and
sculls it slowly and steadily for
ward, being prepared to stop it and
hold it exactly in place at mo-
ment's notice from the hooker, u
who kneeling amidships, with the
upper half of his body projecting
over the side, scans the bottom for
suitable sponges. In order to assist
in this scanning sponge glass is
used. 1t consists of an ordinary
wooden bucket with a glass bottom
fixed in with putty.
The handle is placed around the
neck of the hooker" while the
glass itself is placed flat upon the
water, while the ''hooker's" head
is thrust well down into the bucket.
By this means he can see very
small objects at considerable depth,
and he has his hands free to plunge
the hooked pole down and pierce the
sponge, sometimes at depth of 35
feet, as soon as sighted.
After landing catch, the sponges
are beaten to cleanse them. After
ward they are dipped into a weak So
luton of lime and sea water to give
them the yellow color so well known
in the markets.-Cincinnati Tribune.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
rramps and Their Families.

Only 7.3per cent of 1899 enumer-
ated tramps are now married, while
"A per cent more are widowers.
Their total of children is 215, or con-
siderably less than 2 to a marriage.
What has been well described as the
bond which man gives to society
for his good behavior is therefore al
most wholly lacking here, and even
when given it is generally forfeited,
in so many instances have wife and
children drifted out of the tramp's
sight.
Thus in only 2 cases were wife and
children in the same town with the
man questioned. In 20 they were in
the same state. In 80 in another
state. In in a foreign country. In
8 the wife was dead and the children
were unknown. In 16 the wife was
dead and the children were in anoth-
er state or country. What a picture
of desolation, however viewedl-
Professor J. j. McCook in Forum.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
Not Practicable Here.

At Copenhagen a young woman
who seized thief and held him un
til the police came was presented
with a diamond brooch and a flatter
ing letter of thanks from the director
of police and received an offer OF
marriage from a well known journal
ist. Women thief catchers are so nu
merous in this country that it has
been suggested that it would bank
rupt the police department to attempt
to reward them all, not to mention
exhausting the supply Of marriage
able journalists. New York Sun.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
Talking to Member of Parliament.

A member of parliament was pas
senger on one of the west end buses on
Friday and asked the conductor to let
him down at point outside the house
of commons where omnibuses, for the
better convenience of members of par
lament crossing the road into Palace
yard, are not allowed to stand. The
conductor accordingly refused to stop,
whereupon the member, who, of course,
was not known as such, became rather
indignant and insisted on the horses be-
ing pulled up in order to allow him to
dismount.
The conductor bore his i'll tempered
complaints for moment or two and
then suddenly silenced him with the
crushing retort, "Look here, mister. if
it's fight yer wants, cut across to the
house of commons" The conductor
was just little astonished when he dis
covered that he had made his admirable
suggestion to an actual member of that
illustrious assem- bly.-Cor. Leeds Mer-
curry.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
rdwin Booth.s Geperosltr.

The late Edwin Booths unostenta-
tious generosity was exemplified in a
characteristic way when the birth
day of his physician came around.
This physician, in addition to having
been unremitting in his attention to
the tragedian's physical condition,
was his friend. At little supper
given in honor of the occasion mag
nificent punch bowl was brought in
and set before the doctor. He read
the inscription, which stated the name
of the donor, and was about to thank
Mr.. Booth, when the latter quietly
suggested that the cover be taken on.
1t was done, and a check for 81, 500
was found inside.
That's to make the punch with,
said Mr.. Booth, with smile.
The punch bowl had cost 3, POO
New York Herald.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
Electrlo Street Railways In Europe.

Electric street railways have met with
approval in Paris, where two lines run
on the storage battery principle are now
in operation. The system, however. is
not altogether approved of, chiefly on
account of the dead weight of the ac-
cumulators, and there are very large
number of engineers who advocate the
Siemens system Of underground contact
which was first adopted at Buda-Pesth
in 1889. 1t is believed that this method
will in the future be very generally used
to the exclusion of accumulators and
probably the trolley. This latter system
has been chosen for the new line at
Havre. All animal power for tramway
purposes in that town is to be sup
pressed, and a contract for the substi-
tuition of electric power has already been
given.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
nrinr In the Wrong Plaes.

In the British colony at Lagos an
old woman died and was carried to
the cemetery. At the grave the body,
according to Mohammedan custom,
was lifted from the coffin and was
about TO be buried, when the mourn
ers were startled by hearing 1t cough
several times. On being unwrapped, !,
the corpse sat up and ate some cruel,
afterward telling the company that
during her state Of lifelessnees she
was mysteriously hidden TO seek her
native country and die there. This,
she added, she meant todo.-Lonaon
Glola
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
The Swell Idea.

There are two sisters in Detroit
about as unlike as two sisters could
be. One is a democratic young WON
an who likes people for themselves
while the other is painfully exclusive
and will have nothing to do with man
or woman who has not the proper
social brand.
II do believe, said the democratic
one the other day, that you would
rather be swell than be an angel.
Certainly 1 would" replied the
other, ''for any one who is good can
be an angel, but it requires a great
deal more than that to be swell y
Detroit Free Press.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
THE AMERICAN DRUMMER
Child of the Bagman of Former Years.
but Greater Than His Parent.

Child of the Bagman of Former Years
but Greater Than His Parent.
The commercial traveller of the
United States illustrates the growth
and extension and improvement and
elevation of the world and human.
ity. Genealogically he is decended
from the bagman of the last century,
who figures in SO many stories. He
who travelled on horseback selling
goods by sample, as distinguished
from the peddler who sold the arti-
cles themselves. The bagman, de-
irving his title from his saddlebags,
represented the extension of com
merce and the growth of manufac-
lures. He effected the direct con-
nection between the wholesaler and
the retailer; between the port and
the interior; between the centers of
commerce and the manufactures and
the widespread country. He was
the embassador-the missionary of
trade.
With the coming of railroads and
steamboats, the horseback traveller
and his saddlebags gradually disap-
peared, and SO the name bagman
went out of use. The original labors
of this dissemination of trade were
greatly increased in this country, and
from the fact that his business was
to vigorously solicit business with
an energy like that of the alarming
drum" came the appellation drum
mer," still in use, but with the in
creasing magnitude, and, as may be
said, the increasing dignity of his
operations, came a yet more compre-
hensive designation, and the bag
man of old became the commercial
traveller of today, as much greater
than his commercial ancestor as a
locomotive is in power than horse,
and as the colossal sample trunk of
the nineteenth century is to the sad
dlebags of the eighteenth.
The commercial traveller, muster
ing by thousands, is now a great fac
tor and feature in American business
and social life. The value and neces-
sity of the commercial traveller have
been so fully demonstrated that there
is no longer any talk of dispensing
with him. AS every religion must
have its preachers, so commerce,
trade, business, must have its speak
ing ministers and agents, it's stump
ers, solicitors and orators. The spirit
of organization which distinguishes
the century has reached the CONNER
cial travellers. They form great
society, and they have divided and
subdivided the land among them.
necessarily travelling, they have di-
rectly and indirectly regulated lines
and facilities of travel. Every rail
road line has felt their influence, and
they have raised the hotel standard
of the country.
The commercial traveller, being an
American citizen and usually voter,
is necessarily a politician, and if he
does not control elections (and he has
been known to do that he becomes
good judge as to how the election
is going. He moves about among the
people and becomes peoples man. "
He is an authority ON popular events
and questions. He connects distant
communities, fosters the exchange of
ideas, carries the news and cherishes
the brotherhood of man.-Kansas
City Star.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
Charcoal Filters.

The English claim that filters oi
sponge, sand or loose charcoal are
only partial in their results. They
prefer porous block Of pure (animalj
charcoal, combining the highest
known chemical with the greatest
possible mechanical or straining ca
pacity. Every soldier in hot eli
mates is provided with one Of these
blocks as part Of his outfit. Hard
ware
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
No Place In Journalism For Old Men.


The most pathetic figure in jour
nalism is the man who has grown
old in its service. Through no fault
of his, he finds himself without a vo-
cation when he most needs it, In
any other business his experience
would be of value. The accumulated
knowledge of years would command
a price commensurate with its worth
Here it is valueless, because in the
first 10 years of his journalistic ca
reer he has mastered the art of re-
porting, of copy reading, of any rou-
tine departmental work, and expert
ence shows that celebrity decreases
with age after a certain period of
years has been reached.
Journalism is essentially business
for young men. They rush into it
by hundreds; they remain in it by
tens. Ninety per cent of the men
who enter journalism leave it before
they become old. They remain in it
only long enough to make it a step
ping stone to something less exact
ing, less limited in remuneration, less
insecure in employment. On the
staff of the daily newspaper with
which am connected there is only
one man over so years of age, and
the average age of the employees in
the editorial department is less than
35. A canvass Of other metropolitan
newspaper offices will show but a
slight variation from these figures. -
j. w. Keller in Forum.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
ons Faet About ths Truth.

The great advantage OF the truth
is that you didn't make it, and 50 are
not in any way responsible for 1t. 1t
can take care of itself, or, if not. SO
much the worse for the facts. II Is
very strange that among the argu-
ments in favor of truth telling emu
merated in books for the young no
Cne has ever thought 20 bring out
this one Of its superior labor saving
qualities. Kate Fields Washington.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
A Case Of Thrift.

Wife-An phwy do yez be takin
thin pills when yez are we'll againi
Husband--Faith, would ye be afth-
er havin me let a dollars worth of
pills go to waste2 It's a thriftless
family Oh married into, sure. New
York Weekly,
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
An Asrieuitursl Query.

Mamma" said Freddie, whats Z
the matter with my feetf
II don't know. Perhaps you are
getting corns.
Freddie was silent or a time and
then remarked;
Mamma
well, dear.
After I'm dead and buried do you
think they win growI'-1exas bift'
ings. -.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
CENTS THAT DROP FROM HEAVEN.
A Little Boy Told story which Sounded
Very Much Like an Untruth.

A Little Boy Told story which Sounded
Very Much Like an Untruth.
Little Richard NJ. was very hand
some and very pleasant boy. The
house he lived in, in a small city,
had no door yard in front of it, but
the sidewalk was wide and clean and
nicely shaded by elm trees and was
not so much crowded with passers.
So it was a pleasant and safe place
for little Richard to play.
The only objection to it was that
people passing by were apt to be SO
much pleased with the bright faced
little fellow that they would take no.
tice of him in way that might
make him vain--so his wise mother
thought-and quite often a gentle
man passing would give him a cent.
Richard's s mother thought that this
was not good for him, and so she
very plainly told him not to take
any more cents if they were offered
him. He was to thank any such
gentleman for his kindness, but to
tell him that his mother did not ap.
prove of his taking money from any
one.
One day after she had given him
his charge little Richard brought in
penny. When his mother saw it,
she reproved him for disobeying her.
But he answered, Mamma, there
did not any man give me this cent.
! God threw it down to me out of
heaven"
This shocked his mother all the
more for she thought that it must
be a lie. She did not see how her
little boy could possibly think that
he was telling the truth. So she re-
proved him very solemnly and tried
hard to make him see how wicked
he had been and to confess his sin.
But the little fellow stuck to it, and
said over and over again: There
was not any man there. God did
throw the cent down to me from
heaven"
His mother was greatly distressed
and kept trying to get Richard to
confess his sin and ask forgiveness.
If she could not get him to do this,
she thought she must punish him.
But before she did so she talked with
a young man who studied and slept
in the front room on the second floor
of her house. He was able and glad
to explain the strange thing. He
did not know that Richard had been
forbidden to take such gifts, and one
day sitting at his front window,
when the little boy was playing be-
low, he tossed a cent down to him
without putting his own head in
sight. The cent dropped and jingled
on the pavement. Richard looked
up and around and saw no person.
and he honestly believed what he
told his mother.
No doubt she was very thankful
to be thus saved from doing cruel
wrong to her dear, truthful boy.
The mothers who read this will pray
God to keep them from doing such a
wrong to their children. But, chill
dren, dreadful as it would have been
for little Richard TO be punished for ly-
ing, when he had told the real honest
truth, it would have been even more
dreadful if he had told lie and de-
ceived his mother Do you not think
sol-Church ut Home and Abroad.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21

Jack-Wn your mother let you go
rowing alonei
May-No, but she'll have no oo-
jechons if you are with me'-brooK'
lyn Life.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21
Start the LSVer sU0reing and
all bodily ailments
sUiW disappear.

"For more than three years suffered with
Dyspepsia in its worst form. / tried several
doctors, but they afforded relief At last tried
Simmons Liver Regulator, which cured me in a
short time II is good medicine. l would not
be without it."-JAMEs A. RoANR, Philad'a, Pa.
AS a general family remedy for Dyspepsia,
Torpid Liver, Constipation, etc., l hardly ever
use anything else, and have never been disap-
pointed in the effect produced; il seems to be
almost perfect cure for all diseases Of the Stomach
and Bowels. w. J. McELRoY. Macon. Ga.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21

MY 3. MOTT,
w PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
ONCE Slo Commercial street In Edridge block
Residence 40 Commercial street.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21

DR. q. SMITH, Dentist. 81 state street
IL Salem, Oregon. Finished dental opera,
Tons OF every description. Painless topera
tlons Q specially.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21

@ q. BROWNE, M. d., Physician ana Sur.
-. geon. ohice, Murphy block; Residence,
45, 'ommerclai street.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21

DRoTECTIoN LODGE NO. 2 A. o. u. W.
II Meets In their hall In state Insurance
building, every Wednesday evening.
A. w. DENNIS. N. w.
J. A. sELWooD. Recorder.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21

M E. POGUE, Stenographer and Ty Pc
IYA. writest Best equipped typewriting Of
nce but one In Oregon. Over Bush's bank,
salem, Oregon.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21

nk. A. DAVIS, Late Post Graduate OF New
~ York, gives special attention 10 the dis.
eases of women and children, nose, throat,
lungs, kidneys, skin diseases and surgery
Office at residence, lo4 state street. Corsulia-
lion from 9to ~ n. m and 2t0 5 p m. 7-l-8m
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21

STELLA 5HERMAN.-Typewrlt and
block. First-cass work. Rates reasonable.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21

VOHN BAYNE, ATToRNEY-AT-' Aw.
j Collections made aud promptly rtmitted.
Murphy block, Cor. State and Commercial
treets Ralem, Oregon. 9-aif
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21

wv U. KNlGHTON- Architect aud SUI erin
wv tendent once, rooms . and 3 Buhh-
BreyRan block v l9tf
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-09-21

T j. SHAW. M. w. HUNT. SHAW q HUNT
u. Attorneys At law. ONCE over Capital
National bank, Salem, Oregon.