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The St. Johns herald., 1894-02-22
ScHooLBoY PHILOSOPHY.
Answers for Every Question the Teacher
 Can Ask,


 The schoolboy has queer ideas some times, says the Great Divide, as is demonstrated by the following answers given to teachers in search of inforIna- tion: A poor boy was asked: What is 8 gentleman?" "A fellow that has a watch and chain," he replied, adding, when he saw that his answer was not perfectly satisfactory, ''and loves Jesus" Medieval is a wicked man who has been tempted" "A dema- gogue is a vessel containing beer and other liquids" ''Tom, use a sentence with responsibility in it. Tom said: ''When one suspender button is gone there is great deal of responsibility on the other one"
 teacher. A very small girl answered: "A thing for courting with" ''Give the future of drink Present, he drinks; future, he will be drunk" 1.-The plural for pillow" Bolster" Compare ill" ''Ill, worse, dead" This recalls the answer of the boy who said: Masculine, man; feminine, woman; neuter, corpse" ''Who was the first man?" said teacher.
 Washington" promptly answered the young American.
 ''No," said the teacher, ''Adam was the first man." ''Oh, we'll, I suppose you are right, replied the undaunted patriot, If you refer to furriners' "How did that blot come on your copy book, Sam?" 'I think it is tear, Miss Wallace" How could tear be black. Sam?'' Ut must have been a colored boy who dropped it, suggested the reflective Samuel. What made the tower of Pisa 1ean?" ''The famine in the land"
The St. Johns herald., 1894-02-22
RAIN IN JAPAN.
How the Natives Try to Bring the Show
 CTS Gown

CTS Gown
 During the summer season in Japan droughts are very frequent, and the rice fields, before so beautiful, pre- senting as they do all the different shades of green imaginable, gradually lose their brilliancy of color, turn vel low and parchcd, and threaten the total destruction of the crop. Not only does the rice suffer, but the wells dry up and necessitate the carrying of water from long distances. So a drought in Japan is, indeed, great calamity.
 After waiting and hoping in vain for a downfall of rain, the people turn en masse to evoke the power of their dei- ties to send them the saving showers. A procession is formed of perhaps two hundred men, all nearly naked, who carrying straw emblems representing the sun with the rain pouring from it, and with long streamers having prayers written on them flying in the wind, proceed to the nearest river or bay, where the whole company wade into the water until they are waist deep, and, surrounding the emblems, pray aloud and throw water on the images with both hands.
 After doing this several times, says the New York Journal, the procession is reformed, when it proceeds to the temple to pray again. This ceremony is repeated several times, and should the rain come in abundance prayers are offered in thanksgiving; should it be only a shower they blame them selves for not having prayed fervently enough, and continue their devotions until a downpour takes place.
 Another form of devotion for the same purpose takes place at nightfa1l, when long boat is filled with men and padded swiftly across the harbor, accompanying the prayers by the reg ular beatings of tom-toms and gongs. Sometimes at night, away down the bay, may be heard the weird sound of the tom-tons and the voices of the men gradually growing louder and louder as the boat approaches, each man bending to his paddle in regular time as it passes us swiftly and gradu- ally disappears in the darkness, and is soon lost to sight and hearing.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-02-22
PRACTICAL PHILANTHROPY.
Institution for the Training of Jewish
 Youth at Hanover.

Youth at Hanover.
 A novelty in practical philanthropy is described by w. c. Fox, formerly consul to Brunswick, Germany, who has just returned to Washington.
 During my visit to Hanover" said Mir. Fox in the course of a recent conver- sation with St. Louis sGlobe-Democrat correspondent, 'I examined an insti- tuition for the training of Jewish youth. The institution is something entirely new. It has been established by Alexander Moritz Simon. Mir. Simon is the American vice consul at Hanover, where he is also prominent banker. Those who have knowledge of the situation in Russia and Germany to-day fully understand that one of the chief causes of the anti-Semitic move ments in those countries is that the Jews are solely dealers and traders. This is because children naturally ac- quire taste for and follow the occu- patton of their parents and other rela- tives.
 ''Alr. Simon told me-" continued MT. Fox, 'that in his visits to the United States in 1882 and 1890, he remarked the distressing conditions of the Jew ish immigrants, arising mainly from the fact that they were unable to per form such work as they could obtain from labor. Knowing no mechanical trade, they were of necessity driven to peddling. MT. Simon, some time ago, became convinced that if many of the Jewish youth in Russia and Eastern Persia were properly taught trades, it would be the best answer to the chief argument of the anti-Senitic agitators, Actuated by this belief, he founded this institution. He has purchased some seventy acres of land near the city of Hanover. The necessary build ings have been erected so that sixty boys can be accommodated. The prime object is to teach agriculture, garden ing and fruit culture in all their branches. Carpentering. locksmithing, shoemaking, baking and other trades will be taught. The movement and the institution have already received the hearty indorsement and assistance of prominent Israelites in Europe. There is every evidence that the ex- pertinent will prove successful and pio- neer the way for similar institutions in other parts of Europe"
The St. Johns herald., 1894-02-22
NEVER COME SINGLY.
A Common Superstition Among Engineers
 About Collisions.

About Collisions.
 Of the superstition of sailors, fisher folk and others we have all heard, but that such a distinguished characteris- tic should have attached itself to rail- way men would not appear to be gen. orally known. It savors somewhat of the anomalous that such preemi- nently practical class of men should be the victims of credulity regarding the supernatural. Such, however. is the case, says a writer in the London lid Bits.
 Irecently had occasion to interview prominent railway official, and in the course of the conversation that ensued that gentleman incidentally alluded to two collisions which had lately oc- cured in the neighborhood, following up his remarks with tbe announcement that the local men would be in state of subdued excitement and ''hurry" till third mishap took place. Such is the superstition of the railway man. Upon expressing considerable astonish- ment 1 was assured that this kind of thing was notorious among railway men in general, and in this particular instance, 1t was known that the cir cumstances of the two previous acci- dents were the chief topics among the workmen in all departments, who were also counting on the possibilities of a third disaster. Curiously enough a touch of realism was lent to the infor nation just imparted by the explana- tion that the second of the two colli- sions referred to was due to the driver of one of the engines-a reliable serv- ant, noted for his alertness and preci- sion, with an honorable record with some forty years service-who being, it was believed, so disturbed over the 'omens" of the first occurrence and so engrossed with what he felt would be two other catastrophes that he com mitted the slight error of judgment which caused his locomotive to crash into another coming in an opposite di rection. The statement is given as the conviction of one who spent upward of a quarter of Q century among railway men of all classes, and who has known the driver alluded to for long period of years. So came about second col lision. Surely superstition could go no further than this. But here is a tragic sequcl-a sequel which, unfortunately, will, in all probability, do much to strengthen the reprehensible beliefs Of these men. Two days after the in- terview above mentioned, within if teen minutes drive from the scene of the second collision, an express mail failed to take the points, a portion of the train with the tender of the engine was violently thrown across the rails and one stoker killed. This is what the railway men will term their third mishap." There's the third" they ,say, and now perhaps they will breathe freely for season.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-02-22
CASHMERE ShAWLS.
Made by Men-Four Months to Do Seven
 Inches.

Made by Men-Four Months to Do Seven
 Inches.
 One day we went to town to visit manufactory of Cashmere shawls, says writer in the Cornhill Magazine. After a terribly unattractive approach, we again clambered up some stairs and emerged into a large room full of looms, with about forty men all hard at work. One we especially watched. He had in front of him nearly a thou sand shuttles of different shades, and out of these he would select one and thread it through as many of the fine strands stretched tightly before him as his pattern directed, and after so doing he pulled toward him a heavy bar which pushed the last little thread quite tight, before putting in the next.
 In old days one man used to read out the pattern to all the rest, but now each has his own design on slip ot paper in front of him. It is said that the wavy line. so often seen in these shawls, was originally taken from the curves of the JhelJim. 1t took four months, we are told, for four men to do seven inches of this work, one yard wide, working from five in the morn ing till five in the evening every day, so it was hardly to be wondered at that two yards should cost nearly one hun dred pounds.
 AS we left the workroom, so glad to exchange it's heated atmosphere for cooler breath of air, it was impossible to check the obvious thought of the contrast such lives are to our own. We mingled with the gayly dressed crowd gathered to see polo tourna- ment, and our thoughts strayed back to that stifling room, with its ceaseless monotony and perpetual grind, where men, more like machines, wove hour after hour varying hues of color into one harmonious whole. And yet the old simile would also assert itself, that we too, in one sense, are hour by hour working tiny threads that go to make up the pattern and color of our lives. The whole design, however, does not lie open before us, but is mercifully withheld by an all-wise master hand.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-02-22
Rapid Growth of Berlin.

So rapid has been the growth of the German capital that the municipality of Berlin already finds it's spacious town hall inadequate to its needs, and an adjacent plot of ground has been purchased at cost of five million marks for the erection of new offices On the other hand, the scheme for lay ing out and embellishing the surround ings of the royal palace has been re- jected by the city elders, and the tone of various inspired articles in the semi official press proves that considerable annoyance is felt in court circles Should the municipality persist in it's present unfriendly attitude it is plainly hinted at that the court will shorten it's annual stay at Berlin and perhaps ultimately make Potsiam it's permanent residence. Although of a costly character the palace scheme which has just been rejected falls very much short of the more ambitious one which was originally contemplated by the emperor, who has very exalted views of the requirements of imperial state.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-02-22
A Shrewd Irishman.

The humors of the telegraph are notorious. Do ye ever charge any body for the address of message?'' asked an ingenious Irishman. No And do ye charge for signing the name, sir?" No" ''Wen, then, will ye please send this? I just want me brother to know I am here." handing the following: sept. 3.-To John McFIynn, at New York. (Signedl Patrick McFIynn."
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-15
A AUNDRY RAID.

Last Saturday evening about 20
employees and ex-employees of the
steam laundry met at the residence
of B. F. Wright, who has been en-
gineer at the laundry from the start.
A pleasant social hour was passed
in games and music. W. H. Ward
called the company to order and
made the following remarks: "In
our army life we had different kinds
of raids. There were foraging raids,
when our supply of rations ran low
for man and beast As this gathering
differs from any of them, we will call
it a laundry raid. Besides, we have
brought our ratiOns with us. We
have come here this evening to meet
with ore and his family in their
home who has we'll earned the record
as a true and faithful employee. We
have at the close of the week, after
its labors and duties and cares are
done, nearing the day of rest that
has been so wisely set apart for
man and beast, we have brought
with US omething that will help
you rest" An arm chair was here
brought in and Mr.. Wright was in
vited to be seated. LAS we do not
wish to give even the slightest
chance for jealousy to come between
your better half and yourself, we
have brought one for her" IA sew
ing rocker chair was here presented
to Mrs. Wright Eve have con.
tributed of our mites for these
necessary articles of household use
and ask you to accept them with
the best wishes of the givers." Bert
Shaw of the Eureka Laundry wa:
present. After presenting the chair:
the ladies passed cake and fruit
Every one present admitted it was {
very pleasant time.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-15
BOARD OF TRADE MEETING.

At the monthly meeting of the
Board of Trade the committee ap
pointed to investigate the plan of
starting a condensed milk factory
presented their report. The COM
mittee found that the smaller
factories did not pay and experts
told them that large sum of money
would have to be sunk before repu-
tation could be established and d
market secured. The committee felt,
however, that superior article
manufactured here and put upon the
market under the right named brand
would soon meet with a ready sale
at a good price, and by right man
agement it could be made to pay.
On notion OF o. S. Abbott the fol-
lowing resolution from the directors
was read and adopted:
Resolved, That a committee OF five be
appointed to examine the manutactur-
ing facilities of st. Johnsbury and deter
mine what new enterprise, requiring
labor and capital, can be safely ana
most hopefully established, or what en-
| terprise or enterprises already estaOhsh'
| ed can, by satisfactory arrangement
with present owners, be enlarged and
made to command more business; with
the view of organizing such companies
as shall, with an increase of invested
4 capital keep the money of our people al
home and increase the demand for intel
lipent and worthy labOrerS.
Resolved, That we believe that this
method of advancing the manufacturing
interests of St. Johnsbury promises mor'
immediate and satisfactory results than
waiting for adventures from abroad
to suggest the methods of our villag
Improvement.
The chair appointed E. 7. Ide, A
H. Mcleod, E. L. Hovey, George H
Cross and o. S. Abbott on this com
mittee.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-15
THE WATER PROBLEM.

The village trustees have been
wrestling over the problems suggest
ed by our waterworks for nearly a
year and have at last formulated
plan which is practical and in our
judgment the best solution of the
problem that can be made. The
trustees called an informal meeting
of some of the leading taxpayers
last Friday morning and in a session
Of nearly three hours outlined their
place. Chairman Stevens of the
board of trustees, who was also
chairman of the meeting, then asked
all present to vote on the desira-
bility of calling a village meeting to
ratity the plans of the trustees. BY a
unanimous vote it was decided to
call a special village meeting.
Before the special meeting is called
the trustees will issue a special re-
port containing the details of their
plan so that the voters can have am
pie time to read this report before
being asked to vote on the question.
When the people have a chance to
intelligently understand the plan Of
the trustees, the CALIFORNIAN believes
that the scheme will receive the
hearty support of the voters.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-15
At THE EAST VILLAG GE.

Miss Fidelia Fisher finished her
school in Danv;lle last Friday and is
now at home
Rev. G. W. Patterson started for
Kirby last Sunday to conduct his
usual service there, and when within
a mile of his destination, could get
no farther with his team. He left it
and bravely walked the distance
through deep drifts and against a
piercing wind, to find after his tedi-
Gus journey no fire or congregation.
However, he reached home safely
and relates the incident in a pleasing
manner.
The book racks recently presented
to this church bv the South church
OF St. Johnsbury are very acceptable,
and add much to the appearance OF
the slips and to the convenience Of
the congregation.
J. c. Dodge is very sick with pneu-
mOnia.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-15
AsT. JoHNsBURY sTABL f.

A correspondent of the Spirit of
the Hub, who passed through St.
Johnsbury recently, writes to that
paper in regard to c. E. Kinks sta
BILE and stock
Mr.. Kirk evidently has an eye for
thorough Workmanship, and his long
experience in the stable business enables
him to mature plans for comfort and
convenience. He first showed his base
mont, S4x37, finished with II large box
stalls, opening south into capacious
yard. Above are 50 stalls, with all
modern fixtures, with great incline to
the street floor, which is used for car
riage room, with an Office and harness
room, and at rear a room added for
washing carriages; next is haylOft, bed
room and storage. Erected at cost OF
S6OOO
"Mr Kirk, besides keeping general
livery stock. has some fine blooded
horsefesh of which he is justly proud.
A ride after Raymond, 2.27, was an en-
/ joyabe treat Raymond is perfect in
! style, looking fine, weighs about 100.
Next Is his three-year-old Romulus,
! 2. .29az, by Edgemark. Next a nice pair
of brown geldings that would please
t any one, and little Morgan black that
/ think would step a 50 shot.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-15
manner.
CHURCH STATISTICS.

The South church has recently is
sued its annual register for 1898.
The resident membership of the
church, Dec 81, 1898, was 272, abb
sent members 1O7, total mem ber-
ship 379. During the year there
were four additions by letter and Is
by confession. Eleven members of
the church died during the year and
81 were granted letters to other
churches. The average attendance
at Sunday morning worship was
294. The Sunday school has a pres
ent membership OF 2S7 and the aver
age attendance last year was 1871.
The total gifts for all charitable and
missionary purposes were $41S2.
The North church year book gives
the statistics of that church. It's
present membership is 438, including
50 non-resideuts. The average at
tendance at the morning worship
was 413 and at the Sunday evening
service 212. The average attend
ance at the Sunday school was 223.
Twenty-six joined the church during
the year, Is on confession and II by
letter. Twenty-Five were removed,
s by letter and II by death. The
total gifts for all purposes were
S4192.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-15
MUSICAL MENTION.

The Danville convention is in
progress this week.
H. H. May attended the Newport
convention last week and reports it
a great musical success.
The Northern Herald says that
1.-THE Mahogany Quartette of St.
Johnsbury were quite an addition
to the Friday evenings entertain
ment" at the Lisbon festival
There is to be convention at East
Lyndon, beginning the Goth and
closing the 23d, with H. H. May
and E. A. Jenkins as conductors.
The Monarch Banjo and Guitar
Club give an entertainment at West
Concord Saturday evening of this
week
B. Frank Harris. organist at the
South church, gave II organ recita
at Lisbon, n. H, on Monday even
ing, assisted by Mrs. Bingham O
| LittletOn
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-15
MAPLE SUGAR BOOK.

The Vermont Maple Sugar Makers
Association are to issue an attrac-
tive little work, upon the maple su-
gar interests of the state This
work will contain cuts and matter,
illustrating and describing past and
present methods of manufacture:
also a cut of the protected label of
the association; also numerous re-
ceipts for using maple sugar in max
ing candies, irOsting, etc. The name
and post offices address OF each
member of the association will be
printed in plain type in this work.
1t will also contain a brief account
of the origin and purpose of this as
sociatiOn. The fee for belonging to
this association IS one dollar, and
carries with it the right TO use the
label OF the association on maple
sugar products; the right to have
name and post office address pub
lished in this work; also the right to
compete for ali premiums and special
cash prizes offered through the asso-
citation for the coming year, and the
right to as many copies of this
pamphlet as one will distribute ju-
diciously. Applications for mem
bership or for advertising space
should be made at once to the secre-
tary, A. j. Croft. Enosburgh Fails,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-15
TIE NORTH WESTERN FAILURE.

All the losses in the Northwestern
Guaranty Loan Co. are not confined
to residents of New England. The
report of Receiver Schofeld upon the
condition OF the bank of Zumbrota,
Mimi, shows that it went down be-
cause of its faith in the gigantic
Minneapolis swindle-the North
west Guaranty Loan Company. OF
the $142, 900 assets, over S94, 900 in
notes and bonds were given by the
Menage concern, the value of which
Is almost nothing. The bank owes
100000, and the stockholders must
go into their pockets for nearly all of
this amount.
When the cases against William S.
Streeter came up for trial at Min
neapolis, County Attorney Nve made
the statement that DIR. Hall, Mr..
Streeter's physician, had reported
that he was suffering from acute
Bright's disease, and the county at
torney had a consultation of ply
sicians, three doctors making the
examination. Their report showed
that, while they did not fully concur
in DR.. Halls opinion. yet Streeter
would not for several months be able
to undergo the excitement of a trial
The case was therefore marked for
the calendar next term.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-02-15
INSTALLED AT HARTFORD

Rev. c. M. LamsOn was duly in
stalled as pastor of the Center Con-
gregational church at Hartford,
Conn, on Wednesday Of last week.
Twenty-Five churches were repre-
sented in the council by which he
was examined, and many prominent
New England clergymen were pres
ent. The sermon was delivered by
Rev. A. J. Lyman of Brooklyn, N. Y,
and his text was "On his head were
many crowns" The invocation
was delivered by Rev. Dr. Michael
Burnham of Hartford, and Prof.
Charles NJ. Mead of the Hartford
theological seminary read the scrip
lures. Rev. DR.. George Leon Walker,
pastor emeritus of the church, de-
livered the installing prayer. The
charge to the pastor was delivered
by Rev. DR.. E. P. Parker of the
South church, and the fellowship ot
the church was extended by Rev. DR.
!. II. Twitchell of Hartford. Rev
Wolcott Calkins OF Eliot church
Newton, delivered the address to the
people. The ceremonies were in
teresting and impressive and large
number of people participated il
them