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thar. Leastways, not like this I've got
fer the captain"

fer the captain"
Jim got up and walked the floor.
"I'll kill the hound" he said, and
and knew what he was talking about.
"You might ez we'll kill me, too,
Jim," she replied to this threat, "fer
what kills him kills me-"
Jim sat down sobbing with grief
greater than he could express.
"Oh, Marthy, Marthy," he said, after
few minutes, ''to think that you wuz
more'n everything in the world to me,
and that thar wuzn't nothin' else l
keered fer eff it wuzn't you, and now
you have give it all up fer stranger,
and him revenOO."
Perhaps it was not such burst Of
emotional eloquence as the more civil
lied man could have poured forth at
such time, but there was all of Jim's
| heart and soul in it, and there can be
no more than that in any human utter
i ance.
After long time Jim went away,
and when the officer came on his next
visit Martha talked to him of this old
lover of hers, and the officer smiled
softly to himself.
He knew Jim Blatchman by reputa.
ton, and Was anxious for a personal
acquaintance. Martha could bring
about meeting, and Martha did.
1t took place near Jim's moonshine
factory in the depths of the mountains.
Notwithstanding the deputy was look
ing for Jim, the meeting was sur
prise to him and to the one man with
him. So surprising, in fact, that be
fore the officers knew exactly what had
happened Jim had them both covered
with a Winchester and their hands
were up in the air quite out of reach O.
the guns they carried for such emer
gencies.
"Who are you? What do you NEAR
by this outrage?' stormed the deputy
marshal, not, however, taking dow1
his hands to make gestures with, fol
Jim's Winchester seemed to forbi(
that.
''Pm Jim Blatchman," replied th'
moonshiner, quietly, land reckon
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unusual SOfG
Living in the mountains Of the Cum
berland as he had since his birth, it
was not to be expected that he could
be of the higher type of manhood
which tradition assumes to be found
mostly along the broader paths of CIV
ilization, yet Jim Blatchman was not
found wanting when the time came,
albeit there was a strange tumble in
his ignorant mind of what constituted
heroism.
At least it may be called heroism,
though Jim didn't know it by that
name.
But to the story of it.
Jim was a young mountaineer OF
twenty-five, tall, loosely coupled, sal
low of face, slow of speech, devoid of
grace, and still having heart in him
which for year or more had been
wont to beat as a trip hammer when
ever his eyes fell upon the pleasant
face of old Zeke Munyon's daughter
Martha.
And it was noticed by the gossips of
the Fork that Martha rather favored
Jim, for he owned little farm with a
hewed log house on it, and Martha, be-
ing ambitious in her social nature. felt
that hewed log house was none too
fine for her feather.
True, she had not been accustomed
to the luxury of hewed logs as house
material, for her fathers residence
was only of logs in the rough, but this
lack rather intiamed her ambition and
made her wish the more for those
things which she had not
Neither had it any appreclable effect
| upon her conscience that Jim made
more money selling the ''moonshine'
that he made than he did selling the
crops that he made.
1t was the end, not the means there
to, which most interested this noun
tain maid.
To Jim, however, these slight dis
crepancies of character did not appeal
He was in love with Martha, and wher
| man is in that condition nothing else
counts.
So time trotted on, until the wedding
| day was almost in sight, and Martha
went to the county town to spend {
day and buy herself a calico gown anc
a few other ''weddin' fxin's."
Bad day for Jim.
At the tavern where Martha put VI
she met fne-looking fellow, not of the
mountains, who was a deputy United
States marshal by appointment, and I
'revenoo' by mountain title.
Usually the love of the mountaiuee
for ''revenoo" is not of the kind tina
passeth understanding, but Martha
ambition led her in advance of her pee
Pile, and she looked kindly on the off
Ger and listened with many a blush t.
his pretty speeches.
When she left for her home the office
told her he would come to see her, an
Martha was so pleased that she forgo
all about Jim.
Whether the officer was in love wit
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Martha or not may not be known, but
it is known that he came to see her;
that he came often; that the oftener
he came the better pleased he seemed
to be, and the upshot of it all was that
jim felt called upon to speak to her
about the officer and his own relations
to the then existing situation.
"Tain't that l don't like you, Jim
jist ez much ez ever did," she said to
him. but you amt like the captain. u
But you wuz lovin' me afore you
seen him." argued Jim.
No. wuzn't, Jim," she admitted.
II wuz tryin' to, an maxim you be
lieve / wuz. but thar wuzn't no love
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A MOUNTAIN HERO.
BY w. j. HAMPTON.

| Nj i L A TCH-
M A N was a
nOOnShiner.
Later he be-
came a murder
er and swung
for it, but just
the same he was
a hero of the
DunSual sort.
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CATTLE TIE.

and most convenient we have met
with is shown in our illustration. The
cows are sta bled two in a stall with
shallow gutter in the rear, to which
the inner floor should slope a couple OF
inches, affording ample drainage and
keeping the cattle clean. The chain
slides on the rod fastened to the side
of the stall by bolts, which, passing
through, fasten another rod to the
other side of the partition.-N. Y.
World
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FOR FASTENING CATTLE.

Description of a Simple, Convenient and
Economical Tie.
There are great many kinds of
cattle ties, for which various merits
are claimed but one of the simplest
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AFTER.

Laugh and sing when am gone,
Gayly deck my tomb;
Well ye know do not love
Aught OF blight or gloom.
Laugh and sing and drop no tear.
Deep the sod below
1t would please me best to think,
Tears had ceased to flow.
Gathered round my tent Of green,
Tell your tales OF mirth;
Oh, be happy, as am I.
Sleeping in the earth.
And remember as you go
Homeward through the grove,
That the robins, not the ravens,
Is the voice OF love-
Chicago Record
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If the private dairy will adopt the
same rules and the same implements
that the creamery has, it will turn out
just as good and uniform product as
the creamery can.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-11
HOW TO READ A BOOK.

The first thing to do in reading a
book, or a story in magazine, or
any other thing worth reading, is to
ascertain who wrote it. An author
talks to us in his books, and just as
we like to know the friends we talk
with, we should like to know the
name of the man or woman whose
published thoughts are entering into
our daily lives. Therefore make it a
rule, girls, to read the title.page of
the volume in your hand; and il
there be preface, unless it be very
long one, read that too. You will in
this way establish an acquaintance
with your author; you will know
him by sight, and soon you will
know him more intimately. Every
author has little ways and words of
his own, and you will find yourself
recognizing these very swiftly and
lovingly. By-and-by, when you
happen in your story on some phrase,
or turn of sentence, or little testing
mannerism which belongs to the
author you are growing well ac-
quainted with, you will feel pleased
and the story will mean a great deal
more to you than if 1T were simply
the work OF an unknown person,
whose tones and looks were quite
unfamiliar. Harpers Young People.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-11
time the scaffolding waspulled down.
nc. F. Holder in January St. Mich
oas.
THE DRIFT OF THE YEAR.

The close of the year naturally sug-
gests the question as to the DRIFT
and tendency of affairs during the
twelve months. Is the drift back
ward or forward, toward peace or
war, toward barbarsm or civiliza-
ton, progress or retrogression The
answer will vary according to our
moods and sympathies. But the
general tendency seems t 0 be forward,
although many of the agencies and
instruments whereby peace, pro-
gress and civilization have been at
tanned are being used up in the
movement. Parties and churches
and empires are like the baggage
wagons of an army in progress.
They wear out and break down and
disappear and are forgotten, but the
army arrives. So it is with the
human race. The Chinese Empire,
with all its faults, has for millen-
NUNS done civilizing work among
third of the human race. 1t is
crumbling beneath the blows of the
Japanese The Russian Gar, who
for the last twelve years has kept
the peace OF Europe, is dead. The
American democratic party, hehope
OF the free traders, was overwhelmed
at the November elections by an
electoral avalanche of disaster. In
England the liberal party is march
ing TO the abyss. And yet who is
there who does not feel that the
securities tor civiliza ton in the East,
peace in Europe, political progress
in America, and reform in England,
have been strengthened rather than
weakened in the course of the
year, January Review of Reviews.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-11
THE GOLD FEVER,

A singular fact, which should be OF
interest to all men who delight in
stalking their money or their property
on the chance of increasing it, is
brought out in a recent report from
an officer of the diplomatic service
stationed at Melbourne, Australia
There is no gambling so fascinating
as the search for gold. When thous-
ands of men took their families across
the continent during the excitment of
1S49, few OF the adventures had any
practical idea of mining.
BY far the greater part OF the forty
miners settled in the west, or came
to the eastern states richer only in
experience. Many took up the row.
ing lite of the professional miner,
wandering from camp to camp, MAX
ing precarious living, always hop
ing vainly for that stroke of luck
which was to make them wealthy,
Now there is some talk among the
miners of California and Nevada of
emigrating to Australia, where re-
Gently new finds" of gold have been
made; and the news of their plans
has reached far,off Melbourne, with
the result that our consul-general
there has sent to the state depart
ment letter concerning the condi-
tions which American miners may
expect to find if they visit the new
gold field. Gold is the chief product
of the colony of Victoria, next to
wool; and prior to 1876 it was the
chief product of that colony without
exception. Yet, great as the mining
industry was, the official statistics
show, according to the consul gener-
ais report, that the value of gold to
the working miner has never been
greater than $3.50 in one year; and
the minimum production to the
working miner was $3.50 in 1876.
Nothing could be palmer than these
figures. They mean that for every
man who made fortune there were
enough men in poverty to bring the
earnings per man below $3.50 year.
But this feature OF the report of the
consul-general is not the one which
will fix the attention of the western
miners. Rather they will form their
judgement on the paragraph which
tells of the discovery of the "Bailey's
Reward" mine in August 1892, of
which it is told that "six men work
ing for four weeks, with the use of
only the toughest tools, raised $500
ounces of gold, which is valued at
$4S, 700" To the peripatetic miner
drifting from one field to another as
discoveries are reported, it is never
the $3.50 fortune that looms on the
horizon. They see nothing but the
bonanza finds" that make million
aires of the iew.-[Harper's Weekly.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-11
KEEP HENS SCRATCHING.

Fowls kept in artiticially heated
houses are more apt to contract colds
than otherwise. After having heated
their bodies they of sudden go out
doors to meet IA temperature good
many degrees colder In this the
scratching shed does noble work. 1t
is a good "go between" gradually
introducing the poultry to the
change. The shed being possibly 10
degrees colder than the roosting pen,
it likewise is 10 degrees warmer than
the outside temperature. Certainly
this gradual change is less dangerous
than sudden exposure to 20 degrees
colder,
If the scratching shed is under the
same roof with the roosting pen,
which, should be, muslin door can
be fastened in front, which during in
clement weather, can be kept closed.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-11

mill at Pittsburg, Pa, and those
who refuse to accept it will be dis
charged.
That lone democrat in the Michi-
gan legislature is in hopeless
minority, but he will present the
candidate of his party for United
States senator and will vote for him,
too.
Dwight Miner, one of the principal
founders of Dwight's bank at Dun
kirk, N. Y, left the place in 1855, be-
ing $50, 900 short in his accounts.
The bank realized about $85, 1000
from his estate. Miner returned last
Wednesday night, gave himself up
and was held in bail of $4,000. All
the principal witnesses against him
are dead and it is not probable that
he will ever be brought to trial.
Mrs. Henry Bartholomew of East
on, Pa, received $500 a short time
ago from the estate Of a deceased
relative, and placed it in the stove
pipe in the parlor, without saying
anything to the rest OF the family. A
number of friends were invited to
spend Christmas with them, and Mr..
Bartholomew started a fire in the
parlor that morning. Mrs Bar
tholomew soon remembered about
her money and rushed into the room
only TO find that it had been burned.
Diphtheria is rapidly depopulating
the little village of Wesley, MINI.
There have been 81 deaths in the
place from that disease since the out
break, and there is now an average
of two deaths daily, with twice as
many new cases. 1t is a town Of
about 800 inhabitants, mostly
Bohemians.
When Miss Pollard won her suit
against Congressman Breckenridge
she got judgment against him
which is worthless because the
colonel has no property. Now it is
announced that he intends starting
on lecture tour, and Miss Pollard
declares that if he does she will
attach the box receipts at every
place he lectures till she has satisfied
the judgment, if there is money
enough to do it.
During the season of navigation
just closed 14,491 vessels passed
through St. Mary's Canal, at the
$780," having registered tonnage
of 13, 40, 1866, an increase of 81 per
cent in number and "a per cent i'll
tonnage as compared with the pre-
vious year. The amount of lumber
locked through the canal was 1922
7SS,000 feet, as against 588, $685.
600 in 1898, an increase of % per
cent.
Nineteen ships, of an estimated
value of $2,970,000, are said to be
now either under contract in the
shipyards of the Great Lakes, or
negotiations for their construction
are so far advanced that lit is quite
probable they will be built to 60 in
to commission as early as possible
next season
A very recent summary Of the ac-
cidents caused by the earthquakes in
Italy during last month reveals the
fact that more than twenty villages
are in ruins, 500 persons seriously
wounded, 10000 homeless and sc
have been killed or have died from
consequent shock or illness.
The Pope recently gave orders for
the construction OF his tomb. Pro-
fessor Lucchetti is to attend to the
architectural part, and Eugenio
Maccagni will be the sculptor. The
tomb will be in the basilica, Santa
Maria Maggiore. Plus VI was the
last ppDe hurled there
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-11
The REVIEW OF REVIEWS.
EDITED BY ALBERT SHAW.

was April 1891 that the first number of the Reviews Reviews
addition to it's brilliant original articles
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-11
RHEUMATISM PREVALENT,
Caused by the Sudden Changes of Tenn
peraSure.

Rheumatism is more prevalent here than
ever before. When this disease fastens upon
an individual with its soreness and pain
swelling the joints rendering him helpless in
his movements, he is indeed an object of pity.
The slightest pain in the back, joints or
muscles, is a warning indication of an i'm
poverished condition of the blood, and if not
attended to at once, means rheumatism.
Since the introduction of Dr. David Ken
nedy's Favorite Remedy, there have been
fewer rheumatic sufferers. Favorite Rem
edy drives out rheumatic poison from the
blood, restores the circulation, strengthens
the nerve power The best proof of it's value,
is the good it has done,
az was afflicted with infammatory rheu-
matism for fifteen years." writes Mr.. E. p
Tayer, of East Nassau, N. Y, so severe that
/ was supposed to be a cripple for life. Under
physicians treatment I grew worse. DR..
Kennedy's Favorite Remedy helped me from
the time I first used it, and entirely cured
me-"
The beautiful daughter of Mr.. James Nc
Farland of DEM oines, Ia, was helpless for
months with sciatic rheumatism After a
few doses of DR.. Kennedys Favorite Remedy
she began to grow better and continued it's
use was cured.
Mr.. G. Lansing of Troy, N Y. had rheu-
matism so bad that he had to be turned
over in bed. After using DR.. Kennedy's
Favorite Remedy but short while, was re-
stored to health. Why then suffer with
rheumatism or neuralgia This medicine
will help you.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-11
Legal Notices.
Commissioners Notice.

MARTHA M. BORLAND'S ESTATE
The subscribers, having been appointed by
the honorable Probate court for the district
of Caied onia commissioners to receive. ex-
anime, and adjust all claims and demands of
all persons against the estate of Martha M .
Boriand, late of Danville, in said district
deceased. and the term of six months from
the 18th day of Dec, 1894, being allowed
by said court to the creditors of said de-
claims before us: Givenotice that we will at
tend to the duties of our appointment at the
dwelling house of G. Is. Davis in Danvillc,
in said district, on the 10Th day of January,
A. d. 1896, and the 18th day of June
A. d. 1896 next, at 1 O'Clock in the after
noon on each of said days.
GEO. Il. DAVIS
CHAS. ID. BRAINERD,
commissioners.
Danyille, Dec, II, 1894
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-01-11
Commissioners Notice.

JANE w. WOODWARD'S ESTATE.
The subscribers, having been appointed by
the honorable probate court for the district
of Caledonia, commissioners to receive, ex-
anime, and adjust all claims and demands Of
all persons against the estate Of Jane w.
Woodward, late of Danville, in said dis
trict, deceased, and the term of six months
from the oath day of December, 1894, being
allowed by said court to the creditors Of
said deceased. to exhibit and prove their re-
spective claims before us Give notice that
we will attend to the duties of our appoint
ment at the dwelling house OF Geo. b.
Davis, in Denville. in said district, on the
26th day of January and the 26th day Of
June next, at 2 O'Clock in the afternoon,
on each of said days.
GEO. Is. DAVIS.
FRED b. STOCKER,
Commissioners.
Danville. VT, Dec. 81. A. D. 1894.
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GLEA NINGS.

A cut, amounting in some cases to
so per cent has been made in the
wages of employees in the Carnegie
Evening journal., 1895-10-03
cnrhstt Henrs the News.

ATLANTA, Oct. 3.-Champion Jim Cor
hett and party reached Atlanta. When in
formed that both houses of the Texas leg
islature had passed an antiprize lighting
bill he said:
IL am supposed to be pretty fast my
self but that beats me. Well, all / can
say is that we are under contract with
Dan Stuart and the Florida Athletic club
and propose to live up to our part Of the
contract We are going TO Texas under
the terms Of our contract, and / am going
there TO fight. ! expect to live up 10 my
part of the agreement / am anxious to
fight and will go anywhere to pull it OF
providing the purse is all right. -
1T seems very funny that the legisla-
ture Of Texas and the governor should 90
so far out of their way to make a special
fight on sparring contest of which the
chances are the majority Of the legislature
know nothing whatever, said Manager
Brady So far as there being any brutal
ity in such contest between skilled pugi-
lists who are in good physical condition,
why that is absurd
Evening journal., 1895-10-03
DURANT's CLASSMATES.
Fifty-nine Of Them Called 20 Testify at the
Murdon Trial.


SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3.-The defense
in the Durant case did that which it has
often urged tho prosecution TO do. AttOr-
ney Dnprcy called to the stand 90 NOM
bers Of the class 20 whom DR.. Cheney lee.
turod on the afternoon of April and ask
ed each OF thom II he answered 60 Du-
rants name nt roll call Every answer
was In the negative. Attorney Duproy
went further and asked each student " he
know of any other member of the class
who had answered TO Durant's name.
None of the witnesses had any informal
tion on the subject. OF the students sum
moned to the stand, not one know whether
Durant was at the lecture room in Cooper
college on the day that Blanche Lamont
was murdered Neither could they call
to mind any other student who was there.
IL Is expected that the remaining IA mem
bers of the class will be summoned to the
stand.
While the step taken by the defense in
calling Durant's classmates to the stand
is generally regarded as bold move It
cannot be said that it resulted to the ma
terial advantage of either side. The prose-
cution contends that the testimony is un-
important, inasmuch as 20 students might
give satisfactory evidence for the defense,
while the sevonty-fourth Of the class, II
he could be found, would give the evidence
that the prosecution SO much desired.
Great stress was laid by both sides on
the memory of the witnesses as to the in
dividual students who attended the lee
ture. While the prosecution showed that
no one of the students who were placed
on the stand remembered seeing Durant
at the lecture, tho defense brought out tho
fact that the witnesses did not remember
any other student who was present. The
testimony therefore, resulted in no ma
torial advantage to either side.