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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-06-12
MAI. W. W. ROBBINS.
Eramer Of the Indiana Military
Bill Made Well by Paine'S
Celery Compound.

Major Robbins Of the 2nd Indiana
state guards, aide on Gen. McKee's
staff, and president of camp Gray,
has been for two years one of the
most influential members of the Indi.
ana legislature and the author OF
the famous Indiana Military law of
1889.
Major Robbins was a very sick
man up to the time Of taking Paine's
celery compound.
In proof OF what that remarkable
remedy can do to make a sick person
strong and well, Major Robbins let
ter from Indianapolis best tells its
own straightforward story.
81 was troubled with a torpid
liver, constipation and the accom-
panying sallow complexion, while
nv entire nervous system was entire
" deranged, and | was greatly
reduced in flesh. While in this condi-
ton was taken down with a very
severe attack of the grip, and was,
for long time, confined to the house
and my bed.
II resorted to various medicines
and tones, and under their temper
arv influence made several attempts
to resume my business of travelling
about in the interests of A. Steffen,
cigar manufacturer Of this city; but
relapse succeeded relapse, and l not
only was obliged to abandon my
business, but growing gradually
worse, became apprehensive of the
ultimate result.
at this juncture, my mother-in-
law who had used your remedy with
gratifying results, prevailed upon me
to commence taking Paine's celery
compound ,andit gives me great pleas
ure to state that at once began to
feel its beneficial effects.
my appetite, which had failed me,
returned, my constipation ceased,
and very soon my liver became nor
nal in its action. Following this
my sleeplessness and headaches
ceased, and l began to gain flesh.
The insiduous hold on me that
the grip had hitherto had was re-
Taxed, and l felt invigorated and
strengthened, so | could resume my
vocation, and feel free from the lam
guild, enervated feeling that had so
long possessed me.
My friends were pleasantly sur
prlsed with the change in my condi-
ton, and | was only too happy to
recommend Paine's celery compound
to such OF my acquaintance as were
suffering from any of the complaints
which so complicated my case.
The, efore, | again say, | feel impelled
by a deep sense of gratitude to
express how much | have been
helped, for now feel and look like a
new man"
Physicians who rely on Paine's
celery compound-as thousands OF
the most wide.awake members Of the
profession are doing, especially now
that nearly every one feels the need
of genuine spring remedy-physi-
clans know very well what that
languor and that tired feeling means.
They know that debility today often
results in nervous prostration to-
morrow, unless the tired system is
quickly invigorated,
That is why all over the country
today Paine's celery compound is
being taken by the advice of skilled
physicians. 1t is the one remedy
that physicians can conscientiously
call genuine spring remedy. Try
If
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-06-12
Half Rates to San Francisco.

On June Is, 16, % and "a, 1896, the
Northwestern Line Chicago and North
Western railway, the famous Cali
foinia in Days" route, will sell cxcur-
sion tickets to San Francisco and return
at half rates, one fare for the round trip,
good returning 60 days from date of
sale For full Information apply to
ticket agents of connecting lines, or
address
H. A. Gross, G. E. P. A., 423 Broad
way, New York
]. E. Britain, n. E. P. A., 5 State
street, Boston, Mass.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-06-12
Rheumatism Cured in a Day.

"Mystic Cure" for rheumatism and
neuralgia radically cures in to days
Its action upon the system is remarkable
and mysterious. 1t removes at once the
cause and the disease Immediately dis
appears. The first dose greatly benefits
rs cents, Sold by Boynton & Eastman
druggists, st. Johnsbury.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-06-12

T. F, Anthony, Ex-Postmaster Of
Promise City, Iowa, says: II bought
one bottle of Mystic Cure for rheuma-
tism, and two doses of it did me more
good than any medicine l ever took"
Sold by Boynton & Eastman, druggists,
St. Johnsbury.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-06-12

"This constant piano practice is
very severe strain on the nerves." she
said with sigh.
so I've heard the neighbors say" he
replied.-[Chicago Post.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-06-12

Be not disturbed by in6delity. Religion
cannot pass away. The burning of a
little straw may hide the stars, but the
stars are there and will reappear.-
Thomas CARLYLE,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-06-12

The liquor traffic is today the heaviest
clog upon the progress. and the deepest
disgrace, of the nineteenth century,
New York Tribune.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-06-12

"Politics has a German vote and an
Italian vote and an Irish vote and
brewer vote and saloon vote. Is it not
about time to have Christian vote ?"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-06-12

HOODS PILLS cure Liver Ills,
Biliousness, Indigestion, Headache.
A pleasant laxative. ALI Druggists.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-06-12
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BECAUSE

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1t participates in surplus distributions, as
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1t places no restrictions residence or
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-06-12

We are in debt to God for what He
would give and we will not take.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-06-12
for Infants and Children.

"Castoria isso well adapted to children that
Irecommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me-" H A. ARCHER, M. D.,
Iii So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-03-27

lock-the key to which is retained b.,
the keeper; beneath the cover revolH-
ing plate supporting paper dial l.
placed and a die SO arranged tina.
when patrol-key is inserted anl
turned in the clock a mark is made
upon the paper dial recording the hou
of striking. At the end of the beat
is a post to which key is affixed; wher
the ,patrolman reaches this he wind
the clock-the dial-plate is marked:
failure to be at the clock, without gooti
and sufficient reason, is punished by
dismissal.
At midnight, at such a station, the
keeper gives to the two patrolmen q
clock containing fresh dial-plates, aud
these two men, going in opposite dIrcc-
tions, patrol the beach till four in the
morning. When these return to the
station, two other men take theii
places till sunrise. The next night, al
sunset, two new men keep guard until
eight in the evening, and at that hour
their places are taken by two othrcs
until midnight. Then, returning to
the station, the keeper is called, new
uidl- pIduSS are lIiSoitCu III tAC CioShH,
they are locked and given to two new
patrolmen, who walk till four in the
morning. So from sunset till sunrise
our American coasts are patroled by
solitary watchmen, on the lookout for
vessels in danger.
No weather is severe enough to daunt
these brave men, and they trudge all
night in rain, hail, wind or snow, while
we are comfortably sleeping.
The patrol duty at a station is so ar
ranged that those men who have the
long patrol one month are put on the
short patrol the next; the night
watches are divided into three watches
of four hours each.-"The Story of
Life-Saving Station" by Teresa A
Brown in St Nicholas.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-03-27
THE DEVILS PUMP.
Odd Combinations of Natural and Arti-
fetal CuriOsities.

ucIal CuriOSlUlcSs
One of the greatest combinations of
natural and artificial curiosities on the
coast of California is called the DEVILS
Pump. The pholas, or shell miners,
a species of mollusk which eXcavates
immense caverns in the very hardest
stone, have tunneled the entire coast
in the vicinity of the pump. Water
rushes into these caverns with each
succeeding tide flow and, in this partic-
ular case, finds vent through cylin-
drical opening some distance from the
waters edge. 1t is estimated that this
hole, which connects with the sea
cavern, is rs to 100 feet in depth. Every
time the tide rushes into the cavern
beneath the pump" throws water 10
the height of a full 100 feet above the
mouth of the opening. The Indians
formerly called it by a name which
signified fairy water gum" but the
irreverent white men have given it the
title of the Devils Pump" and by that
name it will probably be known by flu
ture generations.
There is similar curiosity near
Horn Head, County Donegal, Ireland.
where a hole in the rocks is called '.Mc
Swiney's Cum" says the ST. Louis Re-
public. Like the California oddity, it is
on the seacoast and has connection
with O submarine cavern. When the
north wind blows and the sea is at
half flood" the wind and waves enter
the cavern and send up immense col
umns of water through the gun.
Travellers say that each charge of wa
ter sent from the gun" is accompanied
by an explosion that can be heard for
miles,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-03-27
WATCH THE THUMBS.
They Are TeIltale Signs of Healthy q
Sick Nerves.

They Are TeIltale Signs of Healthy or
Sick Nerves.
"When l went to a nerve specialist
first" said man who was once an in
valid to Boston Gazette reporter,
che told me that one way to judge of
the condition of a persons nerves was
to watch his thumbs. Ever since that
time have found the greatest fascina
ton in looking at peoples thumbs.
The doctor said that if they moved in
voluntarily outward it was sign that
the nerves of that man or woman were
not in the best condition. l find my
self now line sweeping the line oppo-
site me in the car, and if the doctors
test is good one, there is a surprising
lumber of people in this town whose
nerves need looking after. There are
few people among the women who do
not involuntarily move the thumbs out
ward at intervals of every few minutes,
and when your attention have been
once attracted to it, the process of
watching their gloved hands grows
very interesting. 1 have found the
habit much less frequent among men,
but take the-average number of women
in street car, and it will be sur
prise to you to see how many of them
indulge unconsciously in this little
habit. l only hope it does not mean
anything as serious as it might in
dictate if that nerve specialists dag
nosis was good one.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-03-27
YAWNING AS A CURE.
Singular Theory Evolved by n Belg
Physician of Note.

Singular Theory Evolved by Belgian
Physician of Note.
DR.. Naegeli, a Belgian physician, has
discovered that yawning has a very
salutary effect in complaints of the
pharynX and eustachian tubes. Accord
ing to his view, yawning is the most nat
ural form of respiratory exercise, bring
ing into action all the respiratory mus
cles of the chest and neck. He recon-
mends, therefore, that every person
should have a good yawn, with stretch
ing of the limbs morning and evening,
for the purpose of ventilating the lungs
and tonifying the muscles of respira-
ton. He claims that this sort of gym
uastics has a remarkable effect in re-
Eeving throat and ear troubles, and
says that patients suffering from dis
orders of the throat have derived great
benefit from it. He makes his patients
yawn either by suggestion, imitation or
by a series of full breaths with the lips
partly closed. The yawning is repeated
six or eight times, and should be fol
lowed by swallowing. By this means
the air and mucous in the eustachian
tubes are aspirated. The treatment
may not be effective by some cases of
throat and ear trouble. But yawning
is certainly great luxury, and, as it Is
IT least harmless, DR.. Naegeli's treat
ment is worth trying.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-03-27
BEN FRANkLIN's BIG HEAD.
How He Wore His Wig In His Pocket a,
the French Court.

How He Wore His Wig In His Pocket at
the French Court.
The difficulties encountered recently
by the lineal descendants of that great
man, statesman, patriot and everything
else that men properly hold in estima-
ton = Benjamin Franklin - in having
themselves enrolled among the Colonial
Danes, recall an anecdote of him, says
the Washington Post, embalmed in
the family records of the sage of Mon
ticello, but which, so far as the writer
knows, has never been published. When
about to present himself for the first
time at the court of Versailles he was
informed by the master of ceremonies
that wig was sine qua non. Now,
his head was SO large that no ordinary
wig. would begin to fit it, and the stu
alton was embarrassing in the extreme.
However, one was found sufficiently
large to pass him through the ante
chambers, after which he was permit
ted to remove the ridiculous conven-
tional appendage and place it in his
ample pocket. whence it never again
emerged to public gaze.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-03-27

A real Mr.. Malaprop was discovered
the other day in the person of a Broad
way cable-car conductor. The car was
on a downtown trip. and had but few
passengers until it reached Fourteenth
street. There half dozen people, five
women and one man, got aboard. Three
of the women and the man found seats
together, but the other two went to an
other part of the car, thereby leaving
it doubtful as to whether they were
members of the party or not. The man
with the three, instead of giving the ex-
act change, offered q half-dollar in pay,
ment of the fares. and the conductor
was as much in the dark as ever. To in
quire was plainly the only way to arrive
at the truth. With a polite wave of
his hand toward the two women in the
further corner. he asked blandly: "Are
those ladies implicated pm. Y. Trib-
une.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-03-27
PLANTS AND A MEAT DIET.
Darwin Makes a Daring Statement ana
Supports 1t by Experiment..

Darwin Makes a Daring Statement ana
Supports 1t by Experiment..
1t has been proven time and again
that the so-called 'cannibal plants, OF
which the Venus hy trap is the type,
are much more healthy when allowed
their insect food than they are when
reared under netting or IN any other
manner which excludes them from
their regular meat liet. The above is
an oddity of itself, says the st. Louis
Republic, especially when we consider
the fact that there is a certain school
ofbotanistsw which teaches that cannibal
plants make no use whatever of the in
sect prey captured by them, but 1T is
nothing compared with the bold as
sertion made by Francis Darwin. That
noted scientific gentleman bravely
meets the vegetarian botanists" with
the assertion that all kinds and classes
of plants, whether known as meat
eaters or not, bear more Of the heavier
fruits and seeds when fed on meat than
those that are not allowed flesh diet
He grew two lots, comprising various
varieties of the different common
plants. One lot was regularly fed
Through their roots, of course) with
pure juices compressed from meat, the
other with water and the various fer
tilizers. The final figures on this odd
experiment proved that the plants
which were fed pure meat juice bore
168 fruits of the different kinds, while
the unfed plants of tho same number
and original condition bore but "a.
Also that the pampeIed plants bore 24O
seeds to every 100 borne by the plants
that were not given chance to crafty
cannibalisulc tastes. This is certainly
a discovery worthy of much careful
study and extensive experiment.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-03-27

over, the flame acts merely on the part
of the flower which is in immediate
contact with it, SO that odd figures can
be drawn on the petals, as if with a
brush and white paint.
Made in the flame of sulphur in COM
bustion this experiment gives mega
tive result. The flowers are carbon
lied before being bleached. With car,
bon bisulphide the result is better, but
not so good as with hydrogen sulphide.
This difference of action may be eX-
planned by the fact that the gas evolved
during the combustion of hydrogen
sulphide is probably, for moment,
sulphurous acid SO3H2, and not sui
phur dioxide 500.
Young readers willing to repeat this
experiment will find in textbooks of
chemistry how to prepare hydrogen
sulphide and how to avert the two
dangers of this preparation, viz, the ex-
plosion of the flask by premature light
ing and the inhalation of the gas while
it is not burning.-Gustave Nichaud,
d. S., in Scientific American.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-03-27
HIS MOTHERS LOOK.
How a Wild Boy Repented and Became 8
Most Worthy Man.

How Wild Boy Repented and Became a
Most Worthy Man.
The following touching incident was
once related by Jesuit father:
Il have known student whose disso-
lutte and wicked life had caused him to
be cast into chains and locked up iii
the fortress of Ehrenbreistein His faa
Their was long since dead. His mother,
therefore, had to bear alone the grief
caused by the degenerated child.
1T is difficult to express how keenly
it gnawed on the mothers heart; i'll
the soul of the criminal, however, it
was, and remained as dark as in tihc
prison where he was chained, not the
Last sign of repentance. No wonder
that such sorrow, which by day and by
night afflicted the poor mother of the
i.npenitent son laid her on the bed OF
death.
Seeing the hour of dissolution APP
proach, she sent a petition to the com
mander of the fortress to bring her
child once more before her dying bed.
He granted her request. The next day
the son appeared, escorted by armed
soldiers, at the bed of his mother. But
she, pale and consumed with grief, spoke
10 wortls-no, not word. but long and
piercing she looked at him, and, having
penetrated him long and deeply, she
turned her face and signaled to lead
him away.
"As he came. so he went-cold and
sulky, like as if there was in him an in
carnate obstinacy. But in the prison ii
came upon him-the look of his hag
gard, dying mother, thin and wasted,
and with this look everything = re-
! proach, punishment, admonition, en-
treaty, mothers anxiety, mothers
love. Had she spoken to him the whole
month long. increasingly, she could not
have spoken so earnestly and thrilling
ly to his heart as she did with her dumb
look from her deathbed.
what a storm of emotion agitated
the soul of the wicked youth. AS never
before he was moved, md broke forth
in such vehement CALCULATIONS that one
would think that his heart must break.
We need not be astonished that. all IT
once, he struck his brow, burst into
tears and loudly exclaimed: % Godi to
! what have l comet He stopped, not
with recognition-no, he converted
! sincerely: he even entered a monastery
! and became Jesuit missionary, and
now we see hin9---the young criminal
here standing before you in the pulpit. ="
| It was Father Hasslacher himself, the
celebrated German Jesuit, who died In
1S76.-Boston Herald.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-03-27
Cor and H,s Brownies.

Palmer Cox says the idea of writing
about the brownies came to him from
reading Scotch traditions concerning
these amusing little elves. They were,
he says, almost unknown in Americs
until he began writing about them, but
in Scotland they had existed in the
folk lore for 500 years. The Scotch
brownie, according to Mr.. Cox, was u
beneficient sort of sprite. whose only
three emotions were joy. wonder and
terror. 1t was supposed they were
never seen by human beings, but went
about at night performing helpful deeds
for the country folk, at the same time
getting a deal of fun themselves out of
kindly pranks-
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-03-27
Store Burned at Jacksonville.

On last Sunday night the large store
with new stock of goods belonging
to Mr.. Lawrence Allnutt, at Dawson
vile, Montgomery County, were de-
stroyed by fire, There had been no
fire in the store during the day and
Mr.. Allnutt and several of his friends
had left the store only about an hour
before The fire broke out. The building
also contained the postoffice, which
was completely consumed, entailing a
loss to the PostOffice Department of
about $3.50. Out of the contents of the
store nothing was saved but the safe
and two pitch forks. The books and
papers in the safe were very badly
damaged, but none will be lost. The
loss is estimated at $4,000, with an in
surance of So, $50.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-03-27
CURIOUS EXPERIMENT..

Easily Performed ut Home with the Aid
of Hydrogen SuIphide.
Here is curious experiment, which
can be performed with hydrogen sui
phide.
It any colored flower is passed quick
" through the flame of that gas. Il
becomes instantly as white as snow
in all the parts that were in contact
with the flame. The flower is not car
bombed and does not fade. The cause
of this phenomenon is. of course, that
sulphur dioxide is evolved during the
combustion Of the hydrogen sulphide.
but while it takes several minutes to
bleach flowers in the ready-made gas,
its action is absolutely instantaneous
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-03-27
PATRoLiNe THE BEACH.
A Duty Which the Life Savers Are Gale
Upon TO Perform.


Upon TO Perform.
The patrol from sunset to sunrise is
one of the most important duties in the
service, and the most careful rules are
laid down in regard to its performance
When stations are near together, as
on dangerous coasts, the two patrol
men from Station "B.'' starting along
the beach in opposite directions. walk
until they meet patrolmen from &C.
and ID" with whom they exchange.
checks, and return TO their own station
At the end of week the checks are re-
turned to their proper stations, and this
is kept up during the season. week
after week.
The keepers of lonely stations pro-
vide the surfmen with time-detectors
time-detector is similar to a clock
with a hinged cover. fastened by a
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-03-27

them all together and plunge them
under water so as to moisten them COM
pletely. Then remove your hand and
let them take their own position in
the water, when you will find that they
will stand upright as if supporting
one another.
This is because the water that pel.-
etrates the corks by capillarity will
make them cling together.-Philadel-
mia Times
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-03-27

The iong-sought-for device to remove
wrinkles has at last been invented by
Philadelphia woman, who has Sc
cured a patent upon her clever inven-
ton. The arrangement consists Of two
bowed arms of watch-spring steel, end
ing IN channels pads. The arms lit
around the back of the head. drawing
the flesh back until it is smooth. When
worn during the hight it Is claimed
that the device is vcrv effectual.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1896-03-27

She stood on weighing machine: he
had dropped penny in and the indica-
tor pointed to 225.
"Lovey," she gurgled. ''I've gained IS
pounds in the last two weeks"
Sweetey," he chirruped. Il never
loved you SO much before" And the
machine broke down.-To Date.