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The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

The aimless in life are to be pitied.
They drift with the current. They are
of little account to themselves or to So
ciety. A worthy object is essential to
bring out the best that is in u.s. The
man of high and useful ideals, intent
upon their realization, is full of push
and energy. He gets the most out of
existence, and gladdens, enriches, in
spires and helps as he has opportunity.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29
The Rush for Office.

That the rush for office, under the
new administration, is tremendous, is
well known But that it assumes the
proportion of a torrent is something
which the great majority have not yet
considered Some idea of the tremen-
dous pressure can be CLEANED from the
statement that since the Inauguration
the PostofTice Department has ,eq ed
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

$4,000 letters relating to appointments.
If this immense number Of letters is
poured into one department, the entire
torrent Of applications to all the depart
ments must be something appalling.
But there is one pleasant thought to be
cleaned from this craze for Office. If
all the letters are properly stamped, the
applications ought to net snug sum to
Uncle Sans receipts and thus contrib
ute something toward paying the vast
army of those who hold public place.
Philadelphia Item.
Patent Reversible Protective Tariff.
The protective tariff is marvelously
adapted to meet the wants of all emer-
gencies-according to the claims of its
various advocates. 1t lessons the cost
of the thing you have to buy, and in
creases it's price when you have the
same thing to sell 1t shuts out foreign
importations, yet increases the reven-
ues collected on such importations. The
foreigner pays the tax" on goods i'm
ported to this country, but it is IAN out
rage on the poorer classes in Germany
and France for those countries to ''in-
crease the cost of meat by tariff taxing
cheap American hog and cattle prod
ucts in the interest of German farm
erS."-Grand RAPIDS Democrat.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

A dispatch from Lancaster, Pa, says:
that Mrs. Jake Elliot shot her hus-
band three times yesterday and grave
fears are entertained for his recovery" :"
If his recovery is feared perhaps Mrs.
Elliot would better shoot him again.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29
Brief Comment.

Inc newspapers WHICH have uHueI-
taken to explain why the good times
are postponed have difficult and per-
haps protracted job ON hand.-Water-
bury (Conn.9 American.
The sons of their fathers do not seem
to be getting the glad hand from the
present administration. The Major has
no boys, and he doesn't know how it is
himself elf-Binghamton On. W Leader.
Cannot Congress pass law making
all of Mr. McKinley's appointments
retroactive" so that they may draw
their salaries for the four years Cleve-
land kept them out of office Louis
vile Post.
Many Ohio cities which went Repub-
lican in November have gone against
the Republicans this spring in spite of
a wool schedule, which it was thought
would appeal to the blooded ram rails
ers.-Dubuque Herald.
If any newspaper thinks Of printing
what Senator Hanna thinks of the
Ohio municipal elections it would do
well to take time by the forelock and
lay in large supply Of asbestos paper.
Omaha World-Herald.
Mr.. Hanna has formally and firmly
refused to attach any Importance to the
recent municipal election results. Mr..
Hanna is enough of a politician to shut
his eyes when he doesn't care to view
unpleasant things.-New York Journal.
The flint glass makers who were told
that they were to have their wages
raised when Mckinley got in fail to see
through the contradiction of proposed
cut in wages. Perhaps they do not use
the right kind of glasses.-Boston
Globe.
Corporations can go on in their pres
ent reckless course and invite retalia-
tion-a retaliation which is sure to
come-or they can be contented with
the rights and privileges enjoyed by
their poorer fellow w-citizens. Is it not
time they began to appreciate their re-
sponsibility y?-Indianapolis News.
According to the New York Hide and
Leather Club, free hides brought more
than $2O,0O0,000 into the country and
gave employment to over 100000 men
last year. Of course, the logic of Ding
leyism will throw these men out Of en-
ployment and drive this money to Ger
many and England.-New York World.
1t was just as unreasonable and mis-
chievous to promise good times as the
result of McKinley's election as it was
to attribute the hard times to the cleo
ton of his predecessor. But the Repub-
lican press and orators were as prodi-
gal with their predictions as with their
Observation-Disclosures Herald.
Ever since the Mckinley idea came
in the annual appropriations have been
larger than ever This is the real source
of the woes under which the country is
suffering. 1t cannot be cured by piling
up taxes; by taking more money out of
the earnings of the people to make
good what has already been taken out
of the same place. The means of real
relief is the reduction of expenditures;
it is economy.-BostOn Post.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29
Her dearest Friend.

Dora (sweehy-Fred didn't blow his
brains out because you Tilted him the
other night; he came right over an0
proposed to me.
Maud (super-sweetly)-Did he: Then
he must have got rid of his brains
some other way.-Tid-Bits.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29
A Ready Response.

whats the matter?" said the way.
farer who was approached by a men,
dicant. Something on your mind?"
mo, SIR was the reply. ''Wot wor
ries me amt somethin' on me mind
It's nothin' on me stomach. ."-WaShing
ton Star.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

A Boston paper says: Spring is here
at last. A butterfly was caught at the
South End yesterday" This may be
the proper way to catch a butterfly,
but when you grab wasp it is better
to catch it about the middle, shifting
northwesterly toward the head.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

A girl in Uniontown, Pa, shot burg
lar the other night. But the CORE
spendent doesn't explain what she was
shooting at when the accident oc'
curred
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

A New York paper offered a prize for
the best definition Of news" and a
clergyman walked off with it for say
ing that news is anything that the
general public ought to know" The
ten commandments, for instance?
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

Philadelphia proposes to unveil
monument to Washington next month
which was begun in 1911, only eighty
six years ago. Why they should be in
such a hurry about it no one seems to
know
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

According to the Globe, an Atchison
woman has figured it out that "be-
tween the ages Of 16 and II her heart
was broken eleven times" Court plas-
ter does wonders in such cases.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

The New York papers which issued
their Easter number several weeks be-
fore Easter hope to be able to bring out
their Christmas editions this year
about the Fourth of July.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

The best description of that mysteri-
Gus nocturnal air ship comes from a
Kansas City man, who says it Cooked
to him about as big as beer glass
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

Colorado has passed law admitting
women to membership in the State
militia. 1t is about time to dramatize
the new woman as burlesque.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

The local headline, big Circus in Our
Midst" is slightly misleading. The ar
rival of cucumbers in the market has
nothing to do with it.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

Lieutenant Peary says he can find the
north pole for $150,000. 1t would be
about as easy to find one as to find the
other nowadays.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

Grants greatest monument is not In
Riverside Park.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

If Captain Sug Chigger, of Wyoming,
ever enters politics it is safe bet that
he will come right up to the scratch.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

they deserve credit for being as good
as they are,
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29

Chicago Chronicle: A word with the
advertiser who stuffs the mail boxes
>fnll of printed matter. 1t doesn't pay
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-08-13

ical account of the school and its stu
dents, its governors and trustees, its
talented teachers, and synchronous
Peacham preachers, all Of pious memory.
At your festivities memories will be
falling as gently as snowhakes in a
sugar orchard and clustering as coplous-
as the wild fruits on Peacham hills.
Our elder brothers and sisters from
long distances followed the trails by
blazed trees as laboriously as they
followed their teachers through the tor
tuous paths OF the three RS, readin, ritin,
and rlthmetic, but later when the new
academy was erected in the village
those OF us who are now near the stle
at the threescore and ten milepost were
unconsciouslv associated in daily at
tendance at school with many OF those
patriots who subsequently defended
their country and made the southern
streams run red with the crimson tide of
lie. But it is not my place to anticipate
what the historian will tell, nor to en-
cumber your thoughts with my poor
words.
Naturally your festivities will be more
or less convivial and while it is impos.
sible Tor me to be at your spread, as
should like so much to be, may perhaps
be allowed to send sterling contribution
and also lot OF American animals.
Our elder sisters may perhaps bring ex-
amples Of their spinning and weaving
much older and perhaps finer than mine,
but as so many of the Peacham pupils
learnt their art OF brewing from that
consummate master Of animal drawing,
Harrison Weir, my dear old English
friend now hale and hearty in his
seventy fifth year, send herewith a
damask table cloth designed by him and
made in 1880, as being both useful and |
hope acceptable for the occasion. | ven
ture to hope it may be used not only at
this centenary but at the next and in
the meantime the principal of the Gale
donia Grammar School, whoever he may
be, may use it for banquets or other fes-
rivals of the school OF ever blessed
memory.
To each and to every surviving
school fellow / send heartiest good
wishes.
Miss Anna H. Kidder wrote as follows
from Tokyo, Japan:
Thank you for the Caledohian invita-
ton to participate in the centennial
festivities of the dear old academy. A
working pupil still. send no regrets"
but heartfelt word OF love and honor
for the past, and God-speed for the flu
ture.
My day was when Mr.. Barnard, and
our sainted Thompson took the boys
and girls from their busy mountain
homes, and stirred in them big hopes for
useful living. The training then re-
ccived has been potent factor in shap-
ing my life into one OF labor. Never
with my tarthest reach have touched
my ideal: yet l press forward" tor
years and toll but brighten ASPIRATION.
wish there might be such moving
spirit among the students, old and
young, who gather in Peacham-on-the-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-08-13
PEACHAM'S CENTENNIAL.
[Continued from first page.l

glad was born there, mostly because
there was brought in contact with men
oflarge minds who had moved there for
the benefit OF the higher branches OF edu-
cation"
Emma White Merrill OF La Crescenta,
Cal, a granddaughter OF Ezra Carter,
wrote, "As my grandfather was a
teacher in the Academy and my hus-
bands father pupil we should have a
special and warm pleasure in attending
the ceremonies, but living at the great
distance it is impossible for us to be pres
emit"
Mrs. Calvin Morrill, Of St. Johnsbury
East wrote, "As have passed my Seth
birthday l can hardly hope to be with
you. ! recall very wildly the days of my
allotment at the Academy. Mr.. Bod
well was the preceptor. well remember
his stately step as he walked to and fro
over the hills OF Peacham Corner do
not forget the church at the top OF the
hill where Rev. Leonard Worcester OF
blessed memory expounded the law. His
trumpet gave no uncertain sound but
it rang out very clearly when Messrs.
Worcester and Butler were imprisoned in
Georgia Tor the crime of preaching
to the Indians. Old things are passing
away, behold many things are becoming
new. Irejoice IN the long and successful
career OF the Peacham school and pray
that there may be yet many years in
which it shall be a blessing to the COM
munity."
Mrs. Isaac w. Worcester, now in Cliff
ton Springs N. Y, wrote, Il have many
tender associations with Peacham and
it would have given me great pleasure to
be present on this interesting occasion.
do not doubt that he occasi will be
a very interesting one and | hope you
will feel fully repaid for all your pains
incident to such an occasion in the hap
piness conferred upon the many who will
assemble together on Academy hill and
revive the memories of the past"
w. D. Hartman OF Ann Arbor, Mich,
wrote long letter suggesting that the
graduates OF the school meet every sum-
mer and thus make Peacham sort OF
local Chautauqua.
]. S. Stevens of Peoria, Ill.,, wrote,
"Many of those who attended the old
Academy have played more or less of an
important part in it all, and some have
contributed materially, in their chosen
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-08-13

hills, this summer, that the academy
would receive forward movement that
would raise, and keep it at the highest
possible level for such a school to attain.
Why should not our schools be the best
in Vermont? Why should the gradua
ton paper of any other academy be
worth more than that OF the Caledonia
County Grammar School? Cannot
those who, because they have been bene-
fitted there, are scattered over the world
doing good, add this to their bounden
duties that OF contributing at least, one
dollar year toward upbuldirg this in
slitution OF learning? I've wondered,
many tlmr, why we who have taken
our lie start there were not more mind
fu OF our Alma Mater! Let us now begin
and help to make this place of instruct
ion, so dear to us all, more helpful to
the young men and women who are to
fill its halls in the future So many of
the old friends of forty years ago, have
gone over to the majority" that |
should he well-nigh a stranger; yet, |
should so love to tread the old paths,
and look into the faces of those who will
gather with you next month
Will you accept two dollars of an order
that goes by this mail toward the tx
pense of the centennial, and So, my
first wears contribution to the fund,
hope will be begun in this year of grace
1897. for the Caledonia County Gram
mar School? Should the one appointed
to receive this letter be one OF the friends OF
'54-61, remember, you. with all the old
associates. are still to memory dear.
am on the altar of service. Some day
we shall meet May it be in peace in the
Higher School.
Letters were also read from Mrs.
Hannah Evans Hardy of Boston, F. E.
Sargent of Anaconda, Mont; Isaac B.
Blake of Peoria, Iii c. W. Cowles Of
Derby Line; Mrs. M. K. Holt of Hard
wick; Elsie H. Gould of Evanston, ILL.,.
Martha F. O. French, Evanston; Sophia
F. orion, Chicago; D. F. Miller, Chicago
D. A. Clark, New York; Seraph S. Nelson
Cola, N. Y; DR.. D. H. Goodwillie, New
York; H. T. Knight, Folsom, Cal. John
Paul, Newport William G. Thompson
Cambridge, Mass; Lydia Parker Ripley
Colorado Springs; a. Hagar, Plantage
net, Ontario; E. s. Paquin, Lower Cabot
Fred F. Thompson, Canandaigua, N. Y.
c. c. Chase, Lowell, Mass; Emily
Damon Haines, Cabot; Mary Blanchard
Baldwin, St. Paul; Edw. w. Wild
Keene, N. H.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-08-13
Americas Largest Shows United.

In the copartnership perfected last
year between ]. A. Bailey and the Sells
Brothers, and to which the former con-
tributed the great and noted Adam
Forepaugh Show and the latter the enor.
nous united shows which have made
their name household word on the
American Continent and in the Anti.
podes, the millennium and apotheosis of
the most popular entertainment seems
to have been reached. In place of the
lion and lamb lying down together and
being led by little child, two big herds
OF performing elephants, tremendous
appropriateness, trained sea lions and
seals, and all the other savage and ex-
ceedingly rare wild beasts and birds
belonging to the two finest and most
complete menageries in the world, are
tremendously grouped, aggregated, per
formed, and led through a captivated
country, by unquestionably the biggest
consolidation OF managerial brains ever
enlisted in single enterprise and backed
by capital practically unlimited. The an
uounced names of the male and female
hippodromatic, equestrian, acrobatc,
eccentric, comic and special talent ind,-
Gates that the racing, circus, aerial. and
amusing features of this formidable feder-
alton surpass all preceding showing,
while the double street parade will be a
colossal and enhancing wonder in it's
way. The most strangely sensational
novelty announced is the appearance of
two remarkable aerialists, who while
riding an inverted bicycle, in an nvert-
ed posture, upon high inverted track,
perform incredible feats with nothing
apparent to prevent them and their bike
from being dashed headlong to pieces.
AS the purpose OF this unity is to ex-
hibit great deal more then heretofore,
without advancing prices. it is one com.
bine which the public will heartily APP.
prove Of Moreover, the effect will be
to prevent the invasions of inferior shows
and to protect the community from i'm.
position aud swindling devices.
The consolidation of Americas great
est shows will exhibit in st. Johnsbury
on Tuesday, Aug. "a.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-08-13

homes, to the advancement of mental,
moral and material prosperity. Com
plete failures have been rare among the
graduates OF the New England academies
and colleges and particularly those of
Vermont and New Hampshire. Young
men were educated or educated them
selves for usefulness, and as the means of
making living. They were not sent TO
school or college because it was fashion
able or popular, and because there was
a surplus of means with which to defray
their expenses, but for the purpose OF
furnishing and adding to equipment
for the active duties OF life, wherever they
might be. But very few wasted their
meagcr substance or their time in dissi-
patton and idleness, Most of them,
could their career he traced step by step,
could give good account OF their stew
ardship. Peacham Academy laid the
foundation Tor good work and good
CudI dllSi III ihdnN w tHS SUNS vi WV
mont. The moral influence OF the school
and the neighborhood laid the founda.
ton Tor many a character notable
throughout life tor honor, integrity, con.
scientiousness and true manhood anG
noble womanhood.
B. Frank Stevens wrote from London
the following letter:
Dear old school ftllows In my days
the fellows always embraced the girls.
have recently c,ived several letters
and venture to reply to you collec-
lively,
am proud to be permitted to Join in
celebrating the centenary OF our school.
We have lately been celebrating the
fourth centenary OF Columbus the fourth
centenary OF Cabot, the centenary of our
national existence and the Diamond Ju-
blee of Que, Victoria and now at last,
but not least, we have the exceedingly
interesting centenary of the Caledonia
County Grammar School.
Even the oldest of those gathered to-
gether must rely VI on history and ira
dition Tor the tale OF the origin OF the
school as not one of us was then present
though many oil us may claim that we
were within one OF it.
The century was in its first octave
when my father attended this schoo
sometimes boarding at Col. Banchard's
the father Of the venerable Col Blan
chard with whom boarded more thar
forty years later, and sometimes makinl
the daily journey on horseback from
Barnet. My elder brothers attended thu
school but | do not know where the,
boarded.
BY linking our parents memories witt
our own we can span the interval O
time from the foundation OF the schoo
down to the present celebration.
hope some remembrance will give u
a chronological, biographical and histoi
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-08-13


theoogian or the record of a devoted and
hlameless lite.
But perhaps his most notable charac-
teristic was his courageous and unswerv-
ing manlness and devotion to truth and
right, regardless OF consequences to HIM
self or his ambitions. During the whole
of his sojourn here no petty jealousy
ever ruffled the serenity OF his demeanor
no caumny ever attempted blot upon
his spotless name. His high standard OF
manhood and womanhood he did his
utmost with skill, and in kindly man.
ner, to instil into the minds and hearts
of those who were so fortunate as to
come within the circle of his influence.
And many man and woman, who were
boys and girls 40 years ago, owe what
ever inspiration which may have led
them to purer, nobler and higher lives to
the influence of those teachings. And
when the time came that he lett us,
called to higher plane OF action and
broader field OF usefulness, whether in his
chosen calling as instructor of youth, at
conservative and cultured Arlington; as
pioneer, in the new and advanced techni-
cal education, at Worcester; as original
investigator. in his favorite speciality of
expert chemist; or in his last and most
notable work, the organization OF the
great Rose Polytechnic Institute at Terra
Haute, in whose service he sacrificed his
life in the very prime and vigor Of his
glorious manhood every step was one
in advance, and the same feeling OF affec-
tion and respect from his associates,
which he inspired here, followed him
everywhere to the end.
Is it any wonder then those of us who
knew and loved such man in his youth,
his developing and developed manhood,
should inscribe in letters of gold upon
the tablets OF our memories: In honor Of
Charles Oliver Thompson, the ripe
scholar, the wise councillor, the genial
comrade, the loyal friend, the high toned
Christian gentleman.
DR.. Albert Warden spoke upon "Help-
full Training" and he was followed by
Rev. P. B. Fisk OF Lyndon, who related
many "reminiscences OF DR.. Lyman Watts.
He spoke of his proficiency in mathe-
mates while in the Academy and after
wards of his work in the ministry. He
! said he was one OF the overcomers.
Edward H. McLachln was the last
speaker and he paid fine tribute to
Prof. and Mrs. c. A. Bunker. He was
frequently interrupted by applause and
among other good things he said: For
80 years he has gone out before this peo-
pie. He had two notable characteristics
painstaking accuracy i'll his instruction
and his irmness in discipline. The ideal
teacher must teach and govern. He
must be polite and courteous gentle
man, gifted and thorough instructor
and genial companion. Mr.. Bunker
possessed all these characteristics. But
l must give a full share of credit to her
who labored so faithfully and so well as
preceptress from 1869 to 1895. We all
loved Mrs. Bunker. She was always
ready to forgive our shortcomings and
to say cheering words for our earnest
efforts"
After the "Halleujah Chorus" by the
chorus. Prof. Fred L. Gibson of Ryegate
recited the following poem:
l.