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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-10-01
PHAcHAM.

The house and land belonging to the
estate of Mrs. Isabel Warden will be sold
at auction on Thursday, Oct. IA, to-
gether with valuable lot of personal
property. The big bills posted through
out the town give all the particulars.
Mrs. Elsie Merrill and Mrs. Whitehill
are attending the annual meeting of the
Vermont Branch of the Woman's Board
of Missions at Rutland.
E. M. Taft and family returned last
week from few days visit to friends in
Whitensville, Mass.
Mrs. l. ]. Albee is attending the W. c.
T. U. convention at Essex Junction this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Fitz of Lowell
Mass, are visiting at Mrs. Morrison's
Tor a few days.
Mrs. Perry Palmer of South Boston
visited at E. D. and f. E. Palmer's few
days this week.
The society OF Christian Endeavor will
give an tertainment and box supper at
the Congregational church parlors this
evening. Proceeds tor missionary pur-
poses.
Jim Blanchard had a very narrow
escape recently while working at Her
bert Hooker's filling silo. After filling
the silo, they had put large amount OF
the cut corn on to the high beams. The
beams gave away, falling to the floor,
which broke and let it all down to the
cellar. Blanchard. who was on the top,
was completely buried in the corn all
but one hand which enabled the men to
find him. When taken out he was un.
conscious but not seriously injured.
Mrs. Esther Humphrey of Littleton
N. H., has been visiting her brother, G
A. Stoddard, for a lew weeks.
Mrs. Frank P. Brown and children O.
Boston, who has been visiting at Mrs
Minnie E. Browns for the past few
weeks, have gone to Barre for few days
before returning to their home.
George N. Smart has just received a
new lot OF mems and boys clothing
which he is selling at astonishing low
| prices.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-10-01
THE TOWNS AROUND.
BARNET.

L. B. Clement found in his wheel pit
Tuesday large eel measuring about
three and half and weighing over nine
pounds.
Frank Gilillau and his mother, Mrs.
Thomas Gilfllan, started last Tuesday
for Denver, Col. Frank went West for
the benefit OF his lungs which were failing
in the Boston air.
c. l. Gilman has returned from St.
Tohnsbury and moved once more into the
Clement house.
Wilson & Morris, st. Johnsbury gro
GERS, sell goods on cash basis. See adv.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-10-01
WEST DANVILLE.

Leon Adams is at work for Mr.. Wood
bury on the Danville water works. his
brother Charles is attending the Gale
donia County Grammar school at
Peacham.
Mrs. Mabel Bean is going to school at
Danviie, also Miss Lille Wilson. Inc
school here is taught by Miss Nettle
Craig.
Janice Grogan has opened the old stone
shed and is running several hands.
A Mr.. Stewart has moved into the
Frank w. Choate house recently bought
by Ashley Goss and works for James
Grogan in the old stone shed.
E. Odekirk and wife started for Boston
Monday.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-10-01
NORTH DANVILLE.

Allen Sanborn went as delegate to the
Christian Endeavor convention held at
Montpelier this week.
A. M. Mcfarland and family visited
relatives in Sheffield the first OF the week.
Wells Norris is i'll.
Mrs. May Paul of Caremont. N. H., is
visiting her sister Mrs. A. Mcfarland.
Mis-. F. X. Palmer and son, Ray, w. ii.
Palmer and family and Louis Fox spent
few days with friends in Cabot the FIRST
Of the week.
Mrs. M. C. Russlow attended as dele
gate the state w. c. T. U. convention at
Essex Junction this week.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-10-01
PASSUMPSIC.

Thursday evening, September %. the
friends and neighbors OF Mr.. and Mrs.
W. H. Barker gathered at their home to
remind them OF the sixth anniversary OF
their marriage. and presented them with
fine parlor chairs, hassock, lap robe,
pair OF portieres, several dollars in
money and other small tokens. B. F.
Weeks presented the gifts in very
pleasing manner. Cake and coffee were
served, and very pleasant evening
spent.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-10-01

Mrs. W. A. Morrill, left Monday to
visit her parents, James Clifford and wife
formerly of this vicinity, but now OF
Meredith N. H.
Mr.. More of Harveys is repairing
the Greenbanks saw mill. E. P. Brickett
and son Ernest Of this place are doing
the work
Mrs. Rachel Cole is sick.
George Morrill, and wife visited their
daughter, Mrs H. o. Hill, and family
Tuesday and Wednesday at St. Johns
bury.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-10-01
GREENSBORO,

A. E. Perrin has moved into his bro
theirs house for the winter.
Mrs. Samuel Philbrook has been quite
sick, but is now gaining.
Miss Addie King of Glover is visiting
at J. A. Cranes.
Mrs. A. c. Harvey of St. Johnsbnry is
visiting friends here and in Hardwick.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-10-01
LuNENBuRG.
60 Fred Luce from Old Orchard is

Mrs. Fred Luce from Old Orchard is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Lorana Silsby.
Mrs. E. A. Seeger, who has been spend
ing two months at the Heights House,
returned to New York on Wednesday OF
this week.
Mr.. Clark of Franklin, N. H., spent
part of last week in town.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-10-01
LOWER WATERFORD.

Sylvanus Owen will sell at auction
next Thursday at O'Clock, his 1S5-acre
farm and 60 acre pasturage, together
with lot of live stock, produce, farm
ing tools, wagons and sleds. See the
pink bills for further particulars.
Wilson & Morris, St. Jobnsbury gro
GERS, sell goods on cash basis. See adv.
additional towns on eighth page)
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-10-01
Stickney & Poor's Pure
Full Weight Spices.
California Canned Goods

you trade here you won't be paying other peoples bills any
longer Now is the time stock up for winter It will pay drive
your twenty miles for your supply the Re-
member all kinds Of goods advancing Don't watt
WILSON g. MORRIS.
The advocate., 1897-01-13

men are. Mr.. Wolcott Is SO much In
tereated politically as we'll ss person
ally In the accomplishment Of the end
sought, that he cannot afford to stop
short of an effort In that direction; but
it Is doubtful IL any of the older men
of the party have any faith In the out
come. The policy of our government
ever since the war has been to adopt
and maintain the gold standard In
the redemption of notes, the Treasury
Department has been paying out gold
ever since the day when resumption OF
specie payments was begun, though
they are redeemabIe in silver or gold'
either or both, at the option OF the
government.
Great Britain changed from the sil-
YER standard to gold eighty years ago,
and the ruling powers In that country
will never relinquish the hold on pub
lie administration which the gold pol
Icy gives them, no matter what the
people want. Germany and France
changed to gold only about thtrty-three
years ago, and the change has been
altogether satisfactory to the men who
dictate the policies Of those nations
There as well as here, the greet body
Of the people have really no voice In
the making of the laws nor In the sd'
ministration Of public affairs. Rich
and powerful men rule In the United
States 40 they do In all the great ma
tions Of the earth, and they are inter
ested In maintaining the gold standard
because it protects their wealth and
adds to their power. ~
The advocate., 1897-01-13
An Intelligent Eastern Press.

New York and other Eastern papers
take speciah pride in giving Kansas
black eye ON every conceivable occasion.
No matter what kind Of vSgrant story
may be at large in the land, these papers
never hesitate TO fasten il on Kansas.
II no story is in sight, they manufacture
one. Their motto seems to be, tell any
thing and everything but the truth
about Kansas. The following, taken
from the New York Mail and Erpress,
is the latest:
"News from Rocks county in northern
Kansas is discoursging. For several
years Senator PETER has been laboring
industriously on his famous line Of ir-
rigation bitches, intended to reclaim
that section OF Che State from the blight
placed upon it by nature in her most
niggsEdly mood. It has been ths inten-
slcn Of thu taMous POpuliat statesman
The advocate., 1897-01-13

to divert water from the Solomon river,
which crosses the county almost later
ally, and from Bow creek, TO render life
without starvation possible to the Rocks
county farmer. And now one OF those
generous sand storms which seem to be
among the most prolific OF Kansas pro-
ductions has come along, filed up the
bitches, and undone that which has
cost PETER 90 much thought and labor,
In the midst Of most depressing Condi-
tions.
"What is true Of Rocks is true Of
many other Kansas counties. Even the
elements war irresistibly against the
efforts of this forlorn commonwealth to
rehsbilltate itself materially, as partial
reply to the structures laid against its
political and economic immortality.
Even nature frowns upon all attempts
to hold population which finds plenty
Of thorns, but never q rose, in the
bleeding State, and fees at every
opportunity to more promising lands.
"Unhappy Kansas! Even the posses
sion Of a PETER, with his luxuriant
growth Of whiskers bordering we'll
irrigated cavity above, cannot atone for
the stubborn aridity which presses
like a pail upon her alleged agricultural
reaches Of poverty stricken territory"
The advocate., 1897-01-13
To the Credit Of Kauaas.

Kansas may be the land OF crankisnn,
but her citizens can walk the streets OF
her cities without danger by day or night,
even though unattended by a gatling
gun and q company of infantry to pro-
tect them from footpads; she may be the
home Of radicals, but her people even in
her largest cities are not in the habit
Of committing self-murder to escape the
pangs Of sbject poverty and despair;
she may elect q Populist Governor, but
she does not support her municipal in
stitutionS by the proceeds Of woman's
infamy or the drunkard's shame; she
may even do 90 mad thing as to curb
the rapacity OF the railroads or check
the fraud Of tho wildcat loan company,
but she still educates her children and
does not ship carloads Of helpless little
paupers to the cultured East for care
and protection; she may have tinge OF
socialism, but she cannot boast OF q
quarter Of million Of fsithless wives
and husbands or Of citizens worth 300
millions Of dollars, or Of people who sell
themselves az slaves for bread. Some Of
the Eastern journals, who are airing
their patriotism by wholesale denuncia-
tions OF Kansas, might reflect on these
things burlington Courier.
The advocate., 1897-01-13
Don't Be Too Conservative. :

We are glad to know that Populist
leaders realize the responsibility that
rests upon the incoming administration
but we do not like too much talk about
being conservative" We are likely to
20 from one extreme to another. 1t ls
just as important that we should not be
too conservative as that we should not
be too radical. Worst OF all, we should
not take the advice Of our enemies ss to
what should be done. The reform forces
have battled for years, against unprece'
dented opposition, to secure the power
which they will shortly possess, promis-
ing all the while if trusted with authority
to exercise it heroically In behalf OF the
people, who are in many ways 30 un-
Justly burdened. Concerning our pledges
let usnot abate one jot or little. II we do,
we shall be and ought to be condemned.
The conditions demand heroic remedies;
let us adminiter them in effective doses.
For this purpose have we been trusted
with authority. ALI the world is watch
ing the Kansas experiment. with Popu-
lism, given unlimited power. We can
immeasurably advance or retard the
cause of reform throughout the world.
Upon success or failure in Kansas
largely depends the struggle for liberty
of the industrial classes in all lands. Let
us inspire them and confuse and con-
found the common enemy Of universal
industrial emancipation by the honesty
and fidelity with which we fulfill oul
pledges.-MonhGttGD Republic.
The advocate., 1897-01-13

Mexico is satisfied with the silver stand.
ard. The government, said President Diaz
in taking the oath OF office for the fourth
consecutive term ON December last,
will stick to the silver standard, as being,
in the opinion Of the administration, the
one best adapted to the country, and as
sffording it, at the present rate OF sx-
change, an immense protection to home
industries, while at the same time secur.
ing for its exports a gold premium,
which operates ss q bounty to tropical
planters.
Now, how does this gold premium
operate as q bountYT Take the coffee
planter. The silver cost Of production
is no greater to-day than ten or twenty
years ago, though the gold for which he
SELLS his coffee is worth twice as much
silver as it was prior to 1873. So the coffee
planter sending his coffee to New York
or London and selling it for gold price
but very little short Of that obtained
twenty years ago, gets twice as much
silver, gets twice as much money for his
coffee. Thus it ls that the premium on
gold not only has nominally but actually
doubled the value Of the crops Of the
Mexican coffee planter. IEi it any won-
der he prospers and is enlarging pro-
duction and increasing shipments to
marvellous extent?
And if we now turn the case around,
and look at the effect of this premium
on gold on imports into Mexico, what do
we find! We find that though British
and American manufactured goods are
offered for a smaller gold price than ton
or twenty years ago, tho price to the
Mexican has increased, for he has TO pay
twice as much for the gold he must give
in payment as he was required to pay In
1873. The result has been rise in price
to the Mexican Of everything bought
from abroad. And, as silver has kept
stable purchasing power In Mexico, thii
enhanced price Of foreign goods hal
served as a powerful stimulant to domes
tic manufacturing, and Mexico, as al
silver countries, is making marvellous
industrial strides.--I'he american.
The advocate., 1897-01-13

In another column Of this issue, will
be found the announcement Of the Gem
City Business College Of Quincy, Ill. This
institution has been open to the public
for twenty-eight years, and is certainly
one Of the Oldest and best schools OF it's
kind in the country. Young men and
women who are seeking q business educa-
tion will do well to correspond with
President d. L. Musselman, as above.
The advocate., 1897-01-13
NOTES AND COMMENT.


The California Legislature has re-
elected Senator Perkins.
Coal mine owners In the MaSslllon, o.,
district have reduced miners wages from
81 TO 81 cents per ton.
The fllibuster steamer Commodore foun-
dered at sea with cargo Of arms and sup
plies for the Cuban insurgents.
Recent bank failures leads the Wichita
Beacon to suggest that we should protect
the banks against the pauper depositors.
Premier Laurier Of Canada has refused
an offer of lnighthOOd from the Queen.
He Is said to favor making Canada an in
dependent nation.
The Illinois Steel Company Of Chicago
has announced q general cut Of from 10 to
50 per cent In wages, 10 take effect Febru-
ary l.. The cut will affect $500 men.
Pennsylvania Republicans have selected
Boies Penrose for United State Senator
over John Wanamaker by vote Of 1873 to
rs. Penr0se was Senator Quay's candi
date, and Wanamaker was backed by the
Mbusiness mems" organization.
Governor-elect Pingree has offered a
prize for the law student Of Michigan Uni
versity who will point out the largest mum
ber of obsolete laws on the statutes. His
object is twofold: to give the students q
thorough knowledge Of the State laws, and
to have the dead letters repealed.
Secretary Herbert Of the Navy Depart
ment says the government is paying toe
much for armor plate. He thinks armol
plate can be manufactured for &25t
per ton, but at any rate the gov
ernment should not be charged more thar
$4OO per ton. The government Is now pay
ing &ESS and the Secretary estimates that q
reduction to &4OO would save $500, 900 or
each battleship.
Secretary Francis has reversed the de
cision Of Hoke Smith In an important Ok
lahoma contest case, deciding that thu
settlers who, at the opening Of the Chero
kee Strip, entered the Usage Indian reser
walton and made the run from the line o
the reservation into the Strip at the hou
Of opening were not so0ners, and, there
fore, are entitled to make homestead entry
This decision will settle the title to 100 o
more Of the most valuable claims in tn
Strip.
Cuba has an area Of $3.50 square miles
with coast line of about 2,OC0 miles. 1t
population is about 1,5OO, 600, and Havana
on the north coast, is It's most importan
city and by far the finest port In the Yves
Indies. The population Of Havana
$50, 600, and the other cities Of importanc
are Matanzas, population $1,000; Santiag
de Cuba, 72,OoO; Puerto Principe, $1,000
Cienfuegos, $4,000; San Espiritue, $4,000
Cardenas, $4,000. Much Of the island
covered with dense forests and the loV
coast lands are fringed with lagoons. Beal
Ing this fact In mind, 1t win not be dificul
to understand how Alibustering exped
tions are able 10 land supplies, or how th
soldiers Of Gomez and Maceo eluded th
vigilance of Weyler and his generals.
The advocate., 1897-01-13
DOINGS in CONGRESS.

Both houses have paSeed the bill re-
duCing the. number of offenses subject
10 capital Punishment. Under the new
law there will only be i've crimes pun
ishable by death--treason, murder, rape
and desertiOn from the army or navy in
time OF war.
The Ways and Means committee OF
the House is giving hearings to parties
interested in the schedules Of the new
tariff bill. Among those who were ON
hand this week to demand more protec-
tion are the wool-growers, cattlemen,
fishermen and fish dealers, seedmen,
rice-growers, fruit-growers, tobacco
growers, salt-makers and macaroni man
ufacturers.
On Wednesday the House passed, by
vote Of 144 to LOS, the Loud bill to
amend the law relating to second-class
mail matter. The law increases the
postal charges for serial publications
and the so-called circulating libraries.
It also denies the sample copy" privi-
lege to newspapers and the privilege en-
joyed by newsdealers Of returning
unsold publications at second'class rates
Senator Morgan OF Alabama has in
troduCed Pacific railroads bill which
provides that the government shall take
charge Of the roads and. hold and con-
duct them in trust for the creditors.
The management is TO be in the hands
Of nine directors, Of whom ct least four
must be appointed from west OF the
Mississippi and at least four from east OF
the Mississippi. The Senator estimates
that under this bill the indebtedness Of
the roads can be paid off within twenty
Eve years.
In tho House Friday johnson (Rep.),
the only California member who favorS
the Pacific railroad funding bill, made a
sensational attack upon Mayor Sutro Of
San Francisco end w. r. Hearst, editor
Of the San Francisco RTGmiDer and
New York Journal, charging that they
had endesvored to bulldoze Congress
into defeating the bill. Cooper (Rep.)
Of Wisconsin defended Hearst and Sutro
and denounced johnson, pointing out
that Johnson's advocacy Of the funding
bill had caused him to be defeated for
reelection in a strong Republican dis
trict.
The advocate., 1897-01-13

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msnt.
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The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-01-28
MARRIAGE BROKERS.
The Schatchen Is an Important Person In
New York Colony.

The Schatehen Is an Important Person In
q New York Colony.
In wandering through the east SIDE
recently learned that the schatchen is
an important and busy fnnctionary N
that quarter. The sage who long time
ago observed that marriages were made
in heaven evidently knew nothing about
this matchmaking official, who exer-
cises his wiies by day and by night in
the teeming Hebrew colony here. The
eehatchen is man Of middle age, suave
and well dressed. who promotes mar
riages. He works on strictly business
principles and don't bother his head
about Cupid or that peculiar sentiment
called love. He is a diplomat, with a
visiting list longer than the most popu-
lar woman of the Four Hundred. He
belongs TO no end Of lodges ard orders
and speedily makes il his business to
know all about the families. Of his mar
ried friends He also acsuaints himself
with the monetary worth of paterfamil-
las, and if the latter has any marriage
able sons or daughters he gets in his
work. first by delicate insinuation and
soon more openly.
The schatchen has neatly engraved
card which announces his business, and
this he distributes literally. He also
believes in advertising. and his card IS
conspicuously displayed in al the Yid-
dish newspapers. Re brings young coa-
PIES together, and if marriage enSues
he pockets commissions from both sides.
If the brides father gives her dot Of
$500, the sehatchen pockets $50. He
also strikes the Bridegroom for 10 per
cent. but is frequently compelled to
compromise on az He often has
dozen irons in the fire at one time, and,
in the verHacular of the sport. plays of
one against the other Sometimes he
burns his fingers, rs he not irfrequently
plays leading role IN the civil courts,
but he fills unique place in polyglot
Gotham ard has been the means CT
making any Dum Der Of bashfGI young
people happy for spot cash.-New York
Letter in Pittsbnrg Dispatch.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-01-28
3 AR9BQUAKEsIN nExico
Scientists Believe a Volcano to
Be Forming in the State.
of Oaxacas

City of Mexico. January "a =
Earthquakes continue in the
state of Oaxaca, and that city
has been shaken severely by
the repedalory thsock. Scient
lists believe a volcano is forming
among the hills, and The con
tinued seismic activity has ex
cited alarm in several districts,
while on the Pacific coast the
ocean is in a continual commo
ton, caused by submarine ex:
pIosions, sending large waves
TO the shore and terrifying fish
ernen who still boldly venture
out.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-01-28
NEW CONCESSION.

The Mexican government
yesterday gave a concession
to !. Markovitz, of Galveston,
Texas, for a steamer service
along the guilt coast north and
south of the port of Veracruz.
Mr. Markovitz used to be en-
gagged in the wholesale groce-
ry and fruit business in Gal
weston. Under his concession
he anticipates making a round
trip each week between Tam
pico and Veracruz and even
from Veracruz to Galveston
later on. His boats will fly the
Mexican flag to keep within
the statutory provisions. The
first steamer started yesterday
on its trip from Veracruz to
Nautla and other intermediate
points towards Iampico. car
rying 200 tons of freight. They
will all be small boats, adapted
for the coast freight and pas
senger traffic.-Mexican Her
aid. Jan. 10.
The daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1892-1897, 1897-01-28
TIE legislature has accom-

THE legislature has accom-
plished one important piece of
legislation; namely~;he passage
of Senate bill No. II, IAN act
appropriaiing one hundred aud
ten thousand dollars to nay
members mileage and per
diem. and officers and en-
ployes' per diem, of the Twenty
ffih Legislature"