St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-05-25

rifles, 20 six-pound and six one-pound |
rapid fire guns and four gattlings. She
cost $3,010000.
oracles of God. Would it not be cause
for endless regret if they had been COM
PEELED to work by machinery or at the
dictation of board not one of whose
members had ever taught day-a board
prolific in theories-theories which like
the Lords mercies are new every morn
ing and fresh every evening" There is
in my mind the ghost Of shadow of sus-
picion that there is deplorable want in
what Mr.. Higgins calls over clubbable-
ness. The pendulum has swung too far.
l acknowledge a debt of gratitude to
Mrs. Peters and gladly quote her fearless
sentence. 81 have taken an interest in
woman's clubs since their inception and
| fear sometimes that they are going a
little too far. We meet and we eat and
we listen to talks upon hundred and
one topics. We get hint here and hint
there Of all the isms and ologies imagin-
able and we think that we are getting
rested and frightened up bit, but are
we not, in many instances, becoming
mental dyspeptics, and are we not drift.
ing into the separation of the sexes 7"
Atmospheric air is one ofthe articles used
with most rigid parsimony. There seems
to be nervous fear that the supply may
give out at any time. l suggest that we
put it to the test. / wonder fit would
be safe to let it into the churches!"
call halt in the charities. We are
putting premium on thriftlessness. Dear
friends, the golden rule bids oulove your
neighbor as yourself, not better than
Yourself. Do be economical OF nerve
force. Why must the American nation be
| the only one in the world to bear the
curse of nervous prostration? l call you
to wise economy in the use Of gold; not
the gold of the market place. but the gold
| OF fine thought, of fine speech and OF fine
character. recall the smile which ran
over congregation when clergyman
announced as his text "And the shovel
and the tongs were of pure gold" l
doubt if any one who heard that sermon
ever forgot its lesson. Do not put all the
gold on the high altar. Keep and use it
for the everyday things oflife. Wemight
well enonomize in inconvenience. We
women need pockets thousand times
more than we do the ballot. The man
who shovels snow has 10 pockets and
the woman who owns the path has not
one. Let us rise in our might and de-
mand them.
az have no hope, for the fashion is banished.
The tear of regret will my fond visions
drown.
| AS fancy reverts to the days that nave van
sigh tor the pocket that hung in my
The s old fashioned pocket, the obsolete
| pocket,
The praiseworthy pocket that hung in my
gown"
"There is no wiser economy than that
of time" and "few there be that find it. ~
l recall young woman taking three
minutes of time which was very valuable
to me in explaining how she could not do
a certain thing. She had not the time
As she moved leisurely away to spend
three minutes of some other woman's
time, caught up the work which she
could not do and spent exactly two ano
one halt minutes in doing it. Quite re
Gently there died in Ohio one OF the teach
ers of my youth. She had been called tC
endure many ears of great suffering
Rheumatism in it's most aggressive torn
laid its heavy hand upon her. The dreao
disease marched steadily on until fol
years she was utterly helpless. She hao
no private means and required the most
EXPENSIVE care. She was not specially
brilliant teacher. doubt ifthe Borough
of Brooklyn would have given her &c
certificate. She was absolutely ignorant
of methods, had never heard of pedagog
les. / am sure that TIE Borough o
Manhattan would not have sent for her
, OF all the lessons which she taught she
. most impressed the value of time. lonct
DELAYED dinner (for 400 to be sure) five
: minutes. As she dilated on the 200(
minutes wasted l felt the marrow in my
r bones grow cold. The results OF hel
: teaching will be measured only in eter
| nifty, but rejoice to know that grea
wave of gratitude rose when there CAM
/ tidings of her helpessness. No subscrip
ton paper was ever passed, no public
r appeal ever made but, thanks be to God
r Emily Jessup never felt the sting OF pow
, erty. Hundreds of grey haired womei
rise up and call her blessed and one her
1 today throws over her grave wealth
/ loving memory and acknowledges he
= debt to the woman who taught her tina
the spare pieces, the shreds, the odds ant
ends of time may be put together, ant
4, may form the foundation for doing grea
, and beautiful work. Doddridge wrot
: his exposition before breakfast. / hop
, that reading it has never spoiled an.
1 ones breakfast. Burney learned Frenc
t and Latin while riding horseback, but
} will not descend to statistics. Man
r people let time run through their finger
4 till they realize that there is but little lef
e and then they have no knowledge G
+ what to do with it. l hope that yo
r count among your privileges that G
e reading the entertaining leafet, The Milf
e tree: "It is a tree that is not found in tn
v classified lists of our standard works c
Q forestry or arboriculture, but it is foun
/ in every city and village in the country
d 1t thrives within the precincts of til
I church. 1t casts it's shadow upon tn
il home. Its branches are seldom tenant
i. less. They offer shelter, not for birds
e but for people, and for them only whe
v they are in unlovely moods. They tax
!. offense, and Immediately hop into tn
/. Miff.tree. 1t is the favorite refuge of sci
q ishness that thinks itself snubbed, {
!. wounded vanity that is weak enough t
4 show its wounds. 1t has been said tina
4 'nine.tenths OF the discontents, the fri
\. tons, the foolish tiffs and quarrels tina
lie mar the harmony and sometimes menae