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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-11-09
LOCAL GATHERINGS.

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The opening concert in the lecture
course comes next Friday night. Tick
cts at Bingham's.
The Southern Plantation Speciality
Company are booked at the Stanley
Opera House on Monday evening, Nov.
IA.
Prof. Flint, Americas greatest hyp-
notist, appears at Howe opera house FIVE
nights, beginning Monday, November
IA.
The attractive poster hung in the
post office window, advertising the din
ner at Pythian Hall Thursday evening,
is the work OF Philip Goodwin.
DIR. John M. Allen contributes an
other letter on London to this weeks
paper which will especially interest the
medical profession, and touching poem
by Rev. DR.. A. H. Heath is also printed.
Special examinations of teachers for
Caledonia county win be held at the
Summer street school Nov. 1S and 10,
and at the Academy building, Hardwick,
Nov. 21 and %, beginning at 9 O'Clock
a. M, each day.
Miss Marion Walker Story, the TO-
year-old cornetist, appears at Music
Hall Friday night in connection with the
concert by the Boston Artists Quartette
Company. Tickets at Bingham's and
at the door.
About 40 young people enjoyed So
cial dance in Pythian Hall last Wednes-
day evening. Messrs. Batchelder, Gra-
ham and Mrs. Brock furnished music
and most enjoyable time was passed
until IL o'clock.
Canton Crescent, No. 2, Patriarchs
Militant, /. D. o. F., will give Thanks
giving ball in the Armory on Wednesday
evening, Nov. %. Graham's orchestra
will furnish the music and the Canton
will give fancy drill during the evening.
Prof A. E. Carpenter of Boston, the
noted hypnotist, has been engaged to
appear at the Stanley Opera House on
Thursday evening, Nov II. This we'll
know mesmerist has appeared many
times in all the cities in the United States
and ALWAYS draws a crowd.
AT the monthly meeting of the Board
Of Trade on Monday the committee who
had charge Of the recent banquet to
Company D reported surplus Of $26.-
80. 1t was voted to present this to the
Volunteer Aid Association and the ladies
will no doubt make wise use of the
funds.
The call for special town meeting
appears in our advertising columns and
the meeting will be held on the after
noon of Nov. %. The meeting relates
entirely to the financial questions aris-
ing in the erection of the new school
hOdoS at anu luC tlSiCS
call for several matters that will deeply
interest the citizens.
The St. Johnsbury members of the
Vermont Fish and Game League are be-
ginning to get their appetites sharpened
for the annual banquet which will be
held at the Pavilion in Montpelier on
Tuesday evening, Nov. %. Geoige M.
Powers of Morrisville will be the toast
master and the affair will be one of the
best in the history of the league.
The Lydia P. Fuller will case, which
was tried in the December term of '95
and the June term of '9S, was again
brought to notice Friday. At the second
trial the will was sustained on a motion
to set aside the verdict on the ground of
misconduct of jury. The question was
heard in the office of A. F. Nichols, but
no decision was given and the case was
left with the iudpes
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rlystic Club Notes.

The first nights playing in the tourna-
ment between the Mystic Club and the
Lyndon Club was held at the Mystic
Club last Wednesday night and resulted
as follows
Billiards, Mystic, 1871 points, Lyndon, 1863
Whist, Mystic four tricks, Lyndon three
Cribbage, Mystic. one game, Lyndon, six.
The clubs resume the tournament at
Lyndonvlle this evening.
The annual meeting OF the Mystic Club
for the election OF officers and the trans
action Of other business will be held at
the club rooms next Saturday evening at
8 O'Clock.
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WEDNESDAY EVENING.
100 Praise and Devotional Service.
7.30 Address, Rev. Hilton Pedley of Japan
Address,, "A Model Christian Rndea-
vor Society and the Church."
Rev; George A. Downey. Lyndon
$50 Social Hour. in the Church Parlors.
THURSDAY MORNING.
80 Quiet Hour Ps. 5:3
800 Praise Service.
10 Reports,
Caledonia County Endeavors as told
by Society Presidents and Com
1890 A Missionary Talk, Mrs. Stimson OF
Micronesia.
1o.45 Ten Minute Talks by Pastors,
How to Study the Bible"
Rev. O. Franklin Thayer Waterford
How I Study My sunday School
Lesson" Rev. J. w. Burgin, SUIT
ton.
"Proportionate Giving" Rev. G. c.
Waterman. st. Johnsbury.
Echoes from Northfeld, Rev. p. B.
Fisk. Lyndonville. Rev. ]. D. Wal
dron, North Danville, Rev. B. p.
Parker, Sheffield
1900 Dinner In the Church Vestry.
AFTERNOON.
200 Praise Service.
2.3o Rev ozora S. Davis, PHI D..
3.15 "The Quiet Hour" Rev. c. H. Morse,
Brookfield.
$50 Junior Endeavorers' Hour, Conducted
by Mrs. G. W. Patterson. State
Junior Supt.
Singing by the st. Johnsbury Juniors.
A Ten Minute Talk on The Magnet"
What and How? Open Parlment.
EVENING.
7.15 Praise Service.
Chorus and Antiphonal.
7.45 "Consecrated Earnestness," Rev. o.
s. Davis, Phi. ID.
Closing Conservation Service,
What Would Jesus Do ?"
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THE BRO0KS-TYLER DEPARTMENT STORE,
Ladies' Shoes.
Ladies' Shoes. :

We reed this week large Manuaou
e. r FORD & co. the FORD
Ladies Fine Shoes The stock the
hefee We have many Customers wearing FORD Shoes and
want We hesitate Shoe for
. $3.50 $3.50 and
well worth $4O trial fthse shoes all we ask HhN
represented we will make good any juhfble claim
Our Stock of Ladies' Shoes Size $l.75 $500
and $3.50 embrace the
found in this
Boys and Girls School Shoes feature of this
and buying of
HOSIERY DEPARTMENT.
@ but we claim sell the 25C hose for &c., the best 0 hose for 5Oo be found st.
Jnsbmy with that will tell Celebrated
KENOSHA Hose for stocking with double knees and heels and
have nice warm fleece lining The price is 25c pair Try them
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Fridays Concert.

The opening concert in the Y. M. c. A.
course comes Friday evening and it goes
without saying it will be one of the
finest of the season. The Boston Artists
Quartelte Company is composed Of Mrs.
Jennie Patrick Walker. soprano; Miss
Gertrude Edmands. alto; George j.
Parker, tenor; D. M. Babcock, bass.
Frank o. Nash accompanies the singers
and the troupe will be assisted by Miss
Marion Walker Story, the child cornet-
ist. The following choice programme
will be rendered:
Quartette, "Come Dorothy Come"
Songs (a) Absence, Little
(b) May Morning. Denza
Mr.. Parker
Songs (a) my Little Love" Hawley
(b) 81 said to the wind of the South"
Miss Edmands.
Song, "Gypsy John Clay
Mr.. Babcock.
Song, "For all Eternity"
Mrs. Walker.
Quartette, Night Song.
Cornet Solo, Columbia
Miss Story.
PART II.
''In Persian Garden
The song cycle is taken from the Ru.
baiyat. This is series of quartrains
composed in the 10Th century bv the
Persian poet and astronomer, Omar
Khayyam. The musical setting is by
Liza Lehman. Wherever this new piece
has been given it has instantly come into
popular favor and it will be fitting
opening to the 32d season of the Y. M.
c. A. lecture course.
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Musical.

PROF. C. w. PICKELtS.
Lessons in Singing, Piano, Organ, and
Harmony.
The Burton House or st. Andrews Parish
Room.
St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
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NEW ADS. THIS WEEK.

NEW ADS. THIS WEEK.
Hens for Sale.
Coal Stove for Sale.
Piow Point Found.
wanted-A Turner.
Coal-Moore & Co.
Teachers Examination.
Judge Us-S. A. Moore.
New York Independent.
Special Town Meeting.
internationally Dictionary.
Grand Concert Music Hall.
Approximations Opera House.
Keys and Locks-W. w. S. Browne.
Ladies sShoes-Brooks-Tyler Dry Goods Co.
FRATERNITY MEETINGS..
Palestine commandery, No. 5, KIT.
The next Stated Conclave of Palestine
Commandery occurs Tuesday evening. Nov
ember %.
PBRLEy r. HAzEN,
DRLos M. BACON, Commander.
Recorder.
knights Of Pythias.
Regular convention OF Apollo Lodge No. 2
Tuesday night, November 8.
Nov. IS, work In Esquire Rank.
cHAs. r. vARNBy, c. c.
RoLFB CoBLgroH. X. RS.
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tFor additional locals see pages and 81
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-11-09
Christian Endeavor Convention.

The thirteenth semi-annual convention
of the Caledonia County Union will be
held at the South church parlors today
and tomorrow. The convention will be
OF great interest and the speakers from
abroad include Rev. DIR. 0zora S. Davis,
a graduate of St. Johnsbury Academy,
Rev. Helton Pedley of Japan and Mrs.
Stimson OF Micronesia. There will also
be good number Of local speakers.
The South church chorus choir will sing
both Wednesday and Thursday evenings
and a social is planned for Wednesday
evening at 8 80, to which every one is
invited.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-24

Admiral Makaroff of the Russian navy who has explored extensively in the North Pacific, suggests the possi- bility of reaching the North Pole by means of powerful ice breakers. The admiral proposes that an ice breaking steamer of 10000 horse power be con- structed, and using it in the summer, he believes it would be able to success fully overcome the polar ice. Two such vessels of 10000 horse power each, flt- ted with stern screws, would be even more effectual. The reasoning is ad- vaneed that the Polar Sea is free from ice over at least a third of It's surface, while allthe ice is weakened in the sum- mer by thawing and interior Assures. If a steamer of sufficient power be provid- ed, the 720 miles from latitude seventy eight degrees north to the pole could be covered in twelve days. While this seems rather fanciful scheme, nev- ertheless it has been devised after care fully examining the work of the huge ice breaking steamers used in the har- bors of Russia and in the great lakes of this country.
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IMPERI1LIsM IND TOBACCO.

Connecticut has an interest in the new imperialism which is not entirely senti- mental The tobacco-growers of this State are warned by the officers of the ation that in the settlement of questions arising out of the late war with Spain there are involved issues of the most vital importance to the tobacco inter-
 ests of the United States, and that in the threatened annexation of tropical islands that are the largest producers
 of cigar leaf in the world there turks
 danger of such magnitude as by com
 parison would dwarf into insignificance
 any possible threat of tariff reduction that could be made. The fact that there are employed in Binando alone | some 35,000 people in the manufacture of cigars gives some idea of the large production of leaf tobacco there. Un- der normal conditions Cuba produces | 560,OO0 bales, or about 62,173,0O0 pounds, l of cigar tobacco annually. Under the | constitution Enumeration" of one or all | these islands means absolute free l trade" with them in leaf tobacco and | cigars. It means Manila cigars at re- | tail at one or two cents each.
 Of course the star of empire will not
 stay it's triumphant progress on account of the trouble such progress may make for Connecticut tobacco-growers. But, all the same, Connecticut tobacco
 growers have reason to feel alarmed in | these days.
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cess of the party at the general election of last summer He mentioned that in 1887 the number of Socialist votes re- corded was 7.S per cent. of the whole electorate, in 1890 it was 1891 per cent. and it was 16.S1 per cent. in 1S9S while in 1898 it was 1S.40 per cent. of the elec- torate. He found discouragement in the fact that the increase in 1898 had only amounted to 1.5o per cent. at the close of the legislative period of five years, while in 1887 there had been an increase of 2,S per cent, and in 1890 only three years later, an increase of no less than 6.1 per cent. The eXplana- tion of this fact is that the Social dem- ocrats have now practically absorbed all the working classes in the great cit ies, and have now to look for recruits in other directions.
 In spite of these complaints it is evi- dent that the German Socialists are in creaslng quite fast enough for the safe ty and comfort of the other parties.
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got seven daughters, you know."-Bos

got seven daughters, you know. '-Bos- ton Journal.
 Content,-"Its wonderful that you should have survived the loss of your yellow jacket so often,' remarked the Chinese courier. "Oh," replied Lii Hung Chang, airily, q don't care any thing about that yellow jacket so long as they leave me my red tape. Wash ington Star.
 Maude-Funny what curious eyes some people have! I showed my new photograph to the Nellisons to-day. He said it was awful pretty, and she said it didn't look a bit like me- Edith So it seems that husband and wife can think alike, oesnt it?-Boston Tran script.
 When we were married" sobbed the young wife, he said he loved me with love more enduring than the ever- lasting granite! And it didn't last?' queried the sympathizing friend Last" echoed the young wife, drying her tears Ut didn't last as long as cedar block t!-Chicago Fri bune.
 The Essence of Jingoism. Wal, Jim wot dye think abart the Czar O Roo | ment?" Jim--Well, it's summat like m' and my ole woman, mate, when there's bit of a shindy brewing, The one wo proposes peace is the one wot ain't go old O the poker!--Fun.
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THE GERMAN SOCIALISTS.

Those who read the very interesting letter from Berlin, published in the
 Journal and Courier of last Wednes- day, will be interested in some facts which came out at the annual congress of the German Social Democrats, which was held in Stuttgart the other day.
 Herr Auer read the official report and said that the expenditure for purposes of agitation could no longer be defray- ed by the voluntary subscriptions of members of the party, and that new sources of income must be found. The business report stated that the number of regular subscribers to the daily So- cialist press was 29O,OOO, an increase of 34, 900 over the previous year. The to-
 tai income of the daily Socialist press was 2,905. marks, of which the sum of 1,SS7, OPP marks was derived from subscriptions and 1,01S, S30 marks from advertisements. The total income from the whole Socialist press was 3,271, ,966 marks, 2,161.255 marks being derived from subscriptions and 1,116, 713 marks from advertisements. There was con- siderable difference regarding the prac- tical aims of the party and the tactics which it ought to adopt. One speaker expressed dissatisfaction with the sue
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-24
PE4CEFUL.

All men are liars, but some are not found out until after they are married. Puck.
 Greene-Do they play golf in Germa- ny? Redd-Oh, yes; haven't you ever heard of the Frankfurter links?-- Yon- kers Statesman.
 Deeply Wounded.-Ethel-Yo say he was wounded before Santiago? Jack Yes; two months before. The president refused him a commission as major general, you know.-Judge.
 No Chance to Argue.-Landlady- want you to understand, sir, that I'm no spring chicken. Old Boarder-Well I'll have to take your word for it. never saw one.-Cleveland Leader.
 When talking weather, always be sure of your man" said Crimsonbeak. What would be lovely day to a man who sells umbrellas would not be so considered by a sandwich man. '-Yon- kers Statesman.
 The Point of View.-"They looked at me open-mouthed when 1 did that spe- cialty of mine" That's right. It's the first time in my life that I ever saw whole audience yawn at once. De troit Free Press.
 This is the parlor eh?'' tentatively remarked the agent, who was looking over the house.
 Yes replied old man Kidder, "but I usually cali it the court-room-iye
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-24
POOR THINGS!

There's a fine state of affairs over east of us. The other day complaint was made in the Providence Journal that the young women of that city are given to wearing "a gay ribbon or great width to conceal soiled collar" We haven't seen any protest against clude that there is more truth than poetry in it. But melancholy as the condition of young women in Provi- dence is they do not seem to be as badly off as the young and the old women of Boston are. At least, if they are, no revelation of it has been made. We
 read in the respectable and reliable Boston Traveller that "A prominent Boston physician is responsible for the
 startling statement that every woman
 has either crooked arms or crooked
 legs. Inquiry among the different pro-
 fessors of gymnastics has brought forth much the same opinion. Women are knock-kneed, bow-legged, too lean, too fat, or only partially developed, and
 straight arm is very rare"
 See what culture" has done for Bos- ton women. And are their minds and hearts as crooked as their legs and
 arms? We hope not. What'a pity that | the women of Providence and Boston can't enjoy the privileges and advan- tages of New Haven. There are no l women here who wear gay ribbon of great width to conceal soiled collar, and as for the frames of New Haven women there is no more crookedness about them than there is in their minds | and hearts Such are their bodily mer- it's that we verify believe that if it were l not for their native and lovely modesty | they would not hesitate to undergo | comparison with the Foot Guards in ! full uniform.
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ing into numerous folds at the edge. Such are even more expensive than seal, and no fur is more delicate than chinchilla. Capes of wool seal trimmed with martin and cut correctly look very well, but the slimpsy close cut af- fair of two seasons ago is not seen on any one who wants a little something more out of a. fur cloak than warmth. A third short cape is that not on the cutaway order. and that is not meant to keep off much cold, is pictured here. It was of apple green taffeta embroid- cred all over with narrow white che nille. It was mounted on yoke of plain silk which was covered with a collar to match the rest The neck band was encircled with full gather ed ruche of pink ombre chiffon, each end being fastened in a pretty bow. Pink shot taffeta furnished the lining, and bow of the ribbon marked the center of the back.
 Cloaks reaching to the hem of the dress are shown in handsome designs trimmed with sable tails and pats, the latter being the tiny pair of feet nearest the tail. One model coat was so magnificently enriched with tails and pats that the wearer might have been a stall at the butchers in the game season instead of fashionable Even if this suggestion does not occur to the observer, there is an unpleasant look as if all the little animals had crawled in and their tails were hanging out. The province of fur when worr is to add, or to seem to add, to the warmth of the garment upon which ii is put, and not to keep the spectator busy calculating how many animals were slaughtered to make it.
 FLORETTE.
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removed. Then each scalp would be hair dressed. Each warrior attached his scalps to small pole.
 When the cermony had been com pIeted the circle was broken and the warriors marched back to the camp and planted their poles, with the dang ling scalps, in circle in the middle of the spot selected for the dance. Those who had scalps were then join ed by others who had taken part in the fight and who had thus won right to take part in the dance.
 A circle would be formed by the par
 ty around the scalp-laden poles. At
 signal the warriors joined hands and
 began a monotonous song, keeping
 time with slow steps while turning
 about the scalps. Faster and faster
 grew the dance, wilder and wilder. As
 it progressed whoops and yells were
 uttered. Higher and higher the men
 would leap, loosing hands and brand ishing their weapons. This would con- tinue until not only the dancers, but
 those who witnessed the ceremony would become intoxicated with mad
 excitement Then one of the partici- pants would spring from the circle, and. standing in the middle, would re-
 late his story, and by his actions re-
 peat again and again the operation of taking scalps. When he finished an- other took his place and told of his
 personal prowess, while finally those who had no scalps would tell of their
 deeds and how the bad god' had pre- vented them from securing any scalps. | The two dances I have mentioned were the great ones of the two wild tribes. There was also the green-corn dance of the Sioux and the Navahoes, which took place in honor of the rip- ening of the corn, and often ended in | wild orgies.
 These were religious dances per- | formed really as a matter of duty. to | the Great Spirit. But the keenest de- 1 light was taken by every tribe in the social dances. These varied greatly with each tribe. They were, the scene l of many a courtship. Sometimes the
 dances were in couples and sometimes
 of the nature of reels; but usually they
 were of the all-hands-r s-round-circle or | der. They were the chief pleasure of | the Indian. During late years even I these have been discontinued through l the caution of the Indian agents, who have discouraged them. Sometimes
 war has been due to the forcible stop ping of an innocent sociabie dance from which no harm could have come
 if it had been allowed to proceed.-The | Chicago Times Herald.
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REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET

FOR GOVERNOR, GEORGE E. LOUNSRURY, ofRidgefield FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, LYMAN A. MILLS, of MiddIefield. FOR SECRETARY OF STATE, HUBER CLARK, of Windham.
 FOR TREASURER, CHARLES s. MERSICK, of New Haven.
 FOR COMPTROLLER, THOMPSON S. GRANT, of Enfield. FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL, CHARLES PHELPS, of Vernon.
 FOR CONGRESSMAN, Second District-N. D. SHERRY, of New
 Haven.
 FOR sHERIFF, ALBERT E. DUNHAM, ofSeymour.
 FOR SENATOR, Eighth trict-FREDERICK l.. AVER ILL, of New Haven.
 FOR REPRESENTATIVE, JULIUS c. CABLE and JOHN V. RAT
 TLEsDORFER.
 FOR JUDGE OF PROBATE, LIVINGSTON w. CLEAVELAND, o1
 New Haven.
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From Consul Morris of Ghent comes a report of the Belgian government s savings and pension bureau In the savings department during the past year the increase in the sums on de- posit amounted to Sa,843000. The in- crease in number of depositors' books was 139,042. The school saving system is largely responsible for this increase, contributing s1,311, ,51376, almost all of which was deposited in the govern ment's savings bureau. An interesting innovation is the endowing of every newly-born child with a savings book. The necessary funds are obtained by private gift, by subscription or by an appropriation from the town council Other departments, all of which are increasing, are the pension, the agri- cultural, the insurance and the build ing associations.
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents. and other small advertisements, One Cent Worw each in- sertion Five Gents Word for full week (seven tlmes).
 Display advertisements, per inch, one In sertion, $1.2O; each subsequent insertion: 40 cents: one. week. $320; one month. S1O; one year, $40
 Obituary Notices, in prose or verse. 15 cents per line. Notices of Births, Mar Tiages, Deaths ar Funerals, 50 cents each. Local Notices 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own Immediate business Gall matter to be un1btectionable); and their contracts do not Include Wants, To Let, For Sale. etc.
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A Swiss anthropologist, on his re- turn from Patagonia, brought home with him a complete collection of Pat agonian skulls, and when the custom house proposed to tax them, on the basis of animals bones imported as manure, he protested that this was an insult to humanity. To his surprise his objection was listened to, and he re- ceived a receipt for the duty charged upon higher scale, with the skulls en- tered as returned emigrants' worn ef- fects."