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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-06-28
Does Coffee Agree with Yous

Itnot, drink Grain. O-made from pure
grains. A lady writes: 1.-THE first time
l made Grain-O l did not like it but after
using it for one week nothing would in
duce me to go back to coffee" 1t nour.
ishes and feeds the system. The children
a drink it freely with great benefit. 1t
is the Strengthening substance OF pure
grains. Get a package today from your
grocer, follow the directions in making
it and you will have a delicious and
Fealthiul table beverage for old and
Dung. Is and 25c.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-06-28
Card.

We, the undersigned, do hereby agree
to refund the money on a fifty cent bot
tie Of Greene's syrup of tar if it fails to
cure you're 1gh or cold; we also war
rant a twenty-five cen bottle to prove
satisfactory or no pay.
A. c. RANDALL, c. c. BINGHAM,
FRANK G. LANDRY, FLINT Bros,
BoYNToN & EASTMAN, A. F. WALKER,
D. c. HARRINGTON, West Danville.
L D. STILES, St. J~ohnsbury Center.
]. u. ROGERS, Walden.
o. B. CUTTING. West Concord.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-06-28

chester, containing 81 acres. Mayor
Quincy explains that, in his opinion, such
a grant would not be consistent with
sound municipal policy, inasmuch as a
great quantity of valuable land In the
city now is used for burial purposes and,
as such, are exempt from taxation. In
course Of his message Mayor Quincy
said: Personally I am opposed to the
burial of the dead, alike upon sanitary,
economic and sentimental grounds, be-
lieXinP cremation to be far nreferahle.n
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-06-28
One Execution.

II am reduced from afluence to beg
gary!' he faltered.
In as few words as possible she
broke their engagement.
II wish to show" she observed
haughtlly, that women, contrary to
general report, do not necessarily care
for things just because they are re-
ducedv'-Detroit Journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-06-28
THE TOWNS AROUND.
One Day Earlier Next Week.

AS the Fourth of July comes next
Tuesday the CALIFORNIAN will be printed
next Monday night and mailed to all
subscribers on the first delivery Tuesday
morning. Correspondents and all Others
having news or advertisements for the
paper will please bear this in mind and
send in their matter Saturday and Mon
day. We cannot guarantee the publica-
ton of any matter sent us after Mon
nav noon of next week.
THE CALIFORNIAN COMPANY.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-06-28
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi-
lively cures piles, or no pay required. 1t
Is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price rs cents per
box. For salebv Flint Bros.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-06-28
LYNDON CENTER.

Mrs. Stevens and two sons from
Nashua, N. H., are visiting at her
fathers, A. II. Hicks.
Mark Stone has been at his fathers,
Orson Stone, the past week.
Miss Nettie Goodwin has finished work
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-06-28
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that
Contain Mercury,

Va " tHos
Contain Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy the sense
of smell aud completely derange the
whole system when entering it through
the mucous surfaces. Such articles should
never be used except on prescriptions
from reputable physicians, as the dam.
age they will do is ten fold to the good
you can possibly derive from them.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F.
]. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no
mercury, and is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces OF the system. In buying Halls
Catarrh Cure be sure get the genuine.
1t is taken internally, and made in To-
ledo, Ohio, by F. ]. Cheney & Co. Testi-
monials free.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-06-28
GASkILL.

The Ladies' Aid Society will give a box
supper at o. R. Wallace's next Saturday
evening. Lemonade will be served. La
dies will please bring a box containing a
supper for two.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-06-28
WEST WATERFORD.

Pleasant Valley Grange will give an
entertainment and promenade in the hall
at West Waterford Tuesday evening,
July 4. Everybody cordially invited.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-06-28
A Drink with a Character.

There is more thirst quench-
ing power to the square inch
in Williams Root Beer than
there is in any other drink on
earth. On a hot day nothing
can come within a gunshot of
it. Williams ROOF Beer
revives and satisfies as nothing
else can-quenches thirst and
delights the throat. 1t is a
drink with a character. 1t
costs but two cents a quart to
make it at home.
Williams & Carleton Co., Hartford, Conn,
Makers OF williams F~lavoring Extracts.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-06-28

Boston, June 27.-Mayor Quincy yes
terday returned to the board of alder
men, with his veto, the order passed by
them granting to the Boston Catholic
Cemetery association to use for pur-
poses of burial a tract of land in Dor
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-09-16
THE MAZET INVESTIGATION.

Mr.. Moss Says the Judges Criticized
Him without Nearing.
New York, Sept. 16.-Contrasted with
the pyrotechnic display at Thursdays
session of the Mazet legislative inves-
tigating committee yesterdays pro-
ceedings were dull anu uninteresting
In the extreme. The first portion OF
the days hearing was devoted to a con
tinuation of the investigation of tho
5000, 100000 Ramapo Water company,
and although some of the testimony
brought out was rather important the
audience seemed to take little interest,
even when ex-Mayor Wurster, Of
Brooklyn. was on the stand. His evil
dence was technical and not easily
comprehended by layman.
A dozen firemen who thronged the
reems of the supreme court were called
to the stand for the purpose Of demon
strating that intoxication prevailed in
the fire department, that the men were
compelled to contribute per cent Of
their salaries to the general welfare
of Tammany Hall and that other
abuses prevailed in this section of the
municipal government. Nothing SEN
sational, however, was ELECTED.
At the conclusion of the hearing Mr..
Moss gave out statement in reply to
the typewriter document produced
Thursday by Richard Croker. Mr..
Moss explained that he had not wit
messed the signature to the document
to which Mr.. Croker and Justice Van
Brunt had objected, but that he had
acted in good faith, and that the opin-
ion of the judges given out by Mr..
Croker was written without his being
accorded a hearing.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-09-16

Baltimore, Sept. 16.--The open golf
championship Of the United States was
won yesterday by Willie Smith, Of the
Midlothian club, of Chicago. with
total for the ~ holes Of S15 strokes.
after two days of the hardest kind OF
play. So superior was Smiths work
that he led his nearest opponents, Val
Fitzjohn, George Low and W. H. Way,
who were all tied for second place. by
II strokes, while Willie Anderson, who
at the end of the first days play stood
at the head, was fifth, with 327. Jack
Parke, OF Orange. N. j., was sixth, with
1928, the new champions brother, Alec
Smith, was seventh, and Harry Gullan
eighth, the two latter being 800 and
331 respectively. These eight men all
received money prizes, while the cham
pion, in addition, was given a gold
medal
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-09-16
Yns AMATEUR CARPENTER.


Legs Of the Table.
Mr.. W. L. Alden discourses in his most
amusing style upon amateur carpenter
Ing in Parsons Magazine. "There pre-
walls" he says, "a superstition among
people Of an economical turn Of mind
that vast sums of money can be saved
every year by n householder who has
few carpenters tools and fancies that he
can mend broken tables and chairs and
can manufacture articles Of furniture.
Experience has demonstrated times with
out number that. next to drink, the ANA
teur carpenter habit is the most expen-
sive and ruinOus habit in which man
can indulge, but experience has not the
slightest influence in checking the habit.
"The householder who brings saw, a
hammer. a plane and gimlet into his
house Is lost. He will inevitably proceed
to use these implements of destruction
until he has ruined his entire stock Of fur
niture aud brought himself to the verge
Of bankruptcy. l have known nm honest
and upright man to provide himself with
carpenters tools and then to begin an
unproyoked assault upon table. one, leg
of which happened to be an -infnitesimaf
part Of an inch shorter than the other
legs. .,.,...
"Beginnnihigg at q d'clock in the morn.
ing, thar unhappy man successfully short
encd every other leg of the table in the
vain hope of bringing them all to the
same length. or course the more he used
his saw the more widely the four legs
deviated from uniformity, but the man,
encouraged by misguided wife, contin'
ued to saw off bits of the legs until at
noon the top Of that table had been
brought within eight inches Of the floor
and the difference in length between the
longest and shortest leg was fully two
inches.
Nevertheless this clear demonstration
Of the evils Of amateur carpentery had
no effect upon the man. He concealed
the evidence of his guilt in the garnet and
the next day began upon chest of draw
ers with the professed intention Of max
ing the, drawers fit perfectly. By night
that chest Of drawers was a hopeless
wreck and only that very evening the
mans wife remarked to her next door
neghbor that her husband was so handy
with carpenters tools that he had saved II
lot Of money by doing his own mending."
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-09-16
A EishiRE Adventure.

One afternoon, while fishing for tarpen
l received terrible blow on the back OF
the head which threw me out of the boat
into the water and almost stunned me-.
l was pulled back by my guide into the
boat, which was floating full Of water,
and found. lying full length in it, a por-
poise about nine feet long, which prob.
ably weighed over 500 pounds. OF course
this fish never struck me, or he would
have broken me to pieces. What hap
pened was: He jumped high in the air,
as they frequently do, and landed. head
first. at my feet in the stern Of the boat,
knocking a hole through the ceiling and
bottom of the boat and stunning himself.
The blow l received was caused by his
body falling upon me.
The nearest rowboat was several hun
dred yards off, and, as we feared the por-
poise might recover at any moment and
smash the boat to pieces with his tail,
my guide. Santa Armeda, tried to push
the porpoise over the edge of the boat,
but was unable to do so, owing to the
fsh's weight. Rather than take the con-
sequences of what might happen if the
porpoise came to before we were taken
out of the boat, we slipped into the wa
ter and rolled the boat over, losing every
thing in the boat, but glad to do 30, as
it included the porpoise.-Forest and
Stream
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-09-16
The President Wants Advice.

Washington, Sept. 16.-It is said at
the war department that the return OF
the two members of the Philippine
commission remaining in Manila,
Messrs. DENLY and Worcester, is in or
Ger to advise the president respecting
the very latest aspect of affairs, so that
he may use the information in his
message to congress. There is an in
timation conveyed that the adyices
brought by President Schurman and
Senator Beveridse and other persons
recently returned from Manila are moi
at all points in strict accord, though
the items of divergence are not known,
beyond the White House. The recall
Of Messrs. DENLY and Worcester will
leave General Otis the sole representa-
tive of the commission in the Philip
pinnS
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-09-16
NUGGETS OF NEWS

Two marines Of the cruiser Philadel-
phia were killed by drinking wood
alcohol.
An aerolyte weighing 500 pounds fell
near Sycamore, o.. making the earth
tremble.
William McCaffery. an employa Of
the Bloomingdale asylum, New York,
was tossed and badly injured by an
angry bull.
Martin Metzger, Jr., New York
real estate broker. was killed at Far
Rockaway by the accidental discharge
of a gun which he was using as a
boathook
A New York bicycle thief, while try
Ing to escape on the stolen wheel, col
lided with street car and was caught
In the window Of the car
The Chinese government Is suppress
ing kilograms to the German minister
at Pekin regarding The destruction Of
German property by natives in the
HintcIland.
b. r. Banning, a Hawaiian capital
list, arrived at San Francisco with a
valise containing $4,000. lie after
wards missed it. and 1t is believed to
have been sent back to the islands by
mistake.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-09-16

Stronger b,msnds WIT GLOW On
less the Transvaal Yields.
EEvBa YEARS FRANCHISE Law.

1t Is said Kruger's Govern mont Insists
Upon This. But Is willing to Consider
ANY Suggestion Made by England
Regarding Its Working.
London, Sept. ia special dis
patch from Pretoria says: The Trans
walls reply will be on the following
lines: The Transyaal adheres to the
seven years. franchise law, but 10 will
ing to consider, and II necessary, to
adopt any suggestions Great Britain
may make with regard to the work
ing of the law. h.n
In regard to the other points of Mr..
ChAmberlain's dispatch the Transvaal
boldly stands by the london conven-
ton. It 10 said tnat the reply 10
couched in polite terms.
State Secretary Reitz. In the course
of an interview yesterday, expressed
some doubt as to whether any alter
alton would be made in the existing
franchise law, but said he believed o
way should and could be found to es-
tablish an arbitration court. As to
suzerainty, "the least said the soonest
mended," remarked the state secre-
tary.
In the forecasts Of President Kru-
gers reply there Is undoubtedly .
large basis of truth which seems to
bring the dispute within measure
able distance of war.
Last evening the press association
issued curious statement to the eff
feet that an soon as the garrison In
Natal had been sufficiently strength
ened the Transyaal government would
lie called upon to accept a new cOnven-
ton, already drafted, which, while
guaranteeing the integrity Of the
Transvaal state. provides for the de-
molition Of the forts and limits the
armed force of the Transvaal to a
number deemed sufficient to maintain
Internal order. -
According to the press association
the convention will demand that the
diplomatic agencies be suppressed and
the judiciary be made Independent OF
the executive.
This statement, which realizes the
extreme demands of the outlanders,
must be accepted under reserve at the
present stage, but 1t is not unlikely to
be semi official hint as to the next
move Of the government should Presi-
dent Kruger prove obdurate.
The morning paper editorials regard
the crisis as having reached its most
acute phase. The Daily News says:
I'VE refuse to believe that Presi-
dent Kruger is 80 foolish as to reject
Mr.. Chamberlain's moderate de-
mands."
The Daily Chronicle, which appeals
again to Mr.. Kruger ito accept while
1t is yet time and before England's
terms become harder" says:
"A refusal of the present terms will
involve the ruin of the state over
which President Kruger presides. The
British government have played their
first and second moves in the game,
and must perforce play the third, and
then the fourth. If Mr.. Kruger hag-
giles, the sinister conditions in South
Africa will grow worse until catas-
tr0phe is reached"
Other papers talk Of the imminence
Of war, and all the dispatches from
South Africa continue to describe the
military preparations on both side
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-09-16
Luminous Funguses.

1t was across the famous Black spur Of
the dividing range, in the heart of Vic
toria, that certain funguses shone so brd-
lantly at night We had been shooting
the flying phaangers commonly known
as the flying squirrels) among the euca-
Iypts of the Australian bush, when
chance brought MS to rivulet ut the
base of the beautiful waterfall at Marys-
vile. There, III q peaceful nook, shelter
ed by huge tree ferns and clad with rare
mosscs and lycopods, clusters of cup
shaped funguscs, intensely luminous, mes
tied amid bed of tilmy fern and lit the
immediate surroundings with a white,
mysterious glow.
l can convey little idea Of the weird eff
feet thus produced md merely record the
fact that handful carried back to the
township gradually lost the intensity Of
light as the organism slowly shriveled
away. In lesser degree there are fun
guses similarly luminous at home. The
exact raison d'etre Of the appearance
cannot explain. II you exclude the at
mosphere, the fungus ceases to shine;
hence infer that it is the action of at
mospheric air upon cxhalations OF the or
ganism which induces the radiance
Good Words.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-09-16

keosequtor Jenkins Denonuces thp
whole story ~ Nonsease.
Camden Sept. -16.-Nothing remains
Of the Shaw sensation. Camden awoke
Thursday to hear Of the arrest of q
prominent young citizen, Eugene OAR
nell, charged with being accessory
after the fact In the murder Of Mrs.
Zane and Mrs. Shaw. upon the night
of Oct. z, 1897, and TO read Of a con-
fession by ELI Shaw that he was guilty
of these crimes. The witnesses who
were supposed to be ready to connect
Darnell with the crime and substanti-
ate Shaw's confession was Silas G.
Cline, a tollgate keeper, and Mrs. Neil
whom Shaw was engaged at the time
of the murders. and an unknown man
living on Pine street. The unknown
nan cannot be interviewed, but here
In brief is what those chiefly interested
In the case have to say:
Ell Shawl made no confession"
Silas c. Cline-"I never said word
duplicating Darhell I have talked
with no reporters"
Mrs. Neilson-"I know absolutely
nothing regarding Shaw's connection
with the murders. My horror of him
is based upon other grounds"
Eugene Darnell-"My arrest 10 an
outrage; was not with Shaw the
night of the murders"
Prosecutor Jenkins-"After investi-
cation cannot find a particle Of evil
dence against Darnell which would
justify his arrest. The whole story is
nonsense from beginning to end"
Harry s. Scovel. Shaws counsel
1.-THE entire affair Is an objectionable
outrage"
Judge Carrow. Darnell's counsel
when Darnells innocence is estab-
lished the conspirators will be dealt
with according to law"
Darnell, who is out on bail, declares
he will prosecute the conspirator3 who
caused his arrest and sue the paper
publishing the story for damages.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-09-16
AN AsroNlsAsD SKIPPER.
He Got =. Lesson. In Grain LOADING,
American Fashion.


"Some years ago." said the superin-
tendent Of one of Buffalo's grain eleva-
tors, while was in charge Of an eleva-
tor in Baltimore, small brig ran up to
the elevator to take on load of wheat.
Vhe captains name was Doncelo. He
was Spaniard and for 10 or IL years
had traded around in eastern ports. He
had never seen n grain elevator, and his
idea Of loading grain into vessel was
that II was shoveled in by hand, as it
was years ago. He found me and in his
gruff way said:
81 want to put in 15.000 bushels Of
wheat, and l don't want to lay around
here week or two. See if you can't get
me out of here in two days. anyhow
Il smiled, said that | would try, and
gave orders minute later to get the brig
up in position, where we could assail her
In good shape. The captain went to his
berth to sleep. for it was nearly midnight
then. We shrugged the little craft up
against the wharf, opened her matches
and inserted three full sized spouts lead
ing from well filed bins in the top Of the
elevator. All the employees understood
what the joke was to be, and they decid-
ed to -break7 a record. Everything was
ready for the loading a half hour after
Captain Doucelo went to his berth, but
we had concluded to let him get fast
asleep before going on with the joke.
at was an hour and n half after the
captain had disappeared that the power
was turned on, and second later thou
sands of bushels of grain went rushing
from the bins into the hold of the little
craft. The boat listed heavily for mo-
ment and threatened to overturn, but
the grain slid over to the center and
righted the ship. Down rushed the grain
through the three spouts. You could
hear the roar for thousand feet. Seven
minutes after the power was turned on
1t was turned off The 1900 bushels
had been paid out. and Captain Doncelo's
boat was setting pretty low in the water.
About this time the captain appeared OIL
deck in his nigbtshrt.
"'To the pumps" he shouted in Span
ish in his loudcst tones.
!'1'he crew was on deck in minute,
and Captain Doncelo fitted about like
paper man in windstorm. Spying me
on the wharf laughing. he accosted me.
"'What is the matter that my boat
sinks at her dockT he asked.
"'Shes not sinking. guess. You said
you wanted to get out Of here in less
than week. and we loaded your boat
for you in hurry
'"Ihe captain looked at me queerly,
stepped over to the hatchway and looked
at the heap Of golden grain in the hold.
He was amazed, to say the least. He
remained in port long enough to have the
mystery explained, and, Il good wind pre-
yailing, he set out. He had lain just two
hours ut the dock.'-New York Sun.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-09-16
THE SHAMROCK'S TRIAL RUN.


Twenty-three Miles in Three Hours.
in a Light Breeze.
New York. Sept. 16.-ln a light
breeze from the west-northwest, vary
ing from six to eight knots an hour,
Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht, Shamrock,
sailed over a course OF about 90 miles
yesterday in three hours and four
minutes, or at an average of nearly
eight knots an hour. The first half OF
the course. from Scotland lightst.ip to
the outer mark, was dead to leeward
before the wind, ten miles. The last
half was ten miles to windward, with
three miles added for the tacks made,
making total of 20 miles. The ten
mile run before the wind was covered
In one hour and sixteen minutes, and
the windward mark OF Is miles in one
hour and forty-three minutes. TIL
total elapsed time shows that the Co.
lumbia sailed the same distance in her
last race with the Defender at New
port, 20 minutes and A seconds faster
than the challenger, but there was
more wind at the Newport race dur
ing the windwarG work, so the COM
parison Is hardly fair one.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-09-16
An Arctic Bill Of Fare.

An arctic region is no place for cpl
cures. The men who explored Franz-Jo-
sef Land under the command Of Mr.. F.
G. Jackson were by no means dainty in
their tastes, hut their leader tells us in
his diary that during the long winters,
when the birds had migrated to the south,
lnonotonous was not the word to describe
the bill of fare.
We are none Of us in love with walrus
meat. 1t is very tough, coarse ard dark
in color and has a distinct favor of TO-
dine. Every day l AN having all the
blood of the animals killed kept and fro.
zen. Every day pound or so Of frozen
blood is Clipped off with an TX and add
ed to our soup. The fat of the walrus
we find peculiarly unpleasant.
l should like to place either walrus or
bear cooked la arctic before London
c!ubman and be privileged to watch his
expression and hear his remarks.