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The Sunday globe., 1901-05-05

self so arly in front Of the sucker, while
the other crowds up behind him. The
operator In front feels the pockets until
he hits the right one Now surprising
the victim is standing in a very erect
position, the lips of his pockets will be
drawn somewhat close together, this
being so, it is dangerous to insert the
hand, and no crook with any preten-
sions to cleverness will attempt il. Oh
no he makes a certain low toned gut
tural noise; this is the signal for his pal
to exert a slight pressure against the
victims shoulder, the opposite shoulder
to that side of the body where the par
ticular pocket is. This is so slick Y and
gradually extended, that the sucker
yields to the pressure almost without
knowing it, This throws open the lips
Of the pocket. Now, | presume that
most people think that a pickpOcket
puts his hand boldly into a pocket and
draws out the contents No sireeh!
hats "a mistake, he goes to work on
the lining and draws it out gradually,
without inserting his fingers more than
half way. He keeps on drawing the
lining out, until the contents of the
pocket are within easy reach Of the
uliBeiss II Tue oppiAH NoiiH ~ VI lpoSG
coin, it is quietly drawn out piece by
piece, 10y the thumb and fore-finger.
If roll of bills or pocket book, it is
grasped between the index and middle
finger, gently yet quickly drawn out,
and bifl'! | win, you lose. A low whis
tie or "a chirruping bird like noise, sig
nihes to the pal that the job is done,
and the leather, super or ticker'-slang
terms for pocket book, gold or silver
watch respectively handed to him
so that the other fellow may not he
found with the articles on him, should
he be caught in the act.
How long ago is it since you quit
the business ?N
"Oh, three or four years ago.
"Were you ever arrested?"
Nov look here, ain t you just little
lit to inquisitive--I think I've talked
quite long enough IS long"
The Sunday globe., 1901-05-05

his vest, In his lower vest pocket or
In the pocket OF H. pantaloons and
these parts o. his clothes were always
torn. On one occasion his wife, whom
this custom worried exceedingly, sewed
up the pockets Of his Sunday ClOthesv
without informing her husband Of what
she had done. AS soon as he had got
well into his sermon Sunday morning
his left hand went to his vest pocket
but the fingers could not be forced into
1t. Down to the pantaoon pocket went
the hand, but that was closed, too.
The hip pocket was in the same fix.
The audience began to see that some
thing was worrying their minister
His left hand was wandering from his
vest to his pantaloons and back again
and again, his manner was nervous and
irritable and his speech stammering.
AT length he broke down altogether
and was compelled to explain to the
congregation that he could not deliver
sermon without being Il lowed to put
his hand in his pocket
The habits of newspaper writers are
often pecnllaT There is one we'll
known newspaper man in this town
who will never go to report meeting
without having new pencil in his
pocket, no matter how many he has
that are still of considerable length. In
writing, he must, if possible, have his
coat and right cuif removed and can
do himself justice, he says, only on
paper Of "A certain size and Of a certain
quality. Upon the first page of his
manuscript, which must not have IA
mark or a spot on it to begin with
there must not be a scratch word. If a
wrong word should be used i'm the very
last line and it should be necessary to
mark it out, the whole page would be
re written, and the first few lines are
always written far apart to correspond
with the double leading that is used at
the beginning OF a long article. An
9th peculiar rule established for him
self is never to divide the last word on
a page. He would rather leave blank
than carry a syllable to the next page
One might easily fill half a dozen
volumes with instances Of funny habits.
but all the reader need do to "catch
on' himself is to keep his weather eye
open as he walks along the street
The Sunday globe., 1901-05-05

japanese and Chinese. The long cherry
wood stem with bowl of red clay or meer.
schaum make the chibouk, the pipe Of
the tobacco loving Turk. A pipe dis
tinctively Oriental in its origin and lux
uriousness is the hookah, invented by the
Persians. The smoke passes through a
vessel of perlumed water before passing
through the stem. The most expensive
materials are freely used in making these
pipes, and the workmanship is the most
exquisite the skilled artisans of the Orient
can produce. In the courts of Eastern
potentates the hookah is an object Of
great importance, so much SO that a
special attendant always has charge of it,
and if any mishap occur to the pipe the
bowstring settles his hash pretty quick
"What people use meerschaum pipes
mostly p
"The meersChanm pipe cannot be said
to be distinctive with any people; 1t is
iavorite with smokers on both continents.
The French are fond Of clay pipes, while
the briar root may be said to be decidedly
English you know The 'dudeen' and
'cutty, as the short clay pipes of the
Irish and Scotch are respectively termed,
have been immortalized time and time
again in prose and verse. Indian pipes ?
Oh yes, among the Indians the pipe is an
object Of peculiar symbolical significance
in connection with their religious rites
and other ceremonies. The calumet or
peace pipe is looked upon with the most
profound yeneralion, and is smoked with
much ceremony upon all occasions of
i'm poriance. The handing Of it to stran.
gers is intended as a mark of friendlness
and hospitality and to refuse it would be
considered an act of great hostility, The
stem is OF great length, usually about two
and half feet and is always proIusely
onamented with feathers and hair and
beautifully carved, n fact interesting
and worthy of mention is, that the place
where the fine red stone, of which the
Indians make the bowls of their pipes, is
found is, or was, always considered
neutral ground by the redskins in times
Of war The finest quality of this stone
is found in Dakota. 1t is kind Of mar
bic Of rich red color, easily worked
aud believe 6, ologists assert is peculiar
to this country alone
"Are tobacco pipes made by machinery
or by hand q
"Wen, machinery is of curse employed
largely in the manufacture of wooden
pipes, but in the matter OF clay pipes it is
not to any great extent. The operation
of making a clay pipe is 50 simple that
prodigious quantities can be produced by
hand with astoniahing rapidily, and so
cheaply, that but very small margin is
left for saving by the introduction Of ma
chinery into the manufacture.
The Sunday globe., 1901-05-05

The party got of at Newark, and the
writer accompanied the Major TO the
hall where he was to speak on the issues
of the day. A report OF that speech
would make instructive reading now, as
an illustration of how radically politi-
clan can change his most sacred c1nvic-
tions. The major scored England and
her statesmen, "A la O'DOnOyan Rosa,
and won my eternal fealty by his stir
ring anti British periods. After the
meeting he informed " Bill ~ MOnahan
and the writer that he was through with
politics and would never again be a can
dinate for an elective Office. We COM
bated this apparent sincere resolution,
and pointed out that the tide would turn
and he would be remembered. He shook
his head and said "the practice Of law
has more destinations for me than either
seat in Congress or the gubornatorial
chair" and we left him Satisfied that he
was "has beenD Blln knew better
before his death in Manila, as the major
had given him the commission Of pay
master i'm the regular Army,
How do / account for President Me-
I[inley's change of convictions as being
the most pro- British President who ever
occupied the Presidential chair? 'Jim-
my" Boyle, now consul general to Liv-
erpool, and Governor McKinley's former
private secretary, is the man who con-
yerted our President.
The writer knew Mr.. BOYLE well i'm
Cincinnati and Colubus. He was in
tensely English. Born few miles from
Liverpool aud coming ~ Canada as a
youth, he never forgot his native land
nor its American dependency. Even
while private secretary to Governor Me-
Kinley he would insist on spending his
Christmas i'm Toronto Mr.. Boyle,
while correspondent in Columbus of the
Gazette, had the run of my
newspaper office, and many heated
argument we had over the lEngl ish. Irish
question ana the English and american
.orms OF government. Mr.. BOYLE knew
Major Mckinley at this period as the
great apostle Of high tariff. He shared
his cOuntrymen's opinions Of the major,
but subsequently assigned to report the
speeches of Candidate Mckinley for
governor of Ohio, Mr.. Boyle ingratiated
himself into the favor of the future gov
srnor and President.
To Mr.. Boyle's four years association
with Governor Mckinley and his per-
,istent and brainy presentations of the
English view Of every question, ably
seconded 10y Mr., Hanna's mOlding pro-
'ess, IS due the metamorphosis which
has made the "best hated ~ American
politician Of the British empire 1.-THE
greatest American statesman who ever
directed the destinies of the American
republic" Sic.
The Sunday globe., 1901-05-05

IF wealth and poverty are respectively
the heaven and hell Of our concrete re-
ligion, why wonder that men will do
anything TO obtain the one and escape
from the other2 Property makes dis
tincion between man and man as arbi.
trary and artificial as aristOcratic privilege,
and our people feel that the doctrine Of
equality-the doctrine that one man is rs
good as another-can only be realized by
striving to make one man as iich as
another. II the capitalist asserts himself
socially as an aristocrat, the democrat
trades recklessly on what he borrows
from the capitalist in order to be as good
an arstocral as he. A few afiluent iami-
lies, composed miscellaneously of mil
lionaires vulgar and millionaires refined,
of millionairts intelligent and milliOnaires
stupid, combine together and mpudently
attempt 10 eonfine the meaning of good
society" " the possession Of a splendid
establishment in II fashionable street, with
large income to support H., and it is
curious TO see with what ludicrous SIM
plicty their preteBsiOns are admitted, and
with what wear and tear Of brain and con-
science, with what sacrifices of health,
comfort, and honor, thousands aim to
qualify themselves for entrance into that
terrestrial paradise From "Oullooks on
Society"
The Sunday globe., 1901-05-05
TOPICS IN HRIEE.

Let us then be up and doing,
All becoming money kings;
Some day we may be endowing
Universities and things.
Lives Of bllionaires remind us
That we've got to own the stock
IL we want to leave behind us
Libraries on every block.
The Chicago Times Herald
The Sunday globe., 1901-05-05

A RIVAL TO Booker T. Washington's S
Tuskegee institute is to be established on
400 acres of land ten miles north OF
Cape May by the Rev. j. w Fishburn
and his associates, who have assumed the
name Of the Afro American Equitable as
socialion. They bought the land from
State Senator Robert f. Hand and have
raised all but $I00 of the first instalment
Of the Sl4, 900 which they will pay for it,
The association also has in hand over
81, 600 for beginning the construction of
an industrial school and manufacturing
plant Farms will be allotted to colonis's $,
and only Negroes will be allowed to do
any work. It understood that Negroes
from New Jersey and from Virginia and
North Carolina will join the colony.
A French investigator has come to the
conclusion that the brains Of military and
naval men give out most quickly. lie
states that out Of every 100000 men OF
the army or naval profession 199 are hope
less lunalics. OF the so called liberal
professions, artists are the first to sue
cumb to the brain strain, next the law
yers, followed at some distance by doc
tors, clergy, literary men, and civil ser
wants. Striking an average Of this group,
III go mad to each 100000. Domestic
servants and laborers are not far behind;
the professional men supply 155 out OF
each 100, 900 as candidates Tor the lunatic
asylum Next, but with a long interval,
come the mechanics, Of whom SO in each
100, 600 lose their wits Wonderful to
relate, commercial men retain their sanity
the best of the whole group, as they send
only AZ out Of lOO,0 90 to the mad house.
THE ll2 cotton mills of Mexico con
sumed last year 5LOO00OO pounds of
cotton and produced nearly 10000 900
pieces Of woven and printed goods
These mills give employment to $4,000
operatives, and the sales for The year
amounted to more than $2s, 900.
The Sunday globe., 1901-05-05

On the theory, it is assumed that GER
tain Democratic editors find the best in.
spiration for their wittest paragraphs in
criticism OF the men and measures of
their own party, the local Democratic
organ scintilates with stupid culogies
OF the late Queen Victoria and soleful
abuse Of all who oppose the Republican
imperihlislic program. An autograph
letter from Edward VII. to the editor
and Presidential authority to execute
Aguinaldo would apparently overflow
his cup Of happiness.
The Sunday globe., 1901-05-05

WHAT might be termed the elevator
disease" is brought to our notice by
London paper quoted in The Scientific
American. If what it tells us be true,
people with weak hearts had better climb
len flights Of stairs than ride up in the
elevator. "Lift attendants have died sud
don deaths; people with weak hearts have
noticed ominous sensations when in the
elevator We are told the sudden transi
ton from the heavier air at the foot to
the lighter air at the top is extremely
trying to the constitution. Most people
have experienced singular sensations of
internal collapse when the lit floor sinks
beneath the feet, but none suspected that
the results might be 80 serious
The Sunday globe., 1901-05-05

" You ought to see my cottage In the
woods" said the popular emotional
actress
Make it out Of Northern piney"
saked someone.
" Not at all, - she replied, i'm her light
comedy manner. made it out Of
East Lynne
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-02-20
Dry Goods Coopers.

"This is strange place for cooper
shop" said stranger in New York,
pointing to sign over basement in
the wholesale dry goods district.
eyes; it would be queer place" was
the answer, IF the product was like
that of nearly all cooper shops. But
there was never a barrel made in the
place, and probably not one of the Is
men who work there could head bar
rel, to say nothing of making one. This
cooperage does business only with big
wholesale houses" H.. .... ,........ II.
There are several similar shops in the
district. They make a business of
strapping cases of merchandise after
they have been packed. The large
concerns have the cases put in the
street after they have been packed. and
then the cooper is sent for to nail the
wooden straps around them. He re-
ceives about % cents an hour for his
labor and from 10 to % cents a pair
for the straps. The shops are the
storehouses for the hoop poles, and
there the men split and shave the hick-
ory saplings which finally become the
case straps. There are some houses in
the district where the porter does this
work, but the large concerns turn il
over to the coopers who never make q
barrel.-New York Tribune. %.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-02-20

"The transmitting clock at the Naval
observatory, Washington, is the abso-
lutte monarch of American timekeep-
ers," writes Eyander McIver Sweet in
The Ladies' Home Journal. Every day
in the year except Sunday by one PEN
dulum stroke it speaks directly and in
simultaneously to every city and consid-
cradle town between the peaks of the
Rockies and the pines of Maine, saying
to them that on the seyenty-fifth merid-
ian it is now high noon to the fraction
of a second. A duplicate mechanism
stationed at the branch naval observa-
tory on Mare Island performs similar
service for the people Of the Pacific
slope. And by this one clock at the ma
tional capital, together with its dupli-
cate on the Pacific, is set nearly every
timepiece in the United States and Gu
ba, most of those in Mexico and many
on the border of Canada. .a-s-.....
"a number of clocks-from 3 to 5000
in nearly every city and large, town
are wired together into local family
and by means of a switch key at the
telegraph office are put into direct con-
tact with the parent clock at the ma
tional capital, So that the instant the
electric touch is given from Washington
every clock in the circuit whether it be
at Boston, Minneapolis or New Or
leans, begins new day in perfect &C
cord with it's mechanical deity"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-02-20

evidence you require to know IL the
queen is there. The second important
thing is to see If they have stores
sufficient to at least carry them along
a month or so later, or until warm
weather predominates, so they can be
fed strip. Better not be hasty about
feeding strip thus early, but if a col
ony is nearly ashore for food, give
them candy to carry them on a little
later. When opening hives on this
occasion during March be very care
full to place every frame of comb back
in the hive in just the same place and
in the same position it formerly occu-
pied. Close up the hives very care
fully and securely and leave no cracks
or openings for the next severe cold
spell to cause your labors to be a
damage rather than a benefit to the
bees.
If colony is found to have lost its
queen, it may be united with another
at this time if the weather is very
fine, but it is usually better to just
close up the hive and let it remain
so until nearer the opening Of spring,
But keep a lookout for robbers, for
they win surely find it sooner or later.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-02-20
SOUTH WHEELOCK.

The storm of last week blockaded
some of the back roads, especially the
mountain road. Four men worked
shoveling Sunday and then it was
doubtful if this opened the road for
travel,
Mrs, Grin Smelling was called to Hard
wick this week to care tor her daughter,
Bertha, who is very sick with measles.
Last Thursday morning the house
owned by John Barclay and known as
the Thomas Flood place was burned to
the ground, the tenants barely escaping
and only in their night clothes, as it
burned between two and three o'clock.
Cause unknown. The tenants are very
poor people and have the sympathy OF
the people as they lost all they had.
{. G. and W. M. Mooney and G.. A.
Hoyt have been cutting iceat Bean Pond.
they report it of the best quality. #
The Park boys with their saving ma
chine are saving wood at C. G, Moneys
this week.
Thomas Hall is drawing quite. a mum.
Der Of logs to the mill for Nathaniel
Ward OF St. Tohnsbury, from his land in
South Wheelock.
The ladies have asocial at M. M.
!keough's Saturday afternoon and even
ing. g." "a ~ e #
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-02-20
RYEdATE.

The state board OF agriculture held
very interesting and profitable meetings
in the United Presbyterian church
Feb. IA and Is. Six speakers from
abroad were present and the sessions
were well attended. A public dinner was
served in the vestry to over 100 persons
on Friday. 3
E. E. Symes went to Boston Monday
in the interest OF Jersey Hill creamery.
Rev. F. Collins is one of the latevictlms
Of grip, being unable to supply the pulpit
on Sunday. In his absence sermon was
read by S. c. Gibson.
L. P. Leach and wife Of St. Johnsbury
visited at w. T. McLam's last Thursday
Mrs James Doe has left the farm and
gone to live with her son, George, at
Topsham.
Miss Name Coder of Iowa, who has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. Harry Mel
son tor the past eight months, finished
her school in District No. 2 last week
and returns to Iowa this week.
The Ladies Missionary Society meet:
with Mrs. W. T. Nolan, Thursday
afternoon. I
Mrs L. H. Witty Of White River juno
ton visited at Mrs. w. F. G'bson's the
first OF the week. ...
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-02-20
Tao mich Club Life.

II would be hard to tell which is
worse, a dun or a crying baby. One
of the latter on crowded street car
raised sheoL A poor dispirited, sad
faced man held it with its red face
wabbling over his shoulder and its feet
occasionally b4ating the air as it re-
newed it's pathetic screams. The wo-
men glared at him. mo wonder it
cries" said one. "See how that idiot
is holding it," The old married man
longed to give him a word or two
about carrying child on the public
cars. The bachelor swore under his
breath and said something about nui-
sances on street cars and forcing peo-
pie to quit after paying their fares.
Meanwhile the baby screamed louder
than ever, and the poor father was
wild He saw the looks on the faces
around him. He knew exactly what
those folks were thinking. Finally he
said, with a tremble in his voice, La
dies and gentlemen, you must excuse
this baby, but its mother Tears
stole down his haggard face. "Oh, the
poor little thing" interrupted the old
maid in the corner sweetly. LET me
hold the little angel" -t7G
The old bachelor turned hastily aside
and wiped tear which had given his
eye surprise party, and the married
man coughed and felt a strange lump
in his throat "Its mother" continued
the baby holder, sis attending the
business meetings Of 16 of her clubs
ay."-LouisvilIe Times. A.a a-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-02-20
PEAcHAH.

The many patrons of the stage route
will be pleased to know that Dan Lowell
will drive the stage the coming fouryears.
Mr. Lowell has been very popular stage
driver and has won many friends the
past four years. RI .. -7 ,5....t
Mrs. Idella Morrison, who has been
at J. N. Sargeant's for some time, has
gone to West Danville. tHe
Mr.. and Mrs, Charles Thresher visited
their daughter, Mrs. Robinson, at Burke
last week. ...
The regular monthly meeting of the G.
A. R. was held at Nelson Bailey's last
Saturday. About IS veterans were pres
ent also Is of the w. r. c. Dinner was
served. Htf"
Mrs. Charles Lamb of Montpelier and
Will Peak and daughter of Wheelock
visited at Albert Peaks last week. IVA
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Lackie spent Sun.
day at Jefferson Hill, Newbury.
Nat russell is home from Walden
where he has beer working at Ordway S
mill the past two months.
Tohn Wilson and family have moved to
Harvey Dunn's farm in the edge of Rye
gate. '"a N'''|a'- 1881 10. A-" 20
Mrs. Nero Renfrew of Craftsbury Wis
tied her sister, Mrs. Eliza Rentrew, the
past week.
The annual farmers meeting at the
town hall last Friday, which was con.
Quoted by the State Board of Agriculture
was quite well attended in spite of the
storm and was much enjoyed by all. The
speakers were all good, but the address
by Col J. H.. Brigham, assistant secre
tary OF agriculture at Washington, de
serves special mention, as it was very
much enjoyed by all. So was also the
song Asleep in the Deep" by Arthur
Stoddard., h.. .,,... ,...-... .'.-f. ,,
Miss Ollie Moore closed very success
full term of school last week and the fol
lowing scholars had no absent marks
during the term: Katherine Hooker
Ellen EMERSON, Sarah Lawton, Gertit
BaIau, Benjamin Field and Carol
Blanchard. Louise Blanchard was alb
sent only one. half day. Katherine Hook
err, Carroll Blanchard and Sarah Lawto1
were not absent during the year.
Harvey Wheeler cut his foot very badly
one day recently while choppiug in til,
the woods. He is getting along as wei
as can be expected.
Nellie M. Harvey goes to Barnet Cen
ter this week Friday night to read at al
| entert ainment. ANr--