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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-02-20
LOCAL GATHERINGS.

Mrs. w. II. Moulton will sell her
household goods at private sale this
week. t.s4fa.~ h.-f... ..# .- ...r.t
Quite delegation of Masons go to
Barton tonight to attend district
Masonic chapter meeting. sFt
Charles e. Ayers has moved into the
tenement in S. J. Somervile's house re-
Gently vacated by George L. Gifin.
The ladies OF Grace Methodist church
will serve chicken pie dinner on Friday,
Washingtons birthday, from II to 2.
The regular monthly meeting of the
w. c. T. U, will be held at the Y. M. c.
A. parlors Tuesday afternoon February
26. tsf Hn aHa 5
A petition in bankruptcy has been
filed by Fred F. Russell, a painter;
liabilities 1914, unsecured $231; assets
$4O0, exempt 5000.
The Current Events class of the
Woman's club will meet with Mrs. c. P.
Carpenter on Spring street Saturday
afternoon at o'clock. saa. 5aI
The continuation of the hearing in
the Avenue House matter which was set
for last Saturday has been continued un-
til Friday of this week. - ''
Friday being legal holiday the post
office will be closed except during the
usual holiday hours, to 10 and 5 to 6.
One delivery will be made in the morn.
ing. .a .sH s..s
AT the regular quarterly conference OF
Grace Methodist church held last week
the pastor Rev. George W. Hunt was
asked by unanimous vote to remain
with the church another year.
Eureka Lodge. No. 918, K. of H.,
will hold social promenade and dance
in Junior Order hall, Tuesday evening,
Feb. 26, to which the public are cordial
ly invited, Ladies admitted free.
The Epworth League of Grace M. E.
church rendered donation to Mr.. and
Mrs. D. c. Mcfarland Monday evening
and presented to them nearly $50 in
money and about $40 in groceries.
The Academy Choral class concert
that was to have been given Monday
evening was unavoidably postponed be-
cause of the sickness of Sidney F. Smith
but will probably be given next week
Definite announcement will be egivenl later
The body OF Edward Carlisle Pierce
whose death was recorded iu last weeks
issue, was brought here for burial Thurs
day. Members of Palestine Commandery
K. T., acted as an escort. Mr.. Pierce was
member of Vermont Commandery o
Windsor. .ra a4f. ta. I.ueIaat
H. c. Bates offers for sale in anothe
column, everything he owns in St. Johns
bury which he wishes to dispose of be
fore the middle of March His real es
tate is one of the best locations in tow
and his furnishings are most all nearl
new. ro4 oaw5 5.arf s8l se.-. -ss'
Manager Spencer of the Fairbank
grocery store will begin next Tuesda
the annual beef cutting and the patron
of this store are assured OF the finest cut
H
OF Chicago beef for the next few week.
Only the very best stock is bought-tt
A class--and the finished product on II
dinner table makes feast fit for kings.
"A lecture and concert will be give
in St, Aloysius church, Thursday evening
. the eve of Washington's birthday. tt
lecture will be delivered by Rev. ].
Lynch, on the life and characteristics
> General Washington and the musical pr
gramme will be given by the St. John
bury and Lyndonville pupils of Mi
Katherine Dugan. An admission viii
charged.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-02-20
Basket Bali.

In the game last Wednesday evening
between the Guards and Morrisvilles the
former won by large score. A first
class game is booked for Friday evening
at the Armory between the Guards and
Brewster Academy team of Wolfboro, N.
H. This team is rated one of the best in
New Hampshire. 1t is captained by
Ralph c. Sulloway of this place, who will
be remembered as leading player in the
Guards last season team. On Monday
evening there will be a game between
the St. Johnsbury Academy's and God
dard's of Barre at the Armory. -."
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-02-20
The Scotia Club.

Inc Sc0tla SluD. .'.
The Scotia Club held an exceedingly
interesting quarterly meeting at the
Museum Class rooms Monday evening.
The programme was of unusual interest.
Mrs. John T. Borland read a paper on
personal recollections OF life in Inverness.
In this paper she gave graphic picture
of this former capital of the highlands
and the historic region surrounding it
Inverness was her Scottish home and
Mrs. Borland's descriptions and her stor'
les of incidents lconnected with her lite
there delighted those present. Miss Ed
ma A. Stuart gave readings from the
poems of Ossian. Rev. DR.. Fairbank:
gave an interesting account OF visit to
Fingals cave, Staffa, Iona and Null
Several new members were admitted
at this meeting, .....,....- ..-.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-02-20
FRATERNITY MEETINGS.
palestine cOmmandery, No. 5. KIT.

Palestine COmmandery, No. 5, T. ...
Stated Conclave March s.
g 80 - IT7H GEORGE F. CHENEY,
D,,osM RAcoN. Commander.
Recorder.
PassumpsIc Lodge No. IT,, r. and A. M.
Called Communication Passumpsic Lodge
No. ~. F, and A. M. thursday evening,
Feh 81. The F. c. degree will be conferred.
Regular Communication reo, 70,
EPBRAIM AMAzEEN, Master.
DBLos M BACON, Secretary.
tsasweIl Royal Arch Chapter, No. II.
Special convocation Haswell Ro,al Arch
The p. M. and M. 3. M. degrees will be
EDWIN L SPENCER, II. p.
. DELos M. Bacon, Secretary. a .a
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
Four Surprised Sisters.

-Four sisters, ranging in age from GO to
II years, and living respectively in Mas
Sarhusctts, Florida, Kentucky and Ohio.
met the past week under unusual circum-
stances. simultaneously from their far
apart homes three Of the sisters arrived
to visit the fourth in Dayton, .. Neither
of them knew that the others were com
ing. Each lady had made up her mind
SO suddenly for the visit that there had
been no time for mail communication by
any member of the families. There was
known cause whatever that might OK
plain how the three ladies at the same
time conceived the idea Of visiting their
Ohio sister.
Having decided very hastily on com
ing. each lady started at once. ana
had in view the extra pleasure of
giving the sister in Dayton hap
Ply surprise. There was an un-
expected general surprise. Just as the
Kentucky lady walked into her rclative
nome the Massachusetts sister arrived
Astonlshment was at great height Warm
greetings were not yet over, bonnets had
not yet been removed. when in walked
the sister from Florida.
The four sisters are Mrs. Elizabeth r.
Bradford of Pensacola, Fla: Mrs. DR..
Mrs. Jennie Butterficld Smith of Gym
thiana, Ky, and the oldest. Mrs. Viii
ley, aged - years. of Dayton, o. The
four sisters had not met since they were
called together twenty years ago at the
death bed Of their father. The quar-
tettc were daughters of the late $. \
Butterield, ST., who was prominent fig
ure in the Miami valleys early Demo
cratic poltics.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
Salt with Ice.

Mixing salt with ice makes it much
cooler. The ice in an icecream freezer
goes down to about zero. This is why
the point zero on our common thermome-
ters was fixed where it is. 1t was sup
posed to be the lowest point which could
be reached by artificial means. Since
then we have reached 1888 degrees below
zero. by chemical processes.
Ice will cool down with everything else.
on Il cold night. to zero or below. What
Should prevent it? On day when it is
just freezing block of iron and a block
of ice outdoors will stand at 80 degrees.
If the weather grows warmer the iron
will warm up with the weather. but the
ice will stay at 81 degrees. and met
away. But if the weather grows colder
the iron and the ice will cool off, too, and
enc just as much as the other.
AS the ice grows colder it gets harder
and more brittle. There can be no
hickory bend on the skating pond on a
zero day. for ice is then TOO brittle. Sliy-
ers of ice dipped in liquid air become so
hard that they will cut glass; Water
thrown on ice in the Arctic regions will!
SILVER it like pouring boiling water upon
cold glass. This is because the ice is so
much colder than the water-Denver
Times
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
Many Gloves i'll a Squirrels Nest.

In the old residence that is being re-
built at 80 South Clinton street the car
penters the past week. in tearing up the
attic floor Oh the south side of the house
near a window, found nest that had
evidently been the home some day Of
squirrels. The neSt was made up of
about fifty pairs of kid gloves, both la
dies and gentlemen's, an old German
textbook, an engraving from an old maya
zine, and soft debris of various kinds.
The gloves were in many stages of dilapi-
dation and age; some Of them were fold
ed and turned together wrong side out,
as is often customary: others were torn
up. seemingly by the sharp teeth ana
claws Of the little fellows, and the mates
Of some torn gloves were found whole
The bundle had the dust Of years upon
it, and told the story Of industry. 1t is
the theory of those who saw the curious
mixture that it must have been the work
of flying squirrels which have for years
inhabited the trees in that neighborhood.
They have the art of fattening out their
bodies and squeezing through remark
ably small Space-betWeen the wires of
q bird cage even. 1t is thought that these
little creatures made their way in and
ont through the spaces under the caves
which are often in the structure Of build
ings of fifty years ago.-Poushkeepsie
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
Plea for Pure Air in Churches.

So much has been said of sanitary con.
dltlons late years that no one is ignorant
of the dangers of pneumonia or Of tuber-
Culosls: Where one member Of the fam
lily is the subject of pulmonary consump-
ton constant supply Of pure air is a
necessity for the health of those who are
bound to remain under the same roof.
1t is also understood why indiscriminate
splitting is an abominable danger, and
how close rooms and crowded railway
cars and street cars increase the danger
for healthy persons. Granting, then,
that all these things are matter ST
common knowledge, says the London
Lancet, it is little short of marvellous to
see i'll what kind of atmosphere this en-
l1ghtened public is content 10 coufine it.
self at certain times. A visit to the
courts of law, or to churches of every
denomination, might we'll lead to a belief
that to these places resorted a class of
beings to whom fresh air was a danger
GUS thing to be carefully excluded, and
thai! only in thick, carboniferous, or
ganlcally tainted atmosphere could the
brain of man discern truth through the
mazes Of legal bewilderment or his sonl
respond to the solemn claims of a reli-
g:ous service.
There can be no greater mistake than
to neglect the, conditions O. atmosnhere
III which mental !a5.rs be they 'egal or
OF any other kind, are undertaken. Tho
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
The Use OF Perfumes as Home Disin.
fectantS.


A considerable difference of op;nion on
lists in regard to the propriety of using
scent upon the person. The practice is Of
Oriental origin and had for it's original
OBJECT the desire to make the person
pleasing to the opposite sex.
1t should be remembered that the ba sis
OF all the perfumes is an essential oil of
some kind, derived either naturally from
flowers or leaves or artifcially by a SYN
thetic process. In either case. the essen
tial oil is a powerful antiseptic and DOS
Sesses disinfecting properties not less in
degree than those of carbolic acid itself
AS is well known, the essential oils absorb
compound easily lending oxygen for the
work of publication. Pine oil, eucalyptus
Oil and turpentine act readily in this
manner fact which probably accounts
for the salubrity Of the air Of pine forests
and cucalpptic woods
Inc use OF scent by many women is
excessive, and by men is looked upon as
e1teminate-a prejudice that we confess
TO sharlng-and yet the question natural
~ arises. As VI study our environment
to please the eye by color and natural
effects and to please the ear by musical
notes. why should we not make similar
endeavor to please the nose by agreeable
suffer offense and there is no reason WIN
each sense should not be equally defend
ed in this regard. And the use of scent
on the pocket handkerchief, which is
where We commonly find it, is calculated
to exercise higher office than merely to
please the sense of smell.
The handkerchief may easily prove a
source Of infection, for it is made to be
the common receptacle Of secretions from
the nose and mouth. and the employment
Of an antiseptic handkerchief is perfectly
consistent with the dictates of common
meteorological evidences. The liberal use
of scent on the handkerchief is calculated
to make it antiseptic and to. destroy the
germs in it. owing to the action partly of
the spirit of the scent and partly of the
essential oils dissolved in the spirit. Be-
fore, therefore. we condemn the persons
who use scent upon the handkerchief for
practicing foppish or luxurious habit,
we should remember that they may actu-
ally be doing good to their neighbors by
checking the distribution of infectious
Tendon Lancet
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
EMIGRANTS ARE SELECTED.
Rnssinns Who Migrate to Siberia Must
Have Government Permits.


Before making any movement at all,
the Russian emigrant who desires to 60
to Siberia must seek the advice Of the
local authorities and obtain a certificate
Of his suitability and capacity. Permits
to emigratc are no longer easily obtain
able, but are frequently refused on such
grounds as insufficient MEANS" "phys;
cal disability" and want Of working
power in the family" the regulations lay
ing it down that on!::' '';sool farmers and
Taxpayers are to be granted permits.
The provisional permit is given only to
the head Of the family or some other
able-bodied member Of it, who, having
taken the advice Of the emigration Off
Gals at Tchelabinsk as to the nature and
location Of the availab lands, is sent at
nominal fare into Siberia, where he is
free to examine all the lots available.
If he is successful in finding suitable
land he must first have his choice ap-
proved at the local emigration office, the
title being endorsed upon his pioneers
certificate. Afterward final permit 20
emigrate is given to the remaining mem
bers OF his family, who follow him on
special terms as to railway fares.--The
Forum.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
FIRST COKE CALLED CINDERS.
Cincinnati Found-ylnen Refused to
Test Connellsvillc Product.

CINCINNATI ound-yinen NefNseu TO
Test Conncllsvillc Product.
Until 1871 no attempt to manufacture
coke in ovens in the Connelsvill4 6eld
was made. In that year Provance Nc
Cormick and James Campbell, two car
penters and John Taylor, a stonemason,
and the owner of Il farm few miles be-
low Connellsville. built two ovens at that
point and began the manufacture of coke.
The ovens were of the beehive pattern,
with a 14-inch rise and a fat crown,
and held sixty-five bushels of raw coal
The construction Of these ovens present
ed serious difficulties. AT first they had
not stuff Gent draught, nor did they hold
sufficient body OF coal to insure the
proper fusiny and combustion requisite in
the production of IL fair quality Of coke.
One by one. however, the faults were
rcmedied. and hv the spring of 1912
enough coke had been manufactured to
till two boats about 800 bushels). They
We're run down the Youghiogheny. Mo-
nongahela and Ohio rivers to Cincinnati,
then an iron manufacturing center of
considerable Importance.
On reaching that city it was found
there WAS no demand for the fuel, then
new to the foundrymen there. They
called it ''cinders' and refused to pur-
chase it. Part Of the cargo was retaiIed
out ut the wharf for cents per bushel
and haWked about the furnaces in COT
fee sacks. The balance of the cargo
was traded to Miles Greenwood. a Gin
cinnati foundryman. for patent iron
gristmill, which was later brought 20
Connellsville and, when finally put in
operation. was found to be failure and
was finally sold for $50.
Thus ended the first coke manufacture
ing firm in the Connellsville region. and
in this country as well.-Mining and
Metallurgy.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15


only pearls, perhaps, in the entire house.
hold, and yet are unappreciated, unrecog-
nized-trampled in the mud by the hoof
of the beast who has managed to grasp
and wrench from others his vulgar mil
lions.
Many hodcarrier is superior to the
owner of the bricks he staggers under,
many a coachman on the box is worth q
thousand times more than the man or
woman inside the carriage, when meas
ured by every moral measurement.
We shall never have true measure
meth unit! we cease to gauge a mans
worth by his bank account or his bust
ness, or to estimate woman's real stand
ing by her apparel, her jewels, or the cost
of her entertainments. Rufians often
wear broadcloth, and sensual women fire.
quently rustic in silks and blaze with
jewels. while real worth does it's work
in coarse serge or cheap calico.-"Suc-
opSS "
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
Wealth is Not Worth,

If there is anything disgusting or in
congruous to be seen in life, it's the yul-
gar display of wealth by those whose per
sonalities lie very close to the brute
who are undeveloped, coarse and repul-
sive.
How often we see refined and beautiful
character, and charming personality,
shown by a servant in the family of a
servants in thousands of wealthy Ameri-
lean homes who are infinitely superior.
from every possible standpoint Of real
value, to those they serve. Those servants
are often compelled to live in hot and ill.,
ventilated kitchens, and to sleep in sti-
fling, unattractlve rooms. They are the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
A Huge Geographical Globe.

A very interesting relic has just been
placed in the building of the Academy Of
mense geographical globe, eleven feet in
diameter, and made Of copper. 1t was
commenced in the year 1864 and COM
pleted ten years later during the reign
of Duke Frederick Of Holstein. The
outside represents the earth, and the in
terror the celestial spheres of the world.
There is door giving access to the in
terror Of the globe, and in the center is a
round table with space for twelve people
to sit. BY means of mechanism it can
be made to revolve upon it's axis. Peter
the Great acquired the globe at the TAX
ing Of the fort Of Tinningstedt, in Schles-
wig-Holstein, from the Duke of Schles-
wig-Holstein as present 1t took four
years to bring the relic to st. Petersburg.
Westminster Gazette.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
England Confesses Our Supremacy.

America can become far richer and
more powerful with great foreign trade
trates her whole ambition upon obtaining
it. Foreign trade is not, and never can
be the matter of life or death to her
that It is to us. She can dispense with
the world in case Of absolute need. She,
is the greatest producer Of food and raw
material, as we'll as the possessor of the
the most consummare organizing ability,
the most numerous and energetic popula-
ton among all commercial states. Her
political security is even more complete
than ours ever was. There is not a single
factor of economic activity in which she
may not reasonably expect to excel any
rival.-London Telegraph.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
Hatpin in a Woman's Heart,

! At an inquest at Marylebone recently
on Lydia Leslie, aged ~, dress
maker, who died after being treated
in the Middlesex hospital for heart dis
ease, the doctor who made the post-mor-
tenn examination produced a portion Of
a woman's hatpin that he had found in
the heart. w s5 S;
,njoht haze "a lion on tha hatn;n Aims ~ = g hara
thrust it into herself. It was also pos
sible that the piece found had been swal-
lowed. Is III
An open verdict was returned u London
Mail. =s:sSsA E=z s.5z.s
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
Hard Lines for Tramp Steamers.

Under present conditions there seems
to be but small prospects of good times
for the owners of tramp steamers. Dur
ing the last five years the service Of the
established lines has been greatly ex-
tended, new lines have been established
and enormous freight steamships, of
have been built, so that the tramp steam
ers have in large measure been driven
from the main routes of commerce, to
pick up trade elsewhere. Scottish Amer
lean. =ss% zzs
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
Making Prayer Rugs an industry.

About 200 years ago small embroid-
cred rugs were largely made in Persia,
chiefly at Ispahan, writes Rosa Belle
Holt in a work on rugmaking. These
were prayer rugs, and on each of them,
near one end, was small embroidered
mark to show where the bit of sacred
earth from Mecca was to be placed. In
obedience to a law of the Koran that
the head must be bowed to the ground
in prayer, this was touched by the fore
head when the prostration was made,
and so the letter of the law was carried
out. The custom still prevails The
Persian women who weave the finest
prayer rugs seldom weave any other
kind of rup
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
Fresh Blood Needed in Porto Rico

Gov. Charles H. Allen, in his report on
Porto Rico. recently published, says
fresh blood is needed to develop the re-
sources Of the island. in climate"
he adds, where the temperature ranges
between 70 and 80 degrees week in and
week out; where little clothing is required
and shelter means protection from a iron
ical sun rather than climatic changes.
where man can lie in a hammock. 1ick
banana with one hand and dig a sweet
potato with one foot. the incentive to
idlenesS IS easy to yield to, and brings it's
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
Tomorrow Twill Be- or 'sTomorroW
lisp

A dispute over the question whether
you should say Tomorrow will b.
Thursday or tomorrow is Thursday"
is needless. for either expression is al
lowable. Tomorrow will be Thursday
means that, looking forward from today
as the point Of view. the speaker thinks
of tomorrow as future time, and says
of it that it will be- Thursday; ''Tomor-
row is Thursday means that, without
any reference to today, the speaker
thinks of certain day as tomorrow, {"
and says of it that it "is" Thursday
Elizabeth s. Whitney in Ladies' Home
IOnrna1
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
The Nut-Cracking Industry.

In St. Louis the nut-cracking industry
gives employment to considerable num-
Der of persons, there being three plants
in the city. The nut-crackers are driven
by electricity, each nut being fed indl:
vidnally into the crusher. After the
shells are cracked the nuts are winnowed
by an air blast md the meat is picked
from the crushed sells by hand. women
and girls being employed for this part OF
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1901-11-15
Blessings OF the Library.

the archbishop of Canterbury recently,
when think of all the men whose pro-
auctions are set up upon the walls, and
when l think of what humanity would
be without them; when think of what
myself have learned from so many of
them, feel as if of all things for which
l am grateful to God, I know but one
that stands above the gift of literature.
and that is Gods own revelation: and
when we put that high above everything
else, / know of nothing which I consider
higher than the literature which ennobles
my cOuntry'-ROOk World