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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-11-23
A Runaway Bicycle

Terminated with an ugly cut on the leg
of ]. B. Orner, Franklin Grove, Ill. It de-
veloped a stubborn ulcer unyielding to
doctors and remedies for four years.
Then Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured. It's
just as good TOR Burns. Scalds, Skin Erup-
tions and Piles. 25c, at Flint Bros, and
F. 6. Landry's Drug Stores.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-11-23
nARDWICK.

A ferocious black bear weighing about
300 pounds was killed near Haynes
spring, Friday. The animal had been
hunted for several days because of
damage he had been doing to crops and
live stock.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-11-23

There will be Thanksgiving service at
the Methodist church Thursday evening
at 7.30. Everybody cordially invited.
Miss Sadie Green has been spending
part of her vacation with her grandpar-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Ford, in Kir-
by.
Mrs. c. F. Cutting and sons who have
been visiting her sister, Mrs. Guy How
ard at Barre, returned home the first of
the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Lindsay and
Miss Sadie Green, have been spending a
fe W DAYS with Mr.. and Mrs. Milo Green
at St. Johnsbury.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-11-23

The Ladies favor painting their
churches, and therefore we urge every
Minister to remember we give liberal
quantity of the Longman & Martinez
Paint toward the painting.
Wears and covers like gold.
Don't pay $1.2O gallon for Linseed
Oil (worth 60 cents) which you do when
you buy other paints in a can with
paint label on it.
8 & make IA, therefore when you
want IA gallons of paint, buy only eight
of L. & M. and mix six gallons pure Lin
coed Oil with it, and thus get paint at
less than $1.2O per gallon.
four gallons of L. &. M. and three
gallons of Linseed Oil mixed Herewith.
These Celebrated paints are sold by
Flint Bros.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-11-23

Is one Of the constitutional
diseases. It manifests itself
I'm local aches and palms,
infiamed joints and stiff
muscles,-b it cannot be
cured by local applications.
1t requires constitutional
treatment acting through
the blood, and the best is a
course Of the great medicine
Hood sSarsaparilla
which has permanently
cured thousands Of cases.
For testimonials Of remarkable cures
send for Book on Rheumatism, No. z.
G. l. Hood Co., Lowell. Mass.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-11-23

NORTH WALDEN.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Downer of Lyndon
Center visited his brother here a week
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-11-23


The Henry c. Page farm on the South
Ridge is sold again, this making three
times within II months, this time to
George Towne of Lyndon; price $500,
and the timber, hard and soft wood, all
but 400 maple trees left for small sugar
place is reserved by those that sold the
place to Mr.. Towne.
William 81. Rood from Newport Center
is moving on to the place bought of
Oscar Page on the South Ridge.
Charles H. Nichols and son-in-law Mr..
Rivers, have moved on to the place
bought of William Marshall on the North
Ridge, known as the Samuel Eaton
farm.
H. A. Blake attended the funeral of
Hiram Powers at East Burke Friday
afternoon. MIR. Pc wers died at Nashua,
N. H. He was a member of the lodge of
Odd Fellows at West Burke and seve-
raj members were present.
Miss Sadie E. Blake closed her tenth
term of school at North Danville Friday
night and came to her home Saturday
night for two weeks vacation after
which she is to return to the same school
for the winter term of ten weeks.
Miss Madge Burnham is at her home
for two weeks vacation, when she re.
turns to the same school at Lyndon
Center for the winter term.
Mrs. Stephen Berry received the
news of the death of her only sister at
Mortified recently.
Ernest McShane and wife have returned
from a visit to their friends in Boston.
The sale of the FL. F. Pillsbury and Son
steam mill and property has fallen
through, the party from Boston failing
to come to time. Each party were under
$4,000 bonds to carry out their contract.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-11-24
Why the Preacher OBJ iected.

A story of an eccentric minister is
too good for the "rasure of oblivion"
One Sunday he caused some surprise
by declaring that he did not in the
least object to people sleeping while
he was preaching.
A few minutes later he and his
hearers were disturbed by the loud
snoring Of man just below the pull
pit.
Give him tap on the head" said
the minister.
This was done, Intellectually.
Give him another" same the order
again.
Still the man slumbered; but at
length, by dint of much tapping and
shaking, he was recalled into abashed
consciousness.
you are making a wretched noise"
roared the minister, leaning over the
pulpit edge. 81 don't mind your Sleep
ing, but you are preventing other peo-
pie from sleeping!"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-11-24

Every nouseKeeper should know
that If they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save not only time, because 1t
never sticks to the iron, but because
each package contains 16 Ozone full
pound-while all other Cold Water
Srarches are put up in %-pound pack
ages. and the price Is the same, 10
cents. Then again because Defiance
Starch is free from all injurious chem
icals. II your grocer tries to sell you
1907. package 1t Is because he has
stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose of before he puts IN Defiance.
He knows that Defiance Starch has
printed on every package in large let
tiers and figures &c ozs." Demand
Defiance and save much time and
money and the annoyance Of the iron
sticking. Defiance never sticks.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-11-24

man. Mrs. Crusoe forgot to tell me
about the tide and the boat fioated
away"
Come over and have tea," suggest
ed the clergyman Hospitality, land l
have a boat that will take you over
to the hotel"
He strobe off, leading the way, and
Nan and Dave followed. Once or
twice she hummed softly to herself
and Dave could have sworn it was the
wedding music from 'Lohengrin." At
last, as he was helping her over a
rock which barred her path, she held
his hand in hers as she lightly drop
ped beside him.
Dave" she whispered, didn't he
say he was a clergyman"
Dave nodded. The Rev. Philip
Hardman," he affirmed.
1--WE could fool that gossiping
crowd. pretending we did it on pur-
pose."
More than ever Dave marveled at
the ways of woman, but they were
married before supper, for Dave ex-
planned to the clergyman that he was
afraid she might change her mind
again.-San Francisco Call.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-11-24

Around thee In a sacrificial rite;
The incense of thy stufing fills the air,
And holds the senses in its fragrant
snare;
Rich ichor from thy roscid body blows,
That cen would tempt one in dyspepsia's
throes:
Not now shall pneumogastrc ills delay;
foes,
Thou sovereign bird of our Tnanksgiv-
ing Day.
Let others chant OF capons. grilled or
fried,
OF partridge baked with truffles, which
unite
Their sapid favors and become allied
In tidbits fair to agustatory sight;
Let others prate of picked peach and
lear.
Let those who will by cakes and pud-
dings swear,
Or who, like Omar praise the wine and
rose
"Chacun a son govt" as the proverb
goes:
And yet were vatel-or the great
Dupre--
Alive, they too, would praise thee In
rondeauX
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-11-24
sEGGAR KNOWS HIS BUSINESS
Philadelphia Mendcant a Credit to
His Profession.

His Profession.
One of the professional beggarS
whose clay" is along Broad street
from Chestnut to South has evolved
a new style of approach which Is
bringing him in large returns. He
studies the feet of passers-by, and
when he sees man coming along in
shined, or in shoes that have been
new shoes that have been recently
shined, he takes stand directly In
the way of his intended victim and
stares hardly at those same shoes.
OF course the pedestrian stops short
and looks down at his feet to see what
is the matter with them. Then the
beggar remarks, as if to himself, but
in tone which you may wager the
victim hears we'll enough:
MY! l wisht | had a pair of shoes
as good as them is"
Thus the beggar has accomplished
two things. He has forced the pedes
trian to stop and pay attention which
is half of the professional beggar's
game in every case, and he has sc
cured fine introduction for .
touch" There is usually a nickel
in it, at any rate, and sometimes
there is a pair of shoes, which can
be conveniently pawned.
For, of course, in this particular
beggar's role there is no use save for
the very worst shoes imaginable.
Philadelphia Press.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-11-24

there, headless, trussed, and stuffed,
and garnished. The gobbler gulped
with emotion as he followed the pic
ture to its finish. A shudder ran
through the audience, and feathers
trembled like the leaves of the forest
when a storm approaches. Each tur
key saw his finish, too.
Farmer Cuisine will never know
how narrowly he escaped death him
self that night. 1t was actually pro.
posed by some of the younger and
more excitable birds that the flock
unitedly set upon their confessed en-
envy and beat him to earth with claw
and beak and wings. But, as some
one has said, "Calmer counsels pre-.
vailed" and the unanimous decision
Of the meeting was that safety could
best be found in flight. From that
point the discussion was carried on in
turkey whispers.
THE meeting stands adjourned"
finally gobbled the forensic fowl, as
one by one the turks trooped away.
The rest of the story is almost too
distressing to be told, but an extract
from one of the morning papers, pub.
lished the day after the mass meet.
ing, may be here reprinted. 1t ran:
Last night a band of skillful ras.
calls completely cleaned out Farmer
Cuisines turkey house. So cleverly
was the robbery effected that not a
single feather remained on the
ground, and not sound was heard to
disturb the farmer or his family.
Some persons in this vicinity are
sure OF a turkey dinner on Thanks
giving day. From the wholesale ma
ture of the steal it seems likely that
the thieves contemplated supplying an
entire township with Thanksgiving
dinners. There Is no clew to the rob-
bers.
"Later-Some wag caused much
tial story of seeing the Cuisine flock
of turkeys, led by one solemn looking
gobbler, walking, in single file down
the main street, in the dead OF night.
He watched them, said the wag, and
could swear that they all marched on
until they reached the edge of the
woods, where they separated with
chorus of gleeful gobbles and disap-
peared in the bushes. 1t was good
little story, well told, and the teller's
stock rose appreciably in the COM
munity. He repeated 1t with such
gravity and apparent conviction of its
truth that the listeners were con.
| vulsed."
But that didn't bring back Farmer
Cuisines turkeys, and he is still in
consolable. He has given up raising
turkeys, and says he intends to raise
| turkey rhubarb instead.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-11-24
MEN OF MANY FRIENDS.
Wide Acquaintance Made by Captains
of Ocean Liners

Wide Acquaintance Made by Captains
Of Ocean Liners.
Cornelius Vanderbilt said to me
and Andrew Carnegie that George
Gould aid John d. Rockefeller Jr.
backed him ut-"
The speaker, a man robust and
brown, had loud, hale voice, and
from every table in the little cafe in
quisitive eyes were turned on him,
for the names he had used were
names to conjure with.
Take William Waldorf Aston, for
instance" he said little later. He
wouldn't wear French SHOE"
For an hour this man remained In
the cafe and during that hour the 90
cupants of other tables heard from
him detached sentences like:
Bernhard told me she liked Cor
gonzola, though l."
1.-THE Duke of Newcastle and play
ed bridge"
Henry Irving and Miss Pauline
Aston gave me that in memory"
Il told Kipling he couldn't write
like"
"Calve and l were looking at the
sunset when the Duchess OF Marlbor
ough Joined u.s."
"Pierpont Morgan asked John s,
Sargent to sketch me and give the
sketch to-"
Prince Henry sat on my right, and
Lord Charles Beresford-"
Finally the man withdrew. After
he had gone a reporter asked the head
waiter who on earth he was.
why" the head waiter answered
that is Captain Dash of the linei
Blank, that broke the record last
month. You were amazed, l suppose
at the multitude Of distinguished
friends he has. Well, you needn't be
amazed. He has all those friends anc
more also. You'll find as you grow
older that the captains Of the biggest
and most popular transatlantic lin
ers know well all, nearly all, the fam
Gus people in the world. There is NJ
one who has such q magnificent lis
Of friends as one of these captains.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-11-24
The Forest.

Here in the languorous silence. where
sunlight with shade interlaces,
Let my soul steep;
And from the Well-springs of beauty
which time neither mars nor effaces,
Let me drink deep
Far from the riotous throbbing of busy
humanity busting,
Here is a balm
Only a marvellous bird-song, or music OF
glad leaves low rustling,
Breaks the sweet calm.
oh! to be friends with the lichens, the
low-creeping vines, and the MOSES
There close to lie;
Gazing aloft at each pine plume that
airily playfully losses
Meath the blue sky.
Oh! to be near to the beauty, and infinite
grandeur of all things
Simple and free;
Held by the magic that ages have
wrought in the great, and the small
things,
For you and me.
Katharine G. Terry. in Lippincotts.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-11-24
A Thanksgiving Song.

It's comm on-Thanksgivin'. in the full
ness o. the fall;
II we're thankful we're a-livin'-well,
that's Jest a-sayin' all!
II that much we can say
A-journeyin' on the way,
It means that life's had something like
a glad Thanksgivin day!
It's comm on-Thanksgivin'-or the time
fer givin' thanks.
We're somewhere on the sunny side Of
Jordan's stormy banks!
If that much we can say
Where winter mourns the May,
1t means that life's had something like
a glad Thanksgivin' day!
It's comm on-Thanksgivin'-l had
sorrows-life had signs,
But still we read our titles to them man
sions n the skies!
If that much we can say
Meath bloomy skies or gray,
1t means thPt life's had something like
a glad Thanksgivin' dayi
Frank l.. Stanton IN Atlanta constitu-
ton.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-11-24

81 might swim for It," suggested
Tucker with the accent of one who
knows the impracticability Of what he
suggests.
you might fly for it," retorted Nan
Carroll, "for all the good it would do.
You should have tied the boat"
you forgot" he pleaded, that |
only came last night and have not
yet had opportunity to become famil-
lar with the tide here. How was
to know that you had a regular Bay
of Fundy tide here?"
''If you knew as much about geo
graphy as you do about some things,
she limited darkly, you would know
that this is the Bay of Fundy tide. 1t
doesn't come in as a tidal wave, but it
rises as high"
He glanced ruefully at the canoe
fast disappearing on the tide, and
scanned the shore to see If it offered
any hope. Apparently they were as
thoroughly lost as though they were
on an island in the Pacific instead of
three miles from a summer resort. 1t
was fuckers first experience with
land where they built steamship
docks two stories high because of the
fall of the tide from the Bay of Fundy,
and he had supposed that when ne
had drawn the canoe well up on the
shelving bank the long rope in the
bow could not possibly be needed.
He threw himself down beside her
MAN, dear" he cried. Don't take
It so to heart. 1t will come out all
right if l have to swim over to the
mainland and steal a boat"
She rose in all her five feet five of
injured dignity. 81 do not see, Mr.
Tucker" she said coldly, that the
situation should permit the levity you
assume. 1t may be all right for you,
but a woman's fair name" Her sob
bling broke forth afresh at the thought
of what might be said.
whats the use of taking on SOP"
he demanded. you told me last win.
ter that at the end of the season you
thought"
do you suppose I thought then
that I'd think what I think now"
she cried Historically. "Do you sup
pose that l imagined that you would
abduct me to a dessert island to force
me to marry you? Never"
For want of better occupation he
searched along the shore for clans,
finding few, but deciding after one
taste that 1t would be better to look
for berries. 1t was too late for ber-
ries apparently, and there was an
other pause and reflection. He had
Just decided that it was as well that
Nan Carroll would not marry him.
when that changeable young woman
pumped herself down upon the moss
beside him.
"Why don't you TALK" she asked
cheerfully. cts awfully lonesome
around here"
Tucker gasped, but for moment
he did not dare speak. When he
found words it was not Of casual af-
fairs he spoke, not of himself nor of
their predicament, and presently they
were chatting as merrily as though
there had been none of the stormy
scenes of the afternoon.
They were still talking when of q
sudden they heard footsteps behind
them and they sprang to their feet.
Just behind them tall, clerical
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-11-24
Preached Word seventy-Flve Year.

Rev. William May, probably the old
est Methodist preacher in Kentucky,
if not in the country, is dead at his
home in Perryville. Mr.. May was SO
years old and had been preaching for
seventy-five years, but during that
time had never accepted a cent OF
money for his services. He had, II
is said, married 1900 couples, baptized
5000 persons and ofiiciated at 5000
funerals. He was great horseback
rider, using his steed for travelling
over his district, but had never been
on a train, and in order to make liv
ing conducted ' I'm, with which he
was eminentlv successful.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-11-24
TILL NOON.
The Simple Dish That Keeps Cne Wig
orous and Well Fed.

The Simple Dish That Keeps Cne Wig
orous and Well Fed.
When the doctor takes his own
medicine and the grocer eats the food
he recommends some confidence comes
to the observer.
A Grocer of Ossian, Ind, had q
practical experience with food worth
anyone's attention.
He says: six years ago I became
30 weak from stomach and bowel
trouble that l was finally compelled
to give up all work in my store, and
In fact all sorts of work, for about four
years. The last year was confined to
the bed nearly all OF the time, and
much OF the time unable to retain
food Of any sort on my stomach. MY
bowels were badly constipated con-
tinually and l lost In weight from
100 pounds down to So pounds.
when at the bottom Of the ladder
I changed treatment entirely and
started in on GrapeNuts and cream
for nourishment. l used absolutely
nothing but this for about three
months. slowly improved until
got out Of bed and began to move
about.
Il have been improving regularly
and now in the past two years have
been working about fifteen hours a
day in the store and never felt better
in my life.
During these two years i have
never missed a breakfast of Grape
Nuts and cream, and often have 1t
two meals day, but the entire break
fast is always made Of Grape-Nuts ard
cream alone.
"Since commencing the use of
Grape-Nuts l have never used any
thing to stimulate the action Of the
bowels, a thing had to do for years.
but this food keeps me regular and in
fine shape, and am growing stronger
and heavier every day.
my customers, naturally, have been
interested and | am compelled to an
swer a great many questions about
GrapeNuts.
"Some people would think that q
simple dish of Grape-Nuts and cream
would not carry one through to the
MONDAY meal, but 1t will and in the
most vigorous fashion"
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Creek, Mich.
Look in each pkg. for the famous
little book. The Road to MELVILLE"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-11-24

Farmer Cuisines Turkeys


1t all came about through Farmer
Cuisines reprehensible habit Of dis
cussing his affairs with all the world
and his wife. 1t was natural that
Cuisine should swell with pride as he
viewed his flock of Thanksgiving tur-
keys. They were birds. Fat and
feathery, with strut like the foreign
nobleman of cheap melodrama, they
basked in the sunshine of local pop
ularity and were rightly voted the
finest in the county. So far all was
well and the goose hung high in the
Cuisine household. But fate, at the
eleventh hour, a favorite time with
fate, brought the turkey farmer in
juXtaposition with his undoing, and
so kindly provided this story for the
edification of the public.
Heretofore it has been the belief
of most people that turkeys are born
to be fattened, killed and eaten. Inc
expression, He hasn't got sense
enough to come in out Of the rain"
was coined, it is believed, on a turkey
farm, for this species of domestic
fowl will stay out in the wet until
washed away unless its owner inter
venes in his own interests. But it
seems the turkey has been much
maligned. He is in reality sensible
bird, as this story will prove.
Cuisine made the mistake of under
rating turkey intelligence when he
held forth one day to an admiring au-
dience of friends and relatives on the
astonishing success Of his efforts at
turkey breeding.
Look at that big fellow" said Cuts
inc, pointing at gobbler, who stalk
ed disdainfully past with tail feathers
elevated. Il have been fattening him
especially for the table of President
Roosevelt. He's bigger than anything
around here, and I'm going to have
him weighed and sent to the White
House for Thanksgiving. Them news
paper fellers will get a-hold of 1t and
my name will be in print from New
York to the Golden Gate. l shall kill
him in day or two from now. The
others are all booked to go this week
expect to do right well with 'em
ALL"
Thus thought Farmer Cuisine, with
an eye to the shekels after the kill
ing. It never occurred to him the
gobbler might be listening. Nor did
he dream for a moment that turkeys
were intelligent fowl and would just
as soon continue to strut the earth
as be trussed for the table. Had he
understood the birds better or had he
attended a mass meeting of gobblers
called that evening on the stone 1ence
behind the barn, he might have re-
Trained thereafter from taking the
domestic fowl into his confidence
when discussing his plans.
The meeting was called to order by
the gobbler already referred to--he
of the disdainful stalk. In few we'll
chosen gobbles he retailed to the ST.
lent audience the story of their fate,
repeating mournfully the remarks
made by Cuisine concerning his plans.
For them the speaker, or rather COB
| bier, explained the days were num-
bered. The glorious season of unlim-
| tied corn was drawing to a close. He
pierced the haze Of the future and
there beheld the terrible apparition
of a headless turkey, trussed and
stuffed and garnished, borne aloft like
a sacrifice while a hungry multitude
applauded expectantly, He looked
closer at the apparition, and 10! It
was his own image that he beheld
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-11-24
LARGEST Diamond.

Unfortunately, the largest diamond
In the world is not of the crystalline
sort used as n gem. II It were its
value would be fabulous, for 1t is sew.
enteen times larger than the famous
Victoria diamond, the largest of mod.
ern finds, which was sold tor $780,
900. It's value depends upon the use
to which it can be put when broken
up, for 1t Is of the anonymous kind.
known technically as carbon.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-11-24
At Bacon RIDGE.

$50 Silas Ryetop went to the cir
cus?"
Eyes, by hen! An he came home
mad enough to chaw up a crow"
What happened?"
"Why, Sile bought photograph Of
each of the freaks of the side show
After that he was mistaken for a
pickpocket and arrested"
That must have made him furious"
"But wait until the worst comes.
They found the freak pictures, and
the local paper stated that the sus-
pect had pocketful of family photo
graphs. New York Telegraph.