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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-25

Castaway": 1T is remarkable to me that
the adventures of Lord Byron 30 long es-
capped the novelist. No one who reads
The Castaway however, can be sorry
that they did escape other writer's"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-25

-Since Goethe selected Byron as the
symbolical figure Of poetry for. the second
part Of Faust no character has stood In
the worlds eye as emblematic Of poetry's
expression in an individual life, and you
have made Of his figure in, your romance.
The Castaway', highly poetic and
dramatic success in fiction"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-25
SOME or THE. MOST DRAMATIC
SITUATIONS i HAVE EVER
FOUND IN A BOOK.

Fife Shannon, who is starring Jointly with
Herbert Kelley in TAPS" and who Is q
reader of rare dscernment, declares: The
Castaway' is most dramatic story. II
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-25

IT'S BYRON As BYRON SAW HIM.
SELF.
Thomas VI. Ross, who is still delighting
thousands in Checkers" found time to
read THE Castaway' and is enthusiastic
with this estimate: 49,,
Miss Rives has chosen for her hero the
most remarkable parsonage of his century.
The result is story OF absorbing interest.
1t impresses one as the sort of romance
Byron would have enjoyed reading about
himself. 1t is, in fact, byron as Byron saw
cling calcium Of genius. AS a study Of the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-25

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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-25
AS CLEVER A ROMANCE AS IT. HAS
BEEN MY LUCK TO PERUSE.


Herbert Kelley, whose recent success in
Taps packed the Lyric Theatre. New York
to the doors night after night, says: THE
Castaway' is a book written with the closest
sympathy toward its hero. Few admired
anything about Byron except his work and
his final sacrifice. But Miss Rives interests
us in him, nevertheless, and leaves "s feel
ing very genuinely sorry at the end Of as
clever romance as it has been my luck to
peruse this year"
One reads the story for the story's sake,
because it is packed with incident from
cover to cover. Only when one has finished,
does one realize that the whole book is
defence of Byron, subtle, plausible. resource.
full. Throughout the artistic temperament
OF the hero ia insistently set forth-insist-
emily but not offensively-and it is used as
a charitable mantle to cover a multitude OF
sins
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-25

gether sad and dark" Romantic it always
Is, sad and dark it often is, but the words
that one thinks of in connection with it
are brilliant" picturesque, moving"
Kaleidoscope" and heart stirring 1t
has no littleness, and its gloom is slight
compared with its excitement.
Says Mr.. Edmund Gosse in recent essay:
.The representative of race of lawless and
turbulent men, proud as Lucfer, beautiful
as Apollo, sinister as Loki, Byron appeared
on the scenes arrayed in every quality that
could dazzle the youthful and alarm the
mature"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-25
MANY REASONS ARE BEING As
SIGNED FOR THE POPULARITY
OF "THE CASTAWAY."

awayn have been exhausted and another
is in process Of production. Many reasons
are being assigned for its popularity. Miss
Riyes's name has itself certain CONNER
cial value, because Of the great sale OF her
haps the most mature work in color OF the
most popular American illustrator, Howard
Chandler Christy. The price, one dollar,
is a striking innovation that seems to win
the enthusiastic approval OF both book
buyer and book seller.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-25
LITERARY EDITORS
TAKE A WHACK AT 1T.

Certainly good piece Of work. New
romance. New York Times. 'Pictur-
esoue and very entertaining. New York
Herald Striking in subject and in treat
ment. brooklyn Eagle.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
Mayor 1arrison's Firm Stand.

Chicago has been without mayor for
a few days. the Hon. Carter H. Harrison
having gone to Oklahoma on a hunting
trip. With Harrison away the Prairie
City may have been more wide open than
ever, and then again it may not have
BEEN Burlington Free Press.
The Chicago mayors views of wide
open" city hardly accord with ours, but
it is to his everlasting credit that he is
right after the theatre managers since
the terrible accident last Wednesday. He
returned Immediately from his hunting
trip and ordered 20 Chicago theatres
closed and they must stay closed until
they have the stage provided with
steel curtain such as is found in the
Auditorium, the only theatre that is
open in city of a million people. Mayor
Harrison has risen to the occasion splen-
didly and he deserves all the praise that
can be given to take this stand in oppo.
sition to the managers of theatres which
are now closed.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
The Problem of Giving.

What we lack is the habit of giving.
There are different ways of getting
water supply for ones house. Our great
grandfathers used to take a heavy pail
and go to the nearest brook and dip up
water pint by pint; or construct sluce-
way from hillside spring to trough in
the doorvard, and wait patiently till the
pail filled itself at the trucking spout.
That was the mite box method of water
supply. It was pure water, but pretty
slow in coming. Our GRANDPA thers in
the next generation improved methods
by digging a well in the dooryard and
pumping. 1t was weary work, but bet
ter than the brook, for it saved steps and
could be depended on longer in dry
weather. That is the pledge-card svs-
tenn. Both the hillside spring and the
dooryard well were good as far as they
went, but the methods were laborious
and the supply precarious. We in this
generation have found better way to
get water. We lay pipes straight to our
homes from an unlimited and unfailing
source of supply, and with the pressure
OF one finger we command the eternal
forces OF nature to furnish US water, not
by pints, but by gallons. And in times
OF emergency, when a city is burning,
the same reservoirs that give the single
gallons for daily needs pour out thou
SANDS of tons without exhaustion.
This last advance in method we have
not yet attained in Christian giving
We are still pumping, with all sorts of
imperfect contrivances from all sorts of
scanty cisterns, while our great untapped
reservoirs of wealth are ste ably accumu-
lating. What is the trouble? There are
two troubles. We have not faith enough
to believe the prophet Malachi, nor love
enough to satisfy the apostle Paul. You
remember when the prophet was scourg-
ing Israel for their negligence IN support
ing the church, he brought a message
from the Almighty respecting tithes:
prove me now herewith. saith the
Lord of hosts, il l will not open the win
dows OF heaven and pour out a bless
ing that there shall not be room enough
to receive it," We are so slow to believe
that If we share our bread with the hun
CRY today, that the great Bread-giver
may be trusted to provide to morrow
supply.
Fhc moment the missionary organiza-
ton becomes ours, the missionaries on
the field become ours, too, that hay. i'll
defined group of sanity personages
whom We had hitherto regarded as
exiles through motives of self-abnegation.
class of people who had appealed to us
only through our reluctant conscienees.
No sacrihcial giving was ever born OF
negative interest like that. Not until
we have changed the focus of the glass
through which we study mission fields,
and bring them up near enough to show
us individual faces and individual names,
and to let us make individual friendships,
not till then viii the interest be aroused
that makes missionary giving a natural
impulse and a never-failing joy.-I Mrs.
Alice 6. West in the Vermont Missionary
for January.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
Crossing the Feet.

Physical culturists say that the prac-
tice of sitting with the legs or even the
feet crossed is a bad one and has more
to do with cold feet than most persons
imagine. 1t has this result principally
through impeding the circulation of the
blood in the leg that is crossed over
the other. The femoral veins are
cramped, with the consequence that the
blood is damned back into the feet and
above the knee, inducing as well as
cold feet a varicose condition in the
veins of the calves. Another reason
why the habit should be discouraged is
the fact that on general physiological
principles it is healthier to sit squarely
with both feet resting upon the floor,
whereas with the legs crossed the
weight of the body is thrown almost
wholly to one side or the other.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
A Good Story on Mr. Cross.

The following story about L. Bart
Cross of Montpelier, who is we'll known
in st. Johnsbury, is going the round of
the state press and is worth reprinting:
Some years ago Mr.. Cross father, the
late Charles H. Cross, planned trip to
Boston. Bart wished the old gentleman
made comfortable and so wired ahead to
have the suite of rooms at the fashion
able hotel commonly engaged by him on
his frequent trips to the Hub assigned to
his father. When the elder Cross arrived
he was very politely ushered up to
suite whose luxurious apartments made
the rather frugal old gentleman gasp. AS
soon as he caught his breath he inquired,
per day ?" "Seven-fifty." Guess you
may give me something a little less ex-
pensive," ventuied Mr.. Cross. Why,
these are your sons rooms and he want
ed them given YOU" replied the clerk.
Eyes, but he's got a rich father; l
haven't"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
The Birth of advertisements.

The first periodical newspaper of the
English press appeared in 1922, but
advertisements were not developed till
1917 IN April of the latter year was
published No. ID of Perfect Occur
rencies of Every Dale Journal in Par
lament and Other Moderate Intelli-
gence,' which contained the following
announcement:
"a Book appIauded by the Clergy of
England called The Divine Right of
Church Government collected by sun
dry eminent Ministers in the Cite Of
London, corrected and augmented in
many places, with briefe Reply to
certain Queries against the MiniStery
of England; Is printed and published
for Joseph Hunscot and George Cal
vert and Are to be sold at Stationer's
Hall and at the Golden Fleece in the
Old Change"
The London Gazette was the first
newspaper to publish commercial adj
vertisements, which soon began to oc-
cupy so much space that the proprie
tors, not wishing to "charge the Ga
zette with advertisements unless they
be matters of State" issued a Special
Advertisement Supplement, printed
apart and recommended to the Publick
by another hand.''
Older still is an advertisement in q
black letter Dutch paper of an auction
of sugar, ivory and tobacco held at
the close Of 1926.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
A STRANGE Pirate story.

In the museum at Kingston, Jamai-
ca, there are some tattered ships pa
pers, brown with age and salt water,
and small tin canister. These articles
attest the truth of the strangest pirate
story ever told.
In 1893 tbs crew of the Nancy brig
wer@ apparently honest traders, but
did some piracy now and then on the
side. One day they found it necessary
to go into Kingston for supplies. Be
fore doing so they naturally removed
all traces of their buccaneering trade.
Among other things they threw over
board this tin canister stuffed with pa
pers taken from ships they had sunk,
with comments written on the margin
by the pirate captain.
Later in the day a British frigate was
becalmed near the spot, and the sailors
spent their leisure catching sharks.
Presently they hauled UP a big fellow,
cut him open and found the tin case
with the papers inside. These were
taken to the captain, who as soon as a
breeze sprung up sailed into Kingston
harbor found the Nancy brig there and
had the crew tried, convicted and
hanged in chains at Port Royal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
Shaking Hands,

The custom of shaking hands origi-
mated ia the ancient practice of adver-
saries grasping the weapon hand dur
ing truce as a precaution against
treachery. When two friends met they
extended their weapon hands to each
other as a sign that there was no need
to stand on the defensive, and a hand
shake was but the natural outcome of
a hearty and vigorous grasp.
Shaking hands appears to have be-
come usual in the middle ages. Grasp
ing hands made it's appearance in early
times as a legal act symbolic of the
parties joining in compact, peace Or
friendship. This is we'll seen in mar
riage, where theShand grasp was part
of the ancient Hindoo ceremony, as
was the "dextrarum junctio'' of Rome,
which has passed into the Christian
rite. We see it also used as a mere salu-
tation, as where the tiresome acquaint-
ance met by Horace in his stroll along
the Via Sacra seized his hand.
Giving the right hand Of fellowship
Galatians ii, 81 passed naturally into a
salutation throughout Christendom.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
Quaint Holland Customs.

They have quaint customs in Hol-
land. One of these is placing the laun-
dry at the top of the house. The
clothes are sent away to be washed
and bleached, and when they are re-
turned they are drawn up to the laun-
dry by means of a pulley and dangle
for time right in the drawing room
windows, to the infinite delectation of
the guests. But, as an offset to this
popularity, the bathroonl-when there
is a bathroom, which is not often-is
placed in the cellar 1t is the dry ce1-
lar, where potatoes and such things
are stored, and the tub is an immense
iron thing, with a cover that is di-
yided into halves.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
Labeled the Girls.

A good joke was played on the girls
recently by the young men of a certain
town. The boys had been rather remiss
in their attentions, and the girls de
cided to show their independence. Con-
sequently five of them hired box at
the theater and made a very charming
theater party.
The play was WANTED, Husband -
and the girls sat serene through it all,
never dreaming that the enemy had
fastened one Of the posters, Wanted, a
Husband" round the box so that the
audience might read.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
A Curious wedding Present.

Among the Brass river tribes of
west Africa when a young couple get
married it is the custom for the old
est member of the brides family to
present the bride with a plot of ground
six feet long. < This is for the grave
of her family and herself when they
die.
The first member of the new family
who dies is buried about twenty feet
below ground and the next one almost
sixteen feet, and this goes On until all
the family die and are buried. The
grave holds them all, and this, they
think, prevents them from being sep
arated.
This grewsome wedding present is
the one most valued by the bride, the
favorite native saying being, when
all other things are gone this re
MAINS"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
Lacelnaking.

The birth of lacemaking dates back
to the days of Greek maidens who
Watched the spider make its web and
copied the pattern with fine threads of
fax. The axt has developed to the
point of producing brussels point,
which is so delicate in texture that the
dryness of the air makes the threads
brittle; therefore the makers of the
finest kinds have to work in damp eel
lars, using magnifying glasses. On the
altar cloths and veStments of the
church will be seen the most beautiful
of the old rose point as it was made by
the nuns in their convent cells and ded-
icated to the use of the church. Every
one is familiar with the painting of
"Queen Bess, the Dress Lover" which
shows her with high ruffies embroid-
cred with seed pearls. The portraits of
Queen Charlotte display this keenest of
lace lovers in hoops of balloon-like
founces of her priceless lace. Queen
Victoria preferred to lay away in laven-
der boxes the piles of inherited laces.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
A ChiId,s Logic.

A story illustrating the severe logic
of some juvenile minds is told by the
mother Of the four-year-old girl involv-
ed. One day this observant miss saw
a lame man on the street and asked
her mother what made him walk so
queer. The mother told her it was
because one leg was shorter than the
other.
''Wel1," she said, ''there is girl
around the corner who is that way"
After few minutes meditation she
remarked:
Mamma, wasn't it funny that God
didn't give the two long legs to the
man and the two short ones to the
girl ?"-Baltimore Sun.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
The Hapnfer Man.

A north Missouri paper asks, "Who
is the happier, the man who possesses
100000 or the man who has seven
daughters?' To which another ex-
change replies: ''The man with the
surplus girls, of course The man with
the money is not satisfied and wants
more The man with the seven daugh-
tiers is satisfied. He has enough.-St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
Current Press Comment.
The state should Dot.

1t is very patriotic and lofty motive
of Gov. McCuI1ough's to erect at his own
expense a building for Vermont at the St.
Louis exposition. 1t is hoped, however,
that he will not do this. If Vermont is to
have a building at all the state should
build it.-[ Burlington Clipper.
NIr. Bell and the Grange.
The strength and wonderful growth in
Vermont OF the grange, Patrons OF Hus-
bandry, lead one naturallyto think of its
popular and able leader, Hon. Charles J.
Bell. OF Walden, as considerable of pos
sibility in the governorship contest next
year. If the gentleman has political am
billions and a movement be started
among the farmers to elevate him to the
governors chair who can foresee the
result? There are many who incline to
the opinion that the candidacy of Mr..
Bell if launched next year. would prove
formidable one to other aspirants-
Rutland News.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
Her Modest Wish.

Sometimes" said the poet. 81 al
most get to thinking L would rather
have been born rich than genius"
"Oh, DEAR" his wife replied, II don't
go to such extravagant extremes. If
you'd only been born with a longing
to go out and get job somewhere I'd
be satisfied Chicago Record-Herald
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
The Largest Domes.

Some of the largest domes in the
world are the Pantheon at Rome, 142
feet diameter, 143 high; baths of Cara
Gala, Rome, 112 feet diameter, 116 feet
high; st. Sophia, Constantinople, lis
feet diameter, POI feet high; St. Maria
dele Fure, Florence, 139 feet diameter,
80 feet high; st. Peters, Rome, 139
feet diameter, $50 feet high; st. Paul's.
London, LIP feet diameter, 215 feet
high
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
Mixed Qualities.

Pahson-Brudder Baxter's got some
good p'ints. He tends church and
c'tributes gen'rous to de suppoht OBJ de
gospel. But he's got some woful bad
habits too He plays craps an fills
hisself wifi intossicatin' stimbulants.
Deacon-Dat's err fack. His good Inn
pulsions am done offset by his bad
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. City Journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
Her Help.

"He would have run through his for
tune in q year If it hadn't been for his
wife"
''How did she, prevent it,"
"She spent it herself"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06

A small boy was summoned one day
to see balloon ascend, and stood gszing
upward with great interest as the great
ball grew smaller and smaller in the
heavens. Then he cIutched his mother
excitedly by The arm and asked, Does
God expect those gentlemen today ?"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
Monuments of Woe.

did you notice Mr.. Jones' new
teeth?" asked Mrs. Sharpeye. .I never
saw anything so ghastly. They look
like gravestones.'
EYES," said Miss Sinnie Cal, 81 pre-
sumo he had them placed in memory of
his lost ones. New York Press.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
The Price of Experience.

"What did you buy with that money
your uncle left your
81 bought experience" was the rue
full reply.
''Spend it all for that?''
my dear sir, I never was much on
bargain day affairs, and the ordinary
price of experience is all that you've
got.''-Chicago Post.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
InQuisitive.

I'D like to know began the little
boy.
"Well, what would you like to
know?'' asked his mother
I'D like to know why sweetbreads
haven't any bread in 'em and sweet
meats haven't any meat in 'em."-Bal-
timore American.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
An Essential.

Would Be Writer-What do you con-
slider the most important qualification
for a beginner in literature?
Old Hand-A small appetite
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
The sdsentiac Rebufr.

Isabel-Are you ever rude?
Dorothy-Oh, syes. One has to be
rude now and them to teach other peo-
pie manners.-Detroit Free Press
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06

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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-01-06
DESIRABLE FARM
FOR SALE.
For Sale-The farm known as the
MAR SHALL CLIFF
FORD FARM.

situated in the eastern part of Danville,
VT, and about two and one-half miles
from the village of ST. Johnsbury.
Said farm contains about one hundred
and seventy five acres of land. we'll d.
vided into tillable and pasturing land,
tie tillage land being under high state
of cultivation, fine sugar orchard of
about twelve hundred trees and good
sugar house with all the sugar utensils.
1t has an extra good farm house, new
within a few years-two story and ell
and good set of barns all in good re-
pair.
I will sell this farm at a reasonable
price and give the party buying an easy
and favorable chance to pay for it.
The farm is situated near a school.
Possession of the farm given March l.,
1904
Will sell all the farming tools and stock
if desired.
r. g. FLETCHER,
81 Main ST., ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt.