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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-03-20
WEST LUNENRURG

w. III. Carpenter was In Littleton,
N. H., Tuesday.
Mrs. Matte Pierce was a guest of
Mrs. Gertrude Carpenter, Wednes-
day.
Charles Simons was called here
last Tuesday by the death OF his
wife.
Orange Blood who has been quite
i'll for the past few weeks is some
better.
H. L. Dodge and nephew Of Bar
ton have been In Derby visiting his
son Murray for a few days.
Willie Wentworth is soon to move
back to his farm from the village.
Quite a number from this place
attended the supper and sale at the
church at East Concord Saturday
night.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-12-18
South American Shrub Hes Proper
ties That Put Sugar Completely
In the Shade.

It has been suggested that what
may turn out to be the great sugar
producing plant Of the future n Q
dwarfish shrub found In South Amer
ica. Its botanical name Is Eupato-
rum rebandium, and, 1t IL said, the
results Of careful experiments indi-
cate that 1t yields sugar from TWEEN
ty to thirty times as sweet an ordi.
nary cane or beet sugar. One adj
vantage claimed for the sugar de-
rived from this plant is that 1t occu.
pies, In proportion to its sweetening
powers, less than one-tWentieth OF tho
bulk of ordinary cane sugar.
The world today uses more than
twice the amount Of sugar that Il
did quarter of century ago. The
people OF the United States consume
a great deal more sugar, In one form
or another, than those Of any other
nation. 1t Is surprising to learn that
in Europe sugar was used at first only
at feasts and for medicinal purposes.
At the close Of the seventeenth cen
fury the sugar industry In France was
a monopoly controlled by the apothe-
carries. It's introduction as an article
Of table use was vigorously opposed.
eminent authorities declaring It "a
poison" Boyle and other scientists
Of his day averred that sugar induced
congestion OF the lungs, apoplexy, dis
eases Of the stomach and even con-
sumption. By far the sweetest sub
stance known at this time is the coal
tar product called saccharine. It Is
two hundred times the sweetness Of
cane sugar.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-12-18
New Translatlon.

While Woodrow Wilson was IN
Chattanooga on bis recent tour one Of
the featured OF the program arranged
Tor his entertainment was an autonno.
bile Sightseeing trip through the city.
As the party slowed up nom time 10
time at some particularly interestln9
point the colored chauffeur Volunteers
cd bits Of local information. Theyj
were passing the new city hal
and Mr.. Wilson read aloud the date on
the corner-stone--1909 A. %. "0eoreo,s
remarked one OF the party, address.
ing the chauffeur. "can ron ten N
what the A. D. stands fofr" "But.
unly, boss, suttiniy," responded
George, without the culver Of an eye.
ia. why. dat dere "A. D! stands IT.
all dono.'"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-12-18
WORK THAT A WATCH DOES.
Read These Figures, and You Won't
Wonder That tho Mechanism
Gives Out.

1t is a matter of everyday occur
renee for person to say to his watch
maker:
"Here is a watch which you sold
Ae some ten years ago. It has al
ways gone well till just lately, when It
has taken to stopping without any aD-
parent cause"
The people who speak In this way
little think of the amount Of work a
watch has performed in this space of
iIe and might be astonished at the
following figures:
In ten years, which includes two
leap years, and consequently total
Of 1862 days, the hour hand has made
1904 and the minute hand 87,648 rev.
buttons. The end Of au average min.
ute hand travels more than 10,820
Yards-more than six miles The SEQ
ond hand has made 5,258,880 revolu.
lions, and its extremity has traversed
Pm the dial distance Of upwards OF
i23 miles. The escape wheel has made
62.5sa,800 revolutions, and as It has
Is teeth. 1t has come 788, $4,000 times
In contact with each pallet. The bal.
Ance has made 1,577,644,000 vibra-
lions, and any point on the outside Of
the rim has covered a distance Of
about $4,000 miles, and is equal to
twice the circumference Of the earth.
I--Answers.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-12-18
ewIft,s Joke on. Parrridua.

Partridge, the almanac maker, who
taught Old Moore his business, will BIZ
remembered as the victim of an ex.
traordinary practical joke played on
him by Dean Swift.
Against Partridge's almanac for
t70S the dean published rival al.
manac, predicting Partridge's death
on March 20, about IL at night, OF q
raging fever. And on March so ap.
peared a pamphlet giving an account
'f the almanac makers death with his
confession that he was an impostor.
This was followed by Swifts "Elegy
IN the Death Of Mr.. PARTRIDGE which
10 completed tho deception that the
statiopers company struck Partridge
on the rolls and applied for an in.
Junction against the publication of al.
nanacs In his name.
Partridge advertised that he "was
aot only alive. but was also alive upon
March 90" But no one believed him.
London Chronicle.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-12-18
HIph.cas,e Pushear, Men.

At a railway station in Calcutta,
early In the morning, long train, con.
sisting largely OF third-class carriages,
is made up, amid the clamor of dis.
putes, invariably incident to any pur.
chase In the Orient. My fellow.pas.
sengers, pilgrims on their way to the
Holy City, are buying from vendors
greasy sweets or tough dough cakes
indigestible to any but an oriental
Itomach. These vendors are ipyaria.
bly, of high caste. according to the Hin.
ia system OF social position, for no
Hindu will buy food or drink from
one Of lower caste than himself.
The great ciyilizer in India. how.
ever. as elsewhere, is the railway,
which has made It necessary for tho
Brahman to sit next to the despiseu
Sudra II he would travel. On all or.
binary occasions, should the passen-
gers Of one compartment ali be of one
caste, they put their feet out of the
window--for want OF space and sleep
In peace and security. Should they
be of different castles, however. all
but the lowest, the Sudra, sit rigidly
erect, guarding against defilement ct
their caste by touch of their more
unfortunate fellow-travelers. Chris
tan Herald.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-12-18
Flowers Have Eyes.

Many common garden and wild flow.
ers--the nasturtium, begonia clover.
wood sorrel and bluebell among 9th.
ers--possess eyes on their leaves.
Moreover, these eyes in their prln.
ciple Of construction resemble those
Of animals. They consist OF minute
protuberances filled with transpar.
emit, gummy substance, which focuses
the rays Of light on a sensitive patch
OF tissue. The nasturtium has thou.
sands Of eyes on It's leaves, and these
form as many images Of the surround.
ing object, While flowers have eyes,
however, II does not follow that they
can see. It is not known whether or
not the sense Impressions are trans.
mitted to some nerve centers CORE
spending to the brain Of animals,--
darper's Weekly.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-12-18
INSANITY AND THE "BLUEs"
Detection Generally Due to q DIsor-
dered Stomach or Liver, and
Not the Brain.

It L. announced that among the
minor forms OF mental disorder that
are to be studied at Johns Hopkins
university Is that Familiarity known as
"the blues" the New York World re-
marks. It is argued that the dejeo-
ton Is due to species of insanity,
mild indeed at the beginning but liable
to become dangerous. AS one author
ity puts II, the disease is 80 slight as
not to be noticed except by those very
close to the sufferers. It Is the pur-
pose Of the experimenters to make It
the subject OF suggestive treatment"
We have here what has every APP
pearance OF being another attempt to
account learnedly for something that
isn't SO. The detection known az "the
blues has its seat generally in the
stomach or in the liver rather than
In the brain. Suggestive treatment
by the ablest Of alienists or hypnotistS
or even Christian scientists would not
do the patient half so much good as q
dose of calomel followed by sane
system Of eating and living.
Furthermore, the man to whom ev.
erything looks blue is not more crazy
than the man to whom everything
looks rosy. The victim of blues doesn't
buy gold bricks or speculate with
trust funds or organize third parties
Why. then, accuse him of insanity
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-12-18
Eyealaht Of tho Mousa.

How much does mouse see? To
look at mouse, one would think that
sight counted for great deal in It's
life; but experiments go to show that
this is only true within certain limits.
Mice are good at distinguishing diff
terent degrees OF illumination and diff
ferent colors tpreferrlng red and vel.
low TO blue and green), and they are
quick. to detect movements but they
have little sense OF form and little
,inocular vision. Microscopic study
ihows that the retina has no rods"
md no 'fovea."
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-12-18
Good old EnaIlsh e.,,om.

There was an o1d-fashioned custom
on the English road, which I suspect
Is now obsolete. or practiced only by
the vulgar. Journeys of length being
made on horseback, and, OF course by
brief stages, it was usual always TO
make a halt on the Sunday in some
town where the traveller might attend
divine Eervice and his horse have the
benefit of the day OF rest, the institu-
ton o which is as humane to our brute
Iaborers as profitable to ourselves a
counterpart to this decent practice.
and remnant of old English hospital.
lty. was. that the landlord Of prin.
cipal inn laid aside his character OF a
publican on the seventh day, and In
vited the guests who CHANGED to be
within his walls to take o part of his
family beef and pudding. This inyi.
tatlon was usually complied with by
all whose distinguished rank did not
induce them to think compliance de-
rogation; and the proposal of bottle
of wine after dinner, 70 drink the land.
iord's health, was the only recon
penst ever offered or accepted Sir
Walter Scott.
" .
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-12-18
cHIMNEYs OF COLONIAL DAYS
Firepfaees Played an Important Part,
In the Homes Of tho Early
Colonlals.

In America the early colonists bad
little use for the mason's art, except
in the construction Of the huge chin
ney stacks which In any dwelling of
considerable size and any pretensions
to comfort formed a very consider
able part Of the structure. The great
kitchen fireplace and oven, with
smaller hearths In from two to four
rooms on each floor, required very
considerable part Of the material and
skilled labor bestowed upon colonial
homestead In the more northern col
onies
In some sections where the dangers
Of an attack by Indian raiders were
imminent, the wooden walls Of the
lower story Enclosed stout wall of
brick or kind of rubble masonry
Some of these buildings are still
standing and inhabited. although dat
ing back lat least so far as the lower
stories are concerned) more than two
centuries. A very few brick buildings
have wholly or in part come down to
ns from the first years of colonization,
and until within the last half cen.
tury some that preserved the peculiar
features of Elizabethan and Stuart
types of dwelling and business struc-
lures. Much OF the brick and about
all the great flooring tiles and orna-
mental thing were at first imported
from Europe, but lime and brick Of
good quality were soon produced in
almost every COMMUNICATIONS
Magazine.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-12-18
MoRALITY oE THg ELEPAAMI SWEETEST oE AL PLAyrsl
He Makes Cats Paw of Boys Hand
60 Steal the Unhusked
Rice

Singular as It may seem, elephants
which have associated with men en-
terrain the notion that, under special
circumstances, they are not responsi-
BILE II they utilize another to commit
an illegal act. The following is an in
stance Of this elephantine morality:
A man In Rangoon bought three
young elephants to send to England.
They were tame and playful, but cum
ming. Knowing that 1t was wrong to
steal paddy (unhusked rice)-the idea
had doubtless been impressed upon
them by punishment for stealing
they would not touch 1t themselves.
But II q boy went to see them, he
would be seized by one, the little
trunk would be coiled around his arm,
and he would be led to where the
paddy was kept in bags.
The elephant would make cats
paw OF the boys hand to take up a
handful OF paddy. Then, letting go,
he would turn up the end of his trunk,
open 1t, and coaxingly invite the boy
to drop In the paddy.
Should the boy, however, put it
back In the bag, his arm would again
be seized by the trunk, and his hand
would be again inserted into the paddy
bag.
The boy, anxious to be released,
would usually drop the paddy into the
trunk, and the elephant would blow
the rice into his mouth. After re-
peating the operation several times,
the elephant would scamper on, feel
ing that he had got the paddy with
out stealing it.-Harper's Weekly.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-12-18
Fable worm ponderInu over.

Good Mr. Wailapus stood ~ the
window Sunday afternoon Idly watch
Ing the bad little boys playing base.
ball on vacant lot ",Fhe Sabbath
breaking little wrstehes," he said.
They ought to be arrested, every one
OF them, There should be rigid or
dinance against this dsssoration OF the
sabbath" Then no rang for tha chauf-
teur. "Jir1," he said. SET out the oar
and we'll take . LIKE spin IT'S =
beautiful day and I'm tired OF staying
~ the house, This fable tsaSh1s,
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-12-18
Good oualIt,.s

He alone Is worthy OF respect 1ho
knows what Ia OF use to himself ana
others, and who labors to control HIS
self-will. Each man has his own for.
tune in his hands; as the artist has q
piece Of rude matter, which he IL to
fashion to a certain shape. But the
art OF living rightly ia like all nrts;
the capacity alone Ia born with Ms;
1t must be learned, and pracuced with
incessant care.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-12-18
lesson From the Past.

Sir Isaac Newton had discovered
Tho Law OF gratitation.
Now" no said. I'D like to have a
esl case brought before the supreme
SQUIRT as soon as possible, to Ind out
whether or not it's constitutional"
For he knew the ayIators would In
list that It exercised an unreasonable
'sstraint upon their t.ade
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-12-18
BACK TO FAITHFUL sTEED
Newark Baker. After Experience With
Auto, Decides That He Will
Stick to the Horse.

"a horse for mine" said the pros
porous baker. I've tried an automo-
bile for month. and II don't get rid
Of 1t pretty soon I'll go broke. Still,
It only cost me SIS today. so ought
not to complain"
His tale OF trouble 10 too long TO
tell nj less than an entire page Of this
type. says the Newark News. Promi
nent among It's details are:
The rupture of delivery boy while
cranking the engine, resulting in a
hospital operation and bill OF $3.50
The mobbing OF another boy by an
CRY aliens and his arrest on charge
Of running over child: also the suing
by the child's parents for $4,000 dam.
ages and the settling of the case out
OF court for sos, although It wac
shown that the child had not been
hurt In the least; in fact, had not been
touched.
The colliding Of the auto with q
wagon loaded with tombstones. the
total wrecBing OF the machine there
by. and the SHINING up OF the chauf-
feur the stonecutter's horses and the
teamster.
When sold my horse and bought
the automobile" said the baker, II
neglected to take into account the
dumbness OF delivery boys. did not
know then, as do now, how much I
owed to the intelligence OF my horse"
individuality.
No process is SO fatal as that which
would cast all men in one mold. Every
human being Is intended to have a
character of his own, to be what no
other is, to do what no other can do.
Our common nature is to be unfolded
in unbounded diversities. It is rich
enough for infinite manifestations. IL
Is to wear innumerable forms OF beau
ty and glory. Every human being has
a work TO carry on within, duties 70
perform abroad, influences TO exert,
which are peculiarly his, and which no
conscience but his own can teach
Charming.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-02

a book: to accept or refuse as you see
most fit, and the same with the public
in general" he continued:
''There are some predictions of bad
season this year Electrically, but one
is not forced to share that pessimistic
outlook. On the dramatic side of the
theater, the plays that are worthy of
public attention will probably have a
sufficient patronage. This is the fact
because the public is very much more
discriminating than it has ever been in
it's approach to the theater.
sSTN every part of the country there
Il are men who fully realize the
of suggestion. They know that the
mlmetic faculty is among the strongest
Of our possessions, especially the pos
sessions of the youthful person, that is
to say, that we are disposed to initiate
both consciously and uncUnsciously the
things that we soc. 1T is impossible
for a person to visit the tbeater and
not have the chemistry Of his mind af-
fected by what he sees. Because of
that fact the theater is an instrument
powerful for good and equally power
full for evil. and the persons who most
clearly realize this are endeavoring to
shape and direct the character of this
influence. \ practical study of the
drama has been introduced into the
majority of the colleges. ALI over the
country they are forming leagues for
the transmission of reports concerning
plays that are presented.
1.-THE public is expurgating the the
ater,
Each year every worthy play has
called to it's support more and more
active and intelligent support. If the
forthcoming season is bad one, it will
be bad one for the plays unworthy Of
The current impression that Angus
tus Thomas has views-and decided
ones; that he gives a clear exposition
Of them and never takes refuge in am
biguous and bombastic replies, was at
this iuncture fully confirmed.
"Does this mean that the tbeater is
going to preach7"
fECertainly not That is not the
meaning. 1t means only that the the
ater is going to continue to suggest, !
and suggestion is most effective when |
It is indirect. The theater will, there.
fore, entertain, but the entertainment
will be clean, and the direction Of the |
glance contemplating the entertain
nent will be upward and not down."
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-02
cr1yon Portrait By Rodman

speech he took up the thread Of his
conversation with this observation:
'fIn this country we are very apt to
be misled by the perspective. Names
that echo and re-echo from the other
side have an Importance of reverbers-
tion that overcomes and awes us. We
get our proper attitude and respect
when we establish the same comparison
as one is able to do between these two
actors and actressesf More than that
we have great ones
SsIN your opinion. Mr.. Thomas, how
4 does John Mason measure with
Lucien Guitryi"
"Guitry is, unquestionably, the fore
most serious actor in Paris. Guitry's
dominance of the dramatic field there
is due to his almost hypnotic authority,
to his great ability to give the impress
sion of thinking as he pauses In his ap-
proach of forthcoming line. He has
a leonine face and splendid physical
power.
GA distinguished Frenchmsn, who is
interested in seeing. Guitry. make a
the other night at a performance by
John Mason. His American friend
said;
't There is man who quite equals
your Guitry, because he has all that
Guitry has and in addition he has the
ability to wear dress suit and to con-
duet himself in a salon with the grace
Of q nobleman.s
'fIt is safe prediction that when
ever he does come to America there
will be an inevitable comparison be-
tween him and Mason, and that Ameri-
"a will then wake up to the fact that
she possesses the greatest and most
powerful actor of modern intellectual
and emotional roles.
IS A dTaInatist who must pay
"A some attention TO what the
public wants, Mr.. Thomas, do you
.hink the American public likes and
wants realism in the plays it pays 70
eei'
''Yes,' said Mr. Thomas. The an
wer was sharp and emphatic. sAmer-
cans want realism, but it must be
American realism. We are going to
lave dramas Of the real You may be
ure we wouldn t have them If the
,ublic didn y want them and wouldn't
ay its money to see them."
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-02

"Has the American dramatist g
promising outlook?'
"Among the dramatists Of the world
the most hopeful outlook is with the
Americans Mr., Thomas answered EN-,
pbatically.
SeD RAMA is always fIourisbng in
- any country most vigorously
when the temper Of that country Is
thought has been most for liberty
when the individual initiative has been
greatest, and when the forces of evolu.
ton have been most strong. The Amer
ican dramatlst is, perhaps, the crudest
Of the world, by which one would say
that he is, the least dependent upon
technique. but he is Very rapidly gain
ing the skill that does not suffer by
comparison with his foreign competi-
tors. There are surely eight, or per-
haps ten, men in America, and five. OF
possibly six women that have little to
learn from any study Of European mod
els and would have everything to lose
by an adoption of European methods. I"
What necessity has forced the
American manager to look to the Amer
lean playwright almost solely for his
plays9'
Forcefully and with typical precision
WINS the response:
"Some years ago 80 per cent of the
plays produced in America were made
III Francee or Germany or remade IN
England. 1t is snfe estimate to say
that not 10 per cent of the American
dramas in American theaters today are
imported. This has enforced upon the
American manager the necessity of
looking to the American dramatist, and
the American manager is largely max.
ing a virtue of this necessity and pro-
claiming his poverty as patriotism
Naturally an interviewer was much
interested in his comparison of one of
England s true artists with the Ameri-
can, Bennett, whose effective acting
in What Every Woman Knows
with Maude Adams, and in fThe Deep
Purple" gave him choice place Of
distinction in the opinions of the most
fastidious critics all over the country.
He provided an opportunity to ask for
another comparisou-that of Guitry,
the famous Partisan actor, and the OBJ
iect Of his own rreat admiration, John |
Mason, the interpreter of the chief |
roles in "The Witching Hour" and
AS Man Thinks But that had to |
wait.
With characteristic facility of
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-02

TOME to the cabaret! Indeed,
" come on even though, like the
woman who sat back of ME at
Keith & Proctor IS, you feel that
there's something awful gay and
go-ey about these caby-rett shows
OF course quite entire nousD these
matters are, like Juliet s rose, all in
the name. AS Tony Pastor said,
when the times had hurried past
him and left him a bewildercd old
man nothing but crush hat and
his memories to 90 on with, cit s
vaudeville nowadays; but 'vari,
ETY. show was good enough for
me- Times and fashions push and
press us oD-especially in New
York; the exclusive lower Fifth
avenue of yesterday is the sweat
shop district of today; the old
Dutch mansion Of a decade ago is
the sky.scraping five e-and- ten cent
palace of the moment. And so the
cabaret. Our youthful fathers
called the semi circle of Especial
lists who, one and another, arose
and ambled to the footlights to do
his stunt, "Hoyt second-acto;
now it is cabaret" Times and
the names chsnge-but youth and
gayety go on