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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-12-25
IN BOSTON MARKETS

Butter-Choice northern creamery
3415 @351kc; western creamery, 1914
@341kc.
Cheese-York state, fancy, 17K@
18c; fair to good, 17@171kc.
Eggs-Choice hennery, 38@39c;
eastern extras, S6@37c; western ex-
tras, 32@34c; western firsts, $50
BIC; storage, 19@21c.
Approximations fancy, $3.50
$50; No. 1, s1.75@2. rs; No. 2,
S1.25@1.75 Hubbardstons, $500
2.25; greetings, $2@2 so; northern
spy, $2@2. rs; pippins, 81 75@2.25.
Potatoes-Aroostook Green noun
tain, 81. 1901. As per bu Big; sweets.
Jersey, s1@1.25 bskt; $404.25 Dbl.
Poultry-Northern fowl, large, IS
@19c; medium. 15@16c; roasters, 20
022c; live fowl, 14@15c; native
broilers, dressed, 24@25c; native
broilers, dressed, 24@25c; native
chickens, live, 14@15c; turkeys,
northern. choice, 27@28c; western,
best, 23@25c; squad, $4@4 SO doz;
western ducks, choice, 10000;
geese, 17Q1sc.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-12-25
Tub Oy- RUN VIII CROCKS
ReapIng 4 Harvest From Holiday
Crowds OF Shoppers


Boston. Dec. 23.-This city il
overrun with thieves Of the most des-
perate and dangerous type. The
yeggmen are in bands of from three
to five, and have not hesitated to
menace the lives of their victims with
loaded revolvers, in some instances
firing shots and beating them.
Many arrests have been made, but
few of the prisoners have been posi-
lively identified by the victims.
Burglars have made raids on the
dormitories at Harvard, private resi-
dences and shops all over the city and
in the suburbs, express thieves and
sneak thieves are doing a thriving
business, and the pickpockets and
shoplifters are reaping a harvest
among the holiday crowds of shop
pers.
In the determined effort to appre-
bend the thieves every detective,
plain clothes man and all the uni
formed police Of the city are working
day and night. The city appears to
be overrun with swindlers, confidence
men and thieves of every known
character, and women highwaymen
even, are reported to be operating in
the vicinity of Boston.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-12-25
BARNET
Two Schools Closed on Account of
Diphtheria-PersOna DOings

Two Schools Closed ON Account OF
Diphtheria-PersOnaI DOings
The Center school and the -Four
Corner schools are closed, having
been exposed to diphtheria.
Walter Brock of Montpelier
spent a few days last week at his
brothers, w. S. Brooks.
Florence Wilder came home last
week Wednesday, having been ex-
posed to the measles.
Bernice Wilson is quarantined
with the measles. She has been
quite sick.
Ruby Henry has the measles and
is quarantined.
Frank Farnsworth who has been
working in Massachusetts was called
home last week to see his mother.
who is not as well.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Somers were
visitors in St. Johnsbury last week.
Quite a number from here at
tended the entertainment at Joe's
Brook last Friday night.
Rev. Mr.. Clark gave his illus
trated lecture at East Barnet last
Sunday night.
Fred Gil1llan of Newport is at
home for a little while.
Miss Margaret Wiley of Portland,
Me-, and Frank Wiley of Philadel-
pbia, Pa, are spending Christmas
with their parents Mr.. and Mrs. E.
A. Wiley.
Mrs. Effie Munson who has been
visiting here for a week or more
has gone to her home in Massena, N
Y. Her sister, Mabel, accompanied
her.
Clara Smith spent a few days last
week with friends in East Barnet.
Mrs. Julia Sheridan who has
been spending a few days with her
parents, has returned to her home
in Nashua, N H.
WILDER Dawson and family of
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-12-25
Parcel Post Is
Unit System
Any One Can Learn Postage
Rates by Figuring Out Dis
lance From POStOifiG9.

~ EGINNING New Years day at 6
n. m. the new parcel post law
~ permits any inhabitant of the
United States to send through
the mail merchandise of all descrip-
tons. provided it does not weigh more
than six feet in combined length and
girth. One point the postmaster gen
eral wishes emphasized and that is
that all packages have to be taken to
the pOstOttice by the sender. and this
doesn't mean the numbered substa-
lions ordinarily found in drug stores,
but the regular pOstotfice stations.
The packages will be delivered at
their destination in wagons. the deliv-
cries being as regular as the present
letter service.
At present the number of men in the
postal service has not been increased.
Such "a step is considered unnecessary
at present. The pOstotiice department
has been working overtime since last
July. when congress passed the law.
preparing for the Inauguration of the
new service. Twenty thousand OF the
most delicate and intricate scales have
been ordered for delivery before Jan. l.
A most elaborate system of maps
has been completed, inaugurating a
zone system. There are eight differ
ent zones. Upon the maps are depict
ed various units in each zone. Every
town is situated in a numbered unit.
shown upon the map, The first zone
is any distance within fifty miles,
The second zone is greater distance.
and SO Oh until the last zone. which
takes in Alaska and the Hawaiian Is
lands. but not the Philippines.
| For instance. the map with its num-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-12-25
The Secret Terror

The haunting fear of sickness
and helplessness is the secret terror
of the working man. Health Is his
capital. Kidney diseases sap a mans
strength and vitality. They lessen
his earning capacity. Foley Kidney
Pills bring back health and strength
by healing the disease. They are
the best medicine made for kidney
and bladder troubles. They act
quickly and thoroughly. You can
buy nothing better. John McMastert
Streator, III, says: 81 feel better and
a great deal stronger than / have
for many years, and Foley Kidney
Pills did it, No harmful drugs"
C. c. Bingham. Adv.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-12-25
AT 80 GIVES HEALTH RULES.
Enjoy Yourself and Ignore Diet Tables,
Says sir George Birdwood.

Enjoy Yourself and Ignore Diet Tables,
Says sir George 5irdwood.
Sir George Birdwood. officer of the
Legion Of Honor. laureate of the French
academy and formerly professor of
anatomy and physiology at Bombay,
has contributed at the age of eighty
his views on how to reach a ripe old
age. His maXims are:
Don't think about your health.
Enjoy yourself as much as possible.
Ignore dietary tables.
Eat whenever you feel inclined.
Look on the bright side Of things.
Sir George is particularly scornful
about the diet on which another con-
tributor to the discussion thrives-
namely. two meals of eggs. bread and
butter daily.
~Such life" he says. would not
be worth living. The great question
Is not how to live long, but how to live
we'll"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-12-25

designate the zone. All he has 70 do
Is to mark his scale with the zone in
dicator and the machine will show the
amount of postage.
The pOstOffice department has issued
a guide book and map that can be pur-
chased for rs cents. There is also an
insurance against loss of all packages
not over $50.
Among the things that will not be ac-
copied for delivery are intoxicants. ex-
plosives. inflammable liquids. live or
dead animals, firearms. disease germs,
books or printed matter.
A special series of stamps has been
engraved for the service.
The greatest advantage of the par
eel post is to the farmer who wants to
sell his products direct to the cOnsum-
er. A postal card for a dozen or more
fresh eggs can be sent on one day and
the eggs received the next. All kinds
of produce will be acceptable. Eggs
can be packed separately in cotton and
placed in corrugated paStebOard boxes
so they can be shipped with entire safe
ty. All packages containing eggs mus
be marked eggs"
All fragile articles. such as millinery
toys, musical instruments. glassware.
ETC., must be marked fragile"
1t is expected that the parcel post
will hurt the express companies busl-
ness. particularly in short deliveries.
on account of the cheap rates of the
parcel post. The suburban poultry
and produce markets will be accessible
to thousands of town buyers.
The parcel post stamps measure b?S
IL inches between perforated lines.
The color is red for all denominations
In a curved panel across the top. sup
ported by paneled perpendicular col
umn at each end.
Triangular ornaments occupy both
upper corners. The denomination in
large numerals is in each lower cor
ner. with the title of the subject and
the word cents or dollars" between.
The designs on the several denomi-
nations are as follows:
l cent-Postoffice clerk.
2 cents-City carrier.
e 3 cents-Railway postal clerk.
cents-Rural carrier.
5 cents-Mail train.
10 cents-Steamship and mail tender.
Is cents-Automebile service.
20 cents-Aeroplane carrying mail.
25 Manufacturing.
so cents-Dairying.
rs cents-Harvesting
Strut growing.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-12-25

RUSSIA'S BIGGEST FORGERY.
Gang Turned Out Millions of Counter
felt Notes.

Russia's secret police are busy trac,
ing the producers of millions of coun-
terfeit notes that have been passed into
circulation in Russia and on Russian
financial houses abroad. 1t is the big
gest and most perplexing forgery case
they have ever tackled
Four of the men concerned in the
trafic-a commercial drummer named
Dunaievsky. a merchant named Semo-
new and two others named Liebenthal
and ROchlin-have been captured with
skillfuIly forged notes to the face val
ue of nearly a quarter Of a million
rubles in their possession. They have
been subjected to the Russian variety
of the third degree examination, but
have revealed nothing leading to the
discovery of the forgers factory.
Two men suspected Of completely
were traced In vain to France.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-12-25
EGG WAR TO CONTINUE
Boston Women Aim to Make "a
Cents the Permanent Price

Boston, Dec. 2S.-"The high cost
Of eggs is never to come back And
until 24-cent eggs appear to be estab-
lished as a permanent Boston insti-
tuition the high cost of other edibles
will be left more or less to take care
of itself"
This was the effect of the announce
ment made on behalf of the House
keepers league by Mrs. Ida M. Heb
bard.
The problem of extending the low
cost of living campaign to other
things besides eggs is said to have
injected some discord into the ranks
of the women who are in line for the
big egg war, but the controversy, ii
any, has been laid aside for the pres
ent.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-12-25
Doctors to Look Into Mental State Of
a Seven Year-OId

Atlanta, Dec. 23.-Frank Wilson
years old, an habitual user of tobac-
CO in all forms, according to testi-
mony, was arraigned here on the
charge of killing his 7-year-old play
mate, Elmonte Herndef.
Witnesses testified the boys quar-
relied, after which the Wilson child
ran into his home, got a rife, and
shot his playmate when he passed i.
Decision was reserved until an ex-
animation of the child's mental state
can be made.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-12-25
WIRELESS PHONE A SUCCESS
Harvard Professor Sends Sound o
Voice Thirty-five Miles.

Voice Thirty-fiVe Miles.
Assistant Professor G. w. Pierce o.
the department OF physics at Harvard
has devised a new wireless telephone
instrument which may eventually revO-
lutionize the methods of long distance
communication. The new instrument
has already received the hearty in
ldorsement of John Hays Hammond, Jr.
Professor Pierce was the guest OF Mr..
Hammond at his Gloucester laboratory
at Fresh Water Cove recently, where
series of experiments was conducted
with the new apparatus.
The wireless power was concentrated
about fifty feet above sea level. BY
means Of the new instrument Professor
Pierce got into communication with
the Harvard Wireless club. thirty five
miles away. and talked with several Of
the club members for a space covering
fifteen minutes.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-12-25

Brighton, Mass, are spending
Christmas with her sister, Mrs. Bert
Gilhllan- Nf
The schools had a Christmas tree
last Friday afternoon which was
much enjoyed by all.
Sidney Pocock and family OF
Beebe Plain, Que, came Monday 70
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-12-25
New chief of Secret Service

Washington, Dec. 20.-William ].
Flynn was sworn in as chief of the
United States secret service, succeed
ing John E. Wilkie, who is now su-
pervising special agent of the GUS
toms service.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-12-25

TO CoIPUTE

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Of
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-12-25

The rs cent piece was made
famous by the Am erican Liver
Tablets, the perfect laxative.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-12-25
CHILD HELD FOR MURDER

outcone.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-11
"sRoADwAY's" SECRET.

In considerable more bewildermeut than
anger Wallace sat in his chair. staring
before him for a moment after the widow
Gerard had left. jackson walked slowly
10 his friends chair, laid one hand quietly
on its back and then looked at Wallace
ntenty
say. are you going crazyl" roared
Wallace
broadway ignored the query
Now, in the first place" he com
monced deliberately, Il want YOU Ia
thoroughly understand that I'm positive
lN serious about the whole affair ard
that nothing that YOU can say will change
my plans.
Welt"
Mrs, Gerard and | are going To hc mar
ried and it's going TO happen very short
IT, So whether YOU like the idea or not. Il
you care TO retain my friendship. You
must get used to lt the same as ! have
TO do
I'm listening
Broadway sighed
know several girls. he went on.
who VIII cry very bitterly. and "A LOT
~ fellows who VIII laugh very heartily.
but the fact remains that the lady YOU
Just saw leave the room is 10 become
Mrs Jackson Jones, su once and for an
get ID ont uf your head that it's "A Joke
DO You realize what people viii say
and think
jackson brought his list down into
the palm ut his hand said ne.
I've tArAshed 81 uut With myself from
evety angle. / know what thcVu SAY
and ! know what they'u think
Well what wIll they thlui,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-11
GRAY OR FADED
HAIR RESTORED TO
NATURAL COLOR
Famous Southern La Creole -
Hair Dressing the Remedy.
Safe and Sure.

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than forty years ago. is today giving ioy
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LaCreole Hair Dressing is not only the
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(AGVt)
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-11
Based on George M. Cohen's Play Now
Running In New York.
Copyrights, 1912, by George Nj. Cohan)
TO-DAY s INSTALLMENT.

Mrs. Gerard exclaimed at this and
Broadway FASTENED to add
81 mean she said yes Beatrice said
yes "
Wallace looked from one to another
more mystified than ever. when the tit
tering voice of the woman broke in:
We're going to spend our honeymoon
in Spain"
Yes, dear, sunny Spain" rhapsodized
Broadway I'm going out this afternoon
to buy sombrero and pair Of casta-
nets'-hc took few dance steps and
hummed an air from ."Carmen."
well, aren't YOU going 10 congrat ulate
NEE"
Now, sec here. Jackson, if you're fool
ing me, | want to know returned Wal
lace roughly.
Mrs. Gerard shook from head to foot In
seuilc anger.
There he goes again, jackson" she
snapped. I'm not going to stay here and
be insulted IN such manner"
Broadway interposed. He assured Mrs.
Gerard that n a few moments alone with
Wallace he could convince him that there
was no joke. They didn't want Wallace
to repeat to all their friends in town that
the engagement was farce II she would
go out in her car FOR "A half hour and
return everything would be smoothed
away.
She consented.
"Bye-bye, dearie, she hsped
"Au revoir sweetheart. returned
Broadway, affectionately
Don't listen to that bad, naughty man.
deayie"
mo. him won't. little Beatrice Him
make bad man listen to him"
She kissed him fondly.
With "Oh. you dear boy" ana with
one glance Of scorn and fury for Wallace,
she was zone
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-11

The two young men sat in silence
for time. Wallace was trying to find
some way out for Broadway, and the
latter was immersed in mournful reflec-
tons. Yet such is the strange mixture
of pride and regret in the career and
temperament ofs the average spendthrift
that Broadway could not have been said
to be entirely unhappy. He broke the 81
lence with a laugh.
When | 60 into a restaurant, the
walters come to blows to see who'll get
me. If / go in to get shaved, youG
think some one had yelled Fire" the
way the BARRIERS dash for the chairs oh,
I've been the bright-eyed baby boy
around this town. all right It's cost me
quarter of million, but I've had a Won
derful time"
How long have you been broker" asked
Wallace
About six months. Ny credit carried
me on. You know when l first went
broke made up my mind that I wouldn't
run into debt, no matter what happened
| put on an old suit Of clothes that morn
ing and started out looking for a job.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-11
BROADWAY JONES 3 9 4z11z1g Soy g1z1 Wsy"

ago and started to burn Broadway up l
was worth $3.50, 900. My father died and
left me that when | was ten years old.
didn't come into it until | was twenty
one-about ST5, 900 in cash, some real eS-
tate and a half interest In a chewing gum
factory The first thing l did was to get
rid of the real estate and sell out my in
tercst in the gum factory. L wanted
cash. Hadn't any use for anything else.
My fathers partner, his brother (my
uncle, old Andrew jones', bought me out
and cheated me, too A measly hundred
thousand, that's all l got Since then l
understand he's made a dozen fortunes
with the darned old gum. I hear the
Gum Trust offered him a million dollars
for the plant last year. You've often
heard me speak of the gum"
Yes, Jones pepsin.
That's right, Jones pepsin-~made in
Jonesville. Town named after my grand
father. He was in the gum business be-
fore his two sons. It's the oldest gum on
the market. Ever chew it?"
No"
well, don't It's awful"
Wallace hitched his chair closer to
Jackson, greatly interested.
go on he said
THE WHITE LIGHT LURE.
Il couldn't wait to get hold of the money
and get out of Jonesvilc I wanted New
York nothing but New York read
New York. talked New York. dreamed
New York. Why, from the time ! was
sixteen years old to the day | left that
town everybody in Jonesville called me
Broadway. Just because I wore patent
leather shoes and put on clean collar
every day"
" Broadway Jones" repeated Bob.
musingly
Yep, Broadway Jones, returned the
wearer OF that appellation. with the hui
NOR that lies very near to tears. "Oh,
I've lived up to the name all right, all
right l know every newsboy. policeman.
actor. chorus girl. bartender and wine
agent in the street I've been to bed
just one night in four years before 4
O'Clock in the morning. and that was
because l had IA toothache and my face
was swollen. oh, it wasn't the pain that
kept me In; it was the looks of the thing.
oh, what I haven't done to Broadway
Wen, you've been with me, and you
know
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-11
Daysey Mayme
and Her Folks
By FRANCES L. GARSIDE.

NAYSEY MAYME APPLETON
| J looks so artificial from the
crown of her golden head to the
tips of her high-heeled shoes she gives
1.-THE impression that if some one punch
ed her in the belt she would squeak
Mama, just like French doll.
She wears a collar so high in the
back and so low in the front it looks A.
if her halo had slipped down, and she
waves her hands when she talks lust
like a switchman.
At first glance one might think Day
sey Mayme superficial But she is NOT
she is temperamental!
AS a child she didn't keep up with
the class in the public school. and bar
mother sent her to a private school
The teacher" explained her mother
didn't understand her She is so tenn
| peramental."
The word explains so many thinos,
All mothers of backward children use If
When an attempt was made to teach
her to cook, she served ver-done steak
with fresh rose lying on the plat
and thought her father lacked the fira
of imagery because he looked at tbo
steak instead of the flower,
She plays the low tones on the niano
very low, and pounds for the loud ones
and her friends encourage her bv saw
ing she plays with expression,
1T takes an effort to be tempera.
mental she explained to one who was
not All my life long l have taken
time to read descriptions of sunsets
On one occasion Daysey Mayme was
left to take care of a young. baby. and
when its mother returned she found tho
baby almost drowned and floating off
in Daysey Mayme's tears.
Il got to thinking" she said. between
| sobs, of the many weary steps thar
await those poor little feet before Their
journey through life is ended" but her
sobs choked her, and she could say M
more. ~
She will gaze at flower and sigh
ana look out into the dark with yearn
ing look in her eyes All her life She
has INDUCED in this poetic sorrow whom
other girls of less sensitive organiza.
lions have studied and scrubbed.
Il feel" she said, Just like a noun
ing dove sounds
And that is what it means to be tenn
| peramental.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-11

! was willing to be elevator boy, mes
senger boy-anything. / walked about
the streets looking for a boy wanted
sign. My intentions were the best in the
world. But somehow or other, l got to
thinking of something else, and when I
came to where do you suppose I was
Sitting at a table in Delmonico's eating
breakfast. Forgot all about the job and
turned right in there out of force of
habit. l made a dozen attempts to do
the right thing. l cut out the autono-
biles and rode In street cars for two
or three days.
Continued in Next Issue
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-11
LIQUID MEASURE.

II was the time of the singing lesson
at tho local council school. and the
teacher was explaining to the Young
hopefus that II a treble an alto, a
'tenor' and "a bass" sang together,
their united Efforts would constitute a
quartet
rbore seemed no trouble about that
4nd the teacher thought the class was
getiiuE ON very nicely
Nov, Jimmy, leave Off pinching your
brothers leg and listen TO me" said she
III bass and 20 tenor sang together
What would YOU call that?"
Jimmy was the son of the local milk
man and a bright lad withal. His All
swer was not long in coming.
Please. miss said he, that would
be a pintet'"