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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31
What Makes Flowers Blue.

OF all the many substances that are
combined to make a flower. what is
the particular one to which is due the
blue, red or yellow color? Why, for
example, are gentians blue and roses
red, and why has no one ever seen
red gentian or a blue rose? The chem
list can tell US. Taking the plants that
produce really blue-nOt violet-doW-
ers. he considers which of their con-
Sttuents is peculiar to them. True
blue exists in veronicas. salvias. YER
benas, basil. solanum. penstemon. ne
mophila. convolvulus. borage. hound
tongue and in all the orders allied TO
the gentianaceae and compositae' out
never in lupins. vetches. peas. gerahl-
ums. hollyhocks. primulas. roses pal
sans, fax. etc All the blue produc-
ing plants just named have a tannln IN
them which does not exist in the oth-
ers. This is called caffetannin. 1t Is
found in coffee. but not In tea. Tea
contains another form Of tannin, which
is the same as that which makes ca
mellias red.-Exchange.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31
WELLS RIVER

George Bailey came home Wednes-
day from North Troy TO spend Christ
mas with his parents, returning TO
North Troy Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. IL. Goodwin were
in Woodsville Wednesday to attend
the golden wedding of Mr.. and Mrs.
M. G. Marston, who were married
here Dec. oath, SO years ago, at the
home of the brides parents, the late
Mr.. and Mrs. John G. White.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Gilbert and son
of Bromptonville, Can, were guests
of DIR. and Mrs. Lee from Tuesday till
Saturday. Mrs. Demi1g and Miss
Amelia jain were Christmas dinner
guests at the Lees and in the after
noon a family Christmas tree was un-
loaded at the home of Mrs. Deming.
Mrs. and Mrs. David Stanley en-
tertained Freeman Lyme and family
/ and other relatives at dinner Christ
mas day.
Twenty-Five young people sang
Christmas carols through the streets
Wednesday night, their last stopping
place being at A. It. Davis, where
they were invited in and refresh
ments were served by Miss Maude
Davis.
Sunday school Christmas exercises
and trees were held in village hall
Thursday evening.
Miss Leah Dorian was an assistant
in Mr.. Hetherington's store last
week.
There was a crowded house at the
basket ball game in village hall Sat
| urday evening.
The annual meeting Of the Ladies'
Aid society will be at the home of the
president, Mrs. H. T. Baldwin, Fri
day afternoon Jan. 2. at 3 O'Clock.
The next meeting of the Wells Riv-
er Study club will be held with
Mrs. George Randall, Monday eve
ming, Jan. 5.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31

Mrs. Fred Taylor, part of last week.
Jeremiah S. Hanson of Concord,
N. H., is stopping for time with his
granddaughter, Mrs. r. Z. Taylor.
Stuart Hunt of Texas spent Christ
mas with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ. S. Hunt.
Rev. Mr.. Smith of Concord
preached Sunday at the Methodist
church.
The Ladies' Social Circle will hold
a social and election of officers at the
Methodist vestry Thursday, Jan. 1.
Miss Anna Blanchard is at home
for the holidays from Wilder, and
Blanche Renfrew from Barton.
Miss Minnie Bliss, who works in
the Molly's Falls central Office, is
spending two weeks at her home at
Marshfield.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bonnie Darling of
st. Johnsbury are visiting in town.
A little Christmas tree for the
children was given Thursday eve
ming at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. F.
B. Allen.
Nelson Whitehill of White River
Junction was at William Orr's
Prof. and Mrs Chaffee are visiting
at Morrisville.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Hartman of st.
Johnsbury were visitors at Walter
Blanchard's recently.
"Aunt" Mercy Hooker remains
about the same. Miss Prentiss is
caring for her.
Whooping cough has broken out in
! the village, quite a number of the
children being sick with it.
The spelling school for EwelPs
| Hollow school will be held at that
place Jan. II, At the same time and
place the North Peacham Social
club will hold social and serve re-
| freshments.
Arthur Peak was home from his
work at Barnet for Christmas.
Mr.. and Mrs Ernest Munroe visi-
lied in New Hampshire last week.
+ >Mr. Burnham, who works in the
blacksmith shop at East Peacham for
Mr.. Munroe, is spending two weeks at
his home in Calais.
Mrs. Roy Courson, who has been
spending some time at Littleton, N.
H., nursing, has returned home.
Christmas was not observed this
year by any public gatherings on ac-
count of the whooping cough.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31
MAIL BUSINESS DOUBLED
Despite Lower Rates Income Was
Greatly Increased During Christ

mas
The Postmaster in anticipation of a
greater increase of business this year on
account of the parcel post from previous
years. provided for extra assistance and
a larger allowance, but from the start of
the rush. which by the way commenced
earlier this year than heretofore thanks
to the public in doing so, it was soon
apparent that the appropriation asked
for would be inadequate. The business
as compared with last year with a
higher rate of postage was doubled both
in incoming and outgoing mail. Our
record for last year in sacks dispatched
at one time was 81 while this year the
highest number sentNOu at once was IS
sacks and frequently the mail messenger
had to make two trips to the depot tC
get the mail from one train.
The receipts of the office this year II
comparison to last year shows an in
crease of so per cent.
All mails were delivered the same day
as received except those coming in on the
late trains and everything was dispatch
ed as soon, and the clerks were kept or
duty until very late at night in order tC
get the mails off and avoid congestion as
the very limited quarters at the posi-
othce would soon be taken up.
The Postmaster wishes at this time tc
thank the public for the cooperation
shown in mailing packages early as sug
gested, and the patience and courtesy
displayed in every instance.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31
IN CRIMINAL CIRCLES
Two St JOhnsbury Men Get Into
Trouble by Visiting GrOtOn-
Drunks Fined

Joseph Moore and John Fl. Kelley
of this place visited Groton last Sat
urday. They got over there without
trouble but on the way back things
we're different. They made so much
trouble on the train that Deputy Sher-
if G.. f. Winch, who was on board,
was asked to place them under ar
rest. He had a pretty rough time do
ing IL and was bruised some but got
them under control and took them of
the train at McIndoes. He notified
Sheriff Worthen and Sunday morning
he got the men into jail here. They
will have a hearing later.
The police department made three
arrests for intoxication last week and
they were fined as follows: Alfred
Sawyer and III. w. Twombley paid SO
and costs and George Prue $40 and
costs.
Charles Rossi, Italian, was arrested
for having lewd print in his posses
sion and paid fine of SID and costs
of $16.21.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31
Meather reduced to Prose.

The weather was once picturesque
and poetic thing 1t came up In the
night with a boom and a bang through
the trees. 1t was a sort of. mystic king
that asked no questions, but just
swung a scepter. 1t was grand IN
red sky at night the sailors delight;
red sky in the morning, sailors take
warning" 1t was a wholesome les
son to proud manI that he always had
a master, and it made US more rev.
erent toward nature and the Creator.
There was such a difference in receiv-
fng our weather direct from heaven
and receiving it by wire direct from
Washingtoa.-New York Mail.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31
A GREAT COMPARATIVE LESSON.

DR.. ]. H. Kellogg of Battle Creek
sanatorium, in a stereoptican lecture.
pictures the decay of nations by a Sc
ries of six trees dying at the top. Bull
garia has the least dead wood, repre-
senting the fact that one person In
every thousand In that country lives
to pass the 100-year mark, and not a
few live for half a century longer.
The United States comes next, but
with only one centenarian in $4,000.
Then the record grows worse and
wrose: Spain $4,000. France 100000.
England 100000, Germany 100000. 1t
is not mere accident that the nation
whose favorite drink is buttermilk
stands at the head, while the nation
which of all these countries is most
given to beer drinking is lowest In
the group.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31

Phineas S. Balch of Marshalltown,
Iowa, died December "a. Mr.. Balch
was born in Littleton, N. H., April
81, 1857, and when years old he
came to St. JohnsDur with his par
ents, MI. and Mrs. John w. Balch.
He was a graduate of St. Johnsbury
Academy in the class of 1877. After
this he was employed in the First
National Bank for a year. In 1879
he went to Marshalltown, Iowa.
where he had been connected with
banking business, for a long time
cashier of the Marshalltown State
bank. Mr.. Balch was a prominent
citizen of MarshalltOwn and was af-
filiated with many fraternal organ
izations there. Mr.. Balch is sur
vived by his wife and by
four children, Mrs. Robert E. John
son, John, Edna and Harold Balch,
also by an only brother, Albert F..
Balch of Marshalltown. The funeral
Friday afternoon was in charge of
st. Aldemar Commander, No. 80,
Knights Templar.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31
DRINK AND DEATH RATE.

English insurance companies 1nves-
tigating the death rate of var1ons
classes of people, have announced
that of 61,215 average people, 1000
die annually; of 61,215 total abstain
ers $50 die annually; of 61,215 liquor
drinkers, 1912 die annually, and in
other words, the death rate for the
three classes is as follow: Average
death rate, 1888 to the 1000; total alb
stainers, GA to the 1000; liquor
drinkers, 1852 to the 1000. Kansas
is conceded to be the dryest state in
the Union. The death rate there be-
fore the advent Of total abstainers
was IL to the 1000. Now It is rs to
the 1,OOO-the lowest In the world.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31
SUFFERING TRADES.

(STRONG WORDS BY CLINTON M.
HOWARD TO WORKING MEN.)
What is it that keeps labor en-
ployed. factories busy. wages high?
Orders.
That is what 10000 commercial
travellers are out for-orders. They
represent manufacturers.
On what does the manufacturer de-
pend? On the retailer.
On what does the retailer depend?
On the customer with needs to sup
ply and money to buy.
1t is the home market and the for
eign markets that keep the wheels Of
industry going round.
In what way does the saloon affect
the hame market?
Let Left, Jones, the English member
of parliament, answer that question:
Il met the finished product Of the
saloon. He was lying in the gutter.
He had no hat, the hat trade was suf-
fering; his coat was full of holes, the
clothing trade was suffering; he had
on the remnant of shirt, the wooden
trade was suffering; he had on no
socks, the hosiery trade was suffer
ing; he was dirty, the soap trade was
suffering; can hardly mention a use
full industry in the country that. was
not affected by that mans insobriety."
Follow this man home and you
would find by an inventory of his wife
and children that the millinery trade,
underwear trade, the dress goods
trade, the ribbon trade, and hundred
other trades were suffering. Look
about his home, and you would find
that the furniture trade, the carpet
trade, the picture trade, the dinner
ware and cooking utensil trade, and a
hundred more were suffering. So with
the toy trade and the Christmas tree
trade; all suffering because of one
mans insobriety.
A round million men were arrested
for drunkenness and disorderly con-
duct in this country last year. A mil
lion more eluded the watchful eye OF
our vigilant police, were sobered up In
the back room of the saloon, or stag
gered unmolested home"
Two million makers of the home
market knocked out of the market by
the saloonl They have needs to sup
ply, but no money to buy. Add their
wives and children, the usual average
Of four with mother, and you have TO-,
600, 900 consumers in the home mar
ket impoverished by the American
saloon!
Let labor close that tremendous
leak, lift his brother from the gutter
send him home to his family sober
and with his pay envelope unbroker
by the robber liquor traffic that gives
it's customers only sorrow, disease and
shame in exchange for labor's wealth
and it would give up a new home mar
ket for American-made goods every
year equal to our present foreign mar
ket around the world!
What could be done with that vas
sum of money now poured into the
lap of the saloon?
We could build 100000 homes a
$4,000 each, put $1,000 worth Of fur
niture and carpets into every one o
the 900, 900 homes, $1,000 worth O.
clothing and wearing apparel In thu
closets of every one Of the 3OO,OO'
homes, 100 tons of hard coal in ever
cellar, and deposit in the savings banl
81 900 to the credit of every one o
those 100000 homes; do all of this
next year, and every succeeding yea
that those saloons we're kept closed
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31
S2664.71

One-half excess paid by State, $277.17
Steam drill work 164.4l
This makes one mile and 10 rods of
road built this year at an average cost
per rod of So. SO, not including extra cul-
vert built below the Center, but does in
clude all culverts on the jobs, one of
which is of cement 31a x 312 2S it. and
the removing of the ledge between Mr..
locks and Mr.. GreenwOod's and build
ing over the river bank.
The gravel for larger part of the job
on the Lyndon road was hauled over a
mile. There has also been SIS rods of
roadway resurfaced above Mr.. Meserve's
at cost of $255.O1, of which one-half is
paid by the state from the auto fund.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31
RECENT DEATHS.
Perkins

Napoleon B. Perkins died at his
home on Summer street Sunday eve
ming, Dec. %, after a long and pain
full illness. Mr.. Perkins was born
in Stark, N. H, on what was called
Beach Hill, the son of Calvin and
Mary (Wood) Perkins. AS boy he
worked on his fathers farm, early
becoming interested in politics and
in the slave question. He was an
ardent Republican. At the first call
for troops in 1861 he went to Lam
caster to enlist but found the COM
pany full. He then tried 10 enter the
Ord VT but since he did not have the
written consent of his parents, was
refused. After trying one more reg
iment he finally enlisted in the 9Th
Maine battery for three years on Oct
ober %. On Decem Der 4 of the same
wear he was mustered into the Unit
ed States service under Captain Lee
peine. He took part in the battles
of Cedar Mountain, Rappahannock
Station. ThorOughfare Gap, Bull
Run, Chantelly. Fredericksburg, and
Charlottesville. During the severe
fighting in front of Chancellor's
House he was struck just above the
knee by a discharged canister. This
later necessitated the amputation of
the leg. 1t was only by the greatest
risk of their lives that Sergeant Loo
mis- assisted by Horace Harris, Da-
vid Dunton and Bennett Morse sue
ceeded in removing Captain Perkins
from the field. Every officer was
either killed or wounded in this bat
tie. When discharged from the ar
my Mr.. Perkins was not quite 20,
and in January, 1864, he went to
Lebanon, ~ H., to attend school. A
year later he went to Kimbau I'M
ion Academy at Meriden. He finally
located in Lebanon and went into
! the harness business. On the Sth of
October, 1878, he was married to
Jennie w. Shedd of Lebanon, N. H.
| They soon went to Groveton to. live.
1t was through Mr.. Perkins efforts
that the 1. o. o. f. was organized
there, and he was a charter member.
| He also was the first commander or
Lieut.. Clark Stevens Post of Grove
ton, a member of the Rcd Men OF
Groveton and a member of Benton
! Masonic Lodge of Guildhall. He
was elected to nearly every town Of
flee and was a member of legislature
! in 1925 as we'll as a dlegate to the
constitutional convention in 1908.
He was the first justice of police
court of Northumberland and post
master for nine years. About nine
years ago Mr.. and Mrs. Perkins
moved to Lancaster, and came to
ST. Johnsbury in 1912, Mr.. Perkins
then being in failing health. He is
survived by his wife, Mrs. Jennie
Perkins, three children, Fred H. Per
kins of California, Miss Grace K. of
Boston, and Mrs. Carrie Amey of
st. Johnsbury, also by three broth
ers, A II. Perkins of Walpole, Mass,
Zepheniah of Pembroke, n. B., Ran
some of Campton, N. H, and one Sis
ter, Mrs. Carrie Tickenor of Wahpe-
ton, North Dakota. The funeral will
be at Groveton today, conducted by
the Masons there. The I. o. o. F.
and Red Men will be bearers and
the G. A. r. mourners.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31

Charles Bailey's family ate Christmas
dinner with Mr.. and Mrs. George Rich
ardson.
The annual church meeting. dinner and
roll call will be held at Barnet, Thurs
day. January 8.
There will be a reception at Rev. ". {.
Clark's, New Years day from to D.
A little daughter came to the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Cooper, Tuesday morning
and they were very glad to keep her.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31
EAST BARNET

Samuel Richardson came home last
Tuesday from New York City to spend
the holidays with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Richardson.
There was a Christmas tree in the
chapel Wednesday evening. The children
had fine exercises, especially the speaking
MIR. and Mrs. George Miligan.
Mrs. George Nelson entertained her
brother, Fred Miles, and family and
Charles Webster and daughter Lorraine
from PaSsumpsic, Christmas Twelve
gether.
c. Dickinson is having the electric
lights put into his house.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31
EDUCATION INCOMPLETE
Commissioner futile Urges More
Helm In Public Schools


Help In Public Schools
Ninety-three per cenR of our Yer
mont children do not complete the
course of instruction in our public
schools, said Principal A z. futile
Of the state educational commission
at the Church of the Messiah last
Sunday evening. What ought we 10
do to enable each of these boys and
girls to discover for what vocation
in life he or she is fitted and to s4ye
him or her interest and efficiency In
that kind of work? The address was
replete with practical Suggestions
IL II was an indication of what we
may expect in the report of the state
commission on our educational sys-
tenn OF which Mr.. futile is mem
her, Vermont will soon have highly
important recommendations con-
corning her public schools 10 con-
slider.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31
GOOD FOR GERMAN ARMY.

There is good news from the Ger
man army. At the emperor's order
manual on Alcohol and Tobacco" has
been prepared for the service by DR..
Buchinger, one of the leading phygi-
clans of the marine
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31

You find the short road" to en-
pIoyment when you tell what you
can do-interestingly, frankly-in
want ad.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31

If you can teach music, art, dane
ing, swimming, or any useful thing,
classified advertising will find pupils
for you.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31
VITAL QUESTION.

It is not a question Of the saloon
OR the blind pig. but of the saloon
AND the blind pig. Chicago. with
1900 saloons, has more blind pigs
than Maine, Kansas and Okiahoma
combined.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31
STATE WORK IN TOWN

Statement BY County Commissioners
III. B. Ward for the Year
The state work done in St. Johnsbury
bv w. p Russell of Kirby as special COM
missioner for the year of 1913 is given
by County Commissioner Fl. B. Ward as
follows:
On the North Danville road,
As rods cost, 30S.4O
cost, 2,5o2. %
Extra culvert between Hast
ing's bridge to Center, 348.39
S3,21e.O5
Received from the per cent
State Tax, $664.7l, $2664.71
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31

The ad-reader may pay dollar or
two less for it than you do-unless
you utilize the hint.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31

Proper Printing pulls Profits.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-12-31

OOF.OF
Voted by Town, $1,000 excess
Matched by State, $1,000
The Arvada enterprise., 1913-12-25
A CHRISTMAS HOUSE PARTY
Skating, coastins and SIeighins Good
Country Pastime While City Offers
Sightseeing. Music.

A house party at Christmas affords
the young people Of the family
chance to be gay and CHEEKY for
weekend or more. The charm of
house party is in the bringing together
of congenial guests who spend sew
eral days with their hosts. When the
girls and boys return from college or
boarding school for the holidays they
often bring with them as guests class
mates whose homes are too remote to
make 1t worth while for. them to take
long and expensive journey for the
recess. The girl and the boy who hail
from the west and attend an east
ern school of learning, may be forced
to spend homesck holiday If no
comrade tenders an invitation to join
a family group.
Outdoor sports, skating, coasting,
tobogganing and sleigh riding are the
pastimes of the country, while the city
offers sightseeing, music and the
other diversions. The long evenings
at home, the little parties invited to
meet the visitors, and the whole merry
and swiftly passing time make
Christmas house-party one of the gala
seasons of the year The house
Keeper finds that her provision for
the table must be ample. Her pes
and cakes disappear like magic, for
young people are noted for good ap-
petites. Tableaux charades and con.
urdrums are among the amusements
appropriate to such party. Story
telling around the fire with the lights
turned down, If the tales are of ghosts
and spooks, is sure to be favorite
feature of the festivity.
The Arvada enterprise., 1913-12-25
5a1tta Gla1ts Ja
BY ELDON PATTERSON

1ust as truly as love is Santa Claus is.
~ Santa Claus is a personified senti-
ment-he is a reality.
We speak and learn and teach OF a God
whom the world has never seen except in
Christ jesus, yet His existence is manifest
in everything. He is reality
Santa Claus need not exist in physical
form to be comprehensible-his spirit is
endowed and devolved upon millions OF
willing personfiers who in the spirit in
which old Santa himself would shower
blessings, shower them for him.
1t isn't lie to tell the children Santa is
coming; it isn't even white" lie
Santa Claus is comingI
He may be the father, mother, brother or
a stranger, but the sentiment of Santa
Claus is upon him. He Is Santa Claus.
Heis the expression Of that which other.
wise would indeed be myth or cease to
exist: He is the action of a world-old
thought: He is the physical component
of Love, Charity and Pity.
Santa Claus is Love made tangible.
He is not one, but many, and it takes all
the flesh and blood Santa Clauses of all the
world combined to make the one big Santa
Claus whom the children know and wor-
ship and whom we symbolic in great furs
the wondrous figure whose great, kindly
face with its never waning smile invites the
confiG snce of the universe.
Santa Claus Is.
His visible form is generosity and kind
ness.
You can see him giving the newsboy
quarter for a penny paper.
You can see him, Sorooge- like though it
may seem, helping here and there;
Or, and this is nobler than all the rest,
you can see him sharing his last tiny mite
with another, while tears of pity and hap
pness mingle in the bright smile the
token gives.
Every household in its own way knows
its Santa Claus.
Don't deceive the children by telling them
there is no such person.
Santa Claus is. and may he always be.