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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-04
Concord.
Closing Exercises Of School To-
night-Elecfric Lights ROr Meth
odfst Chnrch--LocAls

Closing Exercises Of School To-
night-Electric Lights R0r Meth
odist Church--LocAls
The closing exercises or C. A. and
T.. c. g. S. in the town hall this
"wednesday evening the follow
ing program will be given: Music;
The Story Of StowaWay, Bertha
Wright Birds OF Killingworth, Leo
ma Chapman; music; The Light OF
Deadman's Bar, Hazel Davis;
Every Day Botany, Lenna King;
music; The Bewitched Clock, Flor
ence Goss; Nellie's Prayer, Edith
Virtue; music, Modern Medicine,
Harry Bennett; The Whistling Reg
iment, Arts Bonnet; Blessings of
Education, Karl White. Proceeds
for the johnson Free Book Fund"
The yestry of the NJ. Z. church
and parsonage have been wired for
electric lights.
At the Sunday services at st.
James Episcopal chapel the new
marble font given by a friend of the
Rev. DR.. Grint was in position. An
nouncement was also made of a Sun
day school to be held hereafter
every Sunday in the chapel at 2 D.
IN. under the care of committee,
Mrs Bailey, Mrs. Williams and Mrs.
Edney. At the Saturday evening
meeting of those interested in the
chapel, Mr.. Chapman was elected
warden and Mr.. Edney secretary.
The L. b. social which was to
have been given at the home of
Mrs. M. b. Carpenter last Wednes-
day was postponed on account of ill
ness in the family.
Mrs. Achsa Turner who has been
seriously i'll at her home in Lyndon,
has come to the home of her sister,
Mrs. Mianda Shackford where she
will spend some time.
Judson Alcott of Lunenburg was
in town last week Tuesday.
Charles Goodreault the young
man who left his home recently has
returned.
The Sunday schools of the NJ E.
and UniversaIist churches will OBJ
serve Children's day next Sunday
morning at the usual hour of SER
vice.
The regular Meeting of Adah
Chapter No. SO, o. E. S., will be
held Thursday evening, June IL.
THE Woven Web" will be pre-
scented at the Town Hall, Friday
evening, June 6. Music furnished
for dancing and refreshments of
ice cream and cake served.
Gilbert Williams has moved to
South Ryegate.
Mrs. Ellen Scales is caring for
Mrs. Novilla Pierce. Mrs. Pierce
is more comfortable. Miss Bernice
Pierce of st. Johnsbury spent the
weekend with her mother
Walter M. May of Lisbon, N. H.,
Mrs. Maude A. May Viola May of
st. Johnsbury, Mr.. and Mrs. Z. l.
Williams, Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Will
liams, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Brown
of Waterford, Mr.. and Mrs. J. ID. |
Frye, Miss May McCutcheon, Hub |
bard Hastings, Miss Clarissa White !
Of st. Johnsbury and Mr.. and Mrs. |
w. G. Lewis Of Littleton, N. H., |
were in town Decoration day.
Mrs. f. e. Mcdonald of East |
Burke was a guest of her parents, |
Mr.. and Mrs. o. B. Cutting the last
Of the week, returning to her home /
with Mr.. Mcdonald, who |
came Saturday.
Mrs. G. M. Wallace of East Rye I
gate was a guest of her daughter, |
Mrs. G. r. Cutting from Thursday /
to Saturday.
Mrs. r. J. Bennett visited in st.
Johnsbury last Tuesday.
c. E. Dudley from Woburn,
Mass, was in town part of last
week.
Charles Hastings of ST. Johnsbury
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-04
67s4 Per Cent. Digested

Miss GenevieVe Sergeant spent
Saturday with st. Johnsbury
friends.
L. V. Hastings and son, Frank,
of St. Johnsbury were in town Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles West, Paul
West and Mr.. Frost of st. Johns
bury were at f. r. Joslyn's Sunday.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-04

The Is cert piece was made
famous by the American Liver
Tablets, the perfect laxative.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-04

cupied by her stepson. Harley Hofr-
man.
s. G.. Cree Is having his Buildings
painted white. Charles Dana is
doing the work.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-04

Every woman can find pleasure
in reading Arts and Decoration.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-04
Maine Central
Railroad.
SERVICE IN
EFFECT

Through the White Mountains
TO Lancaster, Colebrook. North Goa
way, Boston, Portland, Lewiston. Ban
gor. Bar Harbor and &C. john
xyxNy~s em v0xxnrcrrrpw
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-04

Train arrives at st. Johnsbury from Boa
ton, Portland, Lewiston, Augusta, North
Conway and White Mountain resorts ais
p. m,
Stops signal or on notice to Conduc-
tor.
z. %. WALDRON.
General Passenger Agent
MORRIS MCDONALD,
Vice President Ok General &@m@@@&
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-05-27
Froarsssivc.

"Pleasc. mum. sai,l tramp,
would you bc :" kind us to let me
have a needle and thread IL:
"Well, YES, said the housewife
at the door: II can let you have
that" ..s
"Thankec mum Now. you'd
oblige me very much il you'd let me
have a bit Of cloth for IL patch.
Eyes, here l. SOME.
q "Thankee very much. mum. It's
little different color from nv suit.
1 see. Perhaps. mum. YOU could
spare me some Of your husbands
old clothes that this patch will
match"
"Well, declare! You're clever,
my man. and III give You an old
suit. Here is one.
"Thankcc greatly mum. see
it's a little large, mum, but if you'll
kindly furnish me with square
meal mebby ] can fill it out
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-05-27
PRAYING FOR PREY.
The mantis Seems to Be Doing That
4, While Awaiting Victims.

g.. e. "nHe AWattln9 victims.
Most persons know the praying
mantis-that large, greenish, grass
hopper-iike insect which holds up
adoring arms as if generating some
deity of the woods or making an in
Socation-an oracle among insects,
as the old Greeks thought it. But
these attitudes of prayer conceal
the most atrocious habits. These
supplicating arms, to fall into
Fabre's picturesque phrasing, are
lethal weapons. These fingers tell
no rosaries, but exist to seize the
passerby. Although a member of a
vegetarian family, the mantis feeds
exclusively on its living prey. 1t is
a tiger in ambush, and if only it
had sufficient strength its ogreish
appetite and its horrible facility
of concealment by color and form
among the green leaves where
peaceful insects travel would make
it the terror of the countryside.
At first glance it does not look
very terrible. It's neck is flexible,
and it can turn it's head and look
with sharp eyes in all directions,
but no formidable jaws alright a
victim. In its powerful uplifted
fore limbs lies the hidden danger,
the cruel trap. Each long thigh,
shaped like flattened spindle, car
ries on the forward half of its lower
face double row of steely spines,
alternately long and short, and
three needlelike spikes, longest of
all, rise behind the parallel rows,
between which the fore leg lies
when folded in prayer" This
fore part of the leg is similarly arm
ed, but with smaller spikes, and
terminates in hook with blade
like a pruning knife and a tip as
sharp as II needle. Handle the in
sect incautiously and this armament
discovers itself to you instantly,
thrusting its needles and blades
into your flesh, gripping you in a
singing wise and forcing YOU to
crush it to get free.
When the mantis is in Tepose
these weapons are folded and press
ed against the chest, showing moth
ing Of their ferocity. The bandits
sword is sheathed, and it seems at
its devotions. But let a victim
come within reach and the ruse-
if rusc it bc-is abandoned like a
| flash. The three long joints of the
deadly fore limbs straighten and
shoot out their talons, which strike
the victim like the unsheathed claws
of a cat and drag it back between
the saws of the thighs. The wise
closes with an upward motion, as d
man would bring his hand up to
his shoulder, and no cricket, grass
! hopper, beetle or spider can strug.
/ gle out of the crook of that terrible
elbow.-fIarper's Weekly.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-05-27
shut. OF the Black Looks.

"What a magnificent bouquet OF
flowers! For your wife, ! pre-
sumo"
eyes, am little on the outs in
that quarter just now, and"-
"And this is to square yourself ?"
mo, not exactly. These flowers
are for the center of our dining
table. Always get 'em when the
wife and ! have a little tiff. Big
bouquet in the center of the table
gives US each something pleasant to
look at while we eat. She can't see
me and I can't see her Get me?"
Brooklyn Times.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-05-27
A Pointer On n Pointer.

Farmer-If you want to get to
the village you must go this way.
Tourist-But the guidepost points
in the other direction.
Farmer-That is right. We have
pointed the finger in the wrong d.
rectiOn to keep beggars and robbers
from entering the village.-London
Answers.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-05-27
Rivers Frozen Solid.

During several months of each year
some OF the great rivers OF Siberia are
frozen solid to the bottom. but the Hsh.
,es imprisoned In the ice maintain their
vitality and resume their active life
when the ice melts In the spring.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-05-27
The Postscript.

Crawford-ls the postscript always
the important part OF woman's let
ter? Crabshaw-it Is when It's from
your wife. Tbasa where shos alwayss
mentions bow much money she Nants
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-05-27
Swedish Barber Shops,

In Sweden barber shops are us uu.
merous as in the United States, and
their owners take pride in keeping them
neat and clean. but they are not as Law
ishly furnished as are most American
shops.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-05-27
DAILY THOUGHT,

SERENE. 1 fold my hands and wait
~ Nor care for wind or tide or sea.
I rave no more 'gainst time or fate.
For. 10. my own shall come to me!
John BurroughR-
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-05-27

Never despair. but If you do work on
In despair.-Edmund Burke.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-05-27

A man may outwit another but not
all the others.-La Rochefoucald.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1913-05-27
Bad Roads.

Some discuss bad roads, while others
simply cuss them. - Charleston News
and Courier
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-30

The crocus is nowadays held to justi-
~ its existence by its beauty, but in
bygone centuries it was cultivated
with an eye to profit. its saffron being
In high demand both as an aromatic
and as a fiavoring for cakes and pies.
A distillaton Of crocus blossoms also
was held to be good for Strengthening
the lungs and heart and as n proven
tive OF plague. Evidence of the flow
ers commercial value survives in the
name of the chief center of its cultiva-
ton. Saffron Walden. but saffron now
adays Is appreciated only by the spar
rows. which wreck the crocuses TO OBJ
tain it--London Chronicle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-30
POTTS FINALLY WINS
INSURANCE OFFICE
Appointment of Springfield Man
as Successor to Potter
Is Announced.

Springfield, H., July 30.-Rufus NJ.
Potts OF Springfield was appointed by
Governor Dunno yesterEIy afternoon
as state superintendent of insurance.
The appointment had been expected
Monday when the governor handed out
more than so plums, but there was a
hitch which caused a delay in the an
nouncement of Mr.. Potts selection.
No successful candidate for state Of
fee had a more difficult time landing
u place than the new insurance com
missioner. His friends were given rea
son to believe soon after Governor
Dunne's election that he would be ap
pointed, but suchra stiff fight was made
upon him by opposing candidates that
az several times he had been consid
cred out OF the running. A final pro
test lodged against him Monday is be
lieved to have caused the days delay
In his appointment.
Mr. Potts has been a practicing at
torney for 20 years and was at one
time a municipal Judge During the
last few years he has been identified
with various branches OF the insurance
business.
MIR. Potts succeeds Fred w. Potter
who. IL is understood, will become head
Of an insurance company. The new
appointee will take Office about Aug IL
Governor Dunno will make further
appointments within a week.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-30
GERMAN "KURS."
They Are Not "Cures," Though Some
times Translated as Such.


Many newspapers are hasty in an
nouncing the discovery in Germany of
some method of treatment more or less
new, and not infrequently information
is given the public through the failure
to keep in mind the actual meaning of
one little word. The German word
"kur" does not mean "cure." although
it is not an uncommon thing to find 1t
so translated into English
ITO cure" in English means ito re-
store to health, to effect a cure" but in
other languages 1t means merely to
apply "a method of remedial treatment
of disease. medical or hygienic care,
method Of medical treatment" The
German VOID for restoration to
health" is "heilung," not "kur."
The Latin word "cura" means mere.
ly 'care," shade of meaning which is
preserved in the derived term ''cura
tor" An Italian physician was recent
~ made to say, when his article was
translated into English, 81 cured ten
typhoid patients last month, and six
of them died" What he really said
was that he had treated ten patients
From the Journal of the American
Medical Association.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-30

of Lady Elizabeth Spencer Stanhope."
The following passages are taken
from letter written in 1912:
Lady Elizabeth gave very success
full ball, where. for the first time in
London. the polka was danced in pub
lie and people stood upon the chairs
and rout seats to watch it Mr..
Theodore Hook declared that the OBJ
noxious dance was calculated to lead
to the most licentious consequences.
80 Subsequently the Sporting Maya
zine denounced the dance which,
to the disgrace OF sense and taste
has obtruded itself into the whole cir
Gle Of the fashionable world. . a
will corrupting dance. COM
pound Of immodest gesture and in.
fectious poison.
On the other hand, / must also quote
from the same work the admonition
OF an Irish lady Of that period at a
ball TO her daughter. who was not dis.
playing enough spirit in her dancing:
Jump. Judy. jump! The guardsmen
are looking on
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-30
DO YOU LOVE YOUR WORK
II You Do Not, Then You Are Simply
Wasting Your Efforts.

wasting your Efforts.
II your work is a burden, If it is
drudgery to you, you have not found
your place in life. If you are in the
right place you will feel every faculty
and function in you Juggling away at
your purpose with delight. Everything
within you will give its consent, its ap-
proval to your choice.
The mental attitude which we hold
toward our work or our aim has every
thing to do with what we accomplish.
II you go TO your work like a slave
dashed to his task and see in 1t only
drudgery; II you work without hope,
see no future in what you are doing be-
yond getting n bare living; IL you see
no light ahead, nothing but poverty,
deprivation and hard work all your
life; II you think that you are destined
to such a hard life, you cannot expect
to get anything else than that for
which you look.
Every one should go to bis work with
the same eager spirit as the great mas
ter approaches his canvas - with his
! soul. led by great longing and heart
hunger, an all absorbing eagerness &c
transpose TO the canvas the mighty pic
ture which is consuming his soul
II you approach your work as though
IL were a burden which you would glad
ly get rid OF If you could and do Il
merely from a sense of duty you will
continue to be a nobody in the world
That sort of spirit never lifts a maj
out Of mediocrity.-orison SWEET Mar
| den in Nautilus Magazine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-30
tanned THE OLD SOLDIER.
He Was Not "a Bessar," but Carmen
sylvia Became One.

One day. walking In a hospital ward,
the queen OF Roumania came upon an
old soldier suffering from a compound
fracture of the leg and threatened
with gangrene. He would not give
consent 10 the surgeons to amputaAe.
He feared that should he do so he
would be classed among the beggars.
Il am not beggar," said the stout
old soldier proudly. "Tn lose nv life
but not my honor"
IT'S true" said Carmen sylvia. you
are not q beggar. but l am" She
threw herself on her knees at the bed
side. II have never prayed but to God, $
and. taking his hand, she added: But
now suppllcate you to listen TO his
wish and mine. Let your leg be taken
OF and spare your life to your family
your country and to me. and
And. IL consent. what them
What then" she exclaimed joyful
~. Why. shall give you the most
beautiful artificial leg that can bt
made in Europe. and when the war Il
over you shall come and dance at the
palace with your sons"
II consent" he said softly. but yoJ
must hold my hand during the opera
toni. P.'s London Weekly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-30
FIRST W0MEN'S JURY
SHOWS SCAN,T MERCY
Innovation Sought by Defense
in East st. Louis Case
Finds for State.

East st. Louis, Ill, July 3O.-The
'first women's jury impaneled in ILL.,
nois since the recent enfranchisment
Of the sex, found Mrs. Blanche Thomas
guilty of disturbing the peace and as
sessed a fine of SIS and costs. Mrs.
Thomas made request for women's
jury. Five of the jury were stenog-
raphers, four being under the legal
age and the sixth member was mar
ried. They were taken away from ice
cream counters. typewriters and mir
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-30
CHICAGO MURDER
SUSPECT HELD BY
THE POLICE HERE
Paul Clements, Accused of Kill
ing Boy in Park, Is Re-
arrested.
HAD JUST GOTTEN HOME
Declares That He Was a Prisoner In
This City at the Time Crime
Was Committed.

Chicago. July 3O.-Paul Clements,
aged IS, was arrested today at his
home in connection with the police
investigation OF the mysterious muir
der OF Benjamin Holstein, aged IA,
whose body was found in Morgan
park.
Clements said he had just arrived
home from Rock Island, few minutes
before he was arrested A search was
made for Clemens yesterday. when
detectives were told he had disap-
peared about the time the Holstein
boy vanished from home. July 81
REPORTED UNDER ARREST.
II was reported Clements was under
arrest in Rock Island where he had
been locked up 10 days therefore he
could have no knowledge of the Hol-
stein murder.
Clements story corroborated this
report. Clements says he left Nor.
gan Park July 10. and went TO Rock
Island. He was arrested July Is and
released July 2s.
His Story Is Deln8 investigated.
WAS PRISONER HERE.
Paul Clements, the 1S-year-old Nor.
gan Park boy. who is held by the Chi.
cago police for completely in the muir
der Of Benjamin Holstein, aged IA, was
under arrest in Rock Island and serv
ed a Today term. The body Of the
slain boy was found in a lonely spot
in Morgan Park last Monday, bound
gagged, and with a bullet hole in the
head.
Clements was arrested in Silvis July
IS for Tipping trains. When appre
hended. he seemed TO have fear Of
arrest and put up terrific battle with
the Silvis officers. He was brought
down to the county Jail to serve a 10
day sentence, and was liberated Mon
day. While here he stated that his
home was in Morgan Park, and he II
said TO have written TO friends at tina
place, telling of his incarceration.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-30
FACE TO FACE WITH A LION.
II Took All This Woman's Nerve to
Pass the Ordeal In Safety.

Few women can be SO familiar with
the king of the wilderness as Mrs.
Fred Maturin Edith Cecil Porch.
whose Adventures Beyond the Fam
besr' contain many thrilling lion tales.
One evening she met a lion in a for
est of impenetrable brass. She was
quite alone-her gun bearer, Lang Wan.
having disappeared-two miles from
camp.
Through the long. dry grass large
male lion stood gazing at me. .
i stood as st.ll as he. All my blood ap-
peared to rush to my head / could
not have stirred had l wished to. |
stood still. don't think / even
breathed or that my heart gave one
faint beat for some seconds.
must stand quite. quite still. and stare
back. 1t was perhaps my only
/ chance"
In all her terror she was conscious
of the animals great beauty. She
watched him draw a step or two back
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-30
The Nervous Laush-A Theatrical Tes.

The Nervous laush-A Theatrical Test
In ''The Spirit of Paris" MFR. Frank
fort Summerville has an interesting
chapter on the theater in Paris, includ-
ing that curiosity of Paris. the Grand
Guignol-a theater that was originally
a church-and the "creepiness" of its
art. The little. highly dramatic
Grand Guignol plays ARE chosen for
their power of acting upon the nerves.
and the acting usually being superb,
they never fail in their effect. A per
ceptible wave of nervousness com
municates itself through the audiences
some people begin to CYCLE in a per.
turbed manner, there is tense silence
broken by scream or two or an ex
clamatlon. and then an 'Oufr of re-
lief" when | hear one or two Der
vOus laughs NJ Brizard. one Of the
cleverest of the Grand Guignol actors
told me. 81 know have succeeded.
work up my effects to get that nervous
laughter"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-30
Panama Canal.

It is more than probable that the
building of the Panama canal would
never have been possible but for the
discovery by DR.. Jesse Lazear OF the
United States army, who. by the way.
sacrificed his life while making the ex-
periments leading to the discovery,
that yellow fever was transmitted by
the bite of the deadly stegomia mos
quito. But for that wonderful and
timely discovery the mortality and at
tendant misery of the fever would
have been a handicap too great to have
been borne.-New York American.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-30
QUAKE AT MOUNT RAINIER
Two Heavy Shocks Are Felt in State
of Washington.

earthquake shocks covering an area
of more than 100 square miles shook
Mount Rainier yesterday, rocked the
gate houses of the immense concrete
structure of Tacoma's power plant at
La Grande, thirty miles south of Ia
coma, ana created alarm in hundreds
of homes. The disturbance, lasting
about half minute, was most strongly
felt at the National Park Inn, at San
ford and La Grange. No damage was
reported.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-30
WATCHING TEMPER
OF WOMEN VOTERS
Wet and Dry Forces Note Eff
feet of Suffrage Law in
Other Issues.
ELECTIONS IN TWO CITIES
Dixon Extends Franchise and Cham
paign Authorizes Issue of
Bonds.

Dixon, Ill, July 3O.-The women of
Dixon exercised their right to vote
here yesterday for the first time, when
the 20-year extension of the Dixon
waterworks franchise was submitted
to the voters of the city.
The women voters showed their in
terest in the proposition by casting
one-fourth of the total vote. Two wo-
men waited for an hour for the polls
to open and cast the first vote in their
respective precincts. Vera Jacobus
and Anna Marie Van Bibber were the
first voters and they were in the booths
only a moment.
Dixon being under the commission
form of government when the fran,
chise of the water company expired, Is
months ago, a new one was prepared
by the company and the mayor and
submitted to a vote. The proposition
carried by 1913 majority, largely by the
votes of the women. The result was
closely watched by the wet and dry
interests to get ideas on the local op
ton election next spring.
wOMEN's VOTE DECIDES ISSUE.
Champaign, ILL.,, July 3O.-Cham
paign women in their first municipal
election held here yesterday voted al
most unanimously to bond the city fol
$4,000 for the purchase of two auto
mobile fire trucks and modern fire
| fighting appliances. One hundred TWEEN
| ty women exercised their franchise.
The proposition was carried by thC
vote Of 514 to All. Chief John Ely o
the fire department stated that tn,
bond issue would not have carried haC
it not been for the votes of the wo
men. The women who voted for the
first time were mostly Office girls ant
/ department store clerks.
The passage of the proposition
means that Chamaign will have one o
the most modern equipped fire depart
ments in central Illinois.