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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-25
High schools and Academies

Figures taken from annual school
report recently distributed, give
some interesting information re-
garding the high schools and acad-
emies in Vermont. For the school
year Of 1911-12 we find there were
seventy-one high schools in the
state with an attendance of 5,496,
or an average of seventy-seven plus
per school. There were eighteen
academies with an attendance of
2,O66, or an average of ia plus
per academy. 1t viii be seen that
seventy-three per cent of the stu
dents taking advanced or secondary
instruction in Vermont attend pub
lie high schools and twenty
seven per cent academies under
private management. There were
graduated from the high
schools that year 500 pupils
and from the academies 236.
Eighteen of the high schools and
one of the academies had no
graduates that year and forty-one of
the high schools and eight of the
academies had less than ten gradu-
ates each. Put into percentages. fifty
seven per cent of the high schools
and forty-four per cent of the aead-
emies had less than ten gradu-
ates each.
A small high school or academy is
as undesirable as a small school in
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-25
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE
ESTATE OF DANIEL SMITH.

The undersigned, having been appointed
by the Honorable Probate Court for the Dis
trict of Caledonia. Commissioners to receive,
examine and adjust the claims and demandi
of all persons against the estate of Daniel
Smith, late of st. Johnsbury, in said District.
deceased, and all claims exhibited In Offset
thereto, hereby give notice that we will meet
late Daniel Smith. 10 Lincoln St, in the viii
1age of ST. Johnsbury. in said District, on the
9Th day of July and 9th day of December
next, from 10 O'Clock a. m. until O'Clock
p. m, on each of said days and that six
months from the 10th day of June, A. ID.
1913 is the time limited by said Court for
said creditors to present their claims to us
for examination and allowance.
Dated at St. John8bury, this 14th day OF
June, A. d. 1913.
CHARLES ROSS,
LUMAN A. LADD,
Commissioners.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-25

1t can hardly be said the outlook
for the farmer this season is bright
In a trip to Montpelier and return
last week, the writer could not see
one field of heavy grass or any
that promised a very heavy crop
next month. With light hay crop
most farmers will find it difficult to
make good showing on the right
side of the ledger.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-25

anniversary of their marriage. There
was a large attendance and very
pleasant time is reported.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank George of
Lynn, Mass, are visiting relatives
here and in Wells River.
Miss Ellen Bone is in Gardner,
Mass, caring for her new nephew,
the baby son of DR.. and Mrs. H. ID.
Bone.
Mrs. N. NJ. McAllister is quite i'll.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-25

We are reading with much inter
est the personal account of a trip
into the Everglades of Florida writ
ten by Editor Hildreth of the Ex-
press and Standard. The ability
of his guide to lie may explain how
the southern promoters nave sue
ceeded in disposing of such worth
less land as Mr.. Hildreth described
in his last issue.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-25

spent last week with Miss Hattie
GOSS.
Mrs. Emily Colby returned home
Saturday.
Mrs. Bert Wells spent last Thurs
day and Friday at Lyndonville.
Charles Swasey is spending the
week with his parents. He broke his
arm last week.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-25
Museum Notes

The Museum flower table has this
week an unusually interesting speci-
men in a banana bud, showing the
flowers and the young fruit forming.
B. F. Rice of st. Petersburg, Florida,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-25

sent this specimen, together with
leaves Of the rubber and camphor
trees, a small branch of bamboo and
some Spanish moss.
The flower record for the past
week is as follows:-Charlock iris,
blue veteh, June 10; horse-radish,
Carolina cranesbill, forget-me-not,
dockmackie, June 20; snowy lady's
slipper, Indian cucumber-root and
black snakeroot, June %.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-25

Entered at the st. Johnsbury post
office as second class mail matter.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-25

The % cent piece was made
famous by the American Liver
Tablets, the perfect laxative.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-25

Ask your neighbor to cooperate
with you and save SO 1870 on your
Caledonian.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-25

Local notices. wants, for sale, etc,
2 cents per word first insertion. Legal
notices 10 cents q line, three inser-
tions. Probate notices $500 each for
three insertions. Dissolution, liberia
ton and similar notices $3.50 each for
three insertions. Card of thanks, 75
cents. Obituary poetry. 10 cents a line.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-25

BOatOn-Eagle News Co., 597 Wash
ington and rs Summer Streets.
LyndOnviIle-Campbe & Blodgett.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-06-25

Through the White Mountains
To Lancaster, Colebrook, North CCm-
way, Boston, Portland. Lewiston. Bam-
gor. Bar Harbor and st. John.
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This paper is entitled to a place on
the Printers Ink Roll of Honor.
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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-15
SEES BLACK PERIL IN AFRICA
Some Time Meet in Struggle for
Supremacy

To my mind the great question OF
the future OF southern Africa is not,
as SO many suppose, that OF the politi-
cal dominance OF Englishman or Boer,
but OF the inevitable though, let US
hope far-of struggle for practical SUI
pTemacy between the white blood and
the black
We may wonder what are the
thoughts that pass through the mind
of some ancient warrior of Chaka's or
Dingaan's time, as he suns himself
crouched on the ground, for example,
where once stood the royal kraal, Du-
guza, and watches men and women or
the Zulu blood passing homeward from
the cities or the mines, bemused, some
of them, with the white mans SNUG.
gled liquor, grotesque in the white
mans CASTOR garments, hiding, per
haps. in their blankets, examples OF
the white mans doubtful photographs
and then shuts his sunken eyes and
remembers the plumed and killed regi
ments making the same ground shake
as, with a thunder of salute, line upon
line, company upon company, they
rushed out to battle.-Sir H. Ridel
Haggard in the London Times.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-15
BILL TERRISS AND IRVING
Former SmeIied the Great Actors
Beefsteak and Was Quick to
Accept the Invitation.

Of his old days at the Lyceum thea
ter in London with the late Sir Henry
Irving, Forbes-Robertson tells many
interesting anecdotes. Among others
is one of William Terriss, physically
the handsomest actor of his day:
Irving was very fond of Bill Terriss,
and was nightly amused by the un-
conscious impertinence with which
Terriss treated him. Irving had grill
room (called the Beefsteak club just
off the stage, near his own dressing
room. One night Terriss smelled the
savory odor of appetizing cooking.
Fine smell, that, guv-nor!' he said to
Irving during wait in the wings. Yes,
very good agreed Irving, and added:
You must come along some time and
have supper with me, my boy!' Moth.
ing would please me better, guv-nor,
said Terriss, to which Irving replied:
Well, when would you like to come?
Tonight responded Terriss promptly
Irving was delighted with the business
like acceptance of his invitation"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-15
Wiles of the Waiter.
know | am looking like a

hAO" dIIi ioohih5 l1hO q AliSAI
tonight" the woman said.
The man studied her dress, her
hair and her complexion closely.
Il don't see anything the matter with
you," he said. $50 far as / can see,
you are looking as we'll as usual"
But am not" she insisted. There
is something wrong, and that head
waiter saw at a glance what it was.
If l had been up to the mark he
wouldn't have put us away over here
in this out-of-the-way corner. He
would have given us table right IN
der the chandelier in the middle of
the room.
"All the best-dressed people are al.
ways seated in the most conspicuous
places, SO as to make the restaurant
look more attractive. l am glad to say
that that is where l usually sit. The
plain people are ranged along 1.-THE
sides of the room, just as we are to-
night.
THAT is why. l know l am not look
ing well."-New York Times.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-15
An Expert in Handwriting,

Mother was fair, but she wished to
be fairer still. Adorned by nature, she
sought further Identification. Lowell
ness was her great goal.
Invited out to dinner, she stood be.
fore the mirror, and, having made her
yellow locks a trifle yellower, she pro.
ceeded to apply the pencil to her eye.
brows. This, it may be remarked, is
an age of artificiality, and mother had
reached this age.
The little daughter stood by and
wondered.
Finally she said:
Mother, what are you writing on
your face for?"-The Popular Maya
zine.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-15

Careful Estimates Made on All Con
tract Work Gives more and tettoI
work for the money than any othe'
contractor in the city.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-15
Sample of Animal Instinct.

When | was a barefoot lad said
Mr.. Dustin Stax, Il had to spend a
good deal of time minding the stock
on fathers farm. I'll never forget the
day when father told me to take a
rope and hold couple of bull calves
What did they do?''
They scorched my hands with the
rope and turned around and stepped
on me-
''Unruly dispositions?
mo. Wonderful instinct. They rec
ognized me at a glance as a small
stakeholder, and they knew what is
generally done to small stockholders
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-15

Dover, \. H.-Mrs. Helen S. Abbott.
seventy, and Velasco Richmond. forty
two, who eloped from East Rochester.
near here, were arrested upon their
arrival here. Mrs Abbott's children
said that their mother is of feeble
mind and was enticed away. The elop-
ers returned to their respective homes
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-15
Horses Chivalrous to Mares.

Horses also exhibit chivalry to
quite an extent. 1t is very seldom
that a horse will attack a mare, but
the mare has no scruples about at.
lacking any horse viciously. provided
that she is able. Often vicious male
horses that cannot be MADE to work
together in harness can be safely
hitched up with a man and will cause
no trouble.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-15
PostIude and Prelude,

The musician flung his arms aloft.
"At last he cried, Il have fame with
in my grasp
How 500" asked his wife, who had
heard the same thing before.
You know Mendelssohn' Wedding
March, and the marvellous repute it
brought him." said the musician.
Yes. but what of it,"
We'll. I'm going to write a divorce
MACH
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-15

For the convenience of patrons this store will be
open evenings from until after the holidays
Come after supper if convenient to during
the day.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-15
Mattresses as Life Preservers.

Paris.-A large Paris firm is busy
filling an order for thousands of mat
tresses which are pronounced as IN.
sinkable- Every passenger in a ship
furnished with these mattresses will
have an ideal life nreserver right il
them.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-15
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS

OcaIa Lodge No. 10. Convention:
heId every Monday at 1880 p. n. al
Castle Hall, over the James Carlisle
drugstore \ cordial welcome TO Wis
ting brothers. D. ". Tompkins. c. c
Chas. K. Sage, K. r. S. AID
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-12-15
PERFUMES AND TOILET WATERS

in Fancy Xmas Packages, and a
large line to select from, at the
Court Pharmacy. 12-9
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-02
Star Distance.

Miles are useless in measuring as
Economical distances They have to
use the rate of light-1S4,000 miles a
second-in covering the mighty spaces
with which they are forced to deal
Even then we cannot half understand,
let Us say. the immense distance of
Gamma. in the constellation Virgo,
Many. many years must light travel
in order to reach our little world from
these two suns. They might even have
been extingnished hundreds of years
ago. and yet we should still see
them. 50 vast are their distances. In
the year 1877 new star suddenly
shone forth in the Swan" but many
did not know that the star really came
into existence hundreds of years be
fore. but its light did not reach the
earth until it was seen by the observer
in 1S77-New York American.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-02
CATCHING A HYENA.
Cunning Trap That Made the Savage
Brute Helpless.

Traps for wild animals are not neces-
sariy of steel The author of The
Journal OF Sporting Nomad" de
scribes hyena trap that Is simple and
effective:
CLOSE to the station at this place
found novel form of hyena trap-a
round piece of dried OK hide as hard as
u board. three feet or so in diameter in
which very small hole no larger than
an apple. had been cut Radiating from
this hole were cut a series OF V-shaped
pieces. The trap was set as follows: A
hole WAS dug in the ground about one
foot deep and six inches in diameter
Into this hole piece of meat was
placed. Then the OK hide plate was laid
over The place containing the meat. the
two holes being one over the other
The OK hide was then pegged down
with wooden pegs in three or four
places.
THE hyena. on finding the bait. fore
ed his head through the small hole In
the OK hide to obtain it. the cuts in the
hide giving way sufficiently for that
purpose. The beast seized the meat. but
on trying TO withdraw his head had to
use considerable force. which ~ turally
drew the pegs that held the OK hide to
the ground the result being that the
poor brute had collar securely fas-
tened around his neck which he was
quite unable to get rid of.
He could not run or walk. and even
had he been able to go any distance en-
numbered hy such an obstacle would
have been brought up short in the first
patch of bush or grass he encountered
He was now at the mercy Of the indi
vidual who had set the trap. and could
be put out Of the way quite easily"
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-02
JIMMY'S DIAGNOSIS.

Ny pa says. step lively, son.
An do as you are bid"
My sister. too. tn biggest one.
Calls out. Il want you. kid!''
Ma wants some kindlin' from below
Or somethin' else like that.
An grandpa's goin' out. an so
I've got to hunt his hat
II I start out to go an play
1t doesn't matter when
Somebody fore | git away
Will call me back again.
An when they git me back about
TIL only thing they do
Is look at me an boiler out,
I've got a job fer you!'
It makes no diff runce how l try,
Them jobs is never done,
Cause fore l git one finished, why.
They find another one.
An if / leave some doggone task
An go to play instid
They all say they're surprised an ask,
Whatever ails tn Kid p"
You bet know what ails ME too.
l amt no reg,ar Ounce!
They always want tat | should do
Too many jobs TO once.
But ! don't see why they should call
Me '1azybones. Well. yes.
TIL thing that ails me most Of all
Is too much folks, | guess.
New York Globe.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-02
The Descent of Man.

Some real estate dealers in British
Columbia were accused of having vic
timized English and Scotch settlers by
selling to them tat long ranger fruit
ranches on the tops of mountains. 1t
is said that the captain of a steam
boat on kootenay lake once heard a
great splash in the water. Looking over
the rail. be spied the head of man
who was swimming toward his boat
He hailed him.
do you know said the swimmer
this is the third time today that I've
fallen off that bally old ranch OF
miner" -Everybody's Magazine.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-02
ENDED THE COMEDY.
A TeIeeraphic Dialogue That Closed
With the "Wires" Down.

win the wires DOWN.
Two telegraph operators were seated
in a downtown cafe recently when an
athletic young man and an exceeding
~ pretty girl entered. They were plac-
ed at table opposite the key men.
who were sitting side by side In
position facing the girl. As is the
custom of the craft when wishing to
discuss some one In public place.
they telegraphed TO each other. using
their knives on the plate.
"Peacherino. isn't she?" one licked
to the other.
reply wonder who the sack Is with
herr?
Search me-looks like a boob tied
up with a wren like her"
BET they aren't married. II they
are. all she needs to do to get divorce
is to exhibit that map Of his in court"
While the two men were enjoying
a laugh over their silent joking they
were surprised and somewhat alarmed
to hear some more table knife teleg-
raphy." The ''peacherino" was doing
it. and she did not look at all pleased
either.
"You two had better look out while
you are all together" carelessly licked
her knife blade while she listened to
something her companion was saying
''This sack and boob. as you called
him, with the divorce map, is my hus
band-safe mover by trade. He eats
fresh little boys"
Something happened to the wires
about that time. and all communica
ton ceased. City Journal.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-02
Why Wife Waited.

4 certain married man who boasts
to the boys that his wife never sits
up for him slipped out for a cigar the
other evening after supper and failed
to notice that his wife had her party
gown on. When he softly tiptoed
into the house at a. N. he was
slightly surprised TO see a dewy eyed
lady trip down the stairway, turn her
back to him and tearfully say:
There are two hooks l just couldn't
reach; won't you unfasten them so I
can go to bed?''
Fortunately he could and did.-Chi-
cago Record Herald.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-02
She sYmnathized Too Soon.

Yes. ma'am." said Harry the hobo.
q l;now ! look like a strong man, but
ont of my fifty years of life I've spent
over sixteen years in bed
Why. You poor man." replied the
svmpatheticaIly. handing him a
Ter. What has been the trouble
.;i.t >is:''
10 ma'am." said Harry. Jest a
reg az habit of sleepin' eight hours q
day, maam." -Harper's Weekly.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-02
The Only Way.

The late Wilbur Wright put safety
above all else in aeroplane construc-
ton.
Mr. Wright was once watching with
critical eye the flight OF a very swift
very cranky aeroplane when little
girl said to him:
Uncle Wilbur. can you get to heav-
en- in one of those machines?"
Not by going up" replied the great
air man. but if you have lived very
good life you may do SO by coming
dowp"-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-02
A Testimonial

Il admire that old plug of a car YOU
sold me, Dubbs." said Winkletop sar-
castically. 1T shows such admirable
self control"
what do you mean by thatT' retort
ed Dubbs. seeming trouble.
why. as you said when you induced
me to buy it, it can go seventy-fve
miles an hour. but it won't" said
Winkletop.-,Iudge.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-02
cnnsniAnce Stricken.

Major Pounds is a pugnacious old
BELOW. He told me yesterday he was
always smelling powder"
Good gracious! | wonder if he saw
me putting some on my eF'-Balti-
more American.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-02
Let Him "Ho lIer."

You never made q sound when your
father spanked you just now" said a
boy to his chum.
No was the reply. Father says it
hurts him worse than it does me, and
if that's so he can do his own holler
ipgr'-Stray Stories.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-02
The ANeraue Man.

a foreign visitor in an interview in
New York told the truth about the
average man
Your country" he said. lis made
up, like mine. of average men. The
average man." he added. us a man
who thinks himself immeasura5ly
above the average. "-Washington Star.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-02
COnNerteG.

There" said Wagley after having
assisted a too persistent tramp down
the back steps, Il think l have made
that fellow believe in metempsycho-
sis
what is metempsychosis?" asked
Mrs. Wagley.
simply the passing of one mans
sole to the body of another"-Fun
Magazine.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-02
The Viewpoint.

Golfer-Have you seen my ball, sir?
Wounded Party-Yes, sir; there it is
confound you. Nearly killed
Golfer-Jovei Bit OF luck, Ell?
thought 1t was going out of bounds
Punch.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-02

First Bunny Here comes that
grouchy old rabbit He's too quarrel
some to agree with any one.
Second Bunny Well. suppose he
must be descendant of a Welsh rab
bit. -philaGelphia Record
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-02
Answered.

Schoolteacher-Wha farm papers
does your father take? Son Of the
Village Tightwad-First mortgages
Puck
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-02

Gladys-I refused Fred two weeks
ago, and he has been drinking heavily
since. Ethel-Isn't it about time he
stopped celebrating?
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-02

Millie-'Was that your intended
with whom I saw you yesterday"
Grace-"Yes, my present future so to
cpeak."