Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-03-19

| through the Morning OF nell
Lives and the Throes of Young
Love. We Come Now to the After
noons-At Present the Early After
noons-and the Henderson Cir
Comes Back from Her Wedding
Trip.
For the proper and orderly denoue-
ment of the events which have gone
before, it has been necessary to refer
now and then to the old files of our
newspaper from the time we founded
the Telegraph" up to '83. But APP
preaching now the events in the
years 1883 to 1897, it is necessary to
take the battered old volumes down
from the safe completely, spread
them freely over tables, chairs and
reporters desks, and watch the front
pages and follow the local columns
day by day. For from the ready-rc-
ference of those files we have refresh
encd in our memories many Incl
dents that throw sidelights on the
people of our story, help to straighten
our chronology and bind in neatly to
form a symmetrical, clean-cut whole,
many of the tiny frayed ends and IA
velings of our narrative.
For instance, here comes first a
half-column account of the Purse
Wood nuptials. 1t says that they
were "quietly married" at the Metho-
dist parsonage on the preceding even
ing on account of "the recent death
of the brides mother" There is a
brief sketch of each persons life in
which the phrases accepted posi-
ton" when the meaning is that they
"got job,' and Gin order to advance
their prospects" when the inference is
that it was the only thing left for
them to do under the circumstances,
occur frequently in the text. Thus do
these calloused, heartless, obstreper-
Gus country newspapermen prostitute
their talents ignominiously to soften
the tragedies Of day-to-day living for
plain people and help them to put the
best face upon shame and necessity
and misfortune in the eyes of the
Witness how the account reads on:
That owing to recent untoward
events bride and groom will post
pone their honeymoon until later
date" but that in honor of the nup-
tials a pretty wedding supper was
served at the home of the young cou-
Piles employer attended by "few
intimate friends" And the menu is
given-in all of which may be detect
ed the hand of Mrs. Hold and the
heart of her husband.
The village might not care for
these things,-what indeed did it mat
ter to those of the Photographs"
three thousand readers in the out
skirts and the distant places that one
of the papers compositors had mar
ried the makeup man? Little in
deed. But someday that clipping
like thousands of other such clippings
the nation over-would be discovered
in scrap-book dusty and faded and
with age. As the
years passed, to a human heart some
where the value of that stiff-leafed
book would increase until all other
earthly possessions were be outdone.
Toilworn hands would turn its pages.
Lack-lustre eyes would grow moist
as again and again they read the
familiar lines. Someday would come
a funeral and the cleaning out of eff
fects afterward. The book would be
found, scoffed at. tossed into bar
rel of rubbish. But what of that?
Our mission as publishers of coun-
try paper will have been accomplish
ed. Because this is after the nature !,
of our business a great satisfaction
is our portion. We have at least
done what we could to comfort our
fellowmen along the way and share
with them the Gethsemanaes that
every life must know. And that is
little enough.
Turn over two issues and here on
the fifth page, third column, fourth
item down is something else:
Mr.. and Mrs. John Purse who
were recently married at the Me-
thodist parsonage, have furnish
ed home in the house owned
by William Stevens on Pleasant
Street and will be at home to
their many friends after Novem-
Der LIST.
What did it matter that the "fur-
nishing of home was r'erelv. IT,
fitting up of three rooms in one of
Bill Stevens's upper tenements next
to the wood yard on Pleasant Street,
that the furnishings" were mostly
indescribably sacred little odds and
ends which the girl had saved from
the auction or bid in with her slender
purse or that Jack had bought on
from Blake Whipple's
Household Emporium & Furniture
Bazaar. Also Undertaking." The
hands of woman with song in her
heart, have been accomplishing mir
acles making human habitatipn out
Of nothing since the days when the