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The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04
FATHER OF THE PARAGRAPH
George D. Prentice, oidtime journal.
ist, Once Wished to Use
Pistols, as Well.

One hundred and sixteen years ago.
on December IS. 1902, there was born
at Preston, Conn.,. George D. Prentice,
who became one of the most noted
newspaper men of his time, the father
of the editorial paragraph, as the short
terse pointed comments he made on
men and matters were called, and who
narrowly missed an editorial career in
Ohio.
Prentice toured Ohio in 1880. after
he had already made a name for HIM
self in eastern journalism. looking for
location, but passed on into Ken
lucky, where at Lexington he began
work on his Life of Henry Clay
and ultimately became editor of the
Louisville Journal. On his way through
Chic he called ON William D. Gala
CHER, who had already become we'll
known as an editor and who was then
publishing his unfortunate venture at
Xenia-"The Backwoodsman."
Gallagher was upstairs working
with the types that summer day in
1880 and a helper from below an
nounced his caller. Gallagher stopped
to make himself a little more present
able, whereupon Prentice shouted up
stairs, "Never mind inky fingers; I'm
used to them" The two men were in
hearty accord then, but it is interest
ing to note that they came to swords
points twenty years later-or rather to
pistol points.
The slavery question coming up, in
the early ifties, the two men found
themselves editors Of the two princi-
pal newspapers of Loufsville-Gal-
lagher Of the Courier and Prentice of
the Journal, taking opposite sides.
Gallagher was strong for abolition and
Prentice defended slavery. Their ref
erences to each other soon descended
to the level Of personal journalism.
Finally Prentice went to Cincinnati,
where Gallagher had written much for
the newspapers, digging up his aboli-
ton sentiments for the purpose of re-
failing them to pro-slavery Louisville
This aroused the lion in Gallagher and
he applied opprobrious terms to Prem
tice.
The next day a Colonel Churchill ar
rived at Gallagher's rural home with
a challenge to him to fight duel. At
ter reading the challenge Gallagher
tore it into bits and said to Churchill
'Tell Prentice that that is my answer
to his foolish challenger Prentice
died in Louisville, January %, 1870.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04
Stepping From Under.

"We mustn't overlook the fact that
Austria was against us in this wal"
says Senator Penrose. adding, eve are
in the habit of blaming everything on
Germany and if we don't watch out
Austria is liable to escape just penal
ties. Austria reminds me of Percy
Jones.
"Percy Jones likes to be called a
regular fellow and quite gallant" said
a mutual friend to another.
''But is he gallant?" questioned the
friend.
''Well, I'm not sure. He changed his
mules name from Maud to Bill so he
wouldn't feel ashamed when he licked
it."
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04
SuueIchinu Him.

Robert Chambers tells a good one
in which Rex Beach is the hero. Seems
that a certain acquaintance of Beach
occasionally breaks into print and
causes the novelist great annoyance by
Dragging about it.
"One day." says Chambers, "Beach
and this party met and the latter said,
Did you see my latest story in the
Wonder MagaZine?'
"'Yes,' said Beach, and friend of
mine paid it nice little compliment.
FLOWS that asked the delighted
pest.
"'He wanted to know if I wrote it,
retorted Beach"
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04
Out Of Date

This office receives every week
from the Republican National Com
mittee at Washington, a lot of free
publicity matter calculated to stimu-
late the prestige of the Republican
party in the next election and squash
the Demmicrats.
It does nothing of the sort.
In our office it goes into the waste
basket.
It is the most childish, out-of-date
lot of stuff we believe could be con-
ceived. From the first line to the last
it's a bang and whang on the pres
ent admins tration and their conduct
of the war. 1t reads as if the fellow
who gets it up was one of those
chaps whose motto is: eff something
amt wrong, faint right" It's a
whine and a rail and a wheeze at the
whole Demmicratic family and judg-
ing from his material, the United
States is the worst governed country
on earth instead of being the best.
If the Republican party's campaign
funds are going into the manufacture
of this sort of slush, it's time we i'm
proved ourselves by drawing in our
purse-strings and turning Demni-
Gratis.
"Victory no Bar to Investigate
Gross Waste" is one of the headlines
in this weeks sheet. "Bernstorff
Lauds Work and Views of Colonel
House" is another whether trying to
make Col. House out a pro-German
or not is not explained). First OF
Wilson's Points Has Been Lostw is
a third, and so on, ad infnitum. AL
of which has William Randolph
Hearst skun to fragile in the
minds of decent, fair-minded Ameri
can folks.
If the perpetrators of this sort Of
hogwash think that they're going tt
carry next years election by bang
ing and slamming and throwing muC
at the Demmicrats and their conduc
of the war, they have beautiful pc
riod of establishment coming t,
them. Having voted the Republican
ticket ourselves in the past, we here
with declare that we are ashamed o
such picyune methods for winning
campaign. The Democrats, heade
by Wilson, have done a great an
commendable work, regardless o
whether they're Demmicrats or Meth
odists or Knights of Pythias. The Re
publican party in their shoes, would
Mt have got US bit better victor!
The men in both camps are just hi
man two-legged men, anyhow, flu
of virtues and full of faults. An
the pot needn't start in calling til
kettle black. We haven't met man
Republicans yet who have been e
pecially proud of Chickamauga.
If this sort of stuff has the al
prevail of. the big majority of tt
Republican party leaders in Washing
ton and elsewhere throughout Il
country, it's a mighty good reasc
why they shouldn't be given the rel
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04

raw. quit your kiddin'.. he drawled.
The words were so pathetically wistful
that it was almost moan.
"But here it isi'' / said. Yet not
till sat down on the spot to feed him
the first mouthful did he believe me.
why, ma'am, I just thought you
were foolin'.I didn't reckon there was
any real q. S. A. ice cream short of
5000 miles from here, lessways not
for me-" And the way he srnacked
his lips over that one saucer repaid
me for coming those 5000 miles to
make it for him.-Mary Elizabeth
Evans in Letter From Paris.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04
German Deterioration,

German doctors estimate that the
average person in cities Of that coun-
try lost about one-siXth of his weight
during the war. Men lost slightly
more weight than women. Farmers
lost no weight at all.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04
BOGUS BANK NOTE

Washington, Feb. Warning is
issued by the Treasury Secret Service
that counterfeit $50 federal reserve
note on the New York Federal Re-
serve bank is in circulation. The silk
fibers in the paper are initiated by
pen marks.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04
peliohted With Ice Cream.

1t was in an American base hospital
in France that I found him, his eyes
bandaged, lying motionless on his cot,
in a quiet corner of the ward. "How-
would you like. some chocolate ice
cream?" I bent Gown tc whisper.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1919
Life's Dreary Path

We haven't made up our minds
which is tougher: to be mother
and lose hoy in France or be faith
er with several little children and lose
a wife with the "fu."
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs

Apollo Lodge, No. 2. Regular
meeting Tuesday evening, Feb. A, at
7.3O. Rank of Page to be worked on
two candidates.
H. w. Clark, c.. C.
II. E. Anderson, K. r. 6 S.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04

Howl, you gol-durned north-wind,
howl! You won't howl next August
when the band concerts are on even
ings on the Common and the peanut
and-popcorn carts are whistling nler-
rily.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04

A lot of ladies are strong for Pro-
hibition but may be they'll be the
ones to bust the good work up when
they see how it leads to their hus-
bands hanging around the house eve
nings. This Merry-thought isn't ORR
ginal.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04

Don't think that every sad-eyed
moon-face you see moping around
has loved and lost. He may have
loved and landed her.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04

Mistaking gasolene for kerosene,
Henry Eubar Of Lincoln received
serious injuries about the face and
head Monday morning. Having filled
a lantern with what he supposed was
kerosene, and using same from the
lantern for starting fire, flames leap
ed high and inflicted burns, the degree
of seriousness of which cannot at
present be determined.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04

Guiding the sinking fund.-, aer $685.
455.87 in excess of liabilities. The
cash on hand Dec 81, 1918, amounted
to $37,829.17. At the close of the
year the total assets of the city were
$1,140,984.28 and the liabilities were
S555, 528.41.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04

The most overworked phrase in the
English language is: "When the his
tory of this war comes to be
written"
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04
FURNITURE FOR SALE
HERE'S YOUR CHANCE

Glenwood Parlor Stove, pipe and
mat, in good order $50. Estey Or
gan, practically new at great sacrifice,
cost $135. Singer Sewing Machine,
SIS. Edison Photograph, cost 500,
will sell for SIS. Piano stool, ma
hogany finish, perfect condition,
$3.50. Extra good Art Spare, 7x9,
nearly new, cost $25 to duplicate to-
day, going at SIS. Oak Extension
Table So. One set (6) Heavy Din
ing Chairs So. Solid Oak Combina-
ton Book Case and Writing Desk
with Mirror, SIS. CHARTERED Oak
Sideboard $40. Couch Cover, Rugs,
Dishes, Tinware, Stoneware, Oil
Stove, ETC., at fraction Of cost.
BERT u. WELLS,
St. Johnsbury, Vermont
| Inquire of Howard Wells, IL Gale
| donia street. Tel. 617-W.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04

Sidney Young, %, a Bennington
youth, is in county Jail charged with
burglarizing the store of A. B. and c..
R. Hawkins in South SALISBURY.
Several fountain pens, four watches,
cigarettes and candy were taken and
all found in the pockets of Young
when he was arrested while in bed at
the home of Frank Becker of Ben
nington, the storekeeper identifying
them.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04

Entered Us second-class matter
May 1, 1916, at the post Office at st.
Johnsbury, Vermont, under the act
of March 5 1879.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04

It's hard work to dope out which
will do tn most damage, Congress
with Woodrow over there or the
Peace Conference with Woodrow
over here.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04

It's cinch that the kind of wife
who'll have a match ready for her
husbands pipe hasn't got any kids.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04
MASONIC NOTICES
Passumpsic Lodge. No. ~. r. q A.

Lodge. No. ~. F. q A.
nj.
Called Communication Thursday
evening, February 6, at 7.30 o'clock.
Work M. M. degree. PAST MAST
Frs NIGHT. A good attendance is
desired. Visitors welcome. Lunch
will be served.
Regular Communication, Thursday
evening, Feb. 10, at 7.3O, for despatch
of business.
Orville N. Pinney, w. y.
Fred Fl. Dolloff, Secretary
Haswell Royal Arch Chapter No. IL
Stated Convocation Friday even
ing, February IA, at 7.30 p. m.
Birney L. Hall, E. 81. p.
F. G. Moore, Secretary
Palestine Commandery, No. S, K. 7.
Tuesday evening, Feb. a at 7.3O p.
M, rehearsal.
Stated Conclave Tuesday evening,
Feb. II, at 730 p. m.
T. S. Waterman, Com.
A. NJ. Lang, Recorder.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04
VERMONT NEWS

Tuesdays list of American soldiers
and sailors held prisoners in France
who had been released included Capt.
Robert M. Deming of Burlington
Sidney Tisdale, one of Middlebury's
oldest citizens, died at his home in
East Middlebury at the age of 80
years and four months. He was ma
tive of Chesterfield, N. Y.
Mrs. Mary Stickney Lawrence of
Rutland, who has been doing canteen
work overseas, reached New York
Tuesday on the La Lorraine and then
came to her home in Rutland.
Miss Mabel H. Powers of North
Hero will sail the first of February
from New York with the Armenian
and Syrian relief commission as 9
Red Gross nurse. A number of them
are booked to sail on the first boat
for the Mediterranean that leaves
New York.
Rutland's bonded Indebtedness ha.
been decreased $48,208 in the las
year, and the assets of the city, in
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04

Rutland's bonded Indebtedness has
been decreased $48,208 in the last
year, and the assets of the city, in
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04

AS members of the Associated
Press that organization is entitled
exclusively to the use for republica-
ton of all news dispatches credited
to it or not otherwise credited in this
paper and also the local news pub
lished herein All rights of republic
cation of special dispatches herein
are also reserved.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-04

TERMS-By mail, 81 year; six
months 50; three months, 81. Deliv-
cred by carrier in st. Johnsbury at
so cents month. All subscriptions
by order of the government are
payable in advance.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-11-10
u Tinker Bob1AA
.M4T -ttal9Stories
byC arlysaeh H. nolcomb,
SSfories
DOCTOR RACCooN's CURE.

I Tinker Bob, King of the Forest.
was very busy helping the jewellers
prepare for the grea, North Wind.
| He went to every corner of the for
est to see that no n was neglected.
He listened to Jenny Wren as h
told thexs story of the warm days TO
+! those that had never seen the South
Land. Then he helped Jerry the Jay
bird gather Il crown that would fly
with him to the warm land.
Then there was Lady Duck. She
wanted to go south for the winter,
but she was afraid her wing that
asSbroken. by the Hunters shot
would not stand the journey. II she
stayed in the North during the Ffin-
ter. she felt sure She would starve,
But O%possunl. her faithful husband,
promised that he would store away
food for her and, all the Fox children.
The King also agreed to help her so
she was happy. -.
AS Tinker Bob; was returning to
the Palace he saw DR.. Raccoon taking
a few of his young patients out for
a walk. What are you about to do
now?" asked he.
I'm taking a few of my patients
to the river" replied DR.. Raccoon.'
I'm going to show some of these
young fellows how to catch a craw
fish" -
what seems to be the trouble
with these young Racoons?" asked
Tinker Bob as he looked at the three
young fellows following the Doctor:
We'll" said DIR. Raccoon. lone Of
them says he's got the rheumatic: l
told him he was pretty young to
have the rheumatic. but, he insists
that he has it, so I'm taking him
to the river for a little exercise. OF
course" continued the Doctor. II
know all Raccoons that die Of old age
usually have rheumatic. These others
are just troubled a bit with their
stomach, and ] told them a fresh
mess Of crawish would fix them in
good shape"
When they reached the bank of
the river old DR.. Racoon went to the
waters edge and began to feel under
the stones for crawfsh. 1t wasn't
long until he brought out a fine fat
fellow. There" said he to one of
his patients. take this and eat the
tail and o you will feel better"
Then he turned to fish for another.
While old DR.. Racoon was. feeling
under the rocks for another craw-
fish. the young Racoon with the
rheumatic thought he would try
searching under the rocks so that he
might enjoy a little taste of crawfsh
himself. He had watched the Doctor
long enough to think it was simple
indeed to make a good catch. 1t was
only a few moments. when he surely
found a crawfsh which was soon
fastening its pinchers to his forepaw
so hard he forgot about his rheumatic.
Up the river bank and into the forest
he ran, screaming at the top of his
voice. You ought to have seen the
Racoon run! He soon shook of the
crawfisn, and was more scared than
hurt.
"Ha! Fla! Hal" laughed old DR..
Racoon. That's the best cure for
rheumatic l eve saw"
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=
Up
Ea6arl6u9sk

RELIGION.
''It seems too bad" said he to me,
"That you and ! should disagree.
What difference should it yer make
Which road to heaven you choose to
take?
If you are i'll, I do not frown -.
Because you call in DR.. Brown,
Nor do you sheer when l feel mean
Because / call in DR.. Green.
Though I prefer an allopath,
You do not vent on me your wrath.
I'm summertime you like the sea;
The golf links have a charm for me.
Where'er your days of rest you spend
! still am proud to call you friend.
Should L your glory then besmirch
Because you choose a different
church?
Or should you fail me as a friend
Because I somewhere else attend?
Do. not all Christian doctrines plan
Tt worship God and better man?
IT dc not ask that you shall eat
My choice Of fish or fowl or meat,
Nor read the books which please me
most,
Nor like the things of which I boast.
I do not hold your friendship less
Because you wear a different dress, :,
Nor do you. think the less Of me
For wanting sugar in my tea.
You call me friend, and still main
tain
Your right to drink, your beverage
plain.
THE proof of all our varying creeds
Lies not in printed words, but deeds.
And Catholic Protestant and Jew
Shall all be judged by what they do:
Men don't distate or ~ care
What 02rh their friends NAV chn0Se
/ ,4 TO wear, ~
Nor hold from merit words OF praise
Because it walks in different ways:
/ Should we then unto men refuse
The right to worship as they
choose.?"a
"A man in Bemidji. arrested for
getting fresh" found flirting to be
Sentinel. Expensive was right in his
case, and yet the fellow himself felt
rather cheap.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-11-10

Address at Metropolitan for
American Legion and
Others.

.Seyer let anyone attack the Amer
ican Red Ross in your presence, If
anyone an. be found who is so vile
as to attack it." urged Countess Laura
Tnr"zynowicz in her address at the
Metropolitan opera house Sunday
right during a service conducted by
Rev. Jonathan Watson Of st. Pauls
Episcopal church.,
members of the American Legion and
ether citizens. attended the services,
the opera house being nearly full. ~
DIR. Watson's Appeal.
IF you haven't. already given to
the Red Cross, give now for the sake
of Ssyour. own soul and suffering hui
mainly" was the appeal made by
Rev. Jonathan Watson at the close OF
The countess address.
II remember the day the armistice
was signed" said the countess. 81
could scarcely call it, the happy ar
mistice' because it seemed to me that
we had not put The full period to the
Germans efforts"
The speaker told Of her v
months captivity among the Ger
mans, of her final escape, and COM
ing to this country. and then after
the armistice vas signed how, she
started back to Lithuania to aid her
suffering people.
On her way across Germany with
Red Cross supplies she was in con-
slant danger. reaching Munich on the
morning the terrible revolution broke
out in hat city. Finally, however.
she reached Lithuania in safey and
her real work began.
"" Terrible Picture.
Then in vivid colors the countess
painted the terrible restitution of
Lithuania. She told of the fearful
harvest being reaped there by star
walton and diseases, against which the
only defense was the. efforts Of the
American Red Cross. s-
She toldsahow one of her compan-
ions, Miss Benton. women's dean of
Carlton college, was stricken by the
smallpox: no mattress could be found
for her to lie on, and there was no
vaccine to stop the spread Of the dis
ease. except in the hands of the Ger
mans, from whom a supply was fin
ally forced by an American doctor.
Literally there is not a stick OF
furniture in Lithuania," said the
countess: while in Berlin the stores
are bullying with looted furniture. Is
It possible there will be anyone, so vile
as to buy this blood-stained loot?"
Elton Speaks.
T. B. Elton spoke briefly to the
members of the American Legion, de-
claring that their struggles were moi
over out that all must take part in the
struggle for true A~mericanism which
was now in progress. mot only think
A~nericanism and teach Americanism
but live Americanism." said Mr.. Elton
The self-made man always has diff
ficulty In finding a model to patter1
from while doing the making.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-11-10
BRITISH CARE. FOR GRAVES.

London. Oct. 15.-tMail)-Graves
England are being cared for by the
British government. Lawns about
them are regularly moved. flowers
growing on them are tended and the
white wooden crosses bearing each
mans identity disk are kept in good
condition.
Lieutenant Colonel J. Pearce. ad-
jutant, in charge Of the contingent in
England which Is clearing up details
of the departure. of, the last American
soldiers from England. has COM
pleted an inspection of 2.40O graves
in. SO cemeteries. When Colonel
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them, have been overlooked. I am
sure the same careful attention will
gwen fief Er1vessuf the British fur..
tilssome plan for distnterment with.
Observation-Disclosures e arrived. at.
I V ;s .sssFS.H fTTVsE NJ
sIsltA Williston Herald's funny man
tells Of an augur that bored ! square
hole. Perhaps the poor thing. was
made to 40 II. EN- i "a ia
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-11-10

The self-made man always has diff
ficulty In finding a model to pattern
from while doing the making.
, 1919-12-19

AON1lOlV.
At the request of the executors of the
A Estate of the late Planter CHRISTIAN
81 PETER THEOBALD FRIIs will be offer
ed for sale at ONE PUBLIC AUCTION
to be held at the undersigned Vendue
Office on
TUESDAY
the 3Oth day Of December 1918
AT O'CLOCK P. ".
THE ESTATES
Mount Victory and pheasant Valley
situated in this Islands Northside Quar-
ter Letter A. sub No. II c. and No. Is
ad 16 & &c and Westend Quarter sub No.
8, with all appurtenances OF land, build
ings livestock etc.
The conditions or the sale, appraise-
ment, mortgage certificate and other
documents relating 70 the sale will be
produced at the auction and may prevl-
ously to same be seen at Lawyer STAKE
MANN'S Office in C~hristiansted.
This notice also serves as information
to mortgageholders in conformity with
Ordinance Of 9Th March 1909 according
to 5 A Of which ordinance same has the
same legal effect as prescribed IN Pla
card 22nd April 1917.
Frederiksted's Vendue Office, St. CrOiX,
December 17th 1919.
JOHN l. CURRY.
Fee: FIR. 1000.
Say ten Francs.