Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-02-26

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r.'o 'di millin% I'D and down Main
ST. q with an occasional individual
dHo DplAG in TO pay his subscription o.
N advertising bill, and the thought:
TIA. come to IL are solemn.
| We have completed another week
We have added xix moro numbers tc
.Fo flcs which our children and oul
III, ren's children will look back up
- .:one day, perhaps i'll amusement
Der APP ii soft sorrow. For another
six times We have repeated to our IL
lie world the tlccting joys, the no
We taFr successes, the simple and
aW IL little tragedies that make up
he daily lie o. our community and
! t pcorlc. We reflect that into some
ii OR homes .inc2 the last Saturday
| n tloon, new humun beings have
q, n thcir tiny start in IL very
| Ad'ei Oh universe. In other homes
>" ~ cur churches, the love affairs
Of ONE Of our boys and girls have
- inatod in the Happy Ending.
II Ill other, following the jncxcl-
| - la>r oil human lie, II" come
ir>.lt Sadnc.;;. There arc chairs that
=, cmHtv ard fumiliur voice; will
hc""cforwatl be heard thcrc no
| me-.
\ hen We come to This Yciicctory
! il" being crdinnry tWo-lcgHcd mcn
| ~ women ourselves In thc Office Of
II little local paper, We ind our
II, e.; uncoN5cioualy asking Gucs-
los. We wonder why in some Of
i" homes, the now babies have ar
ri.ld; why ii is that in ou.' town
Acre arc Young folli whose Iovc-af-
'a,; havc not had Il happy ending;
wiz many Of tie YOU'VE and the
t3aa". v':o*c futures seemed 20
'rsA''*in%, have been removed from
i +" activities among Us; while the
lEr.l, The crippled, the morally def
2it"', i've Wcai'ily onward? Thinking
Fl orr own small role, we 'tondcr if
We haze done right in printing certain
~ 49, IN ctt IstiitI - Z l't''I lil'i-
In,.,s which have occurred within tho
Nl x. Sorlc Of them make u wish
VIC hai given more publicity TO one
"a L. work and less to some othCr
b Z OF minor ruluc, We regret that
We BIC h',it one rcrSou'5 FEELINGS,
Though all uniHtcntionally, and VIC
~. DRY we Wcrc so lcnicnt with an
'tiior VEo deserved f;!' more crnaurc
th.u we mctod to him.
IACa when We are deepest in gu"
.,Nll OF the blues, and when we
h;!'" smoked Il pipe or two by way
-. a!jrH!n% oar philosophN, it coH'ca
20 T.: that there l., Il townful, IL state
a. Il nationful OF men and women
d" und Ii, who pcrpotually A>k these
III ton. All over this continent
anH ih'* hemisphere are millions upon
m'j'Ion* OF ordinary folk who have
h" periods of mental depression
m introspcc!ion; moment; when
.hr. woAdc" If thc work they are do
in or The niche they arc filling in
il seems that the load they have to
ca rs, the isappointmcnt5 they have
to 'aco, the responsibilities they arc
c&'le,i upon TO shoulder, the account
'at which will Somc,Iay be made OF
"a IT. !!ve*, i almost 900 much for The
atrtHgth which is in them.
Ia. this is the strange thing about
h g ordinary folks. the queer fca-
arc Of this life we lead down h'r'
ae.ry;. Tine fact that yet awhile
he"n appear no an:wcr does not
shake their faith in the belief that
hc!' :houd 10 their best while the
'r1ortunity i; theirs.
o. il g!anc!n% over the activities
u tie week, summing up the columns
If oui paper with their pathetic little
tories Of the homcfoiks. remember
u" ccrt2iA spectacular experiences or
o. 20 imcr viewing the whole life
tories Of those who have passed into
hc Great beyond, we ar" forced 10
eco .lizc that the great majority Of
nc common ranl, and file are dag by
~ striving to do The best they cav.
!! nay he raising family OF
youngsters to become -.
Iy:inlrily good men and women. il
W. br paying for a home. Il may :
@ hviltIing Il bu ines which add; to ;
y" towns industries. II may be =.
''2 u the transformations little
~, Of Il trnhour, threr-dollar {
~. i,N' unhr;N"0.h the cor tciou;
:"l,:..'oI i, The effort to do Inc best /,
. i! T..
nrro%ni"jr% these mysteries, ask :.
!" these que. tionS, rcHlizing these +,
llN> because on many many Satul-
~ afternoon; We have turned them II
YER ard over in on minds, it has
>Ma TO Us thnt after i'll j.; said and :
orc, III" average 'n"n and women y
r. TIE loalhcro and hcrolncs Of Iifc. {
a"h week which passes secs some I"
oU" toWnfolk gone down to dc
VI beneath their cares and rcSpon- /
h,!iticS. Bat there are others and "
>ry are in the far greater portion u
no have been made stronger, who n
w" .iirmphcd who have made their b
,ilur~. and blundcr5 Ftcpp;np-Stonc> +
, further effort. q
SO we of our newspaper Office,
'oking at ourselves and the people i
+ our community, have grown to n
Ike these Saturday afternoons more b