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Short popular histories are springing up on
every hand. One of the most successful essays
OF this kind has been made by Mr.. Justin Nc
earthly. The author is member of the Brit
ish Parliament, and has been in political life
for many years. He is evidently on the liberal
side in politics, bat tries to be just toward all
His particular aim is to sketch the growth of
political parties and the gradual development
OF those great principles whose adoption has
contributed so much to the enlargement of the
British empire, and to the power, as well as
the happiness, of the English people. Mr.,
McCarthys name indicates Celtic origin,
and a. ne betrays Celtic sympathies, but his tone
is moderate, and he claims for Ireland only
equal rights with England and Scotland,
rms 10 certainly reasonable demand, and we
doubt not that the English liberals will re-
spond to it as soon as the Irish leaders formu-
late practicable scheme of Home Rule. On.
I'll tnlS is done, the liberals will not see their
way clear to go much farther than Mr.. Glad
stone has already gone. But once let the Irish
snow that their plans are not hostile to the
BRUSH connection, and 1t viii be impossible
.of me tories to oppose them success
iuiIy. 50 in regard to essential man
already virtually won; and the legislation
necessary 10 establish it cannot be withheld
much longer, even if the present bin
Is defeated In the House of Lords.
The contest between the conservatives and
liberals in England has been long and bitter,
but it is now near its end. The triumph of the
English democracy is certain, and it cannot be
delayed much longer. Whenever fully accom-
plished, the English will look back with won
der and amaZement that they allowed a few
families to engross such disproportionate
amount OF the land, wealth and political pow
or. OF course the explanation is that they
were early banded together and thus had the
start in the race. They had also superior in.
telligence secured to them by the advantages
OF their position and the prestige of their order
But the English oligarchy, both tory and wing
have outlived their usefulness, and they have
no valid claim on the offices, honors and
wealth which they still, for the most part, mo.
nopolize. The people are most rapidly coming
to the front, and will soon recover their right
TO fui share OF all the good things thing,
their country pr oduces and the world is ready
to accord them.
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Ask any or all of the most eminent physi-
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ments peculiar to Women
Sand they will tell you explicitly and em-
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Ask the same physicians
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American College Song Book.

A Collection of the Songs of 90 representative
American Colleges. One can hardly imagine Songs
fresher and brighter than these, 200 in number and
all newly contributed by the colleges in question in
GLIDING Vassar and Wellesley. There Is an average
of songs from each college. Price $500.
Also published. Carmina Collegensia, $500. I'm
iversity Songs, $3.50, and Students Life in Song,
81 80.
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0issoIT1;on Of COUartnership.

TVvHE Copartnership formed between ISAAC EN-
IL FRY az Portland and JEROME B. FELLOWS
Of Fryeburg, April 29th, A. d. 1882, for the pur-
pose of manufacturing Slaves, Shocks, Bobbins,
Spools Spool Stock and other Wooden manufac-
tred articles at said Fryeburg, is hereby dissolved
by mutual consent Said Emery is alone author
lied to dispose of the property OF said copartnersp
and settle its affairs
Dated at Fryeburg, this twenty-sixth day of March
A. ID. 1884.
Witness, s. c. HOBBS, j J.B. FELLOWS I
A LII persons having legal claims against the late
IA nrm Of EMERY & FELLOWS are hereby re-
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In thirty days from the date hereof, at nay oce No.
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Portland, March 7th, 1884.
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1884, at O'clock for the purpose of electing six
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-14
Colds.
BY A BOSTON PHYSICIAN.

Few ills that flesh is heir to give rise
to more annoyance than cold. The
term "cold" is neither definite nor
scientific being descriptive, if of any
thing ut all, of the manner in which the
malady is supposed to originate; that
is takinga chill. Yet this cause brings
about, as well, many other troubles,
the chill affecting the part of the body
most prone to disease, and caus-
ing pneumonia, pleurisy and other dis
eases.
What causes colds and how can one
guard against taking them? Taking
a coldn means a sudden abstraction of
heat from the surface of the body by
exposure to cold, the effect being in
tensified if dampness be added to the
cold. To render such exposure COM
paratively harmless. the great neces-
sity is to keep the body in such con-
ditiOn that Il prompt and healthful re-
action is sure to follow and neutralize
any chill. Nothing brings this about
so satisfactorily as to accustom the
body to react from the cold sponge
bath taken every morning. The habit
of reaction thus established is invalu-
able.
We must vigorously protest against
the custom dear to the hearts OF
"mothers in Israel" of giving each
member of the family Saturday night
scrubbing with hot water and soap
Many colds date significantly from
this event. The daily sponge bath in
sures all necessary cleanliness. The
system relaxed by the use of a hot
bath becomes abnOrmally sensitive to
chill.
A daily walk, briskly taken, does
much to accustom the body to prompt
reaction from cold. All weathers can
be faced, with suitable preparation
in the way of clothing. Sitting i'll an
over heated room preludes a cold al
most as surely as taking hot bath
Sixty eight degrees Fahrenheit is the
highest safe temperature for any bu
elderly people and invalids.
Children should have the face, neck
arms and chest smartly slapped with /
towel wet in cold water, and theI
briskly rubbed with tolerably coarse
crash towel till the surface is warn
and rosy. With a daily repetition o
this, they need have little fear of cold
or the much dreaded Group. They can
enjoy any amount of outdoor play will
safety, if properly clothed. Scarfs ant
. muffiers are denominations.
When one is conscious of chill,
sensation, a drop or two of spirits o
camphor taken on a lump of suga
will sometimes stimulate nature to tn
reaction, of which unaided she is no
capable. This should be repeated
alf-hourly four or five times Con
. gregatiOnalist.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-14
Florida Oranges.

! have never divulged in my letters
my real object in visiting Florida, but
propose to do so now. Occasionally
in years back, when have been eating
an orange, and thinking it was pretty
good, some bystander would ask me if
| had ever seen one growing, and on
being told no, would give me plying
look and say, 81 thought not, for if
you had ever eaten them right off the
trees yOu never would eat those you
get north, and then ! would feel as if
| was eating somebody's pet kitten,
and would take one more bite and
throw the rest away, thinking that
really it did not taste as well as it
should. At last | got mad and started
for Florida, with no other object than
to prove or disprOve this question.
Mr.. Livingston turned me loose into
the grove, and after looking me over
to Judge how much | would hold, told
me to eat all | wanted. And | did eat.
| ate oranges in ten different Ian
guages; with one hand tied behind
me, standing, sitting and lying down.
| chalked my cue and pOcketed them.
You never saw so surprised man as
Mr.. L. was. He said | was the first
person be ever saw who was larger in
side than he was outside, but did not
let that remark interfere with my
lunch, and | sucked and peeled and
ate, until made the grove look as if
donation party had struck it, but
was bound to investigate this orange
question thoroughly, and | did.
Now the plain and simple truth is,
| that an orange eaten in the northeast
corner of the state of Maine, is in every
way just as good. providing that it is
as good an orange to start with, as if
| it were eaten directly from the tree.
| You all know that an apple is as good
eaten in one place as another, and it is
so with an orange. A peach may be
better right off the tree; | don't know
| for | never tried one. But when you
eat an orange, my friend, if it is on the
northern borders of Alaska, you can
rest assured that it has the same ideD-
teal flavor that it would in Florida.
If Mr.. Livingston had not called his
man and had him muzzle me, should
probably be eating his oranges now,
but as the boat came along | was
obliged to return to Jacksonville
T.'Our George in Belfast Journal.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-14

at home but he does complain be-
cause he has to be at the expense of
building fence strong enough to keep
his neighbours dog from breaking in to /
kill his hens, and he claims that it is
cheaper for his neighbOr to confine his !
dog in a large enclosure at home than 1
it is for all the other neighbOrs to build /
fences high enough, and strong
enough, to keep the dogs from doing
any damage. That this claim is just,
every man who sees more than a single
selfish point, must admit.
In addition to the amount of dam
ages awarded, to be paid out of the
dog fund, the dogs during the past
year have done a further damage,
amounting to more than S200,00O. A
single case could be given of injury
done by dog suddenly springing at a
horse. that if it had been by railroad
train would have been estimated at
not less than $4,000; but because
done by some pet dog, not cent of
damage can be collected. The man
/ for months has suffered the most ex-
cruciating pain, with no prospect of
relief except by death.
If these men who get off their coarse
jokes against the farmer, could but be
made to suffer for a single hour the
pains this man has had to endure for
months, they would lose sight of any
fun in proposed amendments to the
dog law.
There is waste land enough in Mas
sachusetts to pasture from $50, 900 to
300, 900 sheep, and no doubt if full pro-
lection from the dogs should be given,
it would be but few years before
this waste land would be covered with
sheep. The advantages of this would
not be confined to the farmer, but a
portion would be shared by all other
classes, because it would bring into the
market every year large quantity of
the most healthful meat, and cheaper
it so as to bring it within the reach of
all.
Will not our legislators take into
consideration the great pecuniary loss
to the state, because of the want of a
law that will protect the sheep in
teIests? Could a blow be struck at
any other interest III the state, and do
half the injury that the dogs do to
: sheep husbandry, without raising a cry
which would be heard, and needed by
every legislator
) Is it possible that there is any con
/ siderable number who believe that the
| farmers of Massachusetts have been
crowded to position so low as to per-
NIT any class to ridicule them through
: the columns of respectable newspapers
t whenever they dare to respectfully ask
+ that their property, and their interests
= may be protected by law We do moi
t believe there is. When the farmers
, are able to make themselves heard
: there are good, honest people enough
in the state to protect them. They
have only been kept from their rights
by misapprehension of the extent o.
. the injury which has been done them
and this misapprehension has beer
, caused by representations, covered
up by ridicule.
, Let it be remembered that there art
$4,000 farmers in the state who pay
heavy taxes on their landed property
. They are entitled to respectful hear.
ing Massachusetts Ploughman.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-14
Y FnlperdTrF.
Making Public Sentiment.

In Il recent sermon delivered in the
Union Park Congregational church,
DR.. F. A. Noble had this to say on the
subject of temperance reform
Waiting for public sentiment
What kind of an attitude is that for a
true and earnest man to take in the
presence of IA needed public reform
Paul did not wait for public sentiment
to support him in preaching the Cos
pei. He went to work and made pub
lie sentiment. Richard Golden did
not wait for public sentiment to be
well defined and clamorOus before he
began his agitation for corn-law re-
peal; he set out solitary and alone,
and winning John Bright and few
other able men to his side, he traversed
the land, planning, speaking, agitat-
ing. He created Il public sentiment
before which Sir Robert Peel and the
whole Tory party were only so much
chaff' before the wind. Bismarck did
not wait for public sentiment to push
him to the task of unifying and sOlidi-
flying Germany; he pushed the peO-
pie, and brought them to his own
mind The heroic Garibaldi did not
wait; he saw clearly what ought to be
done to redeem Italy from the thral
dom of the Pope. and make it IA nation
amongst nations. and he threw him
self into the breach and led the way to
victory. The dead Gam BETA did not
wait: lie took the people i'll the hour
when they were in confusion and or
ganized them; when parties were
plotting and dethroned dynasties were
scheming for reinstatement, and made
France a republic. Neal Dow did not
wait for public sentiment to support
him in his demand for prohibition.
Month after month, year after year,
he aud his faithful cO-workers wrought
at the business of making public senti-
ment, and they did it.
Public sentiment does not make it
self Public sentiment does not move
forward of itself. When there is a
vigorous public sentiment on any
question of morals, it is because some
body has taken an advanced position,
and educated and drawn people up to
it. If all who think or even say it
would be Il good thing to close liquor
saloons, and put out the fires i'll these
dis tilleries and breweries, and to stay
the vast waste of strength and thought
and time and money and homes and
hopes and lives, would only say it
without any ifs and lands" or
butts" and having said it would stand
by it, public sentiment on this liquor
business would swell and press on like
an incoming tide, and in little while
there would be laws looking to the
suppression of this evil which would
have in them the force of the right
hand of God
Meantime let no man or woman lose
heart, for in spite of backsetting ed
dies here and there, and stagnant ba
sins, the great stream of temperance
sentiment and conviction and purpose
moves steadily forward Christian
Guardian.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-02-14

and hear the boys moan as their life
Gibbs away.
Some morning you wake up and see
an empty cot near you. ''NO. 6 is
gone 7" you say to the nurse.
Eyes he went at three this morn
ing, poor fellow but it's better for
him." she answers, in sympathizing
voice.
We boys, therefore. took solid COM
fort in looking at Lincoln's face that
afternoon, and in hearing him talk.
He did not say much to Inc, that day,
but it was good to hear him say any
thing, his words were so gentle and
kind. And then he was as thoughtful
as a mother, he knew just what to say.
had been very sick. Yes, that
sleeves empty. left the arm at
Chattanooga. AS | was saying, he
only spoke few words to me, and
passed on to No. 26.
A Vermont boy, mere lad, not over
sixteen was on it. He had bsen
wounded mortally and was near his
end Mr.. Lincoln stopped at the cot,
and taking the thin, white hand said,
in a tone that was as tender as u
mothers,
"My poor boy, what can | do fol
you 2"
With beseeching look the little
fellow turned his eyes up at the homely
kindly face, "Won't you write to my
mother for Inc ?"
THAT l will" answered the presi'
dent, and calling for pen, ink and
paper, he seated himself by the side OF
the cot 1t was long letter he wrote
at least three pages of commercial note
and when it was finished, the presi'
dent rose, saying
81 will mail this as soon as | gel
back to my office. Now, is there any
thing else can do for you 7"
In some way the boy had come tt
know that it was the president. AnC
SO, looking at him in the most appeal
ing sort of way, he asked
"Won't you stay with me till it's al
over. 1t won't he long, and | do wan
to hold on to your hand"
That was too much for the grea
hearted president to resist. The tear
came to his eyes aud he sat down b.
him and took hold of his hand. Thu
little fellow did not move nor speak
word. This was sometime before fou
o'clock, and it was long after six tina
the end came.
But the president sat there as pa
tently as if he had been the boy
father. When the end came he ben
over and folded the thin hands owe
: the breast, and then looked so sorrow
fully at the pale, thin face. The tear
streamed down his cheeks uuheeded
We all cried, too.
Do you wonder that 1.-THE boys i
blue" loved Abe Lincoln al Youth
Companion.