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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-10
December Magazines.

Little Folks" is the title of a new
children's magazine published by S.
E. Casino, 221 Columbus avenue,
Boston. and edited by Charles Stuart
Pratt and Ella Farman Pratt. Mr..
Casino is well-known Boston pub
Usher and former resident of St.
Johnsbury. The initial number con-
sists of 80 pages of well written and
finely illustrated matter and the sub
scription price of the magazine is
$1.00 year.
The magazine number of the Out
look is the ninth annual book num-
Der. THE Art of Book Making" is
told by such specialists as 7. l.. De
Winnie, E. D. North and George
Wharton Edwards and 10 full page
illustrations show what is being
done pictorially to make books at
tractive. Justin McCarthy's history
OF Gladstone closes with this number
and there are numerous portraits OF
the Grand Old Man" The Outlook
Co., Aston Place, New York.
Charles A. Prouty of Newport, a
member of the Interstate Commerce
Commission contributes readable
article to the December Forum on
Railway Pooling-from the Peo-
pies Point Of View" He presents in
a strong argument the rights of the
great American people as opposed to
any monopoly from the trunk lines
or their combinations. Senator
Morrill, concludes the publication o.
his notable letters from political
friends and interesting letters are
printed from Horace Greeley, Charlie:
Sumner, James 6. Blaine and Gen
Sherman. Other articles in the
magazine are both instructive anc
timely. The Forum, III Fifth ave
nue., New York.
Col. Forbes Christmas Mennonite
easily ranks with the city publca
tons in artistic press wosF, and sub
ject matter and is the best numbe
ever issued. st. Johnsbury peopl
will be especially interested in full
illustrated article on T. w. Woo,
and his work as some of his hes
smaller pieces are in our own art ga
lery. ]. W. Sault of St. Johnsbur
contributes an interesting accoun
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-10

of permanent improvement now than
it was then; but there is no good
reason, it seems to US, why a chemi-
cal fire engine should not be pur-
chased for use by our department
wherever the size of the blaze does
not warrant the free use of water.
Once employed, it would be found
that this sort of apparatus could be
advantageously used very frequently,
and that great deal of damage that
must of necessity result from the use
of the hose would be avoi 1ed-to the
intense satisfaction OF all concerned.
The matter ought to be given serious
consideration at the coming annual
meeting.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-10
An Evident Need.

To any one who has watched the
fire record in St. Johnsbury for some
time past and noted the extent of
the damage done, it has become very
evident that we need in this village
some method Of dealing with small
fires that will not involve the flood
ing of a building and the running of
stock and household effects with
water when, in point of fact, little or
no water is necessary. Under the
present arrangement, the fire depart
ment has nothing else to do hut get
stream on as soon as possible: no
matter how large or small the blaze
may be, it is the business of the fire.
men to put it out, and they direct
their energies to that end-as they
should.
We submit, however, that there is
more satisfactory way of handling
a small blaze, for instance-andm most
Of the fires here for some time past
have been small affairs-than by
turning two or three streams on to
it and bringing about a deluge. A
better way has been found by many
another village, and St. Johnsbury
can afford to adopt some things that
have been found effective in other
places. II our memory serves us cor
rectly, in the discussion over the CEN
trail fire station project some time
ago it was claimed that chemical
fire engine could be used to great adj
vantage, and some very interesting
statistics were brought to the front
regarding the employment of this
sort OF extinguisher. From st. AL.
bans and other localities came re-
ports of a decided saving, both in
the expenses OF the fire department
and in damages to occupants o
buildings in which fires broke out, by
the use of the chemical engine insteac
: OF the ordinary fire 'fghting appa
: ratus.
, The opposition to the central fir,
station plan succeeded in defeatint
] it, Tor reasons best known to them
t selves; and it might not be an,
l easier to secure a vote.ior that sor
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-10

The nolle pressing of the five cases
against DR.. Giddings, former super.
intendent of the Vermont asylum at
Waterbury, will be perfectly satisfac-
tory to the state at large. Attorney
Rowland, in asking for this action
by the court stated in substance that
DR.. Giddings and family had suffered
considerably from the stigma that
naturally attached to his removal by
legislative authority, and that moth
ing could be gained by maint aiming
the legal prosecution. The people
will agree to this. The unfortunate
affair was, at the time, credited
rather to the superinte ndent's lack Of
practical experience in the manage.
ment OF insane persons, than to any
intention in the direction of cruelty
and the best interests OF all concerned
will be quite as completely conserved
by dropping the matter as by push
ing the prosecution farther.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-10
Assignment Of Judges.

The assignment of judges for the sew
eral county courts in the state from De-
cember, 1897, to December, 1898, is as
follows;
Ross, c. Dec. 7, 81; Essex, March
Is, '9S; Windsor, May "a, '9S; Chitten-
den, Sept 13, '9S.
TAFT, Bloomington, Dec. Z, '97
Wiudham, March 8, '9S; Orange, June7
9S; Essex, Sept 20, '9S.
Rowell, J.-Grand Isle, Feb. Is. '9s
Franklin, March 8, '98; Bennington
June 7, 49, Windham, Sept. 13. '9S.
Tyler, ] Caledonia, Dec. 7, 81; Or
leans, Feb. l, '9S; Grand Isle, Aug. 80
'9S; Franklin, Sept. 13, '9S.
Munson, J.-Lamoille, Dec. Z, 81
Washington, March 8, '98; Caledonia
June T. 90; Orleans, Sept. Z, '9S.
Start. Addison, Dec. Z, 81; Rut'
land March s, '9S; Lamoille, April &C.
'9S; Washington, Sept 10, '9S.
Thompson, J.-Windsor, Dec. 7, '97
Chittenden, March 8, '9S; Addison, June
7, '9S; Rutland, Sept 13, '9S.
General terms OF the supreme court will
be held at Montpelier, January IL, May
10 and October IL.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-10
President rlcKinley's Message.

The message OF President McKin-
ley to the 6ity6 congress will
commend itself to the American
public as, on the whole, a clean-cut
and sensible document. 1t is refresh
ingly free from jingeoism, and treat Is
of the different branches of our
national administration in direct
and practical manner. The most
important portions OF it are those
which refer to the currency question,
the situation in Cuba, and the an
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-10

free or all slave. How like a dream
it all seems now, so far away. But
it was very real then, and for twelve
years our venerable senator was in
the thick of it, in his place in the
lower house at Washington. And
what a record of honor! His name
is associated with the tariff of 1861
which changed duties from ad vo-
loren to specific. He had much OF
the care OF revenue measures through
the war, and in 1S6465 was chair
man of the committee OF ways and
means, a place Of responsibility Sec
ond only to that Of the speaker.
Five times reelected to the house, in
1867 his state sent him to the senate,
and honored herself five other times
in his return.
Senator of the United States! How
sonorous the title, and how impor
tant our senator's work Thirty
years of it in the senate, twelve in
the house. Forty-two years in all,
the longest continuous service of any
man in the congress OF the United
States. Think OF the legislative
work that was done there in those
years, and the men who have come
and gone. And all this time YER
mont heartily in sympathy with the
thought and work of the senator,
has kept him there. He links a past
age with the present. Most of his
colleagues of the period of storm
and stress" are gone, Lincoln, Sum-
ner, Stevens, Wade, Wilson, Fessen-
der, men OF the west leagued with
strong men of the east to uphold the
law and to preserve the state. What
better work than this has been
wrought since the getting of con-
stitution!
l saw the venerable gentleman
only the other day. He wears his
nearly completed lightweight years
with the grace and dignity we asso-
eiate with a senator of Rome at a
time when Roman senator was the
synonym of absolute probity. How
the fair fame OF our senator stands
out against the sometime murky at
mosphere of public affairs. AS chair
man of committees of finance and
public buildings and grounds, as a
member of various committees of
education, labor, census, revolution
airy claims, and on select commit
tee on additional accommodations
for the library of congress, and as
trustee OF the Vermont University
and of the Agricultural college, our
senator has lived on in serene con-
seriousness that except in equity and
Justice the state shall not be builded ;
and with such building who can
doubt the duration of the edi6ce?
If the ancients were right and
Louis XIV. and his advisers were
right, and the glory of a nation can
never be complete except in the cree
tiou OF great and noble buildings
then Senator Morrill, must be al
lowed an ample portion OF the credit
that goes with the building of the
new library of congress. In sympa
thy with the undertaking from The
beginning, he and others saw the
slow passage Of the bill authorizing
it through congress, and has liveC
to see this object of his care and de
votion rise to completion on its sit'
opposite the southern wing of thu
capitol, noble complement to th'
most imposing building in the world
S. o. TODD.
Washington, D. c., Dec. 8, 1897.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-10

And now they tell us that numer-
Gus Cinnamon are evading the law
and getting across into this country
from Canada by Disgusting them
selves as women. The United States
seems to have peculiar fascination
for the average Celestial, and he is
never so happy as when he can get
into this land OF freedom, where
starched linen is so much in demand
and where his revenue is so much
ahead of what he can reap in his own
country. II he has adopted the JEFF
ferson Davis style of disguise in order
to cheat the authorities, he will have
to be closely watched; and as tidings
of this sort come from Newport. in
our own state. the newly installed
officials OF the District OF Memphre,
magog" will have chance to prove
their vigilance.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-10

citability, irritability, nervousness,
sleeplessness, and the blues, yet do
nothing to help themselves. These
Indicate womb complications.
Lydia E. Pinl1ham's Vegetable Com
pound will relieve all this trouble.
Mrs. CHAs. KING, 1915 Rosewood
St., Philadelphia, Pa, says:--
81 had bearing-down feelings, back
ache, burning sensation in my stom-
ach, chills, headache, and always had
black specks before my eyes. l some
times had four and five fainting spells
day. 1 had sey eral doctors, and tried
many patent medicines. commenced
to take Lydia Il. Pinl1ham's Vegetable
Compound, and I never had anything
give me the relief that it has. l can
truthfully say it has cured me-"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-10

Banker Spaulding of Chicago is
sentenced to the penitentiary for an
indeterminate number of years. He
became infatuated with his pretty
typewriter who, on salary OF $40
a week, was one of the best dressed
women in Chicago. The banks
money did it and the president of the
bank is now suffering the penalty.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-10

In the Greater New York contest
the prohibition candidate polled
1857 votes. His contribution to the
campaign fund was $4,000 and he
thus paid about 81 for each vote he
received.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-10

Speaker Reed on being asked what
was needed in the line of currency
legislation, quoted the remark of
New York fnancier, THAT the best
thing congress could do would be to
enact such a measure as would pro
duce sufficient revenue to meet the
expenditures OF the government
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-10

Theophilus Grout, the past several
years editor and proprietor OF the
Newport Express and Standard, has
sold his paper to D. w. Hildreth of
Barton Landing, who took posses
sion last week. Mr.. Grout has
greatly improved the Express and
Standard since it came into his hands,
enlarging it and finally issuing it as
a semi weekly. Mr. HiIdreth is we'll
equipped for the newspaper business.
He is an interesting writer and his
work under the sobriquet of David
Hill" has given him quite literary
reputation. We welcome the new
arrival into the newspaper business
OF the state and very much regret to
lose Mr.. Grout.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-10

most women will
\ let it get out of
! order just as if
it were of no con-
sequence. Their
! backs ache, heads
d throb and burn ;
they have wander
ing pains, now here
and now there; ex-
perience extreme
lassitude, that
don't-care and
want-to- be-left-
alone feeling, ex-
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-10
ADVERTISING RATES.

These advertising rates have been adopted
by the CALIFORNIAN and will be used until
further notice.
Per inch per week, 81. Per month. 81 so.
For three months, So. For SIX months, So.
One year. SO.
DIscouNTs.-To all advertisers using regu-
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count from the above rates. Advertisers
using FIVE inches or more regularly, % per
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Local notices, wants, for sale, ETC., cents
ner word first Insertion. (These will be set
In reading matter type and given the best
position in the paper.) Legal mott es 10
cents a line, three insertions. Probate notices
$3.50 each for three insertions. Dissolution,
liberation and similar notices 81 so each for
three insertions. Card Of thanks, rs cents.
Obituary poetry, o cents line.
Solid electrotypes only will be taken. We
cannot use cuts with wood bases.
c. M. STONE & co.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-10

of the recent trip to Tennessee and a
wierd and strong story of nature is
contributed by Mrs. E. c. Smith OF
St. Adams. For sale at the book
stores.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-10
What Neglect Leads To.

Mrs. Chas. Kings Experience.
A woman's body is the repository of
the most delicate mechanism, and yet
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-12-10

Entered at the st. Johnsbury post office as
second. class mail matter.
TERMS OF THE CALIFORNIAN.
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Six months. rs
Three months. so
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Receipt given on payment Of subscription,
List corrected once n month.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-01-16
WAS A GRAND SUCCESS.
High School Entertainment Last Evening
Largely Attended,

The entertainment given last evening
in Assembly hall at the High school
building in aid Of the piano fund by Mrs.
Abner W. Lowell with the assistance of
the pupils of the school was grand sue
cess. Harold A. Loring gave q piano
solo; Mrs. Lowell ssolass In ply steal Gull
ture furnished delightful novelty with
their musical dumb bells and Harriette
l.. Pike rendered several songs in pleas
ing way. Then there were readings by
Mary e. Durham, dances by Misses
Goudy, Berrer, Steadman and Mollie Sui
livan, violin solo by James L. Thomp-
son and a song by Auguste II. Sohu-
macher. The evening closed with the
one act comedy, Vance Oldfleld by
Charles Reade, which was ably rendered
by the fol lowing cast:
Mrs. Anna Oldfleld,
Miss Mary E. Thompson
Susan Oldfeld, Miss Edna Briokett
Nathan Oldworthy. Mr.. Frederick Prince
Alexander Oldworthy,
Mr.. Warren F. Hunt
All of the parts were we'll taken and
showed the young actors are possessed of
great ability in this line. A handsome
sum was Melted by the entertainment.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-01-16

olic, They have lived cheerfully in TIL,
midst. not only of iardships, but latterly
of serious dangers also, they have beef
the first to bring the light Of education
and learning into these dark places, and
have rightly judged that it was far better
to diffuse that light through their
schools than to aid at swollen roll OF
converts. From them alone If we ex-
cept British cousuls, has it been posi-
Bile during the last so years to obtain
Trustworthy Information regarding what
passes in the Interior.
It may be we'll to explode Mr.. Smith
story of the guard for Robert College.
Judge Terrell sent the guard against
President Wash burns Wishes. who said
we are on the best of terms with the
village Of Hissar and we need no guard.
Nevertheless, Judge Terrell sent it; evil
IDENTIFY 10 have something to boast of
what he does through his friend Mr..
Smith. The guard bas proved to be of
good easy fellows; and they have en-
ioyed themselves and have been unwill-
ing to be recalled. That any professor
of Robert College has talked against the
Sultan and the Turks is undoubtedly
false. The professors have felt their
position a delicate one, and have observed
the utmost prudence. The Sultan has
found no occasion against. them.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-01-16
HAS NO EQUAL.
That Is Portland Testimony and There
fore Reliable.

When remedy hes no equal it Is up to
date and little in advance OF ali etber
remedies for specified complaint. Med
ical theory OF old times held that Il nell
cine containing a little OF eacn kind OF
every i'll should make remedy for all
complaints. We laugh at such f1ollsn-
ness today, anl wonder IL was ever
thought wisdom. The mnxim tcdns il
learn what the disease is aud apply Il e
! remedy which has proven the most i
rect and radical. Speoial0.os rule tie
day, and single organ, It's disorders
and how to cure it, Is the nl9hrst q s.
tinotiun 10 tGe medical pr3fe' SION. Ire
kidneys are wonderfully constructed. No
you know just what their funftoMs afof
They are the laboratrlias OF tie aody FOR
the reuovHting of the bi1Gd heIoIe ltS
use again. Read that carefully E'etT
uulsntion Of the heart SENDS out the
blood to give lie to the body "nen IL
picks mp tbs pnisons in its course II goes
to the kidneys O lie made rev 1cf use
again. If the kidneys are We AK they cam
not do the work, and urio poison stamps
out tho life Of the blood. Doan's sd
ney Pills correct ell disorders of tue Kid
neys and keep there laboratories true
purifiers of the blooi. Portland people
are fast learning this. Read the PILLOW
ing case: MIR. G. Ststson OF $50 / fahKlin
street says: "My STORY is not y long one;
DnG III is complete anu anl g'Ao " reg
tify. For long time had lame back,
not such az / haze seen described in
newspapers over or under remedies that
are put up to cure back ache, mine was a
soreness Just whore the strain is brought
to bear on the small of the back. 1t grew
tired if stood long, and sometim IS ached
much worse If 1 stopped. ! had it so
long aud it was 80 annoyinR that glad
Is accepted any chance That seemed lksly
20 remove it. he right thing ean1essat
last. l went to II. 4. Hay & Son 8 drug
store on Middle street and get bog of
Doan's Kidney Pills. they removed it
and have not bad a symptom of it
since That's the whole story. Its com
pleteness is it's own recommendation.
Doan's Kidney Piln, so cents ger box,
for sale by all dealers: sent BIZ mail on
receipt OF nrice. Foster. Nilburn Co.,
Sole Agents for the United States, Buffa-
10. n Y
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-01-16
SOUTH PORTLAND.

The History club met with Mrs. Her.
bert Startling, Randall street, Thursday
evening. The usual business was tran.
sacted, after which an entertainment
and refreshments were enjoyed until
long after the customary hour for adj.
journment. The event was really house
warming Mr.. and Mrs. Startling having
just got settled in a new house. The
next meeting Will be with DR.. and Mrs.
Brown, Pine street, January 21sU.
Captain Edwin l.. Field has leased the
Hawkes. house on Main street and moved
In.
Work at Portland Hend is over until
% mother spring and such of the workmeu
as were not required at Fort Prsble were
discharged Monday. The work at the
fort will be continued all winter.
Mrs. Freeman Willard who has been
quite sick at her home is very much i'm
proved.
Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus Huston OF
Gray who have been at Willard for the
past year have returned home, where they
will remain until spring.
Mrs. Benzee has moved from Boston
into the Brown house at Deep Crook. In
the spring Mrs. Benzee will open hotel
in the Strout house near where Cape
Cottage used to be.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-01-16

Another large and appreciative audi
enoe greeted the third presentation of
the Living Pictures of War of the Re
bellionsat City hall, Iastsevening.
Each of the pictures presented were
well received and several of them were
loudly applaudeh, thus calling for their
reproduction. The Sheridan Rifles,
under the efficient leadership of Capt.
M. e. Conlay and his lieutenants. have
rendered valuable service in this military
eyolutions, and the awkward squad re-
oeived deserved Innovation for their
faithful rendition of the supposed awk-
ward squads of the days of the rebellion.
Mrs. j. H. Flanagan as the goddess
of liberty, reflected great credit upon
herself for this faithful presentation OF
that character.
This evening the final production Of
the entertainment will be given, and
Judging from the successes Of the previ-
Gus evenings the entertainme will
draw another large house.
The South Pol tland Reading club will
give another of their popular dances at
the Union Opera House, next Tuesday
evening. The genial Thomas will fur
nish music for the occasion and good
time is assured. The committee having
the matter In charge haveimade arrange
ments with the electric road whereby
they will run car to the city and Pleas
antdale after the dance.