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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-15
Some New Hotel Rules.
Rates, So per day.

Rates, So per day.
Any hints about slop- coffee viii be
charged ut the rate of twenty-five cents
per hint.
No extra charge for damp sheets.
rheumatism always on hand.
Our beefsteak is cast to order at one
of the largest foundries in the country,
and can always be depended on as fresh.
Guests desiring napkins with holes in
'em will please give notice at the office
twenty minutes before meal time.
Our meat cook is an old, experienced
miner and sapper, and is provided with
picks, crowbars, torpedoes, fuses, etc.
Guests who wash their shirts in the
Waterfowl will be charged two shillings
each. We cannot encourage cleanliness
in this hotel.
Children will not be allowed to play
in the halls. A beautiful mill-pond will
be found two blocks below to drown
them in.
We call special attention to our beds.
The mattresses are made Of the best
quality of scrap iron, and the pillows
are warranted to be made of hard wood
and thoroughly seasoned.
The carpets in the bed rooms have
been in use upwards OF twenty-five
years. We can therefore recommend
them without reserve.
Parties who look as if they might find
fault with our particular brand of but
ter will please pay i'll advance.
To call servant-press the button
quickly. If you don't get one under an
hour and half you may know that your
bell is out of order.
The towels furnished guests are the
invention of a Wisconsin man. They
are warranted superior to any other
shingles i'll the market.
There is a safe in the office for the
storage OF money and valuables, but in
case the night clerk skips with the pile
the hotel will not be responsible.
Sour oranges, cheap raisIns and wormy
apples carried to rooms will be charged
extra.
Guests desiring hay-seed mixed with
their tea will please give notice at the
office. Otherwise it will be all hay
seed.
Please report any inattention of SER
wants. We expect you to fee the porter,
steward, chambermaid and waters, tc
pay double for boot blacking and bar,
beripg, to put up with flies, dust, dirt
and other trifes, to pay half dollar tc
ride up aud as much more to get back tc
the depot, but inattention of servant;
is something we can't permit. -Detroi
Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-15
The Lessons it Teaches.

Writing of the Malley case, the Albany
ArgatS says:-Menntime to parents and
children the case is preaching tragic
sermon against the failures of fathers
and mothers to care for the character,
as well as the comforts of their children
It is a sermon against sending forth vain
daughters, in the company of well
dressed intending scoundrels, whose
means of buying luxuries and maintain
ing fash appearance are accepted as
substitutes for principles of honor and
the common kindness which even beasts
possess. 1t is a sermon against promis-
cuous dances, fancy suppers, indiscrim-
mate associations, and secluded drives,
at late hours, beyond the constraints Of
home and under circumstances to rouse
the devil there is in any man and posi-
bllities to wickedness or fatal confidence
which are in every woman. 1t is a SER
mon against bringing up boys to be
loafers, ministering to their own pas
sions, and girls to be simpering, gig
Cling, pampered idlers, intent on no
useful work, but pursuing the gratifca-
ton of their vanity, and trusting to
their wits alone to keep them from the
snares which are set under every excite
mert and pleasure. One amiable beauty
went to dishonor and death out of
decent and plain home, in the furious
search for enjoyment which ministered
something to pride, something to the
senses, and nothing to the mind. Two
boys, who might have earned respect
able living and added to the worlds sum
of work, went into conspiracy against
a woman's honor, did her to her death
and are now sitting in the shadow of
the gallows. Ii such lessons as are
taught were needed, and who shall say
they were not surely the memory of
that pale and anguished face, beautiful
in the quiet and peace of death, looking
up from the mud and ooze of the river
bank. in the yellow light of an August
morning, should be moral monitor, to
the homes of this land, for as long as a
child's love, daughters honor, and a
parents pride in both, have power to
move the mind and heart of the race.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-15
Borrowed Herself Out.

It often happens that the loan of some
household necessity may be of very
great convenience to neighbor-such
as flour, eggs, matches, tea, ETC., but
how often these things are paid back by
an inferior article, or else entirely for
gotten, or perhaps the show of making
payments is gone through when less
quantity than was given is returned. 1
remember hearing story which is so
apt to this last point that I cannot help
but relate it. ga plain Friend had for
a neighbor, one who was a constant
borrower, and as she saw the articles
when returned were less in quantity
than she had given, she resolved to put
the following plan into execution. She
bought one pound Of the very best tea
and PIT it into separate box, and
when the neighbor borrowed a cupfnl
it was taken out of this box; when she
returned it, it was put back in the same
place but as she always returned a much
less quantity than she borrowed, the
result was in time the box became
empty. So one morning when she
came for the usual cupful of tea which
she would return after she came back
from the store the following conversa-
ton took place.
"Dost thou see this tea box, Sarah
Ann ?" "Yes T. "Well some time
ago filled it with a pound of the very
best tea and | kept it specially for thy
use. [ took from it only what L loaned
thee, and l put back into it what thou
returnedst. Now it is empty; there
fore say unto thee, thou hast borrowed
thyseIf out, and l have no more to loan
| thee, Farewell !"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-15
Love in June.
nIs it not beautifnl. sweetheart ~

"Is it not beautiful, sweetheart ?"
"What ?" asked George W. Simpson,
looking tenderly into the deep blue eyes
of Daphne Mccarthy as they were raised
to his and glancing around in a nervous,
steer eer-caught-in-the-corn way.
"Wby, the sweet perfume that is be.
ing waited to us on the June air." said
the girl, shifting her chewing gum as
she spoke. "Do you not feel the SEN
suous langor that is all about us-the
subtle perfume that seems to have kissed
the air with dewy fragrance?"
The wistful, fear-haunted look came
again into the mans face. He shifted
the air in several directions and there
came upoA the perfect features of his
Wabash avenue face smile of calm
content. Yes, darling" he said, bend
ing over the girl, 81 tumble now"
"And what is this perfume, George ?"
the girl asked. "Can you tell me,
darling p
"You bet L can, my angel" replied
George, speaking in tones Of passionate
tenderness. "They are going to have
corned beef for supper in the next
house"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-15
A Batter Pudding.

An excellent batter pudding made
with eggs in the good old fashion way
before baking powders were known,
and served with strawberry sauce, is q
fine dessert. Here is the receipt: For
the pudding. Stir twelve tablespoon
fuls of flour into the yolks of nine eggs,
and beat thoroughly, adding q little
salt. Stir in slowly quart of milk, and
just before putting the pudding in the
bag add the whites OF nine eggs. Boil
either in q creased mould or in q heavy
linen or jean bag, which has been well
creased and Toured. Let the pudding
boil slowly two hours, being careful that
the water is boiling when it is put in
and that the boiling does not stop for an
instant till it is done. After you lift
the pudding ont of the water, submerge
the mould or bag in cold water for a
second, this will insure tho pudding
coming out of the mould smooth and
CLASSY. Serve at once with the folio wing
strawberry sauce Beat to a cream half
a cup of sweet butter and two cups of
powdered sugar, and add large cup of
strawberries. Mash the berries thor
oughly and beat them into the sauce SO
that they form smooth crimson mass.
The golden batter pudding looks very
pretty with this crimson sauce, and is
delicious. This is an excellent way tc
introduce Strawberries to the table when
they first come and are expensive, as
as only few are required and the early
acid berries are fully as good for flavor.
ing as the later sweet ones.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-15
Curious Condolences.

A bill collector, who had after many
vain attempts succeeded in securing an
audience with the occupant Of an office
on Larned street, West, was met with
the salutation: swell, now, but isn't
this curious coincidence | Why, / was
just reaching for my hat to go and pay
this very bill. I'll call at the store in
less than fifteen minutes" Minutes ran
TO hours, but he did not appear. Hours
made days, and days made weeks, and
nearly six months had gone to keep the
eighteenth century company, when the
collector found the debtor in once more,
and presented the bill. "Lands alive
but this, indeed, is a curious coinel-
dence = exclaimed the occupant. "Not
five minutes ago found myself dead
broke, and said to my flee boy that
your bill would surely turn up. Well,
well, but how strangely things do hap
pen Please call some time in the fall. /"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-15
Send the Indian to School.

Facts recently and more remote dates
made public through these columns show
that the experiments made at Hampton
Normal School, Virginia. in the direc-
ton of teaching young Indians to be
cleanly and decent, and to study, think,
work and acquire steady habits, have
demonstrated that all of the average In
dian needs, to become as good as any
body else, is opportunity. He has been
SO anxious to learn to till the soil that
Congressman have seen him at Hamp-
ton, hoe in hand, working beside ne
groes. What Congressman would do as
much to prove his desire to learn how
te earn his living honestly? The young
Indians arrive at the school in blanket
and breechclout, with tapgles in their
hair, suspicion in their eyes and large
quantities Of misplaced real estate in
their faces they go away two or three
years later in decent garments
and good temper and with heads full of
new ideas and hands trained to work.
Their parents, instead of being disgust
ed at these departures from the good
old ways, are delighted at the changei in
their boys and girls, and the neighbors
demand that their children also shall
have chance to goto school. The In
dian agents are not pleased, neither are
members OF the Iudien Fling, for little
leaveneth the whole lump, and if the
idea of really becoming like civilized
people should enter the Indian mind
through the medium of tie children
who have been to school no power IN
the country can keep up the jobbery
aad rascality that have characterized
our dealings with Indians through many
administrations Nevertheless the young
Indian should be educated for his own
sake, his family's sake and that of the
nation, particularly as it costs a hun
dred times less to educate him than to
kill him, which is the only alternative
that has ever been disc sc)verel.-NeD
York Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-15

The HIGH HAT.-The ordinary high
hat has generally been denounced as a
grievous imposition of fashion, but 1t
has at last been turned to really useful
purpose. The Swiss Federal Council
was at it's wits end to know what to do
with the requests for invitations to the
st. Gothard festivities, and there were
1900 gentlemen at least' whose claims
were undeniable, but all of whom the
Council did not see its way to feeding
and lodging for three days" In this
emergency the Council has intimated
that "cylinder hats aud black coats Wilt
be de rigueetr," and this costume is so
abhorrent to Switzers that many will
stay away rather than wear the hat.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-15

tell him that even my great love for him,
even the prospect of being near and
watching over him once again, could not
persuade me to touch with my lips the
accursed drink Save me if you can by
other means, and I will live for him
again, as I have lived for him Le5ore.
But do not force that to my lips. With
my last strength will resist you.
will turn my head from the myrrh and
wine, and die as my Saviour died !''
Faithful to her resolve, from that hour
she sank, and they brought her hus-
band in to sit beside her through those
last hours A little before the end came
she looked at DR.. Lisner, and he bent
over her with his ear very near her lips,
as before.
"Tell him, when I am dead" she
gasped; something tells me it will save
him yet"
'If you gain greater assurance of
that toward the end, will you let me
know, dear Clara ?" he murmured back.
Her power of speech was gone, but
she looked at him with the earnest
agony of vain endeavor.
'If possible, and if you are happy in
that increased assurance, toward the
end, will you signify it by turning your
eyes from him to me, and back again ?"
She looked at him with a thankful
smile; and he sat on one side of the bed,
holding her hand, while the husband
held the other. So they sat for half an
hour, her face growing radiant and inef-
fably calm. Then, as though she saw
the Summoner, she gave her husband
one long, bright look, raised her eyes
for an instant to DIR. Lisners, and fix
ing them again upon her husbands
face with forgiving hopefulness, con-
tinued looking fondly so until she died.
From that scene, and from the mo-
ment when, above the dead ones grave,
DIR. Lisner poured into his ear all that
her last words had bid him utter, Addi-
son Asher went down TO his grave man
so changed that his worst enemies-and
he had made some-spoke softly of him.
Wifeless, childless, and, with the ex-
ception of DR.. Lisner, friendless with
fortune, and ruined health,
and premature gray hair, and wrinkles
come too soon, he went down to his
grave with one memory clinging around
him like a sanctifying robe.
With temptation tugging at him in the
guise of hereditary passion, craving
thirst, lifelong habit, unrelenting re-
morse, he kept before his eyes the pic
ture of dying woman, whose eyes
were fixed on him with forgiying
and working out her own
salvation with fear and trembling, next
TO the God who had heard her, he wor-
shipped the wife that had saved him.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-15
Another Story of Custer's Death.

The Rochester Democrat has the fol-
lowing item:
The case of Sebastian Beck, whose
career among the Sioux Indians was
noted in this journal, has been fully
investigated at the County Poor Office
by Overseer McGonegal. During the
recountings of his wanderings, the old
man gave reporter from this journal
clearer insight into the battle of the
"Little Big Horn than he before had.
Beck, who has been a captive among
the Sioux for eight years, participated
in that battle. He recounted the de-
tails of the murderous charge upon
Custer, in his broken English, in man
ner that was inter esting even to those
who were familiar with the slaughter OF
the gallant General and his band. He
said that upon the night of the charge
Sitting Bull expected Custer, and had
massed all his forces and had band of
5000 warriors, OF which he was one.
The plan of their battle was as follows:
The Indians fenced in large corral
with sapIings, and within built fires.
Upon the saplings they hung their blank
cts, and within they fixed bilIets Of
wood to represent themselves as seated
about the fires. They then went into
the mountains surrounding the spot and
waited until Custer and his company
should be attracted to the trap they had
f7I 60 ElDx
General saw the light, reconnoitred,
and thought his chance had come. He
opened fire upon the Indians. This
was the signal. With one fell swoop
8, coo painted devils rushed down upon
him from the mountain sides. In
moment the little band of 800 men were
surrounded, and the unequal battle was
commenced. Beck said that Custer
showed no fear, but rode into the fight
with eyes and saber flashing, and never
raised it but that he left upon some red
skins face his bloody and ragged edged
trade mark "X," which so many of his
victims in the late war knew so well.
One by one his men fell beside him, and
at last he stood alone among them bat
Ting with his trusty saber in his re-
naming right hand. But at last he too
fell. pierced by seven shots. Beck said
that his fight was terrible in its destruc-
tiveness. Fourteen of those Indians
who entered the fray paid for it with
their lives, and their cold copper-hued
faces lay turned to the morning sun
next day, with those of the 800 brave
soldiers who folio wed the brave Custer
into his last fight. This is the story of
the old captive of the Sioux, who claims
that he was there and saw that intrepid
officer die. His last words we're: &c
am alone 1 have done my best the
boys are all gone and will go with
them "
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-15
TEXAS STFTINGS.

THERE is a mitigation to every mis-
fortune. GuiteaU writes poetry, but he
cannot take it to the newspaper Offices
and ask the editors to pabish it.
MOST of the Austin boarding houses
are built up on the tops of the hills in
stead of down in the ravInes. IIabatt
says the object is to prevent the board
ers from becoming too ravine-ous.
WE NOTICE IN several Texas exchanges
the item that the State is full of tramps.
AS the legislators are all now en- route
for their homes, it is improper, to say
the least of it, to publish such items.
AN Austin Sunday school teacher
wanted to make his pupils comprehend
the parable of the good shepherd, so he
said: "Now, dear children, suppose
you were all little sheep, and had
charge of you and led you about, what
would be ?" GA big Sheep" was the
unanim GUS response in chorus.
WHENEVER an account of any shoot
ing scrape appears in any Texas paper,
1t Is almost always certain 70 VINO UP
with the statement that the survivor
belongs to one of the most respectable
families in that part of the State. The
public has read this SO frequently that
the responsibility of the family of a
party to shooting scrape has almost
become proverbial. This was illustrated
admirably in a conversation we over
heard few days ago. An Austin mer-
chant asked friend if he knew of a
proper person to take charge OF set OF
books. '.Yes there is young Bill Fla
vim. He is good hand at books, and
he belongs to one of the most repect-
able families" "It can't be much OF 9
family. I never heard OF any Of them
| shooting anybody"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-15
LOCKING THE STABLE DOOP.
BY LILLE E. BARR.

Maggie, said John, one winter night,
When the weather was cold and wet,
You did not shut the stable door,
And l wonder you could forget
You know that you went there late for eggs,
And you left the door open, dear;
So better go lock it at once, Maggie,
Or the pony will stray, fear"
"Why, John, you were in the stable last;
You went to give Fanny her corn;
And l think you had better lock the dOor
If you want her tomorrow morn"
maggie, you know that you went for eggs" Z"
''Oh, but that was at four o'clock;
And if you're afraid Of Fanny, John,
You had butter go turn the lock"
My boots are off, ard my pipe is lit.
And I'm balancing books tonight;
Go, Maggie, and lock the stable door,
And see if the pony is right.
L would do it with pleasure myself,
But I'm busy, as you can see;
And really think you ought to learn
To rely on yourself-not me-"
He looked at his pretty little wife,
And she saucily tossed her head;
8 And really think that you might see
am making to-morrow's bread.
And now, when my hands are in the yeast
Why, John, am perfectly shockedI
I wouldn't go now to the stable
If its door should never be locked"
every well, love; but if Fanny's lost
You must never blame me, )" he said,
Then he turned anew to bills and books.
And Maggie to kneadlng her bread.
But, o the evening was sad and long,
And the balances all at fault;
Aud Maggie's bread did not rise at all;
1t was ruined with too much salt.
Maggie was silent, busy and sad,
And John could make nothing come clear
At length he said, with merry laugh:
Shall we go the stable, dear p
So she took the light he took the key;
And they went through the wind and rain;
But they never for trifles quarrel'd more.
SO the lesson was not in vain.
- Tef11pJ-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-06-15
WIT AND WISDOM.
IF you are so terribly nervous that
every stupid thing You see frightens
you, avoid the looking glass.

IF you are SO terribly nervous that
every stupid thing you see frightens
you, avoid the looking glass.
In LIFE it is difficult to say who do
you the most mischief, enemies with
the worst intentions, or friends With
the est.-Bulwer Lyton.
THERE is certain way of distinguish
ing man from head waiter at swell
party, Notwithstanding both may be
dressed the same. The waiter generally
has towel on his left arm, and the man
generally has young lady there, if he
is agreeable. le.-Picayorae.
"FATHER, when hen sets on an egg
three weeks and it don't hatch, is the
egg spoiled?' GAS an article of diet,
my son, the egg is thenceforth failure,
but as a species Of testimonial it is
strikingly aromatic and expressive. -
Rome Sentinel.
AFTER the circus is over, after the
wild beast shows done. First son Of
toll (ecstatically): "That was bully
show. Did you see the lion-tamer,
hey?" Second son of toll "Didn't I2
I tell you it takes him to boss lion.
Why, he just knocked that old lioness
about as if she had been his wife p'
HERE is another illustration of the
power of the press-the Archimedan
lever that moves the world, etc. Last
winter nearly every paper in the land
ridicuIed the big hats worn by the la
dies, md now fashion item says The
feminine hat is larger than ever this
summer. r.-NOrristOaUn Herald.
ACCOMMODATIONS for six - Moses
Schamburg has heen annoyed by bur-
glars prowling about his residence on
the upper end of Austin avenue. Yes
terday he went into gun shop to buy
pistol. "What kind of weapon do
you want ?" ST would like one," said
Nose, emit accommodations for six
burglars. ."-Te1as Sittings.
"PoRTER," said a passenger from
Albany, on the New York Central Rail-
road, as he stepped into his sleeping
berth, ''call me at Lyons, sure" "All
right, sab" Late next morning he
called him. "Only twenty minutes
from Buffalo, sah." "Why didn't you
call me at Lyons ?" "LyonsP Fore
goodness, dat's it You did say Lions
for suah, boss, an I done fought ober
the whole circus, an hope to die of
could ketch onto any animile higher dan
Buffalo I'll remember de cage next
time, boss
The kangrew amt much ov recon-
end for the factory wich made him, or
maybe he knu in himself wen the rigi-
nal diergram was in the safe, and rakjn'
up such organs az wuz lef over he made
his ownseE. He looks in the face like
shaller goose, and wen you see him
walkin' on his narrativ, you don't blame
nachur for givin' him that expression.
His legs mus been made on difrcnt
moles, cause the last one iz long as
torchlite perceshin, but the front ones
haz got too much shortnin' in. Sum
kangrews haz thare cloze made so they
kin carry thare fanliys round in thare
overskurts, but if i wuz boy kangrew
ide rather paddle none kanew. Kan
Crews wares mustaches like cats, but
jackass kin give 'em yard start on the
ear question an beet 'em like sicksty.
Eff had ter be kangrew ide hev mi
tale sawd off close an mend my arms
with it SO i could reech the bottom of
the preserves. Rome Sentinel.