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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-20
THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH.

Under spreading chestnut tree
The village smithy stands
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands;
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.
His hair is crisp, and black, and long,
His face is like the tan;
His brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whate'er he can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man.
Week in, week out, from morn till night
You can hear his bellows blow;
You can hear him swing his heavy sledge
With measured beat and slow,
Like sexton ringing the village bell,
When the evening sun is low.
And children coming home from school
Look in at the open door;
They love to see the flaming forge,
And hear the bellows roar.
And catch the burning sparks that fly
Like chaff from threshing-floor.
He goes on Sunday to the church,
And sits among his boys;
He hears the parson pray and preach,
He hears his daughters voice,
Singing in the village choir,
And it makes his heart rejoice.
1t sounds to him like the mothers voice,
Singing in Paradise;
He needs must think of her once more,
How in the grave she lies
And with his hard, rough hand he wipes
A tear out of his eyes.
Toiling- oicing- sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close III
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a nights repose.
Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought
LoNGFELLow.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-20

A BANK VAULT. An ingenious burg
lar-proof bank vault has been con-
structed in Western city. 1t consists
of an inner and outer easement of iron.
Between the two is a network of elec-
trio wires charged by powerful bat
terry. If robber should bore through
the outer shell with any metal instru-
ment, he would be struck dead as if by
lightning, or if not killed outright,
would be held a paralyzed prisoner.
This is how the builder of it, tells the
story, at any rate.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-20
His First Poem.

Longfellow spoke to me, says a cor
respondent, of his first poem-the first
that ever was printed-and described
his trepidation, when going, in the
evening, to drop the precious manuscript
into the editors box. This was at a
weekly newspaper Office in Portland,
Maine, when he was boy. Publica-
ton day arrived and the paper came
out-but not word of the poem. But
I had another copy" he said, "and I
Immediately sent it to the rival weekly,
and the next week it was published.
And then he described his exultation
and inexpressible Joy and pride,
when, having bought copy of the
paper, still damp from the press, and
walked with it into by-street of the
town, he saw, for the first time, poem
of his own actually in print 81 have
never since had such thrill of delight" "
he said, "over any of my publications. "
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-20
Deliberate William,

William II. Deibert, of Leadingville,
Pa, is wonderfully deliberate and i'm
perturbable. After eating a dinner in
his usual slow manner, he pushed his
chair back from the table and remarked
"Uncle Abe is hanging in the barn. -
The family rushed out and found that
Abraham Deibert had indeed committed
suicide. William said that he had not
thought it best to spoil the meal for
them, considering that the man was al
ready dead.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-20

PoULTRY.-The account of young
Maine farmer, whose hens do pay,
stood as follows at the end of six
months On hand, his original 10 hens,
plus four large broods of chickens; be-
sides all the eggs used in the family.
The credit side of the account shows
that the hens paid for their own grain
feed, and the grain feed of one COW and
two pigs for several months, and fur
nished by sale of eggs in addition $5 in
money. I think his hens were chiefly
Plymouth Rocks.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-20
WIT AND WISDOM.

The tailor knows how to get around a
customer.
A LEARNED MAN is tank; a wise man
is spring.
MEASURE YOUR minds height by the
shadow it casts.
THREE people can keep secret when
two of them are dead.
WHEN business is ''run down" it is
time to have it "wound up"
DANISH butter is the latest foreign
importation. ''Now we can have it
pat"
81 CAN'T account for it p exclaimed
the defaulting bank cashier.-PhiLa-
detohia Item.
A BLACKSMITH is seldom arrested for
forgery, though he lives by it.-Cana-
6ridge Tribune.
A Two-YEAR old tootsy-pootsy told
her aunt it was "yaining," because she
heard its feetsteps on the gallery"
THE man who makes the best of life,
loses the worst of death. The cream of
mans experience is obtained from
spilled milk Whitehall Times.
Cry of the Constituent
"Tell me, gentle Shipherd, tell me true,
Does my sweet Senator sail among your crewP"
Puck
A Troy lawyer asked a woman on the
witness stand her age, andshe promptly
replied: a" I sold milk for you to drink
when baby, and haven't got my pay
yet"
In New Jersey if bank cashier or
public officer of trust doesn't get home
by nine o'clock at night they immedi-
ately begin forwarding his mail to Eu-
rope. Bloomington Eye.
IT is asserted over and over that
anxiety shortens life, but when chap
sees another fellow feeding his girl
sandwiches at picnic is he going to
sit down and bid his soul be calm?
IT IS a singular coincidence, soon
after Beecher publicly declared that he
had been in the habit when in Paris of
visiting Mabille, the Parisians shut it
up Cincinnati Saturday Night.
THE difference between a person in
his first childhood and his second child
hood is this: In his first childhood he
cuts his teeth; in his second childhood
his teeth cut him. Courier.
THREE sticks of stove wood weighing
five and half pounds bend boys back
four inches out of plumb. How many
additional sticks will it take to make
his chin touch his knees ?-Detrot
Free Press.
AN old farmer was in town last week
looking for an editors table on which
to build a hens nest. He explained
that he had learned from The papers
that the biggest eggs were always laid
on the editors table, and he wished to
ascertain whether the papers lied or
not.-The Judge.
A FLORIDA man the other day killed
a rattlesnake by throwing a glass of
whisky IN its face. Now we understand
why Oil City hunters invariably take a
quart bottle of whisky with them when
they go cunning. We had been told
that it was a good rattlesnake antidote
but we never knew how it was used'
Derrick.
WHEN Filkinsbury moved away from
town he was asked if he received any
thing in the way of a keepsake from the
citizens. No." he replied, "nothing;
though believe there was something
said about my receiving the congratula-
tons of the people in my change of
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-20

PUNCHED coin has been driven out of
circulation, except when you are in a
hurry and the grocer knows you to be
a man who don't count your change,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-20
THE NEW ARITHMETIC.

A LADY desires to divide six sun
flowers among five girls so that each
girl can wear one to the party. How
can she do it without cutting one of the
girls in two?
A BANK has $7S, 400 IN its vaults.
The cashier gets away with $50, ,3S2,
and the bank settles with him for two
thirds. How much is the bank ahead,
and what will the poor cashier do if
next winter happens to be hard one?
A CERTAIN grocer, whose scales only
weigh fifteen ounces to the pound, sells
800 pounds of various goods every
twelve hours. Find what he gains
weekly, and after you have figured it
up do your trading with some other
house.
A DOG starts out to overtake cat.
She has seventy feet the start and knows
that he means business. At the end of
every rod she slips back two inches
and he gains four inches. How far
must he leg it to overtake her and hush
her yeowls forever ?-DetroitFree Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-04-20

a sUIEsT1sr named Mivaet viii
soon issue work on tho cat" says tho
New Haven Register. We've done that
already. 1t was heavy copy of
Shakespeare's plays, and we issued it
from q third story window, and it took
her right between the shoulders, and
we hope it broke her blamed back
Boston Post.
PERSONS in Texas who want to send
horned frogs through the mail to their
friends in the North, should defer doing
so until the mails make faster time than
they do at present, as the frogs will be
sure to starve to death before reaching
their destination. N. B.-A horned
frog will live three months without
eating.
THEY tell of q man out West who was
putting blast in well and it went off
prematurely and blew him out into an
apple-tree about fifty feet away. In
he recovered himself, and re-
marking, "The Lord knows better than
I do, after all; I guess it's about time to
go pruning" took large pruning
knife from his pocket and set to work.
.RoDae Sentinel.
ELECTRICITY is n wonderful thing.
There is an electric hair brush war
ranted to make the hair grow and cure
headache, and an electric flesh brush
that will cure several other ills that
flesh is heir to; and now if some fellow
will bring ont an electric clothes brush
that will make an old suit of clothes look
and wear like new, he can sell thousands
at dollar apiece, or three for two dol
lars. .-NorriStoa0n Herald.
AN EXCHANGE says: "Some must have
q apuarter of column to express a we'll
defined idea, when writing for news
paper; but it is astonishing how concise
they can make an advertisement that
costs thirty cents per line." Yes, some
like to spread when it don't cost cent.
That class of men are so thin that they
don't amount to much in the world
Cambridge Tribune.
"WHAT shall we do to entertain our
girls ?" says a religious exchange. A
man who needs advice as to how to en-
tertain his girls is not fit to edit re-
ligious paper. We suggest that he
should take one of them out buggy
riding in the afternoon, tell her what
daisy she is, and how insipid and fixed
up that other girl is. Then he should
take "that other girl out for ice cream
after supper and tell her conidentially
how very uninteresting and awkward
the buggy riding girl is. When the
two girls meet the religious editor can
depend on them entertaining each other
without his personal assistance.-Ieras
SGttangs.
THE NEW ARITHMETIC.
A LADY desires to divide six sun
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-28
Industrial Notes.

The United States consumes pei
capita twice as much iron and steel a.
England.
In Chicago there are 1918 indus
trial institutions'in which are employed
I3I,4Io persons.
The development and importance
of our wool and wooden industry dates
from the passage of the tariff of 1924.
The Texas Live Stock Journal
estimates the beef crop of that State
for the year 1882 larger and better
than ever before.
The North Carolina farmers are re-
ported to have devoted 20 per cent
more of land to grain this season
than they did last year.
President Jefferson urged that our
domestic manufactures "under pro-
tective duties and prohibitions" would
become permanent.
The policy of free traders is to
have this country produce raw mater
ial and have the rest of the world do
all the manufacturing for us.
Ten million feet of lumber is a
large lot, but that is the amount a
Boston lumber firm sold to one New
York house, one day last week.
att is our glory that the American
laborer is more intelligent and better
paid than his foreign competition
Garfield. The protective tariff does
it.
The total exports from the Sand
wich Islands in 1881 were $6,7I4,7a6,
and the total imports $4,547,o7S, of
which $3,3o6,3Io, was American
products. ktttA
The balance of cash in the state
treasury, April IS, was Sa,a4s,3SS.os;
receips for the week ending April ~
wer $as,or7.44; payments for the same
time, $so,oa5.56; leaving balance
April az, 1882, of $a,sII,3So.S3;
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-28

Ballou's Monthly Illustrated Magazine.
The May number of Ballous Magazine
is issued, and mighty good number it is.
The illustrations are all good, the fashions
fresh and pretty, the comic pictures in
tensely funny, and the stories the best
that can be found in any magazine in the
country, while the poetry is far superior
to most of the kind published as such in
other serials. Take it all in all one can't
help being satisfied with this magazine, it
is so good and cheap, and glance at the
table of contents will satisfy every one
that it is worthy of place in every family.
Published by Themes & Talbot, 90
Hawley Street, Boston, Mass, at only
$3.50 per annum, post paid, and for sale
at all the news depots in the country at Is
cents copy. Speak to your neighbors
about it. and get up some clubs this spring.
We will send Ballou and THE TIMES
one year for $2.75.
Peterson's Magazine, for May, is re-
ceived: as bright and welcome as May
itself. The principal steel engraving,
Comm Thro' The Rye" is especially
beautiful. and illustrates a capital story by
Frank Lee Benedict. The article on
Scandinavia" with its numerous en-
cravings and its account Of the Vikings, is
one of the very noticeable papers for
which this magazine is becoming famous.
Then there is charming love story, Bar
bara, by new contributor, from whom We
hope often to hear. Mrs. Stephens pow
erful novelet of Washington society deep
ensin interest with the chapters in this mum.
ber The illustrations for fashions, EN-.
broideries, and fancy work generally, |
are as numerous and new in style rs ever.
There are two colored patterns, a special
ty with Peterson" no other giving these |
patterns. We do not see how any lady, |
or even family, can do without this in
valuable monthly. The price is but two |
dollars year, with great deductions to |
clubs, and free copy, or a photograph |
album, Or large engraving. for getting up |
the club. It is still in time to subscribe |
for 1882. Specimens are sent, gratis, to |
get up clubs. Address. Peterson's Mag |
azine, 800 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia,
Pa
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-28
win Strikes Advance the Working.
- mems Interests:

For some time past meetings Of
artisans and workingmen in the vari-
Gus departments of industry have
been held, regularly, in many of the
larger. manufacturing centers, with a
view to secure an increase of wages,
Especially important have been these
gatherings in Lawrence, Massachu-
Sets. and some other Of the large
manufacturing cities in New England,
and in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and
Chicago. There is a good reason
why the attention of all, who have
incomes which are measured by their
daily labor in any field of effort,
should be called to the matter. 1t is
fact that the increase in cost of all
the articles has been rs per cent.
during the past year, and as the cost
Of food constitutes about 10 per cent.
of the expenditures of families hav-
ing an income so limited that they
cannot indulge in luxuries, this is an
important matter, since the days
wages will now purchase but little
more than five-sixths as much as it
would agar ago, or even the past
summer. But this change is in no
sense the result of any action of the
employer or of the capitalists, as with
che workingman they have this in
crease to pay. BY this advance the
manufacturer has gained nothing,
since is confined entirely to articles
of food. The price he receives for
his goods have not advanced to any
considerable amount while in some
instances the raw material is consid-
crsbly higher. 1t is, also, pertinent
to state that an excellent authority
solemnly declares that during the
most prosperous year since the pres
ent business revival began, the
dividends of regularly established
manufacturing enterprises did not
average over S per cent. while many
Of them did not earn more than 8 or
4 percent. And now, with higher
cotton, wool and other raw materials,
and no increase in prices, the returns
from capital invested in manufacture
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-28
Death Of Jesse James.

The death Of Jesse James and the dis
Indignation Of his band of outlaws have
aroused a new interest In this subject
and the Historical Publishing Co., of st
Louis, announce q timely new edition OF
their famous Border Outlaws" contain
ing all the late startling developments, a
full account of the death of Jesse James,
and the fine piece of detective work that
led to that result, with a portrait of the
dead outlaw after he was shot. Book
agents and the rest of mankind will find
the advertisement in another column of
this paper.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-28

BENNINGToN. ApRu. 25th 1as

|
Cleaning up yards and burning rubbish
is the rule and not the exception in these
parts.
Some improvements are being made.
Mr.. John Walsh our enterprising mer-
chant is still charging his new store build
ing and outside cellar.
Mr.. ONeil has just added to the attrac-
ton of his new house by putting another
coat OF paint OH it. Quite important
changes have recently been made on the
Methodist Parsonage premises, which con-
serve both to beauty and health.
On Sabbath morning memorial services
were held at the Methodist church in re
membrance of the late Clark Beebe whose
death was noticed by your correspondent
in former issue. In the evening very
interesting Sunday School service was
held in the same church under the direc
ton OF the Pastor, Rev. G. w. Austin.
The review of the lesson for April was
the central thought of the evening,
Scholars, teachers, officers and Pastor
all bore part and held the best of atten-
ton from the large congregation from the
beginning until the last word was uttered.
The singing of the school assisted by the
Bennington Orchestral Band, contributed
largely to the interest of the service.
The school in the Salisbury neighbor-
hood has been suspended for few DAYS
owing to the illness of the teacher, Willie
Alexander. Under the skillful treatment
of Dr. A. Hume he is rapidly improving
and expects soon to resume his school
duties.
Salisbury & Co., are doing lively
business in the selling of plows and other
farming implements. Some interest cen
tered last Thursday at the farm of Mr..
Powers mile and half west of Benning-
ton station, to witness the trial of plows
between Salisbury g. Co., representing the
Lansing Bement No. % and Mr.. w.
Drury, representing the Wired plow.
The decision was in favor of the Lansing
Bement, resulting in its immediate sale.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-28

Spring Work on the Farm, in the Gar
den, in and about the House, will be ma.
terially facilitated by the many and var
led suggestions of the American Agricul-
turist for May, with its hundred or more
of articles, illustrated with large number
of engravings. Besides the editorial staff,
this number has contributions by Prof
w. II. Jordan, Of Pennsylvania Agricul-
tural College, on Experiments on the best
time Of Cutting Hay; Hon. j. s. New
man, of Georgia, on Use of Cotton Seed
Experiments with Fertilizers by several
farmers, systematzed and presented by
Prof. W. .. Atwater; DR.. III. Mayer,
on Experiments with Durra; Testing
Milk, by Col. NJ. G. Weld; Raising Turk.
les and Poultry for Profit, by ID. z. Evans,
Jr., etc. A Prize House Plan for the
country, with engraved plans and specifi-
cations; medium Bank Barn, with speci-
fications; multitude of labor.saving de-
vices and contrivances, with illustrations;
Peach Culture; many Garden Articles
Spring Birds; Exposures of Sundry Hum.
bugs; full Household and Children's De-
partments. etc., etc., make this most
valuable number. $3.50 year; Is cts. q
number.-Orange Judd Co., New York,
Publishers
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-28
Detroit, Mackindc 6 Marquette M.
Pioneer East and West Line Through the
Upper Peninsuio of Michigan

Actually the shortest line by 241 miles between
Detroit, Southern Michigan and all points In the
East and Southeast and the great iron and copper
districts Of Michigan.
One express and one mail train daily each way
between st. Ignace and Marquette, connecting at
st. Ignace with Michigan Central Railroad, and
after July Is with Grand Rapids Indiana Rail-
road, and during navigation with Detroit and
Cleveland Steam Navigation Company by the unex-
celled side-wheeled steamer City OF Cleveland, for
Port Huron, Detroit, Cleveland, etc; also with
New England Transportation Cornpany's Line for
Chicago and Milwaukee, Oollinwood and other
places In Canada, and with other boat lines.
Coupon tickets TO principal cities and towns on
sale at st. Ignace and Marquette.
For information as to passenger and freight rates
please apply 10
F.'MILLIGAN, Gen'l Frt & Passr Agt,,
Marquette, Mich.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-28
Amerinan Ladies'.

The first impression Sara Bernhardt re
ceiyed of the American ladies manifested
itself thusly:.--"O re ladies, "a are so
beautiful, such clear complexion nevare
see BEFORE" all of which is due to the
universal use of SwayDe's Ointment for
skin diseases, which insures a clear and
clean complexion. and healthy color.
This recalls to mind the divine precept
cleanliness is next to Goodness.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-04-28

ing must be smaller than during the
period referred to. What then, can
be done? Is there any ground to
hope that the relief sought can be OBJ.
tained3 We think not in the. di.
rection pointed out by these meet.
ing. But we should remember that
the advance in the prices of food is
due almost entirely to short crops
and speculations--that there is no
reason to believe that these condi-
tions, or either Of these, will continue
through another season.. 1t is posi-
bly, too early to make predictions as
to the crops of the coming season
with much certainty, but the condi-
tons of the winter wheat crop are
such as promise an abundant har-
vest. When this is assured there
will be fall in the price of bread,
and an average corn crop, and pre-
parations all over the west are being
made for an extraordinarily large
one, will result in lower priced
meats, while such a short crop Of
vegetables and fruits as those Of 1881
cannot reasonably be expected. If
the prospect, now so flattering, of
good crops shall hold good until mid
summer, the prices of most kinds of
food must drop with great rapidity,
but they will carry with them no re-
duction in the prices paid for labor,
and this fact workingmen ought to
remember.
In some of the cities these meet
ings have suggested and inaugurated
strikes with a view to compel the
payment of higher wages, but moth
ing has been gained by any recent
strikes, nor is there likely to be. In
fact, labor would suffer most by
strike at the present time, because
the condition of the markets is such
that manufacturers, in almost every
can better afford to stop
business than to increase their ex-
penses in any way. The great dan
ger, in all these matters, lies in the
checking of business enterprises and
consumption. So long as all classes
of the people have the means to be
active consumers, all can find en-
ployment, at fair wages. But, when,
from any cause, any considerable
number of the working class is de-
prived of the means of purchasing
and consuming, there will he dullness
in the market, and, in time over
production, which is is but another
lame for general lack on the part
If the mass of the people to purchase
md consume. Just now any de-
that would force large bod.
es of people to be idle, and which
would check material development
nd enterprise, would be unfortunate
n the extreme, as it would surely
ut an end to the general prosperity
,hich the country has enjoyed for
he past three years, and this would
e fatal to the best interests of the
,orking men. r.