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The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-06-08
WORT

kidney. Wort has given mMEDnYE RELIEF, In
many caseF OF rheumatism, full ny under my not.
ice.' DIR. Philip G. Ballou, Monktor, VI. Apr kCs2
~ never found even relief, from rheu matsm and
kidney troubles 81 | used Kiduey.Wort Now
I'm WE'LL David NJ, Hutter, Hartford, Wise.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-04
Fattening Swine.

1t is generally conceded that there
should be no standstil period in the cor
rect system of feeding. but that growth
ought to begin with young pigs and be
steadily and continuously increased until
the animal is ready for the butcher s
block While everybody nearly accepts
the ''no standstill" system as correct in
theory, most farmers in reality keep
their pigs during the summer months
on very poor and meagre ratiOns, waiting
until cold weather to begin feeding with
a view to fattening.
Growers who practice the plan Of
making the most of the summer season
by regular feeding testify to the decided
advantage of this system. In very cold
weather, unless the hogs can be well
housed and kept - p temperature of
about sixty degrees, what the animal
eats goes to keep up the heat, and the
food fails to produce the same amount of
fat it would in warm weather. There
remains no question but that it pays to
provide warm, comfortable houses for
swine during the winter season i'll rigor-
GUS climates.
The excessive fat gained by excessive
feeding of ffat-producing food is objected
to by many consumers, who prefer a
arger proportion of lean with the fat.
The Lire Stock J0ta710l says on this
subject that the hog is naturally a grass
and root eating ANIMAL but in its domes-
tication, being fed almost wholly in this
country upon concentrated food, has
come the habit of depositing this excess
of fat. If young pigs are kept upon
food that will grow the muscles and
bones and develop rangy frame they
will, i'll the opinion of the authority re
ferred to, possess so much muscle when
half grown that moderate length of
time III fatteuing, even on corn, will not
pile on an excessive amount Of fat.
Pigs fattened in Canada partly upon
barley, but largely upon peas-a highly
nitrogenous food, yielding II large pro
portion Of muscle-produce more lean
meat than do swine fattened almost
wholly upon corn-an excessively starchy
and fattening food.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-04
Domestic Recipes.

An Iowa housewife sends this recipe
for cookies, and says: eve did not
like cookies at our house, but we like
these" One cup of New Orleans mo-
Iasses, half a cup of water, half a cup of
shortening (this may be of butter or lard,
or Of nice beef dripping), one teaspoon
full each of ginger, cinnamon, and soda.
DO not use enough flour to make hard
dough, but have it rs soft as you can and
vet have the cookies smooth.
This is an excellent recipe for Gra-
ham gems, and differs from any before
given: One cup of Graham flour, one
cup of fine flour, two eggs, two cups
of sweet milk, One-fourth of a teaspoon
full of salt. Have the gem pans hot,
and the oven hot, and twenty minutes
will be long enough to bake them.
Delicious little cakes for children are
made of equal parts .of arrowroot and
wheat flour, Il little salt; a small lump OF
butter, and are wet with sweet milk.
Roll them quite thin, mixing the dough
hard; cut III fancy shapes, and bake i'll q
quick oven.
Here is the recipe for IN Old-fashioned
pie; Crate a cofee-cupful of maple
sugar, and mix with it two eggs and {
little salt, aud as much cream as YOU
pie-pIate will hold. The pie-plate should
be a deep one, with an under crust only
Green tomatoes sliced and fried in but
ter. la eggplant, are much relished by
some people. The slices should frs
lie in salt water for two hours.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-04
Only a Short Yarn.

A friend writes as follows to the New
Orleans Times of Mrs. Kate S. Mellow
ell, better known as ''Sherwood Bonner, "
author of the Dialect Tales" who re-
Gently died:
"It is scarcely more than a year ago
that Sherwood Bonner stood beside my
desk an enchantress, smiling at me with
vivid brightness, and talking gayly OF
trivial things. It is now no betrayal OF
her confidence to tell why she had sought
friend She had come to New Orleans
for medical advice, at the urgent solicl-
alton of friends, but having no fears OF
her own. That day surgical ternary
had cOncurred in an opinion that was
her death warrant. She had demanded
of them the whole truth, and their bit
| ter answer had been that one little year
of life was all that remained to her.
She heard the cruel decree with SOcratc
courage and dignity, and bore herself
with calmness. Then she arose and
girded herself for what was to come, and
unfinchingly faced her tragedy. Her
intention of celebrating and completing
some literary task newly begun, seems
to have failed of accomplishment. She
said she had outlined some work which
held the results of much close observa-
ton, and that she intended to conse-
crate part of her one year of life to the
task of putting it into lasting shape,
that it might stand as a witness OF what
she had hoped to do. But the grip OF
disease grew tighter, and her wonderful
vitality surrendered.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-04
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO.
The Boys of the OIdcn Time and the Boys OF
T0-Any Cnmparcd nmd thc KcsmIIs GiNcn.
[From the Milwaukee SUM-

From the Milwaukee SUM-
The Whitewater ChrOniclc, a paper
published by an old schoolmate of the
editor of The San, starts out an article
scoring the boys as follows
cat the risk of being thought too fas-
tiClious, and called n grumbler, the GtrO11-
iclc wishes for about the fourteenth time,
to make few mild remarks upon what
it considers n growing evil. There has
for long time past seemed to be n
strong tendency on the part of quite Il
number of the rising generation to in
dulge i'll Il good deal of idiotic enthusiasm
and general deviIishness.
Stop right there, old pard. When any
man who has been n boy himself, rs we
know the editor of the Chr0nicIc has, at
tempts to put on dignity and take the
! boys of the present day across his jour
nalistic knee, because they indulge in
''idiotic enthusiasm, - he starts the Irish
| in us, and the red hair snaps like strok-
| ing the fur of a cat the wrong way. Let
the editor of the ChrOnic'e look back
! twenty-five years, and think of the devil
| try that was going on among boys at that
time, and compare it with the quiet of
to-day. He complains because boys who
can raise two shiIIings go to the hall and
get in the gallery and whistle and stamp
| and shout at an entertainment
Twenty-Five years ago, in the same
town, boys never Thought of paying to go
i'll show at that same hall, but
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-04
The Newspaper Business.

"What facts can you lay before the
committee, Mr.. Swinton, III regard to
the compensation of those who are en-
gagged in the newspaper industry 2 was
asked by the Senate Committee.
"There are two branches Of this busi-
ness-the manufacturing, and the edi-
torial and reportorial work. In consider
ing the first branch it may be said that
there is no more profitable industry i'll
the world than that which is carried on
by some of the great newspaper corpor-
ations. Some of them pay as much us
115 per cent. on the capital invested,
and there are some editors, also proprle-
tors, whose salaries are Mt least $5OO,OOO
or 5000, 600 year"
In speaking of reporters compensa-
ton. Mr.. Swinton stated that the mini
mum received was probably Sl,OOO a
wear and the highest $1,000. The latter
salary was only obtainable in exceptional
cases. The writer's for the newspapers
as correspondents and so forth, received
from s., 900 to S25, 600 a year. The ay-
erage weekly salary of reporters was
from $40 to $75. The majority received
$50. There were 5000 persons i'll New
York city engaged in newspaper work.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-04

sachusctts during Philips war, became
one of the six chiefs of the Catholic
Mohawks in Canada; and Eunice VIII
Iiams, daughter of the Deerfeld minis
ter, married and remained i'll the tribe
from which her family had suffered so
much She visited DeerfieId in after
| years, wearing n blanket and a crucifix.
| Children were now and then recovered
who had forgotten their mother-tongue
| and who had become savages in habit.
When Mrs. johnson, of New Hamp-
shire, after tedious captivity, got her
children together again, one son was an
accomplished savage, handling the bow
and speaking only the Mohawk, and one
daughterknew nothing but the language,
religion and culture of a Montreal con-
vent. A lad from the mountains of
Pennsylvania, when released, refused to
return home; his father visited him
among the indians of Ohio, and won his
affection, and so brought him back, but
he spent his life rs pioneer, and was to
the last an Indian in habit and feeling.
Formal rites of adoption, not unlike
those i'll use in some ancient cOmmuni-
ties, were sometimes performed in the
case of adults who were taken to replace
some dead tribesman, Colonel James
Smith, who was captured while young
man in Pennsylvania and beaten to in
sensibility in running the gauntlet, was
at length formally adopted to replace a
chief. He was taken into the water, i'm
mersed, and roughly scrubbed by some
young squaws to get all the white blood
out of his veins. After living six years
among the Indians, he returned home to
find that his betrothed had married q
few days before his arrival The Indians
usually insisted that adopted captives
should marry. One Pennsylvania woman
only accepted husband after she had
been tied to a stake and threatened with
fire; and a Mrs. Bard, among the same
Indians. avoided taking a husband by
refusing to learn the language. Hugh
Gibson, another Pennsylvania captive,
was whipped for refusing the advances
of a squaw, after which he contrived to
escape, in company with two captive
girls who had also been notified that |
they must marry i'll the tribe.
Curious complications arose from long |
A Pennsylvania, taken III
Chester County, reached home Just as
the administrator of his estate had fin
ished selling off at auction all of his |
goods, which he proceeded to reclaim
from his surprised neighbors before they |
had removed them. Tedious litigation
in one instance resulted from doubt of
the identity of a girl returned from cap
tivity; and Mary Jameson, who was
taken from Pennsylvania in childhood
and was twice married to Indians, spent
her old age among white people i'll New
York. k.-Scri6ncr for September.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-04
A Suit Against n Postmaster.

The Solicitor of the Treasury has been
requested by the Sixth Auditor to bring
suit on the bond Of Cadet Taylor, post
master at Wenona, ILL.,, for the recovery
of 5000, the value of fOrGedmoney orders
cashed by one of his assistants. The
assistant obtained access to the safe i'll
which the order blank book was kept,
and thus obtained the order blanks,
which he filled out with fictitious names,
and having sent letters of advice to the
several postmastcrs on whom they were
drawn, obtained leave of absence and
had them cashed personally. He
escaped with the money thus secured
but was aftcrward arrested and con
victcd, and is now III the pcnitcntiary
1t is stated at the Solicitors Office that
| the point to be determined in this case be-
fore suit is brought ON the postmastcr's
bond is, whether it was through care
lcssncss on his part that his assistant oh
! tanned access to the money order blanks,
which by law the postmaster is Obliged
to keep in safe under his own care
The summer complaints: lawfully
! hot, ain't it
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-04

town that was not printed on stone, OF
cut i'll marble in the sidewalk, would ap-
pear in the wrong place i'll the morning.
and you can recall how the Iong-faced
citizens who could not see any fun in
such monkey work, said those bows
would all fetch up il State prison. We
have watched the State prison records
for a quarter of a century, and not a
single name of one OF those old White
water boys is recorded in any prison, but
we can point out fifteen of them who
occupy high position in all branches of
business. There aro lawyers, as good
as the State can produce, among those
nocturnal menager.e organizers and
smokehouse movers, f the oIden time.
There is a Judge of Western State who
used to make a speciality of putting
zebra stripes on a Thite dog with
backing brush, whose name we sup
press out of regard f.. his sisters, who
never could be madc believe that the
son of a Baptist mi->.'ser had in tie ma
trre of things, any OF the kittanishness of
other boys, but he had it bigger than
anybody.
And yet his decisions, on the judicial
bench of Colorado, are said to be marked
with no evidence that he ever worked
half the night to carry the northwest
corner of a smoke house around a block
to have it ready in the morning. There
is capitalist living il this city, who
helped place two hundred pound wood
en- boot, stolen from the front of shoe
store, upon q school house at White
water one night, but the exercise did
him good, and nobody was harmed.
Some of the best merchants, bankers,
manufacturers and professional men of
the State, grew up from these devils,
who made Whitewater fairly howl on
dark nights twenty-five years ago, and
it is astonishing that a paper, published
by one Of the boys, should kick because
the boys of the present day whistle and
stamp their feet nowadays. The San
does not wish to have boys do such
things now, because it is not necessary,
and there are other ways to str up the
blood, but it does not want people to
feel that boys are all going to the devil
because they do occasionally sIop over.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-04
THE MILKING UR.
You good old Boss, stand quietly now,

You good old Boss, stand quietly now,
And don't be turning your head this way
You're looking for Donald, it's plain to see,
But he won't be here to-day.
Nobody came with me, dear old Boss,
Not even to carry my pail; for, you see,
Donald's gone whistling down the lane,
And Donald is vexed with me.
And all because of a trifing thing;
He asked me a question, and said NAY.
Inever dreamed that he would not guess
1t was onlya woman's way,
wonder if Donald has ever learned
The motto Of TRY and try again."
l think, if lie had it might have been
He had not learned in vain.
And there needn't have stretched between
US two,
On this fair evening the meadow wide,
And needn't have millled alone tonight,
With nobody at my side.
What was it he said to me yester eve,
Something about-about my eyes?
It's strange how clever that Donald can be:
That is, whenever he tries.
Now, BOssy, old COW, you mustn't tell
That I've cried little while milking you;
For, don't you see? it is nothing to me
What Donald may choose to do.
If he chose to so whistlinS down the lane,
chose to sing gayly coming here.
But it's lonely without him, after all;
Now isn't it, Bossy dear?
I-hark who's that? Oh, Donald it's you
Did you speak?-excuse me-what didyo
say?
May you carry my pail?" Well, yes; at
least,
suppose, if you try, you may.
But. Donald if had answered No,
Do you think it would have occurred to
You
Not to be vexed at womans way,
But to try what cOaxing would do?
MD. Brine, In HGrPtT'S Htebly.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-04
She Had Never Travelled Before.

People sometimes wonder at the sharp
answers often given them by the officials
of a railroad ticket office. If they should
stand for years behind a window selling
tickets to people from all grades of So
ciety and from every nation i'll the world,
they would find it q severe task to keep
their good nature proof against the fool
ish questions they would 50 often have
to answer. A ticket seller at the Union
Depot, Troy, n. Y. remarked that after
thirty years i'll a ticket office he Won
dcred that he was able to return polite
answer to any question. He related an
incident that occurT11fat the depot. An
old lady came to the window and pur-
chased ticket for Saratoga, after which
she removed her bonnet, took out her
knitting, and seated herself III the wait
ing room. Soon voice called out:
'All aboard for Saratoga and the North, .
but the old lady didn't stir. Meanwhile
the waiting room had been deserted, and
the train was about to start Still the
old lady piled her needle III the most
unconcermed manner. Surprised at this,
the official III the ticket office asked her
if she wasn't going to Saratoga. ooh,
yes, " said the old lady, 1--WE bought my
ticket" ''But the train is about to
start" said the ticket man. "WelI, I've
got good scat, was the answer to the
astonishcd official. She had never
travelled before, and the hurried explana-
ton of the ticket man came too late for
her to catch the train.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-04
1t Didn't Come Of.

The members of coIored Methodist
church in Winson, n. c., projected an
excursion to Columbia, S. G. Not be
ing able to raise the money otherwise,
the officers of the church mortgaged the
church building for eight hundred dol
lars, receiving, however, only six hun
dred dollars in cash. The contract
price of the train was twelve hundred
dollars. AS soon as the Richmond and
Danville Railroad Company was notified
that six hundred dollars of the amount
had been deposited III the bank to the
credit of the railroad, the train was dis
patched from Richmond and arrived in
WinsOn on time. The trustees scratched
around industriously for several hours
trying to raise the six hundred dollars,
and finally failed. The railroad agent
poclcted the deposit, and the train
steamed back to Richmond amid the
lamentations of those who had purchased
tickets and supplied themselves with
grub for throe-days' trip. The inter
csting legal question now arises as to the
validity of the mortgage, and the matter
Is already in the courts. The church
lawyers hold that the contract is usuri-
ous; that the excursions are not i'll the
line OF serving God, and the preacher
declares that "domortgage am 10 count
no way, boss.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-04
Doubling Up.

A very slight error of fact or practice
will sometimes result in n serious mis-
take. This was recently illustrated III
school in New York city, where pupil
who had been impressed with the force
and value of double letters, such as
"double o" in fool" ''doublc e" in
"hecl," etc, was called upon to read
that touching poem oxhortatory to early
rising, beginning:
up, up, Lucy the sun is in the sky I"
Surprise, which soon gave away to
hilarity, was occasioned when the pupil
read the line: ''Double up, Lucy the
sun is in the sky = thus giving 1t a
significance by no means contemplated
lv the poet.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-04

The Lumber Wagons are
Of MIR. LILLEY'S own
manufacture and are well
and favOrably known
throughout this vicinity
as being thoroughly and
honestly made.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-04

DISCHARGED. About year ago a
manufactwlngcompany in Wllliamantic,
Conn.,, gave notice that after the cXpira-
ton of twelve months no employee
would be retaiuedin the mills who could
not read and write. Evening schools
were established. The few who neg
lectcd to learn to read aud write hnve
received notice of thcir dismissal
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-04

YEARS ago, when David Crockett was
a member of Congress and had returned
home at the close of the first session,
several of his eighbors gathered around
him one day and asked questions about
Washington. "What time do they dine
in the city ?" asked one. "Common
people. such as we have here, dine at l.
The big ones dine at 3; we Representa-
tives at 4; the aristocracy and Senators
eat at 5" "Wcll, when does the PreSl-
dent foddcr?" Old Hickory?' eX-
claimed the Colonel; "well, he don't
dine till next day"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-04

eff dat am a fac Use glad ter meet
yer. Yer see I Ibis way up dar in de
back ob de country, and is a poor man,
sab. | h'ar dar is some pervishuns IN
de cons tuition fer de culled man, and L
am har to get some oh 'em, sab, -
WhjtehaH Times.
LIE WAS CONVINCED.
A citizen having painted the front OF
his grocery hung out a sign bearing the
word "Paint."
"Ah so you have been painting =
queried the first man who came along
eyes, sir"
els it fresh paint ?"
"It is"
''Will it rub off ?"
''It will.
''Ahl yes-I seo-so it does" con-
tinued the man, as he rubbed his hand
over the boards and brought it away
covered with daub.
MORAL.
Never leave a fellow-man to find out
anything by rubbing his back against it
-Det5'O8 Free Press.
THE INTELLIGENT CONIPOsTTOR.
Distinguished medical man, entering
the Job printing Office on his ear-"Look
here, what in thunder do you mean by
putting in my circular that my medicine
will affect a cure2 Effect is what 1
wrote, sir, effect !"
Foreman-"Oh, yes, sir, we know all
about that, sir Very sorry, sir, very
sorry. The man who set that up has
given us a great deal of trouble, sir.
We've just turned him out, sir. He will
never be here again, sir. He has been
put to work on a morning paper, sir
LoujsUjYe Coluier-JouvnaL.
A RASH MAN.
eyes" said Fogg, CDR. PiIlroIler is 6
bravo man, no douht, but he carries his.
bravery too far. He is fooIhardy, sir;
never saw so rash a man. Called him
to sec Mrs. F., and he actually asked
her to let him see her tongue Fact,
sir. Wouldn't have believed any living
man would have had the courage to
meet that tongue of hers. = Boston
transcript.
HIS REVENGE.
They were riding up from the Wall
Street Ferry in bus. He lifted his hat
to her in gingerly manner, and she
bowed with the coldness of an iceberg.
"Know her" asked a man at his
elbow.
"Know her Why, was engaged to
her last fallr'
''And what?"
"And she gave me the bounce. She
said she loved me, but she could not ell
lure the thought of a struggle with
French flat and tapestry Brussels car
pets. [ went forth a crushed man, but
revenge is mine p
elbow? ?"
''Why, her father put $15O,OOO in
summer hotel, and the company hasn't
made enough to pay the wages of the
head waiter p Val Street NclC8.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-04

WHEN you hear hen cackIing about
the premises rs if she owned them, it is
safe TO assume that she has laid an egg.
In case you fail to find it, however, it is
more proper to assume that she has mis-
lad an egg. Still, somebody may have
poached -ROchCstcr EcPrcss.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-04

A MONSTER largest COW III
America, SO termed by the Western press,
belongs 10 John Pratt of Chase county
Kansas. She is three years old and
weighs 5000 pounds.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-04

A QUEsTIoN.-Among the victims at
Casamicciola were Signor and Signora
Bonavita, who left property worth ST.
600, 900, to which there is no direct heir.
Their relatives, III order to determine
the succession, have petitioned to have
the bodies disintered, that by IN exam
nation of the external injuries it may be
asccrtaimcd, if possible, which died first.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-04

READY MADE.-In Fairfield, Maine,
is a mauufactory of ready made build
inGs, which is said to be the largest IN
the world. It turns out dwellings, in
many sizes and shapes, as boots and
SHOES are turned out in other parts of
New England. The capabilities of the
factory range from a sh .inty 10 a S5O, 900
hotel, with every room fronting toward
the sea.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-10-04

eff dat am a fac Use glad ter meet
yer. Yer see I Ibis way up dar In de
back oh de country, and is a poor man,
sab. h'ar dar is some pervishuns IN
de ns'tution fer de culled man, and L
am har to get some oh 'em, sah' -
JVHteHaEL Times.