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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-12-20
SOjOurner Truth.

SOjOurner Truth died at Battle Creek,
Mich, Monday. She was born a slave
in Ulster County, n. Y, and until she
gained her freedom was known by the
name of Isabella. When she was nine
years old she was sold on the auction
block with lot OF sheep bringing SOL
She was owned by Colonel Ardinburgh,
but IN 1927 she was emancipated. Her
life as a slave was a hard one, her labor
being almost endless, and she was under
no improving influences.
She has been resting from her lecture
tour, at Grand Haven, Mich, her place
of residence preparatory to the renewal
OF her efforts, early in the spring, in
behalf of her favorite scheme for the
establishment of an African colony.
She was very remarkable in many ways.
Although more than a century old She
had a degree of physical and mental
vigor which very few women Of half her
age could boast.
In the days before the civil war she
spoke for the anti slavery cause with
Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips and
other early abOlitiOnists, and carried no
little weight by relating the facts of her
bondage and by her absolutely honest
utteranCes and supreme earnestness of
spirit. Even of late, though she had
been free forty years or more, had learned
to read aud write, and had constantly
associated with intelligent and cultured
persons, she retained all the PECULIAR
ties OF speech that belonged to the field
hands OF the South before its emancipa-
ton. She was Il strenuous pleader for
temperance, AMI woman's rights i'll the
fullest sense, and once declared, i'll her
quaint way. that she would not die until
American women could vote; that she
would not enter, disenfranchised into
the Kingdom of Heaven. She claimed
that she was 10 years old.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-12-20
A Yankee Square.

The justice of the peace is a thought
full whittier. He made dollar and six
bits IN fees last year, and whitfield away
s. worth of wood. His knife is neither
sharp nor dull. It is like his mind
surprisingly dull over the straightest-
grain questions, but wonderfully keen
when knotty problems get in the way.
He breaks off a piece of wood with his
stumpy fingers, and sits on tie edge OF
the sidewalk as if he had come to stay
and why should lie not stay since he has
all the time there is, and can do nearly
as much business there on the sidewalk
as in his little temple of justice hard by
Before preceding to whittle he thinks
it over a long, long time, and turns the
stick end for end and end for end again.
Finally, breaking into a low, soft wills
thing of good old Coronation, " or
"PleyeIs Hymn" he cuts a notch in
one end of the stick, and half listening
to the gossip of his fellow villagers, he
goes on whistling and whiting, whit
ting and whistling.
Now and then he slices a long, even
shaving from the stick, and squints
along the surface TO see if it is straight.
Then he sits and looks at the wood and
thinks and thinks and thinks. What
will he make of that stick? Simply
nothing. He viii squint along its sides
and make it as level as the villagers sup
pose his head to be, and he will smooth
it down until it is as glossy as the elbows
of his coat. But after all, he Will have
only smooth, straight stick Does it
symbolic his thoughts? Is lie sitting
on the edge of that sidewalk dreaming
of the straight path that leads to the
New Jerusalem and reminding himself
that. notwithstanding the gloss of var
nish on the tor tuous paths of vice, the
straight way is the smoothest way
Nobody knows. He only whites and
whites len HYide.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-12-20
Never Joke.

The Washington critic says: When
the Toledo Tcicgr0n1 says that eff S. S.
Cox had never made joke he might lie
next Speaker of the House, " it is only
putting in scntentious form what is
heard in many forms all about Washing
ton every hour nowadays. Why is it
that a man who adds great power and
clearness i'll the discussion of great
questions the ability to amuse as he
goes along should be so moderated by
the public? 1t is a singular fact, but
fact it is, and always has been. Tom
CorWin was probably the greatest man
Ohio ever produced, but because he
could amuse as well as instruct he was
always sneered at by the owls of poll
tics rs a ''joker." 1t took two elections
and a martyrs grave to give Abraham
Lincoln any other reputation than that
Of n Joker and Il story teller.
When Oliver 2. Morton was starting
in 1856 upon that wonderful career that
made him one Of the most conspicuous
figures of the war period, he commenced
by seeking to enliven that extraordinary
logical elOquence Off such a term is adj
missable) possessed by him in such
degree by ancodote and wiit;cism. He
had a happy turn that way. At Terre
Haute, after brilliant effort that COM
mended itself to his followers, Il ven
cradle and famous politician took the
young orator to task:
Young man, if you want to be re-
garded as a great man, great leader,
never tell story, never utter joke
look solemn and pound the table"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-12-20
Farming for Rows.

In the crash of that BLACK Friday"
of 1879, which so many New Workers
have cause to remember, a stock-broker
of that city lost all his property. With
in month he died, leaving a wife and
one son, who was reckoned a dull fell
low at school and college
The shock woke the boy to the neces-
sity of supporting his mother and
himself. He went into great mercan-
tile house in position little above
that of porter, but found that his pros,
poets there were not fiattering.
He looked about him; every occupa-
ton seemed over-crOwded AS for
taking up land in the West, he had no
money to pay his way there, and knew
nothing about farming if he had it.
What he did do was to wait until
June. With the little money he had
saved out of his wages he paid his
passage to Western Pennsylvania,
where he hired as farm hand. Strong,
intelligent farm lahorers always COM
mand high wages throughout the
Middle States. For two years the young
man held this position, helping his
mother out of his wages. In that time
JHeIS WIS uOJulllS III Gle management
of farm and cattle, both in theory and
practice, which he did not try to master.
At the end of the two years he went
down to the rich southern slopes of the
Blue Ridge and rented farm. By hard
and intelligent work he has now nearly
paid for it, and is at the present time
a successful cattle-raiser for the Balti-
more market, with fair prospects of be-
coming a rich man.
Our boys and young men who have
neither capital nor family influence are
beginning to turn their faces to farm
ing. Many of them go to the West,
and some of them come back with sor
rowful complaints of the coarseness and
roughness of Western life, and the OBJ
stacles to success in their path.
These young men become disheart-
ened and fail because neither they nor
any man can earn living at trade
which they do not understand. The
city-bred man should not take up or
buy a foot of ground until he has
learned how to work it.-YOutRS
COMPANION.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-12-20

First as to tools, let the knife be of
the keenest and the fork of the sharpest,
and keep them in excellent condition at
all times, otherwise the most competent
carver cannot avoid mangling fish, flesh
and fowl Before setting the carver to
work it may be we'll to advise as to
what may be called carver's etiquette
When carving, do not stand up, or sit
with arms akimbo or bow the back. All
the necessary strength can be brought
to bear while seated by inclining the
body sufficiently forward. During all
of the pauses in carving the knife and
fork should be placed on the lnife-rest,
and never thrust under what is being
carved. Nor should the knife and fork
be held in one hand while adding the
gravy with the spoon in the other. Do
not tilt the dish while serving the gravy,
or the table-cloth may be soiled or the
roast capsized. Should there be no
gravy-weIl tiny crust of bread may
be placed under one end of the dish to
cant it a little. Serve hOrse-radish
with the fork. Up to the moment of
using the gravy spoon should be in
vessel of hot water placed at the right
hand of the dish. Hot plates are es-
sential to the perfect condition of roast
meat: even a second hot plate for
second helping. 1t is scarcely neces-
sary to caution the carver not to forget
to ask what the preference is before
carving.
When carving fish, if salmon, avoid
breaking the flakes by dividing cross
wise; carry the knife down to the bone
lengthwise of the fish, and remove a
slice of either the thick or thin part, us
preferred. NIackcrel are split at the
tail, and the upper half raised from the
bone at that part; the bone IS removed
and the lower half served either entire
OF divided in sections. This applies to
most other small fish.
In carving a turkey or chicken, roast
ed or boiled, place it with the neck to-
ward YOU; take off the leg at the first
Joint and then the thigh, or take off the
whole leg and then Joint it. Remove
the wing close to the Joint, leaving the
breast intact. Then commence from
the wing Joint, cutting straight into the
bone and somewhat dIagOnally up to
the front OF the breastbone. Remove
the side bones by placing the fork firm
" into the breastbO9e and cutting with
the knife from the tail end.
With a goose or duck, after the joints
are removed, as already described, draw
the knife straight ac'oSs the brcastbone
the entire length OF the meat and Iii
rectly to the bone, scrviIg outwardly
and with parts OF the meat from the
thigh.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-12-20
TIME TO THINK,
One Of the Great Defects in the Training
of Girls

Zone of the most common defects in
the training Of girls writes a mother
who has proved her right to be a coun-
selor in this important work, sis that
they are not brought up to I've alone, to
stay at home II their own minds. y
From babyhood they are watched.
tended, noticed, guarded, never let
| alone. Even young infants are not so
much rs permitted to think out the
mysteries of a door knob, but are tossed
up, their little trains of thought inter
rupted, their solitude continually in
vaded. Let little girl be left to herself
hours of every day, near to loving
friends who have some other occupation
than watching and advising her, and
she will invent bOundleSS resources and
never be so happy. Solitude is a neces-
sity tU the formation of character.
There is food for reflection in these
words for all who have the care of chill
dren. The privilege of solitude is not
enjoyed by many children Of either sex
in our towns and cities. If they are not
minglng in the exciting labors or sports
of the crowded schools they are playing
IN the streets or with their mates in
their own homes: some social diversion
fills up nearly all the leisure hours of
every day and when there are no play
mates at hand the mother must give up
her time TO their amusements. Too
much company, too much Watching, too
much effort to direct every Thought and
action of the child, too little opportunity
for the development of its own individu-
allty-dOubtless these are reasons for
the feebleness Of many characters. In
deed, most Of the young people of our
larger towns become wholly incapable
of spending any time by themselves.
The moment their companions are out
of sight and the efforts to direct them
have ceased, they are restless and mis-
cradle. Nothing but an exciting novel
will reconcile them to existence. This is
largely due, no doubt, to the attraction
of social sport which takes hold so
strongly of the nature of the active
young people; but it is also the result
of the too persistent watchfulness of
parents in the child's earlier years, by
which the child is never left to itself or
fought to prize the sweet delights of
solitude. This is one of the disadvan-
tages which the children of the
cities are obliged to undergo. The
country boys and girls have much time
to themselves, and, while their minds
often lack the alertness that is produced
by the brisk social commerce of the
cities, it is possible that they sometimes |
gain in vigor and power Of concentration
more than they lost in nimbIeness and |
wit. The fact is that the majority of |
men and women who are at the head of /
affairs in the nation We're trained in the |
country, and while their success is
largely due to the fact they learned to
work in their youth, 1t is due in part, no
loubt, to the fact that they had in their
lays a good deal of time to think.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-12-20
Deserted Logging Camps in Maine.

Few persons except those who have
shared the lumberman's toll know any
thing of that life in the woods. Sports
men coming upon abandoned camps III
the summer, rs they penetrate the Maine
woods in pursuit of game or fish, fancy,
no doubt, that they can see, as they
look about them, just how life went on
here in the winter while the camp was
tenanted. The chances are that the view
will reveal little of the reality of that life,
if it does not prove utterly misleading.
The fact Is, the transformations wrought
by summer at its coming in the woods
are so great that if the chopper who
spent last winter i'll that camp were to
come here now he would scarcely recog
nize the spot. All this open space, so
rocky and so rough, was trOdden hard
| and smooth after the snow had fallen
deep. If you will look at the large
| bouders you Will see where the iron shoes
of the sleds ground off their highest
points. or where the sharp rocks gnawed
! at the runners shOd with maple. That
crooked, twisted hornbeam down there
by the road shows scars and marks OF
wear higher up than one could reach
now. 1t is where the chain was put
around to tie up pair OF oxen, while
| they munchcd their nOOn-tlde tOddefng
of hay that was served them in the yoke
! Little is left about here that was aban-
dOned when the crew went out OF the
woods upon the breaking up of the roads
in March. The runner Of a sled lying
by the hOvel is one that had to be re-
placed with a new one in the winter
! The broken yoke at the foot of the hem
| lock shows by the grips about 1t and by
the rivets with which it was bOlted, the
pains taken TO make it last through the
winter. Had the old yoke been taken
out of the woods in the spring it would
not have been worn on the necks of the
oxen, for in moving, one yoke of cattle
! hauled out the sleds and chains and
whatever had been carried into the
woods in the fall, while the others were
driven out unyoked so that they might
walk in single file where the roads were
narrow and the snow was deep. But
though Buck and GOlding were at liberty
to walk apart, yet where the road was
broad enough they fell in abreast and
walked side by side, just as they had all
winter long made their turns to the
landing. In the summer too, if pastured
with large numbers, they will yet be
seen feeding together, or lying down by
themselves apart from the rest of the
herd. The companionship of toll forms
the bond Of a lifelong friendship
Boston Tr0CCUCr.
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PAID IN HIS OWN COIN.
The ReTribuTivc Justice that Overlook an
UnfiIiaI SON.


81 was in Orange county the other
! day" said lawyer, land heard of the
! death of an old man [ had known there,
and it recalled a peculiar case Ofretribu-
| tive justice in that family.
Years ago the old man owned one of
the best farms in the county, and his
son assisted him in working it. This
son married and had a son. When the
grandson was about Is years of age his
father suggested to the grandfather that,
as he was growing old and had worked
hard all his life, he take things easy the
rest of his days. He asked the old man
to deed the farm to him, and let him
take sole charge OF it, with the aid of
the grandson. He promised the old
farmer a good home and an easy life as
long as he lived. The old man finally
decided the property to his son.
"NO sooner had he obtained the title
to the property than the son began a
system of the most heartess treatment
of his father. He compelled him to work
| harder than he had ever done for him
| self, would not permit him to eat at the
famiIy table, aHd subjected nm to all
kinds of prosecutions. The grandson
protested in vain against this treatment
of his grandfather, and finally the old
man left the home that he had made
and found an asylum in the county poor
house.
''After a while the son got badly in
debt, and so anxious was he to escape
the payment of his obligations that he
made a deed of the farm to his son.
Everything moved smoothly for time,
until one day the father gave some
directions that did not agree with the
sons ideas and the latter refused to con-
sent to them. The father declared that
his wishes should be carried out, and
ordered his son to leave the place. The
son, however, reminded him that he
held the title of the farm himself, and
that as they could not get along together,
the father would have TO go, and he did.
CATER the departure of his father,
the son re-cstabished his grandfather
in possession of the farm, deciding back
everything. The old man, however, gave
the farm absolutely to his grandson.
who provided amply for the old man
until he died. The boys father was Of
fered home on the old place, but he
refused to accept anything but the title
of it all, and the last heard of him he
was working as a farm hand in New
Jersey"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-12-20
Billy Fish,s Wnter Trcntmnnt.

It was one mile from London, Ohio,
in about the year 1893, when one
Christopher SlaGle had been given up
to die by the physicians, after several
consultations. He was a man of nat
urally strong constitution, but an in
veterate user of tobacco. Almost at
deaths door, he muttered in feeble
voice: of the doctors can do nothing
more for me, let Billy Fish try his
water treatment" With no more
knowledge of what to do than could be
acquired from the reading of his jour
nal in year, father undertook his task.
Mark, now, his manner of proceeding:
Placing two cOmfOrters upon the bed,
then two wooden blankets upon them,
he prepared his patient byremoving all
his garments Then taking a sheet
wruug from warm water, quickly spread
it and bodily the poor man was lifted
into it, too weak to get there himself.
Then placing his arms alongside his
body, the wet sheet was wrapped tight
" about every part of his body up to
and including the neck. Then the first
and second blankets were wrapped
tightly about him, and lastly the com
lOIlGI. "a lOO0t Wrapping - diJI u
chill for a while.) Very cold spring
water was used in wetting a cloth for
his forehead, and very warm applica-
tons were put to his feet, good
draught of cold spring water given to
drink, and the patient slept for one
hour. Having the heat Of the room at
about - degrees, he was I'M
packed, given a tcpid bath and thor
oughIy rubbed. The rolls of refuse
that collected upon his skin and re-
moved from his pores were perfectly as
tonishing. Had a miracle been per
formed it would not perhaps have been
more marked than the effects of that
sheet pack, This was repeated twice
a dav in his cascJ for two days, then
reduced to once a day until the patient
got well. Not one drop of drugs passed
into his stomach after Billy Fish took
hold Of the patient So much of a con
vert to water treatment did this man
become that he was discovered rolling
naked at one time IN the snUw.-L. $.
E1;uJ frIIg,1Ig1YJ
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Not all Gone.

General Longstrect, of the Confeder-
ate army, tells this story:
"In the battle Of Chicamauga where
I aided in the defeat of Rosencraus,
General Benning, one of the bravest OF
the Southern Generals, came charging
mp to me in great agitation. He was on
an artillery horse. His hat was gone
and he was much disordered.
" General, said he, my brigade is
utterly destroyed.
4" Is that so p / asked quietly.
yes, sir; gone all to pieces.
bitterly destroyed, you say
ellis heart was nearly breaking.
approached him and said quietly:
Don't you think you could find
one man, General ?
'Onc man, said he in establishment.
4 suppose [ could. What do you want
with him p
"'Go and get BIN, I said, laying my
hand quietly on his arm, and bring him
here. Then you and I and he will
charge together. This is sacred, Gen
cral, and we may as well die here as
anywhere.
''He looked curiousIy for Il moment,
then laughed, and then galloped off III IL
flash, and shortly after was leading a
new command gathered somewhere, and
went into the fight again"
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An Indian Way.

Among the Omaha Indians child
who has lost its father or mother is con.
sidercd an orphan. Its particular place
is gone, and it passes into the gems >
If it is the father who dies, the mother
loses all maternal rights. Each child,
unless Of very tender age, will be sepa-
rated from the mother, and will go into
the family of some one of the fathers
relatives. 1t may thereafter be claimed
as his own child hy the male head of the
family to which il has been allotted.
This separation OF widow from her
children is permanent. She usually
marries again, aud in that event Is not
burdened with her offspring by previous
husbands
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-12-20

A SoE.-King TheeDaw S wife has
borne him a daughter, not son, and
the court of MandaIay seems to be in a
pretty state of cOmmotion. King Thee
baw upbraids his Queen, and she up
braids the midwife and the astrOlOgers,
while the courtiers lament tine loss Of
the Iargess that would have been pre-
scented if the unfortunate little girl had
been a boy.