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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-18
Beef Down South.

"Jerked beef" said South American
sea captain, lis a great item in the ex-
ports of Paysandu. From Freybentos,
where large establishments are located
for the manufacture of the extracts of
meat, up to Paysandu there can be seen
a succession of salederos or abattoirs
where the cattle are killed in the spring
of the year and the process of jerked
beef performed. 1t is called jerked'
because it is pulled or stripped by hand
from the bones of the animal as soon as
slaughtered. The meat is then sailed
in piles in large buildings. When cured
it is taken out and hung on horizontal
bars of wood in the air, where it goes
through the process of drying by nat
ural atmosphere. AS soon as the dew
begins to fall the meat is stacked on the
ground and covered with tarpaulins.
The same process is repeated until the
meat reaches state of jerked perfection,
which requires several months. The
principal market found is Brazil and the
West Indies. Cuba is great customer.
The Importance of this industry can be
calculated from the business of one So
ledero which slaughtered 100000 cattle
last year, valued at 81 900, coo.
"Then, from the cattle thus killed,
there yet remain the hides, taJlow, bones
and bone ash, all of which add much
wealth to the expectations of the port of
Paysandu. The sailed hides loaded into
vessels are dunnaged with dry bones to
prevent contact with the wood, which
rots them. The. bones are utilized for
fertiljzlug purposes. They are burned
in piles Where [ loaded the Cook there
were 10000 tons of bone ash in one pile
alone. The most of it is shipped to the
States, and some goes to Europe. 1t
enters into fertilizers very extensively"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-18

Last year, according to the report of the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the
people of this country consumed II, 57S,-
723 barrels of beer. This, at 81 gallons to
the barrel, is 554 $40. Alb gallons-near-
ly 10 gallons yearly for every man, wo-
man and child. But as the infants under
ten years of age are not large consumers
OF beer, it may be more interesting to
observe that we consume fully fifteen
gallons for every person, male and fe-
male, over ten years of age, and about a
barrel OF beer yearly for every person
engaged in any gainiul occupation. The
consumers pay for beer by the glass, as
rule. Whoever pleases can calculate
the tax which labor voluntarily bears,
at the rate of barrel of beer for every
worker, male and female.
If there are hard times coming, if
many are to be out of employment and
not few are to lack food and shelter,
would it not be good time for those
VINO have earnings to save each a little,
ny consuming no more than seems to
them requisite for health and comfort ?
There are many who, if they think of it
IN time, would rather help neighbor TO
loaf OF bread than spend the money in
an extra drink or two.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-18
ANCIENT VOLCANIC RELICS.
Basaific Cores Rising from LOCO to 1900
Feet Ont of New Mexico Valleys.

During the past summer Capt. @. E.
Dutton, of the Geological Survey, has
been studying some remarkable relics
of ancient volcanic action in the north
western portion of New Mexico. They
consist of a multitude of needle like
peaks rising out of the broad valley bot
toms to attitudes varying from one thou
sand to two thoasand- two hundred feet
They are called chimneys by the resi-
dents. They are composed of black ba-
saltic lava, having beautiful columnar
structure like the basalt of the Giants
Oauseway. They are remnants of lava
which once rose up out of the earth
through the strata and CONCEALED in the
volcanic pipes OF vents. In later periods
the strata which enclosed them have
been dissolved away and removed by the
general erosion of the country, leaving
these basaltic cores projecting many
hundreds of feet in the air, as casts of
the volcanic pipes or passages through
which the ancient towers rose to the sur
face.
The proof of this origin is conclusive.
Around the valleys in which they stand
rise lofty tables or plateaus, known in
the West as mesas. These are capped
with heavy sheets of basalt, and be-
meath them are the stratified sandstones
and shales of the Western coal fields. In
the walls and upon The slopes of these
mesas may be seen many of these Chin
neys, in every stage of partial disinter-
ment, some nearly excavated, some half
disentombed, and some just beginning
to appear as the mesa wall wastes away
under the dissolving action of time.
Those which are inst beginning to be
disclosed in the mesa wall still have
remnants of the old cinder cones upon
their SUBMITS, while from those which
are wholly, or in greatest part excavated,
all traces of the cinder cones have dis
appeared. Thus the veritable roots of
these ancient volcanoes are unearthed
and laid open to the inspection of the
geologist
The locality where these ancient vol.
canic ''necks" for that is the technical
name given them by geologists) are seen
lies along the eastern flank of Mount
Taylor, one of the great extinct vol
canoes of the West. 1t is about sixty
miles west of the Rio Grande, and sew
enty miles northwest of Albuquerque.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-18
She Hooked on a Cover.

In front of window where I worked
last summer was a butternut tree. A
humming bird built her nest Oh limb
that grew near the window and we had
an opportunity to watch her closely, as
we could look right into the pest from
the window. One day there was heavy
shower coming up and we thought we
would see if she covered her young dur.
ing the storm; but when the first drops
fell she came and took in her bill one of
two or three large leaves growing close
to the nest and laid his leaf over so il
completely covered the nest; then she
flew away.
On looking at the leaf we found hole
in it and in The side of the nest was a
small stick that the leaf was fastened to
or hooked on. After the storm was over
the Old bird came back and unlocked
the leaf and the nest was perfectly dry.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-18
LOTS OF COMETS,
Three of Them Near Together-Eueke,s Ex-
pected TO be Visible soon.

Professor Barnard, of the Vanderbilt
University, says: 1t will not generally
be known, but at present there is a yery
remarkable conjunction of comets in our
evening skies. If one leg of a pair of
imaginary compasses be placed at a
point on the celestial equator whose
right ascension Is twenty-three hours.
and a circle be described on the sky
with a radius of about six degrees. it
will contain within il three periodic
comets. refer to comets B and G. of
this year, and Encke's well known
comet of short period. Comet G is the
only one OF these interesting bodies that
IS within the range of ordinary tele-
scopes. OF the two others Encke's is
now possibly just within the grasp of
the most powerful telescopes, while
comet B is just beyond reach of the
same instrument, B and @ will cross
paths within probably degree of each
other. The fact that three comets are
so close together is remarkable. but
that each should be of very short period
makes the conjunction all the more
memorable.
A word in regard to Encke's comet
may at the present time be appropriate.
As is well known, this comet has the re-
narkably short period of three and
third years. 1t first became known as
periodic comet at its discovery by
Pons in 1918. Encke did not discover
this comet, but having made thorough
study of the theory OF its motion and
pointed out its remarkably short period.
astronomers named it after him.
Encke's comet had been seen previous
to 1S18-in 1856, 1875, and 1805-but
on these occasions its periodicity was
not suspected. This object is the most
remarkable of telescope comets on ac-
count of its singulsrly short period and
the fact that a study of its motion points
to probable resisting medium lying in
space nearer the sun than the earth's
orbit, which has the effect of shortening
the comets period OF revolution by some
two and half hours at each return.
The theory OF this comet is so we'll
known that astronomers can predict its
place in the sky almost as accurately as
that Of planet. Its present position is
about eight degrees south of the bright
star Alpha Pegssi, aud its detection by
the telescope is nightly expected. The
present return will be the twenty third
upon record.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-18

'What is this man doing here ?"
"Why, he's th.sPaving Inspector.
'a0f whak-TTzG 3 ne
"Well-um. He gets So per day."
''For what?'
ITO inspect"
'What does he inspect?"
"Nobody knows. When the contract
or on the excavation begins work the
Paving Inspector appears. He looks
over the street and mods his head. He
walks up and down and thinks of his SO
day. He sits around on the curbstones
and shakes his head in the most solemn
manner"
"But if he failed to show up?"
ooh, that would make no difference.
What the contractor doesn't know the
inspector can't teach him. Sometimes
they are not even personally acquainted,
and nobody ever heard of an inspector
giving any orders on the job"
sDoesn t he throw out suggestions %
every rarely. He sometimes suggests
that it is a cold day, or that glass of
beer will just touch the spot, but fur
Their than that he never goes. Some
folks think the excavator might dig
right down to China if the inspector was
not on hand, but that is a delusion."
"And when the excavating is fin
ished ?"
'Then the excavator packs up and
leaves, but the inspector sticks the
closer. He is there when the sand is
drawn in. He may know sand from
blue clay, but is not required to. He
may know the payer, but he has nothing
to say to him. When the blocks come
he may pick up one now and then, turn
it over and over to see whether it be
walnut or cedar, and then lay it down
with a trembling sigh, but that's all.
When the blocks are all laid he remains
to see the hot tar poured ON and the
gravel spread out. He knows hot tar
from mineral paint and he knows gravel
from clover seed, but his knowledge is
thrown away. When the street is opened
for traffic he certi1i5s to that effect, and
his tremendous mental and physical in.
bors are concluded except to draw his
Detroit Free Press,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-18
Moon Blindness.
FREQUENT ON THE CHINA SEA AND IN
DIAN CCEAN-CURED BY DARKNESS.

'fMoon blindness" said an old sailor,
gazing at the upper rigging of Califor-
MIA clipper near Wall street ferry, "why,
of course there's such a thing. I've
seen it often. had a touch of it my
self once. 1 don't see, though, how the
English Rear Admiral makes out that
the loss of the gunboat Wasp was due
to moon blindness. 1t gets its name,
not because man who has it can't see
distinctly under the moonlight, but be-
cause it is caused by sleeping with the
moon shining on the face. You know
at once when you have it. In fact you
often get stone blind, and remain SO for
a month or more. ] can't imagine how
it could occur near England, for people
are not likely to sleep in the moonshine
there.
SIN the China Sea and the Indian
Ocean it is well known. The Lascars
frequently have it, and when passenger
steamer remains for a night at port the
captain generally warns everybody who
wants to sleep on deck-and most of
hem do in these hot lattitudes-to be
careful to keep well under the awning.
remember once landing passenger at
Singapore quite blind. He persisted in
sleeping on the forecastle head, as we
iay for a night in Penang, and the moon
shone on his face for five or six hours.
When he awoke his sight was gone, and
ne thought it was still night, though the
sun had aroused him. We went back
10 Calcutta, and when we reached SIN
yapore on our next trip he had recov-
cred, but he hated the sight of the moon
ever afterward.
81 never knew case of moon blind.
ness that was not cured. You have
only to keep in the dark until sight
comes back. Mine was only partial
blindness, though the sight of one eve
vas nearly gone. was well in a week.
The attack is generally accompanied by
L bad sick headache, but most people
are too much frightened to think about
that never heard of a woman being
affiicted with moon blindness"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-18
A Veterans Story.

'I was in Washington in 1872; and
while visiting over in Alexandria in that
year I saw the first troops called out to
ington to be armed I remember it as
well as if it had been yesterday, for
stood on the street as the boys marched
by with beating drums and flying ban
ners. Washington was a struggling lit
tie village then, and Alexandria was one
Of the great cities of the country"
The speaker was Colonel s. d. Betton,
now of Cuthbert, Georgia, but recently
of Butler county, Alabama. He stood
and talked to q reporter for an hour at
the Union Depot Sunday night, and his
conversation was most interesting. Bet
ton is seventy-nine years old, and is still
hale and hearty, as spry as boy of
twenty.
81 went with Lafayette to France in
1926" continued the old gentleman.
Chow well I remember it. We sailed
in the Frigate Brandywine from the
mouth of the Potomac river, September
II, 1925. There were forty-two officers
on board, and L can tell you their names
and their fate-what became of each of
them. Oh, we had big time then.
I'm riding on horseback from Mil
ledgeville, Georgia, to Hartford, Con-
necticut, once [ travelled sixty-fve
miles in one day and stopped at big
wedding, where we danced all night. [
went to school in MilIedgeville in 1917
with 168 boy and girls, and of that num-
Der only three are living to-day. I can
give You the names of all the people liv-
ing in Milledgeville at that time, distin-
gushing between males and females"
Colonel Betton was a stakeholder in
the first railroad enterprise ever inau-
gurated in this Countrywide Baltimore
and Ohio, in 1927. He was then in
Washington, and subscribed for stock
at the very outset of the enterprise.
Now there are 125, 600 miles of railroad
in the United States.
Colonel Betton was Oh officer IN the
United States Navy some fifty odd
years ago. He is wonderfully we'll pre-
served old gentleman. He says 81
never had any pains at all. 1 am per-
fectly well, and have worked like slave
all the year." And with that he held
up his hands to show that they had be-
come horny from work. He is just as
jolly and full of fun as any boy, and bids
fair to live to be hundred years DID,
Montgomery AdUerti8er.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-18
Proclamation for General THANKS
GIVING


In consideration of the many unde-
served Blessings which it hath pleased
Almighty God of His great Goodness,
year, more especially in Preserving the
Sacred Person of Our Sovereign Lord
the KING, Our most Gracious QUEEN,
the Royal Issue, and the rest of the
Royal Family, in giving Success to His
Majesties Councils, for continuing the
PEACE of Europe, in protecting the
Government of this Province, and in
preserving to us Peace and the Enjoy
ment of Our most valuable Privileges,
Civil and Religious, in granting us so
good Measure of Health, and in CIV
ing us such plentiful HARVEST,
and in making our Merchandise and
Fishery to prosper, and defending them
from the Violence of merciless Pirates,
with manifold other unmerited Favors-
All which lay us under the deepest OBJ
legations of Gratitude & Obedience to
our most Bountiful BenefactOr.
I have, therefore, thought fit, with
the advice of His Maiesties Council, and
at the Desire of the Representatives in
the present Session, to Order and APP,
point, that Thursday, the Seventh of
November next, be solemnly observed as
Day of Public THANKSGIVING
throughout this Province. Earnestly
exhorting both ministers and people in
their respective assemblies to offer up
their unfeigned thanks to our Most Ora
cious God, the author of all blessings,
with their fervent prayers that we may
fear the Lord and His goodness. and
walk worthy of Him. And all seryiie
labor is forbidden on the said day.
Given at the Council Chamber in Bos-
ton, the Fifteenth Day of October, 1928.
In the Second Year of the Reign Of Our
Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Second,
by the Grace of God of Great Britain,
France and Ireland KING, Defender of
the Faith, &c. W. BURNETT.
BY Command of His Excellency the
Governor, with Advice of His Maiesties
Council,
josiah WILLARD, Seer.
GOD Save tho X INC
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-18
Read THE EVIDENCE
Which will Remove all Your DOubts-Valun
BILE SuggestiOns-A Good InyGstment-Ons
that Yields IS An Hundred FOld.'

Everything claiming the power to do good
should be from reputable source, otherwise
it is open to suspicion. DR.. David Kennedy
of Rondout, N. Y, affirms that his medicine
''Kennedy's Favorite Remedy" is the best
article of its kind ever produced Hence it is
only just to the public that he refer to hi;
record as physician and surgeon. Among
the capital operations performed by him, are
Amputation of the thigh-bone in the case of
Abraham Ellsworth, Port Even, Ulster Co,
N. Y. amputation of the arm, case of Mrs,
Edward Meyers, of Rondout, N. Y, and the
operation of lithotomy, removal of stone
from the bladder, in the case of Simon Tiet
sell, of Kingston, and the removal Of the eye
for Oscar Craigg, of Rosendale, Ulster Co.,
Ny. These are few of many. All these
persons are now in the bloom of health. DR..
Kennedy does not hesitate to say that the
happy result of these and other cases of a sim
liar character, was due to the use of the
"Favofite Remedy" 1t was this that purified
the Blood, regulated the Liver and Kidneys,
and thus gave tone and strength to the sys-
tenn. and in this way preventing return OF
the disease which had necessitated resort tc
the surgeons knife. CDR Kennedys Favor
tie Remedy" for sale by all druggists.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-18
The Suns Supply.
THE PERPETUAL SELF SUSTAINED FLAME
WHY IT DOES NOT BURN OUT,

From an illustrated article on s"The
Suns Energy" by s. P. Langley, in the
| december Century, we quote the follow
| ing: Chow is this heat maintained I?
| Not by the miracle of perpetual self
| sustained flame, we may be sure. But,
| then, by what fuel is such a fire fed /?
There can be no question of simple
! burning, like that of coal in the CRATE,
for there is no source of supply adequate
to the demand. The State of Pennsyl-
vania, for instance, is underlaid by one
of the richest coal-field of the world.
capable of supplying the consumption of
the whole country at its present rate for
more than thousand years to come. If
the source of the solar heat whatever
that is) were Withdrawn, and we were
enabled to carry this coal there and
shoot it into the solar furnace fast
| enough to keep up the known heat-sup-
ply, SO that the solar radiation would go
on at just its actual rate, the time which
this coal would last is easily calculable.
1t would not last days or hours, but the
whole of these coal-beds would demon
strably be used up in less than one
thoUsandth of second We find by a
itself one solid block of coal, it would
have burned out to the last cinder in
less time than man has certainly been
on the earth. But during historic times
there has as surely been no noticeable
diminution of the suns heat, for the
olive and the vine grow Just as they did
three thousand years ago, and the by
pothesis of an actual burning becomes
untenable. 1t has been supposed by
some that meteors striking the solar sur
face might generate heat by their i'm
pact, just as a cannon-ball fred against
an armor-plate causes flash of light,
snd heat so sudden and intense as to
partly melt the ball at the instant of con-
cussion. This is probably real source
OF heat-supply as far as it goes, but it
cannot go very far; and, indeed, if our
whole world should fall upon the solar
surface like an immense projectile, gath
ering speed as it fell, and finally striking
Gas it would) with the force due to rate
of over three hundred miles a second,
the heat developed would supply the
sun for but little more than sixty years"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-18

DECLINED New York County
Medical Society lately declined to rec
ommend a candidate for public office.
Two reasons were given--tke medical
societies hal expressed disapproyal of
the office of coroner as it now exists :
and the meeting room of a medical Soc
ETY. was not considered proper place
for the introduction of politics,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-18

Young OF middle-aged men suffering from
nervous debility, loss of memory, premature
cd age, as the result Of bad habits, should
send three letter stamps for illustrated book
offering sure means of cure. Address Worlds
Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-18

The secret Of the large and constant sales of
Mrs Pinkham's Vegetable Compouad pr0ba-
lily lies in the fact that whereas there are many
'sBitters" and ''Tonics'' of equal value, be it
more or less, the Vegetable Compound is 50
completely superior to all other preparations
specially recommended for the needs of women
that Ii has nrac ticalv no rival
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-18

important.
When you visit leave New York city, baggage
expressage and So carriage hre and stop the Grand
Union HoJel, opposite Grand Central depot. 49,
600 eleg IN rooms, lifted up cost of million
dollars, 81 and upward perdIy- European plan Ele-
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can live better for less money at the Grand Union
Hotel than at any other irst-cass lot in the city.
For SPECIAL RATES for advertising in this paper.
amply to the IN bliSller of The paper. t4D.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-18

CarbO-lineS.
Earth brings the bitterness of pain
Yet worth the crown of peace will gain;
And thousands speak in accents fine
The praises of our Carboline
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-18

in which you are waliowing, on account of
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THE rents of French flats are on the dimin
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-18

FOX DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, depression ofspir
its and general debility in their various forms,
also as a prev entive against fever and ague and
other intermittent fevers, the ''Ferro-Phosphor
ated Elixir of Calisaya," made by Caswell,
Hazard & Co., New York, and sold by all Drug
gists is the best tonic and for patients recover
inc from fever or other sickness it has no equal
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-18

There are innumerable instances where
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dis asses of the blood, when the patient had
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Take Scovilrs Blood and Liver Syrup for ali
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