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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-22
His Spirits Dampened.

The train halted for few minutes at
the station and young man who had
been entertaining two fair maidens with
his cultivated conversation during the
last run rushed out and disappeared be-
hind the door of an adjacent saloon. He
swung himself on the car just as the
train started and pantingly resumed his
seat and the abruptly interrupted chit
chat.
"Graciousr' exclaimed one of the
girls. GLOW frightened you look /"
"Do I?' he gasped. 81 don't feel so.
| only went out to see friend"
''You must have met wicked ghost, "
she said.
With a puzzled look he murmured
"Why, that's absurd. You know 1
don't believe in the supernatural"
perhaps not, she retorted, with the
faintest suggestion of a sneer, ''but your
breath is awfully suggestive of bad
spirits"
The youth muttered something about
malaria, and concealed his pungent ex-
halations behind paper.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-22
The Height Of a Tree.

Woods and Forests (English) says:
"Any person, however ill-informed,
might easily get at the exact height of a
tree when the sun shines. or during
bright moonlight, by marking two lines
on the ground, three feet apart and then
placing in the ground on the line nearest
the sun stick that shall stand exactly
three feet out of the soil. When the
end of the shadow of the stick exactly
touches the furthest line, then also the
shadow of the tree will be exactly in
length the same measurement as its
height. OF course, in such case, the
sun will be at an exact angle of forty
five degrees. Measurements of this
character could be best effected in the
summer, when the sun is powerful, has
reached to good height in the heavens,
and when the trees are clothed with liv-
ing green so as to cast dense shadow.
To many to whom this idea may not
have occurred, it might be made an
nually a matter of interest thus on
warm summer days to take the height
of prominent trees, and so to compare
growth from year to year."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-22
AdulteratiOn of Wines.

Said prominent wine dealer, speak
ing of wines: ''Now, there is sherry-the
most easily made, the most adulterated
and the most harmful wine in the world
The ordinary sherry of commerce is
nothing but spirits and water, sweetened
with glycerine and sugar and favored
with bitter almond oil. The latter con-
tains prussic acid, and not in negative
quantities, either. You can get good
sherry, but it's no easy matter.
"The port commonly sold as such is a
raw claret favored with raspberries, forti-
fed with spirits and sugar, clarified with
fuchsine and colored with aniline dyes.
Think of drinking such a compound
Pure port is made of the dark Malvoisse
grape, the pulp of which is whitish, but
they express the juice from the. skin as
well, and thus give the wine rs dark,
rich color and its tonic quality. The
tonic Good port vine Is scarce and
high-priced and hence the vile imitation
is largely sold"
"Are all other wines adulterated and
initiated ?"
Gall of them, and if / had time would
go through the whole list with YOU"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-22
OUR GRAIN EXPORTS.
Why They are Falling OF. and the Reason
Tint our Gold is Going Abroad While
our Grain is ROtting in Warehouses.

"By the aid of labor-saving machinery, &"
says Mr.. Bookwalter, of Ohio, this 'coun-
try can grow agricultural products that
would meet the requirements of at least
IS. 600, 900 people. AS we have only
81 600, 900 of home consumers we are
obliged to look to foreign countries for
the consumption of a portion, else the
price at which we would be compelled
to sell the whole amount in this country
would fall below the remunerative point,
as the price of the exported surplus fixes
the value of the whole product
ITO know how important factor
this expectation Of agricultural products
has been IN maintaining the prosperity of
this country, it Is only necessary to refer
to the fact that in the last ten years those
products in this country amounted to
$40, 200, coo, 600 for home consumption,
besides furnishing 1000, 900, 900 for ex-
portation.
Australia, New Zealand, and South
American States not many years since
were purchasers from us of agricultural
products. They are now sellers in com
petition with us in the same markets in
Europe. The Suez Canal has brought
India almost as near to Europe as is
America. The result is that, whereas
before the construction Of that canal
there was no Indian wheat shipped to
the European markets, India now ships
nearly one-half as much as we are ship
ping from this country. England
naturally buys of hef own colony. India
exports about A 900, 600 bushels of
wheat per annun', the Argentine Re-
public about 12,O01 900 bushels, and
Australia from Is, 00O, 900 to 10000, 900
bushels.
'FThere is an annual deficiency In
foreign countries of about 150, 900. 600 or
10000. 900 bushels of wheat. Ten wears
ago this country was the commanding
exporter to supply this demand. Now
that, from the sources / have already
mentioned, nearly $4,000, 400 per annum
are being shipped in competition with
us, the effect has been seen recently
in the markets of Chicago in the reduc.
tions Of the price to the lowest point it
has reached for perhaps twenty-five
years. Our unexampled expectation of
agricultural products during the last ten
years caused balance of trade in our
favor of 81 100, 100000 whereas in the
preceding decade it was almost 81, OOO,-
900, 900 against us. Our commercial
prosperity, therefore, depends chiefly
upon our agricultural exports. The
farmer and the legislator alike should
labor for the preservation and increase of
our export trade. This thing of ship
ping our gold abroad, which we are now
doing at the rate of several millions a
week, to settle our balances, when the
grain that should be shipped for that
purpose is rotting in our granaries for
want of purchaser, is all wrong, and is
state OF affairs that should at least
awaken our Legislators to the necessity of
providing some remedy.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-22
A Strange Story.

An extraordinary story is told in Eng
lish court circles, and has been retailed
by the Spiritualists. as to the reasons
which induced the Queen at the last mo-
ment to alter the arrangements for
Prince Leopold's funeral 1t is said that
a short time before his death, dancing
with an intimate friend, lady of Danish
birth, of great personal beauty, and the
wife of an English peer, he was rallied
by her upon his unwonted abstraction.
His answer was that his sister Alice had
come to him in the night, warned him of
an approaching calamity, and told him
not to trouble, for all would soon be
well. The royal Duke, like his mother,
the Queen, seems to have accepted SUI
pernatural visitations as real, and he told
the lady he would prefer, if anything
happened to him, to have military
funeral. Her la1yship, the recipient of
these condolences, wrote q letter to a
high court official, telling him the story,
and he laid her communication before
her Majesty. At once the Queen Or
dered her dead sons desires, expressed
in life, to be fulfilled. Hence that change
at the last moment which led to so much
perplexity and inconvenience.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-22

NEW 4ORh MARhEI.
The Wholesale New York market quotations
show:
BEANs-Prime, $42O@s4. 35; fair to good,
$2.55@$260 per bushel.
BUTTER - New York sold at 34@36c. for
choice in pals, and 25@29c common TO good.
Western Creamery sold at 33@34c, and the
common Western at 23(025c.
CHEEsE-Factory fancy, 1401415c; do. fair
to good, 12@13c.
EGas- Quotations ranged from &c. for Or
binary, to 2Sc for New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania.
$3.90@$6.75; extra New York, 49, 80(0$6O0.
Hay Shipping. 45@50c.; clover, 4O@5Oc.,
salt, 60c; straw, 50@55c.
HoPs-New York, 26CD27c.; Eastern, 20@25c;
yearlings, 1s(@25c; ODDS, - q =
PETRoLEUnL-Refined, 7ssc; crude, 6X@73sc
shipping order. and 1115C912c. in cases.
PoRK-Clear back, $18.75@$19.75; dressed
hogs, 714@7$sc.
WHEAT : Spring No. 8, S1.O2@s1.O6; Mil
waukee. No. 2, $1:o5; amber. $1.32@$24O;
Contaminated Western Mixed. 56@6s1Ic;
Steamer Mixed, --@62c in elevator, $50.
delivered; No. 2, 6O4@6215c. in elevator. 61sl@
62Hc, delivered; White Southern. 5715c. de-
lvered.
RYE-state, 7t@76c.
WooL-Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
xxx, 45@46c.; Xxx, 42@44c.; x, 42@43c.; No
l, 45@47c. No. 2, 38@4Oc.; common, S3@35c. /;
New York and Western Xxx and K, 39@45111c.;
No. ], 44(645c.
PHILADELPHIA MARKET
FLoUR-State family, 81. 5O@$4. rs; rye -four,
3.4O@$3. so; wheat, State, $-.-@$1. % y;
amber, $1.43; corn, yellow, &C.; mixed States
6219c
PETRoLEUM-Refined, 7sSc; crude, 6kc
WoOI-State and Western Xxx, 46(050c.; K,
47@48c.; medium, 50951c.; coarse 45c.
BOSTON MARKET
FLOUR - From $2750$3.15 for low and
medium, to $425@5.55 for choice Minnesota.
Corn. 64@67c. for mixed and yellow.
BUTTER - Common, 1Sc. 02Oc. Vermont
dairy, 22@25c.; choice creamery, 3-@33c.
CHEEsE-1315 @15c.
BEANs-$3. 25GD$3. 80. ..
HAY-Choice, $16@$165 so
CATTLE MARKETS.
BUFFALO - Cattle, good quality. 5000
s6.15; hogs fair to good, $5.55@$6. 65i best,
$615. d" :
EAST LIBERTY. PENN.-Best cattle, $6.25@
1878; medium to good, $5.25@$6.0 90; common
to fair, $5.00@$6.00: Hogs, Workers, $5.75Ca,
5000; Philadelphias, $6.40@$6.50. Sheep,
$5.25C0$550.
WATERFOWL, MAss.-Cattle, choice, 8
@$10.25; extra, $S.00@$9O0; first quality.
S7.00@$7.50; second quality, $5.00@$6. so;
third quality, $4.OG@S4.5O. Sheep and lambs
wool sheep, $2.5O@$4. so; extra, $1,000
5000; spring lambs, 5@6%c.; Veal calves,
315c@715c 10
FoR SPECIAL RATES for advertising in this paper
apply to the bliSher of the paper. UI9
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-22
A Story of Emma Abbott.

When Col. Baldwin, editor of the
Journal, cane to Peoria, he taught
school. 1t was in his capacity as peda-
gogue that he first met Emma Abbott,
for she was one of his pupils. He says
she was not a proficient scholar, because
she neglected her studies and was al
ways drumming an old guitar, which
she had got possession of by some
means or other; but, he remembers
that, even in her childhood, Emma was
an adept in fiattery, or as he now puts
it, ''a daisy on taffy." He tells in illus
tration of this, story to the effect that
he announced one day that he would
have to punish Emma for some violation
of the rules. While he was searching
for his ferule, Emma stood in the mid
die of the schoolroom sobb1ng like big
baby. "Do you Think" she walled,
"that I am crying through fear of the
pain you are about to infict. weep
because of the remorse 1 suffer that I
should have wounded the feelings of
you, my dear old master" This preco-
cious diplomacy so unnerved Mr.. Bald
win that he postponed the punishment
indefinitely, and after that the embry
otto prima donna had pretty much her
own way in the Peoria schOolhouse.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-22
Severe Fines.

Inquiry was made at late meeting of
the Lime-Kiln Club for Brother Nc
Adamized Taylor, and when the member
had stepped forward to the desk with
the look of a man about to receive sill
yer medal for saving the life of an Alder
man, Brother Gardner said:
"Brudder Taylor, at de las meetin' of
dis club you attempted to enter dis
lodge-room In SIGH drunken condishun
dat you didn't know Giveadam Jones
from Elder Toots."
'I'ze sorry, sah."
SIN co'se you is, but dat doan' alter de
case in de least. In defust place de man
who gifts drunk am an idiot. In de mex
place, de man who gifts drunk an fo'ces
his company upon sober people ought to
be taught lesson. I shall fine you
1857, an In case you repeat de offense
you will leave dis club in SIGH hurry as
will make things swim befo' yer eyes !"
FINES CANCELLED.
The President announced that he had
cancelled the following fines for reasons
specified:
Samuel shin-s3, 900 for breaking the
stove door. Cancelled on account of his
wife running off to Canada with another
man.
Equananimity Taylor-$1 ,45O for call
ing Elder Toots liar on the alley stairs.
Cancelled because it was proved that the
Elder did lie.
Put Back Hascall- $3.50. rs for raising
the cry of fire during regular meeting
and pulling up fifty or sixty members at
the foot of the stairs. Cancelled becaure
he was determined to commit suicide
and beat the club out of it anyhow
Detroit Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-22
Giving Him Information.

4 negro was recently seated on rail
fence in Arkansas intently looking at the
telegraph wires. A gentleman passing
said :
"Watching the wires p
eyes, sah."
"Waiting to see a message go by,
hey?"
The negro smiled and said, eyes,
sab"
The gentleman kindly told him that
messages were invisible, and explained
the working of the electric current to
him at length. Concluding he said I:
"Now you know something about it. -
eyes, sah."
"What do you work at ?"
"Im telegraph operator at the Hazel
Switch Station, sab.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-22
DOMESTIC HINTS AND HELPS,

CHICKEN WITH GREEN PRAs.-Care.
fully pluck and SINCE tender chicken,
draw 1t without breaking the intestines,
cut into small joints of even size, put ii
into saucepan with enough boiling
water to cover it, half a dozen small
green onions and small bunch of pars-
ley tied together, and palatable sea-
soning of salt and pepper, and gently
stew all these ingredients together until
the chicken begins to grow tender; then
add pint of shelled green peas, and
continue the cooking until they are
done; serve the chicken and peas on the
same dish, after taking out the onions
and parsley.
LAMB STEwED WITH TOMATOES. q
neck of lamb in slices about half an
inch thick, put it into a saucepan and
season it with salt and pepper; peel and
slice half a dozen small onions, and put
them on the lamb; peel and slice a pint
of tomatoes, and add to the lamb, with q
teaspoonful of sugar; if the tomatoes
have not yielded in peeling enough juice
to moisten the stew add little boiling
water; cover the saucepan, and cook the
stew slowly for an hour, stirring it occa-
sionally to prevent burning; then see
that it is palatably seasoned, and serve il
hot. Mutton and canned tomatoes can be
cooked in this way.
FRIED BEEF AND POTATOES. -Use fol
this dish cold roast beef and mashe
potatoes; cut the beef in rather thin
slices, and see that the potatoes are free
from Jumps and highly seasoned; have
ready over the fire a frying kettle hall
full of fat heating, and some cracker or
bread crumbs and beaten egg; first put
the slices of. beef into frying pan con-
tanning little hot butter and fry them
slightly; then spread some mashed pota-
toes on both sides of the slices, roll
them in the crumbs, dip them in the
egg, and again in the crumbs, and then
fry them brown in the hot fat; when
they are done take them up with a skim
mer, lay them for a moment on brown
paper to 80 them from grease; then
erve them hot.
n. E. SUGARED PNE-APPLE.-Use
sound ripe pineapple; peel and slice
them about half an inch thick, remov-
ing the little brown circles with small
sharp knife, after the fruit is peeled
weigh it, and allow pound and quar-
ter of crushed sugar to each pound of
fruit; roll the sugar until it is quite fine;
put the pineapple and sugar into glass
jars, in alternate layers, using the sugar
profus ely; after filling the jars seal them
air-tight, and keep them in cool place
until the pineapple is required; the
fruit will keep long time if the jars are
properly sealed.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-22
Old Soldiers SwindIed.

A Washington dispatch says: 1t is
learned at TIA Office of the Second Audit
or of the Treasury that soldiers are be-
ing extensively swindled by false repre-
sensations on the part of attorneys as to
money alleged to be due them under new
laws on account of bounty, etc. Nearly
500 letters are received every day from
soldiers inqqiring into the status of
claims which they have thus been in
duced to file. They are persuaded to pay
an advance fee of from 50 to SIS to the at
torneys, whopay no attention to the cases
after receiving the advance, as they
are then induced to send their discharge
papers to these attorneys, who refuse to
return them, in the hope that they may
be of benefit in the event of Legislation
in the future, similar in terms to the
proposed equalization bounty act.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-22
THE RUSSIAN GENERAL.
SkobeIef, the Man whom the SOIdie
Loved Dearly.

Skobeleff, the famous Russian general,
had delicate, handsome face" fair
beard, blue eyes, dark hair. He looked
like an Apollo as he rode into battle ''on
a white horse, and dressed in white
coat" "a practice which won him among
the Turks the title of Akh Pasha, or the
"White Generally, ''looking as though
he had come dressed for ball. is not
battle the soldiers ball p he asked
some one. Now, at last, l feel happy"
He was described as lighting like an en-
sign" The answer given was: Eyes,
but he does not hide himself like gen.
eral." He was always in the thickest of
the rain of bullets and sharpnel, cheer
ing on his men, and showing the way to
the enemy's batteries. But though he
was careless of himself, he was always
careful of his men. His division was al
ways the best provided with fur coats,
with soup, tea, and ''corn brandy" He
refused to have anything to do with the
Commissariat Department, and made
each of his regiments do its own COM
missariat. Some one suggested that the
commanding officers might embezzle.
His answer was: eff nv men get as much
bread and meat and tea and brandy as
they want, if there are no complaints
lodged against my officers, if the inhabi-
tants of the district are satisfied, let them
embezzle; what do 1 care ?" After the
famous passage of the Balkans, in which
Skobeleff and his division played the first
part, when they passed in review before
the Grand Duke Sin splendid condition,
while the other divisions looked pale and
starved" the Grand Duke exclaimed.
"What red-faced, fellowsl One can see
they are we'll filled. Thank God that
some at least do not look like corpses p
Flogging and cutting appear to prevail
still in the Russian army. Skobeleff
would have none of it in his division. He
told one of his favorite colonies, who was
beating a soldier, that if he found him
doing it again he should dismiss him.
After Plevna one of his men was ordered
by his colonel to be fogged. The man
appealed to Skobeleff, confessed his
crime and asked for court-martial.
Skobeleff told him a court-martial would
condemn him to death. His answer was:
1--WE are in Gods hands. Every day of
our lives We are under fire here. I don't
mind being shot, but if L am to be dis
graced, your excellency, shall commit
suicide"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-22
The Great American Desert.

Twenty eight years ago the settle
ment of the Great American Desert may
be said to have begun. Now there are
in the eight territories and four States
blocked out of it-Arizona, Colorado,
Dakota, idaho, Kansas, Montana, Ne
braska, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah,
Washington, Wyoming-nearly 3,000,-
coo inhabitants, with property worth
81, 900, OOO,O 600; $4,000 miles of railroad;
100000 sheep, producing 10000, 900
pounds of wool yearly; 10000, 900 acres
under crop, yielding 100000, 600 bushels
of grain per annum; 5000, 900 swine;
5000 200 head of cattle and horses;
100000, 900 value in manufactured arti-
Giles annually; $85, 600, 900 value in
mineral products, including royal and
base metals and coal; with vast tracts of
the best of it but just now reached by
railroad, and thus made accessible to
the world,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-22

PAPER Townsville Polytechnic
states that the use of paper towels in
cleansing wounds has been found very
satisfactory. Sponges have always been
regarded with suspicion by surgeons, as
it is so difficult TO keep them in per-
fectly puriflt d condition. But the paper
towels are to be used once only, and, as
they cost from six to seven dollars per
thousand, are available in the sick room.
They are from Japan, and the pale
colors with which they are decorated are
found to be unobjectionahle,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-22

SUFFERING IN NORTH CHINA. Mr.
Young, our Minister at Pekin, in a re-
cent dispatch to the Department of State,
adverts to the great suffering in the
Northern provinces of China. occasioned
by the floods of last year. The distress
Is very considerable. Memorials have
been addressed to the throne praying and
proposing various measures of relief, and
the imperial government is doing ali that
seems possible to afford assistance to
those in distress,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-22
WOMAN'S POSITION.
An Important Matter Discussed by One of
the GentIer Sex.

The claims-not to say demands
she is making for herself, as deposition and
work, are hardly questionable as to then
results. The women of the future will
not, it is to be feared, be such as won the
reverence and love of Christ; she will not
be willing to be the ''help-meet" for man.
Man needs help in matters where he is
deficient; she is fitting herself to clash
with him in matters where he is suffi-
cient.
would not for one moment cast g
shadow of slight on the advance in wo-
mans education. The best of us have
long felt that some move, commensurate
with the times. was necessary; but has
not the move been in the wrong direc-
ton, or, at all events, of too violent q
character? And ought we not hopefully
to anticipate that time, when wisdom
shall suggest some happier means than
has yet been attained?
Granted that woman needed higher
and fuller education-is she in the right
road to attain it by following her pres,
ent prescribed course? Is she not in
danger of cultivating her head to the
neglect-nay, injury-of her heart? Is
she not giving the best years of hel
probation life to the study of subjects
that will be useless to her if she is tc
continue in her true woman's sphere
If she is aiming beyond that sphere q
will not say above it,, where will she
find herself? Not on level with man,
either physically or intellectually she
cannot reach it, but in an intermediate
position, having lost her own individual
ity and special charms, and not gained
ANYTHING Instead worthy her endeavors
ANhe, aga, is. to take woman 8 place
if she forsske it? Must we plead for 6
new creation?
Nay! We would see a stronger
truer, lovelier woman, but not a weaker
poorer man.
1t is the something different in wo
man which makes man look to her fol
help, and feel that he can get it, too
nor is he one whit Inundated by the
fact. It is law of nature, moral anC
spiritual as well as physical, that every
thing is in itself beautified anC
strengthened by its contrast. It is the
heart in woman that counsels mans
head, her weakness, yet endurance
that stimulates his energy; her tender
ness and unselfsh love which gives hin
tirmness and strength.
And are these qualities worthless
Are they not rather priceless jewels
which nothing short of madness would
barter for tinsel which will never stant
proof? Let us beware how we los,
what is ours by right and gain nothing
in its stead. The position and work
that Scripture has assigned to woman i
far higher and nobler than any that sh,
is idly conceiving for herself now in thi
nineteenth century.-Zhe Girls on,
Paper.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-22
They Looked at Her.

New York city papers make point of
the fact that a pretty young woman,
with fair banged hair, attracted con-
siderable attention in lower Broadway.
She wore silk dress, which changed to
a different color every way it was looked
at. Her hat was bell shaped, and was
profusely trimmed with lunches of
flowers, on which rested several butter
flies and beetles. a larged bronzed owl,
with diamond eyes, fastened bow at
her throat. Stitched ON her blue par
asol was an enormous peacock feather,
and a handkerchief, carried in tiny
belt, was embroidered with birds and
animals.