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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-20
Fishing Banks.

In the summer of 1882 Captain Ly-
man Bebe commander of the fishing
smack Mary, of New York, discovered a
most notable fishing bank about twenty
miles to the eastward of Sandy Hook,
toward Fire Island. AS 1882 was, the
year of the ''great cholera" and as the
dread disease and its progress was the
one topic of conversation in everybody's
mouth, Captain Bebe, following the
bent of his own melancholy thoughts,
named his new-found fishing ground the
''ChoIera Banks name that they
have retained eVer since. The origin of
the name has in late years afforded a fer
tile subject for speculation, and some
persons are so prejudiced by it as to de-
.clseEsISsTehhipg. would teppt them to
4s~@@4Grlsoe ~
Another reef, famous for It's fish, and
known as the "Fishing Banks" extends
from Just off the Highlands of Nave
sink, down the Jersey coast past Long
Branch, to a point about opposite Squan
Beach. Both of these are favorite re-
sorts for piscatorially inclined New
Workers, who visit them on the small
steamers that, during the summer sea-
son, make daily excursions to the
Ranks
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-20
As Smart as Any Fireman.
BIG BILL, THE BAY HORSE, WHO IS TIT
PRIDE OF NUMBER oNE TRUCKS BOYS.


PRIDE OF NUMBER n TRUCKS BOYS.
Bill is a big bay horse, with large in
telligent eyes, and a face which plainly
says, "You may walk close to my heels
without the slightest danger" There is
q spring to his walk which shows un-
ommon strength, and when he gets in
motion with a Fire Department truck
behind him the truck is pretty sure of
being first at the fire. For seven years
Ladder Co. l in Chambers street and all
the fremen are in love with him.
HE is as gentle as a kitten" Fireman
Lynch said recently, land knows as
much as any man in the house"
A reporter had just entered the engine
house and wa impressed by the appear
ance of Bill, who was harnessed to the
truck alongside of Tom, his companion,
waiting for a signal to go to a fire that
proved to be just out of the district. Bill
heardth reporter say that he was avery
fine looking horse and acknowledged the
compliment by bobbing his head. Then
he stretched his neck and 7aaeefrpnately
put his nose on the reporters shoulder,
and when the reporter went close to him
he rubbed his face against the reporters.
The iremen gathered around and patted
and petted the big animal until it was
learned that they would not have to go
to the fire, and Bill and Tom were unhar-
messed. Bill walked back into his stall
with a regular Bowery swagger, just as
if he knew that he wa q wonderful
horse and was proud of it.
"Bill is 16 years old" Fireman Lynch
said, land seems to get wiser all the time.
If there is a green horse to be broken in
he is put alongside of Bill, and then he
learns in no time. 1 think that Bill
teaches him. Bill always knows when
the gong is going to strike before it
sounds. Do you see that combination
instrument on the wall there? Well, it
makes a slight clicking noise half a Sec
ond before the gong sounds. Bill always
hears it, and if he is lying down he
quickly jumps up and gets ready to run
to the truck. The stalls are in the
back of the room, and we can stand here
in front and call Bill and he will walk
right out by himself. He does so many
intelligent things hat l would not know
where to begin to tell them. Although
he is old, l don't know of any young
horse that we would swap him for. No,
Tom is not as good as Bill, but then he
is a young horse and has not been long
in the business. Bill is teaching him
fast. though."-M Y. Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-20
WHY CRIME
What a Prominent Pastor has TO Say on
the subject.

"Crime," said the Rev. Heber New
ton in his Sunday sermon, sis the result
of disease in the social organism. 1t is
the height of folly to close our eyes to
this disease. So deeply is it seated that
in England crime costs $50, 000, 900
annually, and over seventy-four thou
sand persons are engaged in detecting
lawbreakers. In this country crime
has increased beyond all proportion to
the population. What makes crime ?
You answer, bad men. What makes
bad men? I answer, first, the hered-
itary tendency to evil; and, second,
present environment.
81 place unhesitatingly as first of the
influences which lead to crime in this
country the present exaggerated esti.
mates of wealth. Money is the one
great talisman to social success. When
Carlyle declared that the real hell which
the average Englishman feared was
poverty he spoke a great truth. This
false worship of wealth is forcing men
into illegitimate channels to get it. Our
business is gradually taking on a spec
ulative character. We have constantly
recurring hard times, and hosts Of men
are forced to spend the savings of years
and choose poverty or crime.
1.-THE low rate of wages for labor
helps to make criminals. The average
annual wage of laborers in this land of
labor is 1926. We look upon the social
evil as the great source of crime. There
are 20, 900 working girls in n. Y. State
outside of domestic service whose aver
age wage is So a week. Oh, my God |
Think of the temptation which haunts
their every step in this Christian land.
"Again we have the tenement houses
to consider. What, with the COM
mingling of the sexes, the promiscuous
meetings in corridors and narrow stair
ways, the filth, the squalor, the nur-
tured ignorance-they are the nurserieG
and lighthouses of crime in a city. Men
and women of New York, you know this.
If you don't you ought to, and you have
failed to do your duty. Poverty is the
prolific mother of vice. One might take
the prices of provisions and clothing for
a year and then give the proportion of
crime for that year.
"This all springs from DUR wretched
and imperfect industrial system. Take
the tramp and see who is responsible
for his existence. Formerly the peasant
farmers titled the soil and reaped the
harvests with their own hands. Now
great gangs and regiments of men do
this work for the bonanza farmers for
two or three months a years. For the
rest of the year these great bodies of
men have no employment, and they go
forth homeless and pennlless. Out of
this system springs the Far Western
tramp. The fountain head of crime is
our low industrial organization. The
lack of good education makes crime.
True education does not merely train
the intellect, as our public schools are
doing to-day"
In conclusion, Mr.. Newton said that
the most potent factor in criminal lite
was intemperance.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-20
The Glaciers of Alaska.

The following extract from a letter
written by Mr.. John Muir, of California,
concerning the glaciers Of Alaska Tera-
tory, which are exciting the attention of
the scientific world, will be found of
great interest. Mr.. Muir is a famous
mountaineer, geologist and botanist of
California:
81 have made two extended trips
through the islands and inlets of South
eastern Alaska in a canoe with a crew OF
Indians, and discovered thousands OF
active glaciers in all their glory. Twenty
five of them discharge directly into the
sea, sending off icebergs with a smash
and roar like those of Greenland. 1t
would delight you to see those noble
crystal rivers fifty or sixty miles long
and from one to ten miles wide, coming
from their far and lofty fountains, fed
by n hundred tributaries, falling into the
vast canyons to a depth of 1000 feet or
more, sweeping through the dense ever
green forest and showing their huge,
jagged shouts into deep fiords, sending
off bergs at the rate of one every two or
three minutes night and day with wild
thunder tones"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-20
An Army of Drunken TOads.

A man living up in Willow Greek
Canyon was in town last Thursday for
grub and told the reporter a queer warn.
He prefaced his story by saying that he
always keeps a supply of whisky on
hand as a remedy in case of r~attlesnake,
scorpion, centipede or ~tarantula bites.
He has several times of late been an.
noyed by coming home from his work at
night and finding the demiJohn lying
broken on the floor and the whisky
wasted. Thinking it the result of an ac-
cident he kept sending to town for more
demijohns so often that his merchant be-
gan to suspect him of having taken to
hard drinking, and this was particularly
regretted from the fact that he has al
ways been known as a very steady, tenn
perate, hard working man. Last We'd
nesday, not feeling very we'll, he took a
lay off, and was lying in bed reading
when, hearing a noise, he looked around
.rG-wa@-Sdshed to see a regular army
of horned toads, of all ages and sizes,
coming through O crack under the door.
Having a curiosity to see what they
we're after, he did not disturb them, but
waited for developments. The one APP
pearing to have command of the forag-
ing party went straight to a convenient
chair from which he climbed up the
window casing, and thence to the
shelf where the whisky was kept. Find
ing a new demiiohn, he signaled to his
companions, and about a dozen of the
largest went to his assistance. Grad
ualIy crowding themselves between the
top of the demijohn and the wall, they
managed to tip it from the bottom, when
it was but an easy matter to send it
crashing to the floor. Then ensued a
scene indescribable. The whole mob
came tumbling over one another to the
spilled whisky, and eagerly drank what
did not run away through the cracks in
the floor. In about ten minutes there
were in the neighborhood of 100 horned
toads as drunk as drunk could be and
having more fun than a circus. After
laughing himself well, he arose to drive
the topers out, and, looking through the
cracks in the floor, saw another army
under the house as drunk from the leak
age as those in the house. He says that
while he had a lot of amusement, it was
at the expense of both his pocket and
reputation, and he has put a flashing
around the demijohn and stopped up
the cracks in the cabin Walker Lake
Bulletin.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-20
Tie Farmer and the Editor.

A Farmer who felt in his Heart that
this was a cold World and that no one
Cared for him or his, Mechanically
slipped a goose Egg into his coat tail
pocket and B9took himself to the village
and the Office of the Gazette, where he
Produced the Egg and Swore by the
Horn Spoon that it was laid by a Pullet.
The Astonished and Delighted Editor
sent out for a Bed cord to Measure the
Length and Diameter of the Egg, pre-
scented the Farmer with a Years Sub
scription, and took Voluminous Notes
with a Pencil. The next issue of the
Gazette contained a full and Thrilling
Description of the Egg and the Pullet,
and wound up by saying that Farmer
johnson was Honest, Upright, Enter
tanning and Progressive, and that he had
the Loveliest Family, the best Farm and
the Fattest Live Stock of any Agricul-
turist in the State. All of which so tickled
the Farmer that he carried a Grin until
the Weather Wore the Enamel off his
front teeth, and he had no Trouble in
Marrying off his Daughters, Selling off
his Old Hay, and getting Elected as
Supervisor.
MORAL:
If you can't get hold of a Goose Egg
a Pumpkin, Squash or a Peck of Tur-
nips will Answer just as well.-Detroft
Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-20
A MARVELLOUS LITTLE STREAM.
Wherein Birds and Beasts are Caught and
HOpelessIy Held Captive.

At a distance of thirty miles south oil
the River Diamante our route passed by
a natural object of considerable interest
"a stream, or rather rill, of yellowish
white fluid like petroleum issuing from
the mountain side at a considerable
height and trickling down the slope till
lost in the porous soil of the valley be-
low. The source from which it flowed
was at the junction where a hard meta
morphic rock, interspersed with small
crystals of agnite, overlap a stratum Of
volcanic tufa. It was formed like the
crater OF a volcano and full of black, BIZ
luminous matter, hot and sticky, which
could be stirred up to the depth of about
eighteen inches.
Floundering in it was a polecat or
skunk (Mephetis varians), having been
enticed to its fate by the desire of secur-
ing a bird caught in the natural bird
lime, till a bullet from the revolver of
one of the party terminated the skunk's
struggles to extricate itself from the
warm and adhesive bath in which it was
hopelessly held captive. The overflow
from this fountain was, as described,
like a stream of petroleum two or three
feet wide trickling over a bed of pitch or
some such substance, which extended to
a much greater width along the edge of
the running stream at its contact with
it. This material was of a very sticky
nature, becoming gradually harder as it
spread further out, assuming the appear
ance of asphalt when it became min
gled with the loose sand of the adjoining
soil.
While engaged in examining this nat
ural curiosity, we came upon two small
birds, caught in the sticky substance at
the edge of the stream; they were still
alive, but upon releasing them both the
feathers and the skin came off where
they had cG1a in contact with the BIZ
tumA A had to kill
them to put an end to their sufferings.
No doubt they had been taken in by the
appearance of water which the stream
presented and had alighted to drink,
when they discovered their mistake too
late. Their fate suggested the idea that
in a district so devoid of water others of
the feather tribes must constantly become
victims to the same delusion in a similar
manner, and upon close inspection of the
stream the correctness of this inference
was established by the discovery of nu.
merous skeletons of birds imbedded in
in it; nor were those of small quadru-
peds unrepresented, among which we
recognized the remains of a fox.-Fr0na
"AcroSS the PGn1pas."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-20

the stubbornness with which he contest
ed every inch of ground, the country is
fully informed. Long and fierce waged
the battle and the old chief hung on to
his beautiful valleys with a death grip,
but at last he was driven out, and, sor-
rowfully gathering his people about him,
left the graves of his dead and the home
OF his forefathers to flee across the Mis-
souri, into British America.
These are some of the incidents in the
life of the great Sioux chief as I remem-
Der them after the lapse of eight years.
There r many others 1 might mention
but these will suffice for the present.
JAMES S, BRIsBIN.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-20
The United WOrkmen.

The Ancient Order of United Work
men, the oldest and largest of all COOP
e~rative fraternal insurance o~rganlzallons'
has Just celebrated its sixteenth ami
yersary. In the sixteen years OF Its ex.
isteuce ii has attained a membership oil
over 14o. O0O, and distributed over $40,
600 600. 1t has a membership IN New
YORK State of nearly 2 1000, and nine
teen lodges in N. Y. city and Brooklyn,
with a joint membership OF 2,lOO.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-20
"Pepper-C Corn Rent.''

The term "pepper-corn rent is a
familiar one TO us all, and instances of
such a rent having been fixed are nei-
ther few nor far between. Thus. Bur.
meton, in Durham, was held by the
service of three grains of pepper yearly:
Finchley, in Middlesex, by the annual
rent of a pound of pepper Highgate,
in Denbigh, was leased for a term of
500 years at the annual rent of one pep
p corn, and for a fortieth part OF one
knights fee in the manor of Leyham, in
Suffolk, Philippa Ross rendered lone
capon and the third part of one capon
and the third part of n pound of pep
per-" A similar custom was that of
Pokerley, in Durham, which lands were
held Shy one Glove on st. Cuthbert's
Day, in September, for all other SER
vices. "-CasselEs Magazine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-20
Marriage in Tartary.

Among the Kirghese the practice of
polygamy obtains. Generally the eldest
brother of a family has moreNthan one
wife. The first wife is mistress of the
household. To her are subject not only
her husbands other wives, but also all
the other females of the family. The
head of a household will often send a
portion of his herds several hundreds of
miles away under the care of this wife,
whilst he himself will either remain with
his other wives about the grazing
ground, or go and encamp somewhere
by himself. In winter the family comes
together again. The manifold circum-
stances connected with marriage among
the Kirghese are somewhat formidable,
and involve the payment of a kahn, be-
sides the giving of various presents.
The affair is arranged as to its prelim-
inaries by match-makers, and the bride
groom, after betrothal, has sometimes to
wait a year or more until he can bring
the remaining portion of the kahn. If
during this period the betrothed girl
should die, her parents are bound to
give instead their next daughter, or in
default to return the kaIim, and pay also
a fine of one o. two horses and robes or
furs. So also is it if the girl should re-
fuse to marry, which she may do on ac-
count of the %suitor's ill health. or his
poverty, or Tin some ~localities) her per-
sonal dislike.
Yet another custom is that if the
bridegroom die or refuse to marry the
girl, his parents are bound to take her
for their next son, paying a fine, usually
a camel, in case of refusal. When the
prescribed period of betrothal is at an
end, the bridegroom, dressed and
moua~slsaSt goes with his
friends to the aul or village of the bride,
where the tent has been prepared for
his reception. Throughout the cere-
monies of betrothal the brides brother
has the right of pilfering from the bride
groom whatever he pleases; but now the
brides relations come and take as pres
ents almost everything he has-his
coat, hat, girdle, horse and saddle-say.
ing each one that they are for the edu-
cation of the bride-a seizure that is
afterward repaid by the relations of the
bridegroom on the visit to their aul of
the relations of the bride.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-20
ra. ,orrosnondent writes that

EArtNa.-A correspondent writes that
Englishfnen eat at much shorter inter-
walls than Americans are accustomed TO.
The farm laborer eats four meals daily,
and the correspondent says that sin one
of the stateliest baronial halls In Eng
land" he has seer posted in one OF the
rooms the orders of the day for the ser
vice of meals, which showed that
table was spread at intervals OF four
hours during the day and evening. This
is not evolution according to George
Francis Train, who eats only once IN
twenty-four hours, and who hailed DIR.
Tanner as the most advanced OF men.
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN MILES OF
ORGANs.-In numbering the organs of their
manufacture, Mason & Hamlin have reached
No, $50, 900. Arranged in a line these would
reach lib miles, or would fence the railroad
on one side from the Grand Central Station in
New York, to within twenty miles of Spring
field, Mass. Not only does this show the great
popularity of American organs, but 1t illus
trates what was declared by James Parton to
be q general fact that he who makes the best
article in his line always has the greatest sue
cess.
We understand that the Mason & Hamlin
Company's new Upright Piano is now COM
manding a large sale, and is, in every way,
I'D to the standard of their unr1valed organs.
We predict q large success for this piano,
which is constructed on a new system, SAD
to be a decided advance over the prevailing
wrest-pin system.-BOstOn Journal.
v~ANDERBILT's household expenses are $3.50,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-20
Human Calves.

unhappy marriages result from human calves
being allowed to run at large in society pas
tures.n Nine-tenths of the chronic or linger
ing diseases of to-day originate in impure
blood, liver complaint or biliousness, result
ing in s~crofula, consumption (Which is but
scrofula of the lungs, sores, ulcers, skin dis
eases and kindred affections. DR.. Pierce's
"Go11en Medical Discovery cures all these
nf dr-1UpiStS-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-20

Rev. JOSEPH Cooke has been figuring
about our future population. He esti-
mates that in the year 2l00 u popula-
ton will be 400, 900, 900; in the year
2200 it will be 800, 900, 900; in the year
$500 it will be ], 900, 600, 900, and in the
year 2400 it will be 3, 200, 900, 600.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-20
How Women Differ From MEN,

At least three men on the average jury are
bound to disagree with the rest just to show
hat they've got minds of their own; but
there is no disagreement among the women as
to the merits of DR.. Pierce's "Favorite Pre-
scription." They are all unanimous in pro
~nouncing it the best remedy in the world for
all those chronic diseases. weaknesses and
forms the pale, haggard, dispirited woman
into one of sparkling health, and the ringing
laugh again "reigns supreme !" in the happy
household
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-20
NEWSPAPER FABLES.
They All Talked Back And Would Have
the Last Word.

The Editor of aCountry Paper one
day turned on the Office Towel, which
was Hanging on its Accustomed Nail,
and began a TRADE of Abuse on its Ap-
pearance, terming it Dirty, Unfit, III
Looking, and fit only to be Flung from
the Window.
while 1 am compelled to Plead
Guilty to all Charges" humbly Re-
sponded the Towel, You must Remem-
Der that your own Hands have helped to
Soil me and make me what l am"
MORAL:
Had the Country Editor wiped his
Hands ON his exchanges the Towel could
have Indu geI in no Back Talk.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-20

MENsMAN's PEPToNIzED BEEF TONIC, the only
preparation Object containingits entire nutrt-
tiOuS properties. 1t contains blood-making
force generating and DEMONSTRATING properties;
invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, and all forms of general debility
result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over
work or acute disease, particularly if resulting
from pulmonary complaints. Caswen, Hazard &
Co., Proprietors, New York. Soldby druggists.
The famous Dark Day of New England Wai
Mau 10 1T20
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-20

SHINGnEs.-One bundle of 16-inch
shingles will cover 80 square feet. One
bundle of 1S.inch shingles will cover 81
square feet, when laid 81 inches to the
weather. Six pounds 4-penny nails will
lay 1000 split pine shingles.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-20
uord. % Warming and Comfort

eff YOU are suffering from poor heai take cheer
weak aud dispiriteds
without clearly know
ing why, Hop Bittefs,,
will surely cure you"