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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19
Threatening Grant & Ward.


A reporter said to a brother of Mr..
| Ferdinand Ward, of Grant & Ward,
| now IN ludlow street jail: "It looks,
Mr.. Eard. ss though some one had been
threatening your brother of late and
compelling him to pay over large
sums" +"
eyes; there will be something more on
that head. There have been letters writ
ten to the firm that will be given to the
public before this thing is over that will
shoFv some Of the influence that has
been brought ta bear against my
brother. L do not say Word against
Gen. Grant. accuse nobody. I hope
this matter may be settled without in
juring any name or any family, and with
justice to all parties: MY brother is
wiling to bare his share, and if, after all
is ,stsssssd, she mnst be-sncrifced. be is
resigned; but he must not bear all the
blame, and, although | am his brother,
I hope you will believe me when / say
hs has not done all the wrong,
to another at time when he must have
known that exposure must come, when
the end was stiTs these men kept hound
ing him. Ten per cent. was not enough,
and they demanded twenty. They We're
inexorable. The books will show that
my brother has paid as high as 24O per
per cent. year. Do you suppose these
men who got it made inquiries where it
vas obtained? Here we're Work aud
Warner getting credits here for profits
purely fictitious, and On the strength of
q claim that there was money dGe them
they get these midnight transfers OF real
property made. My brother was the
first to attack them, and he has re-
gretted them ever since: 1t was trans
fer without consideration. an certain
that if all the money due Grant Il Ward
Gould be paid the firms debts could be
nearly, if not qdite; paid. Let some OF
the unearned millions that have been
taken out be put back"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19
Niping Out a Regiment.

Any time during the war, after the be-
ginning of 1868, it would have been
hard to find q regiment in the field num-
bering its full complement of one thou
sand men. There were many having a
strength of NOT more than three hun
dred and fifty or four hundred, particu-
larly on the Confederate side. In yarl-
ous severe encounters regiments were
decimated, and In some cases lost half
their strength, but it was rarely that
body was so completely wiped out that
there was nothing to rally on. At the
battle of Pleasant Hills, Lag, Texas
cavalry regiment, numbering three huns
dred and forty eight men, were seen
forming for charge against Federal
brigade of infantry. The latter had
good cover and were fresh. The cavalry
had to dash across a field to reach the
line, and before they came the COM
mander of the brigade passed along be-
hind his two lines and ordered his men
to hold their fire until the word was
given. Each pair were instructed to
fire at one cayalryman-or, rather, one
at the man and the other at the horse.
The cavalry made the charge in one
line, but it was so much shorter than
the front of the brigade that three fires
could be concentrated. The Confed-
crates came forward with dash and
yell, keeping pretty even front until
they were within one hundred feet OF
the line when all the muskets rang out
together. One volley was enough.
That regiment was SO nearly blotted off
the face of the earth that only four Of
its members returned to the Confederate
lines. Over two hundred horses were
killed outright, and at least another
hundred wounded. There were not ten
wounded men to pick up. Every Fed
eral had dead aim and a close target.
M Oman
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19
A Model Ice-Chest.

During the month of March I bull
an ice-chest for this summer. 1t was
not handsome but it was roomy, and
would be very nice for the season Of
1884, / thought It worked pretty well
through March and April, but as the
weather begins to warm up that ice
chest is about the warmest place around
the house. There is actually glow OF
heat around the ice-chest that I don't
notice elsewhere. I've shown it to sew
--raI-personal friends. They seem to
think that it is not built tightly enough
for an ice-chest, Ny brother looked at
it yesterday, and said that his idea of an
ice-chest was that it ought to be tight
enough at least to hold the larger chunks
of ice so that they would not escape
through the pores of the ice-box. He
says he never built one, but it stood to
reason that refrigerator like that ought
to be constructed so that it would keep
the cows ont of it. You don't want to
have refrigerator that the cattle can
get through the cracks of and eat up
you strawberries on ice, he says. A
neighbor Of mine who once built hen
resort of laths, and now wears a thick
thumb-nail that looks like a Brazil nut
as memento of that pullet corral, says
my ice-chest is all right enough, only
that it is not suited to this climate. He
thinks that along Behring Strait, during
the holidays, my ice-chest would work
like acharm. And even here, he thought,
If could keep thefever out of my chest,
there would be less pain.-BrLL NYE.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19
Plantation Philosophy.

Dar neber was man so smart dat dar
wasn't somebody else smarter.
De bes' pusson is made o de smile an
de tear. Sunshine an rain is whut makes
de cotton.
When er ole man gifts mad he's awful.
De ole family boss, when he runs erwey.
ta'rs de buggy all Ter pieces.
De mo- er man thinks O. hisse'f. de
mo- he thinks o. de debil, for in all
things de debil shows dat he 'siders
hisse'f fust.
De wust fool is de fool whut tries ter
vince his 'quaintances dat dar aim nc
God. fur at de las he cries wild de loudes
voice an wants mussy de quickes'. De
smart man may teach yer how ter lib,
but de Chris ken tell you how ter die.
De man what tells one truth, aldough
may make de curmunity mad, is
greater den de man whut tells hundred
lies ter please der neighborhood. Truth
follered in de right way, Is de founda-
tion of dis worl's happiness. De ial
may muse de folks, but nobody wants
ter ak his 'pinion consarnin' 'portan
matter. Truveler.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19
Hunting With BeIled Dogs.

sT hunted with an Englishman In
Michigan, once, who put bells on his
dogs when he went Notwithstanding:
when the dogs got into thick covert, he
could trace their course by the sound OF
the bells, and whenever the tinkling
ceased, he knew they were pointing
birds.
"He told me that one day he went out
TO a woodoock covert with a belled dog,
and after following the sound back and
forth and around and around In
tangled growth, suddenly the tinkling
ceased. Very much pleased, he went to
the spot expecting to flush bird, but
he could find neither his dog nor any
woodcock. Long and patiently he
tramped about the spot, to no purpose.
Then he called his dog; it did not come.
Here was a mystery. Could it be possl-
BILE that his dog had fallen dead in some
dense clump of the covert2 He called
until he was hoarse, and finally wen'
back to camp tired and mystifed, And
there lay his dog at the tent door doz-
ing, in the sun. 1t had lost the bell f!
81 Nicholas for June.
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The Effect OF an Arctic Climate.

Lieutenant Ray says: "The effects OF
the climate upon materials and men are
exactly the same as in tropical coun'
try. The boards which were unloaded
from the ship to make our house shrunk
and cracked open as if under the int1u-
ence of tropical sun. And have suf-
fered from thirst there even more acutely
than on the arid planes of Arizona and
New Mexico. The natives suffer terribly
for want of water in the winter time and
before the cold season thoroughly sets
in. provide against that for ourselves
by cutting and cording up lot of ice
about a foot thick, which We melt as
needed. The natives pleaded with me
often for drink, and as that was some
thing there need be no lack of as long
as our fuel lasted, they had two years OF
plenty in that respect. AS in the tropics,
the children reach the age of puberty
in few years. Extremes do meet. By
a wise provision some of the ordinary
demands of nature are, in a measure,
suspended in that latitude, and mini
mum of inconvenience secured. Some
of the natives, however, abuse even this
indulgence, which may extend over q
period of two weeks without hurtful re-
suits. and the most frequent calls upon
my physician's stores were for laxatives.
"How deep does the snow fall?" ''Only
about a foot during the season. You
see there is no evaporation to speak of,
and consequently no precipitation, and
the snow is very light. 1t drifts in the
gales, ard after we had got our house
built it was not long until it was covered
We ran tunnels then to our ice pack anC
to two observatories, some distance from
the house, and all the time we were there
the tunnels were our only lines of com
mupicatiOn."
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my ears How sadly did it echo and
re echo in my heart

my ears How sadly did it echo and
re echo in my heart
"Poor child p / murmured. "To him
the loss of an arrow wes a great thing
1t has disturbed him to the very centre
| of his little being. wish, now, that I
had put by my work for few minutes
until | could have found his arrow, or
| Diade him new one. Iwould have lost
no more time in doing so than [ have al
| ready lost. And, after all, what is ~ .t-
tie time taken from nv work TO the
happiness of my etslnd? All. mel I
wish L could earn to think right at the
rlght r-me. Dear little fellow He was
81 happy with his bow and arrow. But
all was destroyed by the untimely loss,
which could have restored in few
moments. Unfeeling-unnatural mo-
ther Is this the way you show your
love for your child %
/ stood for nearly five minutes over
my sleeping boy. When 1 turned away,
I did not resume my sewing. for had
no heart to work upon the little gar
ment went down into the yard, and
the first object that met my eye was the
lost arrow, partly concealed behind a
rose-bush, where it had fallen.
$50 easily foundi" said l. Chow
much would minute given at the right
time have sated All, me! we learn
toe late, and repent when repentance is
of little avail"
1t was an hour before the deep sleep
into which my Willy had fallen, was
broken. 1 had, in the meantime, re-
sumed my sewing after having lost
fully half an hour in consequence of
being unwilling to lose few minutes for
the sake of attending to my child, and
relieving him Of the trouble that had
come upon him. The first notice 1 re-
ceived of his being awake, was his
gretiecd exclamation at finding his lost
| arrow beside him. All his past grief
was forgotten. In few minutes he
was down in the yard, shooting his
arrow again, and as happy as before. No
trace OF hts recent grief renamed.
But could not forget If. With me
the circumstance was not as the morn
ing cloud and the early dew. The sun
shine that came afterward did not dis
sipate instantly the one, nor drink up
the other. was sober for many hours
afterward; for the consciousness of hav-
ing done wrong, as well as having been
the occasion of grief to my child, lay
with heavy pressure upon my feelings.
It S. ARTHUR.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19
THE TERRIBLE HYDROPHOBI4.
A Reported Remedy MS it is Given by n
French Physician.

M. Louis Pasteur, the celebrated
French chemist, claims to have made
discovery of complete cure, or rather
antidote, for hyhrcc;,,,n..sou In an in
serv1ew with a Figaro correspondent
NJ. Pasteur says:
"CauteriEation of the wound imt1edi-
ately after the bite, as is well known,
has been more or less effective, but from
to-day anybody bitten by mad dog has
only to present himself at the laboratory
of the Ecole Normal, and by inoculation
will make him completely insuscepti-
BILE to the effects of hydrophobia, even
if bitten subsequently by any number of
mad dogs.
81 have been devoting the last fou
years TO this subject I found out, in
the first place, that the virts ra6ique
loses its intensity by transmission to GER
tain animals, and increases its intensity
by transmiesioh 10 other animals. With
the rabbit, for instance, the cirrus
r.G.JJ;;Yue increases; with the monkey it
decreases. My method was as follows
l took the virus direct from the brain of
a dog that had died from acute hydro
phobia. With this virus 1 inoculated
monkey. The monkey died,
"Then with the virus-already weak
ened in intensity-taken from this mon
key I inoculateda second monkey. Then
with the virus taken from the second
monkey inoculated third monkey,
and so on until 1 obtained virus so
weak as to be almost harmless. Then
with this almost harmless virus L lnocu-
lated a rabbit, the virus being at once
increased in intensity.
"Then with the virus from the first
rabbit 1 inoculated second rabbit, and
there was another increase in the inten-
sity of the virus. Then with the virus
of the second rabbit [ inoculated
third rabbit, then fourth, until the
virus had regained its maximum luten-
sitv, Thus | obtained virus of different
degrees of power. [ then took dog
and inoculated him, first with the weak
est virus from the rabbit, then with the
virus from the second rabbit, and finally
with the rabbit virus of maximum inten-
sity. After few days more I inoculated
the dog with virus taken directly from
the brain of dog that had just died OF
acute madness. The dog upon which L
had experimental proved completely in
susceptible to hydrophobia. The ex-
pertinent was frequently repeated, al
ways with the same successful result.
'But my discovery did not end here
I took two dogs and inoculated them
both with virus taken directly from a
dog that had Just died of acute hydro
phobia. l let one Of my two dogs thus
inocuIated alone. and he went mad aud
died Of acute hydrophobia. 1 subjected
the second dog to my treatment, giving
him the three rabbit inoculations, be-
ginning with the weakest and ending
with the strongest. This second dog
was completely cured, or rather became
completely insusceptible to hydro
phObia"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19
AS TO THE TART STRAWBERRY,
Various WAYS in Which the Delicious Little
Red Fellow May be Eaten!

from the Boston Journal
As the strawberry season is with US,
few ideas regarding the disposal of the
delicious berry might be timely. Here
is. one o. the best recipes for strawberrv
shortcake: One pint sifted flour, ] tea
spoonful salt, scant; ! teaspoonful soda,
measured after pulverizing; l full tea
spoonful cream of tartar (omit if sour
milk be used), mixed together and sift
two or three times; cup butter, l cup
sweet or sour milk or cold water. Rub
in the butter, or melt the butter and add
it hot with the milk, gradually mixing
and cutting with knife, and use Just
enough to make it of light, spongy con-
sistency. Either bake on grlddle or
in the oven. When baked tear open
and spread each half of the cakes with
softened butter. Put half of the cakes
on hot plate. Mash a pint of straw
berries, sweeten to taste, put large
spoonful on each cake; then put another
layer of cakes and whole berries, we'll
sugared. Serve with cream.
Strawberry charlotte: Line a bowl
with strawberries ana fill with Bavarian
cream. The cream is made up of ! box
gelatine, cup cold water soaked to-
gether. Whip one pint of cream till you
have three pints of the whip. Boil the
remainder with cup sugar and when
boiling add the gelatine. Add l tea
spoonful vanilla. When the mixture Is
cold add whipped cream
Strawberry sherbet: One pint berry
juice, pint sugar, pint water, Juice 2
lemons, l tablespoonful gelatine. Or, 1
pint preserved fruit, 1 cup sugar, 1
quart water, lemons, tablespoonful
pelatiue.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19
DRIVER SPLAN'S START.
Promoted from Rubber TO, Driver,
Makes II Record on the First Day.

|
Makes II Record on the First Day.
| -
! As an entertaining conversationalist
John Splan has no superior. His story
of how he graduated from the position of
rubber" to that of driver is worth re-
peating. 81 was rubbing horses for
Dan Mace" said Splan, ''and one day
an old gentleman who had taken great
deal of interest i'll me came alongs why
don't you get horse, Johnny be said,
and be "a driver yourself?' explained
to him that 1t was almost impossible for
boy who had no influential friends to
obtain trotter. Il have got two,' he
said, my favorite team. Twang and
Sting, and, if you like, I will let you
train them OF course 1 accepted his
proposition eagerly, and lay awake half
that nigbt thinking over my good luck.
The next morning the horses were sent
to the track, and; boy like. I wanted to
begin operations on them at once. So I
harnessed Sting up to a sulky that I
borrowed for the occasion from one of
the trainers, and while this was being
done took Twang out in the field inside
the track, and turned him out to grass,
tying him by long rore to strong
stake which I drove into the ground.
Then I went back and began driving
Sting ~
81 warmed the old horse up pretty
well. and started to drive him full
mile. We got along very nicely until
we came to the place where Twang was
nibbling grass. The old horse saw bis
mate coming at very unusual rate OF
speed, and as we neared him he gave a
loud whinny and started in hot pursuit.
When he had galloped the length of the
rope that held him, there was a sudden
stop. The stake to which the rope was
tied held its own, and the result was
that Twang turned a double somersault
and broke his neck. Unconscious of the
destruction that was going on behind
Inc, drove Sting down the homestretch
at his best rate of speed. After COM
pleting the mile and stopping the horse,
l found that the unusual exercise had
made him dead lame, and from the way
in which he limped it seemed highly
probable to me that he would never re-
cover. While bemoaniug this fact
small boy who had witnessed the catas-
trophe to Twang came up and informed
me of it. The next morning the old
gentleman who took SO much interest in
me, and who regarded me as bright
and promising boy, came out to the
track. He buried Twang, led Sting
limping home behind his buggy, and
my career as driver began and ended IN
one day."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19
SUNRISE AMONG THE HILLS

HIS merciss are new every morning and His com
passions fail not"
4ils mercies are new every morning,
Heavy and long is the night,
The sea moans in blackness of darkness
There may be a wreck ere the light.
Lo sudden-a CLEAN on the mountains
The shadows are fleeing away;
God touches the clouds with sun-fngers
And opens the gates of the day.
HIS mercles are new every morning,
And oh, His ompassions ne'er fail,
n To the tisGld sheep cropping the herbage,
The mariner breasting the gale;
The child, born to love and to laughter,
The sinner, whom tears cannot shrive,
The mOurner left sleeping for sorrow"
The sick man who wakes up alive
His mercies are new every morning
In the joy of our youth-time we sungi
''His meTcies are new every morning =
We sing yet with faltering tongue.
And we'll sing it till bursts the grand music
That all earth's faint anthem stills,
And we see the Day-Star arising
Above the eternal hills.
-Dlnah 3fltIock Crdik, in Congr egdtio rOlist
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19

THROUGH LIFr.-The ingenious DIR.
Farr calculates that the march of l, ,000,-
900 children through life will be about
thus: Nearly $50, 900 will die the first
ear, $4,000 the next, %, coo the third,
and so on to less than 1000 in the thir-
teenth year. There will be 500, 900
alive at the end of As years, $40, 900 at
go, 10000 at so, 80, 900 at 85, 2,1OO at
95, 223 at 100, and at 1O8 there will be
ust one survivor to tell the tae.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19

A FU1L-BEARDED grandfather recently
had his beard shaved off, showing a
clean face for the first time in number
of wears. At the dinner table his three
wear old granddaughter noticed it; gaz-
ing long time with wondering eyes,
and finally she calculated: Grandfather,
Whose head you got on2"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19

ADVICE TO YoUNa MEN.-When about
to break up for the holidays, Mr.. spur
oeon dismissed his young men with
caution: "Now you will have brlei
holiday" said he, smiling. "Your chlot
business will be to take things re-
markably easy. And don't get oourelng'
That is not good for students. he5p
yourselves to yourselves. Come back,
as some one puts it, with your hearts ana
manners uncracked. Walk IN the heids
like Isaac, by all means, and medita1e'
but don't lift up your eyes for Rebacca.
She will come soon enough -Lonao"
Standard,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19
The Indiana Poet.
Press.

James Whitcomb Riley, the Indiana
poet, whose verses have made him justly
famous, was once a hotel-keeper, and he
has had strange career. He was born
at New Bedford, Mass, and there he
lived for many years. His father was
the captain of whaler, but the son
never took to the sea. Captain Riley
gave the young man an ample fortune
when he attained his majority, and
young James invested the bulk of it IN
hotel, which he named the Ocean View
House. Riley sold his hotel in the win
ter of '7S, invested his money in Penn
sylvania oil, lost everything, and then
moved to Indiana to try farming. Un'
til within the last four years he never
wrote line of poetry.
.>-.r-,> ,,,o,, ,,au.r shows his pride sc
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19

A YOUNG lady being asked by an ac-
quaintance whether she had any original
poetry in her album, replied: "No. but
some of my friends have favored me
with original spelling"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19

ABOUT as mad man as ever came out
of an opera house was the young man
who had just started his first mustaohe.
He got wrathy because some one in the
audience shouted; "Down in front p
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19

THE Wall street version of an old say
ing is ''The man who speculates is lost. :"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19

Be praised not for your ancestors, but
for your virtues.
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NEVER take crooked path while you
can see straight one.
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SILENCE does not always mark wisdom
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