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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-25
THE LIME-KILN CLUB.
The President Takes up the White Man and
Considers Him n Little.

Ltfom tne Detrolt Free Press.
"Almos' ebery day." said Brother
Gardner as Judge Cadaver fell over the
stove-hearth and opened the meeting.
find in de newspapers an article en-
tiled: DE Fucher of de Guild Race
or What kin we do wild de Guild Man.
or Am De Black Man Improvin' De
average white man loves to lean back in
his cheer, put his thumbs into his vest
holes, an pat us on de back for good
boys, feelin' dat he am dead-perfeck an
dat we may some day secure de right to
sot in his shadder.
"Gem'Ien what am de fucher of de
white man? What kin we do wild him
Am de white man improvin'P Let us
lean back an study him bit. Who
suffers polygamy to walk frew de West
wild its hat on its ear an openly defyiu'
law an decency? Do white man
'tWho am responsible fur de liquor
traffick an its burdens of woe an misery?
De white man
'Who takes de money of widders an
orfuns an his fellef. men an hies him
across de frontier to safe quarters,
wreckin' scores of homes an bringin'
ruin to hundreds of people? De white
man
"Who, as de trusted servant of de
people, robs an plumbers an embezzles
De white man!
"Dar' may be ten white men to ebery
one Guild man, but fur ebery one black
man convicted of arson, adultery, for
gerry, burglary or murder, twenty-eight
white men am hauled up an sent ober
de road. Whar' dar' am one Guild man
in prison he has fifty white men to keep
him company. So much fur DER hon
esty.
"What am de white mans fuchcr?
He am CROWN sordid. He am becom-
in selfish. He am melted by ambitions
which trample laws under foot an give
no heed to de voice of honesty. Dissi-
pashun an wine-tipplin' an gluttony
am shatterin' h's nerves an thinnin' his
blood. In two ginerash1ns mo' than
three out of cherry ten white men will be
vicious cranks or silly fools.
"What kin we do wild him? Muffin.
In his vanity and egotism he am plung-
in forward to destrucshun, an he am
bound to fetch UP on the rocks.
cam de white man improvin? Look
ober de long list of statesmen, poets, ar
fists, advocates, physicians, philanthro-
pists and naturalists of twenty years ago
an match it if you kin wild de names of
men of to-day. You can't do it De
white man has passed his zenith an am
now on de down-hillside. High libin',
fast !ibin' an constant excitement hev
combined to befuddle his intelleck an
wreck his physical powers, an thirty
wears hence thinker will be a sideshow
IN himself. We doan' want any pattin'
on de back by white folkses. We am
hoein' our row right 'longside of him.
an ie6 Ili1agivosr easFdat5we- euan 'reach
de eand fust~
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-25
TRUE BEAUTY AND SALVATION.
Few Notes From Henry Ward Beechcr's
Sunday Sermon.

Mr.. Beecher on Sunday morning took
three verses of Scripture for his text.
Some of the more striking things he
saiG~>re given below
''The Gssek found beauty on the out
side, the Hebrew on the inside. The
Greek made visible marble men, the
Hebrew chanted the hidden man OF the
heart"
II hold that beauty begins within,
and that the material and the visible is
the effect, not the cause; not the proto-
type, but the sequence"
"The special power of the Gospel OF
Jesus Christ, SO far as it is committed
to men, is the power of their beauty in
wardly. 1t is not their eloquence, their
songfulness; it is not their power OF
genius; it is their power of being good
-radiaptly good in each part, and SO
chorally good that, like mighty chorus
made up of many parts and many voices,
the one complex and grand sound shall
go out to the ears of men. That is the
Church"
''The New Testament is very like some
royal woman, rich, and having such
multitudinous iewelry that some she
keeps in her casket and some in her
closet-it is scattered ali over the house
and never brought altogether at once.
So the New Testament don't bring all
all its moral jewelry together in any one
place."
"The beauty within man is the dia-
mond; the exterior beauty is the paste
very beautiful to look at, but it is not
the diamond"
'There is not a living man who de-
serves to live an hour that don't know
that the most beautiful thing in this
world is love. Alas like mama, it
lasts but day; like dewdrop that is
as beautiful as the sun can make it, but
vanishes before it is ten in the morning" !"
''Peace is to Joy what the pearl is to
the diamond. The diamond flashes with
all colors; the pearl, serene, quiet in its
satiny, silken surface; and yet it is very
beautiful. Strange that the pearl should
have such a father. But it is just so in
human life. We see pearls growing in
the human family as in nature"
''I don't think we get so much out OF
the catechism, for the reason there amt
much in it. But I don't think our capit-
ularies of doctrines influence man half
as much as you think they do. tell
you it isn't the ordinances of the sanct-
uary, the broken symbols-certainly it
isn't the organ or preacher-that make
Christian men and women. Boys and
girls get their ideas of what is the beau
ty of holiness with the father and mother.
It is the evolution of the Spirit of Christ
in tho father and mother and the sister
and brother that is the real Gospel
to-day"
''The beggarly idea that is prevalent
that religion is mode of saving men
we'll, from certain point of view, it is true
that to be saved is a thing for aspiration
and for longing, and the evidence in 3
mans inner self that he has been bern
1gain ought to bring forth Joy. And ySt,
as it is held by the common run Of
minds, it is a beggarly thing the idea
that wesare to get religion as we would
get ticket for concert or an opera,
and then present our ticket as pass 70
our seat in heaven" I
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-25
The Story of d Senator.

When Nesmith was elected to the
u. s. Senate from Oregon, in the early
part of the war, he had never been III
Washington; never been east OF the
Rocky Mountains, in fact, since he
emigrated as boy to the Pacific slope
to seek his fortune. He had never seen
a railroad or locomotive until he struck
the Panama road at the Isthmus, and, as
he described himself, was ''green as a
squash" Upon reaching Washington,
being too bashful to present his creden-
tials and be sworn in at once, he spent
day or two looking down upon that
distinguished body from a seat in the
gallery, so as to get the hang OF things
q little before he ventured on the floor.
His diffidence wore off after little, and
his great fund of anecdote, his fine vein
of humor, his frontier frankness and
originality of character and manner,
drew around him warm friends of both
parties. Standing one day in a group
of Senators who had been questioning
him concerning his adventurous life,
Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, said:
81 understand, Senator, that you had
never seen a railroad until you came
East, and that everything of that sort in
the way of modern Improvements was
entirely new to you. Now, 1 am curious
to know what struck you as being the
mast wonderful thing that met your OBJ
servation on this side of the continent p
Nesmith hesitated moment, then
said: "Well, I spent my first two or
three days in Washington up there in
the gallery, looking at the Senate. and l
think what most filled me with wonder
was the thought that I, who went off to
Oregon years ago poor, uneducated
boy, should be here member of the
highest Legislative body in the country.
That was my greatest wonder.
"Well- butt don't mean that ex-
actly," said Wilson, who was chiefly
curious about what mechanical contriv-
ance or invention had excited most sur
prise, ''but what after that most sur
prised you p
"Well," said Nesmith, dropping his
serious manner and putting on O quiz
zical expression, 81 think after the sem
sation of surprise at being here myself,
what excited most wonder was how the
dickens the rest of you got here"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-25
TALMAGE'S THANKSGIVING.
The Evils of Overprodaction and the
Remedy.

If the year now past has been to any
of you one of misfortune or calamity or
bereavement, you have many mere:es
left you, and ought to thank God things
are no worse with you than they are.
said Rev. DIR. Talmage, as he addressed
the immense assemblage at the Brook
lyn Tabernacle on Thanksgiving. To
vast throngs of us the year has been
one of overreaching mercy, and, as in
dividuals, and as church, and as
nation we keep jubilee. Other nations
have felt the scourge of epidemic, but
this land has been spared, and after
emerging unhurt from Presidential
contest with which the blind Sampson
of partisansh1p threatened to doom the
pillars of State and leave the temple flat
in the dust, and after 365 more days of
kindness from our God we are here.
The wave of temporal blessing has
dashed to the top of the nations corn
crib. Aye, the prosperity of this coun-
try has rolled up until the crest of the
wave has broken and recoiled upon it.
self. Nothing is the matter to-day with
this country but over-production and
under consumption. The one hundred
thousand wheels of American industry
are slowing up, not because there is too
little, but because there is too much.
God has showered upon the track of this
Iot; oe,
perity that the engine that draws the
train can harily plow through. The
American nation is being choked to
death with surplus of production and
manufactures. The deluge of supply
has risen fifteen cubits higher than the
mountains of demand. The man who
dies for lack of crust of bread is no
worse off than the man who is smothered
to death in wheat bin.
Millions of foreign population that
are yet to cross the sea for America
will soon enough fill all the area be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific beaches.
But in the words of my text 1 now de-
clare "another door toward the south
on the south three gates" When say
''south" / do not mean the Southern
States of our own American Union, but
I mean the magnificent infnity of op-
portunity beyond-Portugese America
and fifteen Spanish American republics
and the islands of the South Pacific.
Through that door will come the COM
plete and glorious relief for all this
oversupply. It will come within ten
years, within five, within three. Ap-
plause. On the 10Th of next month,
at the New Orleans Exposition, that
door will begin to swing open, and, if
the government of the United States
fully appreciates the opportunity and
the people of this country will help, the
highest water mark that the wave of our
national prosperity has ever reached
will be one hundred feet under what
shall speedily be the full tide of COM
mercial agricultural, manufacturing,
| literary and moral success. The vast
kreafm ofapepuiation IN the tropics are
/ buying from transatlantic nations al
most equally, and from, us almost moth
| ing, and the tide ought to turn-and
will turn, and I preach this sermon to
help it turn. Applause.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-25
THE CHR YSANTREMUM.
A CHRISTMAS LEGEND.


Oh, sleep, my children, sleepI
Lie close together on your cold, hard bed,
what nave ye now but sleep? The fire is dead
And there remains but one poor crust of bread
That against your hungry waking keep.
Oh, sleep, my children, sleep
The timbers groan with frost, and creaks the
floor;
The moonlight glances on the panes all hoar;
The wind heaps up the snow against the door.
voice hear; outside some child doth weep.
My children are asleep
But thou, young lamb, wide strsying from the
fold,
plty thee, feet bleeding, numb with cold,
Eat thou their bread-a morsel dry and oadS
To warm thyself, beneath their cover creep.
Sleep well, my children, sseepl
And thou, too. sleep, poor wanderer, till the
day.
What vexeth enee2 Wilt thou no longer stay ?
AtoW strangely gone No footprints mark the
way.
But Towers start through the drift so smooth
and deepl
oh, children, leave your sleepl
Come hlther, come, and see this wondrous
thing
Rough winter to his bosom folds the spring!
Aholy guest to US the night did bring;
These flowers he left, himself we could not
keep.
My children, leave your sleepl
Leave empty dreaming on your cold, hard bed;
FOR now the house is light, the hearth blooms
red;
Se hungry now no more; with meat and bread
DO heavenly hands unseen the table heap.
-EDITH NJ Thomas in Boston Traveller.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-25
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Death of 4 Remarkable Woman

Nine. Mathilda Franzeskas Anneke,
one of the most remarkable women of
the time, died in Milwaukee, Wis, after
a long and painful illness. She was born
in Blankenstein, Westphalia, on April 8,
1917. Her husband was Prussian Of
ficer who, during the revolution OF 1913,
espoused the cause of the people and be-
came one of the leaders of the move
ment. Nine, Anneke, who was greatly
interested in political and literary mat
ters, encouraged her husband in his
course and edited newspaper in the in
terest of the revolution, while her hus-
band was in jail awaiting trial for trea-
sou. She continued the publication of
the paper until forced to desist, when she
Joined the staff of her husband, who had
been liberated in the meantime, and did
duty as common soldier, participating in
many battle. Carl Schurz was also a
member of her husbands staff. 1t is re-
lated that sue did gallant service in the
field, and her acts of daring bravery at
tracted Wild attention. When the revo-
luton was finally crushed Nine. Anneke,
with her family, sought refuge in other
countries. They fled to France, then to
Switzerland, and finally came to this
country, which they reached in 1849,
and settled in Milwaukee. She became
a powerful advocate of the enfranchise-
ment of women, and edited a paper in
the interest of female suffrage until COM
PEELED to abandon the task by reason OF
ill-health. She afterward spent about
four years in Switzerland, where she
wrote several poems and dramas. She
returned to Milwaukee in 1865 and es'
tablished an academy for young ladies'
Her last days were very painful, but she
maintained herself with great fortitude
Ten years ago her husband was accident
ally killed in Chicago.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-25
THE FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
POiiti caI Complexion of the Next House
The Speak ership.

Mr.. Clark, the Clerk of the United
States House of Representatives, has
compiled the list of names of members
elect of the Forty-ninth Congress. Ttvs
present Congress consists Of 2Ol Dem
ocrats and 124 Republicans. The next
will consist of 1S4 Democrats and l4l
Republicans. The Democrats have
made gain of IL members, as follows;
Florida, 1; Illinois, 2; Kentucky, l;
Maryland, l; Michigan, i; Mississippi,
3; North Carolina, l; Texas, 1. and Vir-
ginia, 2. The Republicans have gained
% members as follows: California, D;
Connecticut 1, Indiana, l; Massachusetts,
[; Missouri, 2; Nevada, 1; New York,
5; Ohio, 4; Pennsylvania. 4; tennessee,
[, and Wisconsin, 4. The number OF
members of the Forty eighth Congress
reelected is 191.
The list printed in the Herald Novem-
Der gave the democrats 1856; republi'
cans. 1856; independents, 9 The latter
ire classed with the republicans, MS they
ire likely to vote with them on every
measure. Mr.. Clark's table shows that
jhe Illinois delegation will have 10 dem
,crats and 10 republicans. The New
York delegation is also evenly divided
II democrats and II republicans. Ohio
mas IL democrats and 10 republicans,
and Michigan democrats and A repub-
icans-a gain of 1 democrat over the
present representation.
The Territorial delegates stand DEM
ocrats to republicans. If Senator
Voorhees,, of Indiana, is reelected he
will have the unusual privilege of coach
ing son in the ways of legislation, MIR.
Charles Voorhees, having been elected
delegate from Washington Territory.
| No1p YO9,E Herald
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-25

ne call me, child
"An oil duffer," said Patty, with her
finger in her mouth.
Uncle Joshua turned and strobe away,
fiinging ''There, now. Sallyl' over his
shoulder at his dismayed sister as he
went
That night he sat before the open
ssFranklin" IN his great rocking chair.
while Aunt Sally knitted IN the corner,
and Patty, on the floor, unlaced her
shoes preparatory to going up stairs.
eye ike us here, don't ye, Patty ?"
asked her uncle, finally, after long
silence.
eyes, sir, O. course I do" laying her
pink cheek against his knee.
Uncle Joshaa's hard hand was very
light on the yellow head, as he stroked
her hair.
can would ye like to live with us ?"
he asked again.
"An' not go home ever p
"Why, yes-mebby-for visit. But
live here"
Patty raised her head to stare at him.
"Oh, l couldn't, Uncle Joshua; not to
live. We know. think lot o. you an
Aunt Sally. But ye know there's all
the rest O. tn folks-Uncle Amasy and
Aunt Polly and George; Georges my
brother I"
Uncle Joshua drew away his hand
and Aunt Silly, in her corner, frowned
over her knitting.
Innocent Patty went on, presently, IN
q musing tone: This place is awfu
nice, but like Uncle Anasy's ius' e.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-25

Mr.. DOUGLAS. the great English
builder, says that the Great East
ern was trife ahead of her time in
size. but not much. All experience has
shown that the large ship is safer and
more profitable than the small one.
Only one captain and one set of officers
is required, let the ship be ever SO
large, and I presume that ships OF
%. 600 tons will in the future be as COM
mon as are ships of 5000 tons at pres
ent. The limit in the United States is
the depth of water. Your harbors are
for the most part shallow, and 80 far as
New York is concerned the limit Of
drauaht has been reached,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-25

How To Cook AN OLD HEN. Tough
as an old hen" has become a proverb.
Bat correspondent of the Scientific
american tells how even an old hen
may be made tender and eatable by
proper cooking. And this is the way it
is done. An old hen that would have
been uneatable though cooked in the
ordinary way, was gently stewed for
four hours. After this she was left in
the water until cooled, and on the follow
ing day was roasted in the usual manner
in roasting oven. The result was a
perfect success; she was as tender as a
full grown young chicken, and of quite
equal flavor. 1t Was the supplementary
roasting that did it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-25
She Heard the Knock.

The Virginia City Enterprise tells this
little story:-Last week there was an ex-
nlosion of over two tons of powder at
Salt Lake, which shook the whole city
and wrecked everything in the neigh
borhood. When the explosion occurred
deaf old lady, who lived about block
awav. pricked up her ears and said:
"Come in" She then turned smilingly
to her daughter and exclaimed: "Law
me. I do believe I'm getting back my
hearing. I heard that knock at the
door as plainly as ever heard anything
in my life"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-25

lsety sprang to her feet, with her
shoes in her hand. "You didn't oughter
to talk sol' she cried, Indignantly.
"Uncle Amasy's so good to mel" and
then she broke down and cried.
''Sally, take that child to bed !" COM
manded her uncle, and disappeared.
Patty went home soon after this; and
wheh the stage stopped at the door,
Aunt Sally held her fast, saying between
her tears. "Ye mus come ag'in, darlin'.
Promise us ye will" While uncle
Joshua snapped in his crossest tones:
go course she'll come ag'in. Don't
be a fool. Here, Patty, come to me.
That's somethin' to remember by.
thrusting gold piece into her hand.
can this, holding up little package,
"ye tell yer Aunt Polly to put in your
stockin' C'ris'mus.
And then he took her to the stage.
When Patty showed her gifts to Aunt
Polly, at night, that worthy woman took
the money between her thumb and
finger. LANDS sake r. she cried, ''ef
that don't beat all It's a fye-dollar
piece. Amasy Andrews, as sure's ye live.
Who'd "a thought tn OF man d acted
so like folks p
'He's real good p loyal Patty, in all
her excitement. did not forget to say.
II like Uncle Joshua fustrate. Oh, but
Aunt Polly won't that buy my new
shoes ?"
The man and woman exchanged
glances, and then Mrs. Andrews stopped
and kissed her niece.
The short winter days passed quickly.
One night at dusk the two excited chill
dren hung their stockings in the chin,
ney corner before they went up stairs to
bed. The next morning, in the dark
and cold, two little night-gowned figures
crept down the back stairs, shivering
and sleepy, but happy beyond words to
describe.
Don't ye look Don'tye dass to look
till I get the fire a-goin T. commanded
G. orge, as he lighted the lamp.
"Honest, I won't, George r. his SIS
ter promised, covering her eyes with
her hands. s-s-.- = - -s-s.p --s---s'z
: 'Thcfe%it's a-goia,l I'm glad. ( fix d,
1t las night. Now, look, Patty. Oh
look, quick r.
'Mittens l' cried the boy, diving into
his stocking. =
"Leggin's r. cried the girl. i
"Oh, Patty, look ere, Won't .ye.l, "A
sled, true an henestsled l"s1S - i
"Oh, Georgy ia sdolf4 A lovely,
great big doll ls OIL amt glad fs
That's good nows," said Uncle
Amasa, cheerfully. as he and his wife
appeared at the door. "Air ye salts
fed, children 2" ~
But Patty had, at last, come to Uncle
Joshua's box. ''I'll cut the string with
my new knife" George cried. 'Now,
less look; mebby it's a gold watch and
chain, Patty"
"Tain't nothin' but writin'," said the
child, bewildered.
Uncle Amasa took the sheet with
trembling fingers. ''Heaven an earth, {"
he calculated, letting it fall the next
moment. "It's that moggage made out
to Patty. Listen here:
"I send you what would please you
most, child. Tell your Uncle Amasa a
man is pretty good that raises such a
little girl. So, Merry Christmas to
you all. From
"'THE OLD DUFFRR'"
"Bless the Lord p whispered Aunt
Polly. And "Bless the Lord |" piped
her small niece.
And I think our Patty was the only
child in New England who found that
day house and lands in the toe of hel
Christmas stocking.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-25

REWARDED. late Marquis OF
Londonderry was chairman of one OF the
Welsh railway companies, and was once
travelling in company with several other
gentlemen, when the ticket platform was
reached. Here youth, who had not
long reached his teens, entered the car
riage with "Tickets, please + Lord
Londonderry never carried a railway
ticket, but the impervious youth was not
to be satisfied. ''Do you know who l
am ?" inquired my lord. "No, sir" was
the bland reply. 'tI am the Marquis Of
Londonderry, the chairman of this rail-
vay." "But how am to know that,
sir ?" was the sharp reioinder. The
station master was called, and his lord
ship, delighted with the lads shrewd
ness, had him at once promoted, and ne
is now occupying an honorable position
in the company's service.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-25

SCENE on railway pla tform at Heidel.
berg: Traveller to university student
''Sir, you are crowding; keep back, sir. y
U. s. Cfercely)-'tDon't you like itP
Allow me to tell you that 1 am at your
service at any time and place" Traveller
(benignantly)-'Ah, indeed, that is very
kind of you. Just carry this satchel for
me to the hotel.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-25

"wIFE, 1 wish you could make pies
that would taste as good as my mothers
used to-" "Well, my dear, you run out
and bring in pailful of water and a hod,
full of coal and an armful of wood, Just
as YOU used to for your mother, and
maybe you will like my pies as well. " He
concluded the pies would do Just as they
were.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-25

WHEN man starts ont to paint Tie
town red he does not do it in water
cQlOrs,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-25

COMPARED WITH cTHER English coun-
ties, Devonshire and Somersetshire have
suffered very little from the agricultural
depression, the farming being dairy and
oot crops chiefly,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-25

A FULL FLOODED prince teaches piano
playing at Naples.