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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-02-26
Manufacturing CrippIes in France.

Some horrible disclosures just made
at Chalons, in France, ought to serve to
remind those who are in the habit of be-
slowing charity on child beggars in the
streets that too frequently they are, in
point of fact, giving money to and en-
couraging Infamous characters, who mar
tyrize the helpless children in their
power. The attention of the police at
Chalons was lately attracted by little
boy with one arm, and another child, a
cripple, wheeling himself about in a
small wooden box. Both children ap-
peared SO utterly miserable and pain
stricken that they were taken to the sta
ton, where they told a sad story of suf-
fering. Two years, ago, it transpired,
the boys, who are cousins, aged respec-
lively and 10, were living with their
parents at Barcelona. While returning
from school together they were accosted
by man and woman, who enticed them
to thu railway station and brought them
to Perpignan. There, and subsequently
at Chalons, one of the boys was made
one-armed, the other a cripple, the limbs
it was requisite to suppress being bent
and strapped up in the most cruel man
ner. After a time the lad, who wheeled
himself about in the box, was cut about
the loins with a knife, corrosive LIQUID
being poured on his wounds. His legs
were further attenuated by ropes tightly
wound round them; in short, for up
ward of two months the little martyrs
were operated upon daily, and success
having attended the horrible process.
they were sent out to beg in the streets
OF various French towns. Happily, the
man and woman who tortured them
have been arrested, and will be tried for
their inhuman offence.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-02-26
The Wear of Steel Rails.

1t is stated by Mr.. Webb, of the Lon
don and Northwestern Railway. that ac-
cording to his calculations, l, 400 pounds
OF steel disappear every hour from the
track of that company's lines, 1,78O
miles in length. At first glance this
seems surprising statement, but it is
after all only 10 of ton each hour, or
1913 tons each day, or 6.I32 net tons
each year, for line of l, 78O miles, hav-
ing an exceptionally heavy traffic. In
length the railways of this country are
7l.3 times the line of the London and
Northwestern, and at the same rate of
destruction by wear, the quantity of
steel rails required for replacement on
all the roads of this country would he
only about 439 600 net tons. The con.
sumption of rails III 1883 in this country
was about l, 400 600 tons, OF which 6 500
mEes of new road required perhaps
Csc, 600 tons, leaving $50, 600 tons for re-
placements both of iron and steel. IT
may be inferred that the destruction of
rails by wear on the London and North
western is not relatively as great as it
may be on many roads in this country.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-02-26
A LOGGER'S STORY.
Thrilling Incident In the Pineries of North
ern Michigan.

"For young man I have done pretty
hard scrapping in the Rockies and min
| ing regions of New Mexico and Arizona,
but a few days ago 1 had the worst
scare in my life in the lumber districts
of Northern Michigan"
The speaker was young man of some
twenty-seven years of age, dressed in
rough-and- ready style and wearing a
frizzly tow beard
at was one of those bitter cold DAYS
we've just been having" he continued,
after brief interval, land had got up
at three o'clock to rouse the men and
get the sprinkler out. The air seemed
full of blue steel and cut to my marrow
like a razor. One of the Transfers got
scared out and played off sick, so 1 had
to take his place. When we had got a
good load, 1 took the reins and sat down
on the butts of the logs. leaving the two
loggers on behind OF course, about
twenty feet of the load hung off the last
bob. The road was a sheet of ice, for
the sprinkler ran over it every morning,
and the horses were sharp-shod, so we
slid along smoothly till we got to the
slide-a pretty steep incline ending in
turn which was mighty sharp for a road
sixty feet wide. AS soon as we started
down my hair began to stand on end,
for the horses galloped like fury to keep
ahead of the hobs which were Slowing
all over the road. 1 got so paralyzed
and nervous that when we approached
the turn refined in too suddenly. 1 felt
the front hobs jump one way and the
back hobs the other. The hind ends of
the logs whistled through the air like
willow switches, and L heard the loggers
cry aloud. The next thing was loud
snap snap snap like three trench
dous papercrackers-as the big log
chains broke like SO many cotton
threads. Did you ever use a switch
sling? Whirl it round and round your
head, you know, till a sudden twist
sends the apple off the end and spinning
into the all ? We'll, that is the way felt
and that is just what thought of as [
shot off into the air, over, and over, and
over, till [ struck in a snow-drift some
100 or more feet from the road. When
| struggled back through the snow I
found the horses trying to kick loose
from the few bits of harness that
dangled about them, the hobs tangled
around the trunk of a small pine tree.
and the logs scattered to the four winds.
Que logger crawled back to tho road
with fractured leg, and the other soon
followed with a disloca'ed shoulder.
One had landed against stump. They
afterward told me in camp that these
things were not at all unusual, and, as 1
had some pretty heavy bruises myself,
concluded that was not made to boss a
lumber camp. SO was driven to town
the next day to telegraph the manage
ment that the head teamster was filling
my place ard that 1 was on my way to
Chicago and am glad I did it."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-02-26
THE LIME-KILN CLUB.
Brother Gardner Wants II Plain Up and
Down Man.

Elder Toots having got most of hiE
feet under the redhot stove, and Colone
Cahoots having succeeded in knocking
down bust of Plato and wrecking $500
worth of relics, Brother Gardner arose
and said:
"What I banker AFTER is to meet q
plumb up an down man. Oar am pus-
sons in dis club who wobble about like
a loose wagon wheel. One day dey greet
you wild grin as soft as June, an de
mex day dey doan' know you as you
pass on de street. / doan' mean to hurt
no mans feelin's but mean to be plumb.
'If Whalebone Howker should come
Ober to my house an AK de loan of a
dollar 1 wouldn't keep him on de hooks
fur half an hour fur decision. Ishould
at once reply to him: 'Whalebone. de
man who uses money Armed by his wife
at de wash-tub to buy lottery tickets
can't get no dollar outer me 7 When a
man axes my religion 1 doan' beat
aroun' de bush to find out if he has
found short cut to Heaben, but de-
noupce myself as Baptist an take my
chances by de ole road.
"When you think yes or no doan'
hesitate to say so. Doan' be leanin' one
way one day an some odder way on ne
mex. De man who knows whar' to find
you won't go away mad, chen if you de-
eide agin him. Our Samuel Shin am
one day gwiIle to be statesman an on
de mex he's gyine to open saloon wild
a gilded ceilin'. One day you will find
him Methodist an de mex you will see
him devou1in' Universalist sermon.
Meet him in de mawnin' an he am
feroshus Republican,; cotch him in de
AFTERNOON an he am good Dimocrat.
"Be plumb no an down. If you am
sot on bein' good stick to it. If you am
sot on benz bad doan' let de purleece
bluff you off. If you like man tell
MIN he kin hev de use of your snow
shovel all summer. If you can't hoe
con wild him, ak him to buy out or sell
ont an take some odder cow-path. De
wobbly man am pusson to be Stunned.
Tryin' to do bizness wild him am time
wasted an labor frown away. "-Detroit
Free Press
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-02-26
Relieved of Their Misery.

The lost and starving dogs in London
are carefully collected and taken to q
''home," where, to the number some
times of 100 day they are killed by q
process, than which none could be more
humane. After being given a hearty
meal, they are placed in cages, graded
according to sizes as nearly as possible,
and with the vicious dogs by themselves.
The cages are then surrounded with an
atmosphere charged with chIoroform
and bisulphide of carbon. In one or
two minutes sleep falls upon the ami
mails, often stertorous, like that of men
in uneasy attitudes or when dreaming.
They begin breathing fainter and fainter,
and In six minutes are dead. Their
bodies are then buried in heaps of hog
moss. so prepared that decomposition is
completely perfected within week from
interment,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-02-26
BUYING WHITE BABIES.
A Number of Children Sold in California TO
Cinnamon.

A San Francisco dispatch says: The
introduction of bill at Sacramento CIV
ing Monaghan children legislative right
to the free schools of the State, and re.
cent developments concerning the traffic
in white foundlings, show that the per-
ennial Chinese question is about to as
sumo another and most important phase.
The inceptive point of the bill was the
refusal by the Superintendent of Schools
to admit Mamie Tape, the daughter of
naturalized Chinnman, refusal which
the Imperial Consul has taken in bel
Iigerent spirit. In the discussions fol-
lowing the introduction Of the measure
a number of children affected by the bill
were naturally discovered. It was
claimed that the number was compare
lively small, but correspondent on in
vestigation has found that the passage
of the bill would mean the admission of
between twelve and eighteen hundred
Chinese children to the public schools of
San Francisco, the margin being left
necessarily wide because of the great
difficulty of securing trustworthy data.
1t is still more difficult to learn the
exact number of white babies sold by
abandoned mothers or asylum nurses
to Chinese. Certain knowledge, how
ever, has been acquired during the past
week of seven infants sold into bondage.
The average price was $69 apiece. Only
girls are bought. White blonde babies
command premium.
These facts the determined fight to
get their children into the public
schools, the purchase OF white girl
babies and the secrecy surrounding the
number of children now in Chinatown
all point to the same shrewdly conceived
plan, determined effort to evade the re-
striction act. Chinese officials acknowl-
edge that the palmy days of immigra-
ton are over. So also they acknowl-
edge the thorny nature of the thick set
hedge surrounding the arbor of naturali-
cation, and with these two barriers ia
cling the present generation they have set
systematically to work to breed and
raise a second that shall enjoy the priv
ileges withheld from the first.
The newspapers have entered on
crusade against the practice of mothers
giving and selling their illegitimate
babes to the Chinese. A systematic
traffic in them has been going on for a
long time, mainly through the agency of
private lying-in hospitals. Four cases
of white babes in the possession of the
female proprietors of Chinese dens have
already been discovered, and there are
good grounds for believing that there
are hundreds of others, but the Chinese,
fearing discovery, have hid them out of
sight. One theory is that these female
children are purchased by Chinese
SPECTATORS and sent to China. where
they are raised until twelve years old,
when they are sold to rich Cinnamon for
large sums to be placed in their harems.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-02-26
HOW THE WOMEN VOTE.
The Way They Manage ft in washing.ou
Territory.

The municipal elections in Seattle,
which is a lively little city of some
$4,000 inhabitants, had always been non.
partisan. Nominations for city offices
have generally been by mass conven.
ton, called by prominent citizens. with
out distinction of party. and the opposi-
ton ticket usually consisted of candidates
defeated in the first convention, No
issues of political nature were ever
presented, and DO inquiry or attention
directed to a candidates political affili-
atoms or party views. The city election
takes place annually, in June. As the
time approached it became evident that
the women, as a body, proposed to take
| decided interest in politics, and more
than six hundred had registered before
election day. The Women's Christian
Temperance Union was the nucleus
around which they formed a COMPACT
little party of voting strength sufi-
cient to show that they held the balance
OF power in the community. Some of
the older and shrewder politicians of the
Christian statesman type, including two
ex-Chief Justices of Washington Terri
tory, recognizing the full significance of
the situation, swung into line with the
women, and by their able assistance in
organizing and directing the movement,
fixed themselves solid with the element
which they were far-seeing enough to
know was to be practically the control
ling one in local politics. They took the
initiative, called "Law and Order Con-
vention," and adopted q platform of OBJ
position to the liquor traffic and in favor
Of anfopoiDor tho SunIou
An organization called the Business
Mems Association" was formed consist
ing largely of saloon men, but number
ing also fair share of merchants and
professional men of the city, who nomi-
mated ticket in opposition to that of
the Law and Order party. The result
proved the strength of the new move
ment. The women developed as most
active and enterprising politicians.
Ladies by the score of the best social
position, who had never been thought of
as advocates of "women's rights or
female suffrage, went into the fight with
all the zeal of new converts. The whole
city was dstricted off, and committees
of three women given charge of each
district to carry on the work. Every
house in town was visited by these com.
mittees, and district or city was never
more thoroughly canvassed.
On election day the streets in the vi
ciEity of the polls were thronged with
women, armed with bundles of tickets,
and to reach the polls one had to run the
gauntlet of the most persistent crowd of
workers ever seen around the polls.
These were ladies, women of the highest
social position, women, many CT them,
heretofore Of the most modest and re-
firing demeanor. 1t was shock to our
prejudices, but we have got used to it
since. But the women won. They
elected majority of the City Council
and all of the city officers except the
Mayor. As result we have new po-
lice force, gambling completely abolished
as far as banking games are concerned,
and every business house of every kind
closed on Sunday.--San Francisco
Chronicle.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-02-26
Exploring an Alaskan River.
PuANs OF LIEUTENANT sToNEY AND HIS
PARTY.

The year after the Jeanette search
steamer Rodgers was lost, Lieutenant
| Stoney, of the Navy, was sent to the
Alaska coast to distribute presents
! among the natives who had aided the
revenue cutter Corwin in its search for
the Rodgers. He was for several months
on an island near the coast, not far
south of the mouth of the Yukon river.
He made excursions to the mainland,
and discovered the estuary OF an appa-
rently large river. He explored the river
for 400 miles from its mouth, aud ascer-
tanned enough to convince him that he
had discovered a stream which would
rank among the great rivers of the
world. A party Of naval officers. under
command of Lieutenant Stoney. will
start i'll short time for Alaska to explore
this river further. A vessel is building
III San Francisco for the use Of the ex
peditlOn. 1t will be a small steamer
with paddle-wheel astern, similar to
those used on the shallow rivers of the
South, and called the "ripple-kicker,
Proceeding to Alaska as soon as the sea-
son will permit, the party will steam ND
Lieutenant Stoney's river AZ far as il can
In the ''ripple-kicker." When rapids or
other distractions prevent further nro.
gress by water, the steamer will be laid
up alongside the bank and left in CHARGE
OF boatkeeper, while the party pushes
forward on foot. All preparations will
be made to winter on the banks of the
river if necessary, and prosecute the
work of exploration on sledges. It is
probable that some of the outfit provided
for the Greedy relief expedition will be
turned over to Lieutenant Stoney to be
used IN case his party winter in Alaska
The party will be a small one. composed
almost entirely of officers, who have
been selected already, but who have not
yet received their orders. Aside from
the building of the steamer little ex-
pense will attach to the expedition. The
natives IN the region through which the
river Is supposed to flow are friendly.
and much assistance is expected from
them IN the work of exploration. When
Lieutenant Stoney explored the 400
miles OF the river he found the current
IN some places running at rate of
twelve knots an hour.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-02-26
A New Set OF Charges.

New charges are brought against Gen
Swain of the Army. The specifications
upon which the charges are based Sc
forth that General Swain, who is emit
tied to forage for three horses, providing
that he actually owns and keeps such
horses, did draw such forage for several
months upon the sworn certifcation by
him that he owned and kept three
horses, when he neither owned nor kent
them, and actually sold the forage thus
drawn to other persons. A Washington
correspondent says that if charges were
made against all officers who make oath
that they own horses when they do not,
and draw the forage for them, the Judge
Advocates department would have its
hands full,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-02-26
A COOKS REAL ROMANCE.
The C0achmnn Gives Her Lottery Ticket
ihnt WINS but Fails TO Gain Her Heart.

thnt WINS but Fails TO Gain Her Heart.
In one of the finest private houses OF
the Champs Elysees, Leontine, the
cook, and Thomas, the coachman, had
long been flirting with each other.
Whenever it was possible for him to do
so, Thomas went to the races and he
generally manages to have little some
thing on the several events of an after
noon. Sometimes he used to get back
home rather late, and if it had not been
for the cook he would often have gone
hungry. On these occasions the fellow
invariably gave to Leontine a five-franc
piece and sometimes more than that.
One evening last autumn Monsieur
lie Cocher" entered the kitchen very
late and completely cleaned out. He
ate the dinner which Leontine had care
fully kept for him; then he took out his
pocketbook and with the remark, "rll
have to pay you in these scraps to-day"
handed her three tickets of the Arts
Decoratifs. Time passed on, and
Thomas no longer firted with la cuisi-
Mere, some other fair one having out
lasted her in the ra e. The other after
noon Leontine while out marketing
bought an official list of the drawing,
and when she arrived home discovered
to her great Joy that she was the owner
of ticket which called for 100 900
francs The feelings of poor Thomas
when he heard the news may be easily
imagined, but he lost no time in bewail-
ing his bad luck. At a flower store in
the Faubourg Saint Honore he bought
lovely bouquet for seven francs; then
he wrote an ardent billet doux, and hid
ing it among the flowers, left the pack
age where he supposed the cook would
find it. The femme de chan1n1bre was
the first to enter the office, aud suppos-
ing the bouquet was intended for
madame, carried it at once to the Mar
quise. That good lady turned the love-
letter over to her husband and threw
the flowers at the poor girls head. The
Marquis recognized the handwriting and
sent for the coachman, who confessed MI.
In the meantime the cook had got
herself up tidily, and accompanied by
employee Of the American,
grocery at the corner of the Rue Lin
coin, was on her way to look after her
fortune. The money in her possession,
she returned to the mansion in the
Champs Elysees, gave the regular eight
days notice and went back to the
kitchen, whittier she was followed by
the coachman.
"Mademoiselle, ec0utez-maoi doac,"
said he, pleadingIy; ''make me also the
winner of big prize by giving me your
leart and hand"
ooh, no." was her reply, 81 am not
10 foolish as all that. L have my own
deas. and she pushed Thomas out of
he kitchen. Her friends say she will
marry no man who has not been decor
'ted.-PariS Morning NeaOs.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-02-26
A Dressing.GOwn Made Useful.

Mrs. De Blank-'What are you going
to give your husband this Christmas r.
Mrs. De Lank-"A dressing gown. -
"But you gave him one last year and
Rthe year before, too, if 1 remember
Alright"
Yes, and the year before that"
"Dear me can't understand how
they get worn out so fast. My husband
does not put on his once month"
mine never wears his at all. He tries
it on Christmas morning, looks pleased,
walks around, sits down, takes it off and
never thinks of it again.
But, then, why give him so many ?''
81 don't. Men can't remember colors
and patterns. Il give him the same one
every Christmas. '-PhitadelEhia CAL,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-02-26
After Diphtheria

The system is left weak and by general debi
y, and anmia or lack of blood is apt persist for
some time. reliabl medicine to act as a tonic and
to vtaize and enrich the blood is very much needed
and for this purpose Hoods Sarsaparila has no equal
1t has just the clements of richness and strength
quired to bring back robust health.
'Diphh IBERIA left in very bad condition, suffering
particularly from indigestion and lameness IN the
stomach. At times could not stand up nor take
long breath. Hoods Sarsaparilla has d ne me 30
much good that glad to testify to its superior
efficacy Mis- E. L. MAcoMBER, UharIestown NJ IS
j. II. Burgess, North MiddIeboro, Mass, hal
children sick with dIphtheria They all pulled
through, but in bad condition. Their systems seemeI
poisoned by the disease Hood's Sarsaparla restored
the whole seven to p riect health.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-02-26

ONIoNs.--The great value which till
ing adds to land is shown in the case of
the onion tract at Chester, in Orange
county, New York, which once was
worthless piece of ground, but is now
said to be worth 81 600 per acre. Last
season 100000 bushels of onions were
grown on these meadows, and were sold,
it is stated, for more than $4,000.
This seasons crop is expected to be
larger.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-02-26
MARYLAND, my Maryland.
= = Pretty Wives,
Lovely daughters and noble men,"


"My farm lies in rather low and MAS
matte situation, and
"My wifeI"
"Whol"
"Was a very pretty blondep
twenty years ago became
"Sallow!"
''Hollow-eyedl"
"Withered and agedp
Before her time, from
"Malarial vapors, though she made no
particular complaint, not being of the
grumpy kind, yet causing me great uneasi-
ness
"a short time ago purchased your rem
edy for one of the children, who had very
severe attack Of biliousness, and it occurred
to me that the remedy might help my wife,
as found that our little girl upon recovery
had
"Lostn
Her sallowness, and looked as fresh as a
new blown daisy. Well, the story is soon
told. My wife, to-day, has gained her old
timed beauty with compound interest, and
is now as handsome matron ff do say it
myself as can be found in this county, which
is noted for pretty women And have only
Hop Bitters to thank for it.
"The dear creature just looked over my
shoulder, and says, I can hatter equal to
the days of our courtship, and that reminds
me there might be more pretty 1OiUes If my
brother farmers would do as l have DONE"
Hoping you may long be spared to do good,
Thankfully remain,
G. L. JAMES,
BELTsvILLE, Prince George Co, Md,
Nav O6 1879 4
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-02-26
New Zealand SOnestres<

Madame Marie Oarandini, Musical
Artist, Wellington, N. T., writes to the
Christchurch, New Zealand Telegraph.
II have used st. Jacobs Oil, and find
much relief in case Ct rheumatism, and
for all neuralgia pains"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-02-26

The Bank of France has an invisible
studio in gallery behind the cashiers,
SO that at signal from one of them any
suspected customer will immediatelyhave
his picture taken without his own
knnWlelOe