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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-17
Airy Berths on Pullman Car.

Beating ones way on the passenger
trains is not an easy thing to do on the
| Pacific roads," said traveller from the
| West, ''but during my last trip | saw a
most novel eXpedient employed by a
tramp Early one morning, when we
were pretty well up in the mountains. |
got up and dressed and took chair out
on the platform for breath of fresh air.
Presently the train stopped at water
tank and l jumped down to the ground
to stretch my legs a moment. AS |
walked up ahead Twas surprised to hear
a snOre. CAN'T be possible, / thought.
that there is anybody who can snore
loud enough to be heard through the
double floor of a sleeping carp The
snoring seemed to come from under the
coach, and so | resolved on closer
look. Bending down I glanced under
the body of the chair and saw there a
scene which struck me as being about
the oldest | had ever witnessed.
sin hammock, which he had evi.
IDENTIFY stolen from some door-vard in
California lay tramp, sleeping soundly
and snoring noisily The hammock was
swung under the chair, close to the
floor, and one leg of its occupant hung
out and trailed rather close to the
ground. In that queer bed his tramp
ship had been riding all night, without
ticket or berth check, and with no fear
of being compelled to Join in 50 all round
for the benefit of the porter at the end
of his journey.
csc rode some fifty miles further be-
fore he was discovered and bounced,
and then strobe off in search of food and
to wait until night before resuming his
journey under another palace car. -
ChicaQo Herald
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-17
OLD-TIME EGYPTIAN JUSTICE.
1t See me d to be Very Bad For the Innocent
Parties.

In Egypt, long before the Turkish
rule in that region, there were struggles
between the mamelukes and the Circas-
slams. A Circassian chief, through the
advice of servant who, though ignor-
ant, was naturally astute, happened to
discover the weak points of the ruling
Government in Egypt. Upon these
points, as upon the rounds of ladder,
he assembled to the throne. One day
the Circassian had promised the servant
that if ever he obtained the eminence
the servant should receive the appoint
ment of Chief Judge. The servants
name was Caracoush, meaning "black-
bird" So, soon as the chief was en-
throned he gave Caracoush the promised
post. Among the many cases that came
before him was the following petition
Being burglar by profession and compelled
by want to rob house, select that of tail
or. To enter it must make my way through
the court yard. This is surrounded by a high
wall In jumping from this wall [ am caught
on the spikes the tailor had fixed in the wall to
suspend ropes for the washing. The result is
l lose an eye. | now demand that my eve be
restored, and that the fellow who drove the
spike shall be punished.
The Judge reads the petition, and
concludes that justice is due the petition
er. He summons the tailor, to whom
the matter is explained. The tailor
argues that the thief has no business to
jump into his yard in the night, so that
if he has lost an eye it is his own fault.
But the Judge says that ''the thief is
only practising his profession and the
law only Furnishes robbers.
'Tf," he says to the tailor, "you had
not driven the spikes in the walls, the
thief would not have lost his eye; there
fore your eye must pay the forfeit"
The poor tailor begs and cries in vain.
The verdict is pronounced. 1t must be
executed. After a long struggle the
tailor seizes the knees of the Judge kiss
es them vigorously, and with tears in his
eyes exclaims; "Oh! mighty Judge.
Your decision is sound, but consider.
Am I not supporting a large family
my old mother, my wife, and my seven
young children? They all depend on me,
and l myself depend on my two eyes.
Am | not tailor? Do l not need my two
eyes2 If l lose one, how can l pass the
thread into the needles eye2 How can
l do my fine sewing? My reputation will
suuer, anu all OF US SIarVe. NOW, ne
resumed, frightening, II have a neigh
Dor who is a sportsman. When he aims
at the game he shuts one eye. Why,
great Judge, his two eyes are an en-
barrassment fog him. Had he but one,
it would save him the trouble of shut
ting the other2 Moreover, what diff
ference does it make to this robber2 All
he wants is an eye pulled out Whether
it be mine or that of the sportsman's,
what matter2 1t is all one to him."
The argument sounds plausible. The
Judge considers a moment, and then
sends for the sportsman. In spite of
protests he DEGREES the loss of the sports
mans superfuous eye. The verdict Is
carried into execution and judicial logic
is vindicated
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-17
Washington and Bunker Hill.

1t was on the 18th day of June, 1775
that George Washington was chosen
CommaIder-in-C Chief of the American
swer to Congress, in which he declared
that he accepted the office, but that he
would take no pay. He left Philadel,
phia on his way to Boston, June 81, es-
corted by troop of horsemen, and ac-
companied by Schuyler and Lee, who
had Just been made major generals by
Congress. They had gone about twenty
miles when they saw a man ON horse
back coming rapidly down the road. ]
was a messenger riding poste-hast to
Philadelphia, and carrying to Congress
news of the battle of Bunker Hill.
Everybody was stirred by the news and
wanted to know the particulars.
'Why, were the Provincials com
PEELED to retreat?'' he asked
at was for want of ammunition, - he
replied.
.'D1d they stand the fire of the reg
ular troops9" asked Washington anx-
iously.
"That they did, and held their own
fire in reserve until the enemy was with
in eight rods"
"Then the liberties of the country are
safe!" exclaimed Washington. He re
membered well the scenes under Brad
dock, and he knew what sight it must
have been to those New England far
mers when compact body of uniformed
soldiers came marching up from the
boats at Charlestown. If they could
stand fearlessly, there was stuff in them
for soldiers. Nicholas for June.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-17


We have 40 often seen fatal results tollo"
the declaration that II can be cured, that we
have anconscfously settled down In Che eeheh
that this disease must necessarily prove tatai"
1t is true that occasionally community haS
witnessed an isolated case Of what may ap-
propriately be termed spontaneous recovery
but to what combination of favorable circufm
stances this result was due none have hitherto
been found able to determine.
We have now the gratifying fact to announce
that the process by which nature effects this
wonderful change Is no longer mystery to
the medical profession, and that the changes
brought about in the system under favorable
circumstances by intrinsic causes may be made
as certainty and more expeditiously by the use
of the proper remedy. In other words, nature
is initiated and assisted
Tuberculous matter is nothing more or less
than nourishment imperfectly organized
Now. If We can procure the organization OF
this food material so that through the process
of elective affinity it may take its place in the
svstern we can cure the disease. This Is just
what Piso's Cure for Consumption does. IL
arrests at once the progress of the disease by
preventing the further supply OF tuberculous
matter. for while the system is under It's IN
fupnce all nourishment is organized ana as
Simulated It thus controls cough, expectora-
ton, night-sweats, hectic fever, ana an JULIET
characteristic symptoms of Consumption .
Many physicians are now using TINS InedL
cine and all write that it comes fully up TO it's
recommendations and makes Consumption one
of the diseases they can readily cure; 4,
The forming stage of a disease is always tns
most auspicious for treatment. This fact shonlq
induce persons to resort to the use Of Psos cure
when the cough is first noticed, whether IL haa
a consumptiye diathesis for its cause or not
for this remedy cures ell kinds of coughs Wild
unequallcd facility and promptness. In cougM
from a simple cold two or three doses OF tue
medicine have been found sufficient 70 remove
the trouble. So in all diseases of the throat
and lungs, with symptoms Stimulating those
of Consumption, Piso's Cure is the only infat
lible remedy. a., MI,
The following letter recommending Pisos
Cure for Consumption, is fair sample OF the
certificates received daily by the proprietor OIL
this medicine:
ALBION, N Y, Dec. 20, 1885.
Ihad a terrible Cough, and two physicians
said would never get we'll l then went 70
irug store and asked for good cough medicine
The druggist gave me Piso's Cure, and IL mas
done me more good than any tn ing ever USED
lido not believe could live without ~; VIA
LFONORA VERhlLIEA.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-17
Keep Up the Bars.

Young girls rarely are conscious of the
power they exert over the young men
with whom they are brought into con-
tact. Their standards influence the con-
duct of young men while they are in
their presence, if at no other time. A
young lady who will allow loud and
boisterous conversation, familiar man
ners, inelegant attitudes, careless refer
ence to church and church members,
takes down the barriers that should be
maintained between herself and her
gentlemen friends. 1t may appear that
she makes herself more attractive by this
freedom, but it is not SO. No girl is
attractive to a gentleman who does not
maintain a gentle, womanly dignity,
and by her attitude prevent slipping
away from the incest conventionalities
of society. In the deeper matters
things affecting life in its spiritual and
moral side-a girl has a greater influence
than she dreams. A gentleman, writing
recently of college friend who was of
a weak and careless nature, young
man without fixed principles, says:
"Then 1 knocked off drinking and
smoking, while he knocked off drink
ing l got one of the girls to stop his
smoking, which she did for about three
weeks by certain feminine arts of which
l am ignorant"
And further on says:
"And as for smoking, he unfortunate
ly transferred his allegiance during the
winter to another girl, who not only al
lowed him to smoke, but didn't mind
smoking a cigarette with him herself,
when an opportunity presented itself"
Not many girls would go to this ex-
IRENE, but no girl having conception
of her position as lady would allow
such freedom.
A very safe rule governing the rela-
tions between herself and her gentle
men friends for a girl to make is to
never permit word, a subject of con-
versation, to take place between a
gentleman and herself that she would
hesitate to have spoken or discussed in
the presence of father, mother, or broth
er, and this will be no bar to pleasant,
entertaining, and fun-maklng inter
course, but it will prevent the use of
slang, the discussion of silly themes,
and the trifing with subjects that are,
and should be, sacred to every young
man and woman governed by refined and
righteous principles Christian Union.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-17
Cheap Living in Washington.

A Washington letter says:-I know of
a woman in Washington who occupied
a small, dark, inside room on the fifth
| floor of a tolerably fashionable hotel.
She, to use theatrical expression, faxed
out her meals-that is, she arose at 10
or 10, bought a second hand newspaper
for cent and wendell her way to a small
saloon on Pennsylvania avenue whose
proprietor has grown rich by making a
spc oialty af delicious coffee and Vienna
rolls and fine butter. He charges 10
cents for this little lunch. This Nine.
ftinerant would breakfast on her cup of
coffee and roll. Then she went up to
Congress, invariably riding in the three
cent car. There is q bobtail car running
up to the Capital, the fare in which is
only three cents, and some folks are so
aristocratic they are ashamed to be
caught riding in it.
Nine. would visit few of the men,
bers, lolI for a while in the gallery of
the House and sit just long enough in
the Senate gallery to secure recognition
by a smile or a bow, from such of her
Senatorial friends as happened to be on
the floor, and after picking up a few
choice items of gossippy news, the con-
versatlonal coin with which she paves
and pays her social way, my Nine Tin
Grant gets back by two o'clock to her
dingy inside room. At 3 she comes out
respIendent in nonpareil velvet dress
and, card case in hand, starts on the
round of calls. She goes from house to
house and dainitly and deliberately eats
her lunch at each place. In the course
of ten visits madame has more than sat
isfed the cravings of her stomach and
has dined and supped for the day. Do
you wonder that call this taking out
ones mealsW
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-17
Two Blue-BOttIe Flies.

A gentleman making call at the
house of friend, was astonished to find
the rooms and passages in confusion
and, on inquirlng the cause, was an,
swered: ooh, we are very much an
noyed here; rat has come to finish his
existence under the floor of our large
drawing room. We do not know the
exact place, but we cannot endure the
stencil any longer, so we have removed
the furniture, rolled up the carpets and
called in the carpenters, who are Just
beginning to take up the floor.
''Now, don't be too hasty," said the
visitor; ''you need not pull up more
than one board. l will show you what
I mean presently; and, meanwhile,
shut down the drawing room windows
and close the door"
He then stepped down into the gar
den, walked round to the horse stables,
and after few minutes absence came
back to the drawing room with both
hands tightly clasped. Placing himself
in the centre of the drawing room, he
opened his hands and out flew two large
blue ottle flies, and buzzed around the
room for a second or two. But present
ly one of them alighted on a certain
plank of the floor, and was almost i'm
mediately followed by the other.
"Now, then" said the visitor, 'take
up at board and I'll engage that the
dead rat will be found beneath it"
The carpenters applied their tools,
raised. the board, and at once found the
cause pleasant smell. - The
SanitG7ian.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-17
A Mortified Cat

a correspondent writes to Nature
'Iast week, in connection with study
of Carnivora, | obtained cat from an
acquaintance at distance, and carefully
dissected it in q room above our stable.
When / had finished, the cat was, as
may be supposed, hardly to be recca;-
nized. l cleaned the scalpels, placed
them in the case. No sooner had put
them down than | observed our own
cat go and sniff all around the case with
peculiar look of intense wonder /
took the instruments away, and thought
no more about it; but short time after
| returned TO the remains of the dissect-
ed cat i'll order to prepare the skeleton,
when | saw our cat standing at a dis
lance of about foot from the dissec-
ton, and presenting an appearance of
most hopeless terror. She was trembling
from head to foot, and in such a condi-
ton of evident horror that my presence
had no effect upon her After some
moments she noticed me, and then
dartcd away with a scared look such as
| have never before seen. She did not
return to the house that day-a thing
quite unusual; but on the next day she
returned and entered the house with a
fearful caution, as though realizing the
probability that she herself might be-
come victim to science, and her whole
conduct has changed. This suggests
that the country custom of using dead
birds, weasels, etc, as a scare to the
like is not entirely unreasonable, and it
would be interesting to know whether
others have noticed similar effects. u
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-17
The Dumfeeder.

The dumfeeder is an institution in
New York city. He is respectable in
nocent, who lets himself out to accom-
pany ladies to respectable public res
taurants in the evening. He charges So
to SO, according to the size of the
woman party. He is scrupulously clean,
unexceptionally middle-aged, genteelly
dressed, and preposterOusly reticent.
When bevy of girls want to have a
modest toot at Delmonico's, and do not
want to be under obligations to an es-
cort or be forced into genteel monosylla-
bles by the presence of a man, they
send for the dumbfeeder. He puts on
his dress coat and accompanies them,
looking not unlike a Baptist uncle of
theirs from the country. If he is well
up in his business he marches into the
restaurant ahead of his charges with
his spring coat on his arm, wearing the
air of capitalist. He orders the wait
ers about, says damn soto gOce, and
then asks pardon, and is generally
bumptious, but never pays the slightest
attention to what the ladies are saying
They disregard him utterly. He is, OF
course, the dummy, but he gets his
share of the meal.
The first dumfeeder was a slightly de-
cayed widower who had failed. He was
recommended by the ladies of one of the
art associations, and his business grew
so that he died of over eating some time
year or two ago. Deaf men are pre-
feTed, and later several middle-aged
men went into the business whose hear
ing was defective. In fact, the occu-
NaEiOT hoe tho OF tor
into something like a system, and one
or two of the small restaurants, under
stand, keep professional dumfeeders on
hand for whom, any party of ladies
can make application by card in adj
vance.
OF course, now that the thing is pref
ty well known among the men, there is
a good deal of pique and curiosity.
Nothing can be more aggravating than
to see jolly lot of girls having a good
time at Delmonico's at night, utterly
Independent of every masculine consid-
Grafton, and defying all the proper es-
corts with their paid dumfeeder, who
quietly puts his spring overcoat on
when they get through, takes his pay,
and leaves them respectfully on the side
walk. The bevy will look round tri
umphant at the lonesome young men
who saunter in, and every bright eye
will flash with the assurance that at last
women can have their own foot, and no
thanks to the providers.
To the honor of the dumfeeder, so
far, it must be said that he has not re-
vealed anything. He is as silent as the
tomb, and all the girl secrets that drop
into that grave are supposed to perish
there. He lives an enviabIe, luxurious
life; sleeps all day and eats all night.
All that is required of him is to keep
his mouth shut when he is not feeding
and to carry gold headed cane.-PittS-
burg Dispatch.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-17
STORY OF A BROKEN HEART.
The Real Reason why James Buchanan
Remained a Bachelor.
A Washington letter to the Chicago

A Washington letter to the Chicago
Neaos says:
President Buchanan's love story is
historic, ana reads moro like the CON
ventional novel of fifty years ago than
plain fact. But it happened Just as
tragedies happen every day that are
many times stranger than fiction.
When he was poor young lawyer he
became engaged to Miss Coleman, who
belonged to one of the richest, staidest
and, it may be assumed, narrowest-
minded and most purbllnd families in
Philadelphia. The Colemans by no
means approved of the match, but
nevertheless the young couple became
engaged. Mr.. Buchanan was then prac-
Using law in a remote part of Pennsyl-
vania, and in those days of stage coach
es and saddle-bags correspondence was
liable to interruptions. Miss Coleman's
letters became irregular and then
stopped altogether. He wrote repeated
ly, but got no reply. At last he deter
mined to go to Philadelphia, but at
Lancaster the stage met with an acct
dent and Mr.. Buchanan suffered a brok
en- leg. He wrote again as soon as he
was able, but still heard nothing. Laid
up In country tavern, in the midst of
phenomenal snowstorm, for six weeks,
embittered him, and he wrote Miss
Coleman letter of fierce reproaches,
and then wrote no more. Now for Miss
Coleman's part. Her eminently respect
able family from the beginning intercept
ted all of her letters and all of Mr..
Buchanan's. She made all the appeals
to him a woman could make, but she
never had line from him after he left
Philadelphia, except the last cutting
letter-and as; unfortunately, it con-
tanned nothing but his Remuneration of
her, she could know nothing of what
had preceded it. The eminently re-
spectacle family were satisfed-the
match was broken off by means that
would have landed them all in the pen
itentiary in these days. A year or two
afterward Mr.. Buchanan was in Phila-
delphia, and at ball came face to face
with Miss Coleman. Neither spoke,
and Mr. Buchanan paid marked atten-
ton to another girl present. That
night young friend who was staying
with Miss Coleman said to her, while
the two girls were alone in their room
''Did you see Mr.. Buchanan's attentions
to Miss -? Now they might have
been yours had you recognized him. :"
Miss Coleman began to sob violently.
She would not be soothed, and her
friend, becoming alarmed, called the
family. OF what next happened two
accounts have been given; one was that
she had taken poison, and her sutferings
atterward came from that but those
who were near her SAID that she was
simply suffering from uncomfortable
mental anguish. Towards morning,
when her pulse had got so low that it
was scarcely perceptible, and her ner-
vous excitement had changed into a
profound stupor, the doctors were sent
for. But she was past help. They never
reused her, and she died the next day
of what the doctors called nervous ex-
haustion, but which goes by the name of
a broken heart. Then the truth came
to Mr.. Buchanan's ears, and from that
day his bachelorhood was assumed
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-17
Something About Corn.

A great many tests, purposely and
carefully made, 90 to show that
the corn crop succeeds better with low
planting and level cultivation than by
the common practice of blowing the
middl's and killing up the rows. This
plant is Q tropical one, and requires heat
and moisture. 1t has an enormous root
growth, which spreads through the soil
near the surface where the warmth can
reach it. The feeding roots are broken
by the pillow and the growth of the plants
are checked This fact has been fully
proved by DR.. Sturtevant, the Director
of the New York State experiment
station, who made the great mistake of
advocating what he called root pruning
or cutting the roots by deep blowing in
the rows when the cars were beginning
to form. The mistake was generously
aYowed, but the damage done by it is
hard to prevent, because error ALWAYS
travels faster than truth. The present
is, however, a good time to give q eau
ton against the deep working of corn
after the roots have made their way into
the middle of the rows.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-17
Destruction of the HemlOck.

The Middletown N. Y. Press says -
The last merchantable tree in the vast
hemlock forests that have supplied the
mills on the Dyberry Creek, one of the
tributaries of the Lackawaxen River, for
more than a quarter of century was cut
last week by "Bill' Klmble, who drove
.<le first log down the stream that was
cut IN that great forest in 1860. This
tract of hemlock was nearly the last of
any extent in Wayne County whose for
ests 10 years ago were yielding 100, 600
600 feet of that lumber year. Fifteen
years ago more leather was tanned in
Wayne County than in any other county
in the Union. The disappearance of the
hemlOck has caused all but two or three
of the tanneries to be abandoned. All
who were engaged in the business made
large fortunes, and nearly al of them
are now engaged in the same business
in Elk, Forest, Warren, and other west
ern counties, where the greatest hem
lock forests in the world still denseiy
cover the hills The tanning industry
of those counties now supplies almost
the entire sole leather product of the
world. The cutting away Of the hem
lock woods in Wayne county has had a
disastrous effect on the water courses,
many large streams having become
almost entirely dry within the past
decade