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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-12
The Striped Bug.

Every gardener knows that this is a
most destructive insect among melon,
cucumber, and other young vines, some
times damaging the crop seriously.
Many remedies have been suggested.
some of them no doubt good in their
way; but troublesome Now, we have
tried for several years another which
has proved with us a complete success.
Instead of aiming to drive away the in
sect by SCOT, ashes, etc, we pet it, or
rather furnish it with food better than
the young melon and cucumber plants
We SOW around each hill at the time of
each planting a few radisA seed, and,
coming up about the same time, the
tops supply pasture for the bug, which
it much prefers to the vines. Lettuce
will also answer, but the radish is rath-
er liked the best. While our vines are
untouched by making this little provis-
ion for it, the young radish tops are
completely perforated.
Should this fail, which is seldom the
case and has never been with US
sprinkle the vines with a solution of
whale oil soap and water. No other in
sect but the curculio can stand this.
Where this preparation is not attaina-
bic, weak solution of carbolic disln-
fectant soap will answer as we Ger
nGnt0aon IeLeQraph.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-12
A Crime Without a Punishment.

Last year lady was burnt to death at
the Inventions Exhibition by lighted
match which a smoker had dropped on
the ground This week at the Indian
and Colonial Exhibition a similar acct
dent occurred, though happily without
fatal results. Mr.. Alan Palmer, a pupil
of the st. John Ambulance Association,
happened by great good fortune to be on
the spot, and he succeeded in saving the
lady's life by putting out the flames. II
Mr. Palmer had not been there, or some
one possessing equal courage, presence
OF mind, knowledge and resource, an
other victim would have been sacrificed
to the reckless and inconsiderate selfish
ness of some smokers. There is no ex.
cuse whatever for their conduct, and il
it could not be suppressed in any other
way, smoking in places of public resort
would have to be prohibited altogether.
We need scarcely say that we do not
recommend such an extreme measure,
believing that simpler and more con-
venient one can easily be found The
principle of interfering with ordinary
peoples comfort because eccentric PEG,
pie abuse their privileges is the vicious
foundation on which the advocates OF
compulsory reform rest their case. 1t
would be easy enough to provide that
the act of throwing away a light ed
match or lighted piece of paper in a
public place should be misdemeanor,
punishable on summary conviction with
fine or imprisonment If the man who
caused the shocking calamity last sum-
mer could have been discovered, he
might perhaps have been successfully
indicted for manslaughter. But the act
which he committed, and which would
of course been just as culpable if no Sc
rious consequence had ensued, is not in
itself breach of the law. The remark
able and almost shocking cheapness of
matches has added new terror to life,
especially for women When four boxes
can be bought for a penny and a dozen
for twopence, one can scarcely help ask
ing what sort of wages the unfortunate
matchmakers receive. There are limits
even to the universally of matches. No
servant, it is well known, will evel, ex-
cept under the direst threats, leave a box
in any room. On this subject a separate
treatise might be written. But the Wis
itors to the COLONIES" on any evening
must carry with them the means OF
burning the Exhibition down about
80, 900 times. -LOndon Saturday Regieao.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-12
Facts About the Mule.

1t is said that mule cannot bray II
YOU tie a weight to his tail and hold il
down. This was touchingly illustrated
in the cavalry movements that preceded
the second battle of Manassas. Gen.
Stuart, with a large force of cavalry
handwriting around the retreating army
of Pope, got caught between two col,
umns of the Union troops, and was
obliged to conceal himself in a dense
wood between two parallel roads along
which the enemy were retreating. He
had to lie low all night until the col
umns passed by. Messengers that the
Union generals sent to each other
through the woods were captured and
held with as little noise as possible.
One great difficulty was to keep the
mules in the ordnance and cOmmissarv
wagons from braying and thus calling
the attention of the foe. For this pur-
pose Stuart ordered man to be dc
tailed to stand by each mule nd whack
him with a stick as soon as he offered to
bray; for mule, like an orator, requires
:: certain preparation before beginning
his neat and appropriate exercises.
There is a preliminary protest made
with the ears, and certain solemnities of
the nostrils, an expression of sorrow
overspreads the countenance, then the
tail is lifted A BRAY does hot break
forth from the lips of the mule. 1t be
gins way back in the abdominal viscera
and comes gradually up. Now, as soon
as the cavalry mules began to prepare
for bray, whack whack would go
the sticks, and the bray would be sup
pressed-and thus all night. 1t was
said that this was needless severity, for
it would have sufficed to tie brickbat
to the tail of each mule.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-12

Two children of Farmer Agnew of
Tara, Canada, a boy of ten and a girl
four, while playing in the barn, found a
gun which their father kept loaded for
, rats. Stan off there piece said the
boy, San let me see if | can't shoot
you" The little girl obeyed cheerfully.
and the young Canuck filled her face
and shoulder with fine shot.
In nearly every instance wherein a
man has committed suicide in Phila-
delphia by shooting himself, the widow
has appealed to the coroner for the
weapon. And the strangest part OF the
phenomena is thai she cannot explain
why she wants it. Ali she can say IN
reply to the coroner's inquiry is: ''Nell,
l Just want to keep it.
A rattlesaake got in front of a NOW
ing machine in st. Joseph county, Ind.
and was cut into three pieces. When
Mrs Ronck, who was raklng hay, came
up where it was, the head still had life
enough to bite her, and the jaws had to
be torn apart to remove the fangs. Mrs.
Ronck came near dying.
THERE Is large lake in Day County,
ducks make their nests. A farmer in
the vicinity hunts up the nests and sub
stltutes hens eggs for those of the
ducks, and the ducks have Matched out
a number of broods of chickens for him.
His hens have no time for loating.
A NoRwALK Conn mother, taking
a final survey of her little ones before
they started for Sunday school, noticed
something unnatural in the hang of
tive-year-old's dress. she Investigated,
and found under the short white dress
of her promising daughter lunch bas-
ket doing duty as hustle.
A GEORGIA newspaper man visited a
terrapin pen the other day, where were
confined three hundred of these costly
little turtles. When their keeper raped
on the pen, they crowded about like
drove of hogs, and showed like eager
ness to tackle the food. which was
shrimps, crabs, and small fish.
AN uncle of young woman in Pough-
keepsie the other day offered ID transfer
all his property to her if she would give
up her fast life and take care of him In
his old age. She agreed TO it, and
lawyer has drawn up the necessary
papers, which have been properly signed,
sealed and delivered.
WHEN a young man goes to store to
buy suit of clothes, puts them on,
leaves his old clothes to be wrapped up,
and afterward finds that money left in
the pocket is missing, he cannot hold
the storekeeper liable. That is recent
leual decision worth nOfinU
IT Is impossible to count a billion.
Had Adam counted continuously from
his creation to the present day he would
not have reached that number. At the
late of 200 a minu there could be
counted ~, 600 an hour, 2S8, 900 a day,
and los, 100, 900 year.
FIVE years ago Ida Garrison of Den
nison, Texas, fell from tree, and hurt
herself SO that she has not since been
able to use her arms. She has succeed
ed in learning to paint, holding the
brush with the toes of her left foot.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-12
Luck or Pluck.

"I have no luck" says a young man,
as he stands in New York streets, his
hands in his pockets. "Now look at so
and so, what good luck he has,"
Nothing of the kind. While ten men
It nd loating round waiting for chances,
one man makes his chance; while the
ten are waiting for something to turn
Up, the one man turns up something
himself. 1t is not luck, ii is pluck, and
there are plenty of chances waiting for
the Young man who trusts more to pluck
than luck.
Just his luck" says a discontinued
storekeeper, who cannot meet his
monthly bills, as he sees a new and
larger store being erected for his rival
Nothing of the kind; it is the Other
mans pluck in advertising, pushing his
way, Selling his chances which is mis-
named luck.
So, while ten men fail, one succeeds
by sheer force of indorlitable pluck,
and is looked upon Us fayorite OF for
tune.
So he ia. but he has made his fortune.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-12
No Dram Shops in Atlanta.

Saturday night and no baIrooms open!
Never Def re did Atlanta have such an
experience. | walked around through
the heart of the city at o'clock, as l
had done many times before, and
watched the figures hurrying along
under the glare of the electric lights.
There was the tramp, tramp, tramp, of
innumerable feet, but the town was at
least two hours ahead OF time The
streets were quiet enough for 10 o'clock
| noticed very few loungers. Almost
every man seemed to have some bust
business to attend to. In fact there was
no particular eddying place for the men
about-town. In vain | looked for the
folding doors and the bright lights of
the drinking rooms. In vain listened
for the sound of clinking glasses and
the bnzz and hustle OF Saturday night
in the bars. | saw a fish stall or two.
some clothing stores, restaurant or so.
and some drug stores. There were some
meat-stalls open also, and here and
there stood a confectioner's stand. An
lce-cream and cake man, somewhat dis
heartened by the GOODNESS of the July
evening, was shouting in n subdued
tone. | wondered if any old soakers.
made sober by statute, were carrying
home surprises for the family. | won
dered if the fish dealers sold any more
fish than usual, and if the beef men sold
any extra roasts. Let us hope they did.
Let us hope also that at least a fe of
the eyes long used to tears were dried
when husband and father got home last
night.
They tell me there is ''soda cock
tail' which can be bought by 1.-THE
right l. an at the right time - do not
mean to intimate that all soda cocktails
are loaded, but they say that some men,
or wink and fifteen cents, can get
soda cocktail that is warranted not to
rip at the side or run down at the heel.
man said to me: 81 can stand
man who get drunk on 'sho-nuff liquor.
That is, know pretty we'll how to
manage such a man; but when you
bring me fellow who is crazy on
evasion villany Pm going to stand from
under. l hope the people who are
bound to have something will be care
full what sort of dynamite they swallo =.
atlanta (Ga.) Constitution.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-12
A Reflection.

"What's become of Parson jerks,
who came out here to preach2" asked a
friend of Dakota man.
"Well, you see, he made sort of a
bad rake and we just firmly passed
nm along to some other community.
We didn't like his style somehow"
wv by, I'm surprised at that, he was
considered very able and earnest work
er down in our country"
Don't know anything about that,
out we found it necessary to help him
out OF the neighborhood on a rail y
~ am astonishedl You did a great
injustice to a worthy man, am certain.
nat were the charges against HING
WI ny, in his sermon, one Sunday. he
got goln' on about the Holy Land, and
sad they could raise bigger wheat over
thcre than we could in Dakota and then
went on to quote something that don't
Deleye was ever in the Bible about the
Sced falling in some particular kind of
SIZE, ana increasing a hundred fold.
Just as soon as he said it and Deacon
Penny rose right up and went out and
got a rail, and Deacon Jones and the
members of the choir brought the rev
erend gentleman out and set him on. |
tell you no man can preach to us who
goes to rejecting on Dakota's wheat
raising. - H. tett'ne Bell.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-12
A Sad Game of Billiards.

A New York correspondent says
A party of friends of the demented
billiardist, John Dion. went to the
Bloomingdale Asylum to see i'm. They
found him in the billiard room of that
institution at play with BARLEY Camp
bell, the insane dramatist. These two
patients are doomed to die of progress
sive softening of the brain, and, alike,
their chief symptom physically is pare
sis, or an inability to control their mo-
tons. For instance, neither can now
legibly write his name. Thus hindered,
their billiard play was necessarily cratic.
A match was proposed, and the irrational
contestants at once began. Each was
perfectly confident, and their wild talk,
often branching off to utterly foreign
subjects, was a steady accompaniment
of their shots. In health Campbell had
been a reasonably good player, but now
his efforts were more awkward and fu-
tile than those of beginner. Curious
interest conferred in the game of the once
expert Dion. 1t was strangely uneven.
Once in a while several successive shots
wero positively brilliant, and especially
was this so when the position of the
balls, striking his mind at a glance, was
instantly comprehended and acted upon.
If he delayed at all in deciding what
carroms to undertake his mind lost all
continuity of thought and he used his
cue in dazed, ridiculous manner The
same popularity was observable in his
lack of complete control of nerves and
muscles. If he made shot quickly it
was apt to be sure and steady; but de-
lay resulted in utter confusion and fail
ure. All through the strange game
Dion maintained the most dignified de-
meanor, and was seemingly unaware that
his play was not as brilliant as ever.
He fancied part of the time that Camp
bell was some noted billiardist, now
Vignaux, again Daily, and so ON through
the whole list of champions; and once
he declared that the match was for tho
possession of the asylum, which he be-
lieved to be royal palace in Spain. He
is not expected to live more than q year.
Campbells time is thought to be still
shorter.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-12
THE SOUTHERN POET.
Peculiar Stories About the Late Paul
Hayne.

One who knew the poet Paul II.
Hayne writes to the Chicago Netcs::
must tell somewhat of the personal
characteristics of the man. In the first
place, Mr.. Hayne was the most improvi-
dent of mortals. He knew actually
nothing of the value of money. Born
and raised in affluence, he had never
known what it was to want for any
thing. As illustrative of this improvi-
dence, he would go to Augusta when he
hadn't dollar in the world except to
pay his fare, aud order the -luxuries of
life more lavishly than he did the
necessities. Under his little house he
had a small hole dug which he desig-
mated as a cellar, and in that would
store the choicest of wines and brandies,
though be it said to his credit he was
very abstemious in the use of these
| spirits. But he had been accustomed
I to these luxuries on the table from his
! youth up" and who would DENY him
now in his day of suffering these sweets
among the bitter 2 But where was the
money to come from to pay for these
things Mr.. Hayne did not know, nor
was it possible for him to think of so
practical a question. He loved good
living and made pitiful efforts to
crafty his love. He had no neighbors
save here and there veritable Georgia
cracker, illiterate but kind of heart,
and few hands at saw-mill, which
my brother operated down at the foot
of the hill. He wanted no neighbors,
though when one of the uncouth resi-
dents would stroll by his home hunting
for bee tree he was sure to be stopped
by Mr.. Hayne and a friendly chat
ensued. He knew nothing of the prac-
teal affairs of life. To illustrate: One
dav my brother found him working in
his little garden. Knowing the sterihty
of t e patch my brother suggested to
Mr.. Hayne that it would be q good
thing if he would send down to the saw
mill and get some of the muck which
had accumulated against pile of slabs
and spread it over the garden. Mr..
Hayne pc itely thanked my brother for
the donation, and said he would send
down for the muck at once. He did so,
but the mill hands filled the air with
laughter when they saw a dimTnutive
negro boy shutting along with a peck
measure in which to get the needed
muck There were many other equally
as ludicrous illustrations of this lack of
practical common sense daily displayed.
1t was even said that he could not tell
a freight train from a passenger train,
and that he frequently would rush down
to the little platform to board freight
trains which never stopped there, think
ing they were passenger trains. But the
man, the poet, was loved not only by
all who knew him personally, but by
all who read his tender, beautiful, fra
grant poem and over the grave and
around the me of Paul H. Hayne will
ever hover the affection of all who loved
genius with gentleness, a spotless life,
and an ending as royal in the brightness
of its fame as the glow OF sunset in rich
september days.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-12

nv false pretences. He is lazy, extrav,-
can't and an old bag of wind. Yet all
th Sc people love him. They would
fioht for him, die for him, and, most in
cred BILE of all, they credit him. What
il the secret of it all r.
Then 1 thought of the talk with
Jones, and the other farmers and their
wives. 1t all flashed npon me in a
moment. With all his faults the Major
genuine love for his fellow-men made
Itself felt. 1t was invincible, and it
won the devoted friendship of the very
men who hated his besetting sins.
Human sympathy is wonderful thing.
1t will win spontaneous return when
everything else fails. We cannot well
spare such men as the Major. We need
them to whoop up the Jonese 1T
lanta (Ga.) Constitution.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-12
Faithful to the Last.

The Indianapolis S'ntinelsays: Judge
Durham, First { comptroller of the Treas
ury, was married the other day. He
was, says the Boston Jrdgeller, at his
desk at work when one of his clerks
entered.
"Why, Judge" she exclaimed, "here
you are at work on your wedding day.
hear YOU are to be married at half past
o'clock. and here it is half past 3"
The Comptroller looked up and said :
eyes, am to be married in an hour.
can finish this work in thirty minutes
and that will leave me just thirty min
utes to dress and get to the house You
can rest assured that | will be there.
The ceremony cannot go on without
me-"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-12

Mr., D. II. Barnaby, of Owego, n. Y, says
that his daughter was taken with violent
cold which terminated with pneumonia, and
all the best physicians gave the case up and
said she could live but few hours at most. She
was in this condition when friend recommend
ed DIR. WIN. HALLS BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS
and advised her to try il. She accepted it as
a last resort, and was surprised to find that il
produced marked change for the better, an0
by persevering a permanent cure was effected
A character can be blackened by shrug OF
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On the appearance of the first symptoms, as
general debility, loss of appetite, pallor chilly
sensations, followed by night-sweats and
cough, prompt measures of relief should be
taken. Consumption is scrofulous disease OF
the lungs; therefore, use the great anti-sCrofu-
lous or blOod-purifier and strength-restorer.
DR.. Pierces Golden Medical Dis 4 very" Su.
perior to cod liver oil as nutriti,e, and IN
surpassed as a pectoral. For weak lungs
splitting of blood and kindred affections, it has
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Can Consumption be Cured

We have so often seen fatal results follow
the declaration that it can be cured, that we
have unconsciously settled down in the belief
that this disease must necessarily prove fatal
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 circum-
stances this re suit 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 a 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, II we can procure the organization of
this food material so that through the process
Of elective affinity it may take its place in the
system, we can cure the disease. This is just
what Piso's Cure for Consumption does. 1t
arrests at once the progress Of the disease by
preventing the further supply of tuherculous
matter, for while the system 10 under its in
fucnce all nourishment is organized and as
simulated. 1t thus controls cough, expectora-
tion, night-sweats, hectic fever, and all other
characteristic symptoms of Consumption.
Many physicians are now using this medi-
cine, and all write that 1t comes fully up to its
recommendations and makes Consumption one
of the diseases they can readily cure.
The forming stage of a disease is always the
most suspicious for treatment. This fact should
induce persons to resort to the use of Pso's Cure
when the cough is first noticed, whether it has
a consumptive diathesis for its cause or not,
for this remedy cures all kinds of coughs with
unequalled facility and promptness. In coughs
a Qinnla Cnlh two II ThrRA Of he
medicine have been found sufficient to remove
the trouble. So in all diseases of the throat
and lungs, with symptoms Stimulating those
of Consumption, Piso's Cure is the only infal-
lible remedy.
The following letter recommending Piso's
Cure for Consumption, is a fair sample of the
certificates received daily by the proprietor OF
this medicine:
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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-12

INDIANA has law to prevent weak
minded persons from marrying. A crusty
bachelor insinuated that the weak mind
ed are the only persons who ever think
of doing such a thing. His father pre-
sumably thought otherwise.