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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01
Chinese Trade Unions.

The Minister of the United States at
Pekin, China, transmits to the State
Department at Washington an interest
ing article on the Chinese guilds, in
which it is shown that every branch of
business and every trade is arbitrarily
controlled by these despotic organiza-
tions. The trade unions boycott oppres-
sively, regulate hours, apprentices, cause
strikes, and adjust prices in a very COM
plete manner. The guilds all have guild
halls, with very extensive decorations,
they being arranged for use of the mem
bers somewhat as are our club houses.
The methods of the trade guilds are
somewhat novel. One member of the
gold leaf craft at Soochow recently vio-
lated the rule, and took more than one
apprentice at one time. His union pun
ished him by biting him to death. The
union was composed of 123 men, and
each member set his teeth in the flesh of
the offending brother. Other penalties
for slight infractions of rules are: the
furnishing of a theatrical performance,
n feast for over ten, and quantities of
liquors. While their rule is, undoubt-
edly, very despotic, the minister on
siders them not altogether harmful, as
they administer justice and compel their
members to act honest.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01
Story of a Hat.

There are several apartment houses in
West Forty-third street. The other day
two ladies were standing at the window
of the dining-room that looked out on
the back yard of one of them. Suddenly
one of the ladies began to laugh immod-
erately, and fairly shouted: "Oh my!
See Tatters with your new hat. He's
having a great time with it, and has
chewed off all the pompons." Tatters
was a little Skye terrier, and the young
lady who was SO much interested and
amused at her friends misfortune was a
guest from Boston. The two ladies
rushed down stairs, and the hostess ran
into the yard and rescued the bonnet
from the somewhat diminutive NAV of
the Skye. In a moment she returned
with a smile on her face which seemed
to say: "I don't mind a bonnet or two
now and then, and frequently give Tat
tiers one for luncheon" Her friend was
still in a paroxysm of mirth, but man
aged to stop laughing long enough to
say: cts too bad, dear, and you only
got your hat yesterday; but Tatters did
look too funny for anything"
Eyes, dear, Tatters is a funny little
dog" replied the hostess, 'sbut that
wasn't my hat; it was your best one
that you wore to the theatre last even
ing. Isn't it too funny for anything2"
An east wind direct from her own
dear Hub couldn't have frozen the
smile on the lips of the Boston girl any
quicker than that simple explanation
did. "The horrid little creature" she
cried. 81 don't understand how you
can bear to have him around. You
needn't laugh, either. L don't see any
thing funny about the occurrence
NeU York Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01
A Pathetic Incident.

The report of the Fresh Air Society of
Portland, Me-, tells some pathetic Incl
dents connected with the little city waits
first visits to the country, and other in
cidents not pathetic. One boy, after q
three days stay, suddenly remembered
that he had left his baby sister in charge
of a neighbor while his mother went ont
washing, and he was sure that tho
abused the infant. He must go homo
and see. And he did go home. When
he got to Portland he had a wonderful
story to tell of the dangers Of life i'll the
country; of the Indians and bears and
other wild beasts that he had met. But
his mother knew him. She sent him
back, and in due time he arrived at the
farm with a tremendous plug of tobacco
i'll his pocket. AS he didn't chew, there
was II natural curiosity to know why he
had brought it. He said that he was
afraid that he might need it some
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01
WISE WORDS.
Good thoughts are no better than good

Good thoughts are no better than good
dreams, unless they are executed.
A debt of gratitude is too often COM
promised at about ten cents on the dollar.
Never speak i'll of your competitors in
trade. Competitors will speak of you as
you do of them.
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls
the longer it dwells upon and the deeper
it sinks into the mind.
AS water shapes itself to the vessel
that contains it, so a wise man adapts
himself to circumstances.
1t is better to go through life like a
sunbeam than to chill those around us
with the frost of i'll nature.
Much as we dislike to admit our de-
fects, we tindit better to know and guard
against them than to ignore them.
Be what your friends think you are;
avoid being what your enemies say you
are. Go right forward and be happy.
A flirt is like a dipper attached to a
hydrant, everyone is at liberty to drink
from it, but no one desires to carry it
away.
If you cannot inspire a woman with
love for you, fill her above the brim with
love for herself. All that runs over
will be yours.
Our chimeras are the things which most
resemble ourselves, and each man dreams
of the unknown and the impossible ac-
cording to his nature.
l hope [ shall always possess firmness
and virtue enough to maintain what l
consider the nos enviable of all titles
that of an "honest man."
The environments surrounding oul
birth are matters of chance, but whether
we are trump cards, and win the game of
life, is largely due to ourselves.
Books are at once our masters and our
servants; but they are unobtrusive.
They wait for our moods and leisure.
They become to us like persons and voice.
We feel more acquainted with authors
two hundred years dead than we do with
our daily companions.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01
A Little Lunch.

Mrs. General Charles H. T. Coils
gave a luncheon to eighteen ladies at
her new residence in New York last
week, to commemorate her birthday, at
which some novelties of table service
were shown. There were eighteen
courses, and seven kinds of wine. The
oysters were served in tiny dishes
moulded in ice, the sorbets in tiny
boats of ice, with white silk sails, the
boat apparently floating in a sea of spun
sugar; terrapin was served in silver tur-
ties, whipped cream in c~ornucopias of
cake, held in a mound of spun sugar,
and there We're patties made of macarOni,
wound round and round in the form of
a cube, contain truffiets, while the ice
cream was served in the centre of real
tulips, a cluster on each cover, tied with
colored ribbon. The marrons were
served on dishes, in the bottom of which
was a music box that played familiar
airs as the dishes were raised from the
table. The Collis's never do anything
by halves. In addition to the luncheon
each guest received as q souvenir q
pretty Egyptian vase, and the arrange
ment OF flowers was s%umptuous and taste
ful.-TOWn Topics.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01
Lost the Apples.

A Washington letter says:-Represen-
tative Hatch of Missouri is Chairman of
the Committee on Agriculture, and
shortly after the committee organized he
proposed in a j%ocular way that any mem
Der of the committee who should be
tardy in attendance and who had no
satisfactory excuse to offer should be
fined. Mr.. Hatch did not seriously be
believe that his motion would prevail,
but the committee took it up and passed
1T without a dissenting vote or without
debate. Asa result of this action every
member was very prompt in putting in
an appearanceat the next few meetings,
but the day before yesterday, when the
hour arrived, the chairman was not
there. A little later he dropped in, and
he was Immediately asked for an expla-
nation of his tardiness. The committee
did not think it was quite satisfactory,
and they voted that he should be fined
three bushels of apples, as being appro-
pirate to the committee. To-day Mr..
Hatch sent his apples to the committee
room, and very shortly afterward nearly
every member of the House was walking
around the corridors munching a big
luscious apple.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01
Feeding and Watering Horses.

The feeding of a horse should be
varied according to the purpose for
which the animal is employed, and the
size, age, etc. In many stables all the
horses are fed the sane quantity without
regard to constitution or need. EX-
p%erience and good Judgment will soon
enable n to decide the quantity needed
by each horse to keep it in good cor
dition. If driving on the road is the
principal work of a horse, more grain
should be fed, in proportion to the hay,
than If used tor farming or slow work.
For a large road horse, four to six quarts
OF oats, and eighteen pounds of bright
hay, daily, are generally sufficient. A
horse that is kept for general purposes,
or family driving, may be fed oats in the
morning and uncut hay. At noon, cut
hay mixed with feed made of oats and
corn ground together, in the proportion
OF two of oats and one of corn, if at
work; but when not at work, the noon
ration may consist of uncut hav. The
evening ration may be of cut hay, and
Iced with a little uncut hay afterwards.
Timothy, cut just before poisoning,
if well cured and kept stored in
a dry place, makes the best hay for
horses. When not at work, very little
corn meal or other heavy feed should be
given, but oats, bran, and uncut hay. A
few carrots with the evening meal occa-
%sionally will be very beneficial. Pock
salt should be kept where the horse has a
constant access to it. If turned out to
grass, salt often.
The water given a horse should be
pure. Do not have the we'll in the barn
yard, for the wash will soak into it, and
pollute the water. If a running brook of
clean water be convenient, lead the horse
to drink from it. A good cistern can be
made of a large hogshead sunk half way
into the ground, and the water from the
barn roofs led into it will be preferable
for the horse than very cold well water.
A horse needs at least two pals of water
a day, and if given half a pailful before
meals, or four times a day, it will be suf-
icient, unless when hard at work in sui
try weather. Do not give warm water at
any time of the year, but the chill may
be taken off in winter. so that it will not
be icy. Do not water or feed directly
after coming in very warm, and do not
hard Immediately after eating
heartily .-AmericGR AgriculturiSt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01
CALIFORNIA RABBIT DRIVES.
How the Pests are Exterminated on
the San Joaquin Plains.

Rabbits have multiplied so rapidly
throughout California that they have
become one of the most serious pests OF
the country. 1t is estimated that three
rabbits will eat as much as a sheep, and
that what can be killed in a days rabbit
drive will consume as much alfalfa as a
hundred beef cattle. A good many
schemes nave been devised for getting
rid of the pests, but the only eficacious
one is the rabbit drive. This is consid-
cred very good field sport, also, and a
drive is always participated in as much
by those who are after fun as by those
who want the rabbits killed.
The first thing in getting up a rabbit
drive is to make a rabbit-proof corral of
close, high palings, enclosing a space
about thirty by ten or twenty yards.
Leading into this at right angles are two
lines of closely set palings, a quarter of
a mile in length. Several hundred men
on horseback and on foot then surround
a section or two of land and work slowly
toward the corral with shouts and beat
ing of the ground. At first but few rab-
bits will be seen, but as the drivers
close in toward the palings the little
frightened beasts are as thick as sheep
in a corral. They make frantic efforts
to escape, and in trying to break through
the lines of heaters many are killed by
the clubs of the walkers. The drivers
close in slowly, and the rabbits are
gradually driven into the space partially
inclosed by the palings, and from there
it is easy to force them into the corral.
They troop in like sheep, crowding over
one another, and filling the corral. The
drivers on foot follow, the corral is
closed, and the slaughter begins. They
are killed with the clubs by striking
them on the head. The air is filled
with their shrill ~squealing, which can
be heard a mile away. They leap about
in desperation, jump high, and dash
themselves against the fence, huddle in
the corners, and try to hide behind
and another, OF behind the heaps of
those already killed. The clubs whistle
through the air. not infrequently strik-
ing the shins of the killers instead of
tina heads of the rabbits, for it requires
a good aim, a steady arm, and no small
amount of skill to guide every stroke to
its destination on the skull of q rabbit
that is leaping about like mad.
When the slaughter is ended the rab-
bits are strewn over the ground as thick
as dead leaves, and in places their car
casses will be in piles two feet high.
Between 1,200 and 1900 rabbits are
usually killed in each drive, and it is no
uncommon thing for one man to score a
hundred dead rabbits in one round up.
In parts most infested the drives are
held nee q week.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01
A Russian Prison.

The exterior of Petropavlovsk, the
great State prison of Russia, is thus de-
scribed by Mr.. Kennon in the Century ::
Every traveller who has visited st. Pc
tersburg must remember the slender
gilded spire which rises to q hight of
nearly 400 feet from the low bank of the
Neva opposite the Winter Palace, and
which shines like an uplifted lance of
gold across the marshy delta of the river
and the shallow waters of the Finnish
Gulf. 1t is the spire of the fortress
cathedral, under which lie buried the
bones of Russia's Cars and around
which lie buried almost as effectually
the enemies of the Cars Government.
All that can be seen of the fortress from
low wall of gray stone, broken sharply
into salient and re-entering angles, with
a few cannon en- 6~ar5ette, a flag futtering
from the parapet, and over all the white
belfry and FURNISHED spire of the cathe-
dral and smoking chimneys of the I'm
perial mint.
silence most profound reigns over all.
The prisoners are given and made to
wear soft felt slippers so as to make the
greater.
There is not a footstep, nor a voice,
nor a sound of any kind to indicate the
presence of another human being in the
bastion. Every fifteen minutes the bells
of the fortress cathedral chime out
the air with which the words,
"Have Mercy, o Lord" are associated
in the Russian liturgy, and every
hour they ring the melody of the
ecclesiastical chant, Chow Glorious is
our Lord in Zion!" The damp, heavy
atmosphere, the dripping walls, the OPP
pressive silence and the faint, mufled
tones of the cathedral bells Ginning
mournful airs from the Church liturgy,
all seem to say to the lonely and de-
jected prisoner: although not dead,
you are buried"
In the door of each cell is n slide,
called the ":Judas," through which an
invisible guard peers in at his will at
the prisoner, adding terror and horror
to a condition already horrible enough.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01
STRONGER GUN THAN III LOOKS.
The New Cast Steel 9-tonner May
Revolutionize Gun Making.

Each days progress at the Pittsburgh
Steel Casting Company's works on the
new cannon shows the successful char
acter of the work. The new engine of
war is in the lathe now.
"'The magnitude of the interests
which would be glad to see the failure
of the Pittsburgh gun" said gentleman
who is interested in the cannon,
''can be understood by remembering
that the entire expenditures of Europe
for artillery have for some years been
for the 'built-up' steel guns. The great
Armstrong establishment in England is
wholly devoted to making the cannon by
shrinking successive tubes or rings of
steel one upon the other. The still vast
er establishment of Krupp in Germany
derives nearly all of its profits from the
manufacture of cannon in the same
way.
"Now, if you remember that the cost
of the built-up steel guns runs from 81
to So per pound according to their size,
while the solid steel gun just turned
out is at the contract price of less han
25 cents per pound, you can see what a
blow to these immense interests will be
dealt if the firing tests show that the
cannon is as good or better than the
older ones. If it is as good, the i'm
mense gain in cheapness will utterly
destroy the business of the immense
Krupp and Armstrong works. If it is
better, it will turn the hundreds of can
non they have made for the countries
of the Old World into old metal. They
will keep q close watch of the tests of
this gun, and l have no doubt that if
$50. 900 would secure its failure under
the firing tests, the money would be
forthcoming"
"Ifthe tests demonstrate the success
OF the six-inch solid gun, will that show
the ability of Pittsburgh to secure equally
good results with the largest steel guns,
such as have been made by Krupp and
Armstrong in the other process 2" was
asked of a gentleman who is interested
in the steel casting company.
"We will take a contract tomorrow to
make a 150-ton gun if any Government
wishes to order it." was the short but
decisive reply.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01

Perhaps the most elaborate and costly
inkstand in the country is the one now
in possession of Robert 7. Lincoln, of
Chicago, and which stood for a time on
the private desk of his father when the
latter was the occupant of the White
House. 1t seems that one of the dele
gates from Arizona in Congress in 1865
had become so fond of President LIN
coin that he wished to give him some
memento of his friendship. He sent to
Arizona for 400 ounces of silver, which
was nodded by Tiffany & Co., into a
handsome and uniquely decorated ink
stand. The material itself cost $500.
and the bill for the work upon it was
$3G2. 1t had not been a month before
the assassination occurred, and for TWEEN
ty-two years since then it has lain in a
vault.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01
After " ny Years.

More than Is years ago there was a
case decided in our courts upon the re-
suit of which two citizens of this county
were required to pay quite a large sum
as sureties for a bonded officer who
skipped the country. After the lapse
of II or ID years, when the events had
been almost entirely forgotten, a stranger
having all the appearance of a well -bred
professional tramp approached the
house of n of these parties and asked
admittance, which was granted. Dur
ing his short stay he both surprised
and delighted his host by paying to him
one-half of the original claim he had
been called upon to pay as security ID
years before. No explanation was given
and none asked. The strange visitor
took a receipt for the amount paid, and
departed as he had come, mysteriously
and unknOwn.-StauRtOn Virginidn.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01

"Charlcy is coming to see me to-
night" remarked Ella. 81 don't know
why l feel so nervous about it, but 1
have a prcsentiment that something's 60
ing to happen"
"Oh, there's no use feeling rvo
about it if you've made up your mind to
do it, " answered Clara. every likely he'll
say yes, he was always soft.-NeW York
Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01

WHEN Mr.. Curtis, of Rosendale, Wis,
went to Dakota after the remains of his
sister, who persisted in the recent biz
zard, he settled up with the school dis
trict for which she had been teaching,
and they made him discount the amount
due her, II per cent, before they would
pay it, claiming that it was a damage to
farm
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01

A o named Gates narrowly escaped
losing his life in a fog recently at Rom
ney Marsh, England. He did not re-
turn home from school, and the ponds
and dikes we're searched in vain. The
next day he was found partially be-
numbed with cold in a bean stack sew
eral miles from home. He had passed
within thirty yards of his home without
being able to find it, and had wandered
on until he found the stack, and then
pulled two bundles of beans out, crept
into the aperture, covered himself up as
we'll as he could, and thus passed tho
night
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01

To prevent waste, cut your corn-fodder
and feed in with bran.
Nothing lessons the flow of milk
quicker than chilling the COW.
Geese are harder and easier to rear
thar turkeys, and if fat bring u good
price.
Bury old boots at the foot of an ample
tree, which will feed on the supple ed
ammonia.
1t should be the aim of every man who
gets his living out of the soil 10 add to
its productiyeness,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01

Would use Kemp'G Ralsam for the Throat and
Lungs. 1t is curing more cases of Coughs,
Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, Group and all
Throat and Lung Troubles, than any other
medicine. The proprietor has authorized any
druggist to give you n Sample Bottle Free to
convin c you of the merit Of this great remedy,
Large BOTTLES. 10 cents and CT
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01

is the way a Western man put it in expressing
to a friend his complete satisfaction in the use
of DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets. so
small and yet so effectual, they bid fair to sup
plant entirely the old style pill. An ever-ready
remedy for Sick and Bilious Headache, Bill
iousness, Constipation and all blood disorders.
Mild in action, wonderful in effect! Put up in
walls, conven. ent to carry. Their use attended
with no discomfort These sterling merits ac-
count for their great popularity.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01
She scolds and frets,
She's full of pets,
She's rarely bright and tender,
The thorn of life
lie a fratfuI wifa-

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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01
knowledge is power, says the philosopher


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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01

A SANDUsKY woman has eloped with
a manufacturer of perfumes. The
wronged husband says he forgives her.
If she prefers On odor man to him, well,
and good.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01

The fashionable rage for turquoises this
year has been a blessing to jewellers.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01
Hoods SarsaparHa

Is a peculiar medicine. 1t Is carefully prepared from
Sarsaparilla, Dandelion, Mandrake, Dock, Pipissewa.
Juniper Berries and other welI-known and valuable
vegetable remedies, by a peculiar ;ombination, pro
portion and process, unknown to any other medi
cine, and giving to Hoods Sarsaparilla curative
power not possessed by other medicines. 1t effects