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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-23
Preserving Fruit.

For putting up fruit porcelain-lined
kettle holds the first place with most
housewives, but good agate or granite
ware, and even a brass kettle, secured
very clean and frightened, are used. A
wooden or silver spoon for stirring Is
much better than an iron one. Many
people use self sealing jars as a matter
of economy, because less sugar is re-
quired to keep the fruit in them.
Fruit juices may be kept by canning,
the same as the fruit itself. and often
prove very refreshing and grateful to
the sensitive stomach of convalescing
and delicate people, as well as useful for
favoring beverages, &c. One house
wife always puts up few pint bottles,
as follows: She heats the berries and
presses and strains ont the juice, the
same as in making jelly; then she adds
half pint of sugar to three pints juice,
brings it to a boil and seals up IN glass
jars.
Jelly making should not be too long
deferred, as experienced hOusekeepers
know that currant Jelly, at least, is best
when made before the fruit is entirely
ripe. Use perfectly clean flannel bag
for straining the juice-a new one is
preferable. Many people make currant
jelly successfully by putting in the
sugar the last thing and not boiling it.
The process is as follows Do not wash
the currants, but pick them over care
fully. Take half a pound of sugar to
each pound of fruit. Put few cur
rants into the kettle and press out en-
ough juice to prevent burning, then add
the remainder of the fruit and boil free
ly twenty minutes, stirring occasionally;
strain through jelly bag into an earth
en- vessel. When strained return the
liquid to the kettle, let it boil minute
or two and add the sugar. AS soon as
the sugar is entirely dissolved remove
from the fire and put into glasses. Some
jelly makers have their sugar heating in
the oven while boiling the juice and add
it hot.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-23
OLD-TIME FESTIVITIES.
A Country Party in Canada in the
Days of Long Ago.
From the Toronto Globe.l

Did you ever get "bid" to a dance
in the country? l mean real, home
made, fifth concession log house,
quarter of-a-century back country party.
A spree, hoe down, a neighborhood-
shaker of the simple, ready, rongh,
pioneer days. Did, ehl Then you will
r member that on the morning of the
day fixed for the party the board parti-
tion that ran across the middle of the
house was pulled down, and the beds
were piled in one corner, and the bunk
was showed up to the end of the house
beside the stove, and the stout-legged
kitchen table was planted against the
wall at the other end of the room, and
a stout-legged chair planted on the
table, and to that chuir the fiddler was
elevated. and there he rolled his gray
old head from side to side, and whisked
lightning from his elbow and fingered in
ecstatic frenzy and beat time with his
cowhide boot, and the thrill and throb
of his eager music touched the very
inner keys of life and stirred the free
young blood and softened the hardening
muscles and loosened the settled joints
of age until the stove shook and the
dishes ratified on the shelves, and the
beat of the feet on the dancing floor was
like the crashing of a score of mallets,
deadened as by the sweep of q mighty
broom between. How they danced!
How the fellow who had few steps
shOne and capered aud pounded the
floor with his cDwhides. And how they
swung! Round and round, and round
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-23

My persistence prevailed, and, tremb
ling for the success of my plan to such
an extent lay awake all night for fear
should miss the train. l rose and took
my bath at 4; got Ralph off; and we ran
| down by the same train as L had gone
| by on the previous morning, my friend
! growing more silent and depressed as we
| reached the station and walked towards
the rectory.
cit is Just three years since I was
down here, he said sadly as we ap-
preached the copse. "How sweetly the
birds sing"
maneuvered that he should go first,
having for excuse the narrowness of the
dewsprent path; and as 1 hoped, so it
fell about, for letting him get few yards
in advance, l hung back as Ralph turned
the corner by the stile, when there was
q wild cry, q sharp ejaculation, and I saw
poor Laura literally leap to his breast
and nestle there, exclaiming, cat last!
at last"
My poor girl he cried in faltering
tones, astounded, delighted, and ending
by clasping her tightly to him, as she
exclaimed joyously:
at has been SO long, but I knew you
would come at last"
Here, quick! quickl" cried Ralph,
''She has tainted"
1t was quite true; and between US we
carried the poor girl to the rectory, from
whence the gardener went galloping off
on the rector's cob for the doctor, three
miles away.
But Laura wanted no doctor; and a
short time after left her lying on the
sofa, holding Ralph's hand tightly in
both of hers as he knelt by her side,
telling her again and again how he had
always loved her but had never dared to
hope-words that made her eyes bright
en- and her heart palpitate with 'oy.
''And this is why you didn't come
back yesterday, said the old gentleman,
with his voice shaking, as he clung to
my hand.
"And we-we-we kept the ducks till
they were quite spoiled" said the old
lady. "Oh, dear! oh, dear! L don't know
what I'm saying, only God bless you for
this! God bless you for this!" and she
threw her arms round my neck and
kissed me as if / had been her son.
l ran away at last, L felt SO ready to
act like a child; and the basket of trout
killed that day was marvel.
1t was getting dark when L strolled
back, heavily laden to the rectory, to
hear that the doctor had been and gone
away.
Smiling, sir, smiling" said the old
rector to me, as I remembered that
had thought she wanted none.
And 1 was right; for Laura-I am
privileged to call my dear old friends
wife by her Christian name-soon grew
strong and well, her mental weakness
passing away with her return to bodily
health. They have a charming cottage
near the rectory where 1 stay when go
lown to fish; and they have four little
girls who always call me uncle, but when
there is boy he is to be called in my
honor.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-23
RUEL SMITHS STRATEGY.
How He Once Got Rid of Some
Troublesome Loafers.

Everyone connected with the law
throughout Maine knows Court Record
er Ruel Smith, who usually travels
about the State with Chief Justice Pc
ters. Once upon n time Ruel was in
charge of the telegraph Office at East
port, which was on the ground floor.
there was wooden bench, and on it
there formerly gathered a crowd of loaf
ers, who ! sisted in occupying the
frequent appeals of Mr.. Smith. Finally
the time came when they gathered so
thick as to darken the window, and
Ruel laid his plans to clear them out.
First he suggested that the old seat
needed repairing, and fitted on brand
new zinc cover. Then he ran a wire
from the main line inside, out through
a small hole in the side of the building,
connecting with the zinc. About the
usual time for the crowd to gather he
went outside and thoroughly wet down
the ground where rested the feet of the
loafers, and then resumed his usual at
titude inside.
By and by along came the gang, and
soon the usual loud conversation and
the whistling began, and soon, too, a
whole row, some ten or dozen loafers,
were seated along the new and innocent
looking zinc. Mr.. Smith is a patient
man, but soon forbearance ceased to be
a telegraph virtue, and, casting one look
OF mingled pity and pleasure at the
group, he gently "made connection"
and in flash the electricity was darting
up and down that bench and off through
the bodies of the loafers to the wet earth
beneath their feet. 'Gee whiz!" one ex-
claimed as he sprang from the seat, rub
bing the parts most affected, and it was
"Gee Whit" or something worse, that
sprung to the lips of all the rest. When
they recovered, all looked at some one
else, but for their life none could tell
what had happened. They accused each
other of using some kind of of needle,
but close inspection of the seat failed
to reveal anything, and soon all were
seated and hard at their arguments
again. Mr.. Smith made another con
nection, and this time he let her go the
whole bigness. Those fellows went end
wise, sidewise and otherwise, and ever
after their ways led them clear of the
zinc seat in front of the old Eastport
telegraph Office.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-23

and round, until the perspiration rolled
down the face and the breath gasped for
a renewal of the lease. Tame and de-
generate days. They swing no more.
| And they dance no more. The mighty
| clatter of the old Scotch reel. where the
| old people unlimbered and shook off
the steps of youth, and the yo ING
people gasped to keep pace with the
elders; and the opera reel-they called
it the upper reel-which the old folks
also invaded and then the cutting out
Jig, where the youths one after the other
did their finest steps, and the girls did
the same, and you often got on the track
of liking or an incipient company
keeping by noting the time and circum-
stances under which some particular
girl elected to take the floor, and who
thus became the partner of her choice,
and the same with the male end of the
performance, where the cut-out was
much more likely to have o significance.
Do you remember IlIat as d boy you
felt if you could grow up to call off
dances or, perhaps, call off and play the
fiddle at the same time, rs you once
knew man do, and whoset image lived
in your memory for weeks, that clerking
in O store or even teaching school would
be nowhere; or perhaps you knew
clerk who, kept store and could call off
also, and you ached to grow up and be
as great a man as he? It is hardly
likely you knew male teacher who
could dance much. Somehow the worry
in the teachers head over arithmetical
problems and the confusion of dates
and the eccentricities of parsing seemed
to get into the teachers feet when he
got on the floor, Or as native used to
put it in a place where once lived, his
left foot was Methodist and mixed him
up and disgraced him every time he
managed to get for partner stranger
who hadn't been told how badly he
danced. 1t seems singular now when
you think of it that the best dancers
among the boys were woodchoppers and
farmers and farm hands, while the best
among the girls were the daughters of
hotel keepers and village merchants,
and very often the female teacher was a
mighty spry little thing on her feet, for
the reason that she was almost always |
such great favorite of the dancers OF |
the other persuasion that she couldn't |
avoid holding the floor, and was O dancer |
in spite of herself. The dances were |
usually kept up until or even o'clock |
in the morning, and were then closed |
with stupendous breakdown, followed
by an effort to get collection for the
fiddler. And these pioneer fiddlers were
shockingly underpaid. Very often they
were not paid at all. They had the
gratitude and the appreciation of the
time in which they lived. But no more.
They fiddled through two generations,
but the second did for them little better
than the first, and they passed down to
the grave miserably poor.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-23
COST OF GETTING THE NEWS.
An Expenditure of s2O,655,oOo for
What is Sold for one Cent.

Mr.. Eugene NJ. Camp, who has col
lected the statistics of America on this
point, says, through the american, that
the entire cost of all news in the papers
in this country is $40, ,655, 900 per year.
This is curiously divided. The special
bureaus, which are principally located
in New York, with the right to look
over the proofs every night of some of
the morning journals, cost $345, 600.
This is divided among 100 of the lead
ing provincial papers. The business OF
the Associated Press now amounts to
81, $50, 900 yearly, and that of the United
Press foots up to $3.50, 900. These two
sums, with the special outlay for tele-
graph tolls outside the organizations,
place the total to all the papers Of
81, 800, 900 for this department. In addi-
ton to this there are to be reckoned the
special services of professional CORE
spondents in adjacent towns and impor-
tant centers, whose salaries aggregate
81, 900, 900 beside. This makes the total
cost of all the service about 81, $50, 900
per annum. In the larger cities of the
Union it costs all the way from $400 to
50, 200 O week for the working up of
local districts. Mr.. Camp reckons this
yearly expense at about $15, 900, 600.
This is correct analysis of the expense
in collecting news and the proportion in
which one branch of the service is re-
lated to the other. There are three
lines on which this work proceeds-the
gathering of news by the local reporter,
the use OF the telegraph and the special
correspondence. Each method is close
ly related to the other. The statement
shows that there has been a great de-
velopment of journalism in the matter
of news. Every effort is made to get
the news and one combination only
paves the way for another in order to
keep the lead in this department of a
newspaper. The greater the combina-
tion, the greater the result, and the
paper that has the news is the one that
the public is most willing to pay for.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-23
\ ell Equipped for Bizzards.

A female child, whose parents reside
on Fourteenth avenue north, was born
on the 14th of March, 1887, and at its
birth was covered from head TO foot with
thick mass of fine white hair. The
parents were greatly mortified, and at
tempted to remove the hairy covering,
but the attempt proved unsuccessful,
and later the hirsute Phenomenon reap
peared in denser form than ever.
Physicians were summoned, but they
were unable to prescribe a remedy, and
advised the parents against any further
attempt at eradication.
The little girl is now sixteen months
old, and is perfectly healthy and as
lively as cricket. Her growth has been
perfectly natural, with the exception
that the teeth have not appeared as is
usual with children of that age. The
hair upon the cheeks and chin is short
and thick, but longer on the nose and
forehead, and when permitted to hang
naturally completely covers q pair of
bright blue eyes. The ears are filled
with fine white hairs, which are now
between three and four inches in length,
corresponding with the growth on the
forehead. At birth the hair on the back
Mho 5OfSLdl 1ICHtS III 1cuSGIs 1lIIIl OuO
limbs were thickly covered, giving them
the appearance of being encased in
diminutive toboggan suit, and the same
condition exists, except that the friction
of the clothing has evidently shortened
the hair. When undisturbed the hair
comes out again and successfully defies
all attempts at repression or curtail-
ment The natural covering of the
head is also exceptionally heavy and
long, but of a much darker shade than
the silky mass on the body, and nearl y
concealing the features. Notwithstand
ing the strange growth, the appearance
of the little girl is by no means repuls-
i've, as is apt to be the cases in instances
of phenomenal development. The father
who is contracting plasterer by occupa-
tion, has been unable to keep the little
one, who is the third child in the family
from being seen by outsiders, and its
strange appearance has attracted atten-
ton.
Mayor Anes and other physicians will
vouch for the accuracy of tbs state
ments made in regard to the case.-St.
Louis Pioneer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-23
Professional ChaperOnes.

This is the time of year when the
professional chaperone moves from the
city to Newport or Saratoga says q New
York letter. At Asbury Park or Bar
Harbor they have no need of her. The
professional chaperone is really profess
sional escort. She has, not arrived at
that dignity of station where mammas or
uncles put our petted darling of fortune
under her care, with or without money
recompense, to be responsible for morn
ing, afternoon and evening until turned
over safely to the tender mercies of
husband. The professional escorts
duties are more simple and her business
more precarious. She advertises in
a small way in theatre programme or a
weekly, not a daily newspaper. Your
true chaperone never advertises at all.
She make it known in modest notices to
the public that she escorts ladies to the
theatre or, if they like, to the races. If
mamma want to send couple of girls
out foran evening she can put them into
the professional escorts trusty hands.
This lady will call for them, suitably
dressed, take them to their seat, sit be-
side them, if seat is purchased for her:
if not, be on hand to see them safely
home when the curtain falls. All this
for possibly $1.25. At Saratoga, where
she takes up her quarters in July, she
can be retained on any occasion where
the regular guardian, or dragon, in
whichever light she may be regarded, is
indisposed. She will take young heir
ess driving or walking, or sit with her
on the piazza, or have an eye on her at
concert or hop, faithfully warding off
the approaches of the impecunious
young men. Sometimes she is engaged
by the week when papa has deposited
his darling and gone to the city to do
business; then she thinks herself decid-
edly in luck. She is not in anv way
but have seen two, seen the
advertisement of one other and heard of
three or four. If les concenances in such
matters grow too French, we shall have
10 hire chaperones, for American
are too busy with their own
affairs to devote themselves to their
daughters.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-23

Don't try, if you are an ordinary man,
to occupy two seats in crowded horse
car. Only women can do that and look
as innocent as lily of the valley all the
while.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-23

Young physicians are often angry
At least, they are sometimes found oui
of patients.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-23
LAURA'S DOCTOR

WAS thoroughly
enjoying myself on
one of natures s best
early mornings; the
trees were just in
their early green,
the meadows were
golden with butter
cups, the bitches
hidden by the
moisture = loving
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-23
NO TRUST.

Swell Ito importunate beggar)-I have
no pennies at present. my good man. 1
will hand you something coming back.
Beggar (dolorously)-Ah, sir, it was
doing business on credit that reduced
me to this.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-23

''Young man life is but one span.
''Yes, sir; but that only lnsts while
you are engaged, one horse will do after
marriage. Burlington Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-23
THE VISITING CLUB.

Commodore of the Quohog Yacht
Club coming aboard unannounced)-
Our fellers is goin ter have dance to-
night. Thought mebbe you folks'd like
ter shake leg with us.
Mrs. Reginald Peyster Ten Eyck
(frigidly)-It does not seem to be Gus
tomary to use cards in this locality!
Commodore-Wall, f yer wan ter hev
o little game after tn ball guess there
won't be no 'bjection, though we fellers
most ginerally git SO full we couldn't tell
a jack from queen after II o'clock.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-08-23

"Does the Washington nine play bail
on Sunday" asked a Y. NJ G. A. OF
man who had backed the club
"No." was the gruff reply.
"Oh, am so very, very glad, said
the Y. NJ. G. A, rubbing his hands.
"Well, You needn't be-" responded
the hacker, ''they don't play ball on
week days, either, = Washington Critic.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-02-08

said that, "the increased export of flour ant
the dimnution of wheat is a problem hard Il
solve, and one of vital Importance to tn,
world" So it is here in our local trade, whea
ruling higher comparatively than flour, leav
ing it doubtful what is the proper policy t.
pursue-to go forward or call halt
| The quotations Of last week for wheat are
continued at from 90 to 90 cents, our millers
still buying freely.
Corn is not so firm, and quoted one cent low
| er than last week.
Hay. of best timothy. will bear an advance
| figure this week and is readily taken at from
$3.50 to el4.OO. Inferior grades about as for
| merly and set aside, If choice timothy is to be
found.
Nothing worthy OF note appears to be doing
in field grass-seeds. Clover-seed usually ac-
tive at this season of the year is very quiet
This is the case in Baltimore and Chicago also
large distributing points for grass seeds.
In wholesale grocery lines we add Lake Her
rings to the price current as they are in season
again.
Coffee is quoted lower than last week. This
may seem inconsistent with the general sum-
mary in which it is represented as higher. 1t
will be borne In mind that the imports of eof-
fee, as we'll as home or other refined sugars,
are in comparatively few hands, and that re-
mark as to coffee was based upon several days
fluctuation in New York, and more for future
than spot sales. Our dealers are good square
people and are governed In their dealings by
the real present, and not the speculative fu-
ture.
The quotations of poultry are continued as
they were reported the two past weeks. All
kinds are in request.
1.-THE quotations are wholesale, notretoH.
Country Produce.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-02-08
Personal.

This evening. Wednesday, the 9Th, at Christ
Church, Macon, Ga, Mr.. Manly B. Curry, OF
st. Paul, Mimi, son of Hon. ]. L. NJ. Curry,
of this State. will marry Miss Augusta Lamar
Bacon. daughter of Maj. Augustus O. Bacon OF
Macon, Ca, who was a prominent candidate
for Governor in the late Georgia campaign.
Mr.. Clinton Boude, formerly of the Rock.
bridge News has been appointed deputy
clerk in the Circuit Court Clerks Office, OF
Rockbridge county. filling the place vacated
by the death of Mr.. Ramsey.
Rev. R. F. Campbell, pastor of the Millboro
Presbyterian church, has declined the cali re-
Gently rendered him by the Messy Creek
Church, of this county.
Harry Thicker, Esq, will leave to-day for
New Orleans, where his wife and children are
spending the winter. He will be absent sever
al weeks.
Mr.. Leonard Yost-son of Maj. s. M. Yost,
senior editor of the Valley Virginian-who has
been absent for two years, returned here last
Saturday. looking as though his residence and
iabors in the South had been beneficial to
MIN, He has been in the. employ Of the rail-
road.contractors, Shanahan & Co., who have
recently been engaged ON work near Florence,
Alabama
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-02-08

GOLDEN WEDDING IN HIGHLAND CoUN-
TY.-The venerable Adam Stephenson aud
wife of Meadow Dale, Highland county,
celebrated on monday, January 5Oth, their
golden wedding, the 50th Anniversary of
their marriage. The Highland Recorder
says
"Mr. S. is n years of age and bis lady is
in her 74th year. All of their children
seven in number,-were present except
Mrs. Col. Arnott, of Wheeling, w. Va
There are few couples who reach this period
of married blessedness. In this county, at
the present time, so far as we are able to
learn, there are only four couples that have
reached their Golden Wedding day,-tbe
above named, Ir. and Mrs. Jacob Newman,
of Crabbottom, Mr.. and Mrs. Griffin, OF
Jackson river, and Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus
Shumate, of this place. The last named
couple will have been married So years in
March next, and if two years are spared to
them, they may celebrate their Diamond
Wedding"