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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

THE smuggling Of Chinese men and
women from British America into United
States territory is very lucrative business
at various points along the borders from
Vancouver to Winnipeg. If the Ven
ture fails at one place it is renewed at
another, and sooner or later the pilgrims
got in. A new trick just discovered at
Whatcom, Washington Territory, has
almost taken away the breath of tho
Federal officials, for they know that it
must have been very successful for n
time. The large number of squaws
coming into the country from British
Columbia finally attracted the attention
of m official, and he took y party of
them to Jail. On close inspect II it
was found that the creatures wero not
sluaws at all, but able-bodiel Cinnamon
who had painted and otherwise disguised
themselves so rs to resembl the typical
Indian squaw of the frontier. in one
instance two young AMI rather comcly
Chinese women came aCro:s in tho curb
of American women, bat closely veiled
An ungallmt Official lifted their wells
aud found them out. These girls woro
billed through to San Francisco, and
were worth to their owner about $1,000
apiece.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24
DIAMOND CUT DIAN OND.

Smith Ito friend)-Gus, I'm going to
commit suicide to-day.
Friend newspaper reporter)-Thank
goodness l'll see you through it to
the end. They said at the office this
morning that they'd fire me if 1 didn't
find sensational article. What'll it be
pistol or poison?
Smith-No; I'm going to read some
of your press articles.
IMPROVING SLOWLY.
First Boy-Haye you put medicine in
the teachers lunch?
Second Boy-Yes.
First Boy-And a nail i'll his chair?
Second Boy-Ycs.
First Boy-What else!
Second Boy-Nothing; ma made me
promise to be real good to-day.
CHEAPER TO STAY AT HOME.
George, deas. .sissae isas Sail tenIerly, 81
know you are pcll. 1--~rsallld we not
make our home in some Western city,
where the cost of living is cheaperl /
have read somewhere that you could get
three pounds of beef in Kansas for a
quarter"
81 know it." he replied, ruefully;
"but it would cost tho price of three
whole oxen to get out there. Puck.
THEY MUST DE INTERESTING.
Miss Breezy (of Chicago to Mr.. Goth
am)-Do you know how young Mr.. Wa
bash is getting on in New York, Mr..
Gotham ?
Mr.. Gotham--Well, I believe he is
doing something in literary way
Miss Breezy-Is he cleverl
Mr.. Gotham-Well, if it were not for
using an Objectionable word I should
say in my opinion his work was nothing
but hog wash.
Miss Breezy-Oh, the word is not at
all Objectionable. Mr.. Gotham; we of
ten use it in Chicago. Dear me, how
would like to see some of his articles =
NcD York San.
THE REASON WHY.
Mrs. Hendricks entertaining the
minister at dinner)-WiIl you have
another piece of pie BobIy2
Bobby (politely)-Not any more,
thanks, ma.
Minister (peasantly)-Why, II
thought, Bobby, that little boys always
wanted a second piece of pie.
Bobby-Yes, sir, but this is bakers
pie.
NOT GOAT.
Tramp-Please, Madam, will you give
me something to eat?
Madam kin give you an old vest if |
you want it
Tramp Madam, do you take me for
A goat.
CHARMING STATE OF BRAIN.
Father-You cannot marry Mr.. Smith;
le squints.
Daughter-True, but he made 500
100 in Wall street last week.
Father-Ah, well, take him: but it's
'ity he doesn't lisp ani make $4,000
nore.-Drake's Nagazine.
LOST IT'S PLUAIPNEss.
Bobby Gn some surprise, looking at
he new moon)-Why, mo, l thought
he moon was roand.
AlOther-So it is. my dear.
Mother-Yes.
Bobby-WelI, that moon must have
ad the stuifing knocked ont of it.
THAT PRECIOUS CHILD.
Visitor-WelI, my little man, and
What arc you going to be when you
yrow upf
Child-A bigger man than you, 1
Iope.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

old Slade droppel as he hurried I'7st,
the old elephant was numbering rapidly
away in the midst of the frighte ned and
| tiouncing cayuses.
| The turtle-d dove flew from the piece of
a fence as the elephant and his captors
hurried up to the shack. The grass
mutfled the foot falls of the animals.
The granger was still on his knees,
with his face buried in the quilt of the
poor bed, and the morning breeze that
| famed the sick child's face and futtered
the pictured bill on the wall ruffled the
unruly tufts of his hair till it felt like
the touch of baby-fngers.
The little face was less flushed now,
and the gasping feebler. The childs
dim thoughts wandered still more, and
his eyes could hardly see the futtering
bill. "Pappy," the weak voice whis-
pered, "will the ole elephant ever
comet"
A great bulk barred the sunlight from
the little window, and the long, snaky
trunk glided in, and the tinger-like pro-
tuberance at the end very softly claspcd
the sick child's hand.
"Oh, pappy! pappy! The ole Gle
has GOMEZ"
The bowed head of the granger was
raised. The child had started half up
right and the little hands were olasping
the caressing trunk of the old elephant
Then, before the granger could give
expression to astonishment, the clinging
hands relaxed, and the old elephants
trunk eased the child's weight softly
back to the pillow again.
And the turtle-dove that had returned
to the piece of fence uttered her mourn
full COO.
When the elephant went away, the
granger was kneeling beside his bed, and
on the pillow near the still face lay the
bank-bill that had been given to old
Nero's driver, and beside it were other
bank bills
As the little cavaIcade iourneyed back
towards the place where the section road
wound into the Buzzard Creek timber,
old Slade said : ''I'm agin this runnin'-
out business /"
''And me, too !" answered every cow
boy of the group, and the subject was
dropped.
In the audience at the circus, that af-
was little squad of broad-hat-
ted and beweaponed cowboys, who sur
prised their neighbors by being on their
good behavior during the entire perform
ance. Only once did they applaud with
like cowboy boisterousness,
and that was when the children laughed |
and clapped their hands as the old ele- |
phant Nero came into the ring.-FraaM |
Leslie's.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24
A STRANGE MALADY.
Why Some Men Sometimes Mystcr-
iously Disappear.

Writing about peculiar malady
which suddenly seizes some men, con-
tributor to the New York NelcS says: l
remember some years ago the same
malady taking possession of James Rcd
path, the well-known and distinguished
political economist. He had for long
time been working very hard in the ar
rangement of lecturing tour, having
made contracts with number of cele-
brated orators and literary men to speak
at various cities throughout the United
States. In addition to this. he was
busily engaged in attending to the ex-
acting duties and management of his
publishing house. All of his affairs
were in most prosperous condition,
and the lecturing tours gave especial
promise of undoubted success. Sud
denly lie disappeared without word OF
warning. His relations and acqualnt-
ances searched for him i'll vain, and III
the meantime his business and the pro
iected tours remained at a stands still. If
his friends were in ignorance of his
whereabouts, he himself was still more
so. One morning, though, change
came over him, and the memory, which
had been completely cIoudcd for almost
a month, returned again. He found
himself sitting on the piazza of a Ber-
muda hotel, under a hot torrid sun. 1t
was like dream to him, for but mo-
ment before it seemed tnat he was wad-
ing through the snow and slush of a
New York thoroughfare in the depth of
winter. He distinctly remembered leov-
ing his office on certain afternoon and
starting out on some mission or other.
From that time, however, his mind was
perfect blank How he got to the is
land of Bermuda it was Impossible for
him to imagine. Yet there he was; his
passage on the steamer had evidently
been paid for; he hal ate, drank and
slept as usual. his hotel bills were set
tied, and nothing had transpired to eX-
cite the suspicion Of any one with whom
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24
How to XIII Beeyes.

An animal is best killed with rife
ball, shot midway of line drawn from
one eye to the opposite horn; but it may
be killed by blow on the same spot with
q sledge hammer or the head of an aX,
first blindfolding the animal. AS soon
as it falls cut cash square across the
throat back of the jaws, deep enough to
reach the spinal column. The animal
may be run up at once, or not until
skinned, or it may lie until the entrails
arc removed, rs may be preferred. Cut
the hide from the throat along the bris-
ket and central line of the belly, be-
tween the thighs TO the tail, and from
this cut along the inside of the legs.
Take off the fore legs at the knee joints
and the hind ones three inches below
the hook Joints. If the animal is on the
ground, remove the hide from the upper
side of the carcass to the back bone;
then turn the animal over and skin the
other side. If the animal is hung up,
begin above and work down. BE care
full not to cut any gashes in the hide.
Use tho thumbs wherever it is practical
BILE to do 50. To remove the entrails is
not difficult. Open along the middle of
the belly and brisket, cutting from in
outward, running the fingers along
ahead of the knife through the belly.
The animal should have had nothing to
cat for twelve hours leforo it is killed.
It's entrais will not then be distended
and the carcass will cool better. AS
soon os the entrails arc ont, wash the in
side thoroughly with cold water, using
cloth where necessary to take off blood.
Stretch the slit in the belly open by set
ting short sticks to keep the carcass open
and facilitate cooling. As soon as the
carcass has cooled, divide it ID halves by
splitting the back bone, working from
the inside. First cut through the 0esh
and then saw through the bond. Do not
cut bones-saw Observation-Disclosures
t3I1'iM
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24
Advertising Rates.
Il REGRET,

Oh, could we but have seen, while they were
ours,
The grace of days forever passed away;
Had we but felt the beauty of the flowers
That bloomed for us-before they knew de-
cay;
Could we have known how We should yearn
in vain
For looks and smiles no more to greet our
sight,
Or how the fruitless tears would fail like rain
For hours of sweet communion, vanished
quite;
Their worth to us-had we but better known
Then had We held them dcarer, while our own.
Had kept some salvage from the joys DER
thrown,
And loneliness itself has found US less alone !
Agnes Made Machar in, Century.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

SCRANTON, Pa, now lays claim to the
title of 'The Electric City" Its streets
are all lighted by electricity; its street
cars are run by tho same force, and a
good deal of its machinery is driven by
the same power. Scranton is not yet
twenty-three years old rs a city, having
been incorporated April %, 1866, and
it claims population of $4,000, while
some of its more sanguine citizens say
the population will not fall short of
100, 600. The street railway franchises
of Scranton were recently purchased
and reorganized by q syndicate of New
York capitalists, and since the sale all
the horses were discarded and electrici-
ty substituted.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

A RATHER remarkable labor organiza-
tion closed its fourteenth annual session
at Baltimore lately. It has never had a
controversy and never had n strike, al
though its membership is $500. 1t is
the Engineers Beneficial Association. 1t
was started in 1875 with ten members.
1t now extends all over the country. 1t
pays sick and other benefits, provides
libraries, and seeks to elevate its mem
bers in various ways. Each man fixes
his own wages. By ten years hard
work it had the ten-dollar license tax
enacted by the Government abolished.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

The career of a government clerk is
fairly typified in the case of James
Eveleth, the veteran of the War De-
partment. He began working for the
United States in 1929 at $500 year.
In 1886 he was given 81, 1000 year in
1850, 81, ,250 a year from 1851 to 1853
he was paid 81 800, and the next year
was given 81 800, and in 1885, on nc
count of advancing age, was reduced to
81 600. There hc is now, about eighty
years of age, and there he will die, un-
| Lass ,NoI.l, psNs- l,ea- lives lOno anouCh to
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

DURING the year of 1883 there was
| consumed at the Government printing
office, exclusive of the ledger paper used
! in the building, Ally tons of printing
and writing paper This IS nearly
in like period of the office prior to
1887. The above amount does not in
clude the paper furnished by the depart
ments and Congress, which would make
many tons more. This goes to show the
great increase in the government print
ing, and will prove a strong argument in
favor of the bill to increase the facilities
of the printing Office.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

The Baltimore Manufacturers' Record
exclaims that "the Sonth is solid" in the
determination to utilize its natural adj
vantages, develop its resources and build
up its industrial interests. The South,
it says further, will be in time the rich
est area on tue globe, and its people the
happiest.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

IT speaks volumes for the tedium md
bafled hopes of American middle-life
that 35 is the age at which most suicides
occur in this country. Suicides among
those who are insured are from thirty TO
forty times greater than among those
who are not,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

THE Secretary of the Navy has decided
upon a new style of war ship for coast
defence, for which construction bids
will be open in February. The vessel
will be $50 feet long, so feet beam, and
14f feet mean draught. Her displace-
ment will be 1000 tons, and her engines
will aggregate 5,400 indicated horse
power. Her battery will consist of one
110-ton loading rife, one Acton
rifle, and one 15-inoh pneumatic dyna-
mite gun, and number of smaller
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

The remains of the Confederate ram
Merrimac, that, but for the prowess of
the Monitor, might have changed the
course of events in the struggle for SUI
premacy between the North and the
South, have just been sold for old iron.
The Merrimac was run ashore and blown
up to avoid her capture by the Yankee
blue jackets, and when the war closed
she became o war relic.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

The establishment which attracts
much attention in Washington on ac-
count of its brilliancy is the landau of
the japanese Minister. It's running
gear is of the brightest vermillion. The
upholstery is of cherry satin, and all the
mountings are brass. A pair of large
clipped bays, with colored coachman
and footman in dark livery completes
the outfit of the Mikado's envoy.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

IRELAND no longer sends the greatest
number of emigrants to the United
States, being behind England and Scot
land. During last September and Oc-
tober the number of emigrants from
these countries was three times that from
Ireland. During the ten months of
1888 ending in October there came
287, ,8l4 English and Scotch emigrants,
against 129, ,779 from Ireland. The in
fux from Italy also bids fuir to over
shadow that from Ireland.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

THE discovery of gold bearing quartz
in the Buckland Hills of Massachusetts
has excited the farmers and land owners
OF that vicinity, and some predict regu-
lar old fashioned California boom. The
veins lie 1,500 feet above the seq level
and run through blue slate rock in n
northerly and southerly direction, near
ly parallel with the glacial strie on the
surface rock. The dip of the veins is
very nearly perpendicular, and they in
crease in thickness as they have been
developed below the surface.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24
HOW THE ELEPHANT CAME
By Tom P. MORGAN.

YER since sunset
the prairie breeze
had famed a fe-
YER flushed little
face. In at the
open window of
a " shack or
cabin, close to the
little worn by =
r o a d, it had
brought the sooth-
ing sounds of the
prairie-night and
tho faint n1prS Of
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

The antipathy of Californians to
stage robbers is shown by the fact that
when L. J. Maxwell quarreled with
Dave Robie at Plumas and killed him
the offender got ten years in the peniten-
tiary in spite of the fact that the shoot
ing was in self-defence and grew out of
Maxwell's refusal to join Robie in at at
tack on q stage. Robie was known to
be q desperate character and a road
agent, and as Maxwell was in hia COM
pany it was presumed that he was equal
ly dangerous. Rob;e devised q plan to
rob stage which was known to have n
rich treasure box, and insisted that Max
well should join him in the enterprise.
Maxwell refused, and Robie gave him
twenty-four hours to get out of the coun-
try. The quarrel and the tragedy re-
suited when tho men met the next
morning. Maxwell has just received n
full pardon from the Governor, who be-
lievCs that Maxwell's plan of discourag-
ing stage robbers is better than the or
dinary processes of law.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

DURING the past year encouraging
progress has been made in the work of
causing the substitution of automatic
couplers for the old link-and-pin coupler
on railroad trains. 1t is estimated that
more than 500 employees are killed every
year while using the old couplers, and
that ten times rs many are severely in
jured. After thorough Investigation and
dicussion the Master Car Building As
sociation recommended tho use of a GER
tain type of automatic coupler as
standard. One railway system control
ing more than $500 miles of road has
recently ordered that al new cars shall
be equipped with couplers OF this type.
The Railroad Gazette says that the typo
sis now in a form 50 perfect and its ad-
vantages over all other types are so
widely acknowledged that its use has be-
come rather a commercial question than
technical one"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24
She Could Sing.

A little five year old girl, the pride of
q Jolly papa and mamma, was sent to
kindergarten the other day, 1t was her
first experience at school, but iler com
posure was remarkable under the cir
cumstances. Tho teacher asked her
what she had been taught at home, and
she replied: 81 tan ting" ",What can
you singl" Inquired the teacher. "Oh,
lots! Ny mamma and papa make me
ting is of hymns" Then let us hear
one" said the teacher. The tive-year-
old didn't hesitate minute, but began
as follows:
If body meet body
Tramping through the snow,
There are no flies on Gallagher
Because he let them go.
The teacher was dumfounded. On in
quiry she found that while the mamma
tried hard to teach her offspring such
melodies as "Beulah Land" the wicked
papa's instruction proved more effect
ive.-BaEtjmOr6 Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24

What shall do? Go buy an ovcrcoat
To wrap about my slender form?
Or for my Ethel get diamond ring.
And trust to love to keep me warm?
-Bdzdr,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24
THE JOKERS' BUDGET.
JESTS AND YARNS BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.

HOPING AND (NoT) HAVING.
Before we were married.
Ny wife and /
We used to build castles
Up high in the sky.
And now we are married
My wife and /,
The castles we planned then
Are still in the sky.
>-Ydnkee Blade.
A CLEAR FIELD.
GLOW are you getting on in your love
making?" inquired Merritt.
Every nicely, indeed, replied Bjones
500 you think her parents favor your
suit2'
= 81 am sure of it. Her mother now
never stays in the room with us more than
ten minutes. "-Jmlge.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24
A PECULIAR RACE.
UNIQUE TRAITS OF A RAMAPO
MOUNTAIN COLONY.

DESCENDANTS of Dutch Freedmen and
American Indians Living In Semi
Barbarism a Few Miles from New
York
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-01-24
A DIFFERENT COMPOSITION.

Maudie(to her brothers fiancee)-Tm
so glad you write verses, Flossie,
dear. You and Jack will just suit each
other; he's very fond of poetry.
Flossie-Does he compose
Maudie-Ive never read anything Of
his, but heard him tell pa the other
day, he was thinking of a composition
with some other people-oh with his
creditors, he said.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
TEsTAMENTARY FORESIGHT.

The birth of an infant on whose sex the
disposition of the already famous Hamersley
fortune in a great measure depends, was
one of the events of the week. If the baby
had been q boy it would have inherited
the millions which are now supporting re-
habilitated glories of Ble1heim. As male
infant may yet be born to inherit this
wealth, the charities which are to receive
the property after the Duchess of Marl-
borough has passed away from earth, are
not absolutely assured of the wealth: but
the reprieve given by the sex of this in
FAINT makes the charitable expectants more
hopeful.
1t looks at first blush like rather hard
lines for the baby, that the mere accident of
its sex should deprive it of what would
have been its heritage if it had turned
just as fair to let the girl have
the money and let this boy-if
it was a boy-hustle for iv-
ing? This is the form in which
the matter presents itself at the first aspect;
and yet when we look at it more carefully.
we can see that the defunot Hamersley
builded better than he knew. If he could
have foreseen. that the life income left to his
disconsolate widow would have gone to sup
port the last and most disreputable of the
disreputable Dukes of Marlborough. he
might have made his will differently; but
his spirit can console itself with the thought
that the English aristocracy can only get
the use of his property for one life. If the
reversion had gone to the newly-born female
infant, the case would have been different.
That devoted child would have been marked
from its cradle as the necessary prize of some
titled foreign fortune hunter.
So the Hamersley will is vindicated. 1t
saves both the fortune and the newly-born
girl baby from becoming the permanent
property of some dissipated and broken
scion of foreign nobility. Both the child
and the fortune are to be congratulated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-24
THE RAILWAY CASUALTIES.

Yesterday was railroad accident day. On
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad con-
fusion of orders brought an accommodation
and special passenger train into collision
with the ordinary disastrous results. The
death list includes only three lives, and ff-
teen or twenty people are all that are in
jured. Consequently the affair will be
treated as rather commonplace, as such
ordinary occasions of slaughter always will
be, until the public gets aroused to the
necessity of demanding strict accountability
for every preventsble destruction of life and
limb.
A more uncommon style of railway acci-
dent was that consisting of the derailment
of one Of the Barnum & Bailey menagerie
trains near the Canadian line. No human
lives were sacrificed on this occasion; but
the horses and menagerie animals suffered
to considerable extent The slaughter Of
trick mules, trained horses, camels and
sacred cattle by the modern railway pro-
cess is a curious jumble of the old and new;
and We can hardly blame the elephants who
were in the collision and are reported to
have been very angry over the shaking up
they received.
In fact the elephantine anger would
afford a very good example to the human
race, if it were only more lasting. Mankind
ought to get angry enough over these re-
peated casualties to insure their stoppage.