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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29
TEMPERANCE.
Conducted by the W. c. TT.


At the last national convention of
the w. c. T. U. every State except
Nevada was represented by delegates,
and every territory save Utah and
Wyoming.
Under the auspices of the w. CT. t.
Mrs. Mary T. Lathrap, of Michigan,
lectured at Rutland March ?, to an
audience of about 1000. That Union
is showing what a band of women
can dO-fully awake to the necessities
of the hour and standing solidly to-
gether
The Vermont laws concerning Gig
arettes and tobacco are considered
of special interest to the W. G. 7. u,
and it is expected the enforcement of
those laws will be an aid to their
work The different Unions have dis
tributed leaflets with the law printed
thereon at places where tobacco is
sold, so no one need be ignorant con-
cerning it.
State superintendent of prison. Jail
and almshouse work, Mrs. Nj. f. Bell,
lately visited our larger villages, and
spent some time in New Hampshire
and Massachusetts, noting the Work
Of the Unions there. She met Mrs.
Lathrap and other lecturers in New
Hampshire at different places, and
visited the New Hampshire w. G.
T. Z. Mercy Home. In her descrip-
tion of it she says: at is indeed
Mercy home, with doors thrown wide
open to every forlorn woman or girl
in need of helping hand or the infu-
ence of a Christian home. Three of
the girls have been sOundly convert
ed, baptized, and received into the
church this year. Two inmates of
this home were born in Vermont;
another, a foreigner, came first to
Vermont, living here some time before
going to that State. An application
from a Vermont father for admission
of his daughter was in consideration
by the committee onreception." Our
superintendent also visited the Mas
sachusetts Home for Incorporate
Women.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29
BAG AND BASKET,

st. Peter. from the door of heaven, one day
Sped two young angels on their happy way.
For the first time to see the world in May
Both bearing baskets
They we're to bring back flowers more frag-
rant far
Than budding rose and blooming hawthorn
are;
They were to bring the praise of all the star
Back in their baskets.
The Angel of Thanksgiving, full of glee,
Donned huge hamper half as big as he
But the Collector of Petitions-seel
With small basket
When they returned, st. Peter, as before.
Sat with his golden keys beside the door;
But each appeared to be in trouble sore
About his basket.
The Angel of Petitions bore sack
Cram full, and bound uncouthly on his back :;
Yet even then it seemed that he had lack
OF bag and basket.
The Angel of Thanksgiving blushed to feel
The empty lightness of his mighty creel
g But threel'' he misunderstanding on his heel
To hide his basket.
Then spoke st. PetSr; 'gSsssse,s ,itgain you go
On prayer-gathering, you will better know
That mems petitions i'll the world below
Fill big basket.
g But when you go to gather up their thanks
For prayers well answered and forgiven
pranks,
For rhealth restored and disentangled hanks
Your smallest basket
C. S. Robinson.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29

What, then, is the possible danger
of infection in barber shop2 | reply
that there is practically none-at least,
no more than at your own home-in
any barber shop respectfully kept with
a due regard for cleanliness. A drum
mer travelling continually among large
cities of the United States, and stop
ping at the best hotels, runs a much
greater chance of being killed in a
railway accident than of getting the
BARRIERS itch.
Still, after all that has been said,
there remains one chance which makes
the liability of infection greater in a
barber shop than in your own home.
The weak point of a barber's outfit is
his towels, of course. | know that
each customer has a fresh towel; but
what is the previous history of that
towel2 1t may have absorbed some
parasite from the skin of the last man,
then have been carelessly thrown in a
tub of water and afterward dried in a
very perfunctory manner. Nothing
less than a thorough soaking in soap
suds, then wringing it out and finally
drying it in hot air of high tempera-
ture, will completely sufSce to avert
this risk.-Interview in New York
Evening Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29

It is not long since a Paris bank
clerk left papers representing some
200, 900 francs in a cab, and was lucky
enough to find them several hours
after lying untouched on the seat. A
provincial banker who took a cab on
the boulevards one afternoon drove to
the Northern station, and was equally
absentminded, but was not so fortu-
nate. After dismissing the cab at the
station and taking a ticket he remem-
bered that he had left on the seat
portfolio containing bank notes and
papers to the value of so, 600 francs.
He rushed to the station entrance,
only to find the cab gone, and thence
to the stand from which he had taken
it. The particular vehicle he longed
to set eyes upon had not yet returned.
The distracted banker confided his
troubles to the policeman on duty at
the stand and was advised to await
there the return of the cab. At the
end of an hour two cabs drove up to
the stand, and the banker recognized
his driver. The latter told the police
man that after leaving the railway
station he had driven two ladies to the
PaIais de rIndustrie. AS they quilted
the cab they remarked to the Jehu that
there was a portfolio on the seat. There
was-but it was empty.-Pall Mall Ga
Zetta
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Further particulars have been received
of the removal of the entire population
of Shoshong, 10000 in number, and the
founding of new town, seventy miles
from the old one. Shoshong has been
one of the most widely known places in
South Africa ever since Livingstone
wrote of it. 1t is i'll British Bechuana-
land, and was the capital of King
Khama, the most enlightened of South
African rulers.
Early last year Khama decided to find
another site for his capital where there
was more water and better soil. He Sc
lected very fine location seventy miles
northeast of Shoshong, on a rich pla-
teau about 1000 feet above the sea. In
July last every soul in ShoshoDg started
for the site of the town they were to
build, driving before them about 10000
cattle. The journey was made in easy
stages, as everybody, except the babies
and the sick and infrm, had to walk.
They were two weeks on the road.
All the aged and irfirm were carefully
ifdsne to the rev capital on htters and in
few OK carts, an interesting proceed
my, IOT IL Has oeeH Ille HdolI VI AIIlOeih
tribes on moving their towns to let the
sick and helpless take care of themselves.
Within a few weeks after reaching Pa
lapye the entire people were comfortably
housed in the circular huts of sun dried
bricks that are SO common in South At
RIGA The town is about six miles long
by two miles wide, and every group of
huts has its own gardens and trees.
Khama has refused to permit a single
tree in his new capital to be cut down.
EXCHANGE
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Appeals to Sober Judgment.


OF course it is idle to expect won
ders or n revolution at once, but we
are firm in the conviction that 10y the
election of Hon. Carroll =. Page to
the governorship n beginning of bet
] ter things will be made. In discharge
| of his duties as Inspector of Finance
he had occasion and improved 1t to
look into this subject, and has very
decided notions regarding some re-
forms that should be inaugurated.
He is entirely free to apply remedies,
standing as he does outside of any
combinations or influences that may
desire tokeep affairs in their present
line. His business ability and his
business methods are of the first or
der. He has achieved a remarkable
success by the application of correct
economical principles, and his sue
cess is all his own work from the be-
ginning. Ifgovernor he would make
an effort to apply these principles in
state affairs to the relief of burdened
taxpayers. We do not say that 9th
ers are lacking in similar ambition
but do believe that no one is in po-
sition and has the training to accom-
plish so much as Mr.. Page. These
considerations are above and beyond
anything personal or partisan and it
seems to us ought to appeal to the
sober Judgment of the voters and
taxpayers of the state. Other ques-
tions involved are trivial and tempo
rarV
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29

Engineer Burns, who was killed IN
the wreck at Robard's station, in Hen
derson county, was the author OF
heroic act ten years ago that made him
for time famous. He was the engin-
eer of fast passenger train on the
main stem of the Louisville and Nash
Vile road. One day he detected, only
a short distance ahead, little child
sitting in the middle Of the track play
ing with its rattle. He couldn't stop
the train, the distance was SO short,
but he ran out and climbed down on
the cowcatcher, and fastening one foot
between the bars to balance himself,
reached out and snatched the child up:
Burns was presented with a gold
medal and greatly lionized by the press
md people for this heroic deed Stor-
les of this kind have been read in the
Sunday school papers, but this was an
actual occurrence. Owensoorough,
Ky.) Messenger.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29
Before the War.

Il was in Charleston, SC, in 1916" :"
said Lewiston man. 1--WE were do
ing stone work on Fort Sumter. One
of the men at work was a handsome,
strong young colored man, owned by
a doctor in Charleston. The doctor
failed in business while l was there,
and his effects were to be sold at auc-
tion-among them this young cOlored
man. He knew it, and was respondent
All of us northern men at work there
felt bad for him, and we planned to
help him. The water that we drank at
the fort was bad.
A vessel lying off in the stream used
to send men ashore for various pur-
poses. We planned with them for
three of us to 90 aboard after work
and get some fresher water that they
had on board from the city. In con
nection with these trips, it occurred to
me to help the colored man to liberty,
and l talked with him. The vessel
was in readiness to sail, and on the
preceding night our trip out concealed
the young fellow, whom we safely
landed on board and who was con-
cealed below, and shall never forget
the look of thankfulness in his face as
he disappeared beneath the hatchway
with ''Good-by, massa." The vessel
sailed that night and he with 1t
Lewiston Journal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29
SLEEPING In The WOODS.
Beautiful Pen Picture of Night by adj
rondack'' Murray.

Imagine your bed chamber of odor
Gus bark, and your bed of pungent
boughs. Your couch made under
murmuring trees and within few
yards of the lazily moving water, whose
motions careSS rather than chafe the
shore. Stretched your full length on
such couch, spread in such a place,
the process of falling asleep becomes
an experience. You lie and watch
yourself to observe the gradual de-
parture of your senses. Little by little
you feel yourself passing away.
Slowly and easily as an ebbing tide
you begin to pass into the dim and in
sensible realm beyond the line of feel
ing. At last moment comes in which
you know you are passing over the
very verge of consciousness. You are
aware you are about to fall asleep.
Your cheek but partially interprets
the cool pressure of the night wind :;
your ears drowsily surrender the lin
gering murmur of beach and pine !;
your eyes droop their lids little by lit
tie; your nose slightly senses the odor
of the piny air, as you mechanically
draw it in; the chest falls as it passes
as mechanically out, and then-you
are asleep.
The hours pass, and still you sleep
on. The body, in obedience to some
occult law of force within the insensi-
BILE frame, still keeps up its respira-
tons; but you are somewhere-sleep-
ing. At last the pine above you, in
the deep hush which precedes the com
ing of dawn, stills its monotone, and
silence weaves its airy web amid the
motionless stems The water falls
asleep. The looms head is under its
spotted wing, and the owl becomes
mute The deer has left the shore, and
lies curved in its messy bed. The rats
no longer draw their tiny wake across
the creek, and the frogs have ceased
their croaking. All is quiet. In the
profound quiet, and unconscious of it
all, the sleeper sleeps What sleep
such sleeping is and what ministry
is being ministered unto mind and
body through the cool, pure air, pun
gent with gummy odors and strong
with the smell of the sod and the root
lace mold of the underlying earth !
Murray's Lake Champlain and Its
| Shores "
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29
Raising Goose Eggs.

Very few men there are at present
engaged in a salaried position who do
not indulge in one or two side issues
for the purpose of swelling their in
comes. Billy King, the city passenger
agent of the Burlington road, for in
stance, has engaged in an outside ven
ture which will doubtless bring him in
good money. He had read a good deal
about ostrich farms in California and
of the vast profits accruing therefrom,
and he decided to go into a similar
business on a small scale. According
ly he has purchased a flock of geese
and a small plot of ground Oh which
to keep them. He has also engaged a
man to attend to the flock, and he is
putting goose eggs on the market Peo-
pie may think that there is no money
in goose eggs, but from every one to
whom Mr.. King has told about his
goose eggs there has come hearty re-
sponse. Goose eggs appear to be IN
greater demand than geese, and 1t looks
very much as though Mr.. King would
be obliged to enlarge the little goose
farm he has People laugh at such an
industry, but there is money in it
Chicago Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29

One of the managers of a big eastern
knitting mill has made a calculation that
the shoestrings of a working girl will
come united on the average three times
per diem, and that girl will lose about
so seconds every time she stoops to retie
Them Most of the employees have two
feet, so this entails loss of 300 seconds
every day for each girl. There are about
400 girls employed in this factory, and
therefore the gentleman finds that 49,
800, 900 seconds are wasted in the course
of a year, which time, at the average
rate of wages, is worth S943.174. Orders
have accordingly been issued that girls
must wear only buttoned shoes or con-
gress CATERS under penalty of discharge.
Detroit Tribune.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29
The Invention of Iron Stoves.

Cardinal Polignac, of France, was
perhaps the first to attempt the con
struction of a stove wholly of iron;
this about the beginning of the Eight
eenth century Most writers have
settled on the date of 1706 as the time
when the good cardinal perfected his
great improvements. In 1716 DR.. De
sangliers, of London, England, modi,
fed the Polignac stove, which had
never become popular in Britain.
The first really great Improvement
was brought about by Franklin in
1745. The Franklin stove, barring the
fact that the castings were a little
rough, would compare favorably with
the stove of today. One of Franklin S
efforts produced a base burner, almost
perfect in every particular. During
the first twenty years of this cen
turv stoves came into general use for
the heating of town halls and other
public buildings, but were not used IN
private houses to any great extent un-
til about 193O.-St. Louis Republic.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29

Pope Sextus V was, as all the world
knows, of the very humblest origin.
He had been a goatherd and one of
his sisters was washerwOman. When,
however, he became supreme pontltf
he brought his kinswoman, the laun.
dress, to Rome, made her princess and
installed her in a magnificent palace.
The next day the statue of Pasquln
was found to be endued with shirt,
the cleanliness of which left much to
be desired. The inimitable Marjorie
asked, in a placard which was read
with a universal grin, the why and the
wherefore of the grimy undergarment,
and the next morning Pasquin replied
that he could not get his linen washed
because his washerwOman had become
a princess. Telegraph.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29

When Moliere died in Paris i'll 1878
the archbishop obstinately refused per-
mission to have him buried in conse-
Grated ground, and he remained alike
obdurate to threats and entreaties.
When Louis XIV saw that arguments
were without avail, he suddenly asked
the prelate: "To what depths does the
consecrated ground extend2"
"All unconscious of the drift of this
question, the archbishop sullenly re-
piled: Eight feet, your majesty r.
VERY good" said the king; "the
sexton shall dig grave in the church
yard twelve feet deep, then Molieree
will be four feet below the ccnsecrated
soil" This was done.-German.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29

"The French naval estimates" says
Labouchere, "are calculated consider
ably to astonish the economists and the
peace at any price enthusiasts. No less
a sum than G2, 400, 900 is to be expended
in building, forwarding and completing
new ships, including ten ironclads, five
armored cruisers, two first class cruis-
ers, four second class cruisers and per-
feet fleet of gunboats and torpedo boats. "
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29
An Authority,

Stranger Gn western newspaper Of
fce)-Beg pardon, sir, but myself and
friends need help to decide a bet.
Have you a copy of Hoyle2
Old Reporter-No; don't need any.
If the dispute is anything about cards,
go into that room across the hall and
ask for the religious editor.-New
York Weekly
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29
JOB PRINTING
Ia OF ALL KINDS @Sg
PROMPTLY EXECUTED
AT Low RATES.
OF INTEREST TO WIVES.
AT Low RATES.

Kind, patient wives, when you mistrust-
As noble women sometimes must
Your lords have toyed with liquor,
Apply to them this certain test,
And from their tongues the secret wrest,
For nothing could be slicker.
First let them in a manner feet
And oft and hurriedly repeat
These two words, Truly rural ;"
Then follow up with this, "The sun
Shines on shop signs, and in each sun
See that they mind each plural
If they say these without miss
Then make them put their tongues to this
And see it twill detect them
If"she sells sea shells" they can say,
You can console yourselves that they
Aren't drinking to affect them.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29
NEWSPAPER LAWS.

1. Any person who takes paper regular
ly from the office-whether directed to his
name or another's, or whether he has sub
scribed or not-is responsible for the pay
ment.
2. If a person orders his paper discontin
ucd, he must pay all arrearages, or the pub
Usher may continue to send it until pay ment
is made, and collect the whole amount, wheth
er the paper is taken from the Office or not.
B. The Courts have decided that refusing
to take newspapers and periodicals from the
postoffice, or removing and leaving them un-
called for, is prima f3eie evidence of fraud.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29

Considerable excitement exists in the
neighborhood around Souls Chapel,
Lumpkin county, on the finding, by
John Chapman, of a crystalized stone,
believed to be a diamond. 1t weighs
two and half ounces, and is said to be
a beauty of the crystalized quartz family.
Large topazes have been found in that To-
cality. Atlanta Constitution.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29

William Ferrier, aged 20, of a good
Edinburgh family, while rushing for the
goal with the ball on football field at
Walkerburn few days ago, was charged
at and struck by another player. He
dropped insensible and died few days
later of conclusion of the brain.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29
Me- circnlntion of connterfeit money

The circulation of counterfeit money
in Italy was never so enormous and gen.
eral as at the present time; the authori-
ties are kept constantly on the track of
new manufacturers of it, though an inn
mense number of counterfeiters have
been successfully lodged in the galleys
at hard labor for life.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29

"Have a cigar2"
mo, l can't stand the taste of tobac-
co, but I'll take cigarette if you hap
pen to have one. New York Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29

He-The outlet is cold again, dar-
linz Now what would you do if l
scolded just a little3
She-Make it hot for you, dearest
Joctnp
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Il. e. FOSTER.

MANUFACTURER and dealer in all kinds of
MI Marble and Granite. Work Guaranteed
as Good and Prices as Low as any in vermont.
Portland Street. NoRRIsVILLE, VI.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29

CURVEYOR AND DRAFTSMAN. All kinds
- of Compass, Transit, and Level Work
promptly attended to. Also Agent vermont
JOHNSON, VT.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29
ADVERTISING RATES.

FRACTIONAL PARTs OF YEAR CHARGED AS FOLLOWS;
One insertion, 1-1Oth Four months, 5-10ths
One month"; 2-10ths Five months, Cloths
Two months, 3-10ths Six months, 7-1Oths
Three months, 4-10ths Eight months, 9-lOths
Reading notices, 10 cents per line each inser
ton, but no charge made less than 80 cents
Probate and Commissioners notices q lnser
tions) $3.50 Liberations, Estrays, &c (3
ms art ons) 81. so. Legal notices 3 msertionsl
10 GEMS per line. Obituary Notices, Cards OF
Thanks, &C., rs cents per inch of II lines.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29

Bone meal mixed with other food is a
valuable preventive of leg weakness in
young fowls.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29
w. NJ. SMITH,

DEALER IN Italian and American Marble,
IL all kinds of Granite; Monuments, Head
stones, Tablets, sc. Cemetery work neatly eX-
eeuted orders promptly filed.
CAMBRIDGE, VT.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29
BUSINESS CARDS.
T., III. MILLER,

VETERINARY SURGEON. graduate Mont
real Veterinary College, Honorary Fellow
Montreal Medical Association, Veterinary Sur
geOn to Shelburne Farms. Calls promptly at
tended. Office, 11O Church Street,
BURLINGTON, VT.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29
q. w, DOTY.
G. III. CRISTY,

nRACTICAL UNDERTAKEN. Finest goods
l. the market affords. Ice box and emba,m
MORRISVILLE. VT.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29

"How dark she is. Her face is as
brown as berry"
''Yes; she is Boston bred. Chat
ter.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29

COMMISSION MERCHANTS and Wholesale
u Dealers in Country Produce. Butter, Eggs,
Potatoes, Fruits, etc. % & 80 Locust St.,
HAVERHILL. Mass.
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j. A. ROBINSON,

DENTAL SURGEON, MoRRIsvILLE, VT.
IL Office open Sundays from II to p. NJ Tor
extracting Patients from out of town, please
make engagements by mail in advance
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29
HALL & JOHNSON,

f. j. HALL T. III. JOHNSON.
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS Ofice
Il hours until 9 A VI. from to and to 8 P.
NJ Office at DR.. Halls residence,
MORRISVILLE. Vt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29
7. NJ. GEORGE g. co.

l. NJ. GEORGE. j. l.. HARDING.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS in butter
cheese eggs, beans, poultry, maple sugar
and syrup. Also dealers in Foreign and Domes-
tic Fruits. COnsignmentS solicited and orders
solicited ia South Market ST., BOSTON, Mass.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-29
AUSTIN BELKNAP,
f. n. RAND & CO.,

nEALER IN Butter, Cheese. Beans, and Pro
IL visions No. II Fulton Street, Boston.