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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-28
TEMPERANCE PLEDGE FOR BOYS.
Growth of the Church

The New York Independent has
gathered some very valuable and
interesting statistics showing the
strength of the various Christian
churches in the United States and
their growth during the past year.
In some cases the figures are esti-
mates, but our contemporary be-
lieves that on the whole the results
very closely approximate the
truth" From these it appears that
there are in the United States 151,-
261 churches of all denominations,
O3,3O0 ministers, and nearly o.
100000 members. During the year
there has been an increase of $500
churches, nearly 1900 ministers, and
nearly 1,090,00O members. The
most numerous denomination is the
Roman Catholic, with its 1900
churches, $500 priests, etc, and g.
277, 900 population, of whom 1876
900 are estimated to be communi-
cants. Then come the Methodists,
with, in round numbers, 4,9S0,000
communicates; Baptists, 4, 4,292,000;
Pfesbyterians, 1929, 900; Luther
ans, 1,CS6,00O; Congregationalists,
491, 900, and Episcopalians, 4S0,-
0O0 The increase in the Catholic
population during theyear was 421,-
700. The estimated gain in Catholic
communicates was over 23S. 900.
The growth of Protestant member
ship was 66S,000. The Methodists
gained more than 256,000, the Bap-
fists more than 213, 700, the Luther
ans 9S, 900, the Presbyterians nearly
10000 the Congregationalists more
than 10000, and the Episcopalians
about $500. The accessions of new
members was even larger than these
figures, since in every denomination
there were deaths of members whose
places were filed by new acquisitions.
The number of deaths in the Metho-
dist Episcopal body, forexample, was
reported a ii 2S.300. This is a highly
satisfactory and encouraging show
ing to all who have the welfare of the
church at heart. A gain of nearly
100000 membership in one year,
with a corresponding increase i'm the
number OF churches and ministers, in
dic8teS that Christianity is marching
ON with no uncertain stride As our
contemporary well says, II is in it
self a most overwhelming rofutation
OF the assertions we hear now and
then from various quarters that
Christianity is losing Its hold upon
our people and that our churches are
declining. "-[ N. Y Herald
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Sad Sport.

A gentleman stood in front of fur
rier's store contemplating the seal gar
ments that filled the windows 81
never see a sealskin coat" he said,
''that l am not reminded of a day l
passed among the seal killers" Then
he told of joining an expedition when
he was young man, and going out for
the sport of seal killing. The seals
were so tame, affectionatc and fearless
that when the hunters landed they
crowded round them like dogs, making
their little friendly bark, and fawning
upon the murderous hands that pro-
ceeded to stretch them as bloody
corpses upon the beach. The man re-
lated how sick at heart he got, and
how he tried to get away from the
massacre of the innocents. To this day
the sight of a sealskin coat recalls the
wretched sensation he then experienced.
This reminds us of Gilbert White, of
Selborne, when he first shot a lapwing,
and the remorse he felt when the bird
dipped it's bill in it's mortal wound and
looked up into his face.-New Haven
News
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-28
A COUNTRY COURTSHIP.


BY W. D. kELLE1-
Driving the cows from the upper meadow
Beauty and Brindle and Bess-
Now in the sunlight. now in the shadow,
And now in the winds caress;
With song as sweet as at morn the starring
Is won't to the skies to trill;
Mollie, the farmers daughter and darling,
Comes tripping adown the hill.
Purple and black are the braided tresses
Her dainty temples that CROWN
Light is her step on the sward it presses,
As fall of the thistle down.
The squirrels peek from the wayside hedges,
AS the maiden moves along,
And count it chief of their privileges
To list to her iocund song
Down where the alders and slender rushes
Border the rivuet's banks,
And the widened sweep of the water gushes
Under bridges broad planks;
Whistling a love-song, in broken snathes-
His hat pushed back from his brows-
Ro bin, the miller, awaits and watches
For the coming of the cows.
Up to their knees in the stream. the cattle
Drink deep of it's crystal flow;
Little they care for the lovers prattle
Or the bliss the twain may know;
Their heaving sides with their draughts dis
tended,
They enter the path again,
And crop the grasses, with headslow bended,
On either side of the lane.
The shadows deepen; the dew is sprinkling
With diamonds all the meads;
And faint and far, in the distance tinkling,
The sound of the bells recedes.
Still on the bridge where tlIe water glistens,
As the moonlight on it falls,
The miller talks, and the maiden listens,
But the cows are in their stalls.
= Ladies Home journal.
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ADVERTISING RATES.
AS YOU co THROUGH LIFE.
BY ELLA WHEELER WILcOX.

BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Don't look for the flaws as you go through
life;
And even when you find them.
Ii is wise and kind to be somewhat blind
And look for the virtue behind them
For the cloudiest night has a hint OF light
Somewhere in its shadows hiding;
1t IS better by far to hunt for star,
Than the spots on the sun abiding
The current Of life runs ever away
To the bosom of Gods great ocean.
Don't set your force 'gainst the rivers course
And think to alter its motion.
Don't waste curse on the universe
Remember it lived before YOU.
Don't butt at the storm with your puny
form
But bend and let it 20 DER you.
The world viii never adjust itself
TO suit your whims to the letter.
Some things must go wrong your whole life
long
And the sooner you know it the better.
1t is folly to fight with the Infinite.
And 90 under at last in the wrestle.
The wiser man. shapes into Gods plan
As the water shapes into a vessel
Il Ladies' Home Journal
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-28

Do you ask, ''iWhere can l do this and
have my money absolutely safe? ?" Let
US give you some facts. The Lamoille
County Savings Bank and Trust Co. of
Hyde Park is an institution run on the
following principles =
Ist. Not dollar is loaned without
the personal knowledge of some one of
the Board of Directors that the loan is
safe beyond question.
I'd. 1t is run as a home tinsitution
Every dollar is loaned in Lamoille and
adjacent counties. and every worthy en-
terprise in the vicinity of the towns
| whence the deposits of the Bank come,
is fostered and encouraged in preference
to other investments, so far as it can be
done with absolute safety.
Sd. Under no circumstances is dol
lar invested in any western mortgage or
other out-of-the-State security. We
might perhaps pay our depOsitors one
half of one per cent. per annum more
interest by incurring little additional
risk, if no loss should come, but we
believe there is to-day a ''long felt
want" in Vermont for savings institu-
tion which will loan its funds at home.
1t is needed that Vermont may not
become impoverished. 1t is needed for
the building up and fostering home in
stitutions. Vermont towns will not
boom without money any more than
towns beyond the Mississippi and in
Alabama. 1t is needed for the greater
safety of the savings of widows and Or
phans as well as of all those who look
rather to the absolute security of the
principal than to high rates of interest.
With no disparagement to our neighbors
who prefer to occupy western fields we
offer to the depositing public the La
muille County Savings Bank and Trust
Co. as an institution organized to meet
the demand for strictly home Investment
Savings Bank. That such demand eX-
lists, and that the people are ready to be-
stow their confidence and encourage
ment upon such an institution, is evil
denced by the fact that the aggregate of
the small deposits alone in this bank
not counting any in excess of $1,000
were at the end of the first six months
of its business. So, 1860, record
without parallel, we believe, in the
history of Vermont Savings Banks.
4th. Under no circumstances does |
bis Bank take over 6per cent. 1t would !
not, knowingly, make an Investment !
which would pay over 6 per cent. The |
safest class of loans and securities will !
money at per cent. The
Bank pays the State tax of six-tenths
of per cent. on deposits in lieu of all
take to the depositors. 1t must then be
evident that 4 per cent. per annum is all
that the Bank can SAFELY PAY. This
rate it will pay. 1t is guaranteed and
rests ON no contingency. Interest will
be compounded semi-annually if not
withdrawn.
The Lamoille County Savings Bank
and Trust Co., Hyde Park, vt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-28
r,o.ri,r OIL R,rre1s

The question is asked if coal oil bar
rels can be cleaned for meat. A friendly
farmer writes to The Mining and Sci
entific News: II have used them for
fifteen years with perfect success.
Knock out the head, set fire to piece
of paper and put it in the barrel. The
fire will burn with loud roar Roll
the barrel round so it will burn out
even, and when it is burned one-eighth
of an inch deep turn in about a pint of
coal oil, roll around until it is spread
all over the inside, then fire again
Scrape off most of the charcoal and
wash it out 1t is not necessary to burn
over one-eighth inch deep Twill guar
antee there will never be the slightest
taste of coal oil in the meat. | have
used these barrels for ham, pork, beef,
lard and honey. Old, musty or tainted
barrels i treat in the same way by using
a pint or so of oil. Have treated lin
seed oil barrels the same way"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-28
NEWSPAPER LAWS.

L. Any person Nho takes a paper regular
ly from the office-whether directed to his
name or anothers, or whether he has sub
scribed or not-is responsible for the pay
ment.
? If a person orders his paper discontin
ued, he must pay all arrearages, or the pub
Usher may continue to send it until payment
is made, and collect the whole amount, wheth
er the paper is taken from the Office or not.
3. The Courts have decided that refusing
to take newspapers and periodicals from the
postofiee, or removing and leaving them un-
called for, is prina faeie evidence OF fraud.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-28
sagasta Friendly to France.

NJ Cambon, the French ambassador
to Madrid, has been summoned to Paris.
There is good deal of curiosity felt
in the political world here as to the
reasons which urged Queen Christina
to dismiss the Sagasta cabinet. That
cabinet took the initiative of policy
of Cancellation toward France. Its
friendliness was shown in a marked
manner when Prince Bismarck was
getting up the exhibition boycott last
year. Senor Leon y Castillo, the re-
tiring ambassador, was of like mind
with Senior Sagasta, and hence the be-
stowal on him, as he was quitting the
Spanish embassy, of the Grand Cross
of the Legion of Honor.-Paris Cor.
London News.
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Three French royalists have just sold
the historical estate of D'Urville, of
which they were by heritage the CO.
proprietors. The purchaser is the Ger
man emperor, who took a fancy to the
place when he first visited Metz, and
has ever since watched for an oppor-
tunity of buying it. The estate in ques-
ton is wedged in between German Lor-
raine and Luxembourg. Some centuries
ago it was under the sovereignty of the
house of Orange, or rather constituted
a little sovereign state in itself.
Louis XVI bought it from Maria
Theresa and the Emperor Joseph for
940, 900. The king was to have gone
there if he had escaped from the Tuile-
ries, and would have been guarded by
a regiment of De Bouille's division. AS
Urville was close to the Luxembourg
frontier he could easily have with
drawn from France if threatened by
the revolutionary army. The estate OF
Urville became part of the national do
main and was sold to the Bande Noire,
but the old chateau and the timber in
the park escaped being demolished
and cut down. The castle is a noble
pile and the park in which it stands is
richly wooded. Cor. London News.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-28
TaImage on Church Choirs.

My chief objection to church choir
singing is that am a firm believer in
a congregation doing the singing. To
me singing church is always q tri-
umphant church. If a congregation is
silent during the exercise, or partially
silent, it is the silence of death. If
when the hymn is given out you hear
the faint hum of here and there a fa-
ther and mother in Israel, while the vast
majority are silent, that minister of
Christ who is presiding needs to have a
very strong constitution if he does not
get the chills. He needs not only the
grace of God, but nerves like whale
bones. 1t is a constant source of
amazement to me how some people
with voice enough to discharge all their
duties in the world, when they come
into the house of God have no voice to
discharge their duty of singing. l really
believe that if all our churches would
rise up and sing as they ought to sing,
that where we have a hundred souls
brought into the kingdom of Christ
there would be a thousand De
Witt Talmage in Ladies' Home Jour
mol
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-28
A Long Way Round.

A curious and unsatisfactory state of
things has been brought about by re-
cent changes in the mail service in the
northern part of Somerset county, Me-
As the service is now arranged, any
person at the Forks wishing to send a
letter to Jackman or Moose river,
12 or Is miles away, must have it car
ried 40 miles by stage and 200 miles by
rail, so that it traverses four counties
in its roundabout journey.-Philadel-
phia Ledger.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-28
The Church and the Lodge.
Alarm at the Inroads Made Upon Re
Iigion by Secret Organizations.

Iigion by Secret Organizations.
What shall be the attitude of the
church toward the secret orders which
have multiplied SO rapidly throughout
the country during the last few years?
With many of our churches no problem
is more serious, or beset with greater
complications. The problem would be
simplified somewhat if these organiZa-
tions were made up entirely of men
who have professed no allegiance to
the church, but the place which the
lodge holds in the affections of many o
church member is what gives rise to
great anxiety. Sad though the confes-
sion is, it must be acknowledged that
some men whose names are on the
church roll habitually give precedence
to the secret society over the church
If the meetings conflict the successful
competitor for their presence is the
former. They have no time to spare
for the great religious gatherings like
those at Saratoga, but they will go
long distance to be present at a con-
clave of their fraternity.
At the meeting of the Vermont Con-
gregationalists at Rutland the subject
aroused the liveliest discussion of the
whole session. Resolutions mildly dep
recating the absorption of some Chris
tians in such interests were set one
side, because a few thought that the
formal protest would be considered
declaration of war, and would embar-
rass them in their efforts to counteract
the baneful influences of these societies.
Yet not a man who spoke failed to adj
NIT that Christian concerns in his own
community were suffering on account
of them. Several who live in towns of
only a few thousand inhabitants re-
ported from twenty to forty thriving
orders
We believe that Vermont is not ex-
ceptional in this respect. The lodge
using the term to include the meetings
of the various secret orders-will be
found strongly intrenched all through
the country, growing in numbers and
power, and everywhere detaching the
devotion of Christian men from the
church, and too often, we fear, from
the straightforward service of their
master. Recent figures, carefully com
piled, show that Boston has 243 church.
es to 500 lodges; Brooklyn, 355 church
es to sos lodges; Washington, 1S1
churches to 316 lodges; Chicago, 3S4
churches to LOSS lodges, and the same
proportion obtains in other cities-
Congregationalist.
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Found at Last

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A Thirst Ouencher.

He (on the promenade)-I am fear
fully thirsty, but know from expert
ence that soda water does not quench
thirst.
She-No, it does not. We can get
pure, cold spring water at place
around the corner.
He-You know the reighborhood,
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She-Yes. They always give glass
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Good News.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-28

REMARKABLE RESCUE Mrs. Michael Cur
tain, Plainield, ILL.,, makes the statement
that she caught cold, which settled ON her
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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-28

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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-28

Persons who have never been trained
to walk fast generally quicken their
gait by bending forward and lengthen-
ing the stride, at the same time bend
ing the knees very much at each step.
1t is pretty safe to say that no one can
possibly adopt this style and keep a
fair walk at faster gait than six miles
an hour. The fast walker must keep
himself erect, his shoulders back and
chest thrown out. He must put down
his forward foot and heel first, and
with the leg straight. He must take
strides so quick that they look short.
He must, if he expects to get good
stride, work his hips considerably, over
coming the sidewise tendency of the
hip movement by a compensatory
swinging of the arms. The length of
stride in fast walking is astonishing to
those who look at it. it.-Harper's Weekly.
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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-08-28

Mr. John Carpenter. of Goodland. Ind,
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Red Hee1ed Shoes for Men.

French mashers have taken to wear
ing red heeled shoes. Under Louis XIV
gentlemen wore large boots; the out
side sole was in wood to protect against
humidity. In the middle of the Sew
enteenth century the boots were re-
placed by shoes, with bows of ribbon
and lace. The heels were three inches
high and painted red. Ladies wore
the high heeled shoe, and thought to
add three or four inches to their stat
ure. The shoe was in silk, embroidered
satin or brocade. Under Louis XVI
white stockings were in vogue. These
necessitated white satin shoes.
The red heeled shoes that made their
appearance under Louis XIV contin-
ued to be worn, but not so high, under
Louis XIV, so that about 1875 red
heeled shoes were considered to be the
mark of gentleman. But while the
lords lowered the heels of their shoes
the ladies augmented theirs, so much
so as to make them ''ten inches high. "
1t was under Louis XVI that the gold
and silver buckle, ornamented with
diamonds, replaced the ribbon bow.
The Sans Culottes wore no stockings
and patronized only wooden shoes. For
a short time under the directory the
sandal as worn by Roman ladies was
the mode. Bands sustained the sole
while showing off the foot, and on
every toe was displayed a diamond
| Paris Cor. Pittsburg Press.
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w. NJ. SMITH.

DEALER IN Italian and American Marble.
- all kinds of Granite; Monuments, Head
stones Tablets. Sc. Cemetery work neatly eX-
CAMBRIDGE. VT.