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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
Farm Notes.

Most of the varieties of vegetables
have been made by selections, contin-
ued through years, they are strains
rather than new kinds but for all that
are invaluable in progressive agricul-
ture.
The farmer who raises fast trotter
is not the man who makes much money
by it. The profit goes to trainers and
capitalists. The ordinary farmer is
too careless for the niceties of train
ing.
Trees girdled in the early spring by
animals or malicious persons can be
saved by promptly inserting CRAFTS
over the bare spot so as to connect the
bark above and below the wound. 1t
makes bridge for the sap.
Fruit-culture will rarely be profit
able to anybody ON the haphazard plan.
1t requires study, careful attention and
hard work. The man who never has
time to be exact and methodical, need
not hope for profit from fruit.
Even after a new variety has been
obtained in a scientific manner there is
a tendency to revert to one or both of
the parents, and experience has proved
that under the most favorable condi-
tions three years of careful selection
is needed to fix permanently the cross.
Corn is an illustration of how readi-
ly varieties will cross? but even here,
if we desire without fail to get dis
tinct variety, we must remove the
spindles from one of the sorts otter
wise we shall have 10 really new va
riety, but greater or less admixture
of the two, which it will take years to
bring to purity.
The word "hybrid" in its applica-
ton to new vegetables is misnomer,
we get by crossing new varieties, not
hybrids. A hybrid would be a mon
strosity and is all impossibility as
would be an attempt to cross a cab
bage with potato. The laws of ma
ture forbid university and permit
crosses only between these vegetables
which are closely allied and within the
same species.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
sold Paul Smith, and the Adirondaeks.

Paul Smith has been known as re-
markedly successful a"d prosperous
hotel keeper in the northern pa of the
Adirondack wilderness ever since
Murray set the tide of fashion flowing
toward the woods. 1t may be that he
is entitled to still more honorable
reputation. Mr.. Smith owns $4,000
acres of woodlawn, including the St.
Regis lakes and many ponds, having
added A 900 acres last Spring at an ex-
pense of S25, 900. Mr.. Smiths pur-
pose in purchasing is described by
himse as follows: Il bought to keep
ont the lumbermen and have the woods
as nature into nded them.
alt is my intention to make large
preserve and give everybody oppor-
tunity to enjoy its benefits; to be as
free to the public as the air that is
breathed. No signs forbiddi g tres
pass shall be posted on my property.
| will protect it from dissertation, and
convert it into a magnificent park
which people will be welcome to en-
joy. | trust when L am dead and gone
odd Paul Smith will be remembered
with gratitude for this action by
thousands of people who will come
here and enjoy happiness in roaming
through the forests, camping by the
lakes and ponds, shooting and fishing.
| consider this goodwill of the public
a priceless heirloom to hand down TO
my children"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

Pack horses are plenty in Congress,
says an old observer in the Washington
Postal least l am reed to that con-
clusion in accepting the utterances of
| the weary, worn out solons whom
encounter every day about town.
Listen to what a Tennessee Represent
alive, one grown bald-headed in the
service of his constituents, said to me-:
''The life of a Congressman is a
dogs life. He is pack horse. He is
cursed by his foes and ridden to death
by his friends. He does the work of
ten ordinary men. He is buried in
committees, over-run with correspond
ence, beset by place-seekers, and his
life made a daily torment. He is not
his own master. Life at the capitol
official life L mean-is Dead Sea fruit
that turns to ashes on your lips"
"But, Col. -,''-ah, | mustn't
give his name, for he is already cam
didate for re-electioE-"bu-i isn't there
glory in it?"
The statesman refectively ran his
fingers through his bald hair, and re-
sponded lugubriously:
81 know humanlty's queen tumble,
and we never find things to suit us. We
want to climb as high as possible, but
when we get there the attitudes are not
as pure and invigorating as we expect
ed to find them. can turn my eyes
TO the United States Senate and think
Nov, if L were only there | would
find the path smoother But when
one gets there he is met by perplexities
and worriments. Believe me, one
who has tried both, when l say that
private life affords less worry, less re-
sponsibility, and more true enjoyment
than this ighly-strained public life,
with its garish footlights and mimic
stage trappings."
The Congressman quoted above has
had his ambition crowned, but the
crown rests heavily on his bald dome
of thought. And yet he may find
much TO console him. He has risen to
the position of demi-god in the esti
nation of the people of his district.
They look upon him with mingled
feelings of admiration and envy.
Some of them covet his seat and will
endeavor TO occupy it in future Con-
crosses; and thus it goes, ''each pur-
suing his fayorite phantom"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
Permissible Gifts.

Permissible gifts used to be limited
to books, flowers, candy, fruits and
articles of trifling value. Now society
countenances everything but wearing
apparel. Towering palms, sturdy
little beds Of MOSES and ferns in
beautiful baskets come from the
florist. All manner of jewels, silver,
crystal and porcelain goods are sent to
the mother or guardian of the lady
admired, and 12-inch paper knives,
sofa pillows and blankets, cabinets
filled with stationery, umbrellas, hand
mirrors, opera-glasses, lorgnettes, and
travelling TASKS az, among the oddities
with which beauty is favored. Ad-
miration is not the only thing that is
heavily taxed, .-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
Wealth i'm La Grippe.

81 wish my name was knorr just
now" said a druggist to reporter.
''There is a man of that name who is
making fortune of the largest d.
mansions just at present, and doing it
fast, too. l mean DR.. Knorr of the
town of Hochst on the Main in Ger
many.
"He is the man who owns the Sc
cret of antipyrine, which is the latest
fad of physicians and is declared by
them to be the best antipyretic ever
brought out. Nobody knows just
what it is, though all suspect there is
a good deal of quinine in it and that
the inventor has found some process
of dissolving quinine and giving it
greater efficacy.
During the epidemic of influenza
the rush for the drug has been enor-
nous, and the druggists can't sell it
cheaper OH account of the demand, be-
cause the wholesale dealers are all
under contract to DR.. Knorr to sell it
at $1.40 an ounce, neither more nor
less. The doctor will be immensely
rich after the epidemic is over.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
How to Marry Well.

What girls should never forget is to
be neat! Not primly so, but daintily
so. The girl well got up, with ire
proachable gloves, and shoes that fit,
though her gown be only cotton, yet
if it be we'll turned out, may compete
with the richest, while the slovenly
dresser, who soorns or forgets to give
attention to details, is pissed over by
the discontinued eye, though her gown
may be a masterpiece of Worth.
A girl should learn to put her gown
on properly. No creature living takes
more heed of externals than your Or
thodox man. He may not know the
price, color or material of your clothes,
but he will know to a nicely whether
you are well or badly gowned,
One special point | would impress
upon the girl who desires Gas all girls
do) TO range themselves well, to make
a good marriages. to be gentle. The
craze for vivacity, for the free and
easy style that borders so closely on
the manners of the demi monde that
distinguished the society of ten years
ago has proyidentially died natural
death.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

However de irable an open winte
may De for many kinds of work, the
ice harvest demands at least week of
steady cold. Don't postpone. AS
soon as good clean ice, four inches
thick, has formed, do not delay Hay
ing small ice-house, it was cheaper
to get it filled by contract than to keep
set of ice implements and machinery,
Of late we have had one of the ice
companies that supply zee to the neigh
boring towns do the job. With
abundant hands and horses, and all
the needed facilities, they have usually
made short work of it, and the az
rangement has been satisfactory, ex-
cept last year. There was good, if
not very thick, ice last year until late
into December. There was no need
hurrying about our small job; they
could put that in at any time. Their
large houses were filled. A rain one
night carried off all the ice, and it was
forgotten to make any Tore. 1t being
desirable to move the ice-house, that
work was done in spring.
Do not think you are going to make
the hens lay this winter by following
rules or buying nostrums for them.
No doubt some of the prepared foods
are good, but some of them are too
much of a transient stimulant. The
best way is to remember the conditions
under which fowls lay best in spring
and summer and give them he same
conditions as nearly as possible. In
thinking the matter over you will find
that they want water where they can
get it any time; tn Y want a room
where the sun shines through plenty
of windows; they want green food in
the form of grass or vegetables; they
want chance to play in dry dust or
ashes, and this is better than all the
rules for cleanliness for keeping them
tree from lice. Let them fill the air
and cover the coats with very fine.dust,
and they will take care of that job
themselves while the rules would be
neglected. They need exercise, and if
there is no other way to provide it,
make them scratch among straw or
leaves for their grain. Hens are early
risers and want to be fed early in the
morning.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
Journals of General Gordon.

The unpublished journals of General
Gordon in China are to appear shortly.
Mr.. A. Egmont Hake, his cousin and
companion, and editor of 1.-THE Story
of Chinese Gordon" is at present en-
gagged IN them, and they are TO be
published by w. ii. Allen d Co.
There is to be beautiful etching of
Gordon, in Mandarin dress by Val
p, insep, from the original in the
Chatham mess. The work will also
contain numerous original maps of
and letters relating TO the country of
the memorable TAPPING rebellion. The
journals were supposed to have been
lost some time ago under very peculiar
circumstances. They were lent by
Gordon to member of Lord Russell's
Cabinet, and were sent to be printed
for the convenience of the Ministry, as
they contain valuable and exclusive in
formation about China. When Cor
don came home he was exceedingly
angry at this publicity, and immedi-
ately went to the printers and b: oke
up the type, and it was supposed that
he destroyed the manuscript at the
same time. This, however, was moi
the case, for some time ago they were
found by Sir Henry Gordon in an old
lumber-room, and were by him handed
over to Mr.. Hake.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
Black Hair is Expensive,

Pure black hair is very rare and ex
'ensive. Some of our Indians are cele-
brated for possessing marvellously long
fine hair of this coveted blue-black hue.
They so far have not been impressed
with the advantages of turning hair
farmers, and prefer their hair to its
equivalent in filthy lucre. The japanese
women. who also have tbs blue-black
hair, regard it as a great beauty, take
much pride in dressing it, an operation
which they take great care not to per-
form too often, and do not evince the
smallest inclination to use it in com
mercial way, Their Chinese sisters,
on the other hand, frequently dispose
of their locks, but as rule, these are
uncompromisingly straight, rather
coarse, and possess only the advan-
tages of length and color,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

The New York Court of Appeals has
decided that woman may bring suit
for damages against another woman
who has robbed her of her husband
The decision is of particular interest to
women because it seems to settle the
fact that in law, at least, the wife is as
good as the husband, and is Ell tiled to
the same privileges as he. Judge
Vann says, in his opinion; "The
husbands right to the conf gal society
of his wife is no greater than her right
to the society of her husband The
rights of one and the obligations of the
other spring from the marriage contract,
and are mutual" If this principle were
carried into everyday life surprising
revolutions would occur in u great
many households of the land,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
1t Was Case of MiStak, n Id nifty.

Two well-known citizens were walk
ing up Woodward avenue few days
ago about 10 o'clock, when they were
accosted by a stranger wh) asked;
"Have either of you gentlemen O
couple of nickels about your
The accosted edged off one side, at
the same time replying in the negative,
thinking they had met mendicant.
"Excuse me, gentlemen" said the
questioner, perceiving the mistake all
around. 81 am no beggar. l merely
wanted change for dime SO that
could work one of those nickcl-in-the-
slot cigar machines"
All laughed good naturally at the
ioEe FIX
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
A Practical Queen.

The Queen of Italy seems to be of a
practical turn of mind. She is an
ardent musician, and finding, on a
recent visit, that the Library of St.
Mare in Venice contained valuable
MSS. by such early Italian masters as
Stradella, Clari, Monteverde, etc, she
ave orders that they should be pub
lished at her own expense, and so made
known to the world Cesare POllini
and T. We'll have been appointed
editors. and RicOrdi the publisher.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

The free classes of the Cooper Union
Woman's Art School in New York
are, as usual, full to overlooking.
They are under the direction of Susan
n. Carter.
Prof. William T. Anderson, head of
the Brooklyn N. W Normal School
for Physical Education, has offered to
train gratuitously five young women
for w. q. I. U. ''evangelists of physi-
cal culture"
The members of the Woman's
League of Louisiana are interesting
themselves actively in securing police
matrons for the Jail and prison, and
the several important precinct stations
in New Orleans.
The Woman's Congress held last
summer in Paris excited SO general an
interest that the entire report, including
addresses, is to be printed at the ex,
pense of the French Government,
under its official aus yices.
A New York letter says: "There
are four female dentists in this city.
One of them, who graduated in Phila-
delphia, two or three years ago at the
head of class of 81 men, already has
a large clientage up town."
Woman organists ale almost taking
precedence in Buffalo, n. Y, over the
men of the profession, and are now
employed in some of the leading
churches. There are at least eight
woman organists holding good posi-
tons in that city,
Mrs, Human Andrews, a botaniss
and artist of Soulhington, Ct, is MAX
ing a study of the complete fora of
Connecticut, and each plant, with its
bud and blossom, is painted as nearly
actual size as possible. These paint
ings when completed will form port
folio of about 800 spe linens. About
500 are already finished,
Mrs, Emma p, Ewing, who has done
exc -llent work as teacher of domes-
tic economy, has resigned her position
in Purdue University, and opened
School of Household Science in Kansas
City, Mo-, where thorough instruction
will be given in all branches of applied
housekeeping. Mrs. Ewing will be
assisted in her new enterprise by a
corps of competent and well-trained
teachers of domestic economy.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

My Calf Skin Business is absorbing my
capital, time and attention, and, having de-
cided to close out all of my other branches
of business, as we'll as my miscellaneous
personal property and real estate, [ offer
for sale all the land own except that oc-
cupied in my business and my dwelling,
and will dispose of same at very low figures
and on easy terms of payment.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

DO you ask, "Where can 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 tho
following principles -
LIST. 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 institution.
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 ether investments, so far as it can be
done with absolute safety.
3D.. Under no circumstances is dol
lar invested in any western mortgage or
other out-of-the-stat security. We
might perhaps pay our depoSitors one
half of one per cent. per annum more
interest by mourning a little addition
al risk, if no loss should come, but we
believe there is to-day a ''long-felt
want" in Vermont for savings institu-
ton 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
situations. 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
orphans 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 neigh
bors who prefer to occupy western
fields we offer to the depositing public
the Lamoille County Savings Bank and
Trust Co. as an institution organized to
meet the demand for strictly home in
vestment Savings Bank. That such a
demand exists, and that the people are
ready to bestow their confidence and
encouragement upon such an institu-
ton, is evidenced by the fact that the
aggregate of the small deposits alone in
this Bank-not counting any in excess
of $1000-were at the end of the first six
months of its business, $57, 1877. 90, a
record without parallel, we believe, in
the history of Vermont Savings Banks.
4th. Under no circumstances does
this Bank take over 6 per cent. II would
not, knowingly, make an investment
which would pay over per cent. The
safest class of loans and securities will
command money at per cent. The
Bank pays the State tax of six tenths
of per cent. on deposits in lieu of all
taxes to the depositor. 1t must then
be evident that per cent. per annum is
all that the Bank can sAFELYPAY. This
rate it will pay. 1t is guaranteed and
rests on no contingency. Interest will
be compounded semi annually if not
withdrawn.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
A Few Dnn,ts for Men.
Don't neglect your business.
Don't misrepresent anything.

Don't neglect your business.
Don't misrepresent anything.
Don't forget you are a gentleman.
Don't tell everybody your business
Don't say one thing and mean an
other.
Don't join a society for business pur-
poses.
Don't make any promises you car
not fulfil.
Don't send a man to do work you
can do yourself.
Don't forget that the poor have feel
ings as well as the rich.
Don't go off on a frolic when you
have business to attend to.
Don't fail to keep yourself well
posted in every detail of your bust
ness.
Don't buy bill of goods you don't
want because drummer asks you to.
Don't forget to be kind to the chill
dren. They will be men and women
one of these days.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

trated grain. The aim should be to
feed just all the grain the COW can di-
gest and assimilate, and as some will
make good use of considerable more
than othe s, the feeder should study
the peculiarities of each animal and
guage the quantity 10 suit the capacity
OF each. When COW in full milk and
good health is not making use of all
her food the excrement will smell We V
offensive and slight decrease in one
or all of the ingredients of it, grain
will save loss in this direct New
England Farmer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13
A Send.OH OF q Stand-Off.

Parkly Saunters-'I-I-l want
your daughter, sir, to be my wife,"
Old Dukkets-"Wait yearI"
Parkly-'Ifs long time to walt,
sir! !"
Dukkets-"Oh, / don't mean for
you to wait here. Call again in about
year. Puck. ---A---..
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-13

One of the costliest and most beauti-
| full hand bouquets that ever left New
York was carried off by Mrs. Harrison
the day after the Centennial Ball. The
| gift came from the American Floral
Association, and was grown to order
| by no less than thirteen nurserymen,
who used rose leaves for fertilizing
and distilled water for sprinkling.
Lilies of the valley, 10, 900 sprays in
all, formed fringe for the hundred
Cornelia Cook roses that made the
heart of the bouquet. There were ten
| yards of ribbon about the long stems,
on the loops of which an n. A. had
painted the American flag and in
scribed the occasion of the presentation.
A special messenger was sent to the
Metropolitan Opera-House and pre-
scented it to Mrs. Harrison as she was
going into the bal room. There were
five words in the presentation sp"ecl,
and Mrs. Harrison accepted it with
simple ''thank you, sir, "and smile of
ineffable sweetness.
At the time flowers were exorbitant-
ly high, and counting the special skill
bestowed on the lily and rose beds and
the special delivery from the thirteen
nurseries about the State, the cost has
been variously estimated between 5000
and 500. At the same time a bou-
quet of catelavas orchids, lilac in color,
mixed with ph@lonopsis, the whitest
flower that grows and the costliest of
all orchids, framed in queen ferns,
was presented to Mrs. Morton. Each
orchid cost 50, there were IA in the
bunch, and the cost of decorating the
ribbons added 800 to the expense.
Since then Miss Schreimer has enjoyed
the distinction of going to the Assem-
bly, and Patriarchs' ball with 800
worth of violets or 500 worth of
American beauties in her hand. I'm
fortunately, there were thorns in the
blossoms, for some very unkind para
graphs have appeared since and read
with bitter, binding tears by the fair
debutante.