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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-12-04
Fainter EreS ssesui ne, teo ~ ~. ! !
As each EN- cen ior MT cut
Plaintively thS
Fill the II wild Enearly well of peri

Fill their wild nearly well of peri
Over me fheey SO but is some better
at present.
Gale Osgood, fornt...y clerk in the Ameri-
can house, now clerkiRg in Barre, made this
place flying visit recently.
Lotte Atwell, who has been at work for B.
G. MaCoy, has gone to Waterville here she
has been engaged to teach.
The firm of Hulburd & Durham has been
dissolved by mutual consent. Mr.. Hulburd
will hereafter be sole proprietor.
Mr.. and Mrs Hubert Wetherell and daugh-
ter of Morrisville also Horace Wetherell were
the guests of Valentine Wetherell last week
H. N Gray and wife entertained Hon. E. P.
Mudgett and family, and Mr., and Mrs. Will
Mudgett at North Cambridge last Thursday
H. n Goodwin and wife entertained T. S.
Whipple and d. W. Knights and wife, also
The citizens of this place raised about S14
in token of their sympathy for the misfor
tune of George Lyman, the loss of whose sup
ply of winter meat was mentioned in last
weeks paper, for which Mr.. Lyman extends
his heartfelt thanks.
John Brush who lives with his daughter,
Mrs. Otis Sherman, a short distance from
this village met with quite accident re-
Gently. While tieing up COWS one slipped and
fell against his ankle, causing a severe sprain
the extent of which is not known at present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hatch gave family
party Nov. 81 consisting of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
G. Stinehour, Mr. and Mrs. Steve Stinehour
and Miss Carroll of Jacksonville; Irwin q
Stinehour and family of Underhill Will Slime
hour and family and Almon Hawley and fam
lily of Jacksonville; also Mr.. Pike and family
of Johnson, and j. M. Stafford and family of
this place.
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BIRTHS.

Watch for our clubbing rates next
week.
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MARRIAGES..

RUGG-OBER.-In Cambridge, Nov. &c, by
Rev. f. Wheelock, Mary ODER of Jefferson
vile, and A. D. Rugg of Fairfax.
SHIPPY-CARLTON- Morrisvilp. Nov.
%, 1890, by Rev. NJ. Kingsbury, Frank q
Shippy to Allie G. Carlton, both of Morris
town.
SKINNER-SMALLEY Moss Glen Falls,
Nov. 81. 1890, at the residence of the bride
parents, by Rev. W. Z. Douglass, Will III.
Skinner and Eta ]. Smalley.
KIPP-WHITNEY.-In Stowe, Nov. 81, 1890,
at the residence of the brides mother, by
Rev. W. f. Douglass, Oliver B. Kipp, of
Saratoga Springs, n. Y, and Ellen A. Whit
ney of Stowe.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-12-04

+ he ni7,b4 a ':ls a Nov. 20, boy to
forts our owntY
In the first The oyelnner p ~
nolds. :, DARK
MARSHALL lin fletcher, Nov. 90, 1890
daughter 90 Rev. w. F. and Eva R. Mar
shall.
BALL.-In North Cambridge, Nov "a, a
daughter to Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. E. Ball.
LOTHROP.-In Johnson, Nov %, a daugh-
ter to Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lothrop.
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ADDIE NJ. BRADLEY,

Portraits enlarged to order in Crayon,
Pastel and Oil. Orders taken for all
kinds of hand painted Christmas Souv-
enters.
Art materials kept constantly on hand. and
picture framing done. Instruction given in
Free-hand drawing, CrayOning, Pastel and Oil
painting; Call and see my large line of studies
designed for the use of pupils. All orders for
Christmas must be sent in early
Studio: White & Co.'S New Block, Morris
VILE VT
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-12-04
GAMRRIDGE

Mrs. Harriet Lewis is dangerously ill
Charlie Wetherell has returned from Under
hill.
Mrs. NJ. E. Ravens is in Cady's Falls this
week sewing.
W. H. Parker is attending court at HYDE
Park this week.
1 N. Chase was in Belvidere on business
last week Monday
Mr.. and Mrs. c. r. Brown of Underbill have
been visiting in town.
Harley Sanborn of Fairfax has been visit
ing at Walter Pease's.
Mr.. and Mrs Ira Lord of Colchester spent
Thanksgiving in town.
Mary Cady is in Johnson visiting her sister
Mrs. BaFnum Austin
wv. S. Moves spent several DAVIS last weeL,
with his family in Wolcott.
Thomas King of Frt.nklin has rented VIM
Scott's blacksmith shop.
Robert White of the Reed farm will move to
Mr. Defoe's place March LIST.
Walter Worthen of colchester is VISITING
his sister, Mrs III. B. Caswell
Flora Chase and M. Chase of Fairfield
have been visiting at heShome.
B. G. MaCoy has returned from Montnelier
He visited Burlington las Saturday.
A private telephone wire has been mt nm
from W. M. Smiths to y NJ. Story's
o. w Reynolds and Smilv spent Thanks
giving at Mrs. Morgan lin Jeffersonville.
Mr.; and Mrs f. Unborn and Carrie of
: :: :. =; !: !: :: ::
Fairfax, VS. ter }ease's last week
1meSS Family of Hardwick
haSsf Brush the past
T., is expected
work for B. G.
been spend
Fed to i. NJ
As ea.b er cen for Mr.. Gut
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-12-04

School in District No. 1 closed Friday.
Whole number of pupils, 10: average attend
ance, u. Pupils having no marks, Bertha
a day Frank Culver, Ward Turner. Only 3
had tardY marks, Ward Turner, Frank
Spaulding and Clinton Smith. The presents
received from those pupils was a pleasant
surprise, and the go9d fishes from the rest
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r. NJ WAITE NJ D.
WOOL AND BEAVER SHAWLS,

Chidens and Cdren UnderWe
all kinds Linen Towels Turkish
Towels Turkey Napkin
white Table Linen 4Oe yard white Linen Nspklns Toe
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-10-16
REGARDING DIPHTHERIA.
Isolation and Dlsinfection Would in Tin
Stamp Out the Disease.

Soiation and Dlsinfection Would in Tims
stamp Out the Disease.
VI those who were attacked by vel.
low fever during the prevalence of that
disease in Florida year or two ago,
only about one in eleven died. In tho
same year there were one thousand
four hundred and twenty-five cases of
diphtheria in Boston, of which four
hundred and seventy, or one in three,
proved fatal. During the last elo ven
years there have been fourteen thou
sand eight hundred and sixty-seven
cases of diphtheria in Boston, with an
aggregate of four thousand eight hun.
dred and twenty-five deaths.
Such fearful prevalence of this
deadly disease, with its incessant
desolation of homes, is not by any
means necessary. In Glasgow, Scot
land, its ravages have been greatly
checked by means of enforced isolation
and disinfection, and there is no rea-
son why our own boards of health, if
they were armed with tho requisite
legal power and backed up by wise pub
lie sentiment, might not be able to ac.
complish similar result.
Diphtheria is much moro fatal than
smallpox, and the fact that it is less
contagious only increases the necessity
OF compulsory isolation; for many per.
sons expose themselves unnecessarily
to diphtheria who could not be in.
duced by any consideration to expose
themselves to smallpox.
1t is fact of public interest that
diphtheria does not go from house to
house apart from personal communica-
ton. Except in tenement houses,
therefore, the patient can be safely iso-
lated at home, provided the public is
duly notified by some simple but famil-
lar signal attached to the door. For
such as can not be safely isolated at
home adequate municipal accommoda-
ton should be provided.
The public needs to understand moro
fully than as yet it seems to do, that
diphtheria does not come. like influon-
"a, for instance, in the air, but that
every case is from previous case, and
that thorough isolation and disinfeetion
would in time stamp out the disease, as
completely as noxious weed would DO
killed out by the destruction of all its
seeds
We must add that in its early stage
diphthoria is not readily distinguished
from an ordinary sore throat. For this
reason every case of sore throat in a
a child, especially at time when diph-
iberia is prevalent, should be looked
upon with degree of suspicion, enough
at least to prevent the communication
of what may prove to be the dreaded
disease. 1t should be kept in mind also
that children with sore throats and
nasal catarrh are peculiarly susceptible
to infection. n.-Youth's Companion.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-10-16
THE MExICANS' Triple.
Century Plants Despoiled to Supply I'll

Century Plants Despoiled to Supply tbs
Fascinating Pulque.
Pulque is pronounced 'pulky' and is
the national beer of Mexico. In the
Mexican cities pulque shops are as
numerous as we're locusts in Egypt, the
prohibition eagle never having made its
swoop in that languid land of the trop-
les. Some of those shops, from a Mexi-
can point of view, are neat and clean;
though it should be added that a MeXi-
can point of view, when cleanliness is
considered, is not eminent
Pulque is the fresh juice or syrup of
the century plant and is consumed the
day it is gathered, as il will become sour
and unpalatable within twenty-fOur
hours. The method of its production is
simple. The long central shoot Of the
plant which naturally would be pro-
jected upward from twenty to forty feet
like some mighty club of Samson, is cut
out at its base in the inception Of its
growth. This leaves basin in which
collects the sap which was meant for
the growth of the plant A Mexican
who deals in the commodity has what IS
called pulque orchard, and this Is
large or small, according to his ambi-
tions Once day-the early morning
hours-he dips the pulque out Of the
vegetable basin into pig skin, where
in it is at once purveyed to the tavern
keeper to be sold. That is all there is
to the process and it is dispensed at
about Z cents glass. In appearance,
taste and sticky consistency pulQue much
resembles yeast. Connected with its sale
is an exercise which the barlleopcr per-
forms which has driven many a tender
American tourist away without his
pulque after it was ordered and paid for
The Mexican glasses have no handles
and grasping it so as to project at least
one finger and sometimes two into a
glass, the barlleepcr dips the pulque
As a necessity, from the method en-
ployed and the consistent character of
the liquid, considerable adhereS to th3
barman's fingers, and as he shovcs your
glass toward you, by dextcrous tiirt OF
the hand he adds this pulQuo on his
| fingers to the contents of yo'Ir glass;
thus cleaning his soiled digits and win
ming your esteem by giving good meas
ure at one and the same time. A dex
ferrous dispenser will indulge in this
professional flirt and never get a
drop OF pulque outside your glass. This
thing has been known to disgust Ameri-
| cans, who would push THAR pulquo bnaIs
without tasting, all to the high con
tempt of the man of pulque, who regards
such stomachs as far too ladyIile, -
Chicago Journal
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-10-16
.,r n, p.FASHIONED BALL CLUB

like to watch game o ball; to me its lots o.
a the nlaycrs at the bat and watch them
strike and run
:, s,ide and yell and all o. that; and, yet 1t
r.. ssme amt half so full O life as what 1t
used to be.
wish you could bave seen the club in which
used to play.
=, course II wasn't like the clubs you run across
to-day.
twenty year agol
=, nase bali then was different from the base
ball now, you know.
o,r club comprised the flower Of our little coun.
try town;
vo knocked out every club there was for twenty
mile aroun'.
NO had no fancy uniforms, but you bet you we
could play;
ws made ten times as many runs as what they
make to-day.
q Jones, tho blacksmith pitched for us, but In
them days. you know,
you had to please tho batter, he could have it
high or low,
And Deacon Perry used to catch, except camp.
meetings, when
vsplayed sort o. "picked-up" nine and used
his big son Ben.
Old Squire Smith played at first, and when his
glasses staid in place.
s,be could see the ball, he always fortified that
base.
rdge simsins played at second, while Iproud
ly guarded third,
And young Doc Squills was short stop, and as
lively as bird.
The right was held by Elder Tubbs, the left by
Lawyer Green
cap Siders, with wooden leg, filled in the gap
between.
And they we're just the fellows calculated for
the biz,
Unless twas Green, who carried o crutch be.
cause O. rheumatic.
Hcwas our safest player. He never tried to
pounce
Upon fly and show himself; he'd take in on
the bounce.
But when we got a new.style ball he quit. II
Just be darn"
Said he, 'if will catch ball that amt made
OUT o yarnI
Them days at home the umpire had to do the
business square,
0relse we'd throw him out and get another then
and there;
And sometimes, when the other sided kick too
awful loud,
We'd sort O. compromise the thing and leave it
to the crowd.
Our wives and sweethearts used to come and
watch us play the game,
And though we'd lose or win they'd always
cheer us just the same.
Twould do my old heart lots O. good to be back
there once more
and play game with just the some old club we
had before.
Chicago Post,
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-10-16
Our Children's Inheritance.

Unless we are now able to preserve
our mental and bodily forces intact, our
grandchildren will be victims to our
faults. They would even have tho
right to certain extent to call us to
account for our careless conduct
"What did you do with that vigorous
body and healthy and sturdy mind that
were given you by your parents? For
it is by your fault that VIC are miser-
able and sickly." The Importance of
the question is thus we'll established.
Since the future depends on the pres
ent, it is no less than question Of
the future of men. This being fixed.
the query arises: Is there mental over
strain? A careful examination of the
fac4s gives US occasion to answer affirm
atively. In consequence of the pro-
digiously artificial conditions of OK
istence which our advanced civilization
has imposed upon us, we have greatly
modified the habitual and physiological
life of our organism. A close study of
the habits OF contemporary men, snch
as the author of this book has made, will
show that nothing is less in agreement
with healthy vitality than the mode
of living of to-day.-Popular Science
MONTHLY
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-10-16

Prof. Fred G. Plummer, the civil en-
rineer of Tacoma, says: 81 have been
all over this country and have the best
collection of the fora to be found any
where. What do you think of these
trees $50 feet high? They are to be
found that high in the unsurveyed town
ships near the foot of Mount Tacoma,
and what is more have seen them and
made an instrumental measurement of a
number with that result. There are lots
of trees near the base of Mount Tacoma
whose foliage is SO far above the ground
that is impossible to tell to what family
they belong except by the bark. Very
few people know or dream of the i'm
mensity of our forest growth, wish
that some of our large trees could bo
sent to the worlds fair at Chicago.
We could send flag pole, for instance,
800 or 400 feet long "-Olympia Tribune.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-10-16
A MOURNFUL BAPTISM.
The Sad Story of the Christening
of Lake st. Fleur.

Amid the wild, yet picturesque,
scenery Of the "Black Glades," lies one
Of the most serene lakes in Dakota. 1t
bears the sweet, suggestive name of st.
Fleur.
Connected with the history of this
little gem of the wilderness is sad,
romantic narrative which gave to the
calm waters their mournful baptism,
and which Is full of pathetic interest
as told to me.
The story itself is sad enough to
bring tears to the eyes of any listener
anywhere, but when heard by the soli-
tary grave under the bowling willows it
borrows an additional solemnity. and is
more sorrowful than the moan of the
water at the foot of the bluff.
1t was in the year 1S-, when the
steady march of industry had brought
the sturdy lumbermen to the North,
and the solitary depths Of dark pine
woods resounded with the echoes of in
dustrial life.
Among the dillgent workmen was
young and handsome German, who
never entered into the jovial songs and
rude jokes of his fellows. Always calm
and unobtrusive, yet withal pleasant,
ne won friends among the more refined
classes of the laborers and the name of
Prince Earnest" from the ruder grade,
which stood in derisive antagonism of
one whom it could not comprehend. Al
,aough the grand appellation was given
MIN by way of contempt it accorded
with his lordly bearing and earnest
spirit perfectly.
With the disappearance of winter and
'ne Ice spring came, and the rafting be-
Ran In earnest. The more fearless and
Vehturesome raftsmen went careering
over the water with an easy needless
ness, while the timid and uninitiated
we're clrcumspect and slower of move
ment.
Among the latter was "Prince
Earnest" And if any one of the rude,
ancultured experts could run him
ao"n, 1t proved source of great hilar-
Ivy at his expense.
Vae morning in being thus impeded
W careless Irish raftsman, who, per-
maps had no idea of any serious conse-
qaehces resulting, he lost his presence
VI mind and footing as we'll, and
sipped from the raft into the chilling
water,
!, he can't swim stroke, and you're
sue death Of him." called one of the
len In the rear, who had seen the un-
~ Wt'Gnate man fall. Frightened at this
% %e lrlshmaa sprang into the lake to
sle rescue. The logs had foated over
hs sli' out with timely assistance he was
brought from beneath them. The burly
.escuer lifted the inanimate burden up
~ swo pair of strong, willing arms, and
sl, sleh climbed out of the water himself,
aa., 1aaiv,erlng with cold and excitement, and
",'u very white, alarmed face.
~ was but the work of few minutes
get the unconscious man on shore
Nv 'aD the warmth Of the lodging
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-10-16
Certainly.

Unsophsticated Texan-Hadn't l bet
ter shoot that young assassin with the
new-fangled gun? He's been sneaking
up on that feller an his gal for the last
fifteen minutes--a Texas jury wouldn +
find nc fault, you bet
Jack Su nmerville--He amt an assas-
sin, Billy. He's an amateur-photograp pm.
fiend. Bat you might as well shoot
guess an Eastern jury won't find much
fault either, The jury.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-10-16
AMERICAN LAWYERS.
lord Coleridge Tells Wherein They Diffc
From the English.


There is one possibly impending
change. l mean the introduction of
the American practice as to our profess
sion; the allowing the functions of the
attorney and the functions of the bar
ristor to be exercised by the same per-
son, writes Lord Coleridge in the Con-
temporary Review. 1t is true that in
the great cities of America, where there
are firms of lawyers, the principles Of
natural selection send some of the firms
into court and keep others in chambers
50 that the practice a good deal modifios
the principle. But the principle re-
mains, and believe the extension of it
to England is not so very far off.
Whether it will be a benefit or not do
not feel sure.
l once asked Mr.. Benjamin, who had
experience of both systems, which,
upon the whole, he thought the best,
He replied that the question could not
be answered in word. "If," he said,
'vou ask me which is best fitted for
producing from time to time dozen or
Il SCOTt VI NoI tulliChb ailIt hiS my
cultivated men, mon fit to play a great
part in public affairs and stand up for
the oppressed and prosecuted in times
of trouble and danger, should say at
once the English. If you ask mo which
is tho best in ordinary times for the
vast majority of clients | answer at
once tho American.
This was very weighty and very i'm
partial evidence, and l think, if Mr..
Benjamin was right that what is clear
lv for the benefit of the vast majority of
clients is certain to be established in
the end. Without expressing any opin-
ion whatever upon recently-controvert-
ed facts, which can not do and which
would be quite improper for me if l
could, may say so much as this, that |
think they have appreciably hastened
the advent of the change.
FT,1- .a@n 80 n IL
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-10-16
AN IDENTIFICATION.


infamous LORD Steyne'
The death of Sir Richard Wallace has
repeatedly led to the statement in
English journals that his father,
Richard, fourth Marquis Of Hertford,
who died in 1870, was the original of
Thackeray's immortal but infamous
Lord Steyne," Henry J. Fur.ey writes
to the London Standard to say that this
"he could have been, and gives the fol-
lowing reasons;
The epoch of Vanity Fair is Goorg-
ian. The story opens in 1Ss}, two years
before the battle of Waterloo, and ter
inmates, presumably, about the middle
of the reign of George w., t. e., 1926
How, then, could the brilliant and Gym
ical roue, past middle life, the prsona
grdta of the Georgian court whom
Thackeray portrayed have been this
identical Marquis, who, according to
Burke and Debret, was born in 1900?
The date of his entry into the world and
the facts of his career preclude the
notion altogether.
"Thackeray had in his minds eye
when he limned this character quite
another Marquis of Hertford, tho
period of whose life synchronizes
exactly with that of the imaginary
Lord Steyne. This was Francis
Charles Seymour, third possessor Of the
title, who was born in 1717 and died in
1912. This nObleman, while Earl of
Yarmouth, was Lord Castlereagh's
second in the duel with Mr.. Canning in
1909 He was the boon companion of
the Prince Regent and with many of
the orgies and scandals Of that and a
subsequent period his name is imper-
ishably associated.
ANY one who will take the trouble
carefully to study the salient traits in
the character of the third Marquis, as
depicted in the journals and chronicles
of two generations ago will, on turning
to Lord Steyne, have no difficulty in
tracing a most genuine TrdlScmbldHce.
Never was mordant satire moro felicit-
ously and faithfully employed than
when Thackeray took in hand this
singularly unique parsonage and gave
him Immortality. The fact that he will
live while English literature cndures
makes it the more important that there
should be no mistake or misunderstand-
ing as to his identity. N. Y. Times.
The gas department of the Birming-
ham (England) Corporation have under
consideration the "penny-in-thc-slot'
scheme for the supply of gas in small
tenements, The idea has been tested
and proved feasible. The system would
involve the fixing of machine in the
house of each consumer and doing out
gas by pennyworths. The price now
charged to small consumers is cents
per 100 feet. Under the new principle
the proposal is to supply 25 feet for one
third of that.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-10-16

too, had passed "from this room to the
next'-the victim of broken heart.
And 1T was SO that the wall Of
broken heart going forth DER the moon
lit deep on this sweet September night
gave the lake its present suggestive
name. Chicago Daily News.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-10-16
Hinduo God in En- gland,

The famous Hindoo god, Lingam, is
dow owned by an English gentleman of
culture named Spencer who paid SIS,
900 for it at an auction sale in London
in 1883. The curious relic stands but
1215 inches high. Small as it is, it is
worth its weight in first water diamonds
The base is of solid gold. and around it
are set nine gems which were used as
charms, diamond, ruby, sapphire,
chrysobryl, cats eye, coral, pearl, hia-
cinthine, garnet, yellow sapphire and
an emerald. Around the apex of this
pure gold and gem-studded pyramid is a
plinthe set with diamonds. On the apex
is a topaz 1916 inches in length and
GIG of an inch in depth, shaped like a
horseshoe; in the center of the horse
shoe the great chrysoberyl cats eye
stands. When Bahador Shah, better
known as bad Shah" the last King of
Delhi was captured and exled to the
Andaman Islands, hisqueen roted this
god, and it was never seen again until
recent research discovered and brought
it to the British capital, where it was
disposed of to Mr. Spencer as above
mentioned. d.-St. Louis Republic.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-10-16

"A rug valued at $1,000 was boughtin
London lately. 1t was about thirteen
feet square and had about two hundred
and flfty-six stitches to the inch The
material was wool combed, not cut, from
the animal, and worth more than its
weight in silk.
DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-10-16

The average distance of the clouds
from the earth is about one mile.