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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-06-19
Money I'm Poultry.

If people engaging in tipe.poultry
business would apply strict poultry
measures to the business there would
be better success. A business with a
system about it generally stands upon
its own bottom. We know am instance
where care and forethougfrt succeeded
above everything else, and "a young. in
dustrous man was at the bottom of it.
He was careful of his stock, their house
and their feed. He Observation-Disclosures
in the nick of time, and he has, made
money while Others were losing. The
commission man pays himi10 percent.
more money than any one else, ,as he
always sends his goods to market in a
prime and attractive style. Appear
ances are everything, and when a man
shows taste he is generally paid forit.-
Western Farm Journal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-06-19


Do you ask, g 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 the
following principles =
1st. 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 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 other investments, so far as it can be
done with absolute safety.
Sd. Under no circumstances is a 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 mourning little additional
risk, if no loss should come, but we
believe there is to-day long felt
want" in Vermont for a savings institu-
ton which will loan it's 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
mOille 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 i'll this bank
not counting any in excess of $1,000
were at the end of the first six months
of it's business. S57, 1860, a record
without parallel, we believe, in the
history Of Vermont Savings Banks.
4th. Under no circumstances does
this Bank take over 6per cent. 1t would
not. knowingly, make an investment
which would pay over per cent. The
safest class of loans and securities will
command money at 6 per cent. The
Bank pays the State a tax of six-tenths
of 1 per cent. on deposits in lieu of all
taxes to the depositors. 1t must then be
evident that 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 60 Hyde Park, Vt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-06-19
A Students Heavy Sleep.

A wild and changing uproar was
heard in the Elm house, Auburn 'The
landlord, the clerk and the porter twere
all in it. 1t was no party of roisterers
and no lawless disturbance. Much, as
the landlord regretted it he felt COM
PEELED to do.it, and he was only doing
what was laudable and proper. He
was trying to awaken a guest. The
Maine State college BASEBALL teamiput
up at the famous inn on Friday ;; and
the ten men were to occupy three
rooms, one of them a large room with
two double beds and Calculated to ac-
commodate four.
One of the young nren went to bed at
9 O'Clock, and in an absent minded
mood or unaware that he was to have
company during the night he turned
the key. AT 10 80 the other young men
wanted a nap. They found the door
locked. The landlord was called and
he tried mild tapping ON the easement.
The strength and tempo of the serenade
both increased by degrees. Finally a
wild and awful laundering fell upon
that door. The man from Orano never
budged an inch or shortened a gurgle
on his nasal solo, for he slept. The at
tendant throng around the door grew
greater. Somelaughed and some were
alarmed. A travelling man offered to
bet even that the man had passed away,
but nobody would bet on $50 serious a
topic
The door was kicked, and banged
again and supplications were elected
through the keyhole and, over the tran
som for him to open up, but he never
opened, for he slept-a dreamless, peace
full sleep. Most of the guests were
awake by'this time. A practical solu-
ton was reached by the porter, who
punched out the key on the other side
by careful and patient manipulation
and then unlocked the door with a, pass
key The three state college boys then
went in and went to bed, and strange
but true the one-of-the-seven-sle
who lay there in smiling shnmber IN his
couch, did not awake even then, but
slept on and on and never rolled over.
Lewiston Journal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-06-19

Old Salem, in Massachusetts, like the
rest of the world, has of late years be-
come much modernizad, but the older
folk of the town chung long to their
habits and were conservative in every
thing. A delightful old lady, who has
passed away, and who bore o name well
known in the annals of the old seaport,
was long noted for the perfect regulari-
ty of her habits the year round.
One evening of every week she passed,
winter or summer, with a relative. At
a certain hour a hackman appeared
and drove her to the house of this rela-
tive; then at a quarter of 8 he called
again and took her home.
As time went on both Miss c. and
the driver grew older, and it was al
legged by their friends that while the
lady slumbered within the coach the
driver was equally sound asleep on the
box.
One evening Miss c. did not come
home at the appointed time, and the
domestics were thrown first into sur
prise and then into CONSERVATION by
this unprecedented occurrence. They
waited for some time, and then sent to
the house of the relative, where they
learned that their mistress had started
for home at a quarter to 9, as usual.
Still more alarmed, Miss C-'s but
Ter fastened to the house of the hack
man. Here all was dark but after re-
peated knockings he succeeded in
arousing the driver from whom he de-
manded the whereabouts of his mistress.
The driver struck his hand to his fore
head in sudden CONSERVATION.
"Bless my soulr' he cried. Miss
c. must be in the coach house."
And upon investigation it proved
that the lady, still asleep, sat in the
carriage in the coach house, whittier
she had been driven by her coachman,
who was himself hardly more awake
than she. The horses were put in, and
Miss c. was driven home.
When the coachman opened the door
at her gate, which was one of the civil
ties she always exacted from him, she
was pleased to remark:
John, you drive better every time /
ride with you. | never remember to
have come home so smoothly as I did
tonight. Youths Companion.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-06-19

W. S. Gilbert, the dramatist. writes
in the small hours of the morning, be-
ginning work at midnight, and often
keeping on until after the sun has
risen Like many literary men his
vein of composition will not flow by
day, requiring candle light to stir it
into activity. In preparing a hbretto
he goes slowly but surely.
Hitting upon one of his character
istic ideas, he turns it over in his mind
during many long walks and golitary
cogitatlOns, adding circumstances and
incidents as they occur to him. Then
he makes a rough skeleton sketch of
the plot, which he puts away.
A few weeks later this skeleton is
carefully written out in extenso, with
such additions and improvements as
may have occurred to him meanwhile.
This, too, is shelved for awhile, but
ultimately the perfect framework is
made. which only needs if such ex-
preston is allowed-the wedding to it
of the dialogue and songs.
1t is at this stage that Sir Arthur
Sullivan comes upon the scene, for the
writer has to keep the musicians needs
In view, and the composer must bear
the writer in mind. The writing of
one of their famous operas entails
much labor and endless consultation
upon he collabOrators. Playwright
and composer often see the morning
como i'm at the windows while they sit
over cigars and cigarettes, discussing
with the most anxious care points
which to others might seem of little
moment. But it is to this Ontiring
industry and care that they owe much
of their success. Sheffield Telegraph
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-06-19
FARM AND GARDEN.
EXPERIENCES AND OBSERVATIONS OF
VALUE TO WIDE AWAKE FARMERS.

Tho Construction of Bee Hives for Sim
plicity, Utility and Cheapness-An Illus
trated Description of the Poor Mans
Hive by One Who Has Tested 1t.
1t was said by a correspondent in
American Bee Journal some time ago
that the coming hive" was one that
would take a standard Langstroth frame
in size, with a wide. stiff top bar. An
apiarian, commenting on the foregoing
in the same journal at a more recent
date, gave his views on the subject of top
bars. He said: After using a top bar
7-16 inches wide for nineteen years
we know that, if properly made, they
will almost invariably prevent brace
combs. We will describe the hive and
top bars as we think they should be
made, and, to aid in making it plain, we
here present an illustration of the hive
and super.
We call this the Poor Mans Lang
stroth Hive on account of its cheapness.
The engraving represents a II story 6
frame Langstroth hive for comb honey;
the top raised above the hive being a
super, the same as the one at the left,
and has plain board top or cover. The
size of the brood chamber is 204x13gx9i
inches, outside measure, with scant s-inch
bee space above the brood frames.
The super is the same size as the brood
chamber, but is only AZ inches deep. and
it also has a bee space above the sections.
The edges of the hive and super are all
so,Iaro and rs>zt .se7,Iarely upon eacb
other, to do away with all dummies,
false ends, section holders, etc. We use
a combined wood and tin 7, and as the
supers are rabbeted at the top, the same
as the hive, and the T being half an inch
wide, there is good finger room to handle
the sections. A I is also used between
the rows of sections at the top to prevent
the sections from racking or getting out
of shape. When the sections are filled
they are perfectly square.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-06-19
Formation of Strong Wood.

A knowledge of the strength and dura-
bility of timber as influenced by the con-
ditions under which the same was made
is of great importance. 1t would greatly
advance forest tree culture if we only
knew the most suitable conditions for
making the best ash, oak and a. score of
other woods. The position trees occupy
in the wild state is not always a. guide in
making plantations. Because a tree
grows upon rocky cliff, it is no reason
why it would not thrive in rich soil. Is
it true that the more quickly wood is
formed the stronger it is? When we look
at the end'of log it is seen to he made
up of number of rings. These rings
are caused by unequal growth during
each season. y comparatively porous
layer'is made during the rapid growth of
early summer, followed by more dense
portion later in the season. 1t would
seem that the more rapid the growth,
other things being equal, the more por-
Gus would be the product
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-06-19
PLAN For DRAWING wATER.

A, represents the pump in well; B,
pump No. 2, in barn; c, pipe connecting
the two, fifty feet in length; depth of
well twenty-six feet. Three valves, placed
at d, E and F, using common wooden
suction pumps. The advantage of this
arrangement is apparent, as the well can
be located some distance from the barn,
thus avoiding filth in the water, and in
many places making one well answer
the place of two. three or more. The
length and direction of the pipe are imma-
terial, as common pump will draw wa
ter 900 feet and raise it twenty-five feet.
1t should have as few turns as possible,
as the friction in a straight pipe of ample
size is ha-dly noticeable.
The plan of placing the pipe highest
at the well is an advantage, as in case of
leak at that point the pump will not
lose its printing. In regard to the siphon,
the discharge must be lower than the
supply to insure its working. This plan
might be applied to the house well with
profit. Why not locate the well and els
tern pumps in the kitchen, and thus save
the housewives exposure to coughs and
colds in cold, snowy weather?
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-06-19

not speak, he cries out until all the ages
hear him: Father, forgive thcm, they
know not what they dol" Is there no
cmphGsis in such scene as that to
mako your dry eyes weep and your
hard heart break? VIII you turn your
back upon 1t, and say by your actions
what the JCws said by their words !:
His blood be on us, and on our chill
dren" What does it all mean, my
brother, my sister? Why, it means that
for our lost race there was fathers
kiss Love brought him down. Love
opened the gate. Love led to the sacri-
lice. Love shattered the grave. Love
lifted him up in resurrection. Sovereign
love! Omnipotent love! Infinite Lowell
Bleeding love! Everlasting love!
Oh, for this love let rocks and hills
Their lasting silence break:
And all harmonious human tongues
The SavtoUr's praises speak.
Now, will you accept that fathers
kiss! The Holy Spirit comes to you
with his arousing, melting, alarming,
inviting, yivifying influence. Hearer,
what creates in thee that unrest2 1t is
the Holy Ghost What influence now
tells thee that it is time to fly, that to-
morrow may be too late; that there
Is one door, one road, one cross, one
sacrifice, one Jesus? 1t is the Holy
Ghost.
My most urgent word is to those who,
ike the young man of my text, are a
great way off, and they will start for
home, and they will get home. They
will yet preach the gospel, and on com
munion days carry around the conse-
Grated bread, acceptable to everybody
because of their holy life and their con-
secrated behavior. The Lord is going
to save you. Your home has got to
be rebuilt. Your physical health has
got to be restored. Your worldly bust
ness has got to be reconstructed. The
Church of God is going to rejoice over
your disciRleship~ You are not gospel
hardened. ~Y0u~ ayssTe0t heard or
read many sermons during the last few
years. You do not weep, but the
shower is not far off You sigh, and
you have noticed that there is always
sigh in the wind before the rain falls.
There are those who would give any
thing if they could find relief in tears.
They say: "Oh, my wasted life! Oh,
the bitter past! Oh, the graves over
which l have stumbled Whittier shall
fiy2 Alas for the futurel Every
thing is dark-so dark, SO dark. God
help me! God pity mel" Thank the
Lord for that last utteranceA You have
begun to pray, and when a man begins
to petition, that sets all heaven flying
this way, and God steps in and beats
back the hounds of temptation 50 their
kennel, and around about the 60Or
wounded soul puts the covers of his
pardoning mercy. Harl1l l hear some
thing fall What was that2 1t is the
bars of the fence around the sheepfold.
The shepherd lets them down, and the
hunted sheep of the mountain bound
in; some of them their fleece torn with
the brambles, some of them their feet
lame with the dogs; but bounding in.
Thank God! Saved for time, saved
for eternity.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-06-19
a Story of Neil Cow.

A lady in London, who was very mu-
steal, wished to have party devoted
solely to famous musicians. She de-
sired to have Neil Cow there, and
wrote to a friend in Ayrshire asking
him to bring the Scottish strathspey
player with him. Neil accepted, and
being detained from travelling in COM
pany with his friend from Ayrshire. set
out for the metropolis alone. He found
great difficulty in getting to the house,
and arrived very late When he pre-
sented himself at the door the servant
put him into the kitchen and informed
her mistress that an uncouth looking
man was asking for her During the
servants absence Neil had espied an
old looking violin hanging on the wall.
Curiosity made him look at it, and he
found it had been played upon quite
recently. He struck it with his fingers
and it was in perfect tune.
Taking down the bow he began to
play Never had he heard such good
quality of tone On he played, and
when the servant returned he would
neither stop playing nor speak to her.
The rest of the company were alarmed
and proceeded to the kitchen. There
stood Neil playing away as if for dear
life The fiddle had enchanted him
and he could not leave it, The company
called to him to stop, but it was only
by holding his right arm that the music
ceased. Thereupon Neil sank upon a
chair and, wiping the perspiration from
his brow, said: Lord, mem. sic fid-
dle!" All that evening the company
enjoyed themselves, and always at in
tervals Neil was heard saying to his
hostess: Lord, mem, sic a fiddler"
His thoughts We're chained to it and
it is gratifying to know that he car
ried it with him to Scotland. -Ex
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-06-19

ROOTS OF PEACH TREE AFFECTED BY KNOT.
large enormously and soon become little
else than mass of decaying tissues. In
nurseries of young fruit trees great mis-
chief occurs. The peach and fig often
grow vigorously for one or two years
and bear fruit that drops prematurely,
then they take ON an irregular growth of
stunted limbs and small leaves. In the
case of all the varieties of the plants at
tackled the effect is TO deprive the STEMS
and leaves of food and moisture; the
knots grow, the branches do not. The
Illustration exhibits theroots of the peach,
with the engagements caused by anguil-
lula.
The disease nowhere extends beyond
$50 miles from the coast, and seems to
reach its climax in Florida. Places IA
vored with hot, dry summers and cold,
wet winters are not likely to suffer from
its ravages. Soil that is annually frozen
from to 10 inches is disinfected from
the worms. For this reason, it is thought,
some northern states with sandy soils
still escape this plague in their peach
orchards. In Texas it is only found
along the coast, and then only in wet To-
cations.
In the line of remedies a mixture Of
tobacco-dust and caustic lime applied tc
young peach trees appeared as near a
preventive of the ''knot'' as anything
that was tried. Nothing of value was
found for old bearing trees if badly af-
fected. Bisulphide carbon and satura-
ton of the surface soil with kerosene
emulsion killed the trees. Artificial fer
tilizers containing ammonia, guano, bone
and fish produce a rapid growth, soft
and easily attacked by the anguillulae.
Alkaline mixtures used several years in
succession have come nearest cure.
The addition of tobacco dust in large
quantities supplies nitrogen and makes
vigorous growth of roots and limbs
and seems to have considerable pre-
ventive effect ON the worms.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-06-19

A contemporary observes that
nothing soinspires singlelady with
courage as the sight of a meek and
lowly wife trying to make garden
with a pick-ax, while a fond and de
voted husband is blistering his hands
with fishing rod.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-06-19

JUST as sure az hot weather comes there
VIII he more or less bowel complaint in this
vicinity. Every person, and especially fami-
lies, ought to have some reliable medicine at
hand for instant use in G Use it is needed A
% or 5O-cent bottle of Chamherlain's Cole.
Cholera and DiarrhGa Re nedy is Just what
You ought to have and al that you would
need, even foI the most severe and dangerous
cases. II is the best, the most reliable and
successful treatment known and is pleasant
to take For sale by A. o. Gates.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-06-19

BUCKLEN's ARNICA SALvE.-The best salve
in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers,
salt rheum. fever sores, letter, chapped hands,
chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions and
positively cures piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed TO give perfect satisfaction, or
money reminded. Price 20 cts. per box. For
sale b. A. o. Gates. Morrisvile.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-06-19
THE ROOT KNOT DISEASE.
Statements Made About It by Florida's
State Entomolopist.

In report made to the division of
entomology at Washington the following
statements occur: Root knot is caused by
the microscopic worm (anguillula) and
not from want of some important ele-
ment in the soil or careless cultivation.
Under its attacks the roots of the okra,
radish, cabbage, cucumber, melon, cow
pea, peanut, tomato and egg plant en-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-06-19
To Those Who Save.
JUST CONSIDER THIS.

The following table shows the surpris-
ingly large sums which savings of one,
five, ten, twenty-five, fifty, and 100 cents
per day, compounded semi-annually, at
per cent, will amount to in 5, 10, 20,
and so years:
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-06-19
His Intentions.

She-Sir, what do you mean9
The Culprit (snacking his lips and
unabashed)-I mean to do ittagainhf L
get the chance Epoch.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-06-19
THE POOR MANS BEE HIVE.

The frame is the standard Langstroth,
except the top bar is 7-16 inches wide
and { of an inch thick down to tine
square. By looking closely at the end
par, standing at the left of the super,
it will lie seen that it is V shaped, but
the V is not as wide as the bar. Right
here is one of the advantages of it; the
bar proper being 7-16 inches wide, and
the V only 9-16 of an inch wide, we have
a flat square on either side of the Y
of of an inch When the comb is
built out it is not as wide as the top
bar, and the bees are not inclined to
draw it out and over the square edge of
the bar, as they do where the V is the
full width of the bar, giving a slanting
edge to run over. Do all see the point?
With the use of this top bar there will
be no brace combs, hence there is no
need of honey board.
The points of cheapness are these:
There are no honey boards, no extra
supers, crates and section holders; and nc
outside covers, or bands for tiering up,
etc. There is nothing 70 get but the
brood chamber, an eight frame super
and the sections, when you have COM
plete hive, and one that will give the best
of results for either comb or extracted
honey. -z-
Two supers viii make a brood cham
Der, and can be used for extracting from,
or one brood chamber may be placed one
on the other.