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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23

city. 1t is large room completely
surrounded by packed ice and it is not
only very cold, but very dark. 1t
seems some delay was occasioned in
the burial preparations and the .sre-
mains were permitted to stay in the
dead house for two days. At the end
of that time the chief mourners among
his comrades, headed by an undertake
err in charge of coffin, approached
the place for the purpose of performing
the last sad rites due the dead by the
living. As two guards unlocked the
door to the dead house and the funeral
procession crowded in, they were hor-
rified to find the s'corpse' engaged
in sitting up on his cooling board, rub
bling his eyes and staring about him
in utter bewilderment, just as sound
sleeper does when he first awakes from
a long sleep.
The guards and friends quickly real
lied the awful situation and taking the
man who had so narrowly escaped a
living tomb they bore him to the hos
pital, where he was carefully treated
and was gradually brought fully back
to life.
Not fully satisfied with his first i'm
promptu Final taking off," Ridley,
some months later, took very sick and
once more proceeded to expire to all
intents and purposes, and was once
more consigned to the dead house, but
a careful watch was this time placed
over the body" and, as supposed
result of the exceedingly cool place,
the departed was finally observed to
be coming out all right again, and was
then rushed back to the hospital.
Ridley will say nothing about his
terrible double-death experience or his
past life, as he evidently breads the
matter, except that after both expe-
riences he admitted to a comrade that
he heard and knew all that was spoken
or done about him while in the frances,
and the horrors of being buried alive
were continuously in his mind,
although he was powerless to avert
the approaching doom that seemed in
evitable. He is very sallow, sickly
appearing man, and is now quite fee
BILE, scarcely ever leaving the home
grounds.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23
Thistle Pompons.

An exchange tells how to make
beautiful pompons for home decora-
ton:
Select a large, half-blown thistle,
and cut off all the green part at the
base of the blossom, just above the
stem. Hang the thistle in The open
air, exposed to the sun and wind, and,
in the course of day or two, the in
side downy part will expand into
full rounded pompon, or puff ball.
Then pull out the purple petals which
had developed into bloom when you
had selected the half-open thistle.
Hang up the pompon again in an airy
place, and in the course of a week 1t
will have bleached a cream-whlte.
These pompons are teathery ana
delicateIy pretty as swans-down. They
are q GREAT addition to Il bouquet, or d
basket of grasses.
Milkweed pompons are not quite as
easily made but are more silky ana
nearer pure white than the thlstles'
When the milkweed pods are ripe,
make n collection of them, and they
can be kept half year or more before
the pompons are made, if so desired
or the puff balls can be made at once,
as follows: Have some very fine wire,
sucb as is used for beadworl1, and cut
il into pieces four inches long. Dip
the nod in water, and then open 1t. 1t
will be found filled with many bundles
of web-like white fibres. Pull off
several of these and wrap the wire
around the ends which were attached
to the centre stem. Brush off the
black seeds adhering to the other ends.
Wire a number of bundles, as just de-
scribed. then with another piece of
wire. to wind round and round, put
them together as you would bouquet
of flowers, thus making a rounded POM
pom. City florists have these colored
a delicate pink, and they are beautiful.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23
The Well Bred Man.

Things that a well bred man doesn't
do:
He doesn't wear large check clothes.
He doesn' use perfumes.
He doesn't beg a woman's pardon
for neglecting to call on her
He doesn't criticize one woman to
another.
He isn't always trying to tell good
story or make a brilliant remark.
He doesn't make gifts that he can't
afford.
He doesn't try to turn a compliment
with every breath he draws in
wcmap's presence.
He doesn't use a crest on his writing
paper.
He doesn't take his women friends
into his business or love matters.
He doesn't ask to be allowed to
smoke in the presence of woman I'M
less he is morally certain she doesn't
object to it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23
JAMES RIDLEYS LUCK.
Twice Prepared for Burial, He Re
VlVed on Both Occasio1s

Twice Prepared for Burial, He Re-
Vlved on Both Occasions.
There is at present an inmate of the
soldiers home near Milwaukee who is
living victim of the horrors of pass
ing through a genuine trance, in
which mysterious cataleptic condition
people are occasionally buried alive.
fully aware of all that is going on
about them, yet unable to move or in
any manner indicate that thew are
alive. The victim of this strange con-
dition is named James Ridley, and
twice he has been "laid out" and
placed in the dead house, an artistic
and very complete private morgue
that is connected with the home Both
his supposed deaths occurred some
time ago, and as a general desire pre-
vailed at the place to keep the matter
profound secret the circumstances
have just leaked out and were incident
ally learned by journal representa-
tive. Ridley, who is quite an old vet
eran, suddenly died, to all appearan-
ces, and was removed to the dead
house to await burial. This is a place
quite similar to the regular morgue in
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23
me Great Chinese pnzzl0

imagine language devoid of gram
mar OF syntax; unhampered by delu-
slons' moods, lenses, or infections of
any kind; essentially monosyllabic: in
which the slightest change of pitch in
the voice completely modifies the SEN
tence; subject to no rules of logic or
construction; a language petrifed into
solid blocks, and representing human
thoughts as maniac represents a
picture; a language in which every
sentence is puzzle even to the sons
of the country; a language which once
written can no longer be read, but
must be scanned-and even then Won
have imagined but a few of the char
acteristic peculiarities of Chinese.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23
A Smart Thing i'm Fnrs.

Quite the smartest thing in furs is
the little sable cravatte, made of a
single skin intact, with the tail and
paws, all in black, and two shining
diamond or ruby eyes cleaning in the
crafty, pointed little head. 1t is just
large enough to hook closely about a
lady's throat, or when loosened in the
house rests apout her neck with the
lifelike little head on one shoulder,
and the tail and two tiny little paws
on the other.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23
Duly Warmed.

'Lookee here, Jim Shipton, 1 jist
want yer to understand who it is yer
sassin'," cried an irate Dakota woman
on the occasion of trifing connubial
ecologue between her husband and
herself.
81 jist want We to bar in mind that
it amt none O. yer common, low down
western woman yer talkin' to, but a
lady born an raised in the state O.
Mizzoury an used to good manners,
be gosh! A lady whose par was a
justice of the peace and one of the
prominentest men in the town-a lady
what useter sing in the choir, and
who never knowed what it was to So
ciate with the common run O. folks
till she TUX up with you, dem yer
picter! An don't you presume to
raise up an sass me as if yer was my
ek'al, Jim Shipton! Don't you dast
do itr'-Drake's Magazine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23
Making One's Self Scarca.

We should never give too much of
our society even to those who love us.
1t is well not to stay too long in any
company so as to leave regrets and il
lusions behind us when we depart
One will thus appear to better advan-
tage and seem to be worth more. People
will then desire to see you return; but
40 not crafty that desire immediate
~; make them walt for you, but not
too long, however. Anything that
costs too much loses by the difficulty
with which it is obtained. Something
better was anticipated. Or on the
other hand, make them wait a very
long time for you-then you will be
queen.-Marie Bashkirtseff.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23

THE latest volume of Lord Tennyson
though it comes from what the world
had come to regard as the dying
embers of extinguished genius, has al
the glow and vigor of his early prime.
The voice of England's greatest living
poet has not lost its music as it floats
down to us from the snowy summit of
his so years.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23
An Editors Tribulations.

A Tennessee editor pleads as follows
over the ills of newspaperdom: "How
can our readers expect US here, twelve
miles from a city. millions of miles
from heaven, about two miles from the
devil and only 200 yards from a
whisky shop, to get out a newsy,
lively and interesting paper?'
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23

A Russian physician named Portu-
galoff declares that strychnine is an
infallible cure for drunkenness adj
ministered in simultaneous injection.
He asserts that the experience of
r'f''-'V-srrrsr-srss siasEYn tiIss cure to be as
rapid as it is certain, The elloou ,r
the strychnine solution is to change
the craving for drink into positive
aversion, and this change Is effected
in day. After treatment OF eight
or ten days a patient may be dis
charged. The strychnine is admins
tered by dissolving one grain in 200
drops of water and injecting five drops
of the solution every twenty-four
hours -Journ al of Health.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23
AnUnfortunate Promise.

He-I am awfully sorry, Miss Mar
jorie, but your lips were so near-the
temptation-forgiye me. l promise
never to do so again.
She (tearfully anxious) = Never
again?
He (contritely)-
She with conviction not born of ex-
ence)-Then l am afraid we can
not be friends.-Scranton Cricket.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23

1St-NOt dollar is loaned without
the personal knowledge of some one of
the Board of Directors that the loan is
safe beyond question.
ID. 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.
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 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 a savings institu-
ton which will loan. its funds at home.
1t is needed that Vermont may not
become impoverished. 1t is needed for
the up anu IOsbtllll2 HOlIC Ill
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 a 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 S100O-were at the end of the first six
months of its business, S57, 1890, a
record without parallel, we believe, in
the history of Vermont Savings Banks.
4th. Under no circumstances does
this Bank take over per 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 per cent. The
Bank pays the State a 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 an
rests on no contingency. Interest,"
be compounded semi-annL6G
withdrawn.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23
Reducing Weight.

lola reports that his attempt to re-
duce his weight, which was very great.
by not drinking, resulted in a reduc-
ton of ten pounds in eight days. At
the end of three months he had lost
forty-fve pounds, and was in much
improved health.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23
News and Citizen

1t is safer to be headline man on
newspaper than head lineman of an
electric company.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23
They Were Business Men.

First stranger (burglar): what is
your business, sirP" Second ditto
(counterfeiter): Making stamps.
And yours?" First stranger: mime?
Oh, I've just opened savings bank"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23
'Well, what now?'

"Father, it's just lovely out to-day
so warm and so sunny; and, father,
my flowers are in bloom"
Your flowers-oh, the chrysan-
themum bed, hey? Well, that's good"
''Father, won't you come and look at
them? 'Do!'' very wistfully.
Come out? Not I. I've got some
thing better to do than to look at lot
of posies. There, run along, child;
now do"
She went very slowly and softly out
of the room, closing the door gently
behind her, but her heart was full.
Her song was silent now, and as she
passed the kitchen window she did not
look up and nod as usual.
She went quietly out to the hot
house and, selecting a small trowel,
knelt down beside the white chrysan-
themums and began loosening the roots
with tender, patient hands.
"She would have come to look" she
murmured as she glanced off to where
the white shaft of her mothers tomb
arose.
''She would have understood; per-
haps she will understand now if | say
little prayer"
Two hot tears fell on the pure bios
SONS as she gathered them up in her
apron; but they were not bitter tears,
she was too young for that. She
walked quickly across the fields that
separated the burying ground from the
house, and soon was by her mothers
grave. The field lark was chirping,
the goldenrod had brushed her cheeks
as she passed. her heart was lighter,
and she sang under her breath q sweet,
old-fashioned hymn.
At last the flowers were planted and
she turned to go.
A young man with q sketch book
under his arm stood aside to let her
pass. She looked up in time to see
him remove his hat, and encountered
pair of dark brown eyes. She colored,
and went on with quickened steps,
conscious of her soiled apron and
earth-begrImed fingers
He stood looking afrar bar stiIl
Win MS head barred. He was an
artist; the sight of the vouno civil
kneeling by the grave had Appealed 70
his senses.
He had seen the monument fro m a
distance and had come to inspect it,
without an idea of intruding; there he
had seen her, had sent one look into
those sweet, fower-li6e eyes, and had
let her go without one word of apology.
He saw her enter the farm house and
then retraced his steps,, reading first
the inscription on the monument:
Sacred to the memory of
Elizabeth,
Wife of Caleb Field
Who died Jan. - IS
Aged 10 years.
'He giveth his beloved sleep"
On the mound werc the freshly
planted buds. He stopped down lit
tie TO see if they were wilted, and he
thought he saw tear-drop in the heart
of one OF them.
poor little girl 1 was q brute to
come up like that; must tell MOTHER
Frank Wainwright had very good
and lovely mother, a mother who,
though devoted to her only child, had
been wise enough to train him nobly.
Their place was some two miles off,
among the most picturesque of the
Berkshire hills.
He almost ran to tho drive and
came upon his mother just as she was
descending from her carriage.
'Why, dear, what is itP' seeing him
so flushed and hurried.
Come into the house and l will tell
you"
In few words he told eagerly what
he had seen, and soft look came over
Mrs. Wainwright's gentle face. Fiji
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23
STOIE a GRAVE.
a Comrades Tough Stories on
Missouri Regiment.

Capt o. d. Evans of Peoria was d
member of the Grand Army committee
which inspected the soldiers home the
other day. says the Quincy "hlg'
and while notwithstanding with party
of friends told a couple of stories 10
explain the manner in which the
Eighth Missouri infantry gained the
reputation of being the biggest thieves
in the army. On one of their marches
they passed a plantation and IN a SORT
of a lean-to against cabin close 10
the road an old negro woman was
cooking corn pone and bacon. just as
the head of the regiment got abreast
of the shanty auntie went into the
house for something or other and one
of the boys slipped into the lean-to on
a foraging expedition. He examined
the stove and then called out disgust
edly:
''Boys, here's some mighty .good
grub but it isn't half cooked. ="
Hold on a minute; we'll help YOU
was the response, and he was joined
1ea-.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23

THERE are many ways of conferrlng
happiness. One is by sentencing to
life Imprisonment men who expected
to be hanged.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23

THE New York World truthfully re-
marks that 'Eany politician who OPP
poses ballot reform is doomed"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23
TO Those Who Save.
JUST CONSIDER THIS.

The Jolloooing table shotes The surpris-
ingly large sums aohich sagiags Of one, flee,
ten, t,oenty flee, .ffty and 100 cents per dag.
compounded semi-dRnually, at I per cent,
,oiH amount to in s, 10, 20 and so gears
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23


inc to the funeral services the Mis-
sourians came down the river In a
transport and landed to give Christian
burial to a comrade who had sue
cumbed to a wound received in a skirm-
ish the dav before. They found the
new-made grave, buried their dead in
it, and left. In a few minutes the
Wisconsin boys came along with re-
versed arms and muffied drums, and,
seeing the little mound of fresh earth,
one of them exclaimed: ''By -George,
somebody has stole our grave" And
they dug new one.
1t was the Eighth Missouri which
is said to have created the basis for
a story credited to half the regiments
in the service:
They had been in camp several day S
at some place in Tennessee when an
enraged farmer complained to the
colonel that his men had robbed him
of half his chickens.
"How many chickens did you have?"
asked the officer.
Fifty"
"And how many were takenP"
''Twenty-eight."
Then my men didn't have anything
to do with your chickens, my good sir.
You are on the wrong trail"
But l know they did,"
"Oh, but I know they didn't II
they had they would have taken every
blamed chicken on the roost.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23

DO you ask, "Where 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
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-23
CHRYSANTHEA.

She had come to lie Just as the
chrysanthemums do, with the falling
leaves, and like them, too, she had
bloomed as best she might without the
glow, the summer splendor or the
summer showers that other lives and
other flowers share.
She lived in brown farm house
among the Massachusetts hills with
her old father. Had she bloomed so
late in his life to give some color and
poetry to the autumn of his days, as
the chrysanthemum blows only to
light the fall of the dying leaves? 1t
must have been so, for he was well in
to the sixties, while she was barely
sixteen.
Years ago her mother had died, a
frail, lovely creature, who would have
given that other young life the joy and
love it needed so; but the child grew
without it, a hardy, cheerful little
thing, though not without a certain
usefulness at times in her great deep
blue eyes SO like purple flower. Old
Rachel, her fathers housekeeper and
her own faithful nurse, used to look al
her with wet eyes and shake her head.
at amt natural. She goes on sing
ing and laughing as happy as lark
all day; but what's to make her happy,
say 1? 1t amt her father, nor yet me,
tho | do love her, the dear, and she
amt got no mother no sister, no
brother, nor yet no lover, SO what's to
make her happy? 1t amt natural" she
insisted, as blithe voice rose above
the chatter of the dishpans as Rachel
hustled around the kitchen.
what makes you so happy, lamb?''
cried the old lady out through the open
window.
'Oh, Rachael, I've got such a lovely
lot of chrysanthemums; come out and
see; oh, look, lool1!"
.It's them flowers that make her
happy" muttered the old servant, as
she made her way through the kitchen
garden,
'Well, to be sure, Chriss, dear,
them do beat all. Oh, them is hand
sonnet
Aren't they just lovely? See the
great golden ones and the purple; those
are my favorite5, and this cherry and
white, and these pure white, too. those
are for mother" she said, lowering
her voice a little; ''they are the only
ones | shall pick. Rachael, aren't they
lovely?"
But Rachael only shook her head
and went into the house.
ITO think she loves them flowers so;
it amt natural, it amt; if it was
kitten now OF dog l wouldn't wonder
so, but lot of clinging asters, it amt
natural"
Natural or not, Chriss was very hap
Ply. She hun g over her newly bloom
ing pets nearly all the morning, then
a sudden cloud cine over her face.
She looked up with long sigh and
turned to the back of the house, where
two deep windows marked her fathers
study.
81 wonder now if I dare tell him
about them, he does hate so to be dis
turbed; but oh! 1 want him to see
those purple ones so much"
With one fond look at her glowing
bed she went in at the door. With
hesitating step she passed along the
broad, old-fashioned hall and raped
timidly at the oalhen door. Not ex-
pecting any response she went in and
sighed as she saw the gray, bent head
porting over an old book. A wood fire
smoldered on the hearth. She knelt
down and blew the embers, looking up
now and then with a smile.
There, there let it alone, child; it
is burning very well.'
ooh. father1 father, =-
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-05-30
THE ANGELS OF BUENA VISTA.

While the Mexicans were generally cruel
and vfndictive, some instances of kindli-
ness to their American foes have been re-
corded. The heroic character of the SOL
diery was much admired, as may be seen
in Santa Anna's language to Gen. Taylor
before the battle On his long march
through northern Mexico Gen. Wool found
the citizens Hospitality disposed, and a
touching incident of sympathy for the un-
fortunate foeman Is treated by the poet
Whittier in "The Angels of Buena Vista,n
where the heroine, Zimena, a young Mexi-
can woman, turns from the body of her
soldier husband, who fell under Santa
Anna, to give succor to a dying boy from
Tsylor's army.
Close beside her, family moaning fair and young,
soldier lay,
Torn with shot and pierced with lances bleedIn<
slow his life away;
But, as tenderly before him the lorn Zimena knelt
She saw the northern eagle shining on his pistol
belt
With stihed cry of horror, straight she turned
away her head;
With sad and bitter feeling looked she bac K
upon her dead;
But she heard the youths low moaning, and his
struggling breath of pain,
And she raised the cooling water to his parching
lips again.
Whispered low the dying soldier, pressed her hand
and family smiled
Was that plying face his mother'sf did she watch
beside her chidf
All his stranger words with meaning her woman's
heart supplied;
With her kiss upon his forehead, ''Motherr, muir
INJURED he and died.
GEORGE /, KuMER