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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-02
Time to Do Something,

"Don't you think, Maria" said a
fond father to the partner of his JOYS,
''don't you think it is about time we
pat little Freddie into some good
school%
eyes, indeed, L do, John. Why,
can do nothing all day long except
watch that boy. Only this morning
he threw the cat into the cistern, cut
the top off one of your new boots to
get leather to cover his ball with,
dropped your razor into the well,
spilled ink all over the parlor carpet,
and"
"Great Scott! Clean the cistern, buy
new pair of boots, razor and par
lor carpet all for one day! Something
must be done, that's sure"
eyes, John. He is so active. We
must be very careful in the selection
ec " 7ol'uul fur MN, ocar, 50 nIucn de-
ponds upon it, you know"
Eyes, | know. How would a re-
form school do ?'-American CONNER
eial Traveller.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-02

have seen all thy sorrows. In this, the hour
of thy extremity, l offer thee pardon and
eS erlasting life!
Trouble came. You were almost torn to
pieces By that trouble. You braced yourself
up against it. You said 81 will be a stole
and will not care; but before you had got
through making the resolution, it broke down
under YOU. You felt that all your resources
were gone and then Jesus came. Sin the
fourth watch of the night" the Bible saws,
'',Jesus came walking on the sea-" Whv did
he not come in the first watch? or in the Sec
ond watch? or in the third watch? / do not
know. He came in the fourth, and gave de-
liverance to his disciples. Jesus in the last
extremity
wonder if it will be so in our very last
extremity. We shall fall suddenly sick, and
doctors will come, but in vain. We will try
the anOdynes and the stimulants and the
bathngs, but all in vain. Something will
say: "Gou must CO., No one to hold US
back, but the hands of eternity stretched out
to pull us on. What then? Jesus will come
to us, and as we say, "Lord Jesus, | am
afraid of that water; cannot wade through
to the other SIDE" he will say, "Take hold of
my arm;" and we will take hold of his arm,
and then he will put his foot in the surf of
the wave, taking us on down deeper, deeper,
deeper, and our soul will cry: "All thy waves
and pillows have gone over me-" They COW
er the feet, come to the knee, pass the girdle
and come to the head, and our soul cries out
Lord Jesus Christ, | cannot hold thine arm
any longer" Then Jesus will turn around,
throw both his arms about us, and set us on
the beach, far hey Old the tossing OF the bill
lows. Jesus in the last extremity.
That wedding scene is gone now. The
wedding ring has been lost, the tankards
have been broken, the house is down; but
Jesus invites us to a grander wedding. You
know the Bible says that the church is the
lambs wife, and the Lord will after while
come to fetch her home. There will be wine
enough at that wedding; not coming up
from the poisoned watts of earth, but the
vineyards of Gods wine press their ripest
clusters, and the cups and the tankards will
blush to the brim with the heavenly vintage,
and then all the banqueters will drink stand
ing. Esther having come up from the bac-
chanalian revelry of Ahasuerus, where q
thousand lords Toasted, will be there. And
the queen of Sheba, from the banquet of
Solomon, will be there. And the mother of
Jesus, from the wedding in Cana, will be
there. And they all will agree that the
earthly feasting was poor compared with
that. Then, lifting their chalices in that holy
light, they shall cry to the Lord of the feast:
Chou hast kept the good wine until now.''
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-02
One Of North Dakota,s Senators.

In 1873 rather NATURE looking
young man was employed in the secre-
tary's office of the United States SEN
ate. He was under so years of age,
but close study and hard newspaper
work had made him look older. He
was quiet, digniticd man and was
known as "Gir' Pierce among his in
innate friends. His duties as Assist
ant journal Clerk threw him i'll con-
tact with the Senators, and he made
many friends among them. Later on
he Joined the editorial staff of the Chi
caGo Intcr-Ocean. President Arthur
appointed him Governor of Dakota
Territory. lie is now one of the newly
elected United States Senators from the
State of North Dakota.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-02

Anna Teresa Berger, the premiere
female cornetist of the world, has &C
cepted an engagement at Covent Gar
den, New York, for the eighth season
of Freeman Thomas's promenade con-
certs at salary of $3.50 per week.
After the holidays she will make a
tour of the British isles and then 60 to
Paris, Berlin and Vienna. Nine. Ber-
ger, of the once celebrated Berger fam
lily, was married to Leigh Lynch about
ten years ago, and with all the men,
bers of the famous musical family re-
tired from the stage with fortune
and fame at its height. Less than
three years ago her little daughter, a
marvellously beautiful child, who gave
promise of unusual musical talent,
was stricken with diphtheria and died
the following day. The shock, it was
feared, would dethrone the mothers
reason, and all other expedients fail
ing, her friends induced her to resume
her music, and an engagement was
secured for her to open the Cincinnati
Exposition of 1887, Mime. Eta Ber-
ger Breeze, her sister, who has a fine
soprano voice, accompanying her.
Afterwards tour was made around
the world in the hopes of finding dis
traction, and when Mime. Lynch ar
rived in London her sorrow still
weighed upon her and she decided to
remain there. She dresses in the deep
est mourning, makes frequent visits to
girls schools, where she spends most
of her leisure vainly searching among
the bright young faces for an image of
the one she has lost. Often she car
ries dolls and books, which are given
to these little people, and no beggar
girl has been known to appeal to her in
vain. She has a small mushroom
fitted up in her London quarters with
padded walls and draped doors, and
here she practices day and night on
one of the several gold comets that
are the gifts of sincere admirers.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-02
A PhiianthrODiSt.

Tramp ''Thank you very much for
the lunch, mum; but could you spare
me twenty-five cents?"
Woman-"Mercy! What do yor
want with twenty-five cents?"
Tramp-"Well, don't want it for
myself, mum. I'm just collecting a
little money here and there, the same
as the rest of the profession, and when
we get enough we are going to found
a home for destitute tramps. Judge.
They who have read about every
thing are thought to understand every
thing, too, but it is not so; reading
furnishes the mind only with materials
of knowledge; it is thinking that
makes what we read ours. We are of
the Eliminating kind, and it is not
enough to cram ourselves with great
Dad of cole ctions-we must chew
them over again.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-02
A Master Stroke.

Managing Editor-''See here, Quill,
it is the custom when prominent per-
sonage visits this country to send re-
porters down to meet the steamer to
ask said parsonage, What do you think
of American
Quill-"Yes."
M, E.-:'Well, I've got big idea.
I'm going to send you over to Liver
pool, where you are to take up your
residence, and whenever prominent
man or woman is coming to this coun-
try you are to obtain an interview
with 'em before or after embarkation,
and ask the question, 'What will you
think of America when you land "
and cable reply at once. See?"
Quill-"Big idea! That'll scoop
'oDn '-RoStnn COnrinr
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-02

Long before watcrtight compart-
ments were built in the ships of the
''civilized" world, the Chinese divided
the holds of their ships by water-tight
partitions into about a dozen distinct
compartments with strong planks, and
the seams were calked with a cement
composed of lime, oil, and the scrap
ings of bamboo. This composition
rendered them impervious to water,
and was greatly preferable to pitch,
tar, and talow, since it is incombust-
ible, This division of their vessels
seems to have been well experienced,
for the practice was universal through
out the empire.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-02
A Wise Bird.

Customer-''I have been cheated. l
thought you said this parrot would
talk"
Bird Fancicr-"No sir. What !
said was that he had been brought up
in the company of learned men, and
was full of philosophy and scholar
shin. OF course, he don't talk. Mere
idle words have no attraction for him.
Rnt he's a remarkable parrot because
he's great thinker" - Munsey's
Weekly.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-02
A Good Judge of Distances.

Clara Cat breakfast tablet don't
think there is much, if any difference
between Observation-Disclosures and rev.
erie; perhaps the latter is a more
dreamy condition. Now, last night:
for instance, when George was here, l
dropped into reverie, and / seemed
TO have gone miles and miles into
Greenland before" Tommy Gin
terrupting)-'1'll bet there was only
ono Ian to the mile. ''-Itichmond Dis
MATCH
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-02

Miss Chestnut-Ilave YOU and Cla-
renee set the day?
Miss Walnut-Mr. Callowhill and |
are strangers.
Miss C--Why --
Miss WE were on train. We
went through tunnel. OF course l
was frightened, and chung to Mr.. Cal
IowhilFs arm and -
Miss C.--Clarence didn't pre-
sume?-
Miss W.-No, Clarence did not pre-
sumo. :,
Miss C.-The mean thing! don't
blame you, dear.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-02

The difficulty in keeping the softer
ears of corn has undoubtedly led TO
wastefulness i'll its use. The old
fashioned way was to throw this corn
on the ground and leave the hogs to
knaw the grain off the ears. This
was wasteful in several ways. 1t
made the pigs teeth sore, the nutri-
ment in the cob was lost, and the grain
being daIap often soured on the pigs
stomachs and gave them indigestion.
There is probably no food harder to
digest than this soft corn. Cows or
sheep that have a double digestive
apparatus handle it best. Cows eat
corn with the cob and are able to
digest most of it. Sheep will pick the
grain off the cob, but they digest so
much better that they will benefit
from this feed more than any other
farm stock. But the better use of soft
corn is TO spread it thimly, so that it
will dry out, and then grind corn and
cob together, mixing in enough oats to
enable the mill to pulverize the cob in
stead of merely reducing it to chunks.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-02

than Is the present system. 1t is bet
ter TO cover the joints where tile meet
with gravel, putting stone above this
II desired, up TO near the surface,
where the sewer is made very deep,
Drains thus laid below the reach of
1fost are practically indestructible so
long as the outlet is kept open. As
everybody knows, city sewers are al
ways getting out of order, and have
to be taken up. There are, however.
some kinds OF trees that should not he
planted along street drains with open
tile. Elm and locust are of this class.
But maple, mountain ash and horse
chestnut, which are most likely to be
planted along city highways, are not
likely to interfere with the sewers.
A writer in Gleanings in Bee Gull
ture asks the question elbow fast do
humble bees fiy?" and answered by
relating an experience in England
many years ago, on an engine which
was going at a rate of nearly sixty
miles an hour, which was chased by a
pumole bee that found no difficulty in
going around the smoke stack several
tunes at this almost incredible rate of
speed. While the bee was going with
the engine it must exceed the mile-a-
minute rate. The report SAYS this
was kept up six or eight minutes, dur
ing which time the engine passed over
as many miles. This seems an incred-
ible story, entirely at variance with our
experience with humble bees. We
have often outrun them, and, in fact,
the bee rarely chases any one more
than fifteen or twenty rods, usually
much less distance.
1t is also easily thrown off the track.
Perhaps the bee lighted on the smoke
stack, and was carried by it without
being seen. If this occurred for even
five minutes while the train was going
at such rate of speed, the humble bee
would never reach its home, but be
hopelessly lost. We cannot believe
that bee of any kind can fly as fast
as is here reported. Probably with
bee in full pursuit the observer became
excited, and did not distinguish be-
tween the bee trying its scing against
the smoke stack, and an Infatuated
enemy pursuing him with greater velo-
city and ferocity than bees ever did be-
fore.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-02
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
AGRICULTURAL NOTES AND HINTS
FOR THE HOUSEHOLD.
How to Make Farm Work Easier and
Home Brighter.

When COW is thin, and especially
If she be losing flesh, her milk cannot
be rich in fat, and what there is will
make poor butter and come slowly.
This is the trouble that many farmers
find at the beginning of Winter.
Cream that coGld be made into butter
In fifteen or twenty minutes has now
TO be churned an hour or more. The
remedy is to feed the cows more
heavily, and with something that will
increase fat as Well as milk flow. If
the cow be worth keeping as a mixer
she will not dry up and become beefv
under such treatment. If she does it
is fair warning that she is worth
more to the butcher than for the dairy.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-02

If the farmer continues to chop up
cornstalks and other coarse feed by
hand, he need not wonder if his SONS
take dislike to farming, and quit it
at the earliest chance they find for
some pleasanter employment. Many
a young man leaves the farm because
he has liking for machinery, and de-
sires to engage in work where he will
direct the forces of steam or horse
power, rather than do anything with
his own muscles. Such young man
is just now especially needed on the
farm. More and more is skill with
complicated mechanism needed in the
ordinary operations of the farm In
a few years we believe that majority
of farmers will find it profitable to
keep a steam engine to saw wood, cut
fodder and furnish power for many
operations now performed by hand.
More than one boy has acquired per-
manent distaste for farming from be-
ing required hour after hour to turn
grindstones or swing the revolving
churn.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-02
THE FOLLOWING is A PARTIAL LIST OF
OFFERINGS d REAL ESTATE

One 1soAcre with fair dwelling suitably
ed into ge place and running
mill within onhld me soil strong and productive and farm would be
s1co year.
buildings good soil 5000
$50 dollars down, balance 50 dollars
Dwelling village location buildings
ance so dollars Good premises.
Building village. enterprng
dollars labor will
furnish the timber lumber stone brick single andlme
whewh to build respectable house. and allow payment therefor to be made
according to land taken
Block" Price 81 100000 down. balance 100 donars
Sixty Johnson This lot land and not
subject to taxation but subject to an annual rental Of M wiz sell my
miles of sawm bad hills between mill and lot and is represented to
$50 dollars stumpag reserved until am paid
Tewcty Farm situated % miles from Hyde Park village
land soil
good orchard cuts 80 tons hay plenty
of wood and timber for farm use fences far buildings CONSISTING and g
well waed and well located good farm for an
the list at at which price will sell Terms $500
balance $50 dollars
Park village distance Norrve II acres Of land new
fol s4OO-15O dollars balance so dollars
saw-Nzi. smaley mill about two miles from Hyde
k and for the psst few has sawed addition to custom saw
AGO thousand feet of market lumber 1t is the only
of Hyde Park and the custom saving from that
this MILL there being other than Morris
Park Johnson 1t good mill for some enerpsng
mill with which support himself and fm
y better than farm worth
times what ask for the MILL wit down. balance O dol
70 Acres Land the John Gray farm nsa.
the villages
three miles either
the most successful and thrifty farm
cultivation the
worth menonng nearly levels has good apple extra
the latter containing about 500 Is and
buildings
with basement under the WHOLE
built year beer
o. which kitchen, woodsh
No these buildings
situation pleasant; main road Price,
lt50 secured, balance 81
possession given Immediately; hay wTn&A
An examination of the property will show, bell
placed valuation below what good judges would appraS
determined to close it out and relieve myself of thu
earliest practicable Parties desiring safe an
will find this property well worth their exam 1ch
their either of the parcels of above
offered, confidently recommend as CHEAP The above
described lots.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-02

through the drawing-room and parlors
twice week with a fine cameps-hair
dust brush for cleaning china of the
Dresden style, and chamois cloths to be
used on glass and bronzes.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-02

The Pail Mall Gazette records freak
in the way of handwriting. A little
oirl of four years writes with her left
hand and writes her words backward,
ga thew are reflected in mirror from
ordinary writing. Her friends have
TO read them by means of LOOKING
glass. The child was taught writing
with a sister, but would do things IN
her own way, with the result that she
writes fiuently in this fantastic STYLE
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-02

The battle is not always to the
strong, nor the race to the swift, Nei-
Their is the good done in this world the
work only of the strong and the well.
The lesson of the sick-room, and that
taught by the invalid, is often more
potent than those set forth by the
strong man of eloqucnce in the pulpit.
1t is not necessary TO be robust in or
der to set an example worthy the fol-
lowing, or stout of lungs in order to
guide the erring and the weak. There
are, in this and all cities, and in lone
" hamlets and ionelier homes, remote
from other dwellings,, women invalids,
whose life is one great lesson of pa
thence, forbearance and resignation.
For those brought into contact with
the lives of these frail sufferers, these
martyrs of the sick-room ale as mis-
sionaries preaching silently, yet elo-
quently, the gospel of patience to tur-
bulent spirits, in a way to reach the
heart.
In the sufferings of others one finds
contentment with his own lot. Who
has not felt the benign influence ex-
erted by the enfeebled, bed-ridden
woman who so cheerfully and uncom-
plainingly accepts her lot and-endures?
1t is given to few men to suffer and be
strong. But many women are there
who can do this. Patience under bod
lily affiiction is a prerogative of the
gentler sex, not of man; and, to the
suffering sisterhood it can be said that,
in bearing their burdens, as so many
fair invalids do, they make the bur-
dens of others the lighter. This re-
thorns that beset their pathway.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-02

fatal shock.-First Dude.-'IGreat
scotti Sartor, the tailor, is dead!"
Second Dude--''Ya-as; no wonder;
he had fit"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-02
FEMININE FANCIES.
MATTERS OF INTEREST FOR OUR
WOMEN READERS.
Short Bits of Gossip and Latest Notes
of Fashion.

What is the life of fashionable and
emancipated lady? Here is a specimen
of the days routine:
She plays with the children.
She gives orders to the cook and
other servants.
She arranges for the reception of
visitors, expected and unexpected.
She takes a turn at Herbert Spencer.
She settles a dispute between butler
and gardener (the gardener had "given
orders" to the butler).
She confutes the French governess
who complains of the eldest daughter.
She soothes the boarding-schooI mas
ter (the curate had been presuming).
She pacities tenant who wants his
rent reduced, and doesn't like being
bitten on the leg by pet mastiff.
She goes for a drive with her hus-
band.
She opens a music hall and makes a
speech.
She reads the bible to a sick woman
i'll the parish.
She receives her guests.
She explains to her husband why
the fish isn't up to the mark.
And then, perhaps, she writes an
article for a monthly magazine. No
wonder that nervous exhaustion is be-
coming as frequent among hard-living
women as govt among hard-drinking
men.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-02

TllfI III Will ilNsAis >
warmth to what it covers heaily II
is not so good as earth, because coarse
manure is usually more porous. ne
proper place for porosity Is INSIDE
rather than outside. A straw OF coFI-
stalk bank against a pit or cellar Is
excellent if covered with earth to keep
a snace of air that does not move next
the article to be protected. But II the
earth shows signs of freezing dry, as
If probably viii, few barrels OF Water
thrown on it during the coolest Weatn-
or will freeze into sheet, and erect
uallv prevent Tie ingress of cold air.
Tt has always been a mystery to us
why the smaller sewers Ill cues are
made of tightly-jointed and giazea
pipes, when common tie sucii 20
nsed by farmers in draining their heitiS
would be every way better. Inc on
ieet of the glazed and Jointed pipe Is
10 nreyeut dirt from entering ana NIL
inol If M so as to make 1t useless
Water Is admitted through openings
connected with the surface, and these
are nrotected by gratings so course as
practically to be no protection "Iat-
ever If field tile were used, even
without stone leading to near tiIe SUI
face. natural water ways Woulu De
onened in the soil, through WhiGh water
,ronId filter. relieving it OF all It's llh-
purities. ,d ord also
be far less likely to clog INC So"'
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-02

When Mrs. Louis Sherry's house is
completed she will have, perhaps, the
most beautiful ballroom and banquet
hall in New York. Located ON the
corner of Thirty-seventh street, every
advantage is afforded for superior
ventilation and stained-glass effects.
The ballroom, which is in Thirty
seventh street, is so feet square and 40
feet high, and rooted with dome of
stained glass to harmonic with the
decorations and through which the
glare of the electric light will be soften
ed. At one end of the room is the
musicians balcony, over which is to be
a sounding-board and under which
Chesterfield seats and cushioned divans
will be placed for the dowagers.
The finishing of the room will be
done in white and gold after the court
of Louis XVI; the walls will be draped
with ivory and pale-green brocade, and
the hangings will be of heavy tapestry
cloth. Besides the dome lights there
will be sconces of French gilt along
the side walls, and the floor viii be as
perfect as it can be made. Adjoining
is the supper-room, of colonial architect
ure, to be finished in enamel and gold.
The banquet hall is to have pink in
terror, and for tea and lunch parties
there is a suite of three smaller rooms
to be known as the pink, yellow and
blue parlors. These apartments will
be decorated after models by CALVERT
and Salambier.