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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05
Dressing and Shining Pon1tru,

In New York city there is an ordinance
providing that the crops of turkeys and
chickens offered for sale shall be free
from food and other substance and
shrunken close to their bodies In the
New York markets poultry is seldom
drawn, while that offered in the Boston
and New England markets is relieved OF
the entrails when the birds are killed.
The old New York commission firm of
Messrs. Ward give to their customers
the following directions: ''To insure
highest market prices the poultry must
be well fattened, crops emptied when
killed, nicely and well picked, thorough
ly cooled, but not frozen, Pack in boxes
with a layer of clean straw frye straw is
besD between the layers of poultry, in
the same posture in which the birds
roost. Mark each box, specifying what
it contains. Send invoice by mail. Ship
to reach destination about the middle of
the week, and never so late as 20 arrive
ON Saturday.
Thanksgiving is the season of greatest
demand for fine turkeys. Christmas is
the big season for prime geese. While
the largest sales usually occur during
the holiday season, from Thanksgiving
on until after Lent, there is brisk de-
mand for poultry. Capons command
the biggest prices directly after the sea-
son of venison, quail and other choice
game. Many keep their capons and fat
pullets back until about the LIST Of Feb
ruary
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05

ease. 1t is a remarkable fact that dur
ing all his service in the army and navy
the young American Indian was never
sick an hour
From Singapore he went with the
troops to Burmah, where he was sta
toned for some time. The horses used
by English soldiers in India are obtained
from Australia or New Zealand, and one
day Peter was sent to those colonies for
remounts. Returning to Burmah he re-
ceived a medal for honorable service
and was ordered back to England Ar
irving there he obtained classification as
an able seaman, and sailed on the royal
yacht Adelaide to Russia. He after
ward visited Spain, Italy and Malta
and cruised in Scotch waters.
A few weeks ago his time expired, and
securing his discharge he took passage
for America. At Quebec he learned
from an old family friend that his par
ents had removed to Indian Territory.
lie thereupln started west, and on arriv.
ing at Anadarl1a was royalty welcomed
by his father and mother. The three
then went to Arkansas City to meet the
two brothers who are at school. The
reunion was happy one, and the fam
lily spent a number of days together.
They are fine looking people, and few
would take them for Indians.
The story of Peter Garen's wander
ings is remarkable, considering that he is
but "a years old, and that he belongs to a
race which has been considered incapa-
bic of education or of self sustenance
under conditions of civilization. Hav-
irg passed through experiences equaled
by few, if any, white men of his age, he
also enjoys the distinction OF being the
only American Indian to serve as a sailor
on the high seas. During his ten years
absence he never divulged the secret of
his birth, and his old officers and COM
panions are today ignorant of the fact
that an Iroquois served the queen faith
fully on all the seas and on three CONT
nents
Young Garen says that he has had
enough Of foreign lands, and that he
viii spend the rest of his life in America.
He leaves in a few days for New Mexico
and Texas, where he expects to find en-
ploy1nent on some of the immense cattle
ranches. FRED L. WENNER.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05

Consequently it is well to accept with
gratitude and intelligent discrimination
any hints given for our guidance in the
matter of repose by those who have
made a careful study of the subject. In
this age of racehorse living and intense
competition no one can afford to miss
the slightest opportunity for conserving
his health. Rest is the great panacea fo1
a vast multitude of human ills; under
its benign influence mental strain disap
pears, and physical ailment ofttimes
passes away. Behind the curtains of the
couch care and turmoil do not follow,
and any one who can add by suggestion
or investigation to the charms of the 81
lent chamber of the night is deserving
universal gratitude, for sleep, as Sir
Philip Sidney says, is
+ the certain knot of peace
The batting place Of wit, the balm of woe,
The poor man s wealth. the prisoners release,
The Indifferent judge between the high and low
FRED G. DAYTON.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05
Hero and There.

There appears to be an increased dis
position ON the part of eastern farmers
to use commercial fertilizers for pota-
toes. They claim better yield with
fair, smooth skinned tubers than when
employing stable manure
There is as yet no satisfactory machine
for cutting cornstalks in the field. Self
binding reapers are used in some locali-
ties to cut the small varieties of corn.
but for large, fully matured sorts these
do not work well.
The New York Pigeon association will
hold its show Feb. 40, 1891.
Connecticut growers claim q heavy
yield of tobacco.
In New York city the demand is all
the while increasing for bottled milk.
Georgia's state agent says that the
COW pea grows steadily in favor as 4
renovating and forage crop, and the area
is increasing yearly.
The hop crop of the country at large
is decidedly short, especially in New
York, which state promises about Il
per cent. Of an average crop.
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kinds nine answered "that depends"
j. NJ. Hamburger said: & am an advo-
cate of extracting as Il financial con-
sideration; yet surroundings and lOca-
ton have something to 10 with it. !"
Dadant g Son answered: Extracted,
because you can produce more than
twice as much, and because you can
keep part Of the crop over from years
of plenty for years of scarcity"
G.. w. Damaree said: ''It has paid me
best to produce both honey in the comb
and the extracted article. And further,
all my students, or those who started
Bookkeeping under my teaching and ad-
vice, have followed my plan of produc-
ing both articles. and they all approve
of my plan. 1t pays a beelleeper to be
able to satisfy the market, and there is
a demand for both comb and extracted
honey. The editor replied: Produce
whichever your market demands or your
tastes dictate. To produce both would
give you greater experience"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05

than one-third of the worlds population
knows anything about Il ''bed, according
to our common acceptation of the term,
and the other fact also stares us in the
face that the duration Of existence is Io
greater among white people than among
the races we call barbarian. Indeed, en-
vironment, climate and opportunity
have as much to do with a mans mod
of sleeping as with the food he eats, the
clothes he wears or the social relations
into which he enters.
The Esquimau of the arctic regions
finds the bag of skin into which he
crawls full dressed satisfactory couch,
and ample protection against the rigors
of his climate. The natives of Japan,
both male and female, are satisfied 30
lie down ON the mating of their airy
rooms, with wooden rests beneath their
necks, and in weather of exceptional Sc
verify light blankets over their forms.
The Chinaman's low bedstead is provid-
ed with mats or quilted coverlets and a
pillow of bamboo. The East Indian
stretches out upon light portable mat
tress, which, when day comes, is rolled
up and put away in corner. He some
times affects the hammock, but this is
more particularly the resting place of
the South American Indian, whose hab-
itat is the banks of the Amazon. Swing
ing his couch between two trees, light
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05

older son, Peter Garen, who has been
absent in foreign lands for ten years
This family belongs to the historic ma
ton of the Iroquois, and though the
members have associated much with
white people, they still retain many
characteristics Of their race.
In 1880 they were living in little
hamlet called Caughnawago, on one of
the Canadian Indian reservations. That
year Peter Garen, Lad of IA, started
with an uncle on a peddling trip. The
two sold fancy articles of Indian manu-
facture and travelled through number
of states, making long stop at Denver,
Colo, and then going on to San Fran
cisco via New Mexico and Arizona. The
boy was i'll used by the uncle on many
occasions, and resolved to run away at
the first opportunity. When they reached
San Francisco an English fleet was lying
in the harbor.
Peter boarded one of the vessels and
enlisted. The squadron soon sailed for
home, and during the voyage the little
recruit suffered sea sickness, kicks, cuffs
and many other disagreeable things in
cidental to becoming a sailor. He went
on several cruises, touching at Liver
pool, Philadelphia, Halifax, Portsmouth
tnd London. At the last named place
he was transferred to training ship,
and sailed for Hamburg, Germany,
thence to New York and again back to
London. A wound he had received from
Mexican while crossing the plains be-
gan to bother him. and, having served
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05
PRESERVING BUTTER IN BhfNE.
How and Why Immersion in Brine Is
Practiced nv Ilutter IVnrI.nrs

How and Why Immersion in Brine Is
Practiced by Butter Workers.
A method of preserving butter by i'm
inersion IL brine for home consumption
and for export is thus explained: LAS
soon as the butter is ready for the market,
by the ordinary method of cleansing and
sailing, whether by key or roll, it is
divided into pound and two pound pieces,
according to tastes and demands, and
formed into rolls, and fine muslin is
wound round the rolls. The rolls are
then nicely set on end, one on the top of
the other, in a casl or barrel suitable to
the convenience of the butter maker.
When the barrel is full q cloth is nicely
spread over and tucked round the roll,
and whatever space remains between
the butter and the head OF the cask is
filed with coarse salt
The object of the salt on the top is to
keep the butter tight in it's place, and to
make good the deficiency of any brine
lost from leakage or evaporation. The
object of the plate is to keep the rolls of
butter tightly in their places and
thoroughly immersed in the brine The
up, and filled quite full of strong brine.
OF course only small quantity of brine
will be necessary, as it is only in the
interstices between the roll of butter
that it can find room, as the butter, hav-
ing already been sufficiently sailed in
the ordinary way, will absorb none of
the brine. The cask must, however, be
filed quite full, and securely bunged, SO
that no leakage occurs; for on the keep
ing of the barrel full of brine depends
the success of the method. When the
key or barrel containing the butter is
opened by the retailing butter merchant
the butter is not removed from the brine;
but the parcels are left in it until called
for by the consumer, when it is lifted
fresh out of the brine and handed to the
customer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05

TROPICS.
ing hereunder smudge fire to drive
away the insects of the night, and di-
vested Of all but the scantiest clothing,
he lies down to sweet dreams, possibly
as happy and contented as if his resting
place was the gorgeous chamber of an
American millionaire.
Farther to the south the unconquered
Araucanian of Chill despises even this
slight adventitious aid to repose. For
his women and children he provides tie
shelter of q roof. but seeks for himself
the open plain or III fountain side, covers
his form with his poncho, and in close
communion with mother earth waits the
sinking of the Southern Cross and the
dawn of q new day. In certain degree
the Araucanian style of sleeping is the
one most affected and preferred by the
cowboy and frontiersman of the United
States. These pioneers of civilization
prefer the springing grasses of the
prairie as a place of rest to the costly
and unsatisfactory accommodations Of
the infrequent log framed or sod built
hostelry. AS one of this class explained
W AAiO oOLlC J CeIS eiSO, w uSu L steep on
the ground hey enough air to breathe.
and amt got no call to be skeered about
bedbugs"
Yet these denizens of the frozen north,
of the snltry tropics, of the wide plainf
or of the Andean ranges make a fair
showing as regards longevity in compar-
lson with those who are hedged about
by sanitary rules. The longest lived
person known to have existed in North
America was an Indian of California
who died some months ago, at an age
approximating $50 years. He was called
Old Gabriel, and his record has been
traced authenticity back to the time
when the Catholic missions flourished on
the Pacific coast in the middle of the
Eighteenth century. Not until he was
over a hundred years of age did Gabriel
know what it was to sleep in bed, and
even then he did it but occasionally, and
always under protest. Yao Tsue, whose
demise occurred recently in one of the
suburbs of the city of Yokohama, is said
to have nearly reached the age of Ga
briel; yet, like the rest of his fellow
countrymen, his only pillow was wood
en- neck rest, and all his life he followed
the extremely unsanitary practice, uni
versally prevalent in Japan, of wearing
the same garments Gay and night
Examples along the same line might
be multiplied, but of course, as previ-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05

three years with the navy, he enlisted in
the royal artillery and was stationed at
Hilse barracks for eight months.
Then the troubles in Egypt began, and
young Garen volunteered to go with
Maj William draft to the land of mum
mics and pyramids. He served as
mounted trooper in the Seventeenth
lancers, and assembled the Nile with Gen.
Wolseley His father fought under this
same general in Manitoba in 1867, when
the halfbreeds defied the Canadian gov
eminent. Peter was in several battles
with the natives of Upper Egypt, and
saw many English soldiers perish from
wounds or disease. When Gen. Wolse-
ley returned to England young Garen
was among those detailed as an escort.
After a brief time spent ON English
soil he was assigned to duty in the East
Indies He was placed in the field artil-
lery, and stationed first at Calcutta and
then at Singapore. His description of
life in that country is very interesting.
The temperature, he says, is uniformly
high. and the air is like a breath from
an oven. The soldiers do their drilling
before sunrise, and during the day lie in
the barracks and have natives swing
large fans over them. The natives re-
ceive two cents a day for this service
The inhabitants of the lowlands are
small of stature and wear very little
clothes. Europeans are often attacked
with cholera in that country. From the
draft of 400 men to which Garen be-
longed over half perished with the dis
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05
THE ROBES OF SLUMBER.
HOW MEDICAL SCIENTISTS SAY
THEY SHOULD BE ADJUSTED.

HOW Medical SClEN Is s SAY
THEY SHOULD BE ADJUSTED.
The Intimate Connection Between SAM
tary Rules and Longevity-Yet Vast
Numbers Defy All Health Laws and
Some Live to Almost Fabulous Ages.
The inquiry recently undertaken by
medical scientists relative to the proper
methods of sleeping is one that cannot
fail to interest all, and may in the end
produce results highly valuable from
sanitary point of view, and even more
valuable as means of preventing dis
ease and prolonging life. No data have
as yet been formulated on which to base
absolute principles, but these general
propositions are at present advanced by
the gentlemen who have the subject I'M
der consideration.
Their first declaration of war is against
the feather bed, and in behalf of the
hard mattress which rests upon springs.
They also look with disfavor upon
double couches, declaring that health is
best conserved by solitary repose. The
sleeping room, it is further asserted,
ought always to give free access to the
air through an open window, or pref
erably ventilator. AS for the bed
clothing, it should be neither too light
nor too heavy. The hours for healthy
rest are said to fuctuate, according to
conditions and sex, from seven to ten in
number, a student being thought to re-
quire more sleep than person who la
bors with his hands, and woman con-
siderably more than a man. Neither
pillows nor the presence of a light in the
bedchamber are regarded with approval.
By following the rules above indicated,
it is asserted that life may be consider
ably prolonged in what we of the eau
casian race are pleased to term civilized
countries; yet the fact remains that less
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05

the two posts, thereby lessening the liza
bility to sag; the timber being buried
half Il foot or more beneath the hard
beaten surface is excluded from the air
and does not decay for many years.
An even more certain arrangement is
shown in the second figure, where two
pieces of timber are buried in such
position that the post cannot be moved
out of place without pushing those tim
bers lengthwise through the solid earth.
If the earth has been beaten around
them no force that can be brought to
bear can move them endwise through
the soil, and they will operate many
times more efficiently in holding the
posts from sagging to the right than fiat
stones placed sidewise, large stones, Or
sticks of timber with the middle placed
against the post.
Gates are very properly classed with
labor saving implements and machinery
by the authority quoted. Some of the
fields and Enclosures are entered many
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05
FARM and GARDEN.
SUBJECTS OF GENERAL INTEREST TO
AMERICAN AGRICULTURlSTS.

Various Modes Resorte-l to for the Pre-
vention of Sasging in Farm Gates.
Methods Suggested Eor Securing Gate
Posts from Displacement.
A very common trouble with farm
gates is caused by continued pressure
exerted against the post by the weight
of the gate, producing sagging. The
gate then rests on the ground at its
latch end, and is dragged over the sur
face on opening and shutting. Under
this rough treatment they soon wear
out. 1t becomes important therefore TO
secure the post from this displacement.
Various modes have been resorted to.
Country Gentleman calls attention to
the following: Very large posts foot
in diameter are used by some, and set
ting them four or five feet deep is
adopted by others.
The mode represented in the first fig
ure employs bar Of timber to connect
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05
Weary worn and discouraged,
Heartsick and hopeless and sad
4onglng for help and comfort
When mono can no had

When none can be had
describes the condition of those persons who
are said to he going down HILL :" or q going
INTO decline" There is an indescribable
weakness OF the system a general lack of vi
tality. They cannot tell what the matter is
with them. They only know that they feel
miserable in mind and body. They are
gloomy and respondent. They have tried
this and that remedy prescribed by the r
friends or the doctors. They have failed to
receive any benefit from them. They reach
the conclusion that there is no help for them
and that they must die. Now the fact is that
the trouble originates, in nine cases out Of
ten, in impure blood. There is POISONOUS
Gillette matter in it that ought to be got rid Of
But how can this be done? Simply by taking
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, which
acts on the blood and various organs of the
body in such way that the man or woman
using 1T seems to be made over.-recOnstruct-
ed. 1t is guaranteed to benefit or cure all
cases of disease for which it il recommended,
or money paid for it will be refunded.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05
PUTTING THE HILLS INTO THE HoL16

FCIIlNG The HILLS INTO THE HOLLOWS,
hills into the hollows. 1t is described as
follows by Ohio Farmer:
The complete line d, C, b is a much
Travelled highway intersecting another at
a. This road is just as nature made it
ana after being Travelled over for eighty
years it occurred to somebody, evidently
fifty years in advance of the rest of Port
age county, to cut off the top of it and
fill the hollows on either side. The hol-
low at b has been filled two feet, and at
d three feet or more, and the hill, which
is about ten rods long, has been lowered
about three feet, or a total average differ
ence between the former height of the
hill IS measured from the hollow Of
five feet. What was before quite hill is
now a slight incline, and one can turn
from a, which is level street, without
breaking trot or furnishing horse.
where previously it was necessary to
climb two hills, the small rise beyond b,
not shown in the engraving, being less
ened two feet by the fill at b. The dotted
line represents the new grade
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05

Thefollowing query has been answered
In The American Bee Journal: 81 am
thinking of keeping bees, and. desiring
to make it financial success, 1 would
like the opinion of leading apiarists upon
this question: AS profitable undertake
ing, which shonld be produced in an
apiary. comb honey or extracted"
-Four of the nineteen apiarians who re-
piled to the foregoing advised ''both
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05

The practice Of drilling corn for grair
crops is on the increase throughout the
country.
Butter IL defined by the oleomarpa.
r1ne law as the food product (which j,
made exclusively from milk or cream. O,
both, With or without common salt. and
with or without additional colorina
matter
Most practical farmers are now agreed
that level culture, at least during the
latter part of the season, is much the
best for the corn crop.
Experienced stock growers of Alabama
and Mississippi claim that it costs but
little more to raise mule than a calf
and that the former brings more than
double the money.
The standard of size in horse BREEDING
has advanced materially.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05
A BENEFICIAL INSECT.

All About the Dragon Fly. Its Habits
and It's Uses.
Few insects have received more popu-
lar attention than the dragon aies, as is
shown by the common names they have
received. We call them dragon flies,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05


REMARKABLE
family reunion
has just taken
place In Arkau-
S as City, Kan.
The participants
were Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Ga
rem, of Anadarka,
l. T., their two
S o ms from the
Chilocco Indian
schools and an
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05

SETTING A GATE POST SECURELY.
times day. Some entrances on every
farm are passed several times a day dur
ing most of the year, and with little
labor if good self shutting and self
fastening gates are provided. If only
ten times day, and for hundred days,
there would be thousand passings to
be made.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05
Utility.

OblIIty.
Dealer-These carpets can't be beat,
mum.
Customer-Huh Catch me buying
carpets that can't be beat. What dye
'spose | keep a husban for2-Good
News
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05
A Good RECORD. 81 bovesoId Cbamr

Cough Remedy for ten years" says druggist
L. B. Legg, of Vail, Ia. and have always
warranted it and never had a bottle returned
During the past 30 days | have sold twelve
dozen and it has given perfect satisfaction
in every instance" 1t does not dry up a
cough, but loosens and relieves it. 1t will
cure a severe cold in less time than any
other treatment. 80 cent and 81 bottles
for sale by A. O. Gates
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-02-05
FOUGHT FOR TIE QUEEN.
REMARKABLE ADVENTURES ABROAD
OF AN IROQUOlS INDIAN.

As a Sailor and Soldier in the British
tied in Egypt and Roasted in India.
Ten Years Absent from Home.
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