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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-16


He hasjust passed nv home with two
teams and two plows. For the dis
tance of half a mile he has cut two
burrows on the side Of road that Is
good by nature but not by grace Of
the average roadmaster The soil is
a clay loan that absorbs water easi-
| ~ and needs nothing but sufficient
leveling to permit surplus water TO
run over the bluff at the edges of the
road, and some gravel from the bank
near at hand spread in the centre of
the track. These burrows were cut
on the farthest side from the bluff,
and there Is no way for the water to
escape. Behind this man and his
plows came the road-scraper. throw
ing the earth that never should have
been plowed TO thecentre ofthe road.
where many hundred dollars worth
OF gravel has been placed. Isuggest-
ed 20 the gentleman that il would
be necessary to make sorne culverts
IN the depressions OF the roadway. to
allow the surplus water 10 escape.
lie said he had no funds to use for
that purpose this year; neither could
he gravel much of the road. When L
suggested that a few inches ofloose
earth on top Of the gravel bed in the
centre of the track would only make
the roadway worse for teamsters.
this public functuary said that this
would amount TO but little, as the
little earth he was throwing up would
soon wear Off
My road district claims TO have an
average intelligence, and yet such a
man as this has secured an election
as roadmaster. Without sufficient
levy, he proceeds TO throw up six inch
es of loose earth on n road-bed that
has had gravel for many years. This
might find an excuse were the edge of
the road removed so that water
would run freely Off the plateau. but
this man bitches the other side OF the
road, leaving the water in a ditch TO
our roadway and keep IL
well softened for thenarrow tires that
abound. l could see that his mind
was bent upon sinking his pillow in the
bluegrass sward that connects my
lawn and adjoining fields with the
Travelled track. By standing guard.
have saved this small piece OF high
way from the ruinous touch Of the
as he goeth TO and fro in
The earth and up and down therein.
seeking what evil he may do. He
has made but two mud-holes within
the farm lines, one near each, and We
draw a breath of relief.
1t appears that the time has come
.or the employment of business-like
methods in road work. If a private
had great system OF
roadways to construct, il would not
for a moment suffer the methods the
public employs. All taxes should be
paid in money, and skilled engineers
should eXpend it in an economical
manner. One mile, or three OF five
miles should be made permanently
good, but this will never be the rule
under the shiftless conditions that
obtain in many of our rStates.-Coun-
try Gentleman.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-16

A week later, and my house had
been so renovated, repaired, and to
some extent furnished, that L was
able to live in it with much comfort.
Tomorrow we will have that old
pump down and the city water-pipes
in" | observed 10 myself, spreading
my bands to the cheerful grate-tire
and relishing the contrast between
the growing wind without, finglng
snow-crystals, like powdered glass,
against the window-panes, and the
evenings coy warmth and light
within. Already / was picturing
Emily there by my side, her blonde
head. held aslant, to see that the
door and window hangings fell
even and in graceful folds, when there
confronted me, a damp, dripping
ghost, of that species known as Hy-
dropathicum Aquaessencens Nym-
phRaceR.
| could not have classed it so at
first, however. / was only conscious
that it was something's and misty;
immaterial, spiritual, as it fastened
two humid eyes upon me, and said,
in fog-like voice, as the water drip,
dripped from it's face ard fingers and
hair, '1t is a precious pump! A dear,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-16
A FROZEN GHOST.
BY NJ. CARRIE HYDE.

had just come into an estate, anG
was about to marry. The estate was
quaint and long disused. l was anx.
ious to inspect it. Fastening to the
city; in which it lay, | unlocked my
inherited front-door, with a heredita-
ry key, and entered into my posses
sion, with a colored woman, as ma
ior-domo, and a trio of colored chill
dren, like minor-domos at my heels.
1t was a handsome old-time resi-
dence, which | entered; built of that
satin-faced brick, imported by our
ancestors a hundred years ago, for
their most pretentious buildings, and
its circular contour, afforded an inte-
rior of curvilinear rooms, opening
one into another, with such a vista
of curved emptiness and echo, that
it flied me with kind of eeriness.
What has happened to the hall
fioor?" | asked, trying to overcome
this feeling as my major-dOmo led
me to the hall like the core of the
house-circle.
''Dey say, Sab, dar was quar- nois-
es under it Sab, likewise it was all
goan fur to tumble in, so they TUX
up the bouful marble floor, an stack
ed it in the backyard; will yo' see it,
Sah?"
YES" l responded, following her
out into what had once been a pre-
tentious garden; but was now, in De-
cember, but leafiess tangle of vines
and shrubs.
"He'ah dey is, Sah," she said,
pointing out to me, a pile of black
and of white marble tiles.
II will have them reset" l said, ex-
them, "they seem in good
order; now show me the kitchen" "
"Dat is in the cellar, Sab, right
down dar; | don neber liketo go dah,
Sab"
The u1inor-domos, sta1dinS near,
rolled their eyes.
"Give me the key" l said peremp-
torily, 81 will go alone" and soon,
my pocket-lamp, lighted, L was crop
ing my way about the musty cob
basement.
Never before, had | seen such a
old-time kitchen, with it's
huge ovens, vast fire-places, and a
cold-pantry, that could not be excel
led | entered another apartment,
small, close and "caticornered." 1t
was as black as midnight. My little
lamp did it's utmost to lap up the
darkness with it's tiny tongue of
flame. Something white stood in
front of me. / thought of the minor
domos and their rolling-eyes, then
ness, charged forward, and found it
only a pump, it's handle projected,
as if to ward me off; les spout, had
almost said snout, stiff set at me, as
if pointing my approach and resent
ing it.
"Go shake your ears" l said to
myself, quoting Shakspere, for the
first time in my life. Are you
donkey or a man?''
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-16

Bret Harte's young daughter, Miss .Iessa-
my Harte. will make her literary debut in the
July Ladies Home Journal with most en-
tertaining description of Camp Life in the
Adirondacks," in which it is claimed every
evidence shows itself of inherited literary ten
denotes not unlike those evidenced in Bret
Harte's earlier work. Miss Harte is girl
still in her teens and has artistic as well as
literary proclivities, as one OF the illustra-
tions accompanying her first article shows.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-16
NEWSPAPER LAWS.

1. Any person who takes paper regular
ly from the ofice-whether directed to his
name or another's, or whether he has sub
scribed or not-is responsible for the pay
ment
2 If person orders his paper discontin-
ued, he must pay all arrearages, or the pub
fisher may continue to send it until payment
is made, and collect the whole amount, wheth-
er the paper is taken from the office or not.
3. The Courts have decided that refusing
to take newspapers and periodicals from the
postoffice, or removing and leaving them un-
called for, is prima facie evidence of fraud.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-16
CAN EAT PIE

IT it is made with Cottolene,
the new pure substitute for
lard. Cottolene is simply
pure cottonseed oil and
pure beef suet, two of the
healthiest foods known.
Properly combined they
are better than lard for all
kinds of shortening, and
everyone can eat, digest,
and enjoy food cooked with
it. Food that was indiges-
tible when cooked with
lard is easily digestsd when
cooked with Cottolene, and
many of the leading house
keepers of the land say
they can make nicer bread,
rolls, biscuit, cakes, cookies,
ginger bread, pies, patties,
tarts, griddle cakes, cro-
quettes with Cottolene than
with either lard or butter.
Get it ofyour grocer and try
it. Beware of limitations.
N. X. FAIRBANK g. CO.,
SOLE MAKERS,
CHICAGO, and
s Central Wharf, Boston.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-16
National Council of Education.

The meeting of the National Coun-
ell of Education will be held in Sara
toga, N. Y, this year, July Tth to
11th. An effort is being made to Sc
cure more satisfactory results than
in recent years. The Council, while it
has elements of strength, at thesame
time magnifies the recognized pro-
fessional weaknesses, which will in
some respects be rectified at the Sara
toga meetings. The topics are {:
practical Culture of the Moral Vir-
tues" "The Uses of Literature in
Elementary Education" Grading
the Country Schools, +" promotion
and Examinations with Special Ref
erence to Loose or Rigid Systems of
Classification in City Schools" "The
Seminary Method of Advanced In
strucCion, Differences Between Col
lege Methods of Instruction and High
School Methods" "The Relation of
Normal School to other Institutions
of Learning" D." "Appreception," "Sys-
TENS of Physical Training, Their
Merits and Defects "The Relation
of Mnemonies Systems to the Guilt
vation ofPower of Thought, State,
County, City, and District Supervis-
ion," "Scope and Character of Peda-
gogical Work in the Universities, "
"School Hygiene and Exercise"
These topics are to be discussed by
some of the best men in the profession
and ought to be sensible and every
way valuable.-N. +. Journal of Edu-
cation.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-16
BurdOCkS.

Like all biennials, the burdock is
easily destroyed in cultivated fields
Its in by-places, as fence sides, lanes,
corners around the buildings, pas
lures, and around the borders of
woodlands, that burdocks give trou-
bic. But even in these they are not
difficult to destroy. Farmers who
go over their fields twice a wear with
the spade will soon have no burdocks.
In cutting them, care should be taken
to strike below the crown. Every
plant cut in this way must die. The
cutting may be done at any time OF
the year when the ground is not tro
zen, and it is of course more easily
done when the plants are young,
While it is not difficult to cut off a
small tap root with a spud, il is
much more difficult to accomplish
the same when the root has attained
a diameter of an inch or more. Two
or three years of persistent spudding
will remove all burdocks from the by
places of our farms. The borders of
stone heaps are most prone to be ne
elected, owing to the difficulty of
cutting the roots which grow amid
stones. But these places must not
be over looked when through work
is to be done. 1t is singular indeed
that a weed which may so easily be
kept in check should be so universal
ly prevalent. The alderman who
gives the order to have it cut but
once n year will never get rid of it,
nor will the farmer whose methods
are similar. There may be some eX-
cuse for the former, but there is none
for the latter.-Thos. Shaw, in Ohio
Farmer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-16

"Hhe making of sleigh bells IA quito
an art,' says AN iron founder. The
little iron ball is too big 10 be- but in
through the holes in the bell and vet
il is inside. How did IL get there q?
The little iron ball is called the iing-
let When you shake the sleigh bell
it jingles. In making the bell the
iinglet is put inside ~ ball Of mud.
just the shape of the outside of the
bell. This mud ball, with the jinglet
inside, is placed in the mould Of the
outside, and the metal is poured in,
which fills up the space between the
ball and the mould. When the mould
is taken Off you see n sleigh bell. but
it will not ring, as it is full of dirt,
The hot metal that the bell is made
of dries the dirt so that it can be
shaken out. After the dirt is all
shaken out of the holes in the bell the
little iron jinglet will still be in the
bell and will ring. IL took a good
many years to think out how to make
a sleigh bell.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-16
A. A. NILES,

A TTORNEY AT LAW, MoRRIsvILLE, VT.
IN Agent for Life and Fire Insurance. In
surance placed at lowest rates. Also PENSION
Claim Agent. Collections speciality.
OFFICE IN HALLS BLOCK.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-16

NEW YORK and Vermont References. Reg
IN ular Physician and Surgeon. Special at
ention given TO the treatment of Chronic and
Nervous Diseases. Office and Residence per-
manently located JOHNSON. VERMONT.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-16
BUSINESS CARDS.
G. w. DOTY.
PowERs s POWERS.

DRACTICAL UNDERTAKEN Finest goods
l. the market affords. Ice Dox and embalmer.
MORRISVILLE, VT.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-16
Have You Seen the
Burlington Weekly Free Press

since it was enlarged to twelve pages a week
1t is much improved by the change. We club
with the Free Press, both papers for $40
year. The Free Press win report doings of the
Vermont Legislature very fully.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-16
E. e. FOSTER,

MANUFACTURER and dealer in all kinds of
Nk Marble and Granite. Work Guaranteed
as Good and Prices as Low as any in Vermont.
Portland Street MORRISYILLE, Vt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-16

DENTAL SURGEON, JOHNSON, vt All
lbkinds of Dental operations skillfully per-
formed Special attention given to the painless
extraction CT teeth
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-16
GEO. s. CAHILL, M. ID.
A. w. SOULE.

SPECIAL Attention to diseases Of the Eye,
= Nose and Throat. Glasses fitted. Eyes
examined free 50 Pearl St.. BURLINGTON, Vt,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-16
AUSTIN BELKNAP,

A TTORNEYs AT LAW,
u Halls Block, MoRRIsvILLE, vt.
H. POWERS GEO. NJ. POWERS.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-16
GOOD PIE:

is much priced, but many
people can't eat pie because
of dyspepsia or dyspeptic
tendency.
Exya~-,LoJ,x
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-06-16
III. N. WAITE. M. d,

nEALER IN Butter, Cheese, Beans, and Pro
D visions. No. IT Fulton Street Boston.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-10-15

Let the young Democrats of st.
Louis, Of Chicago, of Southern
Illinois and Indiana, of Iowa and
Ohio look out especially for the
colonized voter and see that he
does not vote. In precincts where
the presence of the colonized voter
is suspected, let each young Demo-
crat make himself responsible for.
preventing at least one colonized
vote. Let them hunt up and spot
the suspects before election day,
and watch them on election day.
Let them keep an eye also on pur-
chasable voters and see that scamps
who forfeit their votes by selling
them are repelled from the ballot
boxes. Look after the wavering
voters and keep them in line.
There is no power on earth that
can subvert the will of the jAmeri-
can people when the people vigil
antly take the control of elections
into their own hands.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-10-15
THE AMENDED BALLOT LAW.

We this week publish on an in
side page sample ballot and as
much of the new law as pertains
to the marking of ballots by the
voter.
When a voter wishes to vote he
steps to the Judges table and gives
his full name to the officer in
charge of the ballots, which the
said officer shall write in full on
the main stub of the ticket and, Yin
this county, also on the secondary
stub.
The ballot and second stub will
then be detached from the main
stub and properly folded by the
officer and delivered to the voter
who then Immediately passes into
one of the voting shelves and un-
folds and marks the ballot, after
which he refolds it the same as
when he received it and delivers
it to the officer in charge of the
ballot box.
If the voter should in any man
ner soil or deface u ballot so that
it cannot be used he can return it
to the Judges and get another, un-
til he has had three when no more
can be had.
All marking or writing on bal
lots shall be done in black lead
pencil.
The emblem over the ticket will
be the same this year as last.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-10-15
A VETERANS OPINION.

Harrison Clark, of Albany, n. Y,
a union soldier who lost a limb at
the battle of the Wilderness and
who was elected department COM
mander of the Grand Army of the
Republic of the state of New York,
and served as such from February
1889 until February, 1890, is anoth-
er veteran who repudiates the
claims of the Republican party to
have a mortgage on the old soldier
vote.
In answer to letter from the
National Veterans Reform League
of New York city, he says:
"Dear Sir: L received your letter
of Sept. 30 and read it with a great
deal of interest, because it so fully
expressed the views which 1 have
for some time entertained.
I, too, find myself one of the large
and, believe constantly increas-
ing number of the soldiers of the
late war who have, down to the
present time, always voted for the
candidates of the Republican party
but can no longer support its nomi-
nees. In the present campaign l
see those in control of our grand
old party for whose principles we
have fought, and to maintain which
we shed our blood on many a field
making their appeal to the people
of this country to continue them in
Office as a matter of individual in
terest to each one, because, as they
falsely claim, it will put money in
the pockets of the people.
This is a great fall from the days
of 1861 to 1865, and a fall which
must be apparent to every think
ing veteran who cheerfully risked
life and limb that the Union might
be saved, without a thought of
gain or personal preferment.
Throughout the twenty-seven
years since the war closed the Re-
publican party has posed as the
only friend of the soldiers, and dur
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-10-15

ing the years just succeeding the
war it was natural that the veteran
who made his campaigns while
that party was in control should
take the same view and cast his
vote to keep it in power. The re-
suit of this course has been to raise
up a belief in the minds OF the
present leaders of the party that
the Republican party has a mortg-
age on the old soldier vote.
If the Democratic party had ever
shown itself hostile to the interests
of the veteran, if it had ever OPP
posed federal legislation looking to
a just reward for and recognition of
the services of the volunteer sold
iers, this theory might be true.
But when 1 consider that the DEM
ocratic party has always cast its
vote in favor of liberal pensions for
the disabled survivors and those
left by the dead in INDECENT cir
cumstances, am compelled to be.
lieve that the interests of the sold
iers are safe with any party; and
/ also believe that, therefore, the
time has long since come when the
veterans of the late war, not only
had the right, but it was his duty,
to give his attention to the prob
lens which are now before the
country for settlement and vote
his convictions on present issues
that he should no longer be the
only voter who casts his ballot on
the memories of the past, taking
no part in settling the living issues
of the present.
Believing that the interests of
the old soldiers are safe with the
Democratic party and Grover
Cleveland, who has always been
sincere, who has always kept his
promises, who has never held out
false hopes to any man or set of
men, 1 have come to the conclusion
that we old soldiers can safely take
sides in the present campaign on
the issues of the day, and shall,
therefore, like many hundreds of
the old veterans, cast my vote for
Cleveland and Stevenson.
HARRISON CLARK.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-10-15
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.

Two Presidential Electors for the State of Ohio
at large.
One person for Presidential Elector for the
First Congressional District of Ohio
One person for Presidential Elector for the
Second Congressional District of Ohio.
One person for Presidential Elector for the
Third Congressional District of Ohio
One person for Presidential Elector for the
Fourth Congressional District of Ohio.
One person ior Presidential Elector for the
Fifth Congressional District of Ohio.
One person for Presidential Elector for the
Sixth Congressional District of Ohio.
One person for Presidential Elector for the
Seventh Congressional District of Ohio.
One person for Presidential Elector for the
Eighth Congressional District of Ohio.
One person for Presidential Elector for the
Ninth Congressional District of Ohio.
One person for Presidential Elector for the
Tenth Congressional District of Ohio.
One person for Presidential Elector for the
Eleventh Congressional District of fOhio.
One person for Presidential Elector for the
Twelfth Congressional District of Ohio.
One lerson for Presidential Elector fol the
Thirteenth Congressional District of Ohio.
One person for Presidential Eector for the
Fourteenth Congressional District o Ohio.
One person for Presidential Elector for the
Fifteenth Congressional District of Ohio.
One person for Presidential Elector for the
Sixteenth Congressional District of Ohio.
One person for Presidential Elector for the
Seventeenth Congressional District of Ohio.
One person for Presidential Elector for the
Eighteenth Congressional District of Ohio.
One person for Presidential Elector for the
Ninteenth Congressional District OF Ohio.
One person for Presidential Elector for the
Twentieth Congressional District of Ohio.
One person for Presidential Elector for the
Twenty-First Congressional District of Ohio.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-10-15

THAT prominent Republican
leader of Indiana, William Dudley
Foulke, of Evansville, declared in
public speech the other night
that he would vote for Cleveland,
"because he believed that he would
restore the republic reformed and
purified to the people" The de-
fection of such influential leaders
as Judge Gresham and Mr.. Foulke,
of Indiana, has today demoralized
the faction in Indiana who still
follow the declining fortunes Of
Little Benny.-CIeVel0nd Plain
Dealer.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-10-15

HON. @. H. GROsvENoR, should
tell the people Of Logan tonight
why such men as Ex Gov. Cox, of
Ohio, Judge Gresham and Hon. w.
d. Foulke, of Indiana, Ex-senator
Farwell, of Illinois, Judge Cooley,
of Michigan, Hon. Wayne Nc
Veagh, who was Pres. Garfeld's
Atty. General; Hon. Henry L..
Pierce, Hon. VIM. l.. Garrison,
Charles Francis Adams, F. B. AID
rich and others of Mass, Hon. Carl
Schurz, of Mo-, and others, all of
them supporters of Harrison four
years ago are now ardent support
ers of Cleveland and Stevenson.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-10-15

For the radical cure of Indiges-
tion, Dyspepsia and general ner-
Vous prostration and heart disease
use the Diamond Vera Cura, u
cheap and reliable remedy. For
the sure cure of Rheumatism,
Neuralgia and Kidney disease, use
the Wine of Apocynum, these two
remedies / recommend as never
failing and procures relief if prop
erly taken and are at small ex-
pense, as such recommend them
to the afflicted.
FERDINAND F.. REMPEL,
Bazaar Store, Logan, O.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-10-15

IT is amusing to watch the Re-
publican organs trying to explain
the detection of such men as Judge
Gresham, Judge Cooley and ex-
Attorney General MacVeagh. They
would save much ink if they would
si..- P,y recognize the truth that the
decent men in the Republican
party are leaving it because they
are tired of being ridden with
whip and spur by self-seeking
Plutocrats.