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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-04
KILLED BY ROBBERS.
A Prosperous Negro of Epson County
Murdered.

THoMAsToN, Ga, Feb. 8.-Dow Walker,
reliable and worthy negro tenant who
lives near here, was shot and instantly
killed at his home In the lower part OF Up
son county Wednesday night by parties in
masks. He was in good circumstances and
supposed 20 have money, and was shot after
refusing 10 comply with their demands for
money. Another negro who was visiting
the house was also shot in making his escape,
making the third party shot. Much ex-
citsment prevails over the outrage.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-04
A VIC Murderer Hnneed.

VI, sPRINeF1ELD, MASS, Feb. 3.-Waldo
W. Holmes, wife murderer, was hanged
~ 1925 o'clock this morning.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19
The Little Follows Answer.

The story of the rich mans selling all
he had and giving unto the poor was the
subject of discussion in a certain Sunday
school class not long ago. The teacher
was illustrating the moral that the les
son conveys. One of her most attentive
listeners was a little fellow scarcely 6
years old, but as bright as dollar, and
with a tongue that uses the queens Eng
lish in a manner that would make that
motherly old soul squirm if she heard it,
"Now," said the teacher very impressive
ly, ''if man is fortunate enough to
make 81 100000 i'll the course of his life,
it is his duty to give half of it at least to
the poor" Eyes" interrupted a prim
little girl in one corner, but how many
men make $1.00O,OOO in the course of
their lives?" There was a silence for
moment, when the little fellow chirped
in the caustic answer, Darn few
Utica Observer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19
Puzzled Over a Word.

I knew an OLD lady once who was great
ly puzzled about the word ''ridama-
daisy" Often she told me when she was
little girl in Ireland her mother would
say to her, Come, now, get your slate
and ridamadaisy and be off to school"
Now" she would say, 81 can under
stand why you call child's lesson book
primer or a preparatory or even a
chart, but never could understand
why our book SHOULD be called a sridama-
daisy"
The daughter had often heard the moth
er so express herself and had often Won
dered at the strange word as applied to
a lesson book, but one day, after hearing
her mother hold forth on the subject, the
daughter said:
Mother, don't you think you mean a
reading made easy?" The old lady
studied awhile and at last said: ''Well
l don't know but what you are right, but
1 can hardly believe that after studying
and puzzling SO long and never being
able to find meaning or solution for
that strange name, 'ridamadaisy,' that
it was so simple after all. Yet reading
made easy must be the proper word, but
what made you think of it?' why"
said the daughter, who was school
teacher, ga little boy came to me today
and asked me for a new pray paddy
book and it took me some time to find
out his pray paddy book was prepara-
tory lesson book, and 1 thought some
easy solution could be found for your
absurd 'ridamadaisy book and at once
I thought of reading made -
P. G.. Kelly in New York Advertiser.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19
The Crow as a scavenger a Fraud.

A curious result of the religious riots
in Bombay has been the exposure of the
hollowness of the plea that has been put
forth for the crow as scavenger. Lazy
governments in the east have been won't
to excuse their sanitary shortcomings on
the ground that ''the crow, the pariah
dog and the kite" may be relied upon to
clear away the offal in the streets, but
the smells of Constantinople and Smyrna
have not been observed to be much the
less because the dogs eat of the offal
thrown from the houses, nor has Jerusa-
lem or Cairo been found to be any sweet
er from the presence of the mongrels who
destroy the repose of visitors.
In like manner the Bombay crow has
failed to justify his ancient reputation.
During the Bombay riots, when the op-
erations of the city scavengers were
brought to standstill, dead vermin and
offal accumulated in extraordinary guam
titles in the bazaars and slums of the ma
tive quarters till the city became ''par-
adise for the crows" But the Bombay
crows entirely neglected this opportuui-
ty, and thus have come to be denounced
as ''sham sanitarians. London Tele-
graph,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19
The Time of Convalescenee.

Don't worry the sick ones in regard to
what they wish to eat. Fix up some
thing nice and tasty, serve it daintily
and reap the reward that capricious
appetite will grant-the reward of seeing
the eatables disappear merely because
they were a pleasant and unexpected
surprise. Next, do not allow every
friendly neighbor to run in and sit for
hours until the flushed cheeks and too
brilliant eyes of the patient tell the story
of an overdose of company.
Do not let your charge be too eager for
recovery-far better a week or more of
idleness than a precipitate activity that
throws the invalid back once more upon
the sick bed. Be cheerful always. Bright
en- up the room with gay flowers whose
odor is not too heavy, but never permit
them to remain in the sickroom over
night. Keep your patient tidy and the
bedclothes smooth and cool as possible.
Speak in low tones, walk with soft tread
and be ever watchful against the slight
est indiscretion. To mothers this sort of
nursing comes naturally, but there are
some who must be told, as they err
through lack of that gentle Judgment
that is the secret of sickroom victories.
Philadelphia Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19
Old Scotch Ballads.

The ballad period proper was from
400 to 100, although most of the
themes which form the nuclei of
the tales late far back into the pre-
vioUs ccntul .es. The theme itself al
ways remained the same, bat the
ballad changed as it paasrI from
mouth to mouth, so that very few
versions were ever alike. In the pop
ular ballad period the people knew
little of religion, and indeed were al
most pagan in feeling. Tie Chris
tan religion drove out the ballads
and replaced them by hymns. The
old ballads were a piece of nature,
products Of instinct, and had a weird
force which cultivated poems do not
possess. There were about 200 Of them
in all. They were never read, but rath-
er chanted on winter nights about the
fire in the rude cottages, while both
men and women sat around and knit
ted in rapt attention. - Professor
Thomas Davidson.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19
The Same Kind of O Fool.

Tie republic of Madagonia had been
long and well represented at the court
OF the KING of Patagascar by an officer
called a dazzle, but one day the Madago-
MAN parliament conferred upon him fhe
superior ranl, of dandee. The next dav
after being appraised of his new dignity
he fastened to inform the king of Pata-
gascar.
: "Ah, yes, understand" said the king.
''You have been promoted and given in
creased pay and allowances. There was
an appropriation"
"Yes, your majesty"
"And you have now two heads, have
you not?"
"Oh, no, your majesty-only one, as
sure you"
"Indeedl And how many legs and
armsY'
1.-TWO of each, sire-only two of each"
"And only one body?"
"Just a single body, as you perceive"
Thoughtfully removing his crown and
scratching the royal head, the monarch
was silent moment, and then he said:
81 fancy that appropriation has been
misapplied. You seem to be about the
same kind of blank fool that you were
yesterday. San Francisco Examiner.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19
Dainty DOggie.

A woman who was robed in dress OF
stylish make, and who showed by her
air that she was in the circle of the well
to do, was accompanied by little pug
dog. The street was somewhat muddy
from the water that had been lavishly
sprinkled upon it by the city's watering
cart. Little PIGGY ran into the street,
where he saw nice bit of bone, and
even his aristocratic breed and training
could not restrain kim from taking at
least a few bites of it. He was inclined
to bring the choice tidbit to the pave
ment, but his mistress forbade this, so
he dropped the tempting morsel and
skunk on to the sidewalk again.
! But in puggy's nibblings at the bone
he had muddied his little fattened out
nose. The woman scolded him as seri-
ously as though he were child. Hea,-
knowledged the business of the repri-
mand by dropping his aristocratic head
In remOrseful manner. His mistress
thereupon patted his head, and taking
delicate lace edged handkerchief from her
handbag, deliberately wiped dear, naugh-
ty little puggy's nose.-Boston Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19
Not q Lawbreaker.

1t was in the public garden. Two
pretty little boys were running upon the
edge of big flower bed and jumping
off, only to run up and jump off again,
while q nursemaid smiled at them en-
couragingly from bench under a tree
near by. After they had made the bank
like border very ragged, several of the
gardeners came by, and one of them
stopped to reprove the children. "See
here, stop that" said the man. $50 over
there and play under the tree"
'Why, we mustn't play there" said
one of the little boys with dignity.
"Can't you see that sign there to keep
off the grass?" And, entirely satisfied
with his own Difference of law and or
der, he went ON jumping on the flower
bed as soon as the gardener had passed
out of sight.-Boston Transcript.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19
HOW TO DARN STOCKINGS.
Useful Fit of Knowledge For the Fair

CSSluI LII OF hnOWleuSe TOT InG Il
Sex.
If there be a secrPt to successful darn
ing, it lies in ''runrEng" the thread of the
darning cotton SO Tar on each side of the
hole that V2oes not Immediately fray
and pull outof the goods. Take long
thread of darning cotton to begin with
and run it at least half an inch along the
goods on each side of the hole. Continue
this until the hole is snugly covered.
Now cross these threads in the regular
darning style, taking care that the same
precaution is observed. A stocking
harmed in this way will wear, as far as
the darning is concerned, just as long as
though no hole had ever existed.
To darn very large holes, such as are
apt to occur with even the most careful
steppers when shoes are loose at the heels
or are i'll fitting, something more than a
thread of darning cotton is necessary. A
case like this requires a patch. Such
holes almost always occur in the heel, so
that in treating of the method of mend
ing them it is safe to take the heel for
model.
From the leg of an old stocking, such
as is sure to be found in your basket, cut
kite shaped piece of goods about .
inches long and inches across. Turn
the stocking wrong side out and lay the
kite upon the heel, SO that the long
pointed end runs up the back of the leg
and the lower rounded part is at the
base of the heel. Run" down the cen
ter of the kite with a stout linen thread,
taking rather large, loose stitches. Now
run" in the same way across the kite
shaped piece, letting the thread be very
slack. The next step is to sew the patch
tightly to the heel, which Is done by
stitching it around the outside. If deft-
ly done Their unSape-neither wrinkle nor
crease to ten 'rYfg wearer that so impor-
tant an operation has taken ACE upon
the heel of the stocking.
Patches that are made of material 9th
er than bits of old stockings are apt to
be harsh. And it is by their use that the
patched stocking has fallen into disre-
pute among comfort loving people.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19
nal hand guided them. Now they bound


with the hilarities celestial.
The last time we saw them they were
wasted with malarial or pulmOnic dis
order, but now they have no fatigue and
no difficulty of respiration in the pure
air of heaven. How wonder when you
and will cross overl Some of you have
had about enough of the humping and
failing of this life. A draft from the
fountains of heaven would do you good.
Complete release, you could stand very
well. If you got ON the other side and
and had permission to come back, you
would not come Though you were in
vited to come hack and join your friends
on earth, you would say, mo, let me
tarry here until they come. l shall not
risk going bask. If man reaches heaven,
he had better stay there"
Oh, join hands with you this morn
ing in that uplifted splendor!
When the shore is won at last,
Who will count the pillows past?
In Freybourg, Switzerland, there is
the trunk of a tree 400 years old. That
tree was planted to commemorate an
event. About 10 miles from the city
the Swiss conquered the Burgundians,
and a young man wanted to take the
tidings to the city. He took a tree
branch and ran with such speed the 10
miles that when he reached the city way
ing the tree branch he had only strength
to cry, ''Victory!" and dropped dead.
The tree branch that he carried was
planted, and it grew to be great tree,
20 feet in circumference, and the remains
of it are there to this day.
My nearer, when you have fought
your last battle with sin and death and
hell, and they have been routed in the
conflict, it will be a joy worthy of cele
bration. You will fly to the city and
cry "Victoryp' and drop at the feet of
the Great King. Then the palm branch
of the earthly race will be planted, to be-
come the outreaching tree of everlasting
rejoicing.
When shall these eyes thy heaven built
walls
And pearly gates behold,
Thy bulwarks with salvation strong
And streets of shining gold?
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19
ODDS AND ENDS.
A Ry has 10000 ewes.

y
There are 240, 900 varieties of insects.
John Wesley's father was a country
clergyman.
At the equator the average annual
rainfall is 100 inches.
Pigeons were employed in the mail
service in Bible times.
Oblique finger nails are an indication
of deceit and cowardice.
An ocean racer burns about $4,000
worth Of coal every trip.
By sowing frugality we reap liberty,
golden harvest.-Agesilaus.
In New York the average number of
persons to a dwelling is 49,.
The favorite flower of the Princess of
Wales is the lily of the valley.
Do not clean the gravy ladle by scrap
ing it over the edge Of the tureen.
The heaviest British wood is that of
the box tree, which sinks in water.
A woman may be a mother" to all
the little waits in her neighborhood.
The longest bridge in the world, over
the st. Lawrence river, is 9,144 feet.
Pronounce the letter in words where
it occurs, as in EARN" girl, rubber"
In Siam the kings head has to be
shaved in the presence of the assembled
nobility.
The bones and muscles of the human
body are capable of over 1 200 different
movements.
A Chicago merchant has on exhibition
in his show window Il pair of live Japa.
nese babies.
There are one Chinese, one Portuguese
and one Cherokee newspaper printed in
the United States.
Oilcloth should never be scrubbed, but
washed with soft cloth in lukewarm
water, without soap.
In this world of change naught which
comes stays, and naught which goes is
lost.-Mme. Swetchine
The British museum has recently &C
quired Chinese bank note dating back
to the last years of the fourteenth CEN
4,,-,,- :, +l,o o11oe+ 1Dor1- ,,O{o 1-,,o1,-,,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19
How Newspaper Editorials Came to BE
Called "Leahers.''

When the editor Of a newspaper sends
his copy to the printer, directions are
frequently added in reference to the
style of type he wishes to be used, as
brewer" brewer lead" pronounced
led). bourgeois, bourgeois lead" ETC.,
the addition, lead" denoting that the
writing is to be set up in type of the size
indicated, with strips of lead between the
lines to keep them wider apart than
usual The editors comments on pass
ing events being always loaded" are
called i'll the printing office leaders,"
which was formerly pronounced lied
ers" The term leading article" arose
from misapprehension of the original
word
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19
They MAY Never MARRY.

One reason why the Russian caro-
WITT can never marry the Princess Vic
toria of Wales, with whose name the
gossips have connected his, is that they
are first cousins, and the marriage of
first cousins is strictly prohibited by the
canons of the Greek church. The heir
of the emperor of all the Russias could
not possibly ignore these laws if he de-
sired to do so. The young prince was at
one time, it is said, deeply in love with
the daughter of the Greek king, and it
was only these same obnoxious laws that
prevented their marriage.-New York
World.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19

ELECTRIC BITTERs.-This remedy is become
ing so well know and so popular as to need
no special mention. All who have used Elec-
trio Bitters sing the same song of praise-A
purer medicine does not exist and it is guaran-
teed to do all that is claimed Electric Bit
tiers will cure all diseases of the Liver and
Kidneys, will remove Pimples, Boils, Salt
Rheum and other affections caused by impure
blood.-Will drive Malaria from the system
and prevent as well as cure all Malaria fevers.
For cure OF headache, Constipation and Indi-
gestion try Electric Btters-Entire satisfac-
tion guaranteed or money refunded Price
Scots and 81, per bottle at II. j. Dwinell's
drugstore.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19

First of all, practice the art Of bring
ing the gun quickly to the shoulder so
that it will be exactly in line with the
eye. After proficiency is attained the
rest is simple. Fix your eye intently
upon the flying bird. Then bring the
gun into position, and if your practice
in this line has been good when you
quill the trigger the bird will drop.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19
Plenty of Gold.

In the Witwatersrand goldfeld, South
Africa, an experimental boring has Just
been completed to the depth of 2, 500 feet
for the purpose of testing the quantity
and quality of the auriferous deposits
there. The results are said to be most
satisfactory, and a Mr.. Scott Alexander
has based on them the following extraor-
binary calculations circumference of
basin, 400 miles, diameter, 1877 miles;
nrea. 1850 square miles, or 300, 71O, 272,-
DOO square feet. Taking an average thick
hess of eight series of blanket beds at 6
feet, equal to 48 feet, equals 16, 1874, O93,-
O56, 900 cubic feet of reef, or at Is cubic
feet to the ton, 1O,521, 433, 100, 900 tons.
At 30 shillings per ton, very low value of
gold, equal to e1,578, 196, 224, 900. TAX
ing the population of Witwatersrand at
10000 souls, this allows each e39, 454, 0O5
12s. Cd.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19
How to Deodorize Onion Kettles.

Onion or other odors can be removed
from cooking kettles by dissolving a
spoonful of pearl ash or saleratus in
water and washing them with it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19
"xybat n Eat noes We No Good,

How often this expression is heard.
Life destroying Dyspepsia has hold on
you when you feel thus, and should not
be trifled with. There is but one RENE
dy that can permanently cure you, DR..
David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy,
made at Rundout. n. Y, a vegetable
compound endorsed by the medical pro-
teSSiOn.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19

Wellsville, Allegheny county. in west
ern New York, hss 40 women asricultur
ists-all successful. One has a stock
farm. One was a housemaid; her broth
er failed on the old homestead: she had
saved money; she bought the farm few
years since, and all its belongings are re-
juvenated. -Exchange.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19

Rub the lather well with the hand to
ioften the beard, dip the razor in warm
water and hold nearly flat, giving Gid
ing or circular motion.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19

IT SHOULD BE In EVERY HOUSE,. B.
Wilson, 81 Clay St., Sharpsburg, Pa. says
he will not be without DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. that
it cured his wife who was threatened with
Pneumonia after an attack of La Grippe,
when various other remedies and several
physicians had done her no good. Robert
Barber of Cooksport. Pa, claims Dr. Kings
New Discovery had done him more good than
any thing ne ever used for Lung Trouble
Try it. Free Trial Bottles at II. j Dwinell's
drugstore. Large bottles, SOC and$10O.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoriaa
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19
Shutting Him on.

Mr.. Oldbeau growing romantic)-Ah,
how l wish had lived in the knightly
days Of old!
Miss Youngthing growing weary
Didn't Won MISUNDERSTANDING
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19
CHURCH DOORS.

But while half of the doors of the
church are to be set open toward this
world the other half of the doors of the
church must be set open toward the
next. You and | tarry here only a brief
space. We want somebody to teach us
how to get out of this life at the right
time and in the right way. Some fall
out of life, some go stumbling out of
life, some go grooming out of life, some
go cursing out of life. We want to go
singing, rising, rejoicing, triumphing
We want half the doors of the church
set in that direction. We want half the
prayers that way, half the sermons that
way. We want to know how to get
ashore from the tumult of this world
into the land of everlasting peace. We
do not want to stand doubling and shiv-
ering when we go away from this world.
We want our anticipations aroused to
the highest pitch.
We want to have the exhilaration of O
dying child in England, the father tell
ing me the story. When he said to her,
SIS the path narrow" she answered:
'The path is narrow. 1t is so narrow that
cannot walk arm in arm with Christ,
So Jesus goes ahead and he says, Mary,
follow" Through these church gates
set heavenward how many of your friends
and mine have gone? The last time they
were out Of the house they came to
church. The earthly pilgrimage ended
at the pillar of public worship, and then
they marched out to a bigger and bright
er assemblage. Some of them were so
old they could not walk without cane
or two crutches. Now they have eternal
juvenescence. Or they were so young
they could not walk except as the mater
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-10-19
SPECIAL, SPECIAL. SPECIAL.

can get more news out of THE PRESS in a
shorter time than out of any other American
newspaper. w. II. III. MILLER,
Atty.-Gen. l.. s., April, 1898.