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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-01-25
ALL FROM A POKER CHR.
Why a Ran About Town Was Made to Feel
Down in the Mouth,

Down in the Mouth.
The other day gentleman well known
about town came down the street look
ing very much out of sorts. He carried
SO much gloom in his usually cheerful
face that his friends were almost afraid
to ask him what the matter was. There
are some of our dear fellow creatures
who i'll this respect are as transparent as
glass. They go around with a sign hang
ing out, I'm out of sorts this mornings"
or Tn just feeling bully; got my deal
through or THE devils to pay up at
my house; I'll dine out today sure;' or
eff l catch that fellow I'll lick him." or
Give got note to pay today" or some
thing Of that sort.
Of this mercurial kind was this partic-
ular gentleman. He had the motto due"
sign out to such an extent that you
couldn't have distinguished it from
death in the family"
"The truth is" said he, VIXEN pressed
little more sympathetically than usual,
I've had it hot this morning up at home.
You know | used to play cards some be-
fore | was married, and l got into a
pretty bad hole afterward AMI swore off
after a row with my wife. She has kept
pretty stiff watch on me since. She is
always afraid I'll get to gambling again.
During the campaign 1 was out q good
deal, and I've been short of money ever
since the election"
There was a touch of sadness in the
admission that would have gone straight
to the heart of my friend, Colonel Swords,
but which drew only a derisive smile
from the speakers auditors.
while out west the other day l found
a red poker chip on the floor OF my room
and thoughtlessly put it in ~ pocket.
Well, that COMPOUNDED chip fell out this
morning just after had been compelled
to refuse my wife some moi. = l had
forgotten all about it.
What's that?' she screamed, pounc-
ing upon it like rat terrier on q mouse.
There's where your money goesr she
cried. And if [ didn't catch it! She
wouldn't listen to a word. She wouldn't
believe q word. She acted ike a crazy
woman, tell you. Then she wound up
with Mysteries and fears. finally had
to make clean breast of tie election
business to get out of the other hole.
Now, my wife is a redhOt Democrat, and
when she found I'd lost L-y money on
Harrison she braced up right away. She
believed that
8 1t served yor right said She But
you're a bigger fool than l took you to
be-
There it is-all from picking up a
poker chip! I'll shudder Whenever see
one hereafter, but I'll never touchi it, you
betr'-New York Herald.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-01-25
A Brave Little Girl.

81 had an experience Mt Sedalia the
other day that gives me a cold chill
whenever | think of it," said Frank
Hardcastle as he Joined group of story
tellers in the corridors of the Lindell.
my wife and five-year-old daughter ac-
companied me on my last trip. We Sun
dayed ut Sedalia, and during the after
noon drove out TO the cemetery. Natu-
rally our conversation drifted to a little
daughter we lost year ago. One of the
first things TO attract our attention after
we entered the cemetery was an open
grave, dug for child. We walked up
to it and stood for some moments look
ing at it. The memories it evoked were
painful indeed, and my wife broke down
and cried bitterly.
Little May took me by the hand and
led me out of earshot of her mother;
then she said, while her chin quivered
and her eyes filed with tears, Papa,
why don't You put me in, cover me up
and take mamma homer was astound-
ed. ! bent down to kiss her, and she
whispered, Tell mamma goodby for me;
can't do it. The child actually thought
that we had come to the cemetery to
bury her and that she was standing be-
side her open grave. 1t was the most
magnificent exhibition of nerve | ever
witnessed. st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-01-25
A "RulIdop'' Calf,

Mule footed hogs, wonderful NAL
formed sheep live mastodons and sea
serpents are all thrown in the shade by
the reports which come from Ireland of
a bulldog" or dragon" calf. The
creature is the offspring of 2-year-old
Jersey heifer belonging to Colonel Doud,
of Marcus Landing. A front view of the
monstrosity, when it's body is hidden
from sight, instantly suggests the pres
ence of a good sized bulldog. 1t has the
dropping red lips, the cropped ears and
bony head in perfection. The fore feet
seem to be a cross between claws, paws
and hoofs. The hind ones are calf hoofs
all right enough, but they are turned the
wrong way, the result being that the
creature appears to have the tail on the
wrong end.
A side view of the head, especially
when the calls mouth is held or propped
open, reminds one of the pictures of the
old oriental dragons, the enormous, lid
less, staring eyes adding to the resem-
blance. Some accounts of the freak say
that it has the ''wool of a dog on the
forequarters and the regulation Jersey
hair behind" There is no noticeable
difference in either the color or texture
of the beasts hairy covering. One odd
thing is double row of what are said
to be real dragon scales along the
belly.-St. Louis Republic.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-01-25

THE 3cr0ng a00H,
with Catarrh, is to stop it without
curing it. The poisonous, irrita-
ting snuhis, strong caustic solutions,
creams" balms and the like may,
perhaps, palliate for a time. Bat
they may drive the disease TO the
lungs. The wrong way is full of
danger.
The right way is a proved ono.
It's with DR.. Sage's Catarrh Rem
edy. II cures, perfectly and per-
manently, by its mild, soothing,
cleansing and healing properties,
the worst cases Of Chronic Catarrh.
1t has proved itself right, thou
sands of times, when everything
else has failed.
And this makes its proprietors
willing to prove that it's the right
thing for yolh, no matter how bad
your case or Of how long standing.
If they can't cure your Catarrh,
they'll pay you $500 in cash.
They mean it.
They're certain Of their medi-
cine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-01-25
A Gathering of PLAYERS

AT a gathering of players one of the
party told little tale that amused them
all 1T was in London that heard it."
said he. Three actors were dining to-
gether, and one of them left the table n
little early. Poor old Hicks says one,
thinks he can play Hamlet! Why. he
isn't up to melodrama' That's So. says
the other 4 saw him do a serious part
once, and it was the funniest thing of
the season. Well, / must get to the
theater Good night. old man. The
one who was left at the table gave him
good night, and as he watched him re
ceding down the room he folded his arms
across his breast and soliloquized: Poor
old Fitz! Thinks he can play Iago The
audacity of that man is sublime.
After he had smoked up his cigar he
likewise arose and stalked out Then
the waiter ran his fingers through his
hair, rested on his right foot, put his
hand into his waistcoat. and in Irving
esque tones exclaimed for his own bene-
fit: These youthful popinjays fancy that
they-they, forsooth!-have learned the
art of acting. Now, when | was in the
legitimate But just then he caught
the landlords eye and began to clear
away the dishes. New York Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-01-25

Ten days ago Il woman III this city eel
cbrated her silver wedding anniversary
in some rather remarkable circum
ltances. She wore the dress, wreath
veil and slippers of the initial fote. Hel
mother also appeared in the same cos
tume-purple velvet with point lace
flounces-which had graced her daugh
ter's marriage twenty-five years ago
Her four bridesmaids and four grcoms.
men were all present. Her two sons
came home from Yale for the dinner
With the exception of the death of q
young infant in her carly married lifC
there had been no breal, in the family
circle for these twenty-five years. rec
ord for which Que may well be grateful
Her Point of View in New York Times,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-01-25
The Holy Number.

Seven was considered holy number,
and throughout the Scriptures is fire.
quently used as such. The seventh son
of a seventh son was formerly looked
upon as gifted with miraculous powers
of healing the sick. In fact, it was be-
leved by superstitious people that he
could effect cure by merely laying his
hands ON the sufferer.
Even to this day this form of supersti-
ton has not died out, as one may occa-
lionally meet with these so called natural
doctors who believe fully in the marvel
bus powers ascribed to them.-New
York News.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-01-25
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number of bottles of DR. Kings New Disc overy
for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, which
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Recreation Department
of The Christian Union.

furnishing
of
of
COVERING ANY LOCALITY IN THE WORLD is furnished
helpful circulars and timetables will sent
with descriptive printed matter issued by the railway steam
addressed
AstorP Place. ewY York.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-01-25

For pains in the chest thereis moth
ing better than q flannel cloth satura-
ted with Chamberlain Pain Balm
and bound on over the seat of pain.
Ii will produce q counter irritation
without blistering. and isnot SO disa-
greeable as mustard; in fact is much
superior to any plaster on account
ofits pain-relieving qualities. Ii used
in tine it will prevent pneumonia.
so cent BOTTLES for sale by A. o..
GATES, Morrisville, HOLMES &CowLEs
Johnson.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-01-25
THE PRESS,
SO PARK ROW, NEW YORK.
$500 REWARD

We will pay the above reward for any case Of
Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia, Sick Hcalache,
Indigestion, Constipation or CustiVeness we
cannot cure with Vests Vegetable Liver Pills,
when the directions are strictly compiled with.
They are purely Vegetable. and never fail TO
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es, containing 30 Pills Is cents beware Of
limitations. The genuine manufactured only
by THE JOHN &. WEST COMPANY CufCAgo,
ILL. Sole by all Druggists.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-01-25
SEASHORE, FOREST, Ind MOUNTAIN !.

HE publisher of this paper has made special, and for
this locality exclusive arrangements by which we are
able to offer to readers, WITHOUT EXPENSE,
u the full service of the
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-01-25
CHILDREN IN HEAVEN

But, look! Wonder is the playground
of the children. Children do not wanta
throne. A throne would not fit child.
There they are on the Fairgrounds of
heaven-the children. Out of the sick
cradle of earth they came into this
rOmping mirth of the eternal play
grounds. 1 clap my hands to cheer them
in the glee. YOndCr are the palaces of
the martyrs, and before their doorway
the flowers, crimson as the bloody mar
tyrdoms through which they waded up
into glory. YondCr is Apostolic row,
and the highest turrct is over the home
of Paul. Here is Evangelist place. YOn-
der are the concert halls ii which the
musicians of earth and heaven are TAX
ing part-Handcl with organ, and David
with harp, and Gabriel with trumpet, and
four and twenty elders with voices.
And an angel Of God says: Where
shall l take you? On what street Of
heaven would you like to live? What
celestial habitation would you like to
occupy?' And l answer: ''Now that l
have got inside the wall made up of all
manner of precious stones l do not care
where you put me. Just show me where
my departed loved ones are. l have seen
the Lord, and next want to see them.
"But here are those with whom toiled
in the kingdom of God on earth. They
are from my old parishes at Belleville
and Syracuso and Philadelphia and
Brooklyn, and from many places on
both sides the sea where Ihave been per-
mitted to work with them and for them.
Give them the best places you can find.
l will help steady them as they mount
the thrones. 1 Will help you burDish
their COrOnets.
Take these, my old friends, to as good
rooms as you can get for them in the
house of many mansions, and with Win
dows looking out upon the palace Of the
great King. AS for myself, anywhere in
heaven is good enough for me. Halle
luiah to the Lamb that was slain" But
| awake. In the ecstasy of the moment
my foot slipped from the layer of amo-
thyst, that so called producer Of dreams,
and in the effort to catch myself the
vision vanished. And, 10, it was but a
| dreanl
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-01-25

The Foundations and the Twelve Wonder
full Stones-Ancient Superstitions About
tie Amethyst-And This Is but the Out
side of Heaven.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-01-25

were wrong in thinking that q cup Of
amethyst would prevent inebriation.
THE HEBREW SUPERSTITION.
But standing on the top of this amc-
thystine layer of the foundation Of the
wall Of heaven | bethink myself of the
mistake that many of the ancient He
brews made when they thought that the
amethyst was producer of pleasant
dreams. Just wear piece of amethyst
over your heart or put it under your
pillow, and you would have your dreams
filed with everything beautiful and en-
trancing. No, no. The style of pillow will
not decide the character of the dream.
The only recipe for pleasant dreams
is to do right and think right when
you are wide awake. Conditions of phys
ical disease may give a good man night
mare, but man physically well, if he
behave himself Alright, will not be trou-
bled with bad dreams.
Nebuchadnezzar, with eagles down
under his head and Tyrian purple over
it, struggled with bad dream that made
him shrek out for the sOothsayers and
astrologers to come and interpret it..
Pharaoh, amid the marble palaces of
Memphis, was COMPOUNDED by dream
in which lean COWS ate up the fat COWS
and the small ears Of corn devoured the
seven large ears, and awful famine was
prefgured. Pilates wife, amid clouds
of richest upholstery, had startling
dream, because of which she sent mes
sage in hot haste to a courtroom to keep
her husband from enacting a judicial
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-12

TITO LET-Brick house, No. Deering Place.
u containing 10 rooms. Apply to BENZ.
SHAW. 81 "a Exchange street, or H. F. NC
ALLISTER, No. Deering street. 6tf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-12
no the Stockholders of the PORT
land Water Company.

A %EETING Of the Stockholders of The
~ Portland Water Company Will be held at
the office of the Company. No. 33 Plum street
on WEDNESDAY, the thirteenth day of De,
cember, A. D.. 1893 at 10 o'clock in the fore
noon to act upon the following business:
First-To choose any necessary officers of
said meeting.
Second--To see what action the Stockholders
vii. take in reference TO the cost of the repairs
to the reservoir on Munjoy Hill, and the report
OF the experts upon the repairs to said reser-
vof.
Third-To see what action the Stockholders
will take in reference to the dana ges author
lied to be paid by the Directors arising from
the bursting of the reservoir on Munjoy Hill.
Fourth-To see what action said Stockholders
VIII take in reference to certain contracts
agreed upon between the Dir ctors Of the said
Portland Wafer Company. ami the directors Of
lhe Standish Water and Construction Company,
and the matters therein set FORTH and whether
they viii authorize and approve Of the making
execution and delivery OF thu same and such
eonFeyances as may be necessary to carry the
sa g into effect.
Fiftli-To transact any other business that
may legally come before them.
dec5d7t d. w. CLARK, Presd ut.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-12
HAWTHORN Dixie, WIMBLEDON PARK

All the golden dir is full of balm and bloom.
Where the haw!horns line the shelving dixie
with flowers.
Joyous childreIs born of April's happies:
hours.
High and low they laugh and tighten, know
ing their dot1n-
Bright as brof-,o bless and cheer they know
not whom,
Heed not how, but washed and warmed with
suns and showers
Smile ard bid the sweet. soft, gradual banks
and powers
Thrill with love CT sunlit fire OF starry gloom
All our moors and lawns all round rejoice, but
here
All the rapturous resurrection of the year
Finds the radiant utterance perfect, sees the
word
Spoken, hears the light that speaks it. Farand
near
Al the world is heaven. and man and flower
and bird
Here are one at heart with all things seen
and heard.
"A. G. Swinburne i'll London Academy.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-12
Covering Up Truth.

A certain man in Detroit. who goes fish
Ing two or three times year and brings
home more stories than fish, was talking to
q friend not long after his last trip.
And what did your wife say" inquired
the friend, when you told her you had
caught a fish, none less than pound
weight"
THAT wife Of mine is a queer woman
was the reflective response. You know
that statue of truth we have there in the
parlor without any clothes on?''
Yes"
well, do you know, when l told her
what | had caught. she didn't say word,
but went right over to that statue with
tears in her eyes and wrapped rug around
1t. Now, what i'll thunder do you suppose
she meant by that?" and his friend assured
him that it was entirely beyond his expla
nation.-Detroit Free Press.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-12
just the House She wanted.

A story is told of New York woman
who became afflicted with the mania for
change and finally succeeded in persuatlins
her husband TO sell their house and to try
q new neighborhood. He reluctantly PLACED!
Vt in the hands of :. real estate agent, and
one morning shortly aftern;,rd his wife
came into his room in a state of great ex
element with a newspaper i'll her hand
Il have found the very thing that will suit
usi' she exclaimed. DO go at once and
see about it before some one else gets ahead
of usl" The poor man. thus adjG-ed hur
ried through his bath and dressing, swal
lowed few nlouthfuls of breakfast and
arrived il Il brearhless state at house
agency mentoned-only to find that the
attractive advertisement referred to his
own housc.--sSan Francisco Argopaut.
DO you want to know what is going on
in the world-Take theP REss
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-12-12

Order of Royal ConcIave of knights
and Ladies.
:, Meetings held at Thatcher Post Hall. 1914
congress street, on the I'd Wednesday of each
month.
Railroad Conductors.
Pine Tree Division, No. &C. Meets third
sunday in each month at 80 Exchange
street.
Royal Society of Good Fellows.
:, Portland Assembly. Geo. A. Brown. rule, !;
Henry q. Milliken, Sec; Francis E. Chase.
financial IN sec; John 7: Palmer. treas; f. s..
Barstow. instructor; J. A. Thaxter. counselor.
Casco Assembly. No. 1853, Aliens Corner.
a. Lowell. ruler; Chas B. Halves, Sec; John
A. Smith, treas.
Patriotic Order Sons of America.
Washington Camp No. 1. Jos. H. Huphey.
rec. sec. Meets Monday evenings.
Catholic Knights of America.
Portland Branch. Rev. NJ {. McDonough
spiritual 81 r director; James E. Owen. pres. !;
b. Il. McDonough, vice-pres. T. D. Fiaherty,
rec !. Sec; John L. Feeney, fin. Sec; DR.. r. d.
Sullivan, medical examiner. Meets 1st and
81 Tuesdays of each month, Kayanagh school
building, at o'clock pm