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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-10-27

fellow, as the mountain youth go, which
is to say that he was not leaner than
was consistent with grace and supple
ness that his face had not yet taken
ON the expression of settled melancholy
which seems to be the heritage of the
mountain folk, men and women, and
that his eye was bright and fearless, and
his laugh had the ring in it which is
supposed to vouch for light heart and
a clear conscience. If Inspector Jaffray,
being endowed with the gift of invisi-
bility, could have ridden beside the
mail carrier through the September
forenoon, he would have seen nothing
amiss. At Bray's Flat, at Powderville,
and again at Long Mountain, Anderson
kept well within the letter of his in
structions, handing the locked pouch to
the postmaster and Longing about in
front of the store until it was brought
out to him again. At the Gap, however,
which was the end of his route for the
day, he hitched his horse before the
largest of the three stores and carried
the pouch back to the high desk, where
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-10-27

No, 236.-Enigma Scowl, oowl, owl,
Bcow owl.
No. 237. "A Border Puzzle:
e. RTH SEVEN HONE R
r NJ
u II r V EVE r AES Y
a o II II
TAIL E RAVEN COVER
No, 23S. Progressive Numerical: Math.
ematics
No. 800 Beheadment Flowing, low
ing, ewing, wing
No. 2i0.-Pictorial Rebus: The con-
vincing teacher is example.
No. 241.-A Rhyming Puzzle; Lake.
brake, snake, awake, shake, quake stake
lake, make, take, ache. slake, forsase
lake, bake, cake.
No, 2R Word Squares,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-10-27

(Twenty-four hidden animals.)
"That organ grinders monkey is too
comical. Pa, cannot we go at O'Clock to
see the wild beasts?" eff they will make
you good and not bad, Gerald"
When the proper time came, Leonard
drove up in his sleigh and with plenty of
buffalo robes. "Do get in quickly?"
"Don't be an age, Nettie!' Brother
mine, be calm. Ralph or Seth, will you
kindly hold little Eli on your knees?"
"Isabel, Eph, Antoine, pile in" "Daniel,
keep as still as you can. You make more
than your share of noise" please don t
pounce down on my fox cape" "Never
mind Walters tag now" AS soon as
Johns able we would better start across
the ferry and over the land to beard the
lion in his den." Hide Ernest's book.
He will read it instead of looking at the
animals"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-10-27
No. 25O.-DecanitatiOns.

1. What part of a ship beheaded will
name fish?
2. What fruit beheaded will name an
organ of one of the sensesf
3. What musical instrument beheaded
will name spiritY
A. What part of a ship beheaded will
name a tree?
s. What part of your dress beheaded
will name gardeners tool?
6. What animals beheaded will name a
kind of grain?
T. What vegetable beheaded becomes a
liquor?
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-10-27

Don't give them tea or coffee. Have
you tried the new food drink called
GrainO? 1t is delicious and nOur-
ishing and takes the place Of coffee.
The more Grain-O you give the chill
dren the more health you distribute
through their systems. Grain.O is
made of pure grains, and when prop
erIy prepared tastes like the choice
grades of coffee, but costs z as much.
All grOceTs sell it. 15c. and 25c.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-10-27

Fasten piece of string round miller,
with strings of the same from each side,
meeting above it in knot at about foot
distance from the top of the tumbler.
Then, putting in as NJ UGH water as will fill
about one-third part of the tumbler, lift it
up by the knot and swing it to and fro in
the air. The water will keep it's place
steadily in the glass, but pour gently in
upon the water about as much oil and
swing it again, as before, and while the
surface of the oil will remain tranquil the
water under it will be agitated.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-10-27
No. 249.-Charade.

My FIRST is a boys name,
A name that is often heard.
Work for my SECOND and find
A very little word,
But now find one of a larger size,
A certain kind of bird
That looks majestic when it flies,
And that will be my THIRD.
Ny WHOLE is a weapon
OF Indian lore.
You'll find it mentioned
In tales before.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-10-27

IN the sufferers lexicon there is no
such animal as coon. He generally makes
cocoon of him.
Bread is the staff of life, and pie is the
stumbling block.
A paper that is full of good points-a
paper of needles,
The man who wants to rise early in the
morning should go to bed at leaven.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-10-27
-. 247.-Forms to Fill Out.

Re the first figure add one letter to form
16 three letter dictionary words. The
words may be read from left to right, or
from right to left, or from above down
ward, or from below upward, provided the
letters are adjacent and in a straight line.
To complete the diamond fill the blank
spaces with two letters only.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-10-27

Discoveries of gold have been re-
ported this year in twelve different
states and several terDitories. These,
with large importations of gold, give
this country a peculiar strength in
regard to the gold standard.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-10-27
No. 246.-A Diamond Star.

A lady had diamond star, the dia-
monds being arranged in an interlacing
V, consisting of five rows, with four dia-
monds in each row, as shown.
She instructed her jeweler to add six
more diamonds and to set them in such a
way as to form Is rows, with four dia-
monds in each row, the original setting
not to be interfered with.
How did the jeweler set the additional
stones?
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-10-27
1i!fgISSxl::=1R|}zzLER
No. e45.-DoubIe AorostIc.

My primals and finals each name nota-
BILE invention.
Crosswords (of equal length): 1. A
Emall table. 2. To hold out. 8. Allowed
| by law. 4. Dominion. .. Idle talk. 6. To
like the flavor of. Z. A person with white
hair and pink eyes. s. A place of re-
straint 8. To stick at small matters.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-10-27

Have you earache. toothacbe, sore throat.
pains or sweings of any kind? A few appli.
cations OF DR.. Thomas Eclectric Oil will
bring relief almost instantly.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-14

and increased so rap
i3iy that inside of six
l-onths I increased
thirty six pounds in
weight. All pain in
the heart is gone, and
the nervousness has
wholly left me-"
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-14
Be STRONG AND HEARTY.
HOW TO BE STRONG AND FULL OF
LIFE AND VIGOR.

If you starved for two days you would feel
as weak as a cat
Proof enough that your food is the cause
of your strength.
If your stomach is sick, you're starving
away your strength. Slowly, perhaps, but
none the less surely.
You feel it yourself
You have nausea, loss of appetite, head
ache, giddiness, pain in the stomach loss OF
strength, spirits and ambition
What do you think? That it's your head 2
But it's not. It's simply your stomach.
Food is strength. Stomach makes it avail
able II stomach won't work food does not
become available strength
Shaker Digestive Cordial will, in a few
doses, make your stomach well and help your
food make you strong.
Who wouldn't be strong9 Whoever won't
take Shaker Digestive Cordial
Sick, tired, weary men and women, those
who are working their bodies and brains too
hard, will find relief aud strength in Shaker
Digestive Cordial
1t makes strength. 1t makes health. IT
makes happiness.
It's not an ordinary medicine, it's a
cordial.
It's pleasant to take, and more than pleas
ant in its results
For sale by all druggists at 10, 25, so cents
and 81 90 bottle
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-14

San Augustine, Tex, May 1.-Two
negroes ON the farm of George and
Felix Johnson white, went to the lat
ters house and renewed a quarrel pre-
viously begun. other members Of the
Johnson families quarreled When the
fight ended it was found that Theodore
Mobiles was suffering from two gunshot
wounds. He died in a short time.
George Johnson was struck on the
head with a gun. He Is insensible and
his condition precarious. Aaron John
son was wounded in three places. Fe-
liX Johnson was shot i'm the arm and
leg. William White, one of the two at
tacdng negroes, had his skull frac-
tured and was also shot through the
body. A posse is searching for his son,
the other negro who Is also wounded.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-14

ON private companies for their water
supplies, 10 having changed from pri-
vate to public ownership, and the
works in % having been owned from
the start by the public The largest
cities which have changed from public
to private ownership since 1890 are
Kansas City and Syracuse. while Du-
luth now has municipal water works
under construction
Massachusetts, towns and cities have
been particularly active in the change
to municipal ownership. Nearly half
of all the private water companies i'm
that state have sold their works to
the towns or cities supplied The
north central and north western
states have "a great preponderance of
municipal while in the middle South
Atlantic, southwestern and Pacific
states private water companies are in
the majority
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-14
The Question of Water.

The number of city water works
plants in the United States, according
to the figures published i'm this weeks
issue of Engineering News, is 3,10G, OF
which about 200 are owned by towns
or cities which they supply, and
among the number is noted Shenan
doah, and about 800 by private com.
panies, In Canada there are now 14j
works, only 30 of which are owned
by private companies.
Practically all these works have
been built i'm the present century,
and most of them since 1880. During
the last six years over 1000 water
works have been built in the United
States Most of the works built in
recent years have been i'm small
towns 1t is now a rare thing for a
town of 5000 inhabitants in the east,
or of 1000 i'm the most prosperous
sections of the west, to be without a
public water supply
There has been, of late, strong
tendency towards municipal owner
ship of water works Within the past
five or six years over one hundred
cities and towns have bought out
private companies which formerly
supplied them with water During
the present century over 200 water
works plants have been thus changed
from public to private ownership;
and on the other hand, there have
been only some 20 cases Of the re-
verse change, a town or city selling
it's water works to "a private company.
OF the 80 largest cities in the United
States only nine are now dependent
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-14
NUGGETS OF NEWS.

President Mckinley viii visit the
Nashville exposition on Ohio day in
June.
George p. Rainey has withdrawn from
Flondas senatorial contest. The dead
lock is still ON.
A balloon, minus a basket or car fell
into the ocean about seven miles south
west of Sandy Hook.
Julio Sanguluy landed in Cuba on
May 8, and Bolon is said to have met
him with goo men at San Juan de Las
Playas.
The falling limb of a tree, broken off
by the wind, killed w. II. Goodwin.
bank president at Jamaica Plain.
Boston suburb.
Advices from Honolulu say that the
arrival there of the long expected Jap
auese cruiser NiniWa caused no un-
usual excitement.
The supreme court Of Missouri is in
a deadlock over a partnership estate
involving over $1,000 600, and a special
Judge is asked for to settle the point.
There has been no settlement of the
difficulties between the managers and
work people of the Ashley & Bailey
f,lll ndu, at Paterson, n. j., the strikers
being still out.
PERsoNAL.-The gentleman who annoyed
the congregation last Sunday by continually
coughing will find instant relief by using
One Minute Cough Cure, a speedy aud harm
less remedy for throat and lung troubles.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-14
single Fare to PhlIadlenhia.

Saturday next, the magnificent monument
to the Father of His Country which the
society Of the Cincinnati has erected in Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia, is to be unveiled
by President Mckinley, attended by large
number of the civic and military dignihries
Of the state and country. The parade will
be the most notable one since the Constitu-
tiOnal Centennial ten years ago. One feature
that will alone attract large crowds is the
National Guard which is all to parade on the
18TH For the accommodation of persons de-
string to attend, the Philadelphia & Reading
Railway Co. will sell excursion tickets at
single fare for the round trip on May 14th
and 18th good to return until May 18th. St
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-14

New York May 14.-The report that
the schooner Joseph Il. Loubat, on
which Moses Y. Ransom, a wealthy
resident of Ohio and a party OF gold
seekers left this port last October for
Terra del Fuego had not been heard of
since February, and that grave fears
for the safety of the vessel and party
We're entertained, was denied yesterday
by friends of Mr.. Ransom. u. Kinds,
a former business associate of Mr..
Ransom, said: Il received a letter
from Mr.. Ransom on April 27 last II
stated that the party had arrived safe
ly after delightful passage, and had
just completed the landing Of their
machinery and provisions"
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-14

THE growth of the protective senti-
ment i'm the South, which was clearly
shown by the fact that over 3C
Southern votes were cast for the
Dingley bill in the House, will be
again emphasized when the votes foI
the bill in the Senate are counted. AT
least five Southern votes will be in
favor Of the bill in the Senate, one of
them by a Democrat who announced
before his election that he should vote
for "A protective tariff When it is
considered that every one of these
five southern Senators who will sup
port the protective tariff bill sue
ceeded men who voted for the free
trade lawnow upon the statute books,
the growth of the protective senti-
ment i'm that section viii be recog-
niZed
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-14

New York, May 14-R. II. Spencer,
of the firm of J. d. Whitney & Co.
brokers Of this city, was arrested in
Centre street court yesterday on a
warrant sworn out by A. ~ Ridgely.
Spencer was in court to answer a sum-
mons served on him by f. H. Fernier
who alleges that Whitney & Co. have
defrauded him out of 800. Ridgely al
leges that in December 1896 he de-
posted with Spencer $4,000 under the
agreement that the money was to be
used for speculation in stocks on
Ridgelys order, and for no other pur-
pose. Htd-ely alleges that he asked
for an accounting in May and was
told he had $4,000 and a number of
stocks to his credit. He ordered Spen-
Ger to close his account, he saws, and
received q statement that there was
due him over $2 300 that he could have
on demand. He swears that when he
asked for the money he was told to
wait. Spencer was held in $1,000 bail.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-14

From Pacific Health Journal
First, get wife second, be patient. You
may have great trials and perplexities in
your business but do not therefore, carry to
your home a cloudy or contracted brow.
Your wife may have trials. which, though of
less magnitude, may be hard for her to bear.
A kind word, a tender look, will do wonders
in chasing from her brow all clouds of
gloom.-ro this we would add always keep
bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in
the house. It is the best aud is sure to be
needed sooner or later. Your wife will then
know that you really care for her and wish
to protect her health. For sale by Gruhler
Rrns drnppists
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-14
PITTSTON HEARD FROM.
The Little COnquerOr Arrives and
People Are Talking.

Surprise, wonder and admiration follow in
the track Of the little conqucror People are
talking about 10 everywhere, aud such cases
as that Of Mrs. j. II Butler, resident OF
pitistou, are getting TO he every day occur
rences Our representative called on Mrs
Butlcr at her place of residence, no 1876
searie street, and she gave the following brici
account of her case, she says About a yeai
ngo | began to have severe pains in my back
ia the region of the Kidneys Sometimes the
pain was worse than at others, and with each
attack il grew more severe. The last attack
had felt so | could not lift anything at all
that had any heft to it, and the hardest part
was to attempt was to rise from any STOPPING
position. / can only describe the pain as a
continuous dull one, interspcrsed with SHARP
piercing ones in the small of my back III
attemped to rise from chair after continued
sitting l found 10 q difficult matter.
managed to get along iu this way with my
household duties, for ! was determined moi
to give up, and felt many times as though
positively must l read of some of the cure.
performed by Doan's Kidney Pills and com.
pairing the symptoms described with mine
concluded the pills would help me, and ]
procured 70 box and began to take them regu.
larly according to directions. Within three
days ! felt better aud continued to improve
every day. ! must admit they have perfectly
cured me- and this much sooner than could
have anticipated possible. / am perfectly
satisfied with the results, and glad TO be able
10 inform Others sufferers about Doan's Kidney
Pills, SO that they may know what to usl
who are in their condition"
For sale by all dealers-prce so cents
Mailed by Foster Milbum Co., Buffalo, n. y
Sole agents for the u. S.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-14

REPUBLICANS who think that the
tariff bill reported to the Senate is
not as thoroughly Republican as
when passed by the House must re-
member that the Republicans do not
control the Senate of the United
States, and if it is necessary to modify
the Republican tariff measure to pass
it in that body, the remedy is in the
hands of the people who elect the
legislatures which name the members
of the next Senate.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-14

Baltimore, May 14.-Captain Hintzke
Il the British steamship BERTHE would
have lost 81 500 in freights on his cargo
of grain from this port If, as has been
published, it had been necessary for
him to reach Baltimore at noon yester-
day for it was several hours after
that time when he finished the voy-
age, which began in New York We'd
nesday. The fact is that the BERTHE has
until tomorrow noon to comply with
the conditions of her charter.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-14

Annapolis, Md, May 14-The boat
crew from Cornell university, which is
to row against a crew composed Of
naval cadets tomorrow, arrived here
yesterday afternoon. The first thing
they did after getting settled in their
quarters was to take a trial spin over
the course laid out for the coming
contest. 1t is announced that the race
will take place as soon after O'Clock
in the afternoon as the atmospheric
conditions viii permit
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-14

SEVERAL hundreds of Pennsyl
vania aspirants for Federal appoint
ments are becoming very impatient
and are nagging the senators and rep
resentatives constantly, although
their daily visits at the White House
prove that they are doing their level
best for their friends. Among the
most earnest and impatient of these
aspirants are three or four State Sena-
tors who desire to exchange seats in
the legislative halls for foreign ap-
pOintments.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-14
AN UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE.


Thor Dend.
New York, May 14.-Mrs Arthur
Bcroggs. her daughter Ena and a gov
erness, Miss Scovlle. are speeding 70
Europe on the American line steamship
st. Louis. for southampton. They left
this port yesterday. Mrs. Scroggs be-
lieves implicitly that the body of her
sailor husbasd is on the vessel but II
is not. Sealed I'm a metallic casllet the
remains are in the morgue They will
probably be buried in a day or so in
Potter's field.
Arthur scroggs. 30 years old, who
was the owner and master Of the
steamship Spinster, was swept over
board Off the coast Of Vancouver ISL
and. The body was recovered and taxi
en- to Victoria, B. c. An undertaken
prepared the body and placed II in a
casket for shipment to England. Mrs.
Scroggs wanted the remains taken to
England. as that was her husbands
home, and it appears that she under
stood the undertaken would give direc-
tions to have the body shipped via
New York right through TO England.
There was some misunderstanding,
however, and the undertaken billed the
body TO New York. 1t arrived in the
Grand Central depot last Monday, and
after remaining there for two days II
was transferred TO the morgue.
Mrs. Scroggs, thinking her instruc-
tions would be obeyed, engaged passage
on the ST. Louis by wire from Chicago,
and gave no thought to the transfer of
the body from the railroad to the
steamship.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-14
nenvr .nowfnlls in Nn.trIn.

London. May 14-Heavy snowfalls
and severe frosts continue i'm all parts
of Austria and Hungary There have
been avaIanches in the Austrian TyroL
and in some parts of Styria and i'm
Silesia and Teschen the people are
sledging. Great damage has been done
everywhere to crops, vines and fruits.
Sheep and game are perishinE, and
there have been earthquake shocks
near Graz, Fiume and elsewhere. a
large quantity of snow has fallen In
the Italian province of Udine.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-14
Proposed Relief For Mrs. Parnell.

London, May 13.-An appeal signed
by the lord mayor Of Dublin, John Red
mond NJ p, and other influential
friends of the late Charles Stewart
Parnell, has been issued in behalf Of
donations to q fund to assist Mrs
Della Parnell mother of the great Irish
leader, and other needy members of
the family, by freeing the Parnell es-
tates at Avondale from debt and other
obligations.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-14

SHAMoKIN's borough treasury is in
such depleted condition that per
sons who do work for that municipal
ity cannot get their orders cashed.
The officials place the blame for this
state of affairs on the tax receiver.
who has failed to settle up the dupli-
Gates for the past three years. With a
depleted treasury SO early in the fiscal
year, Shamollin is certainly in an Un-
enviable position