News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1898-02-23
seal Ps. NOT SKINS.

All the old boys know John H.
Flagg, the popular Clerk of the Yer
mont House of Representatives thif-
ty years ago, and later the Reading
Secretary of the United States SEN
ate. He is to dav one of the leading
lawyers of New York City, and a big
success as an aH-around man. GOV.
Page sent him one of his calendars
recently, and in due time received the
following acknowledgement, which is
so good that we give it space in our
columns
Hon. CARROLL S. PAGE,
HYDE Park, vt.
Nh Deas' GorerRor.
Accept many thanks for the excellent halt
tone portrait just received also for the arts
tic calendar for 1898, which has been hoisted
! to a conspicuous place in my office. II is
welcome as a reminder that you can active
competitor with Wall street in the pelt bust
ness yourself Heretofore have disposed Of
my epidermic growth to Wall street alone,
furnishing at regular seasons both lamb
skins and green calf skins " exclusively to
| this market. With no competitor hayehad
| to accept whatever terms could get from an
eager, but only bidder
| In one of the most celebrated cathedrals Of
| Europe marble effigy was long ago erected
/ to good old Saint Bartholomew, who, the
/ Greek writer's tell us, was skinned alive. Pos
ing as a martyr he supports the skin taken
| from his body as a mantle on his shoulder,
triumphant over the painful ordeal to which
he has been subjected. / have never quite
seen the propriety of thus singing out this
| old saint for special distinction. Any of us
sinners here in New York, accustomed to the
vicissitudes of speculative experience IN Wall
street. can outdo him. He, after being
/ skinned, managed in some way to hold on to
| his pelt and thus save that much out of the
catastrophe, while the Wall street teuderfoot
is not only dexterousy skinned, but despoiled
of bis pelt as well and then left naked to the
Implying gaze of the Bazi Bazouks who cap
tured and fayed him.
! Furthermore, there is comfort in knowing
| there is competition in the bone market also
and that you furnish it. When fellow is
successfully skinned, and, on feeling around,
finds that both tail and talow have gone
with the hide, there is yet consolation in
knowing hat a purchaser exists for his bones.
4 Hitherto, these articles have been thrown
in'' to the other fellow. without charge, the
/ same as when boy up in Vermont hunk OF
liver used to be thrown in by the butcher
| Whenever he sold a pound or two of indif-
ferent beef or mutton.
So, hereafter, shall prefer to patronize the
Vermont market rather than that OF the
street, which long ago became the colossal
sepulcher OF the continent, so great, in fact,
that Proctor, even under the inspiration of a
| government contract, could not furnish mar
BILE enough to designate tine graves of those
who, every dark night, are dragged off to
the Wall street morgue for financial burial
/ without mourners.
So, for the suggestion of economic advan-
tages, your literature has been most accept
able, and the revelation it contains of a COM
mereal rivalry hitherto supposed to have nc
existence will not be readily forgotten.
In conclusions let me wish you, my dear
Governor, even at this belated hour, the com.
plments of the New Yearand the continued
success which your enterprise and push sc
greatly deserve Cordially yours,
JNO II FLAGG