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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-09-11
LOCAL NEWS
MORRISVILLE.

A pension has been granted Lewis
Garrow, minor child, Albert Whit
comb qua dian, through the agency
of Il. B. George.
Walter Wood of Woodstock has
been in this vicinity for several days,
soliciting new subscribers for the N.
E. Telephone Co.
"Bert" Boynton from Rutland, ar
rived here last Saturday and is
passing a few days at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. c. M. Roynton.
George j. Slayton returned from
Swanton last Friday, where he had
been for several days visiting his
daughter, Mrs. B. G. Sheldon.
Mrs. R. 81. Rodgers, formerly of
this place, who has been visiting
friends in MorrisvilIe and vicinity,
has returned to her home in Nashua.
Mr.. and Mrs JeromeC Coleman of st.
Adams and Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Durkee
of Laconia, N. H., were guests at the
home of George Norton several days
last week.
Mrs. D. E. Croft and son, DeFoe,
who have been visiting her mother,
Mrs. E. j. Hall, for the past two
months, returned to their home in
Boston last Thursday.
Will W. Delano has rented the
house owned by Mrs. Graves on the
new street running west from Con
gress street and will move his family
there the first of next month.
The marriage of Miss Edna E..
Chaff4e, daughter of Edwin C. Chaffee
of Morristown, to Clyde Andrew Peck
ham of Bennington, is announced to
take place at the home of the brides
father on the afternoon of Septem-
Der %.
One OF the neatest kept stores in
town is the meat market conducted
by j. 81. Warren on Portland street.
Jay understands every detail of the
business and with the aid ofobliging,
experienced help gives the public the
best service possible.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Wheelock and
mother, Mrs. A. P. Wheelock, left for
their respective homes in Boston and
Dorchester, Mass, last Thursday.
Frank says that he hopes to make a
much longer stay at his summer
home here next season.
Ed. Parker, who recently sold his
farm situated on the road from this
place to Elmore, to LOOMS Lam
phere of Elmore, will soon move to
Massachusetts. Mrs. Parker and
Miss Ethel will visit in New York be-
foce joining Mr.. Parker at Webster,
Mass.
C. A.Sanders, local weather prophet,
hands in the following in regard to
the weather for the past month as
compared with the corresponding
month in the four years preceding
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-09-11
Mortality Statistics.

Abulletin on mortality statisticsfor
the year 1900has just been issued by
the United States census bureau.
There is a general belief that con-
sumption causes more deaths in the
United States than any other disease.
This is not true. Pneumonia heads
the list with 55,206 deaths in 1900
as compared with 0,752 in 1890, an
increase in rate per 100000 from
1869 in 1890 to 1919 in 1900.
While deaths reported as due to con-
sumption, including general tuber
culosis, increased from 102, 19Q. in
1890 to III, 957 in 1900, the Ne
per 100000 of population declined
from 245 9 in 1890 to 100 5 in 1900,
a most significant reduction, the re-
port says, and traceable in a large
degree to advances made in medical
science and sanitation and preventive
and restrictive measures enforced by
the health authorities.
The table shows an alarming in
crease in the number of deaths from
kidney diseases, from $40 per 1O0,-
600 in 1890 to SO 7 in 1900 while
the death rate per 100, 900 for apo
plexy increased from 40 in 1890 to
&C 6 in 1900, and tfor cancer from
At 0 in 1890 to 60 in 1900. The
death rate per 100 900 from diseases
Of the heart increased, as did the rate
for diseases of the stomach, portion
tits, septicaemia, diabetes and cerebro
spinal fever, while the rates declined
in the case of diarrheal diseases, de-
bility and atrophy, inflammation of
the brain and meningitis, diphtheria,
typhoid fever, paralysis, whooping
cough, malarial fever, dropsy and
rheumatism. The rate of deaths from
influenza increased from6 2 per 100,-
600 in 1890 to 23.9 per 100, 900 in
1900.
There we're 3,400 suicides in the
registration districts in 1900as COM
pared with 2,027 n1S90, an increase
in the rate per 100000 from los to
lis. The total number of suicides
in the United States is given as 5,49S
as compared with 3,493 in 1890,
while $3.50 persons were killed in
railroad accidents and 1000 died
from the effects of gunshot wounds
Paterson Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-09-11
A Niqht of Terror.

"Awful anxiety was felt for the
widow Of the brave General Burnham
of Machias, Me-, when the doctors
said she would die from Pneumonia
before morning" writes Mrs. S. I'll.
Lincoln, who attended her that fear
full night, but she begged for DR..
Kings New Discovery, which had
more than once saved her life, and
cured her of Consumption. After
taking she slept all night. Further
use entirely cured her." This mar
velous medicine isguaranteed to cure
all Throat, Chest and Lung Diseases.
Only soc and $1,0O. Trial bottles
free at H. j. Dwinell's drug store.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-09-11
STATE NEWS.

The Vergennes creamery paid SO cents per
100 for July milk and 2l12 cents for butter
fat.
Miss Bessie Campbell. daughter of Gabriel
Campbell, professor of psychology at Dart
mouth college, was drowned at Lake Morey
neal Fairlee Wednesday, by falling from a
wharf. Miss Campbell is about 20 years old.
Her father is believed to be somewhere in New
York state.
Congressman D. J. Foster has received from
Col. Charles Dick, chairman of the Ohio Re-
publican committee, an urgent request that
he participate in the campaign in that state.
Mr.. Foster will leave Burlington September
20 for Ohio and will remain there until cleo.
ton day. November 3.
The large amount of travel on the Roches-
ter railroad has caused the receiver to place an
additional train service on. A train leaves
Bethel for Rochester at 9:15 a. m. and return
ing, reaches Bethel at lis p ~. No change
ia made in the time table of the trains reach
ing Bethel at S:45 a. IN and at 2:45 p. m.
United States Marshal Fred A. Field of
Rutland took twenty Cinnamon from Newfane
to Brattleboro Friday, where they were
photographed. They will now be taken to
New York and put aboard a vessel bound for
Hong Kong. This is the first time that
Cinnamon have been photographed before de-
%portation.
A friend of Lyndon Institute makes the fol-
lowing proposition: II the friends of the
school will raise from anybody, anywhere.
any amount of money from $4,000 to $780,
900 for a permanent endowment of the in
~stitute, l will double the amount whatever it
may be. The present endowment of Lyndon
Institute is 500 600.
Charles W. Mussey, former cashier of the
Merchants National Bank at Rutland, who
was pardoned by President Mckinley on the
ground that he was a physical wreck, was a
guest at the boarding house OF Thomas D.
Coulson west Of Ballston from August 4 to
August 26. He has now gone to Albany,
where he will nave charge of the insurance
business of his brother-in- law, WI. Winship.
States Attorney Frank D. Hale of Essex
county recently filed an information against
Jacob Barnes for killing a moose at Wenlock
some two years since. The case was present
ed before the grand jury in 1899, but they re-
ported no bill. Barnes was arrested by
Deputy Sheriff Davis Saturday and Monday
before Judge Hilbrook at Guildhall he was
held in the sum of 5000 for his appearance at
the approaching term of Essex county court.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-09-11
HYDE PARK.

49,
at Johnson last Sunday.
DR.. Genge and family have returned
from camp at Lake Eden.
Ephraim Crane and DIR. Lane of
Ludlow, spent Sunday at the Phoenix.
Rev. N. ]. Lachance of Fairfield
visited at st. Teresa's Parish Mon
day.
A slight frost 10 this locality Mon
day morning; no serious damage
however.
Capt. Mcfarland and wife of Wa
terviIle, spent Sunday with their son,
Henry M.
School was given up this afternoon
for the Fair and will be tomorrow
afternoon.
Misses Martha and Dorcas Sawyer
spent Sunday at Hardwick with their
brother Clarence.
Mrs. A. Fl. Copley, who has been
here through the summer, returned
to her home in Boston last week.
Frank Miner has gone into the
meat business at Johnson. His
brother John is to work for him.
Col. E. B. Sawyer attended the
officers reunion at Burlington last
Thursday, of which organization he
was a vice-president.
The baseball season appears TO be
ended. Football is now the proper
recreation and the "pig skin" has
right of way on the school campus.
L. R. Fairbanks has been reshin-
Cling a part of the buildings on his
premises. The house of j. S. Sands
has also been given a"top-dressing."
Rev. Mr.. Taylor occupied his pulpit
at the Cong'l church last Sunday
morning after a four months alb
sence. He was greeted by a large
congregation.
Leon Ferry of Craftsbury, divides
his time between Gov. Pages office
and the l.. c. A. He works a part of
the time at the former place and at
tends school the rest.
Those from here who attended the
Fish and Game banquet at Isle La
Mott we're Gov. Page, R. W. Hulburd,
j. T. Stevens, F. N. Keller, F. L,
Lilley, G. A. Wilkins, R. S. Page and
l.. H. Lewis.
A very handsome steel engraving,
"The Forum" has been presented to
the Academy by the class of '98. 1t
has a prominent place in the high
school room. Other classes are re-
Numbering their Alma Mater, the
class of 700 having given a picture of
the class. 1t is hoped that all the
classes and other friends will remem-
Der the institution in a similar way.
A team driven by Frank Boyes of
Johnson collided with the stage at
Maxfeld's corner Saturday night.
The team was coming from Morris
vile way at a rapid rate and in
rounding the corner banged into the
stage. Boyes was slightly hurt and
his wagon considerably demolished.
1t is a bad corner, as the building,
standing as it does, prevents seeing
a team Until you are on to it. The
stage ana It's driver came out I'M
harmed.
Col. Mcfarland is considerable of a
horticulturist. He has a fine flower
garden and just as good a vegetable
and fruit garden. He spends a great
deal of time, just for exercise and
health, in the care of them, and like
everything else "Mac" does, he does
the work therein we'll. His speciality
this year has been musk-melons and
he has raised some fine ones-iust as
nice as grow anywhere. We know
this to be a fact because he remem-
bered US with a sample of the finest
melons that ever grew in this town.
If you doubt this statement. bring
along your melons and we will pass
honest Judgment thereon. Up to
this time "Mac" takes the lead.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-09-11

Stop the Cough and Work off the Cold.
Laxative Bromine.Q uinine Tablets cure q
cold in one day. No Curr, No Pay. Price 20
cents.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-09-11
A Shocking Calamity

"Lately befell a railroad laborer,"
writes DR.. A. Kellett, of WilIiford,
Ark. ellis foot was badly crushed,
but Bucklen's Arnica Salve quickly
cured him. It's simply wonderful for
Burns, Boils, Piles and all skin erup-
tions. It's the worlds champion
healer. Cure guaranteed. 2oc. Sold
by n. J. DWinell.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-09-11
WORKING Niuht and DaV,

The busiest and mightiest little
thing that ever was made is DR..
Kings New Life Pills. These pills
change weakness into strength, list
lessness into energy, brain-tag into
mental power. They're wonderful in
building up the health. Only 25c
per box. Sold by H. j. Dwinell.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-09-11

The number of cigarettes consumed
in the United States last year was
considerable less than in some previ-
GUS years. Higher revenue taxes and
the substitution of the all-tobacco
cigarette are assigned as the cause
for d%iscarding the paper-covered arti-
Gle. A wag says the smokers are dy-
ing gradually, thus accounting for
decreased demand.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-09-11
LINES on THE DEATH or MRS. OUNCE
CAMPBELL.

SfNNAN $1,000
Died August II, 1901. Aged 90 years, {
months and 20 days.
Gently lay dear mother down
In quiet dreumless sleep;
10 heaven now she wears a crown
While you are lett to weep.
All that loving hands could do
Was done for her each day:
How very lonely you are now,
Since she has passed away.
Weary days and sleepless nights.
Still you watched with tender care.
Gone to the land fair and bright;
There will be no sorrow there.
Loved ones who had gone before
She said she lOnged to see;
She met them on that peaceful shore
And with them she will be.
OF the Heavenly home bright and fair
We often heard her sing.
No pain or sickness enter there,
In the palace Of the King.
You will miss dear loving mother,
While here on earth you stay;
Bye and bye you'll meet each other,
Where all tears are wiped away.
NJ. A. 81.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-09-11

The experiment of wireless telegra-
ply with thesteamer Lucania, proved
a success. Messages were received
when the ship was nearly 100 miles
out at sea and 2S7 miles from her
A we'll known scientific man
declared this one of the most remark
able inventions of the remarkable
! Och century,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-09-11

Scratch, scratch, scratch unable to do bust
ness during the day or sleep during the
night. Itching piles, horrible plague. Doan's
Ointment cures. Never fails. At any drug
store. so cents.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-12-20
Fertility In Dirty Water.

Prof. r. II. Forbes. of the Arizona
Experiment Station, has this to say OF
the fertilizlng value of river water:
The alluvial silts which are always
carried. Ia greater or less quantity. in
river waters, although they detract
from their agreeableness. are second
in irrigating value only to the water
itself. In wild country, undisturbed by
the operations Of man, and still COW
cred with its natural vegetation, the
quantity OF silt contributed to running
streams Is comparatively small, and
consists largely of materials eroded
from sleeper slopes. But when forests
and grassy plains are overrun with
sheep and cattle, when the grasses are
destroyed and the surface is ground to
powder by trampling herds, when the
rainfall begins to gully the depleted
range and carry the debris into the
rivers, the quantity OF mud carried in
irrigating streams becomes very much
greater. Its quality, also must be af-
fected by the stock-manure swept into
the drainage from the surface OF the
ranges.
Now, just as the deposit of mud re-
sulting from the annual overflow of the
Nile accounts for the fertility of the
Egyptian lowlands; so do the rich silts
deposited upon irrigated lands in Ari-
zona account. in large part. for their
constantly increasing productiveness.
The two most valuable constituents OF
our river silts are nitrogen and organ
ic matter. being precisely the elements
of fertility deficient in our burned-out
arid region soils. The addition and in
corporation OF these deficient materials
is largely responsible for the we'll
known improvement by irrigation OF
desert lands.
The fertilizing value OF these river
silts to an irrigated district may be
judged when 1t is stated that. for the
year ending August /. 1900, the mud
deposited on the irrigated lands OF Salt
river valley, valued at commercial
rates for fertilizers, amounted to about
one million dollars, or, not far from
eight dollars per acre for the valley
Considered as an investment, this
eight dollars OF value, which Is disre'
garded in the cost of the water returns
with increase in the resulting crops.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-12-20

fed whole and dry. and the cost of
preparation is sav ed. At the Michi-
gan experiment station wheat fed to
lambs returned 100 pounds of gain for
each 553 pounds of grain fed.
Opinions differ much on the merits
of wheat as a horse feed. Due to inn
proper methods of feeding, many poor
results have followed, but this should
not detract from its worth for this pur
pose. Whole dry wheat cannot be fed
to horses with good results, especially
to work or driving horses. Soaking 1t
improves II some, but grinding is by
far the best method Of preparing It for
horses, but IL IL is fed as an exclusive
feed, even In this condition. care will
be necessary to avoid collie at times.
Much better results will be obtained
by mixing half bran. oats or corn with
the wheat or mixing II with chopped
feed The composition of wheat Is
such that for the animal to make the
best use of 1t some food rich in pro-
tein must be added. Cotton seed meal
can be used in most cases for this pur-
pose. When corn or wheat is 25 to
80 cents per bushel this consideration
has not much Importance, but with the
present prices the saving made by bal
ancing up the ratio will be consider
able. There will be considerable ques-
tion as to how wheat will pay out this
year when fed to fattening stock. but
there can be no question but that IL
will pay to feed it to growing and
breeding stock rather than to sacri-
flee them or let them suffer and de-
| teriorate.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-12-20
Fond of se
- the Weed


The effect OF tobacco smoking upon
he intellect has been exhaustlvely
discussed by physicians and others,
and the position taken by some that
Il is absurd to allege that smoking is
stupefying to the faculties seems to be
fortified by a mass OF evidence. and in
this connection II may not be amiss to
consider some admittedly great literary
minds. Goethe hated tobacco. and
Heinrich Heine shared the same dis
like. Balzac, Victor Hugo and Dumas
did not smoke, but Alfred dc Musset,
Eugene Sue, Nine. George Sand,
Merlmee and Paul de Saint Victor
were ardent users of the weed. Spen-
Ger in the Fairy Queen calls 1t divine
tobacco" William Lilly. Queen Eliza
beth's court poet, speaks of the holy
herb Nicotian;" Byron's name for 1t
is sublime tobacco;" Thackeray sings
Meanwhile / will smoke every can
lister and tipple my ale in the shade"
Thomas Bailey Aldrich says, 81 lounge
and blow white rings OF smoke"
James Russell Lowell had written
oh ObN VI thhhho W thdllts islAOl ANOl
ton "for certain cigars" and calls II
Tobacco sacred herb" Charles Lamb
was willing for thy sake. Tobacco, |
would do anything but die" Delight
full Charles Kingsley's eulogium OF
smoking is well known and has been
largely quoted. Tom Hood of the
Song OF the Shirt" says: Some sigh
for this or that, my wishes don't go
far. The world may wag at will. So
| have my cigar" Lord Tennyson was
an inveterate smoker and so was
Thomas Carlyle. The story of Tenny-
son calling on Carlyle one evening and
sitting in solemn silence smoking for
hours is well known. Man Alfred"
said Carlyle, as he showed the poet
laureate out, eve have ha'en n graund
nicht. Come back again soon" Car
lyle, like Tennyson, did not care for a
cigar, but kept pipe in his mouth
most Of his waking hours, and Thack.
cray. like Burns. loved to get away by
himself and enjoy the flavor of a rank
!, pipe. James Payn, the novelist. can.
not remember the time when he die
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-12-20

The new ministry OF the Netherlands
has withdrawn from the States General
the project for draining the Zuyder Zee
on the ground that the present con-
dition OF the Dutch budget renders the
undertaking undesirable for the pres
ent. The enterprise has been discussed
for a long time and 1t seemed about
to enter an active stage. A commits
sion made an elaborate investigation
OF the project. indorsed its practica-
bility and declared that 1t would be
advantageous to the country thus to
add $50 square miles to the agricultur-
al area OF Holland. A bill was ac-
cordingly introduced into the Second
Chamber OF the States General author
izing the beginning OF the work. Thus
the scheme came within the sphere OF
practical politics. Unfortunately. 1t
reached this stage about the time that
the ministerial crisis began which re-
suited in the resignation OF the cab
met. The new government declines
TO assume the responsibility for the
large expense involved, and therefore
the project is indefinitely shelved. II
was estimated that the entire expense
would bs 81, ,000, 900 forms. A Alike wai
70 be built across the entrance to the
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-12-20
Select Their Own Cohins
Some Such Customers Drive a Very
Close Barga n.

in material and trimming. and some
of the future occupants drive pretty
close bargain for their last house.
This haggling seems fearfully bad
form in persons who will be all over
and done for when the commodity in
question is brought into requisition,
and one cannot help but wonder why
they don't wait and let their SUI ivivors
attend to the scrapping. But not all
the people the purchase of whose cof-
fins is personally conducted come to
me. Occasionally l go to them, and
am no longer surprised to receive a
summons to bring my samples to in
valids who are unable to leave the
house but are unwilling to trust the
final disposition OF their bodies to
their friends. There are some who go
a step beyond the selection OF cof-
fin-who buy It outright and store 1t
away In their own home. AS rule
all these particular people are
willing TO trust to the honesty OF the
undertaken, and the fraternity honors
the confidence by fulfilling to the
minutest detail their ante-mortem In
structions. New York Press.
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-12-20

The undertaken nodded in friendly
manner. you look healthy enough"
he said. "T am healthy" laughed the
caller. "Ah!" said he. Then you
didn't come to pick out a coffin for
yourself?" Hardly" was the startled
reply. do people come here for that
purpose?" Lots OF EN-" said he. "A
good many more people pick
out their own collins now
than when first started in
business. Then 1t was a novelty
for man to come in and ask to be
shown a comfortable coffin that would
fit him, but now such requests are
common. Often people in seemingly
good health undertake such quest.
They seem to regard the selection of
a casket OF equal Importance to the
making OF a will, and do not deem 1t
advisable to wait until sickness comes
before making preparations for the In
evitable. / have on my book now no
fewer than two score commissions to
provide prospective customers with a
certain style of coffin whenever it may
be needed These collins are always
chosen with strict attention to detail
Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1901-12-20
Draining the Zuyder Zee
DUTCH GOVERNMENT POSTPONES CARRYING
OUT OF GREAT PROJECT

Zuyder Zee which would effectually bar
out the North Sea. II was not expect
ed to reclaim the whole OF the lake,
would still remain. But the Zuyder Zee
would cease TO be an arm of the North
for 500 square miles OF water surface
Sea. The water courses now draining
into the Zuyder Zee would continue
to empty into the remaining part OF IT.;
as a canal would be dug for the escape
of these waters. the remaining lake
would gradually be changed from salt
to fresh water. II was expected that
about a third OF a century would be
required to carry out the whole i'm
provement. the money for which was
to be raised by loan and paid OFF.
principal and interest. in sixty years
or less. The enormous advantage OF
the Improvement to Holland is ad-
mitted by all writers; still. as the H.
nancial burden would be large. the
present ministry has decided not TO
saddle this debt upon the country at
a time when Its political affairs are
somewhat unsettled.