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The Van Buren press., 1902-02-22

E. NJ. Wise has purchased the inter.
est of his partner, e. V. Visart, in
the Van Buren, Cigar company.
The Van Buren press., 1902-02-22
Unclaimed Letters,

Today IA Washinyton's birthday, a
day observed W n legal holiday In many
states.
The Van Buren press., 1902-02-22

The bank at Alma will be opened
within few days, Everything neces
sary to begin business has been received
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-20
The Origin of Many Names,

The popular examinations OF pet
names in earlier times were in, on, ct,
kin, cock and others. Emma was
shortened to EN-, and for loves sake
it became Emmott or Emmett. Matilda
was first Til, then Tillot Bartholomew
was Bart, then Little Bart or Bartlett.
The popularity of these pet names is
seen in the great number of them
which eventually became family
names.
The Tillotsons, the Emmetts and the
Bartletts are numerous in England and
America, although few dream that
their names were originally pet and
not Surnames. Before the use of fam
lily names it was often necessary to use
diminutive forms from the fact that
the same name was not infrequently
given to two or three children of the
same family. The original of the sur
name Robinson is the pet name of
Robin or Little Robert.
AS Germans Of today add chen to
children's names as term of endear-
ment, making Anna Annchen, Eliza
beth Lischen, so our English ancestry
used the equivalent kin. Watkin was
Little Walter, Simkin Little Simeon,
Perkin Little Peter. Examinations in
kin and cock were In use among the
lower orders-that Is, among the An
glo-SGXons-while the diminrives in,
on and ct were more aristocratic and
used by families of Norman blood.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-20

state issue, who believe that all these
are best gained and best Raintained
within and not without the party who
love its leaders, who look forward to a
national triumph in 1901, that we Nay
continue our present prosperity and
national grandure, all such we appeal
by their voice and by their ballots to
keep secure our State in the front rank
of the Republican party iii 1902.
No greater disaster could come upon
the Republican party Of the Nation tllan
the removal of Vermont this year from
the Republican column. A broken
party in 1902 means broken party in
1904 and broken Republicans II in Yer
mont would most signaly aid to break
its hold upon the County and to end
the marvellous prosperity which has
come under the Republican rule.
Vote then for the men whose defeat
our enemy seeks. Vote for the
regular Republican candidates for
town, rOr county and for state offices.
Vote for Mccullough and stanton, plain
men of the people, strong, clean in
WI "p'lpiNs NiSrll llNtltIl anu wa III
hearted; for men who can look upon the
strongest and best, level eyed and
clear, and in their regard for labor and
its rights, in devotion 10 our intel ests,
our institutions and our industries, in
intellectual and moral stature and III all
that goes to make true Vcrnonters are
in the front rank among the IL Ost
trusted leaders of our state.
Lead on men of Vermont to your
accustomed sweeping victory which
shall cheer the hearts Of yOlr Glltical
friends from Maine to California. shall
presage and assist like a sweeping Ma
tiOnal triumph in November and pave
the way for Republicans and Roosevelt
in 1904.
Thad NJ. Chapman. Middlebury; Ed
ward d. yelling. North Bennington;
Harry Blodgett, ST John,bury; Homer
Il. Wright, Essex Junction: Gibbs Il.
Clark, Island Pond; Thos. NJ. Deal, st.
Adams; Jed p. Ladd. East Alburgh;
Roger w. Hulburd, Hyde Park; Horace
w. Bailey, Newbury; George T. How
ard, Craftsbury; Ira r. Allen, Fair
Haven; Frank Plumley, Northfield;
Zina H. Allbee Bellows Falls; Alfred
e. Watson, Hartford--State Com
mittee.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-20
Cot, q Bargain.

Years ago, before the corrupt prac-
tees act, when Scottish parliament
tary candidate was canvassing his con-
stituency he called at the house Of an
aged couple Finding the old woman
alone, he entered into conversation and
asked her to use her influence in get
ting her husband to vote for him.
While they were conversing the would
be NJ. p. noticed kitten playing about
on the floor and offered f5 for it. The
bargain was struck, and on leaving he
again expressed the hope that she
would secure her husbands vote for
him.
"Weel SIR" answered the woman
las | said afore. Johns a man O his
ain mind and Just does what stricks
his ain noddle. but at ony rate, sir,
you've gotten a real cheap kitten, for
yer opponent was in nae farer game
than yesterday, an he gied me so for
it's brither. "-London Answers.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-20
Lamoille County Medical
Association,

At a meeting of the LamOIlle County Medical
Association the following regulations were
adopted:
In order that our fees for services may con-
form to those of the Vermont State Medical So.
ciety and after Jan. l, 1902, our minimum
fees shall be as follows:
l.-Ordinary visits within one mile of our
offices, $1.00. For each additional mile or frac-
ton thereof the sum of % cents will be added.
2.-Fees Tor Office consultations, fractures and
surgical cases to remain as heretofore. Mini.
mum fee for confinement cases $1,000.
3.-For calls received between p. M, and
a. m, surgical and confinement cases except
ed, @ double lea will be charged.
4.-lf called in while passing house, the
charge shall be $l.00 for that CALL For subse.
quent visits during the same illness the charge
shall be the full fee rates.
5.-In critical medical cases when detained
hey ond the usual length of time $l.00 extra will
be charged for each hour so detained
6.-While il is not intended to do an injustice
to any one, people who habitually and willfully
neglect TO pay their physicians will be placed on
the associations cash customer list ana any
member who attends such people without re-
ceiving cash for each visit when made will be
liable to expulsion from the association.
I'VE the undersigned pledge ourselves to
observe me foregoing regulations &C. G. Rub
lee, NJ. D., Il. P. Bigelow, M. D., w. W. Genge,
Nj. D., A. j. Valleau, NJ. D., j. G. Morgan. NJ.
D., j. w. Robbins, M. D., II. W, Barrows, M.
D., G. L. Goodwin, NJ. D., q. u. Woodward, M.
W, T. Slayton, M. D., G.. L. Bates, NJ. d., @. s.
Leach, NJ. d., e. w. Maurice, M. D., j. H.
Bean, M. D., ID Ane Fosburg, NJ. D., Geo. I'll.
Newton, M. ID.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-20
The German Soldiers Wage.

One of the pecularities about the
military service in Germany is the pa
ternal interest that the officers are re-
CURED to take in the frugality of the
men. The pay of the soldier is only
cents a day, but the army regula-
lions guard it jealousy. Each man is
expected to keep his money in a little
bag suspended from string around
his neck, and any officer during in
spection may demand to have the bags
opened and their contents shown. If
it be found that a soldier is spending
his pay too freely-think of that, with
the pay at so low a mark-he is rep
rimanded and punished. He Is COM
PEELED to make his pay cover his ex-
DenSeS.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-20

The family hope and pride, five years
of age, was out of sorts. He didn't
eat well, and he had a slight cold
Mamma thought the doctor should be
sent for, and papa concurred. The doc
tor looked at the little chaps tongue
felt his pulse and left some little pills.
The next day he came again. The boys
cold hung on, and so did the doctor
At the end of the sixth visit, however,
the father thought the patient well
enough, so he paid the doctor off with
the understanding that he need not
come again. Nevertheless, the next
day saw the doctor arrive, and the
day following Not wishing to offend
him, the family thereupon bundled up
the boy and went away for a visit
The doctor could not charge for a visit
to locked up house, and that was an
easy way to escape his attentions and
his bill.ANew York Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-20
Golf In Old Dutch Picture.

By the seventeenth century golf In
Holland had become almost entirely a
winter game. The Dutch painters Of
the period seem to have found a pc
culiar fascination in winter scenes,
with their clear, bright atmosphere and
the moving clouds of figures in their
various occupations of sledglng, skat-
ing or golf. AS might be expected,
many a golfing scene is to- be found
in pictures by Van de Velde, Van der
Neer, Avercamp, Van Goyen and 9th
ers of their school Several drawings
of this period showing single figures
or small groups give perhaps a better
idea of the golf of the time.-Connois-
Seur.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-20
YOUNG RAVENS.
Queer StOro of the Changing Color
of the Newborn Birds.

of the Newborn Birds.
I have not learning enough to know
whether in the earliest times ravens
were accounted "unlucky." If so, why
were they chosen from among all the
birds of the air for the merciful err
rand of carrying bread to Elijah in the
wilderness? Did they steal it? They
are given to theft! Also in the written
word we are assured that God hear,
eth the young ravens when they cry
out unto him." And nothing of this
is said of doves or of any other white
or heavenly kind of bird. An eXba-
nation is given in the Egyptian com
mentary on st. Luke in the CCptic
script by Epiphanius A. d. 3GS-401.
The passage is certainly very curious,
and l am permitted to transcribe it
here: "Why, then, did the evangelist
mention no name among the birds eX-
cept ravens only? Because the hen
raven, having laid her eggs and
Matched her young, is wont to fly
away and leave them on account of
the hue of their color, for when
Matched they are red in appearance.
Then the NOurisher of all creation
sends to them a little swarm of in
sects, putting it by their nest, and
thus the little ravens are fed until
the color of their body Is, as it were,
dyed and becomes black. But after
seven days the old ravens return, and,
seeing that the bodies of their young
have become perfectly like their own,
henceforward they take to them and
bring them food of their own ac-
cord"
1t is for naturalists to ascertain
whether or no this strange account
of the young ravens holds good in our
day.KCornhiIl Magazine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-20
THE YANADlS OF INDIA.
Some of the Peculiar Customs OF
This Queer Tribe.

In the Nellore district of the Madras
presidency live the Yanadis, a strange
tribe, as may be seen from a report
which has been issued by the authori-
ties of the Madras government muse
um. They live in forests and that they
are little removed from savagery Is
indicated by the absence of implement
tai or monumental material, the ami
mistic nature Of their religion, the
primitive hunting and fishing methods
followed by many of the tribe and the
habit of eating the almost raw flesh
of the game they kill after slightly
heating or scorching it. They are fear
less in catching cobras, which they
draw out of their holes without any
fear of their fangs, and it is supposed
that they protect themselves against
the effects of snake bites by swallow
ing the poison sacs of the snakes. Els
pecially singular is the manner in
which they produce fire by friction.
For this purpose they prepare two
stocks, one short, the other long. In
the former square cavity is made,
and it is held firmly in the ground
while the long stock is twirled rapidly
to and fro in the hole. Instead of
charcoal powder they use rags or even
dried leaves, which they find little diff
ficulty in lighting.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-20
Asking Too Much.

"Some people, remarked the drug
gist to his clerk, "are frightfully I'M
reasonable"
rs the man who just left an exam
ple?
Eyes. He wanted me to give him
something to cure cold"
That's very simple"
Yes, but be wanted me to give him
a guarantee that the medicine wouldn't
make him feel worse than the cold
did. "-Washipgton Star.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-20

But Why" asked the man who al
ways wants TO know,-"'why do you call
that little jump you make from'a tower
into the water "A leap for EfeT They
tell me IL is nst,at all dangerous"
We'll" replied the artist" don't
make me Twin by itT-Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-20
Counting on IT,

Wife of Eminent Phfhnthropist-My
dear, what were yourhinfing of? You
gave that poor man only 10 cents.
Eminent 'Philanthropist-I know it,
Amanda. 1t will be $40 when it gets
into the anecdote column. - Chicago
Tribune
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-20
KeeHiag Up Appearances.

"Do you think that dog is worth the
money you are paying for a tag?"
"No, subj" answered Mr.. Erastus
Pinkleg, ''but yous got to go to some
expense fob de sake of social. standin',
ism you2"-Washihgton Star.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-20
No DiNersion.

Nervous Employer-Thomas, I wish
you wouldn't whistle at your work.
Office Boy-I amt working, sir; I'm
only just whistling. - Boston Tran
script. ~
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-20

Accidents come with distressing frequency
on the farm. Cuts bruises, stings, sprains.
Dr. Thomas Ecectric Oil relieves the pain in
stantly. Never safe without it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-20

I. S. Kenerson, has on exhibition freak
of nature in the shape of a colt, mounted with
two perfect heads. The animal was alive
when born, but died in a short time.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-20
Time Table Corrected to June az, 1902.
Trains leave Burlington
GOING SOUTH AND EAST.


NOTED.
1856 A. M.-EXPRESS MAIL due RUTLAND
II 100 a. m, Troy ! 30 D. M, Albany Is
p. M, New York $50 =. NJ, Bellows
Falls l Is p. m, Boston AS p M. Provi.
dence Z rs p. M, Worcester 4:t9 p. m
Springfield 5l6 p. m.
IL so NOON-GREEN MOUNTAIN FLYER
due Rutland 2:4o P. m, Troy $500 p. M,
Albany 5:25 p. New York 9.20 p. M,
Bellows Fails 20 p. M, Boston 100 D.
M, Worcester 1852 p. m. Pullman par
lor cars an coaches tOBOsJoI and New
York,
4 O5 p. M, Passenger for Albany and
intermediate stations, "'' Rutland 6:15
u l." Troy S:55 p. M, Albany 25 D. m.
735 P. M. Local passenger for Rutland and
intermediate stations, due Rutland 50
P.M
1925 P. M.-Pu'lman SLEEPING car Bun lington
to Rutland and New York for Boston
and New YCrb d H. , due Rutland II 20
a M, Troy O.: 4. m. New York 30
am. Boston 1900 a. Il.- Worcester 6:2S
a. m, Providence slta. M. Pull.
man buffet sleeping cars t. New York
and Boston.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-20

c. B. HIBBARD, Gen'l Passenger Agt.
GEO. 7. JARVIS, Gen. Manager.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-20

ri am a railroad
agent" writes /. B.
Staples, Esq, of
Barclay, Usage Co.,
Kans., "and four
years ago my work
keeping me in a
warm room and
stepping out fire.
quently into the
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-08-20
RUTLAND RAILROAD.

D. J. FLANDERS. ten. Pass Agent
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
A Small Legal Fee.

The smallest fee ever taken by an
English counsel was siXpence, that fee
having on one occasion been taken by
the late Sir John Holker. Barristers'
fees were in Olden times much less
than those now paid. An entry occurs
in the churchwardens' accounts of st.
Margaret's, Westminster, for 1416,
showing that a fee of IS. Sd, with
fourpence for his dinner, was paid to
Robert Flypott, counsel, learned in the
law, for his advice.
In Mares GLOSSARY" a barrister's
fee was stated to be an angel, or 10
shillings. These are somewhat different
figures from the GOO guineas paid to
Sir Charles Russell number of years
ago at the Leeds assizes for less than
three hours work, or at the rate of
over guineas a minute.-LondOn Tit
Bits.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
European Arithmetic.

AT the custom house we were obliged
to make deposit of francs 40 CEN
times on each wheel before entering
Switzerland. Since that day faith in
the advantages of higher education has
wavered- There We're nine bicycles,
and the government official found the
entire amount of our Indebtedness by
putting down $40 nine times and then
adding up. Why should one vex ones
self with the multiplication table when
straight addition combined with I'M
limited time reaches the same result?
Caroline S. Donnett in Chautauquan.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
Renson. For Pride.

There was present at a certain big
dinner in England an American wom-
an of prominence who was somewhat
annoyed by a tactless English woman
who undertook to banter her and who
said:
81 take it for granted that you have
no coats of arms in your new coun-
try"
"Of course no American family could
have one unless it was borrowed from
English ancestry" replied the former
American.
For instance, has your family any
especial cause for pride over your
grandfather" persisted this particu-
larry tactless female cad.
Then the American woman opened
up and replied as calmly as possible I'M
der the circumstances, Not much, per-
haps. only that my grandfather on my
mothers side received Burgoyne's
sword when he surrendered at SaratO-
ga and my grandfather on my fathers
side received the sword of CORVALLIS
at Yorktown
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
FIRING A SALUTE.
The Way Two Naval Greenhorns DID
Ii on a Warship.

son one Of Uncle Sans warships
once" said a naval officer 1--WE had
enlisted among our able seamen two
Irishmen, Mike and Barney. They had
come aboard three days after they had
landed in the country, but they learned
some things so quickly that they had
acquired a very definite idea of the
meaning of the Fourth of July long be-
fore the day arrived, which was some
thing like month after we had sailed
on our cruise. 1t CHANGED that the two
Were on an early morning watch to-
gether when Independence day dawned,
and they at once began to plan for its
proper welcome. They seemed to real
ize, you see, that there was necessity
for an unusual display of patriotism.
Barney suggested they fire a salute
from one of the forward eight pound
ers, but Mike feared that would rouse
the entire ship. .Niver mOind, an
swered Barney. DO We hold a bucket
feminist the muzzle. an twill deaden
the sound And three minutes later
that gun went off with such IL roar as
brought every man of the crew out of
the midst of peaceful dreams.
81 sent for Barney. Now, my man.
said 1, tell me everything
"'Sure,' he faltered, it was only a
bit Nv a CELEBRATION because NV our in
dipindence.'
land where's Mixer demanded.
"'Captain, dear he groaned, he
whit afther a bucket Nv wather. an if
he comes back as quick as he wint he's
due roight now"
And then the officer closed his story
with the simple statement, but Mike
was never recovered"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
Black and White.

Every crow is said TO think its own
nesting the whitest, but white cat
that had four kittens, of which three
We're white and the fourth was black,
gave the first place in her affections
to Sooty. Once they We're all brought
into the drawing room to be shown
off" Besides the humans the room
contained a great Newfoundland dog.
Hitherto cat and dog had been on
friendly terms. but now pussy showed
much anxiety lest the dog might harm
her black pet especially. At last she
seized it by the neck and bore it be-
meath the lowest piece of furniture,
where the dog could not possibly crawl,
but she merely mewed to the others to
follow her as best they could. The
black kitten owed all this care to its
color, more happy in this respect than
the black sheep which is said to be in
every fiock.-Exchange
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
bleeding by Bovvshot.

That all diseases can be cured by
bleeding is still firmly believed by sew
eral savage tribes, and especially by
the Papuan negroes.
When one of their physicians be-
comes convinced that it is necessary
to bleed patient, he goes several feet
in front of him and then, drawing his
bow. he fits sharp pointed arrow to
it and after careful aim fires the ar
row into the vein which he desires to
open. The arrow. it is said, invariably
goes straight to the mark, and the
thorn or splinter of glass with which
it is tipped does the work as success
fully as a lancet.
Moreover, the patients never show
the slightest fear, since they are con-
WINGED that from the moment the ar
rows pierce their veins they will begin
to recover
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
Sinister Motives.

Two men-William Jones and John
Smith-were neighbors and deadly en-
emies. They often crossed swords in
court and out of it, and Jones, being
what might be called more clever than
Smith, invariably got the better of the
encounter. In the end so cowed was
Smith that the slightest move on the
part of Jones made him nervous and
suspicious. and with the remark, II
wonder what object he has in this?'
he called up all his reserve faculties to
combat the fresh attack which poor
Jones never contemplated.
One day a friend called on Smith and
greeted him with:
Well old man, have you heard the
news?"
mo" said Smith. ''What news?"
Zones is dead. He died last night
at midnight" replied the other.
Smith paused, drew a hard breath,
raised his hand to his forehead and
thought. then blurted out:
dead, did you say - Jones dead?
Great heavens. 1 wonder what object
he has in this?'
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
A piGerent Sort of Leather.

A Pennsylvania physician tells a
story about his servant which reminds
one in n vague way of the skinny side
out and the woolly side in" rhyme. He
had just hired a servant who, says the
Philadelphia Telegraph. had some of
the ''ould dart" still clinging to her
boots.
One morning he noticed his office
windows were rather dirty. and, call
ing Bridget, he instructed her to clean
them before he returned. At the same
time he told her that he would stop
and purchase Il new chamois skin and
send it home, and with this she was to
clean the windows.
After he had gone his rounds he re-
turned to his office. CHANGING at the
windows; he found them thickly
streaked with grease. He called Bridg
ct, and the following cOllOquy took
place:
Bridget. didn't 1 tell you to clean
the windows?"
Yes, sor''
"And didn't I tell you to use the new
chamois:"
Yes. sor'' .-sstsss " .sssys
"Well, did you use it?" q
"Sure, did sor.''
Let me see the chamois," said the
doctor, and Bridget promptly brought
it. Then for the first time he learned
that his wife had left the house n half
hour before him and had sent home
some tripe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-27
Holland.

Holland, known as North and South
Holland, forms part of the northern
part of the Netherlands. These prov
inces are composed of land rescued
from the sea and defended by immense
dikes. Holland was inhabited by the
Batvi in the time of Caesar, who made
league with them. 1t became part
OF GaIlia Belgica and afterward of the
kindgom of Austria. From the tenth
to the fifteenth century it was gov
erned by counts under the German en-
perors. Holland was ut one time
Dutch republic. 1t was created n
kingdom in 1906. and Louis Bonaparte,
father of Napoleon Ill, was declared
king