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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-05
The Electricity Cot Loose.

During a downpour of rain on a re-
cent afternoon a woman OF not far
from 200 pounds weight entered
Madison avenue car at Ffty-ninth
street and waddled toward a broad
expanse of vacancy far forward. The
floor was wet from umbrella drip
pings, and the woman's gloves and
shoes we're in the same condition. As
she was about to sit down she hooked
the crook of her umbrella over the
strap pole above to ease her descent,
uttered yell and collapsed.
A fair haired young man sitting
next to her grabbed her hand as she
went down and Immediately began a
war dance, springing from his seat
like jack. in the-bOx. A good look
ING Young woman by his side seiz I'd
his damp coat tails and, with a cry of
"Oh, Cholly - joined in the remark
able scene.
The conductor rushed forward and
endeavOred to calm the strangely eX-
cited trio. He collared the young
man, and, uttering a whOop that
could have been heard two blocks
under ordinary atmospheric condi-
tions, joined in the wild dance.
About that time the floor and near
ly everything else in the car began to
sputter. The dancers sputtered loud
er than anything else, and there was
"swish," a curl of blue smoke and
sudden stoppage OF the car. The
three passengers tumbIed into the
seat in q heap, the fat woman on top,
The conductor waved his arms franti-
c4lly, and then pulled the big woman
off the heap. Must be water in the
slot" he said, with an air of great
wisdom. New York Tribune.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-05
Cured of piles After 40 Years.

Mr.. G. Haney, of Geneva, Ohio, had
the piles for forty years. Doctors
and dollars could do him no lasting
good. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve
cured him permanently. Invaluable
for cuts, bruises, sprains, lacera-
tions, eczema, letter, salt rheum, and
all other skin diseases. Look for the
name Dewitt on the Pedagogical
others are cheap, worthless counter
feits.
Foss & Strong, Hyde Park; Slayton &
Sanders, Worthwhile; M. j. Leach, Wolcott;
F. l.. Laraway, Waterville; c. P. Jones,
johnson; E. W. Smith, No. Hyde Park
Shattuck & Son, Eden.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-05
LamOilIe Probate Court.
HON. E. c. WHITE, JUDGE.

HON. E. c. WHITE, JUDGE.
The following business was trans
acted at the Probate Office for the
two weeks ending Nov. 1, 1902:
Estate of Mary E. Atwood, Morristown.
Order of notice-1icense.
Estate of Daniel S. Wakefield, Hyde
Park. Settlement and decree.
Estate of Andrew J. Olmstead, Fillmore.
License granted to sell real estate.
Estate of Lillian A. Burt, Stowe. L. c.
Moody appointed Administrator.
Estate of Andrew w. Chase, Cambridge.
Order of notice-license.
Estate of Joel L. Griffin, Stowe. Com
missioners make their report.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-05
Population Increases 648,783.

The annual ireport of the commits
sioner of immigration shows that the
population of the United States was
increased by immigration GAS, 743
during the last fiscal year, 466, 1863
being males and 1894 females
Most European countries showed an
increase but there was a decided fall
ing off in arrivals from Ireland, the
total from that country being 49,
1873, or 1923 less than last year.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-05
Statistics Of Deer Killed.

H. G. Thomas of Stowe, Fish and
Game Commissioner, for statistical
purposes has mailed to every Post
master in the state blanks to report
the number of deer killed during the
open season, and asks the co-opera-
tion of all to assist in gaining as ac-
cnrate information as possible.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-05
Ifyou are bilious and seeking advisers,
nnIn An WITH L ittln En- rlu Risnra

Ifyou are bilious and seeking advlsers,
Take DeWtts Little Early Risers,
just before going to bed.
You will find on the morrow,
You are rid of your sorrow
That's all; just enough said.
These famous pills do not grippe,
but move the bowels gently and easily,
cleansing the liver. Their tonic effect
gives strength to eglands, prevent
ing return of the disorder.
Foss & Strong, Hyde Park; Slayton &
Sanders, Morrisville; NJ. j. Leach, Wolcotti
f. L. Laraway, Waterville; G. ?. Jones
johnson; E. W. Smith, No. Hyde Park
Shattuck & Son, Eden.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-05
Great Luck OF an Editor.

"For two years all efforts to cure
Eczema in the palms of my hands
failed" writes Editor II. N. Lester of
Syracuse, Kan, "then l was wholly
cured by Bucklen's Arnica Salve."
It's the worlds best for Eruptions,
Sores and all skin diseases. Only 25 ;
at Slayton & Sanders.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-05

An edict has been issued appointing
Minister WI Ting FRANC to succeed
Sheng as commissioner of the new
commercial treaties negotiations.
Sheng resigned this office to bury his
father, who died last Friday and to
perform other final duties.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-05
That ThrohhIng Headache

Would quickly leave you, if you
used DR.. Kings New Life Pills.
Thousands of sufferers have proved
their matchless merit for Sick and
Nervous Headaches. They make
pure blood and build up your health.
Only % cents. Money back if not
cured. Sold by Slayton & Sanders,
Druggists.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-05

God made man master over all
created things, but man can enter
into this heritage only by first being
master OF himself.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-05

For sick headache ryChamberlain' 8
Stomach and Liver Tablets; they will
ward off the attack if taken in time.
For sale by Foss & Strong, Hyde Park;
Hall & Cheney, Morrisville; M. j. Leach,
Wolcott; j. j. Vearen, Stowe; c. Campbell,
Centeryille
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-05

Energy all gone ? Headache =? Stomach
out of order Simply a case of torpid liver.
Burdock Blood Bitters will make new man
or woman of you.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-05

Courtesy is characteristic of the
strong and able in business as
social relations, kindness marks all
of the first grade.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-05

A sure cure for little worries is q
real serious trouble.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-05
I'm ancient Foe

To health and happiness is Scrofula-
as ugly as ever since time immemorial.
1t causes punches in the neck, dis
figures the skin, inhames the mucous
membrane, wastes the muscles, weak
ems the bones, reduces the power OF
resistance to disease and the capacity
for recovery, and develops into con-
sumption.
"a bunch appeared on the left side Of
nv neck. 1t caused great pain, was lanced,
and became q running sore. l went into a
general decline. l was persuaded to try
Hoods Sarsaparilla, and when had taken
six bottles my neck was healed, and have
never had any trouble of the kind SINCE"
MRS. K. T. SNYDER, Troy, Ohio.
HOODS CGrsCPGFjtlG
ard Pills
will rid you of it, radically and per-
manently, as'they have rid thousands.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-05

We can make it our rule to do al
ways our best, to try to do the good
we know. And Christ will help us.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-11-05
If YOU ARE A Farmer
and have one cent

Buy postal card and send to The New
York Tribune Farmer, New York City, for
free specimen copy.
The Tribune Farmer is National Illus
trated Agricultural Weekly for Farmers and
their families, and stands at the head of
the agricultural press. The price is sI.oo
per year, but if you like it you can secure
it with your own favorite local paper, the
News AND CITIZEN, at a bargain. Both
papers one year only $3.50.
Send your order and money to the News
AND CITIZEN.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-01-21

The inhabitants of the little town
Of Somersby, in England, where Ten
nyson was born, are frank in giving
their opinion of their distinguished fell
low townsman. One old woman thus
related her impressions of the poet to a
visitor:
"'E was very quoiet man. E seem
ed as if e was 'alf asleep, with is Dyes
'alf shut an peepin', an e used to
poke at We, loike i fun, wi is stick.
'E 'ad such lot of air an a long
beard, am sinking her voice conf
dentially, sc never looked very clean;
no, e didn't"
And this somewhat startling testimo-
ny was promptly confirmed by her hus-
band, who added:
IF you'd met i'm gooin' along this
dusty rooad, you'd "a taken i'm for a
tramp gooin' to Brigg for a nights
lodgin'"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-01-21
If Reminded Him.

One sharp November day, says the
Philadelphia Record, boy entered a
car, leaving the door open, much to the
discomfort of an old gentleman who
sat next AS the wind chilled his mar
row his temper rose. Leaning across
his seat and taking the kid by his ear,
he said: Were you brought up in a
barn? Why don't you shut the door,"
The boy said nothing, but closed the
door, coming back to his seat in tears.
This sight moved the old man to relent-
ing pity. There, there" he said, Tit
tie man; didn't really mean you were
brought up in barn"
THAT'S just it" retorted the kid 81
was brought up in barn, and every
time l see jackass it makes me think
Of it."
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-01-21

an aveng1ng angel, Mrs. Burord barred
their entrance to the library. In one
hand she held a photograph, in the
other an open letter.
'Mr. Vincent Merrill, l believe you
call yourselfT
THAT is my name" was his proud
reply.
81 may inform you, sir, that the de-
tectives whom | employed to find the
real savior Of my niece declare that
you are simply Incorporating as the
individual in this portrait" She drew
herself up several inches. "The genu-
inc hero turns out to be poor denizen
Of the east side suspected of some pet
ty theft and anxious to avoid publicity
through fear of the police That is
why we were unable to locate and
properly reward him. My younger
niece's unfortunate blunder has placed
Elaine in a most awkward predica-
ment. In fact, she has been your
dupe"
Elaine gasped, but Mrs Buford con-
tinued remorselessly:
'And now, Mr.. Merrill, what have
you to say for yourselfT'
Vincent's glance fell to the floor,
where water was oozing from his boots
in muddy puddles.
'Well, to be perfectly frank, Mrs.
Buford. we were caught in a frightful
storm and sought shelter at the Meth
odist parsonage, and-and while we
were there we just thought we'd be
married; that is all"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-01-21

When certain divine was a younger
man and chaplain at the University
Of Pennsylvania, like other ministers
who filed that position he was much
troubled over the apparent lack of at
tention from the students during the
morning exercises in the chapel.
The exercises hardly ever continued
for more than fifteen minutes. Some
OF the students were in the habit of
taking their books into the chapel and
studying there during the services to
make up for their hardness of the
night before in not preparing their les
sons.
The young chaplain was DESTROYS of
breaking up the habit. SO one morning
preceding his customary five minutes
address he spoke as follows:
young gentlemen, last night l
dreamed | was here in the chapel adj
dressing you. And as l spoke saw
every eye fixed upon me, every man
attentive, while in all the chapel there
was not q book opened, and then !
knew it was a dream"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-01-21

1t was formerly thought that the
processes of grinding and polishing
glass were continuous, but closer in
vestigation of the subject has proved
that this is not the case. Glass grind
ing is effected by the use of emery
powder of various degrees of f1neness.
But 1t has been shown that this grind
ing cannot be carried beyond a certain
point, however fine a powder may be
used. In fact, continuation of it I'M
does the work and breaks the surface
up again.
The most finely ground plate, if
largely magnified, is shown to be COW
cred with tiny bits which no grinding
will remove. The work is therefore
continued with rouge carried on a pad
Of resin, which gradually smooths
down the elevations between the pits.
Hydrofuoric acid gas corrodes glass
very rapidly, but weak solution of it
melts away the roughened surface and
leaves fine polish underneath. This
method is used where very fine adjust
ments of the surface are required as,
for instance, in lenses for telescopes
and microscopes.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-01-21
a uoms,x c-.s+,r~

According to Ainslee's Magazine,
when the governor of Newfoundland,
Sir Henry McCallum, K. c. NJ. G., went
ashore at a small harbor Of the east
coast he was met at the landing place
by a grizzled old fisherman, who
sought to make the stranger welcome.
whoever he might be.
"Be you comm ashore, sir?" he ask
ed.
YES" said the governor.
BE you here about the lie (seal OLD ?"
the fisherman pursued.
mo" said the governor.
''Be you one o. Sam Lewis men
from Red bay, sir, come about the
timber?'
Il am the governor of Newfound-
land" Sir Henry announced, with
some show of dignity.
BE you, nowY said the fisherman.
with friendly offer of his hand.
''WelI, It's mighty good job-if you
can hold it. An | hopes you will.
Would you like cup o. tea, STRIP
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-01-21

There still exists in London a bylaw
which forbids cask Of beer to be I'M
loaded between certain hours, bat no
mention is made of casks containing
any other liquor.
Lucerne has on its statute books a
law which is not enforced. 1t prohib-
its hats of more than eighteen inches
In diameter, forbids the use of artificial
flowers and imported feathers and or
ders that a license of rs cents a year
shall be paid for the right to wear rib
bons or silk or gauze.
Vienna has the severest cycling code
of any city in Europe. No one may
ride bicycle in the streets without a
certificate of proficiency. Ladies must
he able to mount and dismount from
both sides Of their wheels. show that
they can turn corners and ride in and
out between a number of dummies.
All cyclists are photographed by the
police, and this photograph is fitted
into little book containing the-rules
for cycling in the city. For this book
the cyclists must then pay S1.20. Be
sides this huge brass number has to
be worn conspicuously placed on the
handle bar of the machine.-Stray Sto-
rieS
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-01-21
By HOMER LEE WARREN

Jacob Fletcher and his good wife
Mary had lived together the lives of
farmers for twenty years or more and
had never had an hours misunder-
standing. They had no children, but
their company was all sufficient for
each other, and at the age of forty-fve
they were in the best of health and
without regrets. Then the serpent
crept in. He was the agent of life
insurance company, and he sat down
in the kitchen where Mrs. Fletcher
was making pumpkin pies and talked
her to standstill What he wanted
was to secure mutual insurance, a pol
Icy by which the surviving husband
or wife would profit in the sum of
$4,000. The farmers wife had heard
of such things, but was opposed to
them, and the agent had to talk for
two long hours before he could secure
her promise to talk to pa about it,"
That night she did talk, though with
out any heart in it and was much re-
lieved when the husband turned to
her and said:
Mary, it would be like flynn in the
face Of the Lord and wouldn't think
of such a thing
He had to think, however The agent
came back again and again, and at
length his persistency received its re-
ward. After much doubt and hesita-
ton a policy was duly taken out and
filed away in the bottom drawer of the
bureau, and the serpent had inflicted
its sting. That afternoon as the hus-
band followed the pillow in the field he
found himself wondering whether he
or his wife would die first and whether
it would be good policy for him to
build new barn out of that insurance
money in case he was the survivor.
And the wife, as she sat peeling pota-
toes for supper and opening the oven
door now and then to look at the bak-
ing bread, found herself wondering
what she should do with the farm and
all that money in case Jacob met his
death. Two or three days later a wind
mill agent called, and as he incidental
ly heard of the mutual insurance he
laughed and said:
May be all right in your case, but l
should look at it as a temptation TO
my wife to get rid of me. Husbands
have been poisoned for less than So
OOO."
He was speaking in levity, but he
sowed a seed. On that same day the
wife of neighbor dropped In for
gossip, and of course she was told
about the insurance policy. 1t struck
her at first as a good thing, but two
minutes later she held up her hands
and exclaimed:
Mary Fletcher. do you know what
you have done? You have prepared
your own graEew
la. but how you talkw
Eyes. you have. There isn't a hus-
band on the face of the earth who
wouldn't throw his wife down the eel
lar stairs and break her neck for $5,-
900. You won't be alive to see Thanks
giving~
Here was another seed, and that
night for the first time since their mar
rage the farmer couple felt suspicion
and distrust. AS they sat together the
husband looked the wife over and de-
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-01-21

A veteran lumberman told the fol-
lowing story the other day. 1t may be
recognized by some as a familiar ac-
quaintance in new clothes:
''The commissary of subsistence in
a large lumber camp in the northwest
drove $50 miles to get a change of fare
and returned with two crates of live
poultry. Grain being out of the ques-
ton, the fowls were fed on cornmeaI
made into dough. That proving very
expensive, our commissary mixed saw
dust with it in the proportion of three
parts of meal to one part Of sawdust
The chickens ate as usual, and the
hens began to lay.
by and by as the meal grew scarcer
the proportion of sawdust was increas-
ed until the food became a mixture Of
three parts Of that woody product to
one of meal. One of the older hens
manifesting a desire to brood, twelve
eggs were assigned to her, and at the
end of twenty-one days what do you
suppose she hatched? Eleven wood
peckers and a chick with a wooden
leg."-New York Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-01-21
AIbani and eve.

The story of Nine. Albani's first Lon
1on engagement is as follows: Colonel
Mapleson heard of her singing at q
theater at Malta, and, thinking that
she would be successful, he made her
an offer, through an agent, of contract
to sing in Her Majesty's theater She
agreed to 1t and went to London; but,
on arriving there, she told the cabman
to drive her to the Italian opera house.
He. instead Of going to Her Majesty's,
took her to Covent Garden, which was
also devoted to Italian opera.
She was shown up to the manager s
pffice and stated that she had come to
Sign the contract which Mr.. Mapleson
had offered her. Mr.. eye, thinking to
play joke on his rival, Mapleson,
made out contract, and Albani signed
it. Mr.. Gye then told her that he was
not Colonel Mapleson, but that he
could do much better by her. He offer
ed to tear up the contract if she liked,
but told her that Nilsson was singing at
Her Majesty's and would brook no
rival
Albani decided to let the contract
stand and thus became one of the stars
of Covent Garden, eventually marrying
the son of Mr.. Gye.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-01-21
ahe read the sirnal.

There is romantic story about Lord
Kelvin's second marriage. In the ear
ly seventies he, then Sir William Thorn
son, was in West Indian waters. on
board his schooner yacht, the Lalla
Rookh. AS a recreation he took up the
question of simplifying the method of
signals at sea. He had been talking
of it at the dinner table of a friend in
Madeira, and the only apprehension
that seemed able to grasp it was that
of his hosts daughter, a lady he great
ly but silently admired.
Il quite understand it, Sir William"
she said.
"Are you sureT" he questioned, half
doubtfully. IF 1 sent you signal
from my yacht, do you think you could
read it and could answer me?''
swell, 1 would try" she responded.
81 believe should succeed in making
1t out"
The signal was sent, and she did sue
coed in making it out and in transmit
ting the reply. The question was,
''Will you marry met" and the answer
was. Eyes"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-01-21
Teaching Business.

The merchant of fifty years ago be-
lieved that business could not be learn
ed by educational processes. says a
writer in Success. The school which
proposed to teach business was looked
upon with suspicion. 1t advertised to
do the impossible The tricks of the
trade had to be taught in the counting
room under system of apprenticeship.
The merchant received the boy into his
family and made him the trusted COM
panion of his life and labors. 1t was
the same in that day in all trades, but
conditions are changed The volume
of business now transacted and the
methods in vogue in Offices. stores and
factories make it impossible for the
business man Of today to afford time
for the general training of his clerks
and assistants. The shop is the place
where training must be used rather
than sought. Thus in many oceupa-
lions it has become necessary to sub.
stitute practical training in the. schools
for the teaching formerly given
through xperience.-Detroit News
Hrihr1na
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-01-21
BY Morrill, Hazard.

1t was to be a clandestine meeting
with Elaine. If Vincent thought of his
duplicity at all, he simply Rugged him
self for the inspiration of it. He was
elated by the change in her attitude
toward him since she imagined him to
be the man who had curbed her fright
ened horse in the park.
Springing from the train, he glanced
up to the overhanging bluff and saw
her outlined against the autumn land
scape, firm and erect upon her own
Kitty and leading the mares riderless
companion by the bride. He hurried
to her side, blushing crimson, as he al
ways did in her presence, with the
thought of the lie he was acting heavy
upon him.
In their greeting was the brevity of
good fellowship. He swung into the
saddle, and she smiled at his strength
and agility. Surely, she thought, if he
were not her preserver he had been
most wonderfully endowed to play the
part. She was satisfied to believe in
him, whatever the violent skepticism
of her Aunt Buford.
She studied him as they rode along,
but he was like the sphinx, unreada-
BILE. Again she strove to draw him
forth regarding his gallant deed.
What made you run away from us
after your splendid conduct?'' she ques-