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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-12-06
Thursday, Nov. 80.

Report in Vermont that Mrs. Rogers
new plea for delay in her execution is
based on the statement that she will
become a mother if she lives.
Miss Mabel A. Williams, junior at
Wellesley college, commits suicide.
President Roosevelt believes foot
ball game ought to be saved by change
in the rules
Inquest into Lincoln, Mass, train
wreck results in Engineer Horace w.
Lyons being held for the grand jury in
$4,000 bail.
Thomas w. Lawson agrees to pay
$35000O to the receiver of the Bay State
Gas company of Delaware.
EX-MayOr Harkman B. Flanders of
Hayerhill. Mass, missing for some time,
heard from in Winnipeg, Man.
Hon Willard \. Miles of Barton, VT,
appointed to state supreme bench.
Report that coal operators will offer
miners a percent advance to fOicstall
demand for - percent.
Railway rate bill presented to the
public. 1t gives vastly increased pow
ers to the interstate commerce commits
sion and is said by some to be the ad-
ministration measure.
Wednesday, Nov. 2s.
Columbia university, one of the big
Six" COLLEGES, has abolished the game
of football "as ut present played" 1t
is braHl. ed as an "Obsession harmful to
students and dangerous to human life"
Failure OF Seth Perkins, Boston con-
tractor; liabilities S41G,332,32
Two tons of turkeys i'll a single con-
signment from the west condemned by
the Boston board of health.
State supreme court decides against
Charles L. Tucker, convicted Of the
murder of Mabel Page at Weston,
Mass, overrulng his exceptions and
denying a new trial
Wild goats and high winds devastat-
ing Lanai, one of the Hawaiian ISL
andS.
H. H. Rogers summoned to Missouri
to testify in Standard Oil investigation.
Richford Vt) druggist, his son and
daughter arrested on charge of caus-
ing the death Of three men by wood
alcohol poison.
New York court of appeals decides
against murderer Patrick in his at
tempt to appeal to United States SUI
preme court.
President Eliot and many others en-
dorse Perry Belmonts plan for pub
licity in campaign contributions.
Rev. George G. Ware of Lead, S, d.,
indicted by FEDERAL grand jury in con
nection with land eases,
SeDa,oi Warren OF Wyoming ad-
vises "1Iassarhusotts brethren" to
cease tariff revision agitation.
Important rebel leader in German
Southwest Africa surrendcrS.
Shanghai Chinese said to have given
up anti-American boycott, influenced
by superStitious fears.
The powers refuse all compromise on
Macedonian program: they hold Nifty
lene; no further coercion until Dec. l.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-12-06
Eorsur. of "a Preacher.

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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-26
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BUILDING OF sMokEHousE.
Put the Oven in the Barn Cellar and
Bun the Pipe Underground
to Smokehouse.

About year ago l asked you for
some Information regarding the con-
structlon of a smokehOuse. and you
kindly published my query and sever
al replies. writes a correspondent of
the Rural New Yorker, but none OF
them suited my case. 1 had the US .
OF neighbor's smokehouse, and It
was Q good one of its kind, but too
hot fer my idea of what a good smoke
house ought to be. One morning, when
riding over to start a smudge in the
basement of that house. the idea &C
CURED to me to build house like the
accompanying plan. as was to get out
cellar for new barn anyway,
thought there would not be much trou.
BILE to build an oven and have pipe
from it to the smokehouse. and so get
away from the heat of the burning
wood. and yet have all the smoke re-
quired. The plan will explain itsel:
The oven is three feet square, and mas
sheet-iron door opening into barn
cellar. The pipe leading from it to
smokehouse is ten-inch glazed earth
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-26
DIAGRAM OF SMOKE HOUSE.

DIAGRAM OF SMOKE HOUSE.
roll The pipe any distance apart, and
slide the hooks as near or as far from
eacE other as l want. l have found
the above arrangement a great i'm
provement on stationary nails driven
into cross beams. I have Just finished
smoking batch of pork, and have 1t
thoroughly done, and yet only nice
color like hams that are sold by
butchers and grocers, and not the
black half-cooked things that usually
pass as well-smoked hams among us
country folks. Anyone who has q cell
lar can make a smokehouse like this
one. with very little expense, and there
will be little or no heat from the oven.
A thermometer ten feet from my oven
stood at 40 degrees oil the time I was
smoking Us days.. Some people nigh:
thinl. that this was far too fine q house
for them to build. but II they adopt the
underground part they can put any
kind Of house on it they want. This
one is on gentleman's private home.
and has to be in keeping with tho
other buildings.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-26


en- pipe, with an elbow at each end to
give the turn required. Over the end
of Inc pipe in floor of house you will
notice an affair marked "defector;" 1t
is hat square piece of blue stone laid
on four pieces of brick at the corners,
and as the smoke strikes it, of cours:.
it has to take horizontal course and
fills the whole house instead of going
up IL straight line for the ventilator
on top. The ventilator is u inches III
diameter. and has a damper which l
can regulate to suit the weather con-
ditions. The basement of the smoke
house is filled with stones gathered!
OF the fields, and five inches of con-
crete on top of them. the walls being
nearly three feet under the grouu,!
line to be below frost.
TLis house is built of brick. with
shingle roof, but q frame building
would be quite safe, as there are NJ
sparks at that distance from the fire
and II hickory is used there are nj
sparks anyway. And l only use dry
hickory, as think the smoke is
sharper and more penetrating than
from green wood. cut one-inch pipe
to run across the house the narrow
way, and made hooks of heavy No.
wire to At easily on the pipe, and had
a long one and short one alternate
SO that can hang a big lot of meat
and yet have none touching. as car
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-26
BOUNDING THE COUNTRY.
Habit Which Seems 10 Lay Hold Up
On Political Orators and
8pellbindera.

~Have you ever noticed how often our
public speakers bound this country.''
asked an observer of things in general. in
the New Orleans Times-Democrat Two
years ago l went to 4 large mass meet
ing, at which there were several stands
arranged 90 that the orators, so-calied.
could address the assembled crowds. /
took place before one of the platforms.
and after awhile well known politician.
troduced and launched into his speech.
which began along the old lines:
As look out upon this multi itule of
che good citizens of this city, feel sure
that on the second Tuesday in Novem.
her they will declare in no uncertain man.
ner, etc. You know how the rest soes.
He had not been speaking long before
heard the words fall: From the stormy
shores of the Atlantic to the calm slopes
Of the Pacific, from the gulf on the south,
this great movement will sweep all be.
more Of his platitudes, but made my way
over to the second stand, and here an.
other modern Cicero was telling the con.
script fathers how to vote, how to save
the city, how to keep the patriots in of.
flee. The 1all il going FORTH" said he,
from the blue waters, Of Lake, Superior
down to where the ripping waves OF the
gulf wash the fair shores of Louis ana
From the strands of the Carolnas to the
sunlit fields of California, the people ~
resolved, etc.
Il pushed through the crowd and went
toward the third platform, but even from
great distance could hear a llsty
epellbinder crying out in a fog-horn voice:
From Tampa bay to Puget sound, from
but l pulled my hat over my ears and
rushed for my car"
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-26
CHEAP AND GOOD HEN HOUSE.

soft or wet ground . greater depth
would be better. At the bottom OF
this he put stones from the field and
filled in the interstices with coal
ashes. a few inches below the ground
he began building q foundation wall
of Portland cement and sand, and car
ried this eight inches above the ground.
He mixed two barrels of cement with
five barrels of coarse sand and poured
in water and shoveled it over until
it was like mortar. Then he placed
boards a foot high around the four
trenches on both the inside and out
side edges, holding them in place with
stakes. The next work was to shovel
in the cement all around, placing small
stones in the trench as he worked.
When the cement was near the top OF
the boards AKA stringers were put at
the outside edges of it and the cement
carried up the inside level with the
tops of them. The stringers were SO
firmly imbedded in the cement that no
cold could get under them and no
moisture enter the dirt floor. The wall
~ IeeC long may COSI IWO uOA0IS AoA
the cement. Barn floors may be made
in the same way, with the proportion
of cement and sand equal for the top
dressing.
The house now was ready for the
walls. The framework was made OF
2x4 scantling. Two, i've feet. eight
inches long, were placed at each end
of the south corners-the front Of the
building-and three others were put
along the front at equal intervals. all
toe nailed" to the bottom stringer. AT
the top of these IS feet Of scantling
was nailed as roof support, and in
the back eight-foot scantlings were
used as uprights in similar way. with
a scantling at the top again. To hold
the front and back together scant-
ling IL feet 6 inches long was nailed
from each forward corner straight
across to point six feet from the
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-26
SCRAPS OF sc1ENck

An interesting hygrometer is made
by dipping strip Of calico in So
luton of one part of cobalt chloride.
Is of nickel oxide and 20 of gelatine
in 200 of water. The strip is green
in fine weather, fading as moisture
appears.
Novel use of Roentgen rays is made
by q Berlin company manufacturing
submarine cables. The cables are
tested by being passed over two eye
pulleys over an X-ray tube, the screen
above showing any defect correctly
and with greater certainty than the
resistance tests usually employed.
Small protuberances, like drops of
melted metal. have been noticed by
N. Orloff on the surface Of an alum.
mum plate that has been used to
cover . dish containing radium bro.
mide. Radioations from these pro.
tuberances showed no lessening after
six months. and It is inferred that par.
ticles of radium accumulated around
slight nuclei OF aluminium to form q
stable alloy.
Electricity is fatal to the discern.
ment Of certain c0l0rs. Yellow and
pink, two totally different colors, look
strangely alike by electric light.
Heliotrope is also quite pink, and sub.
tleties of shade are quite lost in 1t.
No light shows up shades and colors
as wax candles did. It is certain that
all the modern artificial illuminants
mix up colors and shades inextricably,
and electric light. is worst Of all.
Glass containing manganese 10
slowly turned violet by sunlight, and
Sir William Crookes has found that
radium produces in few days . COL
Grafton as intense as that caused by
the sun In years. F. Fischer has now
been studying the effects Of ultra.
violet rays. and reports that the light
of q mercury arc lamp in quartz
tube gave q slight color in is min
utes to four out of eight glasses, and
an intense violet hue in IL hours. The
color proved to be due to manganese
silicate.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-26
FASHION NOTES.

A greater number of fancy shoes are
being worn than ever before.
Wraps for evening wear display tho
short, shoulder-cape effect.
Cloth incrusted on wolfe or on lace
is among the charming effects.
Picturesque, dainty, berufled aprons
are one of the seasons coquetries.
+ The princess mode Is shown in q
great many varying designs for fall;
wear.
Nonpareil and chiffon velvets have
been prepared in quantities for fall
trade.
The tailored shirtwaist is the only
enc which is permissible with a black
tailored skirt.
Plated skirts are shown in many
variations and they are still the favor
lite design.
The close-fitting bodice now in vogue
has created q demand for tailor-fitting
underwear.
QUAINT looking little Red Riding
Hood cloaks for small girls are among
the newer offerings.
NO evening gown ID complete I'm
out its gauze scarf, several yards long.
of harmonizing color.
Tucks are again stepping in in place
of the shirring, for everything now is
to loon as slender as possible.
The double skirt and tunic-like eff
fects are increasing in popularity and
Ly autumn will be in full cry.
Prune color and green are announced
as two of the leading fall shades; the
green is a vivid, .ich. dark tone.
More antique is to be very much
used as trimming, and In accessories.
as we'll as for coats and entire gowns.
Neat little checks or small plaid
WOODEN suitings will make comfortable
and practical school suits for misses.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-26


adapted to the washable materials that
many women prefer at all seasons Of the
year, as we'll as to challie, cashmere and
the like.
The negligee is made with the fronts
and backs, the backs being plain, the
fronts tucked at the shoulders and
Tapped one side over the other to give
the surplice effect. The sleeves are in
one piece each, and can either be gath
cred into puffs or left free at their lower
edges.
The quantity of material required for
the medium size is AZ yards %, yards
90 or yards A inches wide, with 4
yards of banding and yards Of embroid-
cry for frills.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-26
Every mother possesses information
which Is Of vital interest to her young

Every mother possesses information
which Is of vital interest to her young
daug liter.
Too often this Il never impaired or Is
withheld until serious harm has result
ed to the growing girl through her
ignorance of natures mysterious and
wonderful laws and penalties.
Girls over-sensitiveness and modesty
often puzzle their mothers and haffie
physicians. as they SO often withhold
their confidence from their mothers
and conceal the symptoms which ought
to be told to their physician ut this
critical period.
When girls thoughts become slug
gish, with headache. dizziness or dis
position to sleep. pains in back or lower
limbs, eyes dim, desire for solitude;
when she is q mystery to herself and
friends, her mother should come to her
j aid, ind remember that Lydia Il. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound will ut
this time prepare the system for the
coming change, and start the menstrual
period i'll n young girls life without
pain or irregularities.
Hundreds of letters from young girls
and from mothers, expressing their
gratitude for what Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has accomplished
for them, have been received by the
Lydia e. Pinkham Medicine Co.. al
Lynn, Mass.
Miss Mills has written the two fol
lowing letters to Mrs. Pinkham, which
will be read with interest:
Dear Mrs. ,Pinkham:- First Lottery
lam but fifteen years ofage, mdepressed
have dizzy spells, chills, headache and back
SzAln = 0lnkhan ME NanAk \ ria Il
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-26

ing, just unlock the nest and take 1t
out of the house.
This is a great advantage when
whitewashing or scrubbing the walls,
says Farm and Home, and is an adj
vantage il that the nests will always
be cleaner than where they arc nailed
fast. The three-inch hook and screw
eyes needed for this nest will cost
eight or ten cents per dozen, ard the
nest material is as cheap as that for
any other form.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-26
ATTRACTIVE NEoLlcEE.
The Popular surplice Style Has In
vaded the Realm of the Matinee
and Tea Jacket.

Negligees are in demand at all sea-
sons of the year. Illustrated is most
attractive one made of pretty challia
with simple trimming of banding, which
allows q choice of loose or pulled
sleeves. 1t is gotten out by the Peoples
Home Journal. The slightly open neck
means comfort and style in one, and
the Jacket can be belted with ribbon
or left free, as preferred. Whether
made with the full or with pulled
sleeves it is eminently simple, and It Is
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-26
eouluv HOUSE.
NJ One Farmer Built One Ter Inn
oalf It small C0t-List OF
Materials Used.

]. G. Graham, Cook county, Illinois.
one of the most progressive farmers in
this section. who previously had used
= poor building for his poultry, con-
structed irst-class house about .
year ago. He figures that the in
creased receipts from eggs have more
than paid for the building already.
Herewith, says the Ohio Farmer. are
given plans for his structure. to &C.
cOmmodate 100 hens.
The house was made rat and frost
proof. Mr.. Graham staked out q site
1925 feet, giving 300 square feet Of
floor, and then dug . trench foot
wide and q foot deep all around: In
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-26
50 r~sr
FLOOR PLAN.

ground on the rear upright Three feet
from the south side Of the west end an
upright was nailed to make place for
the door, three feet wide and six feet
high. The framework now was COM
pleted. Tarred paper next was put on
the outside of the scantlings and the
siding nailed fast over It. Hemlock
boards foot wide were used, those
l6 feet long being cut in two for the
back and those IL feet long being d.
vided for the front. The back was
nailed on at once, the paper being
stretched tightly under 1t. and q win
dow four feet high was placed In the
middle, at the top. In the front four
windows were used, being placed In
pairs as shown in the plans, and an
other was put on the west end near
the door, as shown in the illustration.
All were arranged 80 as to slide, that
they might be opened on warm days.
Three boards were nailed together and
used for the door. and no window was
left in the east end.
Six scantlings were used for the roof
supports and the roof boards. IL feet
long, were placed crosswise. Tarred
paper made for the purpose was used
to cover them and at the back and
front of the top, where drafts would
have entrance. the chinks were covered
with pieces Of board.
Lath was used to batten the cracks
between the side boards and tho house
was alright, or as nearly so as 1t was
possible to make 1t. To provide ven
tilation hole foot square was cut In
the roof. and boards making a box
were run through it to within two feet
of the bottom. An inverted trough
was put over the top to keep out the
rain and snow. A visit to the poultry
house in the winter, when 100 fowls
were in it, showed the air was as pure
as in q dwelling.
After the house was finished Mr..
Graham banked up the dirt on the out
side to the top Of the wall and emp
tied sifted coal asher an the floor. Then
he whitewashed the walls and the
house was bright and cherry on the
darkest days.
This would be the cost Of the house
from new material, according to fig
ures submitted to Mr.. Graham:
Foundation
Two barrels cement .......... $500
GA running feet AKA stringers.. 1.53
Frame
81 running feet 2x4 stringers.. 1.48
500 running feet 1-foot siding.... 900
Roof
40 running feet 2x4 stringers... ~
Roofing paper ................ 2.40
Fittings
six windows ................. 900
Tarred paper, lath, hardware. 200
Total .....................
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-26
Bent That Way.

A Kansas man had a son who was
inclined to be an all around tough. One
day a neiE1bor called on the old man
and began to talk with him about the
boy. You certainly ought to try to
do something with Bill" said the
neighbor. "He's getting to be known
as the greatest liar in the county. IN
less he mend his ways his reputation
will be ruined" WELL" said the old
man, II don't know as there is much
worry about Bill ruinin' his reputation.
He is bound and determined tc be a
lawyer anyway."-Kansas City Jour.
nal.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-26
Kind Not Designated.

Mrs. Jawback-You are stingy
thing. You said when you married
me that should have all the pin
money l needed.
Mr.. Jawback-Well, great guns!
didn't know then that the only kind
you ever wanted would be diamond
Leader.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-26
Profitable Tree Varieties.

Oak, hickory, walnut. mulberry, elm
aud maple are the most profitable va
r:eties of trees to plant in the prairie
stases. Usage orange is hardy and
mikes good fence posts, but the thorns
render them q nuisance, either for
fencing or other purposes, therefore W
edyist against increasing it.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-26
FOR WOMEN.
Much That Every Woman Desires to
Know 10 Found in Cuticura-
"Cuticura Works Wonders"

Too much stress cannot be placed on
the great value Of Cuticura Soap, ONT
,nent and Pills in the antiscptic cleans.
ing q the mucous surfaces and of the
blood and circulating fluids, thus afford
ing pure, sweet and. economical local and
constitutional treatment for weakening
itchings, irritations, relaxations, displace.
ments, pains and !. Irregularities peculiar
to females, as well as such sympathetic
affections as anaemia, chlorosis, hysteria,
nervousness and debility.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-26

Il this b duty. b beave anl oeeepe e
without making . fnss and co0plai1-
Ing.
This 3 sch . bright and CHEEKY
world in Which We live. and there are
SO many reasons for being happy. thai
it is = positive sin for anybody ever to
be blue. When . girl lets herself drift
into habit Of self-pity she becomes
morbid and miserable, makes herself
wretched and perhaps loses the power
Of controlling her nerves. She wants
to scream. wish you and could UNI
derstand Is We ought that, however
We may feel inside. we never have q
right to show our friends anything ex-
cept brightness and sympathy.
To let ourselves huddle up IN fearful
heaps. to be damp, moist and unpleas-
ant, and have Mysteries over anything
whatever. is absurd and shameful. The
worst failure anyone can have is fail
ure to rule ones own spirit and b.
havior.
In the Life of Rurne-Jones. book
that is full of glorious courage, there
are continual proofs of the great art
lists heroism. When you see lis love.
ly pictures l want you to remember
that the ioveliest thing about him was
his refusal, ever to be discouraged. y He
made his friends stronger by his habit
of constant cheerfulness. We ought to
make stepping stones OF our failures.
II We happen not to succeed to-day, let
us start right over and succeed to-
morrow. One learns more by failing
than by gaining easy honors In the
early struggles of this strenuous time
The one Who fails and tries again will
win ut last
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-26

that l was laid up
four months. I
had night sweats
and fainting spells
and dropped to 30
pounds. The urine
passed every few
minutes with in
tense pain and
looked like blood.
Dropsy Get in and
the doctors decided
/ could not live.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-26
Busv Duelist.

The former lieutenant of the French
Seventy-eighth regiment OF the line.
Maurice Huet, has fought duel with
one OF his former colleagues. receiving
a wound in the arm. AS soon as he re-
covers another will challenge him. he
may live to fight them all. He wrote \
book about life in . French garrison
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-10-26

Force Of Circumstances.
Mack--l notice that Higbee no longer
walks with q stOOp.
Wyld-Probably he is In Strengthened
circumstences.-Town Topics.