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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
Be Socisble ANYWAY,

There never was road yet that
didn't run in two directions, and I'M
less you stand still you've got to travel
one way or the other. There's con-
siderable crowd goin' both ways on
this highway of life, and that bein'
the case it's. just as easy and whole
lot pleasanter to have company.
Whether a mans goin' to heaven or
goin' to the devil it's better to be So
cable. l never did have any use for
the fellow who fiocks by himself to
practice either his virtues or his vices.
Now, | take it for granted that you
want to go in the right direction, and.
If so, you'll find the only real crowd
that's goin' your way is in the church.
They're in the church primarily, I
guess. because of is promises. but
apart from that they're in it because
Jordan. as the old song says, is a
hard road to travel. and they need
the help of the church to get them
over the stony places. That's just
why you need it and just why you
can't afford to go along without it.
Don't get in the habit of lynn in bed of
Sunday mornin's. -Colonel John Sneed.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27

Plnkham's Vegetable Compound mado
me well woman and | have no more
backache. l hope / can help others by
telling them what LydiaIE E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has done for
me; y MRS. EMMA MISE, S33 First St.,
Milwaukee, Wis
The above is only one of the thou
sands of grateful letters which are
constantly being received by the
Pinkham Medicine Company of Lynn,
Mass, which prove beyond a doubt that
Lydia b. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from roots and herbs,
actually does cure these obstinate dis
eases of women after all other means
have failed, and that every such suf-
ering woman owes it to herself to at
least give Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound a trial before submit
ting to an operation, or giving up
hope of recovery.
Mrs. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass,
invites all sick women to write
her for advice. She has guided
thousands to health and her
advice is free,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
Sians of Kidney Disease

The warning signs of Kidney complaint
are: backache, dry parched skin, scanty
thick urine very disagreeable oder, brick
dust deposit, tender spots in back, loss of
weight and strength, rheumatism, stiff
joints, swelling of ankles and feet. One
or more of these symptoms indicate Kid
ney weakness, and while in this condition
Brights Disease may set in. Bright's Dis
ease is Consumption of the Kidneys. The
prompt use of Rydale's Kidney Remedy
will prevent this fatal disease securing a
foothold. Rydale's Kidney Remedy was
inventedIby physician and is the most
successful treatment for the Kidneys and
Bladder ever discovered. Sold on guar
antee by A. L. Cheney, Morrisville;
G. P. Jones. Johnson; G. A. Riley,
stowe; E. w. Smith, North Hyde Park;
". !. Leach, Wolcott.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
MIDSUM MER SONG.

DAwNINGs of amber and amethys
~ eyes,
Soft in the south wind the laughter o
leaves,
Breath of the poppy and death of tn.
rose
Midsummer comes and midsummer goes
DAPPLE on cheek of the apple anC
~ plum,
Honeybees droning a die-away hum,
Swales in a simmer and dales in a doze-
Midsummer comes and midsummer goes
PARTING of dragon fly, futter of moth
~ Barley in windrow and wheat ir
the swath,
Hush song and thrush song-the mothel
bird knows
Midsummer comes and midsummer goes.
MOONLIGHT and moonlight all glamour
A'A and CLEAN.
Hillside and hillside a-thrall to the dream
Capture the rapture before the days close
Midsummer comes and midsummer goes.
Clinton Scollard.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
AT EouRsCoRE.

C'ALL her not old. although the flight OF
" years
Has measured off the allotted term OF
Call her not Old since neither doubts nor
fears
Have quenched her hope throughout the
long, long strife.
THEY are not old though days of youth
have fled,
Who QuafG the brimming cup of peace
and 10y.
They are rot old who from life's hidden
spIln s
Find drafts which still refresh. but new
err cloy,
EOR what are years. though flying e'er
SO fast?
A years day If full of gladstone zest
But who shah measure time when hopes
are past?
days a year If sorrow is the guest.
VNHE secret of perpetual youth is hers
- WAC finds delight in deeds of kind
ness wrought.
No age can dim the luster of her crown
Whose days with loving ministry are
fraught.
DEACE to her. then-a calm, unrufflec
peace
Until her pilgrimage at last is DER,
Until the Fathers summons calls hei
To greet the dear companions gone be-
fore!
IF. E. Snow
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
Both Were Winners,

A former United States senator was
sitting in the Grand Pacific hotel in
Chicago one evening when he was ap-
preached by an old time friend, who
was engaged in a losing battle with
John Barleycorn. The man took a
chair alongside the senator.
II have a tip on which l can make
81 on the open board of trade tomor-
row if | can get $40 to put up" he
said. Il thought you would let me
have the ten"
The senator canvassed the situation
quickly in his mind. Then he reached
into his pocket and pulled out some
money.
There you are" he-said to his
friend, handing him 81.
The man took the currency and then
hesitated.
This is only 81. SENATOR" he explain
ed. Il need ten
You said you expected to make only
81. didn't you? Well. there it is. You
have made $4. and l have made &c."
And that closed the transaction.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
THE POULTRY INDUSTRY.

1t is fact not generally known that
of all farm products poultry stands
fifth in value. 1t is estimated that
the cash derived from the sale of poul-
try and eggs amounts to half billion
dollars annually. 1t is believed that
this amount is being rapidly increased
each year, due to the fact that farmers
are beginning to realize the profits
there are in we'll cared for flock of
hens. When all poultrF keepers fully
appreciate how easy it is to increase
the productiveness of their fowls, it
is fair to assume that this branch of
farm products will advance well toward
first place in relative value. The fol-
lowing letter from G. D. Chatterton Of
West Brookfield, Vt, indicates the way
In which some are increasing their
egg production. He says: 81 have used
Pages Perfected Poultry Food for the
last two years, and got one-third more
eggs than before. can't get along
it."
If you want to know more about this
food and the best ways of using it,
write to @. s. Page, Hyde Park, Vt, for
his booklet, profitable Poultry" 1t
will be sent free, postpaid, to anyone
this paper.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
IN A PYTHoN's COIL.
An Adventure That Nearly Cost Zoo
Official His Life.

MI ~uVo0tets iHat NeaTiv lost zoo
Official His Life.
The attendants in geological gardens
nre exposed TO dangers of various
sorts. The superintendent of the Gin
rinnati animal park once had an ad-
venture with python which came
year costing him his life.
II became necessary TO make some
rhanges In The snake house. and the
superintendent. Mr.. Stephens. was In
the cage Of pythons. anticipating no
hanger, when to his dismay he saw
The largest snake coming toward him.
Kissing and darling its tongue angrily.
Instantly he realized his danger.
The superintendent quickly grasped
the huge reptile just back of The neck
with his right hand and with the left
clutched the creature two feet lower
down, where the greatest muscular
power of the python is located.
He tried 10 thrust the writhng mass
into waiting box. but the python
roiled its twelve feet of length round
the mans leg and began TO construct.
lis Tightening coils higher and
higher.
Struggle as he might Mr.. Stephens
seemed helpless in the serpent's grasp.
His hands were so moist thar the
scaly body twisted in them. PprSpira-
tion s,reamed down his face. The
python Ind worked its head free and
was darling its horrid tongue almost
IN its victims eyes.
The nnn threw up his hand instinc-
lively to shield his face. and at the
same moment the snake seized and
began swallowing it.
BY this time the attendants had
'ushed into the cage, and they began
)eating the python. Not liking this
reatment. the big snake relaxed it's
oils. Mr.. Stephens jerked his hand
rec and broke off one of the python's
angs in his thumb in so doing.
IF had not held on to it's heaviest
said the superintendent. II
rave no doubt it might have strangled
ne. AS long as kept my grip there I
cit confident. but was pretty weak
fter the adventure"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
THE CAVALRY.

n TOW, look away, you doughboy men
~ an stick to them trenches tight
vi Peek, if you wanter, oyer yer dir
4 an see purity fight
Look to yer cinches, one an all
Here goes tn fightin' crew.
Hoo-ki Hang onter yer hath caval-
rvs comm through
It's rat-tity-tat on tn dusty road
Here's where the devil II git load
Hook, an tn air is blue
When tn cavalrys comm through
There's some wot like tn doughboy line
some likes tn battery.
Some is stuck on tn engineers-for mine
TIL cavalry,
With yer legs a-straddle a good ole horse
"a horse wot's kind and true.
Then's it's hoo-ki! Hang onter yer hat
tn cavalry's comm through!
Clackety- clack, spit out tn dust,
Foller yer leader if you bust
Wee-ow-wow! There's a hullabaloo
When tn cavalry's comm through.
This flight on feet amt just my style;
feel safer on horse.
When T feel him CULVER beneath my knees
an TIL captain shows TIL course,
Sing, gun in hand an yell in my teeth
then knows what ter do
Hoo-yi! Hang onter yer hath caval.
RVS comm through!
Ta-ta-ra TIL bugle sings
Feels s f you was on wings
Yee-ow-ow! An then wa-hoo
When tn cavalrys comm through!
Alfred Damon Runyon,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
Mr.. YEATS Statement

Mr.. A, L. Veal, who keeps a store at
Magnus, Ca, states that his wife finds
Rydale's Cough Elixir quick relief for
Group, certain cure for Coughs, Colds
and Sore Throat. Mrs. Veal is the moth
eri.of large family of children and has
tried many patent cough medicines and
physicians prescriptions. but none equal
Rydale's Cough Elixir. A bottle of this
remedy in the house relieves her mind of
all anxiety over the outcome of an attack
of Group or a cold. She has learned by
experience, that there is no danger of
serious results when Rydale's Cough
Elixir is given the sufferer. We sell it
and Guarantee every bottle sold. A. l..
Cheney, Morrisville; c. P. Jones, John
son; G. A. Riley, Stowe; E. w. Smith,
North Hyde Park; NJ. J. Leach, Wolcott.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
THE POWER OF ART.

n TOT human art, but living gods
~ alone,
VI Can fashion beauties that b,
i Y changing live
Her buds to spring. his fruits &c
autumn give,
To earth her fountains in her heart OF
stone.
But these in their begettlng are DER
thrown,
Nor may the sentenced minutes find re-
prieve.
And summer in the blush of joy must
grieve
To shed his Haunting crown of petals
blown
We to our WORKS may not impart our
breath
Nor them with shifting light of life ar.
ray.
We show but what one hapnv mop,en,
saith.
Yet may our hands immortalize the day
When life was sweet and save from, ,tte,
death
The sacred past that should not pass
away.
George Santayana-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
Getting the Most Out of Life.

Make yourselves nests of pleasant
thoughts None of us yet know, for
none of us have been taught in early
youth. what fairy places we may build
of beautiful thought. proof against
all adversely bright fancies. satisfied
memories. noble histories. faithful say
ings. treasure houses of precious and
restfuI thoughts, which care cannot
disturb nor pain make gloomy nor
poverty take away from us-houses
built without hands for our souls to
live in.-John Ruskin.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
PROMPT TO ACT.
A Man Who Seemed Always to Be
Ready For Emergencies.

Ready For Emergencies.
To he ready for emergencies was one
of the gifts of Or. Samuel Gridley
Howe. the great teacher of the blind.
writes his daughter. Mrs. Laura II.
Richards. who has edited his Letters
and Journals" She gives several in
stances IN which his quick action pre-
vented serious accidents.
Once M Green Peace my father was
going to drive with my mother and my
sister Florence In closed carriage
with n large window In front.
AS the driver was mounting the box
he dropped his whip and got down to
recover IT, This startled the young
horses and they bolted down the
driveway.
My father tried to open the big win
through the plate glass as If 1t had
been paper and. catching up the reins.
stopped the runa ways in less time than
it takes 10 tell it.
When Thomas came running up.
white and hreathless. he found doc
tor" quietly shaking the bits of glass
from his coat aud hat and explaining
10 my terrified mother that he went
so quick there was no time to get cut
Still another memory of my mothers
shows his Guickness in a different
way. He was walking along Washing
ton street one day when furious dog
rushed at him and bit his hand severe
~.
There was no Pasteur institute in
the forties. My father instantly raised
up he skin and flesh of the bitten part
and. holding it firmly. entered the
nearest apothecarys shop.
Cut this piece off," he said briefly.
The apothecary exclaimed in horror.
He could not, he would not. without a
surgeons order. 1t was out of the
question.
II am surgeon" said my father.
land I command you to cut it off,"
1t was cut off. My father dressed
the wound with his other hand and
went about his business.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
Law of the Household.

Would we codify the laws that
should reign in households and whose
daily transgression annoys and morti-
fies us and degrades our household
life. we must learn to adoTn every
day with sacrifices. Good manners
are made up of petty sacrifices. Tenn
perance. courage. love. are made up of
the same jewels. Listen to every
prompting of honor-Emerson.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27

ALI TIE IInI1 I117H1 UP ut tLIC LIOIIt
THINKING. window at 2
O'Clock in the mornin' trying to figure
out what's happened to Bill and won
derin' whether you ought to get out
a rollin' pin or a mustard plaster.
NO. little girl; mind what your old
daddy says. Don't try to make a
seraphim out of Bill. Keep him at
home. Make him think that home is
the sweetest and pleasantest place on
the face of this green earth, and let
him smoke anywhere he doggone
uleases."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27

band out of doors just because he
wanted an after dinner smoke, force
him to roost with the chickens while
he contempates the vanity Of life in
general and of matrimony in particu-
lar. Go and tell him to come here-no,
wait a minute, little girl. Just let
him keep on roostin' for a little bit
while tell you somethin'.
This world, honey. wasn't fitted up
as a habitation for cherubims and
things of that sort. 1t was made for
mortal men and women, and you can't
turn a man into an angel without call
In in the undertaken | believe every
body ought to be good, but there's
such thing as bein' too good to be
interesting. It's the little faults I'm
talkin' about. you understandable fail
ms that all of us have, more or less
of, aud wouldn't be exactly human
without. | don't know whether it's
exactly right to cali 'em blessin's, but
it seems to me that they act kind of
like safety valves and keep us from
dom worse things. Anyhow, it's been
my experience, an I've been here
long time. honey, and kept my eyes
open-it's been my experience that a
man who don't appear to have any
faults had better be watched. The
natural born cussedness II pile up in
side of him until some day he'll bust
out and stonish the natives That's
why | say, honey, that it won't do to
bottle a man up TOO tight. Unless you
have an outlet for the meanness that's
in him you're likely to have trouble,
and / don't know of any better outlet
for masculine depravity than a good
cigar.
Now, little girl, you've married
man. I've been watchin William pretty
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
Col. John Sneed's
Conversations ON
Domestic Problems
By CASPER S. YOST,
Author of THE Making OF a Successful Husband" and
1.-THE Making of a Successful Wife,"
~ Copyright, 1909. by C. Yost. ~
By CASPER S. YOST,

brains. On the contrary, It stimulates
his intelligence and opens his eyes to
a better appreciation of the beauty
and goodness around him, while at
the same time it softens his heart and
Soothes his nerves. 1t has tendency
to make a man more amiable and
more amenable, and after good many
years of observation, my dear, am
pretty well satisfied that there's moth
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
BuRDEMSi

THE man cried to the heavens.
l. 81 am sick of my burdensr'
The kind gods replied,
I'VE will free you"
Then fell from his shoulders
The wearisome, chatting loads.
Freed. he leapt forth. exulting and pranc.
ing
And cried again to the heavens.
give me something to lift"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
Special PIsyinu Cards.

Playing cards of size and shape
which make them specially desirable
for women's euchres or bridges are
new with the stationers. They are
long and narrow, panel shaped, and are
said on this account to be much easier
for women to handle. The back has a
decoration representing designs of rich
lace.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
!. Should the Man Smoke
at Home ?
~ OLONEL JOHN SNEED, having
dined with satisfaction TO him
n self and pleasure to his wise,


MI dined with satisfaction to him
w. self and pleasure to his wise
lighted cigar and strolleo
around the corner to the modest cot
tage in which his son-in-law had re-
Gently established himself.
where's William he inquired
after he had paternally pecked at the
pretty lips presented to him and &C,
cepted the comfortable seat in the liv-
ing room. Hope he's at home"
Yes, he's at home, papa" the daugh-
ter replied, and a roster flush came
into her cheeks as she added, Hes
just gone to the woodshed for mo
ment."
Colonel Sneed noticed the heightened
color, and his curiosity was aroused.
tits a pretty warm day." he re-
marked. with twinkle in his eye. 81
don't reckon he's goin' to build fire,
is hep"
NO. papa, it isn't that. told-he
thought-l-l-he went out there TO
smoke"
What" exclaimed the colonel-"gone
to the woodshed to smoke! What in
the world. Why don't he get on the
roof or sit on the gatepost? Why
don't he come into the house or-say,
little girl, is this some of your doin's?
And he looked at his daughter sternly
through the incense that arose from
his cigar.
well. well, papa" she replied falter-
ingly, II don't want him to smoke in
the house, and thought we ought to
begin right and
"Huhp' grunted the colonel. That's
q fine way to begin. Turn your hus-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
AFTER
SUFFERING
ONE YEAR
Cured by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound
M1lwaukee, Wis. "Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has made

me a well woman,
and | would like to
tell the whole world
of it. / suffered
fromfemale trouble
and fearful painsin
my back. l had the
best doctors and
they all decided
that I had a tumor
in addition to my
female trouble, and
advised an opera
ton, lydia Il.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
Sens Tn Verse
The MIRACLE.

Y YNLOVELY things they were an
cold
AS death itself last fall
~ The bulbs | planted In the mold
Beside my garden wall,
Yet here above each sodden husk
A bourgeoned beauty blows
And fills with hyacinthine musk
The little garden close.
All, lovelier, dearer seed than mine,
Albeit cold as they.
/ watched my widowed friend consign
To churchyard mold today.
Yet he in darkness. questioning
The same benignant power,
Can neither see the distant spring
Nor visualize the flower.
IT. A. Daily.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27

in that'll promote matrimonial har-
mony like a good cigar smoked at
home. You never heard of man
with a cigar in his mouth breakin' up
the furniture or draggin' his wife
around the room by the hair Of her
head, did you? No, guess not! Nor
it don't induce him to sneak out into
the kitchen and kiss the cook. either.
Its influence is always in the direc-
ton of virtue. Many crisis, domes-
tic and otherwise. has been prevented
by the contemplative restraint Of a
good cigar. You needn't smile, little
girl. That's no joke OF course you
can always get too much of a good
thing. Too much tobacco will work
ham and eggs. and the man who
smokes at home isn't half as likely to
overdo it as the man who has to go
out in the woodshed or to the corner
saloon or to the club.
And that brings me around to the
main point that | want to press into
your pretty little head. You've got
your hair fixed mighty nice this even
in, honey. New style, amt it? Uh,
huh. Looks fine. But, as | was about
to say, the best place for man to
smoke his cigar is at home. Now,
you've got Bill out there in the back
yard tryin to get some satisfaction out
of his smoke, and he isn't gettin' it.
Smoke. for the most part, is mental
process, and it's enjoyment is meas
ured a good deal by the surroundings
Bits putin away out there and Won
derin' why it burns so slow. All the
time he's thinkin', and you oughtn't to
blame him if his thinks amt the kind
you'd like to have workin' around In
his brain. He ought to be sittin' here
and lookin' at you just as l am and
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27

tween his teeth. There's somethin'
about burnin' tobacco that makes man
more susceptible to impressions from
without and more readily Influenced
by reflections from within. Let him
have a mild Havana. FIX him up com
PORTABLE in an easy chair, and he's in
shape to submit to most any kind Of
a domestic operation that is prompted
by love and reason. He amt doped.
Smoke don't steal away a mans
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27

81 think shall go to Europe"
Flow tie deuce can you afford TO go
to Europe"
81 can't. but / can afford to think
BROOKLYN Life.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
PROGRESS

7 FILL Columbus westering sail.
4 l work through Cromwell's spleen.
l crush the Bourbons when they fan.
l break the guillotine
WHO fares with me along the wav.
w Nor stays for fear or ruth,
His heresy of yesterday
Shall be tomorrow's truth.
Robert Gilbert Welsh.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
Let Col

ssHOld fast!" That splendid motto has
many battles won
When linked with noble purpose to earn
the worlds 'well done"
But one of equal import for all shrewd
men to know
Is when to quit and have the grit to then
and there ''let CO."
Have you lost your coign of vantage?
Have you slipped into rut?
It's 10 disgrace to change your base be-
fore the wires are cut.
II bspeaks the willy general to outwit
stubborn foe.
Don't Stand your ground when you have
found twill pay you to let go. -
DIR. W. A. Blackwell.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
A CHARMING STENCIL.

applied to the border and valance of
a window curtain. White or cream
scrim stenciled in robins egg blue
makes pleasing effect.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27
A CHARMING Stencil.

1t is strange that women so seldom
use their artistic talents upon beauti-
flying their window hangings. The de-
sign illustrated is very attractive when
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-10-27

close since | came
home, and I'm
tolera bly, well
satisfied that he's
the real thing.
He's got some
rough edges that
might be sandpa-
pered down with
benefit to himself
and to you. but
| want to give
you a straight tip,
little girl, and
that is that the
smoothin' out
process will go a
whole lot easier
when he's got a
pood cipar hq-