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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-12-22

lures were finely chiseled Grandpi
Orde had been a mighty breaker of the
wilderness. but his time had passed
and he had fallen upon somewha,
straitened ways. Grandma Orde. OF
the other hand. was very small
spry old lady, with Il small face. Il
small figure, small hands and feet
She dressed in the then usual cap and
black silk Of old ladies'. Half her
time she spent at her housekeeping,
which she loved, jingling about from
cellar to attic storeroom, seeing that
Amanda, the maid, had everything in
order.
TO these people Orde came direct
| from the greatness of the wilderness
| and the ferocity of HelPs Half Mile.
Such contrasts were possible even ten
or fifteen years ago. The untamed
country lay at the doors of the most
| modern civilization.
Newmark, reappearing one Sunday
afternoon at the end of the two weeks,
was apparently bothered. He eXamin-
ed the Orde place for some moments,
walked on beyond it. Finding nothing
there, he returned and after some hes
itation turned in up the tar sidewalk
bell pull. Grandma Orde herself an
swered the door
Newmnrk took off his gray felt hat.
"Will you kindly tell me where Mr..
Orde lives"
This ia Mr.. Orde's." replied the lit
tie old lady.
Pardon me-" persisted Newmark.
Il am looking for Mr.. Jack Orde |
am sorry to have troubled you"
MT Jack Orde lives here" returned
Grandma Orde. "IIe is my son. Would
YOU like to see him."
''If you please" assented Newmark
Eravely. his thin, shrewd face masking
itself with its usual expression of
quizzicaI cynicism.
Newmark entered the COOL dusky in
terror and was shown to the left into
dim. long room He perched on ma
hOgany chair and had time to notice
bookcase with while owl atop. an old
piano with the following keys hair
cloth sofa and chairs. steel engravings
and two oil portraits when Orde APP
peared.
Newmark had known Orde only as
riverman. Like most fasteners, he
was unable TO imagine man in rough
clothes as being anything but a rough
man. The figure he saw before him
was correctly dressed in what was
then the proper Sunday costume
"Oh, it's you. Mr.. Newmark" cried
Orde. I'm glad to see you" He led |
the way into the hall and to another |
brighter room, in which Grandma |
Orde sat, canary singing above her
head
Mother" said Orde. "this is Mr..
Newmark, who was with us on the
lrive this spring"
Mr. Newmark and | spoke at the
loor." said she, extending her frail
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-12-22
We Want Your Beef Hides

CalfSlins, Horse Hides, Sheep Pelts, Tai
low, Bones, ETC., and will pay you outside
prices therefor. We pay spot cash; we
pay the freight; wepay fullmarket value
We want to arrange with some one in
every village where we have no agent,
to collect the above named goods for us
and to sell Pages Perfected Poultry Food
and other poultry supplies We furnish
money with which to buy and we keep
our buyers thoroughly posted at all times
as to market values. Write for full par
ticulars.
CARROLL S. PAGE, Hyde Park, Vt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-12-22

For a mild, easy acti on of the bowels,
single dose of Doan's Regulets is enough.
Treatment cures habitual constipation.
so cents a box. Ask your druggist for
them.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-12-22

Stops itching instantly. Cures piles,
eczema, saltrheum, letter, itch, hives,
herpes, scabies-Doan's Ointment. At
any drug store.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-12-22

A tactful man can pull the singer from
a bee without getting stung.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-12-22

AT this moment the outside door
opened to admit Mr., and Mrs. Hub.
bard, who had, according to their usual
sunday custom, been spending the
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-12-22

ACK ORDE was the youngest and
most energetic of large family
II that had long since scattered to
diverse cities and industries. He
and Grandpa and Grandma Orde dwelt
now in the big. echoing. old fashioned
house alone save for one maid. Grand
pa Orde, now above sixty, was tall,
straight, slender. His hair was quite
Ehite and worn little long. His fea-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-12-22

Y THINK I'll go see Jane Hubbard
this evening"" Orde remarked to
his mother as he arose from the
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-15
CHIFFON FOR THE SLEEVES.
Gives Right Touch to the Transpar.
ent Materials So Popular In
Hot Weather.

The fashion of wearing transparent
sleeves is certainly comfortable one
during warm weather; hence it's great
popularity, for these sleeves cover
every type of arm Observation-Disclosures
so fat they resemble small holsters.
thin arms, white arms and sallow
ones. Indeed, until one has spent half
an hour In the shopping district it is
hard to believe there could be such
a variety of arms. The fashion may
be pretty one as well as a comfort
able one If the wearers would only
back the sleeves with thin white
chiffon or mousseline de sole. This
tone may be used whether the sleeves
are white, black or color.
A novelty in parasols is being
shown by Broadway house that will
appeal to patriotic young women. The
covering is of the regulation tan kha-
XII, embroidered with emblems of the
different regiments in scarlet mercer
lied thread.
Another novelty displayed at the
same shop is line Of very pretty raf-
fla belts at 81 each. For wear with
a tan linen or pongee frock these
rafiia accessories are considered very
smart.-WashingtOn Star.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-15

AWNDRESSOf
bodice skirt Our model is in white lawn but cooed lawn white
spotted printed muslin
The slightly
that trimmed
which
gathered a waistband fastened
OF embroidery outlined with insertion tucked
between
lower being embroidery
band the side
finished
18 inches wide
Design for Lnen-Here semiprinces
Of The
edged outside with embroidery edng
beading embroidery
skirt twice above the hem at sides back
in
yards wide Yards EN-
broidery, insertion.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-15
WAYS OF CLEANING CHIFFON.
Material Requires Care In Cleansing,
and Some Time Must Be De.
voted to The Work.

Chiffon should be washed in soap
lather by carefully rolling and press
ing between the hands. then rinsed in
clean water and stiffened in gum wa
ter, one tablespoonful to q quarter of
pint of water.
Roll in cloth to absorb some of
the moisture, but it must not be too
dry when it is ironed.
To iron chiffon, it must be placed on
the table wrong side up and ironed
along the selvedge, as ironing across
would displace the fbers and destroy
the appearance of the delicate fabric.
When the chiffon is being ironed it
ought to be held tightly up in front
OF the iron to remove crinkles that
are produced by washing and to make
It quite even and smooth
Chiffon ties with a natural crepon
crinkle should not be ironed, but in
stead the ends should be pinned out
on table, the tie just stretched
enough to permit of the crinkles fall
ing into their natural shape.
When dry fold it without pressing
the folds in. air and put carefully
away.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-15
Was Showed Through the Entrance to
the Furnace.

what happened then. Although prac-
tically unconscious, he has a dim rec
objection of hearing one of the men
say:
We'll, he's dead, and you're in for
1t just as much as we are. The thing
to do is to get rid of his body"
He then went into state of coma.
To hide all traces of the crime, the
men determined to burn the body.
The door of the fire box was opened
and the inanimate form of the watch
man was showed through the entrance
to the furnace.
The fire had been banked and the
Goals were merely smoldering. How
long he remained there he does not
know.
When he began to regain his senses
his clothing was on fire. His head
was bursting with pain, but summon
ing all his energies he reached the
door. The bolt was unfastened, but
there was not sufficient strength left
to drag his body through the narrow
aperture.
Just outside the fire box hung the
cord to the steam shovel whistle. He
remembered the camp of track work
men a quarter of mile away. He
knew a blast from the whistle would
tell them that all was not well at the
steam shovel and would bring them
post haste.
He thrust his arm through the box
and his hand clasped the cord. Just
as his brain again became dark he
sounded his blast of appeal.
The workmen heard his call and
hurried to the steam shovel. A hur-
ried inspection failed to reveal his
whereabouts. Finally the arm still
grasping the rope was seen.
The man was dragged from the fur
mace, but for an hour they could Sc
cure no coherent account of his expe-
riences.
Large rewards have been offered
for the capture of the men.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-15
Newest Ocean Liners.

The White Star liners now under
way will not be quite so large as was
commonly supposed, although they
will yet be considerably larger than
the Mauretania and Lusitania. They
will measure $50 feet between perpen.
diculars and $50 feet over all. The
beam will be 80 feet and they will
have nodded depth of 81 feet, which
is four feet more than the depth of the
Mauretania. A notable feature of the
construction of these boats will be the
power equipment, which will consist
of two engines of $4,000 horse power
driving the wing propellers and 10,-
000-horse power turbine driving the
central propeller. This combination
will be sufficient ia drive the ships ct
sea speed of 1875 knots.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-15
To Stretch Curtains.

Use a quilting frame or a curtain
stretcher converted into quilting
frame by tacking strips of ticking or
any heavy material doubled to inch
width on the inner edges of the frame
where pins have been. Temporarily
pin the curtains on four corners and
at intervals on side, then sew them
on, instead Of pinning them, with a
basting stitch. Scalloped edged cur
tains can be sewed on two at a time
and three or more plain edged ones.
1t is surprising to see no peaks in
scallops or straight edges and with
less labor and time spent and with
no sore fingers.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-15
All.Green Hats.

A recent whim is the all-green hat,
the shape, perhaps, of drak green,
surrounded only with quantities of
foliage, and the brim lined with green
aerophane, or the hat might be ar.
ranged with very wide green ribbon
velvet, manipulated into fiat bow,
and nothing else, save for the brim
lining of aerophane, this fabric of
charming texture being the latest no.
tion in brim Innings.
An all-green hat will look rather
nice with the white linen or pioue
coat and skirt of the definite summer
time, and might be accompanied by
a green sunshade, and with a green
collar facing to the coat. With
bunch of pink roses or carnations
fastened into the white blouse worn
with the suit this might be a verv
happy, cool, summery suit.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-15
MAN THROWN INTO
A FIERY FURNACE
WATCHMAN IMPRISONED IN FIRE
BOX OF STEAM SHOVEL. eY
Three FlENDS.
DRAGS SELF TO WHISTLE CORD
Workmen Hear ShrilI Appeal for Help
and Drag Unfortunate from SmoI-
dering Goals as He Loses
consciousness.

Laporte, Ind.-Aroused from uncon-
sciousness by the heat of the smolder-
ing fire on which his practically life
less body had been thrown, Gus Wise
man, watchman at the steam shovel
camp of an electric line near Laporte
the other night found himself impris-
oned in the fire box of the steam
shovel.
Wr1thing in pain, which augmented
the spark of strength left in his body,
he dragged himself to the door of the
box, opened it, grasped the cord to
the whistle of the engine and as he
lapsed back into Inconsistencies
sounded blast after blast, which final
ly brought him assistance.
The man is frightfully burned, but
it is believed that his life can be
saved. Posses of farmers and en-
ployes of the road, headed by deputy
sheriffs, secured the countryside in an
effort to find two white men and a
negro, who the watchman declared
were responsible for the inhuman out
rage.
According to Wiseman's story, he
was on watch about midnight, when
he was accosted by two whites
and negro. The white men were
well dressed, but apparently under the
influence of liquor.
After greeting him, one of the white
men said:
1--WE want some whisky. Come on
with that bottle"
Il haven't any," replied the watch
man.
you're liar!" shouted the
stranger.
''Wiseman jumped to his feet. As
he did so he felt sickening blow
from behind He remembers little of
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-15
Quaint Little Clock.

An odd little clock is in the form OF
crystal ball suspended by a leather
strap to the top Of a sttrrup iron.
The iron, which is really of silver
or gunmetal, stands on the desk or
dresser on the metal base on which
the foot rests when one rides, and the
clock swings from its tiny leather
strap.
This would make an ideal gift for
the girl who rides and drives and
loves horses. :*..s H. :,... -~..... .>> +.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-15
The Scarf.

There is no end to the variety OF
the scarf. A remarkably pretty one
was in soft tone of pale blue. the
ends embroidered in graduated gold
spots. Another was in curions,v
patterned green gauze. with blue in
it. This was bordered with dull sill
yer gauze laid on in a fiat band al,
round, and hemstitched. Even more
curious is gray gauze with the ends
embroidered in overlapping scales like
those of fish. but in mother-o'pearl
not in the least like the ordinary 40.
quin, but resembling some of the won.
derful Japanese embroideries Of the
same kind.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-15
Hat Rrima Turned Lin

Hats are turned up at all angles
around the brim. and the small hats
are made by turning up the brim of
an ordinary size hat very sharply at
each side, while the brim in front
and at the back is quite narrow:
sometimes the brim is turned up at
the right side (while the trimming is
exclusively on the lefD. and some
times at the back
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-15
Japan. the middle United States and
Europe and northern Asia.

But it still would seem to be 4 puz-
zle why the plants were not the
same in corresponding ATTITUDES on
both sides of the American contin-
ent. Why should the species Of plants
in California be so different from
those in Pennsylvania and Virginia?
This is answered by considering the
different conditions which prevail on
the east and west sides of a contin-
ent. Because the world turns from
west to east the prevailing winds in
the northern hemisphere are from the
southwest. The breezes of the Pacific
coast are therefore sea breezes, Ia
den with moisture, while those in the
eastern Atlantic states are land
breezes, which have been largely be-
reft Of their moisture and are subject
to greater alterations of tempera-
ture. The constant action of these d.
verse conditions would have a direct
effect to favor some species on the
Atlantic coast that would not be fa-
vored on the Pacific, and vice versa
Thus we have everything accounted
for in q most natural way
The reason why these plants have
not returned to Greenland and Spitz-
bergen is that the glacial period is
not yet over. 1t still prevails in those
northern regions. But they have
started on their northern journey and
have partially recovered the ground
lost. Some have already attained their
original homes, leaving, however,
many stragglers on the way. The
main body of arctic vegetation is the
same with that which covered the
country of the middle Atlantic states
during the climax of the glacial Pc
riod. OF the struggling remnants
still left in favoring situations one of
the most interesting is Scotch heath
er, which is found not only in Labra-
dor, but in a few places in Massachu-
setts, like Andover and Cape Cod. In
all the rock gorges opening into Lake
Erie remnants of the glacial vsgeta-
ton are preserved In the sequestered
and cool shady nooks Some such are
also preserved in similar narrow. cool
gorges opening into the Ohio river
below Cincinnati.
But the mountains formed the best
retreats for the arctic plants, which
| were following up the receding ice
sheet. Alpine plants are found on the
high elevations of the White noun
tains, and on the high peaks Of the
Rocky and, Sierra Nevada mountains
as far south as New Mexico, but are
absent over all the intervening areas.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-15
In His Debt.

1--WE got to have a thousand dol.
lars; I'll 60 and see Jinx about it."
What makes you think he will let
you have it,"
"He owes me debt of gratitude he
can never repay"
did you save his life?"
Better than that; l married the
woman to whom he was engaged"
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-15

But with the coming on or the gla-
cial period this happy family of spe-
cies around the north pole was rude.
ly disturbed by the new conditions.
The lowering of temperature and the
slow accumulation of glacial ice made
1t impossible for trees of temperate
climate to maintain their existence on
those inhospitable shores If they
were to exist any longer they must
emigrate to milder climes. But how
shall tree which is fixed in the soil
remove to better its fortune? OF
course, a single tree Is helpless in
such a situation. But, as Prof. Gray
wittily says, when a tree is driven
to an extremity it can take to the
woods" and the forest can begin a
majestic movement toward better
climes.
AS the conditions favor1ng the for
est became severe along its northern
belt they would become favorable
over corresponding belt stretching
to the south. Over this belt the seeds
would be gradually scattered by vari-
Gus agencies. Some seeds would be
blown by the wind, some carried by
streams of water, some by birds and
SQUIRRELS and other animals. Where
as formerly such stray seeds had
failed to find favorable conditions in
these new fields, now they would be
the favored ones, and thus the spe-
.cies which they represented would
slowly spread southwark until the
glacial period had exhausted itself
and the extreme limit of favorable
conditions had been reached.
Thus It would result that the same
species would be driven down to cor
responding latitudes on both sides of
the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. and
we should have what now appears
namely, the same species of plants in
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-15
Mysteries of Nature
By G. Frederick Wright, A. NJ. IL. D.
ICE DRIVEN PLANTS AND ANIMALS.

before the glacial period the plants
which now flourish in the latitude of
virginia and North Carolina were
growing In happy family in Spitz-
bergen, northern Greenland, and on
the Arctic shores of North America.
Arctic expeditions have repeatedly
brought back from the middle tertiary
deposits north of Disco island the
embedded leaves and fruit of mag
nol1as, sassafras, hickories, naples,
poplars. birches, lindens, southern
cypress and several species of Sc
quotas, including the gigantic forms
now found only in California, and
three kinds of ginko trees now Pc
culiar to Japan. The evidence OF
these fossil plants is conclusive that
just before the glacial period there
was a warm climate all around the
north pole
Until the theory of the origin of
species by natural selection was &C.
cepted, and the facts about the glacial
period brought to light this distribu-
tion of trees and plants was a pro-
found mystery. For the solution OF
the problem we are largely Indebted
to the late Prof. Asa Gray, who in
1859 read paper before the Ameri-
can Academy of Arts and Sciences on
the flora of Japan, which attracted the
attention of the scientific world and
opened the way to the full exposition
of his theory, which was set forth in
an address before the American Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Sci
ence at Dubuque, Ia, in 1872. The
way had been prepared for this work
by the fact that the large collection of
Japanese plants gathered by Commo-
dore Perry's expedition in 1857, which
opened Japan to the world, was placed
in his hands for examination. The re-
suit was that it appeared that there
was a striking similarity between the
plants of Japan and those of the Altai
mountains, of the Himalayas and the
eastern portion of North America,
and a striking dissimilarity between
the plants of these regions and those
of the Pacific slope of North America,
while the most remarkable resem-
blance was between the plants of
Japan and those of eastern United
States.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-15
Buttons,

Buttons covered with the material
of the gown on which they are en-
ployed are the latest development A
foulard frock just home from the
dressmaker is trimmed solely with
cords covered with the silk and with
buttons Of the same order.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-15

The Pacific coast of the United
States is rich in coniferous trees like
cedars, sequoias and redwoods, but is
conspicuously lacking in most of the
trees familiar on the Atlantic slope.
For example, there are not half as
many naples, or ashes, or poplars,
or walnuts, or birches, or oaks on the
Pacific slope, and they are of such in
ferior quality that it is said "a pas
sable wagon wheel can not be made
of California wood, nor really good
one in Oregon" The Atlantic slope
has four times as many species of non
cOniferous trees as the Pacific slope,
but only little more than half as
many coniferous species.
The first step in the solution of this
problem is found in the relation of
the land continents in the northern
hemisphere to each other Whereas, the
southern ends of the continents pro.
ject far out into deep seas so that they
are widely separated from each other
at the north they approached each
other and are separated by shallow
seas. The water in Behring strait is
only $50 feet deep, and that in the sea
only few hundred feet deep, so that
a slight elevation of the bottom of the
ocean there would join Asia to Amer
lea. and permit the migration of plants
and animals from one continent to an
other. That these continents have
been recently joined by such a change
in land level Is proved by the fact
that bones of the mammoth have been
found on both sides of Behring strait,
and even on the Pribyloff islands, far
out in Behring sea. A similar belt of
shOal water extends from Greenland
by way of Iceland to Norway. 1t is
therefore easy to suppose continu-
Gus land connection clear around the
north pole enabling plants and ami
mails to migrate freely. On the 9TH
er hand, the general resemblance of
species both of plants and animals in
the lands surrounding the north pole
is proof that there has been such op-
.portunity for migration. Whereas,
there is this great similarity in spe-
cies in the northern hemisphere, there
is total dissimilarity between the
species occupying the southern ex-
tremities of the continents in the
southern hemisphere.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-15
A Slow Thinker.

my motto" said Chapleigh, "is al.
ways to aw-think before l speak"
"Indeed!" rejoined Miss Caustique.
And don't you find it difficult to sus.
tain conversation and live up to
your motto at the same timer"
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-10-15

Insects also, as well as plants and
the larger animals, were compelled to
reckon with the glacial period. Among
the most interesting illustrations of
this occurs in the White mountains,
where various Alpine species of but
terflies are found near the summit. In
ascending Mount Washington one
suddenly encounters near the top
whole swarms Of butterflies (Oeneis
Semidea); so that, as Prof. Samuel
Scudder has said, so far as insect
species are concerned, in ascending
Mount Washington we pass, as it
were, from New Hampshire to north
ern Labrador and the southern ex-
tremity of Greenland" Similar spe-
cies occur also on the summit of the
Rocky mountains. The story is the
same. Dispersed far and wide during
the glacial period, these insects have
at last been compelled to take refuge
on the SUBMITS Of the high noun
tains, where alone glacial conditions
perpetually prevail.