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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03

FOREST TO BE ACQUIRED BY GOVERNMENT.
by the government under authority of
| the law which provides that objects
| of scientific interest may be declared
| national monuments the woods will
be perpetuated. No other redwood
tract in the state of California is so
easily accessible to so many people.
Its great educational value, together
with the fact that it is a pleasure
ground for all those who live in or
visit this part of California. makes
the woods an ideal national monument.
By an act of congress passed Feb.
1S, 1909, way was found to save for
all time one of the most famous groves
of trees in the world-the Calaveras
big tree grove of California. For more
than nine years the people of Califor-
MIA, particularly the 500'women of the
California club, have been working to
interest the government In protecting
the big trees from destruction. The
act finally passed by congress provides
for the acquisition of the grove by an
exchange which will give its former
owner stumpage or other forest lands
owned by the government in place of
the timber in the grove, No appropri-
alton is needed to carry out the act
The land TO be acquired under the
act includes 1000 acres, of which 96O
acres, known at the north grove are in
Calaveras county, and 3,04O, known as
The south grove. are in Tuolumne coun-
ty. There are 1880 big trees in the
grove, not counting specimens less than
six feet in diameter. Besides the big
trees. whose scientific name is Sequoia
waShingtoniana. there are hundreds of
sugar and yellow pines ranging to the
height of 275 feet and often having a
diameter of eight or ten feet. as well
as many white frs and incense cedars.
In the north grove there are ten trees
each of which is over twenty-five feet
in diameter and more than seventy
from fifteen to twenty-five feet in di-
ameter.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03
Hard on the Chairs,

Among the ancestors of Wendell
Phillips were several Puritan clergy.
men. Perhaps it was push of heredi-
ty which made him at five years of
age a preacher
His congregation was composed of
circles of chairs arranged in his IA
theirs parlor, while a taller chair, with
n Bible on it, served him for pulpit.
He would harangue these wooden audi
tors by the hour.
"Wendell.' said his father to him
one day. don't you get tired of this?'
mo. papa" wittily replied the boy
nreacher. II don't get tired but it is
rather hard on the chairs"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03
A Purist.

Most persons believe Stevenson's
verses for children may without cor
lection or amendment. safely be placed
In the hands of the impressiOnable
youngster without CORFU ptinG either
his morals or his English. But there
are some who think otherwise, says an
exchange.
Little Alices mother. having taught
the child to say. Time to rise" in
which the birdie with yellow bill"
figures, the child announced that she
meant to recite it to her teacher.
"Well, and what did Miss Prim say
TO the birdie with Il yellow bill""
asked Aljre's mother when the little
girl returned from school
''She says il is quite pretty thought
But this is the way she makes me say
1t now. mamma:
"a birdie with a yellow bill
Hoped upon the window sill.
Cooked his shining eye and said,
Are you not ashamed. you sleepyhead"
But that was not the way the birdie
said it, Alice" the mother remon-
Strated.
"No, mamma; | know. But teacher
says it isn't good English to say,
'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepybeadY"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03

everything Just so and look your pref
test for him? OF course you did.
And he's still carryin some of those
pictures around in his head, and once
In awhile he gets them out and Won
1ers why there's such difference.
"There isn't any real difference,
honey. It's just appearances. You
haven't lost any good looks since you
married. You're just as pretty and
ms sweet and as good as you were
then-maybe a little more so. When
you're all fixed up in the evenin' l
have to admit that Mrs. William Jack
son Rollins don't play second fiddle to
Miss Salie Sneed, You're all right
then, little girl; you're all right now.
But appearances have just as much
to do with keepn' man as they have
with gettin him, and the mornin' APP
pearance has more influence than the
evenin' for it stays longer; 1t goes
downtown and spends the day with
him.
"Now. I'm not sayin', my dear, that
q woman ought to rig up in her best
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03
1t Pays to Do RIGHT,

I've nOticed-and | don't sleep ex-
cept when | go to bed-I've noticed
that the people who come nearest to
bein happy in this world are the ones
who come nearest to dom right. To
do right all the time, to do the square
thing by your friends and your enc
mics. by everybody as well as by
yourself, is a pretty hard proposition,
and there's mighty few-I doubt if
there's any-that succeed entirely. But
it's been my experience that it pays to
try. and the dividends seem to be ex-
actly in proportion to the success.
We're all lookin' for happiness. We've
got good many different ideas about
what it is, but whatever it is we want
it. and if we've got boss sense we
want the brand that'll last the longest
an keep the best. That brand is es-
pecially prepared and reserved for
those who do right, or as near right as
they can. Nobody else can get even
a smell of it. And there's no institu-
ton or agency thatll help a man to
do right like the church. It's got the
right of way on the straightaway
track. It's got the road all surveyed
and charted. There's lots O. people in
the church that we don't like, and
there's lots O. people in the church, no
doubt. who don't like us. But take 1t
all round the fact remains that the
church people are the best people, not
only in the spiritual but in the ma
terial sense. Don't fnrset that-Colo-
mel John Sneed.
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Sixteenth Century Meals.

Judging from passage in Harri-
sons description of Britain" break
fast eating in the sixteenth century
was held to denote effeminacy. "Here-
tofore," he writes, there hath been
more time spent in eating and drink
ing than commonly is in these days,
for, whereas of old we had breakfasts
in the forenoon, beverages or nuntion
after dinner and thereto reare suppers
when it was time to go to rest. now
these old repasts, thanked be Gods. are
verie we'll left, and ech one except
here and there some young hungrie
stomach that cannot fast till dinner
time) contenteth himself with dinner
and supper onlie. The nobil-
lite, centric and students ordinarilie go
to dinner at II before noon and to sup
per at or between 5 and at after
noon. The merchants dine and sup sell
dom before - at noon and at night,
in London. The husband
men dine also at high noon and sup at
Z or s. but out of the tearme in our
universities the scholars dine at TO-"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03

view durin' the day until after a
while it's goin' to throw out the other
picture entirely.
appearances count for a whole lot
In this world, and l believe they count
for more in a mans feelin's toward
a woman than in anything else. In
mine cases out of ten it's appearances
alone that attract lad and a maid.
That's part of the Almighty's scheme
for bringin' men and women together
Every girl wants to look her best
when her beau's comm around, and
that's right that's nature. Didn't you
Rig up in the incest clothes your pas
money could buy for you when Bill
WAS dom his courtin'2 Didn't you
prance around before a lookin' glass
For an hour at a time tryin' to get
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03
Vinegar Season Is Near.

Bulletin No. 25S of the New York
experiment station recommends the
following as one of the most satiSfac-
tory methods of making vinegar:
When the cider is pressed from the
apples the barrels should be piled about
two-thirds full and the bung replaced
by a loose plug of cotton. which will
lessen evaporation and keep out bugs
and dirt. Where the quantity of vine
gar to be made is considerable the bar
rels should be placed in a room where
the temperature can be Kept from 10
to so degrees during the fall and early
winter months. If the batch is small
the barrels may be left out of doors
while the weather is warm and then
placed in the warmest room conven-
lent and later placed in dry cellar
If the temperature of the storeroom
does not fall below 40 degrees the con-
version of the sugar into alcohol will
require about six months. but the
process of fermentation may be hasten
ed by an addition of fresh commercial
yeast. When the cider has quit work
ing the clear portion should be drawn
off. the barrel rinsed out and the LIQUID
replaced, with the addition of from
two to four quarts of good vinegar
containing some mother The next
process. the change of the alcohol into
acetic acid, may be effected In three
months and may require two years.
In any event. it will take place most
rapidly in a temperature ranging from
ca 10 &c degrees. When the vinegar has
reached the proper strength. which
should be per cent of acetic acid. the
barrels should be filled full and tight
ly corked. This will prevent other
changes and will cause the vinegar to
keep its strength. If one has consid-
cradle vinegar to make it would be
well for him to secure the bulletin re-
ferred TO.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03
DO THEY MISS ME- AT HOME?

~ o they miss me at home. do they
miss me?
'Twould be an assurance most
~ dear
To know that this moment some
loved one
Were saying | wish he were here
To feel that the group at the fireside
Were thinking of me as | roam.
Oh yes, 'twould be joy beyond measure
To know that they missed me at home!
When twilight approaches, the season
That ever is sacred to song,
Does some one repeat my name over
And sigh that tarry so long?
And is there a chord in the music
That's missed when my voice is away
And a chord in each heart that awaketh
Regret at my wearsome stay?
Do they set me a chair near the table
When evenings home pleasures are nigh,
When the candles are lit in the parlor
And the stars in the calm azure sky?
And when the good nights" are repeated
And all lay them down to their sleep
Do they think of the absent and watt me
A whispered good night" while they
weep?
Do they miss me at home, do they miss
At morning, at noon or at night,
And fingers one gloomy shade round them
That only my presence can light?
Are joys less invitingly welcome
And pleasures less hale than before
Because one is missed from the circle.
Because l am with them no more?
S NJ. Grannis.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03
Sick Headache

is positively cured by Rydale's Liver
Tablets. One dose will correct the
Liver's torpidity, remove the bilious con-
dlion and cnre sick headache. The regu-
lar use of Rydale's Liver Tablets for a
few weeks will establish regular he althy
habit of the Liver and the attacks of
Sick Headache will not recur. Rydale's
Liver Tablets are guaranteed to cure
Sick Headache and Constipation. A. l..
Cheney, Morrisville; c. P. Jones, John
son; c. A. Riley, Stowe; E. w. Smith,
North Hyde Park; M. j. Leach, Woleott.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03
Where Nature Cooks the Food.

In certain parts of New Zealand both
native and white women use the natu
raj hot springs to do their cooking. In
the Rotorua region, it matters not
whether the cook wishes to roast a
piece of meat, boil potatoes or steam
pudding, all she has to do is to step
out of doors and place the cooking
utensil in steam hole. The cover is
then put on, and a piece of coarse
sacking over the whole completes the
operation. In short time dinner is
ready. At Whakarewarewa the entire
earth just beneath the surface is
mass of boiling springs. Millions of
gallons of hot water hiss and steam,
sending vapOrs skyward in great white
clouds. Strike the ground almost any.
where with stick and the hole thus
formed fills with hot water. Hot wa.
Ter for baths, the weeks washing and
for the ordinary purposes of the house
hold is always on hand.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03
Gems In Verse
OLD FAVORITES.
HOW DO | LOVE THEEY

HOW DO LOVE THEE7
gY vow do | love thee? Let me count
the ways
/ love thee to the depth and
4 4 breadth and height
My soul can reach when feeling
out of sight
For the ends OF being and ideal grace.
| love thee to the level of every days
Most quiet need, by sun and candle light.
love thee freely, as men strive Tor right.
love thee purely, as they turn from
praise.
/ love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs and with my chidhood's
faith
| love thee with a love | seem to lose
With my lost saints love thee with the
breath,
Smiles, tears. of all my life. And, if God
choose,
| shall but love thee better after death.
-Lli2abeth Barrett Browning.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03
VENUS LOOKING GLASS.

Y MARKED where lovely Venus and hel
court
With song and dance and merry
4 laugh went by.
Weightless. their wingless feet SEEM
ed made to fly,
Bound from the ground and in midair to
sport.
Left far behind, 1 heard the dolphins
snort,
Tracking their goddess with wistful
eye,
Around whose head white doves rose
wheeling high
Or low, and cooed after their tender sort
All this | saw in spring. Through sum
mer heat
! saw the lovely queen of love no more
But when flushed autumn through the
woodlands went
l spied sweet Vepus walk amid the wheat
Whom seeing, every harvester gave DER
His toll and laughed and hoped and was
content
Christina Rossetti
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BONNIE doom.

We banks and braes O. bonnie Doom.
u How can we bloom sac fair?
How can We chant. We little birds.
And | sac flu o. care?
TNHOU'LL break my heart, thou bonnie
bird
That sings upon the bough.
Thou minds me O. that happy day
When my fause love was true.
VHOU'LL break my heart. thou bonnie
E bird
That sings beside thy mate
For sac / sat and sac / sang
And wist ma O my fate.
A FIT hae roved by bonnie Doom
A To see the woodbine Irvine,
And ilka bird sang o its love,
And sac did / O. mine.
W.T. lightsome heart | pu'd a rose
w Frae aft its thorny tree
And my fause lover staw the rose,
But left the thorn wi me.
Robert Burns
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THE UNREsTFUL KIMoNo.

clothes before breakfast and go
through all the funny business Of a
reception toilet. | don't mean that
not by whole heap. That would be
no more right than for Bill to go down
to work in a full dress suit. There's
a time for all things, as Shakespeare
or Solomon remarked some time back,
but | don't know of any proper time,
honey, for dissolute kimonos, united
shoes and unkempt hair. These wrap
per things the women have got to
wearin' nowadays ought to be prohib-
tied by law, if that would do any good.
They were designed, | reckon, for the
hours of luxurious ease and for loung
in around in a boudoir. Maybe they
airt so bad. But they wasn't cut out
for Workin' garbs. They're as much
out of place in the kitchen as vel
vet gown. Yet it's got so that half
the women in this country fall out of
bed every mornin' into more or less
soiled and bedraggled kimonos. l
think I'd be willin' to see war with
Japan just to get even with her for
this kimono habit. It's a lazy dress,
and l tell you, honey, it's downright
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS what it is. It's
SO easy to get on it makes a woman
careless about everything else. In
stead of bein' neat and trim as she
ought to be in the mornin, whether
she's dom her work or overseein' it,
she gets to lookin' dowdy and slouchy.
You can't help it, little girl; it's the
influence of the garb. And I'd be will
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03
TO AN ORIOIE

How falls it, oriole. thou hast come to
Al fly
In southern splendor through our north
ern sky?
In some bithe moment was it natures
choice
10 dover scrap of sunset with a voice
Ut cld some orange lily, flecked with
black
IN forgotten garden ages back.
learning 10 heaven until it's wish was
heard
Desire unspeakably to be a bird?
Edgar Fawcett.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03
The RosE.

THOU blushing rose!
Blown in the morning. thou shalt
Jade ere noon.
what boots life that I'm such haste for
sakes thee?
Ihou'rt wondrous frolic being to die SO
SoOn
And passing proud little color makes
thee.
Sir Richard Tanshaw.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03

APPEARANCES COUNT "Im afraid
FOR WHOLE LOT have. papa. But
what is one to do? 1t takes time for
a woman to dress. have to get break
fast for Will. ! can't cook or attend
to any homework in my nice clothes,
and even if | could it would take me
so long to put them on he'd be late
to the office. You know I'm without
a servant just now, but If | had one
j don't see how / could dress for
breakfast. Besides, papa, all women
go the same way in the morning"
"Yes, honey, ! know the argument,
but have you ever had your photo
graph taken in that mornin' costume?"
"Why. no. papa. OF course not"
"And If you had" went on the colo
mel, would you want Bill to put it in
n silver frame and sit it up on his
desk where he could see it all day."
1.-THE very ideal I'd like to catch
him making a show of me that way"
"Well, little girl, that's about what
he does in fact He carries a photo
graph of you all the time. 1t isn't on
his desk, where other people can see
it. It's fixed in a golden frame in
his mind, and every once in awhile
Through the day it slips around in
front of his minds eyes, and he takes
q long look at it, 1t isn't always the
same picture he sees. Most of the
time it's you as you would like to be
seen, fixed up your prettiest. but some
times it's you as he saw you last. as
you looked when he left you in the
mornin'. You know, dearie, you're
mighty apt to remember person by
the appearance at partin', and the
oftener Bill carries away with him
vision Of breakfast time dowdiness
the oftener it's goin' to pop into his
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03

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dizziness, nervous
ness, and a severe
female troub lie
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pound has restored
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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03

table. | will never be without this
medicine in the house. Mrs. SAM'L
LEE, 1928 Fourth St., Louisville, Ky.
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me without an operation. LENA V.
HENRY, r. F. ID. 8.
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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03

don't notice the difference you're badly
mistaken, my dear. Maybe he don't
make eyes at the typewriter girl, may
be his love is so strong it don't affect
his feelings the least bit, but all the
same he notices it. And | wouldn't
take the risk, honey. But-my. my
the colonel was looking at his watch
II can't stay here all day preachin' to
you. I've got to get down to the office.
So goodby, little girl, and-say, I'll be
over this evenin' to see how you look"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03

hand burro," and
here the colonel
pounded on the
arm of his chair
w ! t b b s fist,
that k i m 0 n o s
have had a good
deal to do with
what they call
the matrimonial
unrest. A man
goes off down.
town leavin' his
wife lookin' like
she'd just escap-
ed from a fire
sale, an the first
thing he puts his
eyes on at his Of
fee is a stenogra-
pher in a clean
shirt waist. If
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03

Chauncey E. Brown, of Wolcott, a
teamster, has filed petition in bank
ruptcy with liabilities of 1869 20 and his
assets are given as S625 90 with $4,000
claimed exempt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03

Harsh physics react, weaken the bow
els, cause chronic constipation. Doan's
Regulates operate easily, tone the stom-
ach, cure constipation, 25c. Ask your
druggist for them.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03
hat We been a-shootin' ?"

Suffered day and night the torment
of itching piles. Nothing helped me I'M
til l used Doan's Ointment. 1t cured me
permanently. Hon. John R. Garrett,
Mayor, Girard, Ala.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03
lie Wasn't Glad,

Steve Long is noted for attending to
his own business and saying very little
about it. One morning an iquisitive
neighbor met him returning from the
woods with his gun over his shoulder.
Hello. Steve. Where hev We been
a-shootin?'
Yep"
What We been a-shootin'?'
Dog"
yer dog? My! Was he mad"
"Waal. he didn't look so DANCED well
pleased. "-Everybody's Magazine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03

honey, when he
] # you this
mornin' 2"
"Why, ofcourse,
p a pa. l can't
Dire S S b e f re
breakfast like |
was going to a
ball, can |? |
have to do all
my house W ork,
and
i eS, i kuON,
interrupted t h @
colonel, "but--
but have you got
the habit of goin'
q rou d lik e
thatY
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03

%& n his way downtown the other
M morning Colonel Sneed stop
W ped at his daughters house to
deliver a lemon pie recipe in
trusted TO him with some misgivings
by Mrs Sneed. The front door was
ajar, and, assuming the prerogative of
a father he entered without ringing
the bell
Young Mrs. Rollins was not expect
ing visitor at that hour. Her attire
was decidedly negligee. She had evil
IDENTITY slipped into the first thing that
came handy when she arose and had
deferred until later and more con-
venient season most of the essentials
of woman's toilet. 1t is unneces-
sary to go into details.
Good mornin', honey" said the
colonel az he bent down for the af-
fectionate salutation, and then as his
eve took in her deficiencies he eX-
claimed:
"Why, child. what's the natter
Not sick, are your
"Oh. no, papa" replied his daugL
with a laugh. I'm all right E,
you shouldn't call on a lady so early,
daddy, dear. ] haven't dressed yet"
"Uh, huh; | see," he assented. "Makes
an almighty lot of difference, don't
it? Never caught you lookin' that way
before you was married. Does-does
William-was you wearin' that garb,
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SAVED
FROM AN
OPERATION
ByLydia E. Pinkllam's
Vegetable Compound

Louisville, KY" Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has Ger
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-11-03
Colonel
John Sneed's
Conversations
ON Domestic
Problems
Copyright. 1909. by C. S. Yost.
1.-THE DiSilluSicnment
Of MatrimOny.
Copyright. 1909. by C. S. Yost.

D. N his way downtown the other
w morning Colonel Sneed stop
H ped at his daughters house to
deliver a lemon pie recipe in