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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-26

mouth. Do not deceive yourself It is just as harmful for you as the baby.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-05
SLUMP IN BEER PRODUCTION
Decrease in Output of Beverage of
1,1o6,429 Barrels Compared With
the Previous Year.

. Looks as if beer drinking is on the
decline in the United States.
Uncle Sam produces the figures to
prove it.
According to the annual report of
the internal revenue commissioner for
the fiscal year ending June 80, there
was a decrease in the output of beer
of 1,106,429 barrels compared with the
previous year.
That's big decrease.
Counting 80 gallons to the barrel,
and there is more, it means a slump
of SO, 1880 gallons.
Counting only ten glasses to the gal
lon, it means a decrease of 331, 1928, 700
drinks
Counting each drink five cents, +
shows that $16,596,455 less was spent
for beer in 1912 than in 1911.
There was an increase in the pro
duction of whisky, but the bonded
warehouses are filled with the stuff,
and distillers are all "fussed up" be-
cause the supply is far exceeding the
demand.
Americans are not all on the water
wagon by any means, but more OF
them are climbing aboard right along.
American Issue.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-05
DOULIM NOIF[|
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The day before shipping live fowls,
feed hard grain.
Satisfying the appetite adds greatly
to the thrift of the flock.
1t is estimated that five chickens
will yield a pound of feathers.
Cleaning dropping boards is chore
that cannot be done too often.
Whatever interferes with growth re-
tards and diminshes egg production.
On cool, damp, rainy nights close all
the ventilating windows of the hen
house.
The very first thing to do on MOTTO
ing signs of illness in a bird, is to iso-
late it.
The best nest for laying hens is
close to the floor, darkened, and easily
movable.
Feed plenty of charcoal, as 1t is one
of the best things for keeping the
poultry healthy.
Eggs cannot be produced without nj
trogenous food in some shape. Bones
are absolutely essential.
Do not forget that your fowls need
green food. If it is impossible to give
them a change of yard or runs, see
that they get some kind of green food
daring The daily feed.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-05
Arrangement Of Nests.

ting the hen can be proceeded with as
already described. These boxes may
be piled one above the other.
When the hens are let off the nests
to feed, the doors of the nest boxes
should be closed, which compels the
hens to remain on the floor until they
have had chance TO feed. The hens
will not return to the same nests, but
this is rather likely to be of benefit
than otherwise All hens do not set
at exactly the same temperature, and
an occasional change averages up the
temperature for all the settings of
eggs.
No hen should be allowed to set, I'M
less she is free from lice. The mac
ton of the bird is conducive to rapid
multiplication of any lice there may be
on her. These will make her irri
table and a poor setter. In addition,
should she bring off hatch in such a
condition, the chicks will be open to
infection. Dust the hen well with
flowers of sulphur or some other in
sect powder before setting, and again
day or two before the hatch fin
ishes.
About the seventh day the eggs
should be tested, the infertile ones re-
moved, and the balance put back in
the nests After testing it is usually
found that the eggs from four hens
can be put under three. This leaves
one hen with no eggs, and new set
ting can be put under her.
When the chicks arrive two or three
patches can be put with one hen,
which leaves more hens at liberty to
sit, or if there is no more Matching
to be done they can be put back in the
laying pens.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-05
GOOD SWEET PEPPERS
EXCELLENT PRESERVED, AND
NEW WAYS TO USE THEM.
Heated and Properly Served They viii
Be Found a Welcome Addition to
the Winter Menu When Fresh
Fruit Is Absent.

Canned Sweet Peppers Heated
Wash, halve, seed, drain and wipe
peppers. Scald five minutes in water
poured on when it is boiling. Drain,
let cool somewhat and pack in glass
jars. Add one teaspoonful Of salt to
each jarful of peppers. Fill jars with
false bottom. Add cold water to a
depth CT three inches (enough t. form
steam later, adding boiling water as it
boils away.
Place the boiler on the stove and let
water boil one hour; then allow the
steam to escape by raising the boiler
top and close jar tops tight. Lex cool
till next day, when repeat heating
process. loosening jar tops at the
start. Repeat the third day.
Broiled Peppers.-Quarter the pep
pers. Seed and broi! over hot Goals
until the edges curl Serve at once
with thin, Drowned slices of breakfast
bacon.
Canned Sweet Peppers Cold.-Wash,
dry, stem. halve and seed and pack
close in glass jars. Have ready cold
water in which salt 1.-TWO tablespoon
fuls to each jar) has been boiled six
minutes and the water then cooled
Fill jars perfectly full with this and
seal.
Sailed Peppers for Winter USE
Wash and wipe the whole sweet pep
pers and tie tight in a cheesecloth
bag; place in a stone jar and fill 1t
I'D with cold water sailed, allowing
four tablespoonfuls of salt to each
quart of water. When needed freshen
by soaking in fresh, soft, warm water.
Keep in a cold place,
Dried Sweet Peppers for Winter
Wash and dry the peppers thorough
ly. String them on heavy thread or
tie and knot each stem with Irvine
(not close enough to touch) and hang
the strings in dry place until the
moisture has evaporated. Later, II
preferred. they caL be tied In bags
and hung up.
Cheese in Fried Pepper Shells
Scorch the peppers slightly in
quick oven or on a broiler and remove
the skins Split with one careful cash
and remove seeds. Insert in each pep
per a little ball of rather dry cottage
cheese Fasten the opening closely
with tiny toothpicks. Dip the pep
pers in egg and fine crumbs and fry
in a deep kettle of fat.-The Delinea-
tor.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-05
TICKLING AN OCEAN MONSTER
the Death and Capture Of the
Much Dreaded Shark.

Tickling a shark in order to make
the fish amenable to capture is sin
gular practice among the natives of
the Island of Tahiti. A writer in the
New York Sun, who watched the ha-
zardous sport while seated in a Ca
noe manned by two natives, thus de-
scribes it: PeeTing into the clear wa
ter, where you can see to a depth of
five fathoms, you catch q glimpse far
down among the sea ferns and coral
cups of the long, 1.-THE tail of shark,
and of a huge pectoral fin that sways
continually with a sideWise motion,
and sends up little ripples to the sur
face.
The native diver picks up a coil Of
cocoanut fiber with slpnoose at
ready tied in it, seizes a knife in his
teeth and quietly slips into the water.
1t is done with wonderful skill. The
native keeps close to the reef, and
lets himself down through the water
by means of the sea growths till he
is right over the waving tail. Slow
ly a black hand stretches out, and
starting behind the pectoral fin, be-
gins to stroke the sea tiger. There is
a faint movement of the body, and the
fin sways more rapidly.
Again the hand moves forward, and
as it strokes the fish the other hand
leaves the slipknot hanging loosely
near the spread of the tail. Then the
native comes quietly to the surface,
and the spectator breathes freely
again. The sail is set, the steersman
takes his place on the outrigger and
the diver in the bow, with yell OF
"Hulla!" pulls hard on the rope.
On the occasion that I speak of the
shark splashed about the wild frenzy
for moment or two, and then settled
down to a tour of the lagoon. Twice
he circled about, and the canoe plow-
ed along, with the water bubbling and
frothing at the bow, where the keen
eyed native intently watched the tight
ening rope. Suddenly it slackeneG,
and the diver went over the side like
a flash, with knife in his hand. A
minute later the surface of the water
was a brilliant red, and the native
was scrambling back into the canoe.
We towed the shark to the beach and
measured him. He was 16 feet long.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-05
FARM :
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ARRANGEMENT OF NEST BOX
Canadian Expert Recommends Use OF
Earth or Overturned Sod, Covered
With Straw or Chaff.

A nest can be made out Of an old
box about IL inches square and six
inches deep. Professor Graham of the
Ontario Agricultural college recon-
mends that "some earth or an over
turned sod be placed in the bottom Of
the box, taking care to have the cor
ners very full so that no eggs can
roll out from the hen and get chilled.
Next put on about two inches OF
straw or chaff; and then put few
earthenware eggs into the nest. Place
the nest in some pen where nothing
can disturb the hen, and put her on
after dark Feed and water must be
within easy reach and dust bath
should also be convenient. If the
hen is setting quietly the next day it
will be safe to put the eggs under
her"
Another nest box that has given
considerable satisfaction, is made in
three compartments. A IL inch board
cut in three four foot lengths and one
used for the top, one for the back,
and the other for the bottom. The
partitions and ends are made of the
same material cut in one foot lengths.
Along the front is a four inch strip
to keep in the litter To this is hinged
Slated door, which, when opened
forms a platform in front of the nest.
The work of filling the nests and set
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-05

nervous could not sleep, then / would
be so tired mornings that could scarcely
get around. 1t seemed almost impossi-
BILE to move or do bit of work and l
thought never would be any better I'M
til l submitted to an operation. COM
menced taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound and soon felt like a
new woman. l had no pains, sleptwell,
had good appetite and was fat and
could do almost all my own work for
family of four. / shall always feel
that l owe my good health to your med
icine. Mrs. HAYWARD Sewers, Cary,
Maine.
If you are i'll do not drag along until
an operation is necessary, but at once
take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
If you have the slightest DOUBT
that Lydia Il. Pinkham's Vege!a-
BILE Compound will help you, write
tOLydia E.Pinkham MedicineC0'
(cOnfidentiaD Lynn, Mass, for al
vice. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by aiwOmahp
and held i'm strict confidence
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-05
HUBBY'S HOME RIGHTS
AVERAGE HUSBAND SEEMS TO
HAVE FEW PRIVILEGES.
Writer In Woman's Magazine Goes In
to the Question Somewhat Deep
ly and the Result Is In a
Measure Surprising.

What right does your husband DOS
sess in his home? Be honest! Has 1t
ever occurred to you that he has any
special rights?
I think | know what will be YOUR
first reply-your snap judgment a
writer in the Mothers Magazine says.
You will tell me that your husband is
like most men and doesn't feel he has
many rights, but that if there ever
was a man who was master in his
own house, he is the one. You will
back up your statement by ilustra-
tions. You don't like pork and beans
for supper Saturday night but John
does, and so you always have them.
You would prefer polished floor and
rugs in the front hall, but John in
sisted on carpet; and you like a
lamp in the library-a soft light is so
becoming !--but you have to use an
expensive burner, for John will have
a bright light to read by!
Well, that Is a fair beginning. Is
there anything else? While we are
on material details, let me ask you
few more. I will be most complete.
Has John bureau or chest or draw
ers of his own? If he shares one
dresser with you, how many drawers
has he and how many have you? Has
he clothes press or closet into which
you never intrude? If there is one
closet between you, what proportion
falls to his lot and what to yours? OF
course, your gowns take up more room
than his coat and trousers, but does
he own absolutely the section allotted
to him, or have your best frocks a
trick of straying over to his pegs and
draping his Sunday suit? And if he
ventures to protest, don't you consid.
er him very unreasonable?
Let us go a little further. You have
said that the hall carpet and the Ii
brary lights are concessions to Johns
preference. Are there other like in
stances in the establishment? Does
the paper in the parlor and the dining
room and the pictures on the walls
represent his preference, or the heavy
draperies thai exclude the light from
his Sunday paper, or the delicate little
reception chairs that are your pride?
If so, he is an exception to the ma
1ority of men.
IT wish we could ever have beef
steak and onions at home!" man
sighed to me a short time ago "It
may be vulgaE. but it's my favorite
dish, and when I want it have to
go to a restaurant My wife tells
me that onions make the house smell
dreadfully!"
So they do, but if that husband had
his rights, don't you think that once
in a while, on stormy night, when
there was no danger of company, a
dish of beefsteak and onions might
rejoice his palate?
You may tell me all these are trifes
and admit it, but the trifles are items
which make or mar the comfort of
home. Pass them over and let us
look at some Of the less material but
equally important rights Of the hus-
band and see If he is any better OF
there.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-05
Batter PUDDING.

Four eggs, three cups and three
fourths of -four, one pint of milk, one
half teaspoon of salt, one tablespoon
of melter butter, two heaping tea
spoons of baking powder, one pint to
one quart of fresh fruit or one-half a
pound of dried fruit. If dried fruits
are used they should first be stewed
and allowed to cool before being used
in the pudding, the juice being first
drained away. Beat the whites and
yolks of eggs separately, add the milk,
then flour, and beat together, the flour
and salt sifted together, the melted
butter, and last the baking powder
Dredge the fruit with -four, add to the
pudding, and pour into a creased pud-
ding mold. Cover tightly, put in boil
ing water, and boil continuously for
three or four hours. When the wa
ter boils away always replenish with
boiling water. Serve with hard sauce
or cream and sugar.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-05
Employers Riaht to Discharge.


The United States Court of Appeals,
Sixth circuit, laid down rules govern
ing a masters right to discharge an
employee for misconduct in Carpenter
Steel company VS.. Norcross, a suit for
breach of contract of employment.
The court held it to be sufficient de-
fence that the employee was guilty OF
the misconduct charged, although
such misconduct was not known to
the employer at the time of the dis
charge, which was based upon other
alleged acts by the employe. The
court held that the servant owes the
master the duty of faithfulness, wheth-
er expressed in the contract or not,
and any conduct showing an unfalth-
full disposition is sufficient to JUSTIFY
discharge. The acts proved were
that plaintiff was manager of the de-
PENDANTS branch warehouse, where
high grade steel was sold to the auto
mobile trade, and that in entertaining
purchasing agents at the automobile
show in New York he was guilty OF
excessive drinking and committed
other acts of dissipation and made ad-
vances out of his deposit account 10
employees and customers. The court
ruled that such acts did not constitute
misconduct warranting his discharge
as a matter of law, but raised a ques-
ton of fact for the jury.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-05
MEN WE WANT IN CONGRESS
Representatives Who Oppose Every
Measure Retardng Liquor Traf-
fc Should Be Favored.

There are many congressman who
are opposed to our interests and vote
against every measure that looks to
ward the development and betterment
of our business, and vote for every
measure introduced by the opposition.
] intend that the 250,444 saloonkeep.
ers throughout the United States shall
know the records of these congress.
men."-M. F. Farley, President Ma
tional Liquor Dealers Association.
We must see to it that the anti.
liuuor men and women in the 4S
states also know the record of these
representatives. They are the men
we want to send back to congress.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-05
1t&EI7hlq IEIEHl<!5a
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Conducted by the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union)
WHAT WHISKY DOES TO MAN
Arnold GIlmer of Alabama, Executed
for Murder, Leaves Statement CIV
ing Cause of Downfall.

Some weeks ago Arnold Gilmer OF
Alabama was executed for murder.
Two days before his death he sent to
Mrs. ]. b. Chatf1eld, former president
of the state w. c. T. u, the follow
ing statement:
What will whisky do?
Whisky will cause you to lose
your best friends; whisky will cause
an unhappy home; whisky will cause
your wife to leave home; whisky will
cause your dear old mother and wire
to cry and shed many tears; whisky
will cause your little children to suf-
fer with cold and it will cause them
to go without shoes on their little
feet.
Whisky will cause wife to work
for husband; whisky will cause hus-
band to spend his weeks wages when
there is nothing to eat at home, then
whisky will cause husband to get
arrested and locked up-but whisky
won't get him out.
Whisky will cause you to fight
your best friend; whisky will cause
you to have enemies; whisky will
cause you to stay out late at night;
whisky will cause your wife to stay
waiting up for you to come home;
whisky will cause you not to get
home at all sometimes; whisky will
cause you to dodge your wife at night
when you go home late.
What caused Arnold Gilmer to kill
Mrs. Tippett? Whisky.
"What caused Arnold Gilmer to go
to Mrs. Tippett's home? Whisky
What caused Arnold Gilmer to be
hung by the neck until dead! Dead!
Whisky!
THAT is just what whisky will do,
friends"
In a personal letter to Mrs. Chat
field accompanying the statement he
said.
Il am leaving this for you, with the
jailer, hoping it VIII be of some adj
vantage ia ycur temperance work, as
whisky is the cause Of my trouble. |
know you can and will use this for
benefit, and | want you to know you
have my consent. I wish I could stay
here on earth long enough so that |
could help the brave and noble
people get rid of whisky"
This man." says the Alabama
Christian Advocate, "at one time vot-
ed for whisky to be brought back into
Alabama and for the whisky party"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-05
r.r,er.nce cause Marches On.

Rev. Francis E. Clarke, founder Of
the Christian Endeavor society, re-
Gently made an extensive trip abroad
with CO. fellow Americans. Among
them were representatives of near
ly every state, nearly every trade,
business and profession, and they
were the people who surprised the
steward. Two hundred and eighty Of
the passengers drank only cold water.
It vas d ARE thing to see a bottle Of
wine or beer on the table, and whisky
die nc. mako its appearance, says Mr..
ClaTk
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-05
Estate of William Cunningham

The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the District OF
Lamoile, Commissioners, TO receive, examine,
and adjust all claims and demands of all persons
against the estate of William Cunningham, late
OF johnson. in said district, deceased aud all
claims exhibited IN Offset thereto. hereby give
notice that we win meet for the purposes atore.
in the town of Johnson, in said District, Oh ene
1st dav OF December and 97th day of April next
from 10 O'Clock d. m, until O'Clock p. m, eacn OF
said DAVIS and that six months from the 2lth Day
Of October, AID 1918, is the time limited by said
Court for sale creditors to present their Claims
10 ms for examination and allowance.
Dated at johnson, this 29th day OF Oerooer,
A N Iafs HARRY O. STILES,
MORRIS s. HILL,
Commissioners.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-05
Recipe for HAPPINESS.

Do not give up. Do not allow the
black waters of melancholia to close
over you. Hold your head high. Live
your life beautifully in the face OF
failure. loneliness and contempt. Hap
piness is high art. Be a great artist.
Helen Woljeska.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-05

LYDIA u. flnkndin D
V e G e t "a bic Com
pound did for me.
One year ago / found
myself a terrible suf-
ferer. l had pains
in both sides and
such a soreness l
could sc arcely
str al gh tie n up at
times. M Y b a X
ached, l had no ap-
petite and was so
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-05
Eperoetic Citizen.

81 shouldn't mind, meself, If they
closed the pubs a couple O. hours
sooner. Wot l seq is, if man amt
full by alf-past ten, e amt trying =
London Punch.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-05
THE PROSPERITY OF
VERMONT SAVINGS BANKS


Bank Examiner, has recently CIV
Ell us most hattering showing
in regard to the growth of our
Vermont Savings Banks. He
says the increase during the past
year has been the largest of any
year in the history of our Savings
Banks-;n round numbers, ST.
100000.
The people of our little COM
monwealth have not only been
wonderfully prospered during the
past year, but they have been
laying aside some of the fruits of
that prosperity for rainy day.
Go back six years, to 1907, we
find that the total deposits in all
the Savings Banks in Vermont
on the first day of July of that
year were $57,444, 294. 4S; on
the first day of July, 1913, they
were $S7,929,764. 80, a gain Of
more than SO percent in the six
years-a mostencouraging show
ing.
A few of the more prosperous
Banks in the State show a much
higher percentage of gain. For
instance, the Hyde Park Savings
Bank on the first day of July,
1907, had $844, 1853, ga in depos-
its. Six years later, on the first
day of July, 1913, those deposits
had increased practically three
fold-to be exact, they were on
that date $2,523,922.73.
Had the growth in deposits in
all the banks in the State increas-
ed in the same Yonderfulratio as
the Hyde Park Bank, they would
have today amounted, in round
numbers, to one hundred and
seventy million dollars, or sub
stantiallv twice what they now
really are.
The Hyde Park Savings Bank
has had a growth that is simply
phenomenal, and probably has
no parallel in any country village
in the United States.
One does not need 20 far to
discover the reason for this. The
depositing public is proverbially
very cautious and discrimina-
ting, rarely making a mistake.
1t thinks it sees in the manage
ment of the Hyde Park Savings
Bank an adherence to certain
well-known fnanciallaws which,
if closely followed, always lead
to the port of safety.
Not a dollar lost by a poor
note in nearly twenty-five years
is statement that can be made
by very few banks in this coun-
try, but it can truthfu'ly be
claimed by the Hyde Park Bank.
What does it mean? Simply
that the management OF that
bank not only possess banking
and business judgment of a high
order, but it means, as well, that
they are most painstaking and
diligent in scrutinizing all securi-
ties offered as a basis for loans.
The Hyde Park Bank pays four
percent per annum, compounded
semi-annually, pays all taxes;
and, as a basis for the claim
which it makes, that it is per-
fectly safe to send money to that
bank by mail-either in check,
postal or express money order or
by registered MALT assures the
depositing public that in the
nearly twenty-five years of the
banks existence not a dollar sent
to it by a depositor has ever
been lost.
A postal addressed to the Pres
ident, Carroll S. Page, or the
Treasurer, F. Nj. Culver, Hyde
Park, Vermont, will promptly
bring any desired facts touching
this bank.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-05
One Little Sin.

1t is astonishing how soon the
whole conscience begins to unravel
If a single stitch drops; one little sin
INDUCED makes a hole you could put
your head through.-Charles Buxton.