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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-31
The School-house a Social
Center

The Public school-house as factor in
| discussed by several speakers in Boston
last Sunday night. The principal argu-
ment was that using these school houses
as social centers, on evenings the year
! around, would afford people of both sexes
not only wholesome amusement and diver
sion, but also opportunity for broadening
, their minds generally and for taking con-
c-rted action looking to neighborhood
he torment.
The speakers on this occasion said 10th
ing new, but laid stress on frequently
promulgated doctrine--a doctrine which,
if put to practical uses, would eliminate
many Undesirable conditions that now
exist iu the more rural communities, and
materially aid in the solution of problem
which is proving vely perplexing-the
problem of the rural school and its influ-
ence on the jewellers in its immediate vi
cinity.
The effect of a persistent use of the
school-house in social direction can
easily be figured out. 1t would be i'm
possible for the people of rural neigh
borhood to meet thus frequently during
the year, under wise leadership, without
realizing from such commingling of inter-
ests a benefit of inestimable value to every
individual concerned in it. and thus en-
suring an uplift for the entire community.
The experiment is certainly worth trying;
and there are not few neighborhoOds
in Vermont where it. may well be tried.
Ludlow Tribune.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-31
The Old and the New Years
With the New Year again close at hanC

| With the New Year again close at hand,
And the Old Year once more well-nigh
gone,
Comes Fancy, reminding the weavers of
rhyme,
And men of all callings, in every cline,
How Times silent river rolls on:
And how have we used the old wear?
What treasure found we in its store?
| What knowledge have we from its sacred
vaults brought
Will the next year with poorer or ri cher
be fraught
Than those that have gone before?
Fate answers: Upon his own self
Mans destiny chiefly depends;
Whatever of beauty the present unfolds,
Whatever of goodness futurty holds,
In honor or fortune or friends,
Who seek out the good and do right.
Each day as they journey along.
Will have few regrets when the old year
shall end.
Have faith to believe that the new one
will send,
Abundantly, gladness and song"
No man can predict what shall come
From what hath already been sent;
Empowered himself both to curse and to
bless,
Each mortal produces his own happiness
And comfort and peace and content;
Then, steadfastly bent on our goal
Whatever has been in the past,
Still let us determine, resolve and at
tempt,
From vain affectatiGn and cunning ex-
empt,
To make for the things that shall last.
In all our relations with men,
Wherever our footsteps may go,
Like the holiday wreaths, made of bright
evergreen,
And red holly berries, now everywhere
seen,
May our good deeds resplendently
glow;
And with Heavens benediction, and hope
Of laurels still brighter to win,
Instead of repining and anguish and
doubt,
The old year for us shall pass peacefully
out
And the New Year come joyously in.
HENRY REED CoNANT.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-31
Definition of a FIIrt,

ICTITIIt'VT VI q TIITIs
A f1irt is a rose from which every
body takes a petal, the thorns remain
for the future husband.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-31
Rare Works of Art Stolen

Twenty-Five thousand dollars works
OF art were stolen from the church of
San Mossimo, Padua, Italy, recently.
Early in the morning, the thieves
broke into the church and carried Of
two magnificent paintings by Giovanni
Battista Tiepolo. The pictures hung
In the side chapels on either side Of
the high altar, and were wrenched
from their frames in such hurry that
portions of the canvas were left Cd
the frames
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-31
LESS BOWEL TROUBLE
IN MORRISVILLF

Morrisville people have found out that
A SINGLE DOSE of simple buckthorn
bark, glycerine, etc., as compounded in
Adler-ika, the German bowel and stom-
ach remedy, relieves constipation, sour
stomach or gas on the stomach INSTANT
LY. This simple mixture became famous
by curing appendicitis and it autisepti-
cizes the digestive organs and draws off
the impurities. 1t is surprising how
QUICKLY it helps. a. L. Cheney. Iadv,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-31
Lamoille Commandery Resolutions
John C.. Eastman

WHEREAs-The Supreme Commando 1
has called our late Sir Knight John c..
Eastman to the GRAM Command er
above.
ResOlUed-That in his death Lamoill G
Commandery has lost faithful Sir
Knight and the family kind and devote d
husband and father.
Resol0ed-That our Charter be drape d
and these resolutions spread ON our
records and printed in the News & Citi-
zen and Hardwick Gazette and a COPY
sent to the family.
E. NJ. JORDAN,
j. E. MITCHELL,
Ii. E. GIRDLEsToNE.
Committee.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-31
How They Get Them.

Miss Gotrox was wearing dia-
mond spangle around hSr neck. What
is that?" asked the young man"
"That?' she replied; "oh. that's only
a doc dad "A doc dad? Why do
you call it that?" The cynic spoke
up. That's how they get EN-" he
explained.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-31
BUSINESS CARDS.

O. X. JUNK WANTED
Will pay &c for your 100 ID. Bran Sacks and
rI.2c for cottonseed sacks. All other kinds OF
Junk wanted.
OSCAR KAHN, MorrIsviIIe, Vt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-31
For the
B | O O Ct

HOODS SARSAPARILLA pos
sesses the extracted values of the
best vegetable remedies pre-
scribed by leading physicians.
That it's formula has proved won
derfuly potent is proved by its
record of great success. For your
blood medicine get HOODS.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-31
Stomach Overworked.

Eating between meals is a habit
usually left over from childhood.
Growing things need nourishing in
small and frequent doses. Grown-ups
merely require to repair the waste Of
the body-and the stomach is a COM
paratively small organ. Undoubtedly
In many bodies it is kept stretched
and in the same condition of an abus-
ed piece of rubber. How can 1t do
its work?
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-31
Honqkonu's Tobacco Trade,
Main Street

The import tobacco trade into Hong
kong consists almost entirely of sec.
ond-rate to waste tobacco, chiefly of
filler from the Philippines which has
been discarded for the fine trade by
the great Philippine factories, and of
wrapper from Sumatra discarded by
the high-grade trade, and various to-
baccos from Java, India and the Malay
states which are not suitable for the
fine trade anywhere.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-31

Feel languid, weak. run down? Head
ache9 Stomach off? A good remedy is
Burdock Blood Bitters. Ask your drug
gist. Price S1.0O. adv
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-31

For any itchiness of the skin. for skin
ashes, chap, pimples, etc, try Doan's
Ointment. SOC at all drug stores. adv
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-12-31

Il suffered habitually from consti
patton, Doan's Regulets relieved and
strengthened the bowels so that they have
been regular ever since."-E. Davis,
Grocer, Sulphur Springs, Texas. adv
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-24
k;u. IN. Poor as We'll as the Rich.

In the Health and Horse ROVER
department Of the May American Mag
azine. DR.. Woods Hutchinson presents
many new facts about hardening OF the
arteries. Following is an extract from
his article:
The important question is. What
causes these premature occurrences OF
this comparatively natural old-age
change?
Ten or fifteen years ago, We we're
considerably more sure in our reply 70
the question than we are TO-DAY. IL
was almost unanimously taken Tor
granted that the principal cause OIL
this premature stiffening and harden
ing of the arteries was the so-cailed
strains OF modern civilized lie, par
ticu,arly high living. hard drinking ano
incessant brain work.
"All of these beliefs have pretty
much vanished into thin air, unoer the
acid test of cold blooded investigation
and analysis SO far from arterlo-
sclerosis being a modern disease, some
of the most perfect and typical IN
stances of it on record have been taken
from the blood vessels OF Egyptian
mummjes embalmed in the fifteenth
century B. c.
at was disease of meat eaters and
particularly wine drinkers, solely be-
cause classes able to indulge in these
extravagant tastes also had money TO
nav for more careful study and elabo-
rate diagnoses, which revealed the
condition 1t is now known TO be twice
az common in sweat shop workers as
among the four hundred.
"It was typically disease OF brain
workers, solely because the inteih-
gence and resources Of this class or the
community brought them into con
sulta ton rooms for advice and ASSIST
ance. II Is now found to be more than
twice as common among dock hanos
and day laborers as among merchants
and lawyers and college professors
! One findings VIII serve as sample.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-24
Science Of Improvement.

"Whatever methods are used to i'm
prove road. the improvement for
hauling purposes is due to three causes
the betterment of the road surface.
tn. reduction Of the grade. and the
shortening of the length. On such an
improved road the time required TO
haul q given quantity of material CIV
en- distance is reduced. The reduction
may be largely due to increased speed
OF hauling. to increased load, or 10
both 1t is important TO recognize that
for transportation purposes reduction
OF time is equivalent to decrease OF
the distance from the market centers.
1t is easy to see. then. why the increase
of farm values must follow improved
roads, for their effect is to bring the
farms, in a sense, nearer the towns.
The fact that on roads with improved
surfaces hauling becomes largely In
dependent of the season Of the year or
weather conditions means another
very considerable reduction in hauling
costs. 1t also means that many OF the
limitations of the number and kind of
farm operations are Immediately re-
moved.
In order TO fix ones ideas on the
the improvement OF roads. the trans
portation of goods to the railroads and
of farm produce TO market should be
considered. The cost of this work In
the United States at present is hish.
and is due mainly to steep grades ana
Welding road surfaces on unimproVeo
roads. When a grade exceeds rise
Of six feet to the hundred feet in a
horizontal measure, it becomes an In
creasing hindrance to traffic. On any
grade. in addition to the tractive force
due to the surface conditions, the force
Of gravity must be overcome. me
horse must also raise his own weight
and, because of the manner IN which
his strength is applied, it becomes less
and less available IS the grade IN
creases. 1t must always be remem-
bered that the worst grade on any road
tends to limit the load that can pass
over the entire road
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-24

Some 5000 patients under 40 years
Of age studied in one Of our great
hospitals and carefully examined for
this condition showed a distribution
as follows:
"Of those who had used alcohol to
excess, about 10 per cent showed more
or less arteriosclerosis.
.'Of those who had suffered within
ten or fifteen years from one of the
graver infections, such as tubercuiosis.
typhoid, pneumonia. or syphilis. bat
had not used alcohol to excess about
20 per cent had more or less arterio-
sclerosis. While of those who had been
engaged in occupations involving Sc
we're and prolonged muscular strain.
such as dock laborers. construction
gangs. lumbermen. steel and iron
workers and so forth but had not in
dulged IN alcohol to excess, over 40 per
cent showed this premature change. So
that we are nov in Il position TO say
that the two most potent causes of
this new disease of civilization and of
brain worries are muscular oVerstrain
and infectious diseases.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-24


Henri Fabre took thel tsoabio 70 sneasx
urc the labors sof : pAiF u t,alahoeS
bugs and found thssn Nufyin9 r M,
earth = predictions alaount ces Alth'
daily. VIZ. "
The proverbialist babe man 90 70 the
ant. While he was about It ne should
have sent him to the tumblegug ana
others OF natures housecleaners aloOse
For man IL the only animal that leto
himself be buried in dirt. He 10 the
only animal that lets his young sicken)
and die Of dirt. Professor Osborn. OF /,
the New York Museum Of Natural His
tory, calls man 1.-The inventor Of dirt"
A portion of mankind realizes the
odium the race is under and tries to es-
cape it. The effort IL manifested in the
demand for clean streets, Q demand.
never yet realized in any American.
city. however. Wherever cleanliness 10
a matter OF public endeavor. there We
hear the cry for cleanliness. and sec {,
more or less weak efforts made to Sc.
cure it.
But public efforts can not make pri-.
vate cleanliness. We might sweep tho
streets Immediately. first having pro-
vided the sweepers with ample funds,
for the purpose. But we can not 60 :
into back yards and into cellars to
clean. for a mans back yard and cellar
are his castle. Man can escape the
odium Of being the dirtiest Of animals
only by converting each individual to
the gospel of cleanliness.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-24
A DISCOUNT ON PLAIN DRINKS.

The LIE Mars Sentinel tells OF an
instance Of magis,erial severity which
is worth mentioning. Two young men
in that city. according TO the news
paper account, "emptied enough schoon-
ers Of foaIning lager TO lose what
little judg menr they possess. They
were feeling big and gay when along
in the afternoon they attempted 20 en-
ter a residence on Sixth street near
the Union hotel and insulted q, Young
woman who was al nome with her
little children. She shut the door IN
their faces and sent one OF the chill
drsn 10 tell her husband. The men
were arrested Mayor Beely fined
Brandsma. who appeared to be the
principal offender, i've dollars and
costs and Boyer one dollar and costs"
Now, as the slangy would say, what
10 you Know about that A woman
subjected to the most sham eless and
humilia,ing insult, her insulters fined
to the full amount OF SIS between them.
j uSt a little elementary arithmetic IS
1abiishes the price OF insulting de-
cent woman with her little children
by her side at SO in lie Mars. That
is that's the cost schedule tor DRINKS
The schedule for sober men would
be higher. Had sober men thus in
suited the woman there isn't justice
on earth who wouldn't have handed
them the limit. Had they happened
TO be church members the community
would have buzzed with the outrage.
If they had by any possibility been
preachers the metropolitan news
pa pers would have run the story under
headlines.
Just what Is ii that makes justices
and police courts in saloon towns so
tender of plain DRINKS VINO insult
women II is an established belief
that drunken man never gets hurt
In a runaway or by a fall. To it
may be added another axiom: Il costs
a plain drunk but a very nominal sum
to insult women and raise hades gen.
orally. But why this discount allowed
to drunkenness?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-24
SEVEN MILLIONS FOR RoAos.

While the Iowa legislature was
afraid to use even an automobile tax
for the states portion OF expense in
aiding the localities 10 build hard sur
faced roads and while the Iowa farmer
IN many cases was fairly panic strick-
en- at what seem ed to him the prohib-
tive expense OF hard surfaced roads.
all because OF lack Of information upon
the subject. the legislature o. Ohio got
right in line with the more advanced
bill asked for by the good roads en-
thusiasrs was passed. A state levy
OF half mill was authorized for state
aid. 1t will yield s3.200,000 annually
and will be used by the state IN pay
ing half the cost OF constructing per-
manent hard surfaced roads, the other
half being paid by the counties. a
system OF inter-county highways was
designated upon which three-fourths
OF all state aided work must be done
while one-fourrh OF state aided work
can De zone on q SN stem u Ma Al IctlAS
leading into market cities and towns.
Hard surfaced roads have long been
built in Ohio from county bond issues
and some OF her counties have become
famous for their magnificent nacadam-
lied and paved roads. there being some
400 miles OF brick and concrete pave
ments on rural roads in the vicinity OF
Cleveland alone Now the people OF
Ohio. who know what a hard road IS
worth are going 10 have their state
spend s3.2o0, 900 annually upon road
building while s. 100000 per annum for
hard surfaced roads in Ohio.
The trouble with the people OF Iowa
is that they have been stuck in their
mud so long that they 90 not know
how to get out. They Will not even
listen to those who have seen how i!
Is done in other states.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-24
Caiifornia's Responsibility.
[Chicago Tribune.l

The recrudescence of the Japanese
question once more brings two nations
which ought to be friendly into a con-
troVersy having very sinister poten-
ttalittes. Whether the situation will
teach us anything Is more than doubt
full. Similar crises having been wealth.
cred without disaster we proceed with
unintelligent optimism. having forgot
ten everything and learned nothing.
The problem involves factors as old
as history and as deep as human ma
ture. 1t involves the tremendous ques-
tons Of race affinity. national rivalry,
and economic competition. 1t Is COM
plicated by our federal system and ag-
graVated by the recent triumphs Of
Japan in war against an occidental
power whose bulk is greater than ours
and whose military equipment is in
finitely more formidable.
The pressure brough, to bear upon
the nations of the east, in previous
years upon Japan herself. to force
open their doors leaves the United
States in poor position TO assume
drastic exclusion laws against a peo-
pie who are conscious of their own
powers and proud OF civilization they
rightly esteem and naturally place
upon as high a plane as ours. or high
er.
All OF these facts must have place
in any intelligent consideration OF oar
Japanese relations. But it would seem
that California ignores them.
1t is time for the people of that state
and for its press and its representa-
lives in government TO realize that
California Is part of the United
States. That means not only rights
and privileges Ii means responsible
ties. A community has no more moral
right to ride rough shod over the in
terests Of the whole nation than d
single citizen has.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-24
Friedman in Germany.

Aurora Beecon.l
The editor Of the Beacon News re-
Gently spent an Afternoon with i
friend who had just returned from
Germany, where he went with a sick
relative TO investigate and try ths
friedman so-called cure. This mans
unhesitating declaration after meeting
Friedman personally after Witnessing
mis- treatment of patients and after
thorough investigation among Ger
mans and Americans in Berlin Is that
Friedman is simply exploiting the
public. that nc is sailing under false
colors, that the only plank he has to
stand on is the exceedingly remote
chance that he has cure which IS
practically obliterated by the facts TO
show that he has not. He says the
United States government ana our
physicians are entirely right in Tefus-
ing to swallow Friedman at this time.
When this man. a former Aurora
resident visited friedman early In
January with his relative. who had
been suffering with pulmonary tuber-
culosis for two years and had MADE
the trip from Colorado to Berlin. ne
was assured that Friedman had a
cure What would the course OF treat
nents cost? One thousand dollars LAID
down upon the table. The man refused
but finally yielded to the pleadlngs OF
his sick relative and agreed TO paw
$500 down and the remainder when
cured and did so. When he asked for
receipt Friedman was SO lnsuited
that he disdained even to reply and II
was after much persuasion that MS
manager could De induced to acknoWl-
edge receipt of the money.
That $500 in cash brought q hai'
dozen consultations Of few minutes
duration each and just one injection OF
the famous serum which friedman
carefully slowed away in his vest
pocket. A short time after that Fried
mann set sail for America and that
vas the last of the $500. So thoroughly
disguised were the former Aurora man
and his relative that they did not go
"a see Friedman when they returned
70 New York The sick man went back
10 Colorado and the other to his home
in Chicago
The former Aurora man ATTRIBUTES
F'riedmann's success in cornering dol
lars TO American newspaper CORE
spondents in Europe who realize they
nave been duped but are unwilling 10
admit il He says the story sent OUT DS
an American press syndicate the iat-
ter part OF December Of DR.. Fried
mann's cure" as the greatest christ :
mas gift TO mankind in 1000 years Is
the greatest advertising he mas yet
had. When Friedman left for America,
this former Aurora man says, only one
Berlin newspaper referred 70 his De
parture and that one Wouidnt print
his name. He says the German news
paper men long ago made up their
minds that all friedman needed TO
make a fortune was a little free al
yer,iging and they refused to be par
" to his scheme.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-24

because Of the unsnviabls publicity al
ways afforded by public action against
serious vice conditions and suggests
that it ought not to como from a jour-
nal Of the character Of the T.-R.
The Sioux City newspaper - right in
a way. 1t misapprehends the purpose
Of the comment and the motive that
inspired II. The thought was not to
give Sioux City bad name or to Cos
sip scandal about a neighbor but to
emphasize the truth that soon or
late the wide open town wins its re-
ward Of unwelcome publicity and at
tains reputation not to It's advantage
in attracting homeseekers. The fact
is. however that the publicity Sioux
fort to curb vice is the best she has
had for years. 1t let's the town into
the class of towns which are striving
to improve conditions. 1t is not bad
advertising TO clean up or TO attempt
TO clean up.
Let not the Journals heart be trou
hled. There was no malice in the re-
mark of the T.-R. upon the situation in
Sioux City, only JOY and the hope Of
better things IN the Gateway TO the
Northwest. And Sioux City must bear
with such remarks as best she may.
Those who turn from evil and seek
we'll doing must live down the reputa-
ton of their evil days and pass the
period of probation. This is true OF
corporations as Of men. II is not our
present efforts al reform which are
bad advertising The unwelcome pub
LEFTY TO which we all object is a
hangover" Let Sioux City go on with
the processes of reform. Let her be-
lieve that our hearts and hopes are all
with her. And let the esteemed Jour
nal and its venera,ed editor accept the
a bove in explanation Of rather than
apology for any seeming severity Of
comment.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-24
A Psalm Of Spring.

The springtime speaks of Christ
And his dear lere.
And tenderiy commentaries
His resurrection hour,
When with the law of life
He rent in twain the veil of death,
And thru the widening rift
There opened the gaze
OF fainting, faltering man,
The morning beams OF Immortality.
On every hand the bursting buds
Foreteil earth's resurrection hour,
When all the waiting world
Shall blossom as the rose,
Reflect the law Of ievs
And once again enact the miracle OF
life.
Zen thus
The endless eprirgtide Of the heart OF
Christ
Shall Ger unfold Itself TO man.
And he shall know himself
Gods deathless, pure and perfect child
His joyful heart, unburdaned, free.
Shall vibrate with the universe Of love
And all the sons Of God
Shall join the morning stars in song
William Bradford Dickson IN the
Chicago Evening Post.