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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
Storm Stories,

History repeats itself even in storms
at sea. The Norwegian steamer Spica
was broken from her moorings at
Blyth and pitched like cork over half
mile of dangerous rocks until she
bumped against the pier. But this is
nothing to the adventure of the Eben-
ezer. a craft of ninety-five tons, which
vas once driven by a gale toward
Chesil beach, near Portland. An enor-
nous wave seized hold of the ship and
carried it to the very top of the bank,
where it was left high and dry. The
sailors stepped over the side and walk
ed into Portland, "where they We're
greeted 10y some as liars, by others as
men who had come out of the jaws of
DEATH" as the record puts it. But the
Ebenezer was found exactly as they
had said it would be, and two days lat
err she was launched and brought round
TO Weymouth bay.-Westminster Ga
Zette.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
The Newspaper "Story."

Perhaps those outside Fleet street
hardly realize what a guileful reptile
insinuated itself into the public mind
when Fleet street, about fifteen years
ago, began to talk of "story" instead
of a report" or article" 1t then be-
came the reporters or correspondents
duty to send "a good story" and a
good story does not invariably imply
truth. The purpose of report be-
came pleasure rather than accuracy,
and because the good story" gives
pleasure, the people loved to have it
so. Under such influence the news of
the daily world, with all its incalcula-
BILE issues and continuous destiny and
far-reaching decisions, becomes a cine
ma show of startling events, rapid, dis
connected, melodramatic, and faxed:
1.-THE wealthy yiScOunt marries the
pretty seamstress," The Hon. Mrs.
Bridewell loves her dog and parrot"
Lord Grey repudiates. American
swank."-London Nation.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
WHAT SCIENCE SAYS.

In appearance the beer-drinker may
be the picture of health, but in reality
he is most incapable of resisting dis
ease. A slight injury, severe cold,
or a shock to the body or mind will
commonly provoke acute disease, end
ing fatally. Compared with other in
ebriates who use different kinds of al
cohOl, he is more incurable and more
generally diseased. 1t is our observa-
ton that beer-drinking in this country
produces the very lowest kind of in
ebriety, closely allied to criminal in
sanity. The most dangerous classes of
rufiians in our large cities are beer
drinkers. Intellectually stupor
amounting almost to paralysis arrests
the reason, changing all the higher fac
ulties into a mere animalism, sensual,
selfish, sluggish, varied only with
paroxysms of anger, senseless and
brutal.-Scientific American.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
Canvashacks on the WING.

II you have any doubt as to the
swiftness of the canvasback on the
wing when business calls, just fire at
the leader in string some time when
you have the chance. Duck shot when
propelled by the proper quantity of
powder travels pretty quickly itself,
but if your charge brings down, any
member of that string of ducks at all
it will be the fifth or sixth bird back of
the leader, and I'll bet farm on it.
If you would have chance of drop
ping the leader you will have to aim
not less than ten feet ahead of him.
Then he will more than likely run
plump against your shot. When he
drops it viii be quarter of a mile or
so farther on, for he can't stop short of
that distance even after he is dead
New York Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
RESPONSIBILITY IS ON FATHER
Travelling Along Wrong Road When HE
Finds Himself Too Busy to Talk
With His Boy.

The father and son movement is one
of the best and most sensible things
we have heard of for long time. That
is because it proposes to accomplish
results through using natural human
instincts naturally. 1t appeals to the
deepest of human feelings-lOve. 1t
goes about to remind fathers of some
thing they may have forgotten and to
tell boys something they may not have
known. You can get at this better If
you sit down and talk cOnfidentially
with some other fathers boy. He Will
tell you things your own boy cannot.
In his wistful earnestness, you Will
discover that there are times when
boy has real matter of grave I'M
portance to him that finds his father
too busy to be bothered. 1t will make
you stop and think as you realize that
this little fellow couldn't come to any
other conclusion than that his dad was
Indifferent. Fathers know better; ia
Tiers remember pretty well when they
were boys, but they don't remember
just how sensitive a boy is to the
worst of rebuffs, that Of being thought
silly. Now, the boys need to be told
this about their fathers, that they are
not Indifferent. But after all the big
gest thing is to tell fathers, for it is
their business to understand and theirs
is the responsibility Jour-
nal
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
SOME FACTS ABOUT BEER.

A pint of beer contains eight-tenths
of an ounce of alcohol, equivalent near
ly to tablespoonful of whisky.
While cold beer tastes cool and
pleasant to hot man, it does not cool
him off.
1t heats him up.
The alcohol and solids are burned
into heat.
The effect of alcohol is to send an
excess of blood to the skin.
Whenever a large amount of blood
goes to the skin it causes a feeling of
warmth.
When a man drinks beer he causes
himself to feel hot.
He also actually increases his body
heat.
He increases his chances of sun
stroke at least 100 per cent.-Dr. w.
A. Evans, Chicago.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
HAS HAD VARYING MEANINGS
Term Casualty" Not Always EN-
ployed in the Way In Which 1t
Is Used Today.

When did the word casualty" first
assume the modern specialized mean
ing with which we are unfortunately
so familiar? / think it must have been
at the time of the Crimean war; Tor
in the latest volume of Dlsraell's
Life I have come across the following
passage, dated September z, 1890 !;
Lady Londonderry is in despair about
her son, who is now in the trehches'
Casualties, she says, and truly
what horrible word to describe the
loss of limb and life!" Inc uhuef-
lining and the comment seem TO snow
that Disraeli, one of the greatest mas
tiers of words, found its use UNUSUAL
Murray's dictionary does Fot give
much assistance on the point, TOT all
it's quotations-such as one from the
duke of Wellington's dispatches In
1910, "the casualties Of the service
do not necessarily imply anything eA-
cept loss by unavoidable accidents. MY
suggestion, however, is borne out by
the following from Stockqueler's Mill
tary Encyclopedia" published in 1893,
which says: "Casuals or casualties,
term signifying men that are dead
(since first enlisted) or have been dis
charged, or have deserted"-in other
words, total losses. No mention is
made it should be noted of the appli-
cation of the word to temporary losses
caused by wounds. 1t was Lady Lon
donderry's use of it in this sense, per-
haps, which Disraeli found strange
Westminster Gazette.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
Where Eating is a Trade.

"Maccheroni' eating is a tIade with
the street beggar of Italy and appar-
emily a satisfying one to men and boys
gifted with copper interiors immune to
heat. One of the most familiar cries
of the beggar is, "Signore, dame cinque
soldi, mangia maccheroniT c'Mister.
gimme a nickel for ma aroni!') And
usually the plea ends with a lugubri-
Gus whine, "oh, muori di fame!' cob,
1 am dying of hunger - National
Geographic Magazine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
Tho Curious Opossunn.

The American OpoSsum is one of the
most curious animals living in the
United States. 1t is the only one that
carries its young in a pouch, like the
kangaroo. 1t is the only animal that
can feign death perfectly. 1t is re-
markable for hanging by its tail, like
monkey. 1t has hands resembling
those of a human being. Its snout is
like hogs, while its mouth is liber-
ally furnished with teeth. Its eyes are
like a rats. and it Kisses like a snake.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
TITLES IN RUSSIA.
Where There Are Only Two Glasses,
Mobiles and Peasants.


Mobiles and Peasants.
Contrary to the laws existing in Eng
land and Sweden, in Russia when a
lady belonging to titled family mar
r1eS Russian gentleman without a
title she takes her husbands name en-
tirely, and the only right left to her Of
her former title is to write on her visit
ing cards and official papers Mrs. So
and-so, born Princess, Countess or Bar
oness So-and-so." Her children are
called by their fathers name. There
are only few exceptions to this rule.
In Russia no middle class or gentry
are known. There are only mobiles and
peasants. The car, however, grants
sometimes for special merit the right
to be styled nobleman and also for
the same reason the titles of count and
baron and occasionally that of prince.
All those merchants who have kept
their firms always floufishing for
hundred years have the right to receive
the foreign title of baron. This law
was made by Peter the Great over 200
years ago, but the merchants very sell
dom accept this title and generally de-
cline the privilege.
In former days when the peasants
were still slaves they had no family
names, but We're called by their IA
theirs Christian name Peters son was
called son of Peter-in russian PetroV;
so also SmirnOv-Simon's son; Ivanov
-Ivan's (John) son, and 50 on. When
slavery was abolished and the enamel
patton proclaimed by the Emperor AL
eXander II. they all kept these names.
Since then many of them have received
the right to belong to the class of no.
bles.
The Russian clergy, belonging to the
class of peasants, for it very seldom
happens that mobiles become priests,
have special family names. Their
names mean always least day or a
precious stone or something connected
with the church. In former days the
clergy was class apart. and son of
clergyman was bound to be a clergy
man, and when they first entered the
church they chose Il name for them
selves. Answers.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
Temperance
|~ Notes g |
conducted by the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.l
JOSH BILLINGS ON BEER.

Il never drank but three glasses of
beer in my life, and that made my
head untwist ez tho it wuz hung on
the end of a string. 1 wuz told it
wuz owing to my bile being out of
plum. l guess 1t wuz, for 1 never
billed over wuss than l did when I
got home that mite. My wife wuz
afraid / shouldn't, fer it seemed ez
everything l had ever eaten wuz COM
Ing to the surfus. believe if my wife
had not pulled off my boots Just ez
she did they would have cum up, too.
ooh, how sick 1 wuzl Fourteen
years ago., and 1 can taste it now!
"Some people say beer is not in
toxicating. But if 1 wuzn't drunk that
mite l had sum of the most natural
symptoms man ever had and kept
sober
at wuz about eighty rods from
where 1 drank the beer to mi house.
wuz just two hours on the road, and
had hole busted through each of
my pantaloon neez, and l didn't hev
any hat, and tried to open the door by
the bell-pull, and hiccouped, and saw
everything in the room trying to get
around on the back side of me. I
sot down a leetle too soon and missed
the chair about twelve inches. My
wife said 1 wuz az drunk ez a beast,
and ez 1 said, I began to spit up
things freely.
eff beer is not Intoxicating it used
me almighty mean. If ever I drink
any more it will be with my hands
tied behind me and my mouth pried
Open"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
ROCK OF GIBRALTAR.
The "key of the Mediterranean" Has
Had a Stormy History.

Had Stormy History.
England has been in possession of the
rocky promontory Of Gibraltar since
1904. From that time to this it has
been crown colony under the admin
istration OF Il governor iBy reason of
its important strategical position it is
called the key of the Mediterranean"
Gibraltar has had a stormy history.
In I'll the rock was taken by the Arab
chief Tarik, who called it Jebel-al-Tar-
TX 0Iill of TariB) and built fortress
on the prOmOntory. Part of these ruins
is still eXtant. In 1909 it was taken
by the Castilians, only to be recaptured
by the Moors in 1888. 1t was held by
them until 1862. Following the TAX
ing and sacking of Gibraltar in 1910
by Barbarossa, extensive military
works were built there by order of
Charles V.
In 1904 the prOmOnotory was cap
tured by combined force under Sir
George Rookie and the Prince of Hesse-
Darmstadt, fighting for the Archduke
Charles of Austria. The moment it fell
into their hands the British admiral
threw off the alliance with the Aus
TRANS and took complete possession of
the works.
British possession since that time has
been unbroIlen. although it was under
Spanish siege for nearly three years
and eight months, beginning in 1910.
Twice the garrison was ON the point
Of falling because Of the starvation of
its defenders.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
With interpretations.

A young and somewhat unpopular
officer was explaining to his men what
happened to a shell after it left the
gun. The comedian of the company
couldn't refrain from making remarks
in an undertone, much to the amuse-
ment of his pals. This was part of
the lesson:
Oficer-The shell on leaving the
gun, owing to the bore, goes wound
and wound.
Voice-The mulberry bush.
Oficer-After its momentum is ex-
pended gravity draws it to the earth.
otherwise it would go on forevah and
eVsh.
VOice-AnVap
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
Brimstone.

Sulphur is one of the oldest known
elements. The ancient Assyrian all
chemists REGARDED it as the principle
of combustion on account of its own
infammability and termed it 'brim-
stone" meaning literally burning stone,
a name now applied popularity to roll
acknowledgements.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
Cold Calculation.

Quality is more to be desired than
quantity" said the man OF artistic in
clinatlons.
mot always" replied the practical
person. "a diamond is pure carbon,
but you can't get the action from it
that you can from a ton of COAL
Washington Star.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
NO UNEMPLOYED IN COLORADO.

A reference to the "army of unem'
ployed caused by prohibition" would
subject one to ridicple in Colorado. Not
for a score of years, says the Denver
Times, has there been such a shortage
of men in Colorado's many lines of in
dustry. Every mining camp in the
state is said to be short of help, and
the same is true of the farming COM
munities, and when the mines and
farms send to the city for help they
find the same situation. Labor in
Colorado seems to be very generally
employed" says w. L. Mansfield, who
is in charge of the free employment
bureau conducted by the United States
immigration service. eve are getting
very few applications for jobs"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
Eaudad From Afar,

Like most oriental cities, Bagdad
looks her best from diSt7nce. You
miss the filthy, narrow s-rr Is where
two horses can hardly walk abreast
and behold a vision of luXuriant date
groves, out Of which rise little islands
of green dOmes and graceful minarets.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
SEND HIM TO KANSAS,

Gov. K. L. Philip of Wisconsin, in
the course of an address before an au-
dience in a Milwaukee church, was
asked, "What would you do with a
man who had been a drunkard for
sixty years?" The governors reply as
quoted by the press was as follows :
"There surely would be a course that
would bring out the man in him after
all. There is one man whom 1 have
pardoned from prison whom 1 feared
would go back to drinking so / sent
him into the center of Kansas. He
can't get liquor there and he is living
a straight, clean life. 1 believe he is a
credit to the community in which he
lives"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
MADE IN AMERICA.

Uncle Sam does not hesitate to in
terfere with the personal liberty of
paupers, criminals and lunatics from
other countries who want to come to
this country to make it their home. He
puts up the bars and refuses them
admittance. Is it right then to license
saloons to manufacture these paupers,
criminals and lunatics here at home
and out Of our own people7
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
Girls Best Compliment.

Perhaps the highest compliment ever
paid by one girl to another came to our
ears yesterday when we overheard the
former say: "Why, she'd look pretty
in a flannelette nightgown."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21

Itching piles provoke profanity but
profanity won't remove them. Doan's
Ointment is recommend for itching,
bleeding or protruding piles. SOC at any
drug store.-adv.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
Line and Staff Officers.

Broadly speaking, the distinction be-
tween a line officer and a staff officer
is that between the fighter and the
nonfighter. The staff officer has non
military duties. He may. for example,
be a member of the medical corps, an
instructor at a military institute or
have charge of some administrative
department of the army or navy. The
word is also used for those men at
tached to the staff of the commander
in chief. A line officer is literally that;
he is the man in the field or on a bat
tleship to do the actual fighting.-New
York Sun.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
Vera ~.

Veracity is a ten which must be
regarded as includ = something more
than the simple avoidance Of direct
falsehoOd.-Lecky.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
HMedicine
forWomen
For Forty Years Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has Relieved
the Sufferings of Women.

1t hardly possible that there is woman in this
country who continues to suffer without giving Lydia E.
Pinkhams Vegetable Compound trial after all the evil
dence that continually being published proving beyond
contradiction that this grand old medicine has relieved
more suffering among women than any other medicine in
the world
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21

Could Hardly Get Off Her Bed.
Cincinnati OhoI to know the good Lydia Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has done for in such bad
health from female troubles that could hardly get off bed
had been docong for long time and mother said
to try Lydia Pnkhams Vegetable Compound So did, and
has certainly made we'll lam able to house
and happy expected go again.
and want others to know what Lydia Pnkhams Vegetable
Compound has done for JOSIE CoPER 1868 Harrison Ave.
Paramount, Cincinnati, Ohio.
If special advice write to Lydia E. PnIham Medi-
cine condcnta Lynn, Mass Your letter will be opened,
q held
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21

Aurora, IlI-"For seven long months suffered
from female trouble, with severe pains in my back
and sides until I became weak could hardly
walk from chair to chair, and got so nervous I
would jump at the slightest noise. I was entirely
unfit to do my house work, I was giving uphope of
ever being well, when my sister asked me to try
Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. l took
six bottles and today am healthy woman able to
do my own housework. wish every suffering
woman would try Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable
Compound, and find out for herself how good
r Ava
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21

For earache, toOthaehe, pains, burns,
scalds, sore throat, try DR.. Thomas &c.
lectic Oil, a splendid remedy for emerg-
encies.-adv.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
WHY LICENSE TT

If alcoholism is 4 disease, why IL
cense a trade to propagate It?
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
j. FRANK JACKsoN o. o. 8.

Office in browne Block, Portland St, Morris
vile, VT Office hours 500 to Iz;3o, I;5o to Soc
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21

@sWatch for the new story.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-03-21
Permanent Mowines.

When land is cropped permanently
to grass, yields are usually lower than
in rotation mowings. The field becomes
rootbound and fertility sometimes be-
comes so low that the crop is often not
worth the cutting. Weeds displace the
grasses, and the quality of the crop
becomes so poor that it ranks as
stock hay"-not because it is espe-
cially good, for feeding to stock. but
because it has no other possible use.
This condition shows a neglect Of the
fundamental principle underlying
quality-that good feeding is neces-
sary for good quality products.
Making Permanent Sods Pay.
Permanent mowings can be kent
productive Almost indefinitely. The
experiences of numbers of farmers, as
well as the published records of our
experiment stations. demonstrate this.
Annual top-dressing with a complete
fertilizer or barnyard manure is
necessity.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-12-07
Wedding Reception.

On Sunday, December 2, at Sun
ny Side," the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
c. A. Mullinix, at Day, dinner was
given in honor of their adopted SON,
David G.. Hall, and bride, who were
married on Thanksgiving Day The
dinner hour was 2.30, but guests be-
gan to arrive early in the morning
and by the time designated for the
meal the spacious house was well
filled with merry crowd.
There was no Hooverizing about the
dinner. Those present were David
C. Hall and bride, George w. Multi
nix, Harry l.. Bushey and wife, Mrs
David Hargett, Julian Wheeler and
wife. Ida Hargett, Robert Sindall
and wife, Mrs. G. B. Costin and Eve
lyn Costin, Of Baltimore; Mr.. and
Mrs. It. B. Gosnell, Herbert F. Leather
erwood and wife, Frank A. Weller
and wife, Winter Davis Bond and
wife, Paul Thomas Bond and wife,
Frank Gartrell and wife, Robert
sindall, Jr., Reuben Leatherwood,
Donald Leatherwood, Donald Buckley
Bond, Pauline Leatherwood, Eva Cos
nell, Evelyn Gartrell, Myra Gar
Tell, Margaret, Bessie, Nellie and
Mae, and Roscoe Dayhoff Mullinix,
Mrs. Charlse Unglesbee, Herman Un-
glesbee, Miss Deborah Davis, Miss
Aimeda Pickett, Mr.. Mills, Beverly
MulliniX and others.