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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
Historic Tennis Balls.

A historical fact that was impressed
upon the minds of children of a past
generation was that a certain king
was playing tennis when he was told
he had to ascend the throne of Eng
land. 1t may bring back to some the
remembrance of schoOlroom days when
they hear that two tennis balls have
been found among the dust and cob
webs of the old rafters of Westmin-
ster hall. They are said to date back
to the time of Henry VIII, who was
an ardent player of the royal game"
The balls are made of leather and
stuffed with human hair, all balls of
an early period being made in that
way. The leather has burst in several
places and faint traces of white may
be seen on the surface. The balls are
not both the same size, one being two
and half inches in diameter and the
other only an inch and half. Whom
was King Harry playing with, and did
he feel impatient when he sent the
balls spinning into rafters? 1t
was not lawn tennis then.-Christian
Science Monitor.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
NO PHYSICAL DETERIORATION.

The average man of today who
has passed the age of fifty is the
physical equal of the average man
of that age rs years ago, according
to Walter Camp, Yale football ex-
pert, critic, writer and lover of the
great outdoors in general. Mr.,
Camp, whose setting-up exercise, de-
signed to keep the business man in
fighting trim, and which under the
name of "The Daily Dozen" was
adopted by government officials at
Washington during the war and is
today an eye-opener for thousands
of persons throughout the world, be-
lieves that sports alone have been
responsible for keeping the man of
today on a par with his brother of
a quarter century ago.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
SALT ESSENTIAL IN RATION
Material May Be Supplied by Mixing
With Feed, or It May Be Left in
Convenient Box.

Practical observations and scientific
Investigations have shown that salt
is essential in the ration of a dairy
COW. From one to three ounces per
day is needed. depending upon the
amount of milk produced. Accord
ing to Babcock's Investigations at the
Wisconsin experiment station, a cow
needs one ounce per day per 1000
pounds live weight with an additional
Clio of an ounce for each 20 pounds
of milk produced. Salt may be sup
piled by mixing the proper amount
with the feed, or it may be placed in
some convenient place where the COW
can get at it daily and take such
amounts as her appetite demands,
Many dairymen prefer to place a lump
of rock salt where the COW can lick
it at will. This is really cheaper and
there is less work. But, however you
feed it, don't forget that the cows
must have it-not once every week
or two, but at least each second day
and each day is better.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
THRIFT PROOF OF SENSE.

Its an evidence of good judgment
to be able to save. 1t shows that
you have an idea of values and that
you are able to make your ideas con-
tribute to your conduct. All the
ideals in the world are useless when
men are not strong enough to re-
duce them to practice. There are
thousands Of good-intentioned people
who go to the scrap heap yearly
simply because they have no will
power with which to live up to what
they know is the right thing.
There's no use complaining about
them. But that is not enough. So
the man with the right head can see
where values lie and will exercise
will-power enough to regulate his
own conduct. He will doubtless be
called names, but that can be for
gotten in the satisfaction of know
ing that what he stands for gets re-
sults.-Grit.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
VILLAGES OF WAR WIDOWS
Cluster Of BIack-Garbed Montenegrin
Women at Cattaro Resembed a
Flag Of Mourning.

On market days at Cattaro DIAL
matian seaport) several hundred
black CARRIED, barefooted Montene-
grin women descend from their
mountain homes to the harbor.
They are accompanied by little dom
keys laden with the scanty products
of their sterile farms, or carry their
burdens on their heads. Occasional
ly their load is merely bundle of
fagots, which they hope to sell for
few pennies in ready money.
This procession of Montenegrin
women is symbolical Of the poverty
which characterizes the land of prec-
ipices and canyons behind this coast.
Their black garments resemble flag
of mourning hung out by Monte
negro. They visualize what the Bal
kan wars and the World war meant
to that country, which sent whole
battalions forth to slaughter from
a single mountain village.
There are such villages or groups
of villages where every adult wom-
an is a widow. 1t is a procession
of widows which descends each week
from Montenegro to Cattaro.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
NO "EASY MONEY"
Term Is Used as a Joke Among
Real F,nanCiers.
Great Wealth Seldom Gained Without
Actual Hard Work, as Men in
High Position Know.

The Ponzi case in Boston affords ar
excellent example of the need Of bet
ter understanding of the principles oil
thrift in this country, S. w. Straus
president of the American Society fol
Thrift, says.
1t is very rare that great wealth Is
| gained overnight. There have been oc,
| caSional instances where men have
| found gold or struck oil or written a
successful novel, or brought into being
| great and useful invention, with the
| result that the tloodgates of money
! have been turned loose for them; but
such instances are of such rare occur
renee that they can be eliminated as
not within the range of possibilities for
| the avC!age man.
The processes of thrift must be full
filled in the preparation of a success
full financial career.
The so-called Napoleons of finance
generally meet very early Waterloo.
Success in the material things of life
means a slow but substantial upbuild-
ing. First of all, the foundation must
be right, just as it must be in the case
of a great building.
The practice of thrift in the early
years of ones life. not only gives one
money with which to make start, but
it gives what is even more important
business understanding. In practic-
ing thrift, we are demonstrating one
of the essential functions of business
success. This does not mean that
through thrift alone one can build up
great fortune, but it does mean that
in gaining whatever success we attain
in life in material way we must first
of all learn the principles of true
economy.
The fate of POnzi and the luckless
ones who are striving to regain the
money they intrusted to him is just an
other example of the fallacy of easy
money.
Something cannot be created from
nothing.
New capital alone must come from
what is earned and saved.
If you are employed on a salary
your profits are what you save, not
what you earn. What you have left at
the end of the month or at the end of
the year constitutes your new capital.
If you wish to get ahead, to get out
of the rut you now feel you are in,
you must build up that capital; you
~. n
and put it to work for you.
These are the only processes through
all the ages, and the only ones through
which one ever will succeed in ages
to come.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
WOLCOTT
(Deterred)

Chester Moody is working for William
Ainsworth.
Mrs. T. Fl. Hood is ill with bronchial
pneumonia.
W. E. Foss was in Hardwick Saturday
on business.
Scion Dwinell of johnson was in town
on Tuesday.
Mrs. M. T. Bullock has been a recent
visitor in Hardwck
Mrs. Carrie Goss left for Burlington
the first of the week.
Mrs. w. O. Davis is the guest of her
husband at the capitol
Walter Sabin transacted business in
East Hardwick Tuesday.
Clare Wheeler is confined to the house
with quinsy sore throat.
Mrs. Harold Towle and children of
Cady's Falls are visiting at Thos. Hoods.
Hobart Bliss of Morrisville was Wis.
itor at W. o. Davis, the first of the week
Mrs. SNelle French of Marshfield has
been recent guest at c. Fl. S. Cleve.
lands
Mrs. W. G. Reed and daughter, Barbara
leave this week for ST. Albaus to visit
her parents.
Mrs. Celia GLADDEN., who was a recent
guest at John Kelley's, has gone to.yisit
in Swanton.
The Wolcott basket ball team defeated
East Hardwick here Friday evening by
score of IS toS.
Freeman Charette moved Wednesday
from the John Kelley place to the CHAR
cite homestead
A large party gathered at the home of
Chauncey Kimball and wife, FRIDAY even.
ing to remind them of the 10Th anniver.
sary of their marriage and enjoy social
good time.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
IMPROBABLE ANIMALS SOLD
Nebraska Live Stock owner Dispoees
of Scrub Bull and Five Cows
to Improve Herd.

II disposed of one scrub bull and
five cows that We're not profitable
With this explanation livestock
owner in Dodge county, Nebraska, en-
rolled in Two Better Sires-Better
Stock" movement which provides for
purebred sres in all classes of domes-
tic animals kept.
A purebred Holstein bull now heads
his herd of % grade cattle and the
Duroc swine on the farm are all pure
bred. Horses, sheep, goats and poul-
try complete the kinds of live stock
kept While these are not purebred,
they will be improved by breeding to
purebred sires only.
The experience of livestock owners
that scrub sires are Improbable sup
ports the results of numerous official
experiments which show the superior
ity of good purebred sires over all
other kinds
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
JOHNSON

Mrs. Josie L. Pierce has made all of hei
official visits to the chapter in the sixth
district, o. E. S.
Mrs l. L. Bailey of East Fairfield visit
ed her daughter and family, Mrs. c. W
Whiting, several days last week.
Gladys Drown Of the University Of Yer
mont was a weekend guest OF her aunt,
Mrs. Josie Drown, returning to Burlington
last week Tuesday.
c. P. Jones was presented with purse
of money by the Congregational Church
and Sunday school for his untiring effort
given to the choir and every entertain
ment given in church work. He and Mrs.
Jones left the first of last week for their
new home in Burlington.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
NEW NATIONS.

Poland and Finland are recog-
nized, Esthonia, Lithuania, Latvia,
Georgia, Ukraine, Armenia and
Azerbaijan partially recognized re-
publics formed out of Russia; Cze-
cho-Slovakia, German Austria and
Hungary, formed out of Austria
Hungary; Jugoslavia, a kingdom,
formed out of Serbia, Croatia, Bos-
MIA, Slovenia, Dalmatia and parts
of Hungary; Mesopotamia, Syria,
Palestine and Hejaz, formed out
of Turkey. Besides these, many of
the states of Germany, such as Ba-
varia, SaXony, Prussia, have become
partly independent republics.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
Saving European Children.

Work among the starving children
of Europe is being participated in by
the Young Women's Christian asso-
citation of the United States through
the Polish Gray Samaritans, the
Polish-American girls who trained
for social service in Poland under the
American Y. w. c.. A. and are now
with the American Relief association
in charge of the distribution of food
to children in outlying districts of
Poland. According to recent letters
from them, they are feeding 100000
children a day, through the food
kitchens and distributing stations.
The Y. w. c. A. is one of the eight
organizations in the European relief
council formed under the direction of
Herbert Hoover for the relief of Eu-
rOpean children.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
HISTORY OF THE SlR-LOIN.

The sirloin of beef which graced
many Christmas table this year in
lieu of the too costly turkey, is said
to have acquired its knightly title
from Henry VIII, who, in delight
at a magnificent piece of the over
loin, laid his sword upon its steam
ing surface. Later sovereigns have
been credited with the same act,
namely James I and the second
Charles. Only a few years ago a
painter of note exhibited in the
Royal academy, London, a picture
of Charles II in the act of confer
ring the distinction on the fortunate
Joint.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
REWARD OF MERIT.

He was reading some general Or
ders in a nondecootyized French
billet.
'Listen," he said. Remember
that lieutenant who was always
kowtowing round trying to get in
with the captain? Well, he's just
been awarded the croix de guerre
with two palms. Wonder how he
got it. Two palms. Goshp
"Handshakin'," replied his COM
panion briefy.-The American Le-
gion Weekly.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
DUSKY MONARCH A CRATER
Which His Subjects Have Found
Hard to Beat

A peculiar form of graft exists
among the tribes Of the Unyoro Of
Africa. The king marries some
hundred or more girls, taking care
to pick out the prettiest ones in the
tribe. After they are married these
wives start out for journeys among
the villages and in each village To-
cate the richest young man. They
fawn upon him, tell him they have
fallen in love with him and desire
him as their sweetheart. Being a
queen, it is royal command, and
the young man takes her to his hut,
where she stays from a week to a
month or more.
The king pretends to hear about
it for the first time after the period
arranged for before the wife left had
passed. In great indignation he
sends for his wife, and she makes
great cutlery to the lover and assures
him that the only way to keep the
king good-natured is to take back a
present. 1t is given her, and as a
rule it is big enough to almost ruin
tho giyer. As can be seen, the king
with hundred hardworking wives
can soon retire with enough wealth
to keep up his court for lifetime.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
Forced to Return to Coal,

The oil-burning engines of the Can
adian Pacific railway in the Canadian
Rockies are now being converted to
the use of coal. 1t is expected in a
short time all the engines running west
from Field, British Columbia, to Van
couver will burn coal instead of oil.
The Canadian Pacific steamers in the
British Columbia coast service also
will be converted into coal burners.
This is due to a shortage of fuel oil.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
FISHES WITH FUKktD TAILS
Shape Of the Rear Fin Has Important
Relation to the Creatures SWIM
ming Abilities.

Most marine animals which swim,
especially swiftly and continuously,
have forked tail fin. This shape
of tail avoids the space Immediate
ly behind the axis of the body where
the stream lines following the sides
(of a moving fish, converge. A
rounded or pointed tail which would
occupy such area would be drag.
Whales and porpoises, though
they move the tail up and down in
stead of from side to side, have a
forked tail fin, only it lies in hori
zontal instead Of a vertical plane.
The wide-ranging members of the
mackerel family and other more or
less related marine fishes have
forked tail fin set on a firm, mar
row base; and the freest-swimming
sharks (mackerel sharks and the
maneater) have acquired tail of
the same shape, though the ordinary
shark tail is weak and unsymmet-
rical.
Fresh-water minnows almost in
variably have forked tail fin, wa
tiers which they have to traverse be-
ing considerable in relation to the
small size of the fishes Themselves
DR.. John T. Nichols in the National
Geographic Magazine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
GOOD DAIRY HEIFER RATION
and Corn With All the Silage
She Will Eat.

One of the cheapest and best winter
rations for the dairy heifer, according
to the Missouri station, is an average
daily of about six pounds of alfalfa
hay, two pounds of corn, and silage at
free will (this means on the average
about twenty pounds daily. This
kind of ration has kept the heifers
growing at just about the right rate
to make the best kind of mature cows,
AMI yet the expense has not been I'M
duly great.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
HIS TROUBLES

Musician-There are songs that
have never, never died. They go
ringing down the ages.
Editor-That's true. For the
past six months ! have heard my
daughter try to kill two or three of
them each evening, but they never,
never die.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
DANTE MEMORIAL.

In connection with the sixth CEN
tenary of the death of Dante, which
will be celebrated next September, a
subscription has been raised through
out Italy, for the presentation to
Ravenna, where the poet died, of a
silver bronze bell, which will be rung
every evening in his memory.-Lon-
don Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
Needed Investigation.

An appropriation Of $4,000 has
been authorized to the bureau of
standards for the investigation of
measurements of public utilities, such
as gas, electric light, electric power,
water, telephone, central station heat
ing and electric railway service and
the solution of the problem arising in
connection with standards in such
service
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
LABORATORY EXPERIMENT.

A Harvard man perpetrated this
joke with reference to the chemical
laboratory;
"41144. Publication by Explo-
sion, or How to Become an Angel
Immerse iodin in aqua ammonia.
Filter. Dry the precipitate Then
grind the precipitate in mortar with
pestle. Write up your notes in the
next world"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02

consumed and how many are return
ing little or nothing or even costing
money to keep? The profit made
from COW depends upon the amount
of butterfat produced and the cost Of
producing same. Monthly records and
the Babcock test will detect the
boarder cows. Why waste time and
money on cows that do not pay for
their keep?-W. e. Spangler, Colorado
Agricultural College, Fort Collins,
Colo.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
TITLE CHASING.

'Do you think people are chasing
titles as much as they used TOP"
"More," answered Miss Cayenne.
"The titles are the most striking fea-
lures of the motion picture plays"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
HIGH COST OF COMMODITIES
Killing of Calves for Veal and spay-
ing Of Heifers to Fatten for
Beef Is Cause.

That the killing of so many calves
every year for veal, and the spaying
of heifers and fattening them for the
block, is responsible in large meas
ure for the present high prices of
certain food commodities, there can
be no question.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
RADICAL REMCDY.

"What is your remedy for un-
rest?"
"To have as much as possible"
replied the busy sovietist, call at
once and get it over with"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
CONFUSING,

isn't it confusing to buy YOUR
spring clothes so early?''
eyes," replied Mrs. Upton Day.
ton, eve are getting so far ahead of
the seasons that I hardly know
whether I am wearing my winter
wraps or my summer furs."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
MOSTLY FANCY.

"Do you still put your faith in
the wisdom of the plain people?"
eyes," replied Senator Sorghum.
'But after observing the prevalence
of jazzical enjoyment, 1 am begin
ming to suspect that nobody wants
to be considered plain"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
FEEDING COWS SAWDUST

The facetious statement, re-
peated in a joking way, Put
green goggles on the cows and
fool them by feeding sawdust
and shavings," is apparently not
going to be necessary in future
to feed them that product. 1t
has been found by experiment
that sawdust from non-resiuous
soft woods can be used, but it
first must undergo a process of
treatment with certain acids,
which change a part of the dry
matter into carbohydrates. How
ever, the low protein content
:. of sawdust as a feed would not
augur well for its future use.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02

For any pain, burn, scad or bruise, ap-
ply DR.. Thomas Eclectic Oil-the house
hold remedy. Two sizes soc and 60c at
all drug stores, -aov't
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02

Dyspepsia is Americas curse. To re-
store digestion, normal weight, and puri
fly the blood, use Burdock's Blood Bit
tiers. Sold at all drugs stores. Price
S125-adv't.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02
Notice Of Hearing on Bankrupt's
Petition for Discharge

United States District Court for the Dis.
trict of Vermont.
JOHN L. STEARNS Bankrupt
Discharge.
Notice is hereby given that the above
named bankrupt has filed his petition,
praying for his discharge from all his
debts in bankruptcy, and that all credit
ors and other persons Directing to such
discharge may attend before the under
signed Referee, at the office of W. E..
Tracey in Johnson, in said District, on
Tuesday. Apr! 5th, 1921,
at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon, and then
and there present their objections, il any,
to such discharge, with their proofs
thereon
Dated at Swanton. in said District,
this Gath day of February, A. D. 1921.
E. A. AYERS, Referee.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-02

Patient-You seemed to take
quite long time pulling that last
patients tooth.
Dentist-Yes, he married the girl
I was in love with.
The border vidette., 1921-04-30
OTORCYCLES FOR STATE
 HIGHWAYS.

Phoenix, April. The use of the motorcycle as an adjunct in high way maintenance is suggest ed in a letter which the state highway department has sent out to country boards of super visors, calling attention to the fact that number of Harley Davidson and Indian machines have been allotted to Arizona under the provisions of the Kahn bill providing for the distribution of surplus war equipment to the states.
 The machines, it is pointed out, might be used to good ad- vantage in patrolling roads and in police work. They can be had by the counties by payment of the freight charges, which reduces the cost to about one fifth the price usually charged.
 The department has turned down an offer from the govern ment of 40 standard bicycles, aS 10 uO0S uOU nave uSO 1OE this equipment. The department is materially restricting the amount of Federal equipment owing to lack of funds.
 In this connection it will be recalled that the legislature in- definitely postponed a bill which would have given the depart ment $2OO.OOO to reim purse it for expenditures made during the last two years in securing some thing like $2.0OO,OOO worth of war equipment.
 Recent word from Idaho is to the effect that tue legislature there passed a similar measure, and added $2OO, 900 to the exche quer of the highway authorities to take care of shipments during the coming two years. Ia most of the other states, appropria tions were made to cover the expense of securing such equip ment.