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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-08-07

The Chicago Times publishes reports
of the condition of the growing crops,
and thu progress of the harves collected
from all parts of the United States east
of the Rocky mountains. The dispatches
comprise reports from over nine hundred
counties. Of these reports, the Times
makes the following analysis The wet
weather of the past two months has re-
suited in an extraordinary growth of all
kinds of grasses, and consequently the
hay crop will be large in all parts of the
West, as it has been very generally har
vested, and is the efore free from all
danger of damage, there need be no fear
of scarcity of hay. Wheat has been
harvested in the section lying south of
the forty-fourth degree of latitude. In
Wisconsin it is much above the average
in quality and quantity. In Illinois and
Indiana some damage has been done to
the crops by rain, bugs and other causes,
so that tae yield will not exceed three
quarters of an average. In Kansas, Ne
braska, Minnesota and Iowa reports show,
that the crops will be largely in excess
of last year. In the two first named
States depredations of grasshoppers have
been comparatively insignificant. In
Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Missouri
and the Eastern States, there is every
prospect of a far better yield. The pro-
duct in these States is represented as
being much superior in quality to that
of former years. Oats promise an extra
ordinary large yield in some sections.
The heavy rains that have fallen recently
have lodged the grain somewhat, and the
chinchbug elsewhere has caused some
damage but there is every indication
that the yield will be at least forty-five
to fifty bushels to the acre, and in many
sections much larger. Rye and barley
promise well. These crops are not ex-
tensively grown, but there is every indl-
cation that the supply will be fully equal
to the demand. Corn is not yet mat1lred
in the Northwest In Alabama, Missis-
sippi, Georgia and some parts of Arkan-
sas and Tennessee, the crop has been
harvested, and is more abundant than
for many years. In Illinois, Iowa, Mis-
souri,, Ohio and Indiana, the crop is
backward, but unless frosts should come
previous to the middle of September
there is no reason to apprehend short
crop. In Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Michigan, the backwardness of the crop
is such that there is little hope of more
than half crop. Potatoes will yield a
full crop in all sections. a9 5Hi
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-08-07
IN ADVANCE.
NO. 80,
EnYiOus Tongues.

The moment man achieves brilliant
success there's always somebody at hand
to tell how poor, how obscure, how no
"aecount" he used to be, and to express
wonder and astonishment that he should
ever have amounted to anything"
The fact that he has amounted to some
thing, that he has proved himself a sue
cess, seems to make some of his ac-
quaintances feel that they have been
robbed in a manner, and that by so
much as he has risen above them in po-
sition or influence, by so much they are
dwarfed. Men who have groped blfndly
to find fitting place for the exercise of
their talents find it, and with it come
naturally appreciation, money, infiu-
ence, prosperity. Can their good for
tune cause anything but rejoicing in
magnanimous and noble mind? There
are very few men of note before the
American public who have not fought
their way up through poverty, obscurity,
disaster and countless opposition of adj
verse circumstance. Vanderbilt began
as boatman in New York harbor;
Stewart was once a small retail merchant
in Broadway basement; Thomas Scott
was at first fireman and coal HEAVIER;
Ezra Cornell would have gone without
his supper at one time but for shilling
he picked up in the street; Cyrus Field
houndered in debt and poverty to the
lips during one portion Of his life; Elias
Howe tried semi starvation many long
year while perfecting the sewing ma
chine; Anna Dickinson scrubbed door
steps to pay to get her start in life. In
fact almost everybody, " that is any
body" has had to fight for his crown,
and when he gets it shouldn't everybody
rejoice with him Doubtless there's
many and many diamond that is never
polished and set, but lies buried in
mountain gulches covered with mud;
many "mute inglorious Milton" !"
sleeps in quiet country churchyards,
but the world is flashing with light from
diamonds that are set, ringing with
melody from Millions that are not mute.
One thing is certain; the man or the
women who is occupied in picking to
pieces the crown lawfully won by a sue
cessful neighbor is not likely ever to
wear one, for the time thus spent is
worse than wasted, and the disposition
that can find pleasure in employment SO
ignominious and degrading can never
find those aspirations, labors and tolls
congenial which bring deserved reputa-
ton and honor and success. #-.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-08-07
A ROthschild Did II.

An amusing story about the late Baron
James de Rothschild, who was as sarcas-
tic as he was shrewd, is now going the
rounds of the French press. 1t is to the
effect that the baron was playing whist
one night, ga financier's game for
moderate stakes, that is-with the
wealthy Marquis d'Aligre and party,
when the marquis, having let louis fall
on the floor, insisted on stopping the
game until he found it, The baron,
learning the cause of the interruption,
exclaimed in pathetic tone &C. A louis
on the foor2 All that is serious
matter" and coolly taking hundred
franc note from his pocket, rolled it up,
lighted it at candle, and held the
blazing paper down to the carpet witt
profound gravity to help the marquis il
his search
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-08-07
Dairy Products at the Centennial.

The American Exchange is distribut-
ing circular issued by the committee
of the American dairymen's association
having in charge the exhibition of dairy
products at the approaching centennial,
inviting the attention of dairymen
throughout the United States to the
facilities offered them for the display of
their products, and urging the import
ance OF securing q representation beft-
ting so important an interest. The cir
cular gives full information regarding
the forwarding, reception, and classifca-
tion of products, and especially recon-
mends that butter and cheese in every
variety of manufacture and form made
in this country should be on exhibition.
In regard to sales of entries, the COM
mittee call attention to the arrangements
made, in the following language
We are gratifed to announce in this,
as in every other worthy object, we have
the cooperation of the Butter and
Cheese Exchange, now the American
Exchange, whose members kindly offer to
exhibitors, in case sales are desired,
every facility they possess for the advan-
tageous disposition of their entries,
while the Philadelphia Produce Ex
change will also doubtless lend every
assistance in its power.
The committee represent names wei
known throughout the dairy sections Of
the Eastern and Western States.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-08-07
How Sensations are Developed.

In reviewing book on this subject,
by Thomas Frost, the Acaden1y picks
out these facts about English circus per-
formers: Circus life is not very different
from the larger life outside, and these
versatile individuals often lead but a
sorry existence until they rise out of the
ruck and do something different from
their companions. They must astonish
in order to live, and those that astonish
the most will make the best living: so it
has been with Van Amburgh, Carter,
and other lion kings" with Leotard,
Blondin, and other gymnasts. Managers
are sometimes hard put to it for nov
city, and their attempts to obtain one
are often laughable enough. Wallet,
the clown, and Pablo Fanque, the
negro rope dancer otherwise William
Darby, when in partnership together in
Glasgow, hit on the expedient of turning
an Irish po turer in their company,
whose nom d'areua was Vilderini, into
Chinese. The Irishman was shaved,
stained, and dressed in Chinese costume,
and had the name of Ki-hi- chin fan foo
conferred upon him. His appearance
was so far success that two veritable
Cinnamon, who had witnessed his per-
formances, took him for countryman of
theirs, but each time they inquired for
him at the stage door they were told that
he could not be seen. These repeated
rebuffs made the honest " Celestials -
suspicious-not of his reality but of his
treatment by his employers. Thinking
that he was held in durance and only re-
leased in order to appear in the ring,
they went to the police court and made
an affidavit to that effect. The unfor-
tunate Pablo Fanque, therefore, was
called upon for an explanation, and was
obliged to put the Irish posturer into
the witness box to declare that he could
not speak word of Chinese, and had
never been in China in his life.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-08-07
A Terrible Leap.

A correspondent of the New York
World, writing from the CatskiIl noun
tains, says: On the verge of one of
these rocky terraces looking down on
plush-like forest thousand feet below,
stood hale old gentleman, with a straw
hat in his hand and his white locks
streaming ON the breeze.
CA long leap, that" he said, with a
smile, as 1 bent over.
"Aye, indeed, sir tempting leap
for a suicide. Only that bed of green
looks too soft to bruise limb or break
bone"
came up this mountain few win
ter's ago." said the old gentleman,
"when the snow was very deep and a
hard crust was frozen on the surface.
That's the time to climb the Catskills.
My companion was an old resident here
abouts-born here, in fact. We walked
up that peak yonder with less fatigue
than I now feel after getting up this far
He told me that suicide actually did
take place here when he was lad, and
he related the circumstances.
Seeing my interest, the old gentleman
went on:
Z" 1t was a young woman-a young
English woman-who had arrived in
this country year or two before in
company, it is said, with her brother,
and who, after serving some months in
the household of merchant in New
York, came up here and settled as kind
of governess or companion to the chill.
dren of the merchants brother, a we'll.
to-do farmer in this neighborhood. She
was as good as adopted into the family
and treated in all respects as an equal.
Once in about every fortnight she re-
ceived letter, addressed always in the
same handwriting, but post-marked al
different places in the West and South.
These letters were understood by the
farmer and the family to be written by
the girls brother, who had accepted the
place of travelling agent for New York
firm. About the beginning of one
spring the letters ceased to arrive. The
young woman moped and pined. In the
following September letter came and
was handed to her in the evening. She
took it to her room. Next morning she
had disappeared, leaving her trunk
locked, and her clothing, except what
she wore, hanging from the pegs against
the wall. 1t was not until ten days after
that some boys out chestnuting came
across her body below there under the
trees. In her dress pocket was found
the last letter she had received, letter
which disclosed that the writer was moi
her brother, but her husband, to whom
she had been married just before theil
departure from England, and from whom
she had consented to separate unit
they should by their united efforts have
enough money to start them in life to
gether. Absence, in his case, had rusteG
love. This letter announced that he haG
married another person. All, me-" con
cluded the old gentleman, sadly, putting
on his hat and preparing to move away
$50 wags the world"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-08-07
A Child Killed by a Rooster.

A child of Mr.. A. Langley, who lives
two miles from Gadsden, Ala, while
playing in the yard, was attacked by a
rooster, and knocked down and spurred
several times in the face and head before
the mother could rescue it. DIR. Ewing,
who was called in, found that one stroke
of the spur had penetrated the brain.
The little sufferer, eighteen months old,
fingered in great agony for two days,
when death came to its relief. DIR. Ew-
ing says that during a practice of over
twenty years he never met with or heard
of such case before, and it is perhaps
the first in the history Of the world.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-08-07
Banking in the United States.

An approximate estimate of the mum
Der of persons directly interested az
officers and shareholders in the national
banks of the United States would prob
ably surprise most of our readers, even
those who are themselves included in the
number. These banks are about two
thousand-2, ,004 at the date of the con-
troller's last report. OF officers and di-
rectors they have not less than twenty
five thousand. Of shareholders it would
be safe to say that there are a million
and half, and probably many more.
Besides these, the depositors and note
holders are hardly less directly inter
ested, and of these no estimate can be
formed. On the second of last October
the deposits reached about $3.50, 600, 900
the notes exceeded $333, 100000, the
combined amount being nearly 81, 1,200,
900, 1000. This enormous interest is dis
tibuted in every State, and we believe
in every Territory, of the Union, and il
is obvious that the influence of the banks
s almost universal.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-08-07
A Lone Woman.

Anne Brewster writes from Rome to
the Philadelphia Bulletin: recently
heard strange and interesting story of
lady who had had some fatal grief
which had swept away from her all
human hope and help. She was
woman of fortune, high culture, learn
ed, indeed; she was singularly alone in
life; all her near relatives we're dead.
She was about thirty-fve years of age.
She lived in an elegantly furnished
apartment; one of the rooms was fine
library; all on one flat, en- suite, as is
common in European houses. She dis
missed her servants; for thirty years re-
fused to hold any intercourse with so.
ciety, and led an entirely solitary life.
Every morning a confidential servant
came and entered door that was left
unlocked at certain hour. She went
into the bedroom and put it in order,
also the dining-room, removed the
dishes of the preceding day, and placed
ON the table the food for a succeeding
twentyfour hours, but she never saw
her mistress. Written orders, made in
the concisest, clearest form, were left
from time to time on the dining or
dressing table. Through these orders
all business was directed and everything
provided that was needed by the recluse.
The whole suite of rooms, excepting the
dining, sleeping, and dressing rooms,
remained strictly closed for thirty years.
People talked great deal at first, much
curiosity and wonder was expressed, but
in time other wonders appeared, and
the lady and her solitary life were for
gotten, The original confidential SER
want in course of time died, and another
reliable person succeeded to the post,
but nothing changed the habits of the
lady-she was never seen by any one.
Some thirty years went by, when one
morning the servant found the bed un-
disturbed, the food untouched She
forced the doors and searched for her
mistress. She passed through long
succession of rooms which presented a
most strange appearance. A thick bed
of dust lay over every article of furni-
ture, silent covering over carpets and
floors. But straight through the rooms
was narrow, direct path that led to the
end room or library, path swept clean
by the long trailing garments of that
solitary woman in her daily walk OF
thirty years. It swerved neither to the
right nor to the left. The servant fol
lowed the strange path to the library.
There she found her mistress seated at q
reading table in a high-backed chair
her hands were folded peacefully in hei
lap, her head was leaning back, the sad,
worn old face was calm and still. She
had, at last, gone to that other solitude,
death. On the table were Homer and
Virgil; they seemed to be the only books
she had read, as the others on the shelves
were bound with the dust of years.
There was not one written line or word
left. The solitary thirty years had end
ed, as they had been lived, in solemn
silence. The sorrowing woman at last
knew the great secret, which told hel
why she had been called to suffer sucl
keen mortal anguish that had snapped
all bonds between her and her kind,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-08-07
TERMS: sl.5O PER ANNUM,
VOL. Ill.
The Pilgrims Of the Plains.


They climbed the rock built breasts Of earth,
The Titan-fronted, blowy sleeps
That Graded timo. Where freedom keeps
Her flag Of white-blown stars unfurled,
They turned about, they saw the birth
or sudden dawn upon the world.
Again they gazed they saw the face
or God and named it bouudless space.
And they descended and did roam
Through leveled distances set round
BY room. They saw the silences
Move by and beckon saw their forms,
Their very boards, ofttime in storms
And heard them talk like silent seas.
On unnamed heights black-blown and brown,
And torn like battlements of Mars,
They saw the darkness come down,
Like curtains loosened from the dome
or Gods cathedral, built OF stars
They saw the snowy mountains rolled,
And heaved along the nameless lands Ola
Like mighty pillows, saw the gold
or awful sunsets, saw the blush
or sudden dawn, and felt the hush
or heaven when the day sat down,
And hid his face in dusky hands
Then pitched the tent, where rivers run
AS If to drown the fallen sun.
The long and lonesome nights the tent
That nestled soft in sweep of grass;
The hills against the armament
Where SCARCE the moving moon could pass (;
The cautious camp, the smothered light
The silent sentinel at night
The wild beasts bowling from the hill
The troubled cattle believing;
The savage prowling by the spring,
Then sudden passing swift and still,
And Bonded as a bow is bent.
The arrow sent the arrow spent
And buried in its bloody place,
The dead man lying on his face
The clouds of dust, their cloud by day,
Their pillar of unfailing fire,
The far north star. And high, and higher
They climbed so high it seemed eftsoon
That they must face the falling moon,
That like some iame-Ii ruin lay
Thrown down before their weary way.
They learned to cad the sign of storms,
The moons wide circles sunset bars,
And storm provoking blood and fame
And like the Chaldean shepherds came
At night to name the moving stars
And in the heavens pictured forms
OF beasts and fishes of the sea
And marked the great bear wearily
Rise up and drag his clinking chain
OF stars around tho starry main.
joaquin Miller.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-08-07
A Sad Record.

During the past six months 81, 1O3
persons have lost their lives by violence
Epidemics, $4,000 famine, 10000
marine disasters, 1903; fires, 944
snow slides, so; earthquakes, 10000 ;
floods, 1906 tornadoes, 944; explo-
sions, 207 ; railroad accidents, 43.
These figures represent only small
percentage of the destruction of human
life from other than natural causes, and
do not include the thousands of minor
disasters constantly occurring all over
the world. Add to these those taken of
by suicide, murder, war and massacre,
and other violent forms of death, and
the result would be frightful to contem.
plate. Then. add to these those who die
from sickness, and there is no danger
that the world will soon be overcrowded
with population.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-08-07
THE PIANO TUNERS STORY.

You are pair of precious young
fools, and that's the best I can find to
say about you !" said Aunt George.
Her name was Miss Georgiana Ander-
sou but the sweet abbreviation "Geor-
gle" was never used to her as soon
might one think of venturing on famil-
iarities with bishop! Everybody called
her "Aunt George ;" and, as she walked
with measured, heavy tread, like a
grenadier, the name didn't seem at all
inappropriate.
She was Lizzie's Aunt George-not
mine. And she had brought Lizzie up
in her queer, downright fashion, never
giving her kiss or O caress or an en-
dearing word, yet withal being kind to
her after her own way.
wish 1 could describe Lizzie Ander-
son to you as she really was. A little,
dimpled, blue-eyed creature, with long,
shady lashes, and shy way of looking
at you, like a child girl whose voice
was low and fute-sweet, and who moved
about quietly and noiselessly, like q
sweet spring wind rustling the flowers.
And only eighteen, too that was what
aggravated Aunt George the most of all.
81 wasn't married until was five and
thirty! !" said Aunt George ; "but you
young people can't be contented without
rushing headlong into the vortex. II
would be different if you were rich but,
dear mel" and she rubbed her nose per.
plexedly, "Joe is nothing on earth but
poor pianoforte tuner, and you haven't
one solitary penny of you own, Lizzie. u
"We shall be very economical, Aunt
George" Lizzie answered, cheerfully.
"And you'll have to be-" answered
the old lady, grimly.
1t is my intention to be perfectly frank
with the reader. I shall not disguise
from him the fact that had, in our con
fidential talks, asked Lizzie if she
thought Aunt George would doanythine
for us in pecuniary way.
"Oh, dear, mol" Lizzie had answered
shaking her brown curls in most de.
cided fashion. "She always told me
never to expect anything from her anG
besides, Joe, she has really nothing tc
give !"
There was no getting over these two
facts, taken either together or sepa
rately.
"There's one comfort, Lizzie," said
stoutly "we are young and strong anC
brave-hearted, and well not ask aid o
anybody"
"Of course we won't, Joe," said Liz
zie, her blue eyes sparkling like dew-we
violets at sunrise.
l did wish, once or twice, that m,
business had been something more lucra
tive than piano tuning but it was wha
/ had been brought up to, and | had
pretty good run of custom on the whole
and, rs Lizzie said GA little will go
great way when you are careful of it,
"You'lI see, Joe," she added, blithely
that ] shall make splendid house
keeper"
We had just seventy-fve dollars t
furnish our lii Je second floor with bu
can assure Yen our two rooms locke
delightfully."- cozy, with the red and gree
carpet and neat stained furniture. In
lie said it looked exactly like a doll
house, and perhaps she WASN'T very fa
wrong.
81 Such a pair of fools |" reiterate
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-08-07

A monarchist journal in France says
that the only walls in Toulouse that re-
sisted the food were those constructed
under the old monarchy.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-08-07

The SLIDING SCALE, ,-Rector's wife
(severoly) -"Tommy Robinson, howis it
you don't take off your hat when you
meet meP Tommy" Well, marm, if
l take off my hat to you, what be I to
do when ] meet the parson himself2"