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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-24
Don't Waste Vital Energy.

The most vigorous persons do not have
too much vitality. People generally in
herit lack |; or at least find that much
vital energy has been permanently lost
in their childhood and youth, through
the ignorance or carelessness of their
parents. Often it is impaired by wrong
indulgence in early manhood. The en-
deavor with all persons should be to
husband what's left, be it much or little.
Therefore
l. Don't do anything in hurry.
2. Don't work too many hours day,
whether it be farm work, shop-work,
study-work or house work.
3. Don't abridge sleep. Get the full
eight hours of it, and that too in we'll
ventilated and sun purified room.
4. Don't eat what is indigestible, nor
too much of anything, and let good cheer
rule the hour.
8. Don't fret at yourself, or anybody
else nor indulge in the blues, nor burst
into fits of passion.
6. Don't be too much elated with good
luck, or dishearted by bad.
Positively-be self-controlled, calm
and brave. Let your brain have all the
rest it needs.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-24
The Spelling RefOrmers.

The spelling reformers are making
headway fast, and the most sensible of
them are coming to some sort of agree
ment as to the essential changes demand
ed. Professor March, of Lafayette col
lege, Pennsylvania, and Professor Whit
ney, of Yale, the two most distinguished
philologists in this country, are the
leaders in a spelling reform association
which has adopted an alphabet to meet
the requirements of the new system, and
has already published primer and first
reader embodying the new characters
and methods. The principal features
are the use of single vowel for diph-
thong or triphthong having the same
sound the substitution of one vowel
for another of similar sound, according
to a determined plan the use of + for
2oh and of Il for oh hard the omission
of final when not pronounced and of
all silent letters, and the introduction of
significant characters to represent sounds
compounded of two or more letters.
The new system seems to be gaining
manv disciples among intelligent men,
CincianG6 Sun.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-24
Items OF Interest

There are fifty ex-soldiers in the Mas
sachusetts legislature.
You cannot mend your ways with the
thread of discourse.
The population of the German empire
amounts to 100000 900.
A New York advertiser has had his
name stamped on so, 900, 900 toothpicks.
When do the teeth usurp the tongues
prerogative? When they are chatter
ing.
A Silesian sculptor has chiseled, out
of common coal, fine bust of the Ger
man emperor.
Getting drunk, the Boston Post
thinks, is one of the greatest hindrances
to temperance in this country.
Before you give your neighbor a gold
toothpick find out if he has anything in
his cupboard to go between his teeth.
What is the difference between a
blind man and sailor in prisonP One
can't see to go, and the other can't go
to sea.
All the signers of the declaration of
independence signed their names with
quill pens except one-he signed his
Witherspoon.
To the Paris exposition there went
64,044 Englishmen, 81, 600 Belgians,
%, 600 Germans, $1,000 Italians and
IA, 600 Americans.
A colossal flower has been lately
found in Sumatra forests which has an
average diameter of thirty-three inches.
1t is called the titanum.
"What shall l leave you when 1
die?" said an insipid fellow to young
lady whose patience he had. nearly ex.
hausted. Needn't wait till you die,"
said she; "you can leave something
now, if you will. :" "What shall leave ?"
he asked. "Leave yourself" she re-
piled. He left.
Writing of New England in the seven
teenth century, Prof Moses Colt Tyler
says, in his History of American Lit
erature," recently Published: "The
typical household of New England was
one of patriarchal populousness;" and
adds in note: "The sturdy patriot,
Roger Clapp, of Dorchester, was happy
in the possession of fourteen children.
Cotton Mather was not so abundant in
children as he was in books, since of the
former he had only fifteen. Benjamin
Franklin was one of seventeen children.
William Phips, who attained the honor
of knighthood and became royal gov
ernor of Massachusetts, was the son of a
poor gunsmith of Pemaquid, and be-
longed to flock of twenty-six children,
all by the same father and mother, and
twenty-one of them sons"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-24
They Killed Him.

The other night, as old Blinks sat lis
tening to the various opinions expressed
about our Indian troubles, he felt con-
strained to relate some OF his own ex-
periences with the Indians, prefacing
bis remarks with the assertion that not
one man in ten thousand knows anything
about the subject. Said he: "You give
me one hundred men as brave as myself,
who would rely on me for strategy, and
follow where would lead, and we'd
whip all the tribes between here and
Alaska |"
Blinks proceeded to state that in the
early days of Texas he commenced the
subiugation of an Indian tribe all on his
own hook. He was both infantry and
cavalry, and his courage and willy tactics
appalled, the Indians more than an ordin-
ary army corps would have done. He
maintained his uneven warfare for several
months, until one day he found himself
some three hundred miles within the
Indian Territory, where no white man
had ever been before. AS he was pass
ing through defile in the mountains,
fifteen hundred Indians surrounded
him. They had closed every avenue of
escape; abrupt mountains lowered on
either hand, their sides lined with saw
ages; several hundred guarded the pass
ahead of him, while an equal number
had closed in upon his rear. To escape
was impossible, the odds were too great
to give battle, so he maiestically surren-
dered and defantly told them to deal
with him as they pleased. The delight
of the Indians at capturing such an i'm
portant and dreaded enemy prevented
them from killing him at once, and they
were two days in council trying to invent
some more horrible torture and manner
of death than they had ever practiced
before.
BY this time Old Blinks had got him
self hopelessly entangled, and the crowd,
seeing his dilemma, demanded at once
to know how he got out of such fix.
Blinks coughed and "sparred for time, "
hoping to invent some way to wind up
the story, but his imagination "fell
down on him and the boys kept press
ing him. He told of his thirst and de-
scribed his thoughts, trusting that some
idea would come, to his rescue. The
crowd, becoming more and more aware
of his predicament, interrupted, dis
tracted and confused him SO much he
could think Of no way out, 80 bringing
his fist down on the table with thump,
and with a look of earnest sincerity,
said: "By George, boys, they killed
me. - Carson (NeU. appeal.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-24
John MaugerO.

A Japanese boy named John Mangero
was wrecked off the island of Niphon in
1910. He was rescued by Capt. White
field, of a New Bedford ship, and car
ried to Honolulu, from thence to the
United States. Capt. Whitefeld placed
him in school in Fair Haven, Mass.
He made great proficiency in the Ian.
guages and other branches of study.
After leaving school, his enterprising
spirit led him to California, thence to
the Sandwich islands; here he sought
the aid of the seaman's chaplain, the
Rev. Mr.. Damon, by which he secured
passage to Japan.
After suffering various embarrass-
ments through suspicion of those in au.
thority in his native land, he came to
be respected for his intelligence and in
tegrity.
He was sought for especially on ac-
count of his knowledge of American
affairs. When Commodore Perry visited
Japan with his feet, and made his fa-
nous treaty by which the ports of the
country we're opened to the world, John
Mangero was the medium OF communica-
tion.
He translated the communications
from the Japanese to English for the
commodore, and his reply into Japanese
for the Japar ese government. In various
ways, by his influence in no small de-
gree, Japan has emerged from condi.
ton of medieval stagnation to that OF
the magnificent enterprise she now ex-
hibits.
John Mangero is now man of lead
ing influence in public affairs in Japan.
The partiality the Japanese government
has manifested for the United States is
doubtless due in no small degree to
him.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-24
Bayard Taylor.

Dead he lay among his books,
The peace Of God was in his looks,
AS the statues in the gloom
Watch DER Maximilian's tomb,
So these volumes, from their shelves,
Watch him silent as themselves.
Ah his hand will nevermore
Turn their storied pages DER
Nevermore his lips repeat
Songs OF theirs, however sweet
Let the lifeless body rest.
He is gone who was its guest.
Gone as travellers haste to leave
An inn, nor tarry until eve;
Traveller, in what realms afar
In what planet, in what star
In what vast aerial space,
Shines the light upon thy face?
In what gardens Of delight
Rest thy weary feet tonight
Poet Thou whose latest verse
Was a garland on thy hearse;
Thou hast sung with organ tone,
In Deukalion's life thine own.
On the ruins Of the past,
Blooms the perfect flower at last.
Friend ! but yesterday the bells
Rang for thee their loud farewelIs
Aud to-day they toll for thee,
Lying dead beyond the seas,
Lying dead among thy books
The peace of God in all thy looks.
Henry W. LonqfelloU,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-24
The Murderer.

This be your doom the judges said
To one whose hands with blood were red
" Hanged by the neck till you are dead"
The felon staggered from the dock,
Then paler turned to hear the clock
His waning moments grimly mock.
Then on his wrists they clasped the gives
For law holds fast on murderers' lives
From sentence-day till doom arrives.
He paused, an instant, in the street
For the last time the sky to greet,
And sunshine-ne'er before so sweet
The sheriff's men who jailward led
Looked as II following the dead,
And moved along with measured tread.
Under the prisons frowning gate
he passed the threshold of bis fate,
And parted there with human hate
A keeper by the stairway saith
I" One moment pause to give him breath y
And whispered, "he belongs to DEATH"
AS his cell-door to swing began,
A shudder through his body ran;
Twas opened by the murdered man
The specter- victims ghastly grin
Welcomed the convict-guest within
At last the murderer saw his sin
Only his eye that specter saw
Those grating cell-bolts slowly draw,
Barbing the vengeance Of the law.
The fellon stood at the dark throne,
And heard these words, "I claim mine own
You neer again shall be alone"
His veins seemed filed with molten lead
AS constantly the specter said
Hanged by the neck till you be dead"
Thenceforth the fare whereon he fed
The purest milk, the sweetest bread
Sickened him with its hue of red
Thenceforth that specter gave no peace
My taunting voice shall never cease
Nor shall the scaffold yield release.
To souls like thine by crime perplexed
Remorse shall preach from spectral text
Ever in this world and the next !"
--NeW York World.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-24

Winters are so severe in Wisconsin
that this year the sexton of the village
of Kewaunee has prepared, in advance,
six homes for as many persons who are
expected to join the silent majority be-
fore spring.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-24
Che Gssrs County atsrald.
W. H. BISHOP, Publisher.
ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY
Ar
Island Pond, VT.
TERMS, sl.59 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE.

TERMS, sl.so PER YEAR. IN ADVANCE.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-24

Diphtheria has for two years ragged in
some districts of Hungary. In one
town 2,135 persons out of 10000 have
lately been attacked, and 927 have died.
The malady also prevails in Vienna.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-01-24

Its large local subscription list makes this
newspaper most valuable advertising medium.
Advertising space can be secured at reasonable
rates. Coirespondence:.s solicited. Orders from
respectable and responsible sources receive
prompt attention The publisher endeayors to
make the investment Of his advertiser patrons
return them large profit.
Agents allowed reasonable commissions on
subscriptions and orders for advertising. Per-
sons Of integrity and capacity, only, need apply
for agencies
Items OF local news and contributions OF
general interest always acceptable. Cores
pondents must inclose full name and address,
not necessarily for publication, but as a guar
antee Of good faith. The editor does not
necessarily identify himself with the views e1-
pressed by his correspondents.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16

The following pieces IF land having been sold By
the County Treasurer Of the County of Douglas, on
the Sth day Of lay 1877 for the taxes, interest and
Char ges for the ,ear 1870 Therefore notice is hereby
given thai ugless said lnuds redeemed frsm said
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
9Th DAY OFMAY 1850.

they will be conveyed to the respective purchasers
or sguces according to law The amount OF taxes
interest and charges calcult up the last day OF
redemption is set opposite to each piece respectively
GEO. HoLcoAB, County Clerk.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
Notice of the Redemption of Lands
Sold for Taxes Hay Sth 1877.

. TATE OF WISCONSIN, COUNTY OF DOUGLAS,
~ OFFICE OF TIE COUNTY CLERK I
Superior August Pad, 1879.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-16
LOCAL A-FFAIR

Mrs. Peter Z. Bradshaw and
Mrs. john w. Bradshaw, of River
Falls, arrived on Thursday on a
visit 10 relatives aud friends.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1879-05-08
Mortgage Sale.

Default having been made In the conditions
OF "A certain mortgage, dated the 18th day or
ne and Weithy NJ Kinne, OF Lake county,
Michigan, To George ii. Broefilc, of Gcncssce
county, Michigan, and recorded I'm the office
of the Register of Deeds for Lake county, M ic-
lgan, on tue 10Th day OF September, 1877, In Ii
bcr Two of mortgages, on page l.; which
Mortgage was duly assigned by said George
III. Br,efiie to Melville X. Bissell of the City
of Grand Rapids, Michigan, on the 18th day of
December, 1877, and said assignment was du.
ly recorded in the office of the said Register
Of Deeds OF said Lake county, on the 2lst day
of December, 1877, in Libcr Five OF Mortgages,
on page 10; and whereas there Is claimed to
be due ON sud mortgage, NJ the date OF this
ncy f,e therein provided, Of $40, In case Of fore
closure, the total sum of Four Hundred and
Fifteen and It-l9o Dollars lSiloai!; ana no suit
recover the said debt or interest or any part
thereof;
by virtue of the power of sale In said mort
giIge contained and Of tile statute In such ease
made and provided, said mortgage will be
forcclosed, and for that purpose,
On JHcdnesddy, the Esd Day Of July,
1879, at 10 o'clock I'm the foreiiobn of that day.
at the front door OF the Court House IN the
and State of Michigan THAT being the place of
holding the Circuit Court for said cOuntyl;
highest bidder, the premises describeti In said
mortgage, or 80 much thereof as may be nec-
essary to satisfy the amount due on said mort
gage, both principal and Interest and said ut
torney fec and the expense of such foreclosure,
said land and premises are described In said
mortgage rs follows: All those certain pieces
or parcels of land situated in the Township
of Elk, In the County of Lake and State of
Michigan, and described as follows; to-wit:
Two acres of land In tlic southwest corner of
the southeast quarter of the northwest quar-
ter of Section Thirty-six
(3s) In Town Eighteen (is) North, OF Range
Fourteen (l4) West; being twelve (l2) rods
north and south, and runnirg east far enough
TO make two (2) acres. Also, the undivided
half of the saw mill, machinery, appurte-
nancesand fixtures and land thereunto be-
longing, owned by first parties and situated
ON the northwest corner of the northeast
quarter of the southwest quarter of section
ThHty-six (38), In Town Eighteen Usl North,
of Range Fourteen (I4) West, and the banking
ground, four (t) rods wide on either side Of the
mill pond from said mill east to quarter line OF
said Section, aud one-haIf acre west OF mill
and Joining the said strip four rods wide
above mentioned, and lying north of creek,
excepting and rescrving the saving timber
growing thercon--that Is, ON the last de-
scribed piece. l
Dated, April 18th, 1879. I'd.
MELVILLE II. BISSELL,
ii. JosLIN, Assignee of said Mortgage
Attorney for said Assignee.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1879-05-08
Chase Items.

MIR. Jamison's 4-year-Old boy was
stung by bee, on his forehead, caus-
ing his eyes toswell up 80 that he could
not see out of them.
The Sunday School gave q concert
on the evening of April 10Th, at the
church. The little ones did their best
to please all who attended, and think
succeeded i'm SO doing.
j. A: Haak has gone to Pennsylva-
mia, to lie absent about two weeks.
J. M. Raub has also, gone to Penn
sylvania, on intelligence ofserious sick
ness In his family. hope tits nothing
which will detain him long.
II. X. Hurley, our blacksmith, will
go on his farm, this Summer, over at
Muskcgon, and will rent his house and
shop to some good blacksmith; and IL
is good opening for some one,
VIM. Eaton Is putting up an addition
to his house.
Mr.. Tower is finishing off the wing
to his house, built last Fall.
There is considerable inquiry for
houses, here, and none to be rented.
II. Joiner is polishing and tying up
two carloads of broom handles to be
shippedy one to Chicago, and the other
to Jackson, this State. He recently
cut from one ash log, l04 feet long, l742
broom handles. The tree was computs
ed to have been 364 years old.
- One more added to the population of
Chase township, by the advent of girl
baby at Geo. Atwood's. 20
The Indians held Quarterly meet
ing" here, commencing last evening,
May 7th.
The measles have got good grip on
some Of the population of this place.
Who caught that big mess Of fish,
after hunting for the lake and not find
ing IL?
north.
A visit to the mill Of Hahn & Raub,
shows that they are making their mill
40 for all IL is worth.
G. w. Joiner q Son have extended
their tramway over the pond, so as to
have the fire from burning refuse mat
ter, farther from the mill :. .s.
John Samis raised his barn, Satur-
day, making the fifth In this town, this
Spring.
Ruinof says that James M. Foster
settles W giving 81 200 with mortgage
on 40 acres Of land.
There ls strong talk Of another MIL,
soon to- be erected IN this sneighborllo0d;
as parties are now looking up land and
N location. Tsi ts.t
G. w. Joiner has been ON another
trip to Polo, H., looking after his farm
interert there. MAN.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1879-05-08
Probate Order.

State of Michigan,C AZ
County Of Lake,
At n session OF the Probate Court for said
county, held mt the Probate Office In the Viii
lage of Baldwin. I'm said county, on the 2sth
duy of April, A. ID. ls7g;
Present, Hon. Walter A. Burnam, Judge OF
Probate.
In the matter of the estate of stephen NJ.
Fradcnburg, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition duly ver-
flied of Amos Fiandt, praying that a certain
instrument now on file In this Court, purpOrt-
ing to be the last will and testament of said
deceased may be admitted TO Probate, and
that administration of said estate may be
granted to Amos Fiundt or some suitable per-
son;
Thcreupon, II Is ordered that
Monday, the 26th Day of May ne.rt
at four o'clock p. m, be assigned for the hear,
ing Of said petition, and that the heirs NJ law
OF said deceased and all other persons inter-
cstpi In said estate are required to appear at u
session of Court then to be holden at the Pro-
bate Office in the Village Of Baldwin uiore-
said, and show cnuse, ifany there he, why tho
prayer of the petitioner should not be grr,nted
And IL is further ordered, that said petition.
ergive notice to the persons interested in said
estate of the pendency OF said petition and the
hearing thereof by causing copy OF this or
der to be published in the LAKE COUNTY STAR,
n newspaper printed and circulating In said
county, three successive weeks previous To
said day or hearing.
"a true copy. WALTER A. BURNAM,
Judge of Probate.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1879-05-08


TIE following are some of the good
words spoken for the STAR, 10y our
neighbors:
The LAKE COUNTY STAR has Just
closed its sixth volume, looking 'ale
and 'carty.-Recd City clarion.
The close of Volume O Is just an
nounced by the LAKE COUNTY STAR.
1t hardly seems that long since we first
heard of Baldwin. Now il is a flour
ishing town and gives good support to
the STAR, which would be credit to n
much larger place. dfdnistce Times q.
Standard.
The LAKE COUNTY STAR, last week
closed its sixth volume. The STAR,
. from the commencement has laborcd
for the best interests of Lake county,
for law, order and an honest admins
tration of county and township govern
ment, In which ii has been opposed by
n corrupt ring of county and township
officers, whose chief aim appeared to
have been to live 10y office, and plumber
the public. This ring determined to
crush out the STAR, started an, opposi-
ton sheet, which failed, as the ring
was broken up, and several of its MEM
bers barely escaped State prison. The
STAR still fiOurisles, as fearless cx-
ponent of truth, justice and good will
to honest men. $50 mote 1t be."-Fttr-
nell Register.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1879-05-08
Weekly average, bl.oio above zero
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The Physical Paradox

It has been said that I" the blood is the
source of life." 1t is as truly the source
of disease and death. No life, that is
to say, no healthy tissue can be gener-
atcd from impure blood, 10 organ Of
the body can normally perform its func-
tions when supplied with impure blood.
The fluid that should carry life and
health to every part, carries only weak
ness aud disease. Blood Is the source
Of life, only when it IL pure. III 1t has
become diseased, It must be cleansed by
proper medication, else every pulsation
of the human heart sends wave of
disease through the systcm. To cleanse
the blood Of all impurities, use DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and
Pleasant Purgntive Pellets, the most eff
fectual Alternative, tonic, and cathartic
remedies yet discovered. They are cs-
pec,diy e6icicntb b, scrcftstous diseases.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1879-05-08
Sherif's 3 Sale.

BY VIRTUE OF AN EXECUTION issued
out of and under the seal Of the Circuit court
for the ounty OF Lake and State of Michigan
to me directed and delivered tested on the 18th
day of October, 1878, In favor of Cornelius II.
Fornlan and against the goods and chattels
and for want thereof then 10 be made OF the
lands and tenemcnts of John Batcheldor, de-
PENDANT, 1 have levied ON all of the right, title
and interest OF the above named defendant I'm
and to the following described real estate, to-
wit: The north fractional onc-half OF the
northwest fractional one.fonrth OF Section
Six, Township II North, of Range IL West,
Lake county, Michigan, excepting lots hereto
fore decided to George Abrams, Margaret Tux,
worth, Jesse I.elyca, William Forman and
Charles j. Blackmar, by the said John Batch
eldor, and now Of record in the Office Of the
Register OF Deeds of Lake county, Michigan;
which said land ! shall sell at public vendue,
to the highest bidder at the front door OF the
Court House In the Village OF Baldwin, Lake
county, Michigan;
On the 1871 Day of June, 4. ID. 1879,
at ten o'clock In the forenoon.
Dated, April 18th, 1870.
George OvIATT,
Sheriff of Lake Co., Mich.