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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-30
People Who Live Near the Pole.

The Roman correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Bulletin, speaking of the Gin
kici, remarkable people discovered
by the Swedish explorers of the north
pole region, says: The people found
there were not precisely savages-they
were clothed (roughly, perhaps)-but
they were clothed in skins of rein
deer or seal, Their costume might not
perhaps suit Partisan taste, but it was
adaptable to their cline. 1t is COM
posed Of reindeer skin stockings lined
with eiderdown, reindeer or sealskin
boots reaching to the knees, and u der
these, again, reindeer OF sealskin trous-
ers, over which are worn in extra cold
weather other trousers lined with fur.
And then tunic, coat, or blouse of the
same materials reaches to the knees,
and, according to the weather, several Of
these are worn one over the other. For
the head they wear a cap to match the
rest of this charming costume, and this
cap is tied under the chin like babys
cap. Finally they wear over their
chests kind of bib OF sealskins, which
bib they draw over their faces, when
the air threatens to bite the noses.
The very fashionable people of the
country fasten tails of animals to the
edges of their coats. This is to show
you that they are rich, as their riches
consist in reindeer, some families pos
sessing as mary as 100000 of these ami
mails. The ladies wear the same cos,
tune as the gentlemen, which gives
them strange awkward walk. How
ever, as little distinction, they wear
their hair in two long plaits at the
side OF each chez and their neck and
back are bare. 1t seems that the cold
has less effect on them than on their
lords. 1t is true that when they have
young children they carry them on their
backs, and that shelters them. Both
men and women are short of statute, but
stout and wonderfully strong, and they
can walk for miles with burdens on
their backs which we Europeans could
not even lift. Their faces are large and
broad and they have no foreheads. In
this the women would be quite the
fashion in Europe, where the ladies do
all they can to conceal their forehea9s
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-30

known for about three months, and
who had held himself aloof from even
friendly intimacy. 1t was inconsider-
ate in Kate-unkind, so Edith told her.
self, as she bent over n rose bush, with
burning cheeks and brimming eyes.
At the sight of her distress, what
could DIR. Elwell do but to forget that
he was poor and she an heiress. What
could he say but that he loved her, and
loved her ever since their first meeting,
that his hopeless passion had destroyed
his peace of mind, that the future would
be blank to him without the sunshine
of her presence, and "Oh, Miss Burleigh
-Edith-give me one spark of hope, one
ray TO enlighten my darkness, and | will
strive to become more worthy of the
precious boon, to win a name that, !"
etc.
There is no need, of course, to recount
just what he said, nor what she said,
nor what the good squire said the next
morning, when the doctor, with sink
ing heart, told him of the base ingrati-
tude of which he had been guilty to so
kind patron and friend.
Enough that, at the double wedding,
six months later, Messrs. jackson and
Smythe came down from the city to act
as groomsmen, greatly distinguishing
themselves in that capacity, to the secret
admiration o. DIR. Elwell's pretty sis
ters; that this gentleman is progressing
finely and is on the best of terms with
his friend Wheeler, and that Squire Bur-
leigh, entirely cured of his bronchitis,
divides quite impartially his grand
fatherly attentions between Kate's
black-eyed boy, and little golden-halred
Edith Elwell.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-30
The Northeast Passage,

A very interesting account of the
Northeast passage by the steamer Vega,
which has brought su h renown to Pro-
fessor Nordenskjold, is given in recent
number of BlGckDOOd'S Magazine by
Lieutenant Palander, who commanded
the Vega. There is no doubt the Vega
would have made her entrance into
Behring strait the same season in which
she started on her voyage, but for the
exceptionally unfavorable condition of
the ice. She had passed the real points
of difficulty and danger, and was within
100 miles of Behring strait on the
twenty-eight of September, 1873, when
the ice closed in upon her, and she was
unable to move until the eighteenth of
the following July. The region in
which she passed the winter is we'll
known to explorers and whalers, many
of whom have passed through the same
waters, encountering no ice, even as late
as the first of November.
Now that the passage has been shown
to exist, the question whether it can be
made commercially useful is the next in
interest. If vessels can get through in
two months, as Lieutenant Palander
says they may, if no unanticipated OBJ.
structiors intervene, considerable com.
mercial use may he made of the passage
in trading with the natives along nearly
1000 miles of habitable coast. But this
question of an open passage is one that
Lieutenant Palander is not prepared to
answer. That open water near the
coast does exist during the summer and
autumn months admits of no doubt in
his mind. The difficulties to be met
With at and around the northermost
cape ofthe Siberian coast-Cape Tchel-
puskin-and Taimyi island, are such as
to make it doubtful whether ships can
get through without wintering over.
That passage is to be found there once
or twice Lieutenant Palander does not
doubt. but it may occur so late that
winter will set in before Behring strait
is reached. In summing up Lieutenant
Palander says:
"The Northeast Passage can not,
therefore, in its entirety be made available
for the purpose ofcommerce; but still an
annual traffic might easily be carried
on from the westward to the Obi and
Yenisei, and from the eastward to the
Lena. Unquestionably the way now
lies open to Siberia's three greatest
rivers; and that land, so rich in min
erals, timber and grain, whose export
and import trade has hitherto been con-
Quoted by means of caravans, ought
now to obtain a practical route as a con-
Meeting link between the old and new
world"
Vessels designed for this hazardous
traffic will have to be specially con-
structed to push their way through
fields of drifting and newly-formed ice,
and coaled and provisioned for an ice
blockade lasting from eight to nine
months.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-30
DOmesticated Quail,

Several summers ago S. S. Gibble, of
Mount Joy, this county, found the nest
of a quail, containing fifteen eggs.
Determined to make an attempt to
domesticate these birds he took them
home and placed them under d hen.
He made his first mistake at the very
outset by putting them under Brahma
to incubate. The size of the eggs and
of the hen was of course altogether dis
proportionate. Still she was fortunate
enough to break none of them, and in
due time family of fifteen of these at
tractive and lively birds made their ap-
pearance. A grassy plot was selected
for a nursery, and a pen sixteen feet
square was made. This was made per-
fectly tight at the ground and for some
height above it, rendering escape i'm
possible, at least until they acquired the
use of their wings. But the mistake of
selecting heavy hen to bring up these
birds soon became manifest. One after
another of the pretty things had its life
tramped out by the heavy feet of its
foster mother, until only four of them
remained. These grew until they at
tanned the full stature of adult Bob
Whites. They were released, and ran
with chickens, flying here and there,
but never leaving the premises for
greater distance than the chickens
themselves.
One day the house cat, who was
something of an epicure, thought she
would try quail; so she appropriated
one of them, leaving the once numerous
family reduced to three. These re-
manned around the house, associating
with the chickens on the most fraternal
terms, carrying the intimacy so far as to
roost close by them in an old apple tree
near the house. Unfortunately, how
ever, the cold weather of winter brought
a covey of wild birds to the barn, and
these, coming into friendly relations
with the trio of tame ones, had such a
seductive power upon them that, when
the strangers went away in the spring
they carried with them two out of the
three remaining birds. This left but a
single one on the premises. This one
continued to eat with the hens in the
barnyard and roost with them in the
trees until June, when, no doubt, the
promptings of nature so wrought upon
the companionless bird that it was i'm
PEELED to leave the hospitable home
where nearly year of its life was spent,
and seek the companionship of its kind
in the fields. So ended the experiment
Lancaster (Pd.) NeW Era.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-30
A Brave Baby.

A woman who lives in Ashville, Ala,
writes to the Egis of that place of the
miraculous rescue of Ler little three.
year-old boy from drowning. The child
fell down well, the depth OF which was
thirty feet. The mother saw him go
down. She says:
On reaching the well I was just in
time to see him rise to the top OF the
water. was alone, save three other
little children whom | sent for help. l
had. amid all the anguish of my soul,
presence of mind enough to let the
bucket down and tell him to take hold
of it, which be did. After some min
utes he let loose from weakness, sank
again, except his little head. lowered
the bucket lower, telling him to take
hold of the rope. He ran his hand
through a ring tied on for the purpose
of sinking the bucket, and caught the
pail, and there he held on for one and
half hours, begging me all the time in
his baby talk to come down ana help
him out. l would say: Hold on,
Bobbie." II will" he would reply.
At length lady came to my assistance,
and we took arope and made a moose on
the end of it, and, letting it down, told
him what to do He put his foot
through the moose and drew it up
around his knee. | asked him If he
could hold on. He said he could hold
ON to the bucket: "Daw me out" He
holding the bucket, the rope around his
leo, / telling him not to let go, we drew
him up until / could reach his littl
shivering hands. Thus l saved M
little baby from drowning. Safe
nv breast clasped his little shiverln
body and praised God for His mercies.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-30
Life and Death in Switzerland,

Vital and social statistics are always
interesting, but the recent report of the
Swiss bureau of federal statistics for
1873 is worked up with exceptional thor
Oughness and suggestiveness. 1t will
very much help the general reader to an
appreciation of the figures to bear in
mind that the population of Switzer-
land in 1902, 669, ,247-was about I00,-
600 more than that of Illinois, and that
its area is between one-third and one
fourth that of Illinois, or about equal
to that of Maryland and Connecticut.
The number of marriages is given at
20,59O. These figures mark the contin-
uance of q decline which began in 1876,
and is now traced to the facts that men,
on the average marry at twenty-nine,
and that the birth-rate of the years
l846-55 was below the average. The
divorces were l,036, and Switzerland is
said to have more divorces in proportion
to marriages than any other European
country. A very commonplace reason
is given for the strange fact that widows
and divorced women are more likely to
get husbands than maidens-the thrifty
Swiss, it seems, prefer women of ex-
perience, with the houses and furniture
which they usually have, to sweet SIM
plicity without shelter. The births
were 81 ,426, of which 46, $50 were boys
and A, 476 girls. The favorable death
rate-23.4 per 1000 lis attributed to the
characteristics of the weather of the
year, which was not suddenly variable,
and was neither very hot nor very cold.
The ratio of deaths among the mar
ried is much less than among the cell
bate, from which it is a fair inference
that marriage promotes longevity. The
excess of births over deaths was g. per
1000, and the death-rate among chill
dren less than one year old was Ill.
The number of murders was ia, of
which thirty were cases of infanticide.
fhe number of accidental deaths was
1850. Suicides continue to increase.
In 1876 there were $40; in 1877, 600;
in 1878, 642 Suicides were less frequent
among women than among men among
the young than among the adults and
aged; among the married, widowed
and divorced than among the celibates;
among agriculturists and artisans than
among domestic servants, day-laborers,
traders, manufacturers, artists and
members of the liberal professions.
Summer would seem 10 be the best
time to commit suicide, as the mum Der
lises very much in proportion to the
temperature of the months. Emigra-
ton reach ID its maximum in 1869, when
Switzerland lost 5,206 men, women and
children; in 1877 the number was only
1891, and in 1878 it had increased to
60S
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-30
A Treasury Clerks Long Service,

John Laub, the Oldest clerk in the
United States treasury, died recently in
Washington after faithful service of
more than forty-three years. He was
absent but five days from his desk dur
ing the entire forty-three years OF his
service, although he was entitled to a
vacation of thirty days each year. No
other man in all that time ever did any
part of the work that it was his duty to
perform. In room which he occupied
is q set of books covering the entire
history OF the First Comptroller's office
-eighty-s six years-and in those books
appear but two styles OF penmanshlp-
those of John Laub and his father. Mr..
Lauo never allowed any person, not
even the secretary himself, TO examine
his books; but il there was ever an in
quiry he wo uld examine them himself,
and read their contents to the inquirer.
He was neatness itself, and wrote a
plain round hand. He loved his books
as if they were human. and kept them
wrapped carefully in oil-cloth, when not
in use, but when compelled to take them
from their case, he would handle them
as ifthey were made ofg glass. He became
a machine, and had he been transferred
to any other duty would have been ut
terly u eless. He ppeared at his desk
at the same hour every morning, ana
went through the same routine every
day. He walked to the department
from his house and returned always by
the same route, and his appearance at
the same locality at the same moment
each day was as regular as time itself.
During his last illness he suffered much
pain and anxiety because his work was
neglected, and for fear some other per-
son would touch his books, and relief
was given him only by an order. from
the First Comptroller that they should
not be disturbed.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-30
Work In the Time Now.

Work In the Time Now.
The world is strong with mighty hope
ofa good time yet to be,
And carefully casts the horoscope
OF her future destiny;
And poet and prophet and priest and sage,
Are watching with anxious eyes,
To see the light of that promised age
On the waiting world arise
Oh, weary and long seems that time to some
Who under life's burdens bow,
For while they wait tor that time to come
They forget tits good time now.
Yes, good time now-for we cannot say
What the morrow will bring to view;
But we're always sure OF the time to-day,
And the course we must pursue;
And no better time is ever sought
By brave heart under the sun
Than the present hour, with its noblest
thought,
And the duties to be done;
'Tis enough for the earliest soul to see
There is work to be done, and how,
For he knows that the good time yet to be
Depends on the good time now.
There is never broken link in the chain,
And never a careless flaw,
For cause and effect, and loss and gain,
Are true to a changeless law.
Now is the time to SOW the seed
For the harvest of future years;
Now is the time tor a noble deed,
While the need OF the work appears.
You must earn the bread of your liberty
By the toll and sweat OF your brow,
And hasten the good time yet to be
By improving the good time now.
IT'S as brighta sun that shines to-day
AS will shine in the coming time;
And truth has as weighty word to say
Through her oracles sublime.
There are voices in earth and air and sky,
That tell OF the good time here,
And visions that come to faiths clear eye,
The weary in heart to cheer.
The glorious fruit on lfe's goodly tree
IS ripening on every bough,
And the wise in spirit rejoice to see
The light of the good time now.
Then up nor wait tor the promised hour,
For the good time now is the est,
And the soul that uses its gift of power
Shall be in the present blest
Whatever the future may have in store,
With a will there is ever way;
And none need burden the soul with more
Than the duties OF to-day.
Then up with spirit brave and free,
And put the land to the plow,
Nor wait Tor the good time yet to be,
But work in the good time now.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-30
A Falling Star.

At dead of night
radiant star
Like gem in monarch's crown
Shone clear and bright
With pale, cold light
Then darting across the heavens atar
Lighting with fire and rapid flight
To the earth came falling down.
1t seemed to glide
Through the upper air
On the swiitest wings OF light
And at my side
AS it fickered and died
There seemed to come spirit fair.
And The soft, sweet voice OF an angel cried
~ will lead thy steps Alright"
james Clarence HarVsy,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-30
TIMELY TOPICS.

The suns radiation is not without it's
influence on the comfort of the occupants
cf house, and the influence may be
very differently felt, according to the ex-
posure of houses. In building nu-
affected by any shade, scientist recently
made a series of experiments to deter
mine the relative amount of the suns
heat daily entering the different sides.
He obtained the surprising result that
more heat enters building through;th
east and west walls than through the
walls facing directly south, althoug Oh the
south side is exposed to the direct action
of the suns rays nearly twice as long as
either of the others. A considerably
greater quantity of heat is received by
the east than by the west side.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-30

We have rarely seen a more touching
little incident than this told by New
Haven paper: A widows child re-
ceived reward of merit in school and
ran eagerly home to her mother, saying,
as she entered her humble dwelling,
" held it up to the sky all the way
home, mamma, so that papa might see
what good girl am."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-30

Two new kinds of tea having very pc
culiar qualities have been discovered by
Mr.. E. G. Baber, while exploring the
region west of Kiating-fu, China. One
of the varieties was rare and appears to
have been grown only by some monks
of the monastries on Mount Omi. An
infusion of it tasted like strong congou
to which brown sugar had been added
literally; but its sweetness was nat
ural property. The other tea grew
spontaneously at heights of more than
5000 feet above the level of the sea, 1t
is leafy shrub with stem about four
inches thick, and it attains a height of
fifteen feet. In making an infusion every
part of the plant except the root is EN-
ployed. The beverage produced is a
strongly colored but weak tea, having a
natural milky or ratLer buttery flavor.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-30

Fifty years ago Commodore Patter-
son, commander of the naval forces Of
the United States in Louisiana, led an
expedition against Jean Laftte, the
chief of Barataria Island, attacked the
500 men found there, and captured the
seven small vessels which were drawn
up in miniature battle array. 1t has
been thought in New Orleans that La
fitte was freebooter and pirate, and
many sensational stories of his adven-
lures have been published. The Plea,
yatne has discovered among the
dusty records of the United States dis
trict court an account of the libel pro
ceedings brought by Daniel T. Patter-
son and George T. Ross, the commanders
of the naval and military forces of the
United States, containing evidence that
Laftte made his captures under the Car
thagenian flag, and was in communion
ton with Carthagenia.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-30

Suits at law are brought nowadays tor
every reason, and no reason. especially
in some of the new States, whose in
habitants are often of very litigious
disposition. Recently resident of
Crete, Neb., was arrested for non-pay-
ment of bill long due for groceries,
while he was counting young woman
in her fathers parlor. He was held to
bail, and when he appeared in court to
defend himself, the judge promptly dis
charged him. declaring that he had been
arrested without adequate cause. He
has, in consequence, brought suit against
his creditors, who had the legal process
served on him, and he claims $25, 900
damages. He had, he alleges, borne a
good financial reputation, which is now
seriously affected; he has been disgraced
by his arrest in the parlor OF his sweet
heart, injured socially and morally, and
on acc ount of what had happened then
and there, he has never had the courage
to visit his lady love since, and considers
his connubial prospects, so far as she is
concerned, forever blighted. He thinks
that $25, 900 would be moderate sum
for the shock to his sensibilities and the
harm to his good name, and AYERS that
he will have justice, if there be justice
in the land. 1t is possible that his arrest
may have saved him from an unhappy
marriage, but he fatty refuses to look at
that side of the question.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-30

A startling surprise, after the fashion
of the story of Ginevra, was expert
enced not long ago by party of Styrian
wood cutters in the forest of Drom-
mling. They began to fell venerable
oak. which they soon discovered to be
quite hollow. Being half decayed it
speedily came to the ground with q
crash, disclosing a skeleton in excellent
preservation. Even the boots, which
came above the knee, were almost per-
feet. By its side was a powder horn, a
porcelain pipe bowl, and silver watch
on which was engraved the name, H.
Won Krackowltz, 1872" The teeth
were perfect. 1t would seem to be the
skeleton of man between thirty and
forty years of age. 1t is conjectured
that, while engaged in hunting, he
climbed the tree for some purpose, and
slipped incautiously into the hollow
trunk, from which there was no release,
and he probably died of starvation.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-30

ought to have felt content; but the mel
ancholy smile which crossed his coun-
tenance rather belied his efforts as he
gave last survey of his neat, but not
altogether stylish toilet, sighed over the
last letter from home, which he put
carefully away, and then, unfolding a
dainty note, re-read the conditions of
the invitation, in the graceful chirog-
raphy of Kate Ormsby:
NECK-TIE PARTY.
Under auspices OF the Y. L. L. Y. Club,