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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-10-17
CRANDTRUNK RAILWAY

WINTER ARRANGEMENT.
on and after September 8, and until further
notice, trains win be run as follows:
GOING WEST
Express train for Montreal, Chicago, and
the West, will leave Portland ut 30 p. M,
Gorham ) 55 p. m, GrOVeton Junction ! 10 p.
H., and Island Pond at $50 p. M, also at $50
IL M, both connecting at Richmond for Que
bee. Mixed train for Richmond will leave
Coaticook at LIS p. m. Mixed trein tor Island
POrd will leave Gorham at 1919 p. M, aud
Groveton Junction mt 2.53 p. III.
GOING EAST.
Express train for Gorham, Lewiston, Port
land and Boston will leave Montreal at 10.
D. IN . and Island Pond ut Gas n. III. Express
tram for Island Pond and intermediate sta.
tious will leave Montreal at $50 p. IN. Mixed
train for Island Pond will leave Montreal at
IL. NJ, and SherbrOokc ut 2.22 p. IN. Mixed
trains for Portland will leave GOrham at 3H
a. m, and 2.IOp.m. Mixed train for Gorham
will leave Island Pond Mt 10 II. M, and Grove
ton Junction ut II, 81 IA. III.
j. IIICKSOS,
General Manager.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-10-17

FOR president:
AMES G. BLAINE
OF MAINE.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-10-17
Permanent AND PROFIT
ABLE POSITIONS.

by an old and prominent LIFE COMPANY,
n few cnei getic and responsible men who will
devote their entire time to the busiE ess, to
not
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-10-17

IN n n u week at home. $500 outfit free,
NEL Pay absolutely sure. No risk. Capital
NH not required. Reader IL you want
WUU business Mt which persons of either
sex, yenng or old, can make great pay all the
time they work, with absolute certainty.
write for particulars to H. IlALI.ETT & Co.,
Portland, Maine,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-10-17
FOR TTCE-PRESTDENTs
JOHN A LOGAN
OF ILLINOIS.

sEorPresidential Electors
JOD. HATCH of Burlington.
HIRAM ARROW OF Windsor.
GEORGET. CIHLDS Of st, Adams
t. G. REDINGTON of Bradford.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-10
WY lie Wa sn't.

Old Father. was a very active
member of tn street church
One day during revival in his church
he met six-foot specimen of human
ity on the Avenue. He had on a pair
of homemade trousers that were so
short that they only reached a little
below the tops Of his cow-hide boots.
His vest, also, was so brief that it left
a good deal of his shirt front exposed.
And his head was covered with a bell
crowned hat that slipped down over
his ears. From each corner of his
mouth flowed a rivulet Of tobacco
juice.
Going up to this figure Father B
said
Young man, were you ever bap-
tizeG2
'No-never was.
"Have you any conscientious scru-
pies against being baptized?'
mo, not a blanked scruple."
"Tut, tut, tut don't swear Why
haven't you been baptized, thenl"
" Cause -
Because what?'
" Cause / was born and raised in
Tennessee, and it wouldn't be of any
user
The old man thought so, too, and
passed on with grieved air.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-10
He Leaned Away Back.

Away down in Alabama. and away
back in reconstruction days, there
lived an old darkey named Mark
Brantley Marks nearest neighbor
was John Burns, a man who had q
small capital and who made a business
of loaning small sums, for a very large
percentage, on the growing crops Of
the colored folks. Marks sole product
for one season was a single bale Of
cotton. Upon this Burns held lien.
The darkey was on his way to market
with his solitary bale mounted upon a
dilapidated little rickety wagon one
day and was met ia the road by Ran
dali Berry, a dealer in cotton.
How much do you want for your
cotton2" asked Berry.
KANT sell it. Mars John Burns is
a leanin' on it, )" said Mark.
Pay off the lien and sell it to me,
said the would-be purchaser
KANT do dat, said Mark. Mars
John Burns kin lean fudder back on
nigger's bale o cotton dan any white
mad you eber see.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-10
New Variety Of Wheat
Milling World

Agricultural experiments tell US
that change or a mixing up OF the
grain to be used for sowing proves
beneficial, and increases the yield.
New varieties of wheat can thus be
produced with compa 1tively little
labor. But the one point, only too
often neglected by the grower, is that
such artifcially produced varieties can
retain their superiority only when
kept under the same careful cultiva-
ton which originated them. First Of
all the eXperimenter selects his seeds
with the greatest possible care; he
cultivates the ground most thorough
~; from the resulting crop he separates
best grains again, and these sown ac-
cording to the most approved system
and constantly watched, can not fail
To produce a new variety of wheat
Now such a new variety will flourish
everywhere when the conditions are
like those that originated it, but this
cannot always, if ever, be found at
hand. The result is of necessity fail
ure when the new variety is taken into
uncougenial surroundings if it had
had the same care, and the ground the
same cultivation as given to II by the
experimenter. the result would have
been d correspondingly rich harvest.
We are often told that new varieties
gradually change again into their
ancestral form. That cannot be other
wise. Anything that is produced by
artificial conditions, will again revert
back to its natural form as soon as the
artificial conditions are withdrawn.
The peculiarities of the regions under
cultivation are not always consulted;
because a first-clSss hard wheat grows
in one section. that does not enforce
1 the same productiveness upon the
neighboring section, where the com
position Of the soil may be entirely
different, and the results in the latter
region, of necessity, fall short of the
antlcipations If the quality of wheat
| ia certain localities deteriorates, it
should be taken as an indication that
I that wheat is not adopted TO the con
i dftions into which tits placed, aud IN
1 less the deficiency can be supplied by
cultivation even the best varieties will
revert back to the original type. In
the same way a growth of wheat year
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-10
The MOSQUITO at Close Quarters.

Viewed through the microscope the
mosquito presents a picture OF me
chanical ingenuity as marvellous in
execution as it is devilish in design.
In the bill alone, which seems so
fragile to the unaided sight, there is
a combination of five distinct surgical
Instruments There are, lance, two
meat saws, and a suction pump, The
fifth instrument l have forgotten, but
labor under the impression that 1t is
portable Corliss engine to run the
rest of the factory with. | know that
the hum of the mosquitoes in the cot
tOnwood thickets along the Lower
Mississippi reminded me constantly
of the hum of a manufacturing vii
lage and several times | walked back
several miles looking for town be
fore | could convince myself that the
buzzing | heard was made by mos
quitoes, with their engines running
to sharpen their saws When the
insects operate on man the lance IS
first pushed into the flesh, then the
two saws, played back to back, begin
to work up and down. to enlarge the
hole, then the pump is inserted, and
the victims blood is syphoned up
into the reservoir carried behind, and
finally, to compete the cruelty Of the
performance, the wretch drops o
quantity of poison into the wound to
keep irritated. Forest and Stream
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-10
4 ScrnnnlOns Farmer.

At the beginning Of the oil excite
meut in Pennsylvania very religious
old farmer, who owned forty acres of
land IN the center Of the belt, had
offers for his farm until he couldn't
sleep nights, says the Wall Street
News They began at $4,000 and
went up to $4,000 but to each and
every would-be purchaser the old
man Steadil " replied:
If the Lord has put coal oil under
my farm, it isn't forme 10 dispute his
will.
One day, however, the agent of a
syndicate came along and asked what
figure the old man would set on his
acres.
I've bin offered $4,000"
"Yes!'
I've bin saying as now the Lord
put the lie there for some purpose of
his own.
g. Exactly.
We'll. now. if YOU could convince
me that about one barrel IN ten of the
lie from this farm would be used for
people TO read their Bibles by, /
reckon Id SET my iiggers at about
$50. o00. "
In less than three hours the farm
changed hands.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-10
An Ancient Tree.

In 1912 there stood, and there is
every reason to believe still stands, at
Vostiza, on the Gulf of Lepanto,
Greece, an Oriental plane tree, whose
glrth was, in 1912, at five feet from
the ground, thirty seven feet. This
tree, situated in the middle of the vii
lage, on a gradual slope, standing on
a raised platform OF fiat stones, evil
IDENTIFY for protection to the roots, is a
striking object on entering the village,
and especially noteworthy as existing
in the days of Pausanias, the Greek
historian, who, living in the second
century, makes mention of it in his
travels; and the tree must have been
of Considerable size and age at that
time to have made it worthy of re-
mark, its age probably dating consid-
erably before the Christian era, max
ing il more than two thousand years
old. 1t was in full vigor in 1912.
The villagers hold it in high respect.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-10
WHY EYES SHINE.
! True Explanation of Their Lumin-
GUS Appearance.
IPopular Science Monthly.


Place a child because the pupils of
children are large, and by preference
a blonde, at distance of ten or fifteen
feet from a lamp, which is the only
source of light in a room, and cause
it to look at some object in the direc-
ton of the lamp, turning the eye you
wish to look at slightly inward tow
ard the nose. Now put your own
eye close behind the lamp flame,
with card between 1t and the fame.
If you will then look close by the
edge of the flame covered by the card
into the eye of the child you will see,
instead of a pefectly black pupil a
reddish yellow circle If the eye
happens to be hypermetropic you
will be able to see the red reflex when
yourn own eye is at some distance to
one side of the flame.
This is the true explanation of the
luminous appearance of the eyes of
some animals when they are in COM
parative obscurity. 1t is simply the
light reflected from the bottom of
their eyes, which IS generally of a
reddish tinse, on account of the red
blood in the vascular layer OF the
chloride back of the semi apparent
veins. and not light that is there at
all. This reflection is the most APP
parent when the animal is in obscuri-
ty, but the observer must be in the
light and somewhat in the relative
position indicated in the above de-
scribed experiment; that is, the eye
Of the observer must boon the same
line with the light and the observed
eye. The eyes of nearly all animals
are hypermetropic, most of them
highly so, so that they send out the
rays OF light which have entered them
in a very dlYerging manner.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-10

THE sky is worth looking at these
evenings when the sun sets clear.
Overhead Mars burns his red fires
and the spreading white light Of
Jupiter little ways off makes a bril-
liant point il the blue. Passing from
Castor and Pollux, that with Mars
and Jupiter form an angle of dia-
monds, one sees Regulus sparkling at
the hilt OF the sickle, Procyon, OF
modest beam, and then great Sirius,
himself a sun with rays of exquisite
blue. Orion sinking in the southwest
shows Rigel and his fellows faint IN
the light Of a crescent now strong IN
yellow radiance. Nor is the sight
then more than half seen, for Aide
baran still stands in the Y with
Saturn and near the latter Venus
burns the brightest Of all the lamps
then visible. Ono may look valnly
in the pale blue of twilight for Mer-
curry, the feet-footed, but before the
end Of the month even he viii stand
or tiptoe about the hills.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-10
In Cold Blood and with Malice Pre-


Inc hdlcueI
The editor Of the Chicago Inter
Ocean is guilty Of the coolest blooded,
the most horrid, and the most Satan
ically Internal proposition we have
seen yet. He offers a reward of $50
for the best poem on Spring, $40 for
the second best, and a years subscrip-
ton to the Inter Ocean for the third
best. That editor ought to be sent on
IA Greedy expedition by himself and
he ought to be caught between two
ice foes, and "scrunched" to death,
and then ought to be eaten up by po-
lar bears, so that all further pranks
from him ny be eternally barred.
AS for the winners, the two first
will take the money and drink them
selves to death, and reading the
Inter Ocean will soon kill the third,
and thus we get rid of the whole job
lot. Amen.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-10

Among the many possible and i'm
possible explanations of the red skies
which have of late evoked so much
discussion, a correspondent Of the
Scientific American caps the climax.
Our fellow planet Jupiter has had a
large red spot visible for quiet a long
time, and this spot disappeared few
months ago. This spot, the learned
correspondent asserts has had just
time to travel to the earth, and is now
somewhere over us and its presence
cause the red sky. OF course any
such d statement is beyond discussion,
because it is simply a speculation OF
the widest kind. What the spot real
liz consisted of. how it became detach-
ed from Jupiter and how 1t straight
way started for our earth, we would
like to know, but the correspondent
Is very severely silent on those points.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-10

\ Loudon millinery nrm advertised
lately for young lady, tall and of
good figure, tor the show room. Three
hundred applied, about 340 in person.
the great proportion Of them evident
~ holding different views from the
firm IN respect TO what a good CURE
is.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-10

The census taker of Sherman, Tex,
has unearthed two African centena.
rians-Uncle Jimmy Atkins, aged LOG
years. and his wife. Aunt Lefty. aged
100. Both are IN good health ana
support themselves, with some assist
ance from their white friends.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-10

after year changes the conditions, be-
cause certain ingredients are taken
away from the soil, which should be
again added artificially, if the soil is
to retain its fertility and the wheat its
quality. A poor soil will give poor
harvest in spite of the best variety
sown, and no change of seed will aid
it to any great extent. Thequicker our
wheat producers understand this fact,
the better it will be for all those who
are more or less interested in the diff
ferent qualities of wheats annually
produced IN the United States,
Henry A. Wise told the following
story while he was in Washington
during the Knownsthing excitement:
A negro fisherman in Norfolk, Va,
came one day to. his master and said !:
"Massa, | want to buy myself free.
got tree hundred dollars, sir; | will
pay you dat down, and glib you de
rest when | mex um.o VERY well.
Tom, said his master, you have been
a faithful fellow. and | viii comply
with your wish The money was &C.
cordingly paid, and the inchoate free
dom of Tom commenced A few days
afterwards Tom went out to fish, in
company with fellow servant, and
there came up a blow which capsized
the fishing smack and drowned Tom IS
companion. Thenext day Tom came
to his master and said "Massa,
change my mind, sir; / don't want to
buy myself any more SIR why,
Tom, said his master, you have al
ready paid a large portion of your
price, and by industry in your profit
able calling you will soon earn and
pay the residue, and you had better
carry out your original intention.
mo, Massa, was Toms economical
rejolnder; ;, niger property is too I'M
sartin, sir. 3" Matters were, accordings
ly, put in stdtu gtto, and Tom aban-
doned all chance Of beipgafreedman,
aud quietly and volunttril vsreturned
to the condition of slave, being I'M
willing to fish, on his own hook, in
the troubled and perilous waters of
freedom
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-10

\ correspondent Of the Boston
Journal says of the Florida Ever
gIades: IF he deserves praise who
makes two blades of grass grow where
one was before, what shall be said
of the men who bring as by new
creation territory larger than some
of the states from beneath the waterl
Srangest of all is that this pestilen-
tial swamp, this breeder of fever and
home of the alligator and rattlesnake,
is in fact perfect sanitarium, swept
bv fresh and constant breezes, the
thermometer never rising above 50
degrees in the shade, and in a gang of
$50 men employed in the swamp con
stantly two years, not a case OF
serious sickness has occurred.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-10

4 new plan OF dividing the year IS
proposed by DIR. Theodore Dimon, of
Auburn, who says it should begin
with March /, the beginning OF
spring. This, he argues, would bring
our artificial "civic" year, so-called,
into harmony with the yearof ature.
1t would begin its March with the
awakening Of plant life; September,
October. November, and December
would, in reality. be the seventh,
eight ninth. ans tenth months and
the year would come to close with
February, which would become with
more reason what its meaning indi-
cates-a time for expiation.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-04-10

The official number of the victims
of the recent Java volcanic eruption
is put at 5000 The detonations of
the explosions were heard 746 miles
away. One Of the pecuharities, re
Gently reported, which owe their orr
Gin to the volcano is floating jstty
of pumice stone, 10 miles in length,
two-thirds Of amile in width and from
Is to 16 feet deep, which has since
floated across the entrance to the har-
Dor of Tolok- Betoung.
When l was a young man there
lived IN our neighbsrhood a farmer
who was usually reported to be a very
liberal man and upcommOnly upright
in his dealings When he had any Of
the produce of his farm to dispose of
he made it an invariable rule to give
good pueasure--or rather more than
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-07

LONDON, Oct. 6.-Only one of the Gould
cables are broken. The second cable is un-
severed, but there's something pressing
upon the wire itself, probably the guttaper-
cha Both mishaps occurred close together,
about. 500 miles from the Lands End. A
test is being made to fix the precise locality
of the trouble. A delay of three or four
months is expected.
DUBLIN ,Oct.6.-At meeting of the corpor-
alton of Dublin to-day the discussion was re-
newed Of the proposition to substitute their sh
national for the present English and foreign
names Of streets of the city. Liberal and
conservative mem bers Of the corporation op-
posed the proposition ''as absurd, irritating 2
and unnecessary" 1t was pointed out by
one speaker that Americans when they
achieved their independence did not de-
secnd to any such puerility, 1t was asserted
the people Of Dublin would rise bodily in
their indignination of such a motion was
carried. A majority of the board being ma
tionalists ultimately passed the resolution
instructing the committee to prepare plan
for remaining the streets.
LONDON, Oct. Ga Berlin correspondent
Of the Daily Nslus says the German coloniz.
ing fever is dying out Wild hopes that the
acquisition of vast tracts of Africa would
divert emigration from America has van
ished.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-07
BIaine's T,eofacedn.ss.


WASHINGTON. Oct. 6.-Just after the
Maine election respected Congregation al
clergyman in Maine wrote a letter to the
editor of the strongest church paper in that
state, requesting its publication. The editor
refused to comply with the request and
wrote the clergyman, who is a supporter Of
Of Mr.. ST. John, the following letter:
PORTLAND, Sept 70, IsS4.-I will tell You Sc
eret between Us. Mr.. Blaine did not intend to
vote for the amendment till the morning OF cleo
ton dsv when one of the most prominent and
influential OF our temperance meu went to hin
and asked hin how be was going 70 vote. The
answer Was, For the amendment" The
gentleman advised hin not to do IL.
s.Your acceptance OF the Republican
platform IS it was made up constitutes virtual
compact between you and the party. They
would have no right to put = prohibition plank
into the platform ard ask you 20 stand upon IL.
and You have no right TO do an equivalent thing
and ask them to endorse you. You have no
right 10 bring odium on the party anywhere by
anv private act Of choice which they have not as
sented so.''
The editor continues: 'SThis view Of the
matter at first Mr.. Blaine did not approve.
but subsequently he changed his purpose
and did not vote At all. knoE," be cor
tinues, that this act Is approved BY not a
few OF our best men. Neal Dox inclusive,
as be told me so in nv Office. The German
American voters OF Ohio viii be inter
ested TO know from reliable authority
that Er. Blaine fully intended 70
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-07
Solid With the Business Men.
Special Telegram to the Globe


WASHINGTON, Oct. 6-Gen. John T. Farms
worth is in the city, and was asked for his
political impression. 81 think Mr.. Cleve-
land will be elected he replied. "Cleve-
land is peculiarly strong with
the business men of the country and will get
a very large vote that is never dsmonstrative.
1t Is a vote that quietly votes its convictions.
Now, was in New York city when Cleveland
was nominated, and the first man met was
VIM. Dowd, recently the Republican csndi-
date for mayor.
''what do you think of the nomination Of
Cleveland, Mr.. Dowdl'' 1 asked.
He replied, II am sorry to say that
think it is very strong one.'
and" continued Gen. Farnsworth, 81
have met that sentiment all over the coun-
try. Recently travelled from Washington
to Chicago and thence to Boston and natur-
ALLY there was q good deal of discussion Of
poRkcs on the cars. l would meet men
business men-who would ask me what l
thought OF the election. Ny reply invariably
was that I thought Cleveland would be
elected, but l always added that was for
him and might be biased in my judgment.
Very frequently the response was Well,
am Republican aud have always voted the
ticket, but am going for Cleveland tell
YOU there is an enormous Republican vote in
the country that win be cast for Cleveland.