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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22
A POlygamOus Family in Utah.

The private home routine Of polyga-
nous family is a matter upon which so
much curiosity is constantly expressed
by my acquaintances that | venture to
say here what little | know; but the
reader must remember that less than ten
per cent. of the voting Mormon popula-
tion of Utah are polygamists.
The polygamist, as rule, has accumu-
lated some property and owns house
before he takes a second and successive
wives, though sometimes he begins by
marrying two or three at once. All of
these marriages, however, except the first
are made secretly by the church, and no
record of them is accessible.
In the city, at least, it is seldom that
the different wives share the same quar-
ters. In the country this is not so un-
common, but the natural unpleasantness
follows in most cases. The general
method is to have large house, the
main part of which, perhaps, is occupied
by the first wife, and wings or additions
by the successive candidates for marital
honors. These large, struggling, hotel
like houses are common in Salt Lake
CIGy5 dLI ulnClCuCC DCUWGGu
it and a town of small houses like
Cheyenne and most other Western vii
'ages. In many cases, however, the
hsuband sets up his wives in sepa-
rate houses, either side by side or in
different parts of the city. In any case
each has her own kitchen garden, etc.
| have in mind wealthy dignitary Of
the church whom you might easily have
mistaken for the late Peter Cooper, and
who is possessed of seven wives. Each
of these women has some farming and
gardening ground of her own, and all
are devoted to rearing bees. With
the help of their grown children they
each raise a large amount of produce
and honey annually. The husband acts
as their agent. He hives their swarms
of bees and charges them for it; he
renders special aid when called upon.
and is paid for it; he sells their crops
and honey when it is ready, and credits
each wife her due share. Most of them
live in suits of apartments under the
roof of his great house in town, but the
first wife has beautiful farm of her
own little out of the city, to which she
and her children have retired, to end
their days in peaceful independence.
The way in which this old gentleman
has always arranged his domestic life is
reported to be thus: he had certain
rooms in his house where he kept his
bed his wardrobe, his books, and saw
any visitors who called upon him. Here
he was bachelor, and here he stayed
every other day and night. On alternate
days and nights he was the guest of one
or another of his wives in regular rota-
tion, devoting the one day lin this case
fortnightly) which was hers, diligently
to her society. OF course this routine
was not invariable, but for the most part
it was regularly followed. Ernest hger-
! soil IN HnrDer's
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22
MexicO's National Drink.

Wishing to see for ourselves the whole
process of pulque-making, says letter
from Mexico to the Springfield Republican,
we journeyed to the plains of Apam not
long since to visit a maguey hacienda.
The tlachiquero took us in charge that
official who is practical chief of both
plantation and factory. We made a
rather picturesque caravan as we sailed
forth in pursuit of information. First
rode the tlachiquero, his bronze skin con-
trastng well with his white dress, his
immense sembrero and leather apron, and
the implements of his profession dang
ling from his belt. Betsey and followed,
mounted upon donkeys so diminutive
that our dresses nearly dragged upon the
ground, our beauty enhanced by blue
goggles which experience has taught us
the value of wearing in this sunny coun-
try. The poems brought up the rear,
each driving a donkey laden with pig
skins, into which aqua miel was to be
poured. The tlachiquero tells me that
he goes periodically among his vegetable
cows, marking those which have reached
the period of efflorescence and are there.
fore ready for milking, by cutting cross
( upon the topmost leaf. Three times
day for three months each is milked at
3 o'clock A. NJ, at A. NJ. and again at 3
p. M.-the poorest yielding at least 125
| gallons before it dies.
We went from plant to plant, watch
ing the process of inserting the gOurd
with the cows horn point and the suck
ing of the siphon till the ''cows" were
all exhausted, and then our little caravao
took up its line of march for the tinacal
or vathouse. This is an enormous adobe
shed with earthen floor kept clean as the
deck of a man-ofwar. We entered in
solemn procession, each peon as he passed
the threshold removing his sombrero and
piously calculating, Alabo Dios 81
praise God" One side of the building
is occupied by huge vats of ox-hide, the
hairy side up, called tinas. In each tina
was thick curd of madre (mother)
pulque, which performed the office of
leaven, and whose very "ancient and
fishy smell" outrivaled far-famed Co.
logne. When the pig-skins had been
carefully opened and the aqua miel was
ready for pouring out, the tlachiquero
seized long stake, which is always kept
ready Iof Ine purpose, anu maue tne
sign of the cross in the rotten curds,
exclaiming devoatly: Ava Maria puris-
sima Ito which the Indians fervently
responded; Alabad sea Dios y la santis-
sima Trinidad we praise God and the
sacred trinity. After about three hours
of fermentation in the vats the liquor is
drawn in barrels for the pulque shops
and the flower decked booths which
adorn all the highways and byways of
| Mexico
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22
To Cure Round Shoulders.

5lore than thirty years ago, writes
some one to the New York Tribune, l got a
habit of being round shouldcred. In try
ing to find a remedy, the following plan,
which grew out of my knowledge of
anatomy, came in sight: Hook the fin
gers of the hands together, raise the ell
bows as high as the shoulders and pull
like shoemaker The muscles about
the shoulder blades, to keep them in
place, are thus strengthened, and in a
short time enabled to fulfill their proper
office. While lying on the back press
the head on the pillow so as to raise the
chest up from the bed on which you are
reclining This strengthens the muscles
that should hold the head erect. When
standing or sitting, where the head can
press against something solid, repeat the
operation. By a little thought at other
times to use the muscles, the difficulty
may be overcome
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22
Popular Cookery.

Among the immense majority of man.
kind each household cooks for itself. the
work falling mainly on the wife, who is
never taught except by her mother, and
IN the most traditional way. Improve
ment, if any is ever made, is exceedingly
slow; and among some people, the Eng
lish for one, popular cookery has prob
ably retrogaded, owing in this instance
to the chasm of years which, so to speak,
broke or interrupted the popular knowl-
edge OF the way to prepare meat. The
women found flesh meat difficult to pro-
cure, and failed to hand down the need
full instruction for preparation. Half
mankind at least knows nothing of boil
ing; of those who do know, another half
will eat their vegetables in sodden con.
dition.
] Among the races which eat meat only
a limited percentage of persons try to
make meat tender-we believe the flesh.
eating Mongols form an exception to this
rule, and some of the Polynesians--and
among those who eat grain there is a dis
! tinct preference for the undercooking
alike of flour, rice and millet, under a
belief that such food is more fully salts
flying. 81 want to feel my 'tomach
tiff, said one of Charles Reade's charac-
ters, and he exactly expressed
the view of the indistinguishable mil
lions. Separateness in cooking is pushed
everywhere to prepOsterous limits, till it
is probable that the preparation of food
for mankind, which is the second great
expense in feeding them, costs three
times what it need, and till in many
countries proper supply of fuel is
wholly beyond the reach of the poor.
In Asia, entire people burn dung, and
even in Europe firing is never quite suf-
icient.
And, finally, cooking does not advance.
A new article of diet is occasionally
added, like the potato, OR a new condi.
ment, like pepper; but it may be doubted
if European laborer's dinner is made a
bit more palatable than the dinner of an
lsraelite was when the lawgivers promul-
| gated the curious notion that roast meat
was more acceptable to the superior pow
ers than meat boiled or stewed. Indeed,
the way to make kibab, which is known
to the humblest in Asia, has been lost
here, and only the gypsies are aware that
meat covered with damp clay and placed
among the hot ashes is not only delicious,
but much more nourshing than meat
either baked or boiled. The natural way
with civilized people, if they cared fol
nice food, would be to intrust it to pro
fessionals, who would learn their trade
by apprenticeship, and necessarily i'm
prove, but, except in Tuscany and Soutf
France, this is hardly done, though il
ought to be the easiest of arrangements
| -SDect0tO1
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22
VOL. XII.
THE LAND WHERE OUR DREAMS
COME TRUE.

Far over some mist-hidden river
And under wonderful sky,
Where the rain never blots out the sunshine,
And our loves never weary or die;
Where the flowers never fade-but in changing
Their magical sweetness renew,
Lies a gloried realm of enchantmsnt,
The land where our dreams come true
By mystical symbols and tokens,
We know of that beautiful land;
But, alas! on the threshold of manhood
The frail clue slipped out of our hand
And the wild river wandered between;
The white gates are hidden from view,
And only in sleep we remember
The land where our dreams come truel
We shall find the lost treasures we seek for
Revealed in that wonderful sphere;
All the aims and the dreams of the bygone,
All the good that eluded us here;
The innocent faiths of our childhood,
The one fiameless friendship we knew,
Arrayed in our banished illusions
In the land where our dreams come truel
We know in divihest fulfillment
Our vain hopes are gathered at home;
The jewels we mourn here are boarded
Where the moth and the rust cannot come;
And oft when the sunset is faintest
We catch through rift in the blue
A far-away glimpse of the glories
Of the land where our dreams come true!
There are garnered the prayers of our moth
ers,
And the soft cradle songs that they sung;
There they move in the mist with white gar
ments,
And faces Immortality young.
And out of the mists of the river
Their sweet hands shall reach us the dew,
That leads through the valley of shadow,
To the land where our dreams come truel
So, weeping, we lay down our idols,
And bury our loves out of sight,
Though we know in our hearts we shall find
them
By and by, in the Mansions of Light
And the salt tears that fall on their ashes,
And blossom in pansy and rue,
Over there shall be lilies immortal.
In the land where our dreams come truel
-EmnG Alice BroUne.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22

The Brooklyn Union says the States
did not always vote on the same day for
President. In the campaign of 1914,
which ended in Clay's defeat by Polk,
twelve of the twenty six states voted on
the first Monday in November three on
the first Tuesday, three on the second
Monday, and the others at different
times, New Jersey taking two days for
the business, beginning with the first
Tuesday, Pennsylvania the first Friday
and Ohio the last Friday, and South
Carolina not choosing her electors until
the legislature met about the first Of
December The only requirement then
was that the electors should be chosen
within the thirty -four days preceding
the first Wednesday in December, but
carly in 1S45 the present law was
passed, which provides that all electors
be chosen on the Tuesday next after the
first Monday of November.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22
The Flower Mission.

Among the many noble charities of
the city of New York, the "Flower
Mission" is one of the most pleasing.
Its object is to distribute among the
sick, in hospitals and in tenements,
flowers, fruits, dainty articles of food,
periodicals, newspapers, Christmas pres
ents for children, and other things cacu-
lated to minister to minds diseased, and
cheer the desolation of a prolonged i'll
mass.
There are similar societies in Boston,
Philadelphia, London, Paris and, in
deed, in most of the chief cities of
Christendom. The purpose of all is to
brighten and cheer the lives of those
who are doomed to suffering. Other
organizations provide the necessaries of
life; these endeavor to do something
more, and assist the restoration of the
body by exhilarating the heart and
giving pleasant thoughts to the mind.
AT the fowery season of the year the
rooms of the society in New York are
open two mornings in each week for the
reception of bouquets and baskets of
flowers, which are at once conveyed to
the hospitals and distributed by the
ladies who visit the sick at their homes.
Last year two hundred thousand bou-
quets were thus given by the society,
beside fifty thousand donations of fruit
and canned meat, and many wagon-loads
of Christmas toys.
No person who has not suffered long
and lonely sickness can form the least
idea of the solace which a single fresh
and fragrant flower may sometimes con
vey to worn and weary convalescent
still less can we realize what broken
toy or two may be to child confined to
bed or to one room; particularly, if the
toy is one which admits of movement
and change. - Youth'S COMPANION.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22
After Their Retirement.

General Grants recent difficulties have
encouraged newspaper correspondent to
inquire into the lives of the various Pres
idents after their retirement from office.
Washington he finds, went to Mount
Vernon and raised tobacco, and Jefferson,
Madison and Monroe followed his exam
pie at their homes; John Adams returned
to Quincy and raised corn and cabbage; ;
John Quincy Adams followed his fathers
example; Jackson returned to the Her.
mitage; Van Buren, went to his Kinder
hook farm; Polk died few months after
after returning to Tennessee; Fillmore re :
entered his old law Office at Buffalo; /;
Buchanan pursued agriculture at Wheat
lands; Hayes lives on his Ohio farm.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22
A Shower of Beetles.

Men who go down to the sea in
ships most decidedly do see some
strange sights, nor are the yarns they
spin whit less strange. No exception
to the rule of sailors is Commodore Tenn
pie, of the United States navy, who,
one night not long ago, sailing on the
vastly deep, heard pattering as of a
heavy-rain falling on deck. He got up
to reconnoitre and found himself as
sailed with missiles on all sides, which he
at first took for hail stones, but which
proved to be beetles. The commodore
was so disconnected by this that he
''piped all hands," but as our contem-
p0rary from whose columns we read
this marvellous tale says, the men no
sooner came on deck and got struck by
the flying beetles then they bolted in ter
ror. The captain determined to have
the matter out, though his face was
well nigh pounded to a jelly, beside
being bitten and stung. He discovered
that he was sailing through the midst
of shower of beetles, which seemed to
get thicker every minute. In fact, the
living storm got so dense that he was
unable to see a pipe lighter when he
applied it to the end of his meerschaum.
The insects swarmed down into the
cabin and engine-room, and completely
stopped the machinery. After an hour
of this sort of fun, the storm passed
over 1t was then found that the be-
ties, which were not much bigger than a
grasshopper, covered the deck in solid
nass to the depth of two feet, while the
yards and shrouds were smeared with
tnem, smashed to a sort of yellow paste.
1t was fully a day before the sailors
could quite rid the ship of them, and
large shoal of fish SWAN behind the yes
sci, waiting to swallow the squash
bugs" as they were pitched overheard
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22
Vanity of the Modern Girl.

The girl with soft gray eyes and rip
pling brown hair, who walked all over
your poor tiuttering heart at the charity
ball, has just finished crazy quilt con
tanning 1904 pieces of neckties and hat
Innings, put together with 81, 400 stitches.
And her poor old father fastens on his
suspenders with long nail, a piece of
twine, sharp stick and one regularly
ordained button. This, also, is vanity. -
Burlington Haaokeye.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22
A Successful Charm.

A young woman who thought she was
losing her husbands affection went to a
seventh daughter of a seventh daughter
for love powder. The mystery woman
told her: sect raw piece of beef, cut
flat, about an inch thick. Slice an onion
in two, and rub the meat on both sides
with it. Put on pepper and salt, and
toast it on each side over red coal fire.
Drop on it three Jumps of butter add two
sprigs of parsley, and get him to eat it,
The young wife did so, and her husband
loved her ever after.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22

a cold day for any fellow to be such a fool
as to make himself so previous. Every
officer of every road in the United States
knows this thing is going on; and so
long as it amt run into the ground they
wink at it. After all, it's only doing
on a small scale what hundreds of thou
sands are doing, and worse, on a large
scale
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22

It is estimated that over 100000, 600
quarts of edibles are canned in this coun-
try annually.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-08-22
Straight down the crooked lane,
And all around the square.

ga fiat wheel is a wheel which, from
imperfect casting or wear, has lost its
rotundity. 1t gives fearful jolting
motion to any car it is on"
"When conductor or brakeman is
fixed by passenger, don't the other
brakeman sometimes give him away"
''No there is regular system. All
the stuff is regularly and fairly divided
at the end of a run among the crew, as
the train hands are called. 1t would be
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-06-02
BOB'S M0THER.IN-LAw.

Why, what this country
needs, to keep it from going
to the bow-bows, is a. few
more mothers-in-law of the
good old-fashioned school, to
stand between young house
keepers and a greedy world.
A home without a mother-in-
law is a home without it's
guardian angel.
There never was but one
home established without a
mother-in-law. And that
seems to have been a mistake.
That mother-in-lawless home
walked into trouble, as the
sparks fly upwards. 1t went
right out into the orchard and
ordered fruit for two, and got
all the rest of us into more
trouble than all the good
mother-in-laws of to-day can
ever get us out of. Away
with all this outrageous abuse
OF the mother-in-law. Have
you no sense of gratitude,
young man? Do you love
your wife? Oh, most devoted
ly. Well, then, where would
you have got your wife if it
had not been for your mother
in-law?
And another thing, young
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-06-02
he HAD A JOKE,

"Do those alligators bite?"
inquired a man with hair the
color gosling, as he poked
his nose around the corner of
the door.
"Not very often,'' replied
the editor.
care you armed?" asked
the ight-haired man.
"No, we never so armed"
Are you in a pretty good
humor?''
''First-rate, first-rate," re-
piled the editor, who smelled
a spring poem, and quitely
drew the poker up where he
could reach it.
"Well, now, / just thought
| would drop in and see you.
| have a little
''Walk right in" said the
editor, who wanted to get the
man in range.
The man walked in, as re-
quested.
II want to give you a joke
Albright; what is it2"
''It is this: You must first
say something about a man
who cared for nothing out
side of horses.
Yes
"And to say that to him
life was but a span-meaning,
you know, "a span of horses,
and then"
But the gosling-haired man
made for the stairway, and
left behind him a ripple of
findish laughter thatha united
the building for the rest of the
day. Puck.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-06-02
The daitg 8nlletin.
MONDAY, JUNE ,, 1884.
OWING TO A DREAM.


jackson Slawson, do you
belong to the Lime - X lin
Club?"
"No, sab. | wanted to .jine,
but Waydown Bebee kept me
out.''
"You were pounding your
wife last night.
Eyes, sab"
amy particular reason
why?"
Yes, sab. De odder night
she went am dreamed dat |
put up fifty cents on policy
an won $35. Dat fired me
up, an yesterday | went down
an put up de cash.
"And you won--?'
Lost de hull of it, sab -
"Ahr'
"Ah' | went home an gin
de ole woman a few thumps
on de head to Parn her to let
de dreamin' bizness alone. -
II see! But you broke the
law, and | have to give you
thirty days
"Tll take 'em, sab an l
hope de ole woman will skip
de kentry while I'm shet up.
If she inquiries hea' fur me,
you kin say Fze bin sent up
fur life
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-06-02

man Some day when you
are saying smart things about
your mother-in-law, sit down
and fasten the tackle of your
brilliant intellect ON the sub
ject, and do not let go of it
until you have calmly, hon
estV, impartialy studied the
question in all its bearings:
my wife-how about her
mother-in-law?" Bob Bur-
dette.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08

itself bankrupt and settle With policy
holders for j Few celits On the dollar,
but insurance Il obtained for the actual
cost Of losses without the necessity Of
supporting a whole army Of officers
and agents we trust our Brown
county brethren Of the press, who are
ever foremost IL every good work, viii
take up this matter and help it along
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08

WE are pleased to learn that the
farmers of Brown county are taking q
step in the proper direction IN the
matter Of forming mutual insurance
company, which is at once the safest,
the cheapest and the most effectise
protection against losses by fire that
farmers can have. The workings of
such companies in the older states
have been SO satisfactory that the
success Of the proposed company is
assured, provided only that a proper
commencement is made. As an in
stance Of the cheapness Of insurance
by this method we quote from The
Whitewater (Wis.) Chronicle tle an
nual report of the secretary Of the
Sugar Greek Farmers Mutual Insur-
ance Co., which is as follows: Whole
number Of members, 557; amount Of
policies in force to date, $S30,377; in
crease of members during the year,
43; increase Of capital, s60,436 /;
amount Of losses in 1883, s139.5o (;
average cost Of insurance, one mill on
the dollar. Such d showing is suffi-
cient in itself to induce our farmers to
enter heartily into the scheme. But
aside from this il can be seen at q
glance that tao mutual plan Of IN
surance, when properly restricted, pre-
vents the possibility Of those tedious
delays and annoying chickering's III
which ordinary companies appear to
delight whenever losses arise. The
company : cannot Al any time declprc
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
Irwould appear from good authority

ITwould appear from good authority
that Robert Lincoln is displeased al
his name being mentioned in connec-
ton with the presidency while Arthur
is an aspirant for the honor, justly con
sidering that his present position is
due to Arthur's friendship There
seems to be a growing disposition, how
ever, to accord him second place on
the ticket. Arthur and Lincoln would
make strong pair.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08

FOLLOWING is a list Of the govern
ors Of Dakota since the organization
of the territory W. Jayne, appointed
1861, retired 1858; Newton Edmunds,
appointed 1868, retired 1866; A. J.
Faulk, appointed 1866, retired 1874 ;
John T. Pennington, appointed 1874,
died in office 1880; n. g. Ordway APP
pointed 1880, and win be kicked out
1884.