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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
HEALTH HINTS.

Saltpetre and olive oil will cure corns>
Do not imagine you need medicine if
you feel little sick. Take q rest. In
many cases good bath and few hours
sleep are all that is necessary.
A cucumber in lieu of ice, is cut in
slices and laid upon the heads of fever
patients in England. The effect is said
to be cool, grateful and refreshing.
For the relief of earache-put five
drops of chloroform in little cotton or
wool in the bowl Of clay pipe, and blow
the vapor through the stem into the ach-
ing ear.
A gargle made of strong black tea and
used cold, night and morning, is now
the fashionable preventative in London
against falling victim to sore throat
during the cold winds of spring and sim
liar "cold spells" at other times of year.
A California physician claims that the
juice from eucalyptus leaves has induced
the hair to grow on his bald head. He
was in the habit of pounding to pulp
the leaves, which he applied to his head
for the cure of headache. and was sur.
prised to find a new and abundant crop
of hair commence to grow.
Superiuous hair can be removed sue
cessfully aud permanently by using a
paste composed of water and any prop
erly prepared depilatory powder, such as
are put up by all of the leading chemists
and pharmacists. Allow the paste to
remain on for twS minutes then remove
it, and the hair and its folicles will have
been completely destroyed. Pepilatory
powders are very injurious, however, if
improperly prepared. Health and Home.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
WISE WORDS.

Behavior is a mirror in which everyone
shows his image.
The society of women is the element
of good manners.
Envy feeds upon the living; after death
it ses-then, every mans we'll earned
honors defend him against calumny.
The wise men Of old have sent most Of
their morality down the stream of time
in the light skiff of apothegm or cpl
gram.
No woman can be handsome by the
force of features alone, any more than
she can be witty only by the help of
speech.
Strong minds, like hardy evergreens,
are most verdant in winter; when feeble
ones, like tender summer plants, are
leahess.
Right habit is like the channel which
dictates the course in which the river
shall flow, and which grows deeper and
deeper each year.
1t is impossible to make people under
stand their ignorance. for it requires
knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore,
he that can perceive it hath it.
Love seizes on us suddenly, without
giving us time to reflect; our disposition
or our weakness favors the surprise; one
look, one glance from the fair, fixes and
determines US.
A good memory is the best monument.
Others are subject to casualty or time,
and we know that the pyramids them'
selves, rotting with age, have forgotten
the names of their founders.
The beautiful laws of time and space,
once dislocated by our inaptitude, are
holes and dens. If the hive be dis
turbed by rash and stupid hands, instead
of honey it will yield us bees.
Infinite toll would not enable you to
sweep away mist but by ascending
little you may often look over it alto
gether. So it is with our moral improve
ment; we wrestle fiercely with vicious
habit which would have no hold upon us
if we assembled into higher moral at
mosphere.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
The COWBOYS FaYOrite Gun.

I dropped into large store on Ell Paso
street, which enjoys the reputation of
selling more arms than any other house
in the city, writes a correspondent of the
st. Louis Globe Democrat While in
specting the glittering array of pistols of
all kinds which filled half a dozen show
cases, young fellow of about twenty
three entered. He was dressed in APP,
proved frontier style, sombrero it would
take three days to walk around the rim
of, white handkerchief tied loosely round
the neck, blue shirt, pants stuck in his
boots, and large Mexican spurs upon his
heels, jingling as he walked. He wished
to buy ''gun." In the expressiveness
and laconic tongue Of the frontier a
"gun" is revolver rifle is called by
the name of the maker; and the weapon
of the sportsman, uncurtailed of its fair
proportions, is known as a shotgun.
Selecting from the case a handsomely
mounted Colts forty-fve calibre revol-
yer, the clerk said: "How would you
like this9 1t is the newest thing out
adouble action forty-five." "Ain't worth
a row of beans. No Uan 'cept he is
tenderfoot wants that kind of thing.
Give me old reliable all the time. You
see man that's used to the old style is
apt to get fooled-not pull her off in
time-and then he'll be laid out colder'n
q wedge"
He was handed q single-action Colts
of the same model, which, after carefully
examining, he proceeded to cock and
fire, twirling the pistol around his fore
finger and pressing the trigger the mo-
ment the butt came into palm of his
hand. After some little "kickn about
the price the weapon was paid for and
the customer left the store.
''There are few men," observed the
clerk, as his customer left, that can do
that trick. l have been ten years on the
Southwest frontier, among the worst
classes, and don't know more nor half
dozen. Bill the Kid could do it; so
can Pat Garrett, former sheriff of Lin
coin county; so can Dan Tucker, deputy
sheriff of Deming. Curly Bill could do
it best of the lot, and that's how he
killed Sheriff White at Tombstone.
"How was thatp
"Well, you see Curly Bill was irving
to paint the town red and White heard
of it, and going up to him, covered him
with his six.shooter, and told him he
had got to give up his gun. Bill handed
the gun out butt first, but kept his finger
inside the guard, and as the sheriff
reached for it he gave it that twist you've
seen, turned her loose, and the sheriff
passed in his checks"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
killed Hseaiid.

That there may be world of pathos
in the apparently prosaic life of police
man is shown by the following incident,
related in the Chicago Herald:
"Did you ever shoot any one2" The
speaker was visitor at the armory, and
the person addressed was a patrolman
who looked up huTiedly and walked
away without an answer. "You see, -
said another officer, in explanation, che
had an experience once that he does not
like to think or talk about. He used to
walk in the Twelfth street district when it
was called the terror district, and when
they had the murder bell there. When
ever there was shooting or killing in
that precinct the bell was rung, so as to
notify all patrolmen that crime had
been committed, and make them more
vigilant, if possible, in their search for
desperate characters. One dark, rainy
night this officer obtained permission
from the roundsman to step over to his
home, few blocks away, to get his rub
Der coat, and while he was in the house
he looked into the room where his chill
dren were sleeping. Wishing to have
one revolver outside of his coat he took
off his belt and laid the weapon on bu.
reau. Just as he was about to strap it
on he noticed that the hammer was down.
and some way in trying to put it at half
cock the thing was discharged. A little
girl jumped up from the bed with red
blotch upon her forehead, and crying,
"Oh, papa" fell flat on her face. At
that instant the murder bell rung, its
tones coming into the little house, deep,
sonorous and horrifying. This officer
thought it was Tor him, but it was not,
of course. There had been a shooting
somewhere else, and the bell was ringing
for tough and not for the heart broken
policeman. Well, that thing pretty near
drove him crazy. The little girl never
spoke again, and she died inside
of week. The coroner exoner-
ated the father, but he never exon
Grated himself. A few weeks after
this he begged to be transferred from
the terror district, away from the echo
of the murder bell, and that's why he's
up here. He has told me that he
wouldn't live or walk beat within sound
of that bell if he knew he would be made
general superintendent at the end of the
month" ="
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
Why z


Why is it that tall man always has a
week display of beard2
Why, on the other hand, does little,
short man inevitably carry a fierce nous
tache that overshadows the entire coun-
tenance?
Why is it the visitor you most hate
always puts your mucilage brush
back into the ink bottle2
Why is man with new gold watch
so solicitous about his lapse of time4
Why do servant girls know so much
about cooking before you hire them and
so little afterwarda"
Why do we drop raspberries on a
white tabecloth and never on a red one2
Why is man so short in his memory
when you have bill against him, and
Why is it per contra, that he doesn't
forget to call in every day when he has
one against you6
Why does hired girl always hang
the meanest piece of the weeks wash
nearest the streetY
Why do we hate the man who tells us
our faults in secret, and
Why do we love man who praises us
in crowd9
Why do flies prefer alighting on a
fat mans face when he is trying to catch
an after dinner nap?
Why, when your boy has visitors, and
particularly ingenious and diabolical
piece of mischief is the outcome of the
afternoons congress, do you always lay
all the best blame on your reighbors
children9
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
Lepers in India.

Lepers are met with in every stage of
misery in India, says writer in the Nine
teenh Century, They flock to the bor-
ders of the Ganges to end their hopeless
lives on "holy ground" Pilgrims, they
crowd to Pooree to make prayers and
propritiatory offerings to the idol Loke-
nauth and then, failing of their cure,
they continue to haunt the neighbor-
hood, and form fresh centres of vice as
vile and detestable as the foul corrup-
tion that pollutes and makes havoc of
their bodies. Often herded by them
selves at night, they are scattered during
the day along the roadway and in the
bazars begging of the pitiful, and filing
with horror the unaccustomed stranger.
Special hospital accommodation is pro-
vided for them here and there; but in all
India, with its millions of people and its
over hundred thousand lepers, the asy-
lums for the leper can be almost counted
on ones fingers; they are not fourth,
nay not fourteenth part of the lazar
houses that England in the middle ages
built for these despised "children of St.
Lazarus"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
VOL. XII.
so LONG.
"But a week is so longl" he said,
With n toss of his curly head

"But week is so longI" he said,
With a toss of his curly head.
" One, two, three, four, five, six, SEVEN
Seven whole daysl Why, in six, you
know
(You said it yourself-you told me SOY,
The great God up in heaven
Made all the earth and the seas and skies,
The trees and the birds and the butterflies
How can wait for my seeds to grown
"But a month is so long?n hesaid,
With droop Of his boyish head.
Hear me count-one, two, three, four
-Four whole weeks and three days more;
Thirty-one days, and each will creep
As the shadows crawl over yonder steep;
Thirty-one nights, and 1 shall lie
Watching the stars climb up the sky.
How can l wait till a month is o'erl'
But a year is so longl" he said,
Uplifting his bright young head.
All the seasons must come and go
Over the hills with footsteps slow
Autumn and winter, summer and spring;
Oh, for bridge of gold to fling
Over the chasm deep and wide,
That might cross to the other side,
Where she is waiting-my love, my bride"
"Ten years may be long, he said,
Slow raising his stately head,
" But there's much to win, there is much to
lose,
man must labor, man must choose,
And he must be strong to wait!
The years may be long, but who would
wear
The crown of honor must do and dare.
No time has he to toy with fate
Who would climb to manhood's high es-
tate"
"Ah life is not long, he said,
Bowling his grand white head.
~ One, two, three, four, five, six, seven
Seventy yearsl AS swift their fight
As swallows cleaving the morning light,
Or golden CLEANS at even
Life is short as a summer night
How long, oh, God is eternityln
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
Tar.

Professor Peckham, in an interesting
article on tar, has this to say in regard to
its manufacture: 1t was known to the
ancient Greeks, and DR.. Clarke, who de-
scribes the method of manufacturing it
in the forests of Bothnia, says there is not
the smallest differences between the pro-
cesses then practised and those of ancient
Greece. Along the whole coast of the
Gulf of Bothnia the inhabitants are very
generally engaged in this occupation.
They make use of the roots of fir trees,
with logs and billets of the same, which
they arrange i'll conical stack, fitted to
cavity in the ground, generally in the
side of bank. In the bottom of this
cavity is placed q cast-iron pan, from
which q spout leads out through the
bank The heap is covered over with
turf and is then fired, as in making
charcoal. Tar collects in the latter
part of the process of charring, and
runs off through the spout into barrels.
In Sweden, where the business is also
important, some peculiar methods are
adopted to increase the yield of tar.
Trees of no value for the saw-mill are
partially peeled of their bark fathom
or two up from the ground, not enough
to kill them, but only to check the
growth. After five or six years, when
cut down, the wood is found to be much
richer in resinous matter which pro-
duces tar. Along the coast of the South
ern States, especially of North Carolina,
Virginia and Georgia, the business is car
ried on upon large scale in connection
with the manufacture of turpentine,
rosin and pitch. Old trees which have
ceased to produce turpentine, and dead
wood which is rich in resinous matter,
are selected for the coal-pits. The process
there does not differ materially from
that already described. -- Chicago Inter
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
How the BedOuins Conquer Thirst.

In an article on "The Rescue of Chi
nese Gordon" in the Century, General
r. e. Colston late of the Egyptian Cen
eral Staff, says; ''In the 'Watefless
Land, water is paramount question.
If it be asked how large body OF
Bedouins like the ten thousand who
nearly destroyed the British squares at
Tamai manage to subsist, the reason is
plain. In the first place, they do not
need the enormous trains required for a
European army. They are the most alb
stemious of men. Each man carries q
skin of water and small bag of grain,
procured by the purchase or barter from
Caravans. Their camels and goats move
with them, supplying them with milk
and meat, and subSisting upon the seanty
herbage and the foliage ef the thorny
mimosa, growing in secluded wadies.
These people could live upon the increase
of their focks alone, which they ex-
change readily for other commodities;
but being the exclusive carriers and
guides for all the travel and commerce
that cross their deserts, they realize yearly
large amounts of money. AS to water,
they know every nook and hol-
low in the mountains, away
from the trails, where few bar
rels of water collect in some shaded
ravine, and they can scatter every man
for himself, to fill their waterskins. On
my first expedition, near the close of the
three years drought, 1 reached some
wells on which ] was depending, and
found them entirely dry. 1t was several
days to the next wells. But my Bedouin
guides knew some natural reservoirs in
the hills about six miles off, So they
took the water camels at night-fall, and
came back before daylight with the
water-skins filed. An invading army
would find it hard to obtain guides, and
even if they did, they must keep to-
gether, and could not leave the line Of
march to look for water. Beside, the
Bedouins, accustomed from infancy to
regard water as most precious and rare,
use it with wonderful economy. Neither
men nor animals drink more than once in
forty eight hours. AS to washing, they
never indulge in such wasteful nonsense.
When Bedouins came to my camp, water
was always offered them. Their answer
would frequently be: No, thanks;
drank yesterday They know too wei
the Importance of keeping up the habit
of abstemiousncss. No wonder they can
subsist where invaders would quickly
perish.n
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

l found him waiting and longing to tx-
tend to me the fathers love / had neFet
known, and l stand here. to-day as his
heir, waiting to claim the wife who
loved me when poor and obscure, aad
who, l trust, will care for me Just as
much in my changed circumstances
"You are a lucky little thingl" Ida
says. when the truth is made known
to her, "and think your case proves
that after all it does pay to be constant
and true"
And much to her worldly mothers
ehagrin year later, instead of waiting
for the often-talked Of coronet, Ida gives
her handsome self, indifference and
listlessness left behind. to poor young
bank clerk whose only claim TO consider
alton is an honest, loving heart,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19
ISLAND POND VERMONT. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 1884

mediate region was we'll selected, too
and together they planted them, poking
them down one by one with slim steel
rods. They also scattered some into a
gravel bank with shotgun, and it was
this last method that King detected by
the powder stains.
The company burst up at once, and
Ralston and the rest set about recovering
a portion of the money. Lent and Rob
erts hunted up Arnold in Kentucky, and
il was said by some he gave up portion
of the money, but Others affirm that he
never did. Several suits were begun,
and not long after Arnold was murdered
in a local Quarrel 1t was clean steal
of about 81, 900, 000.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

An observer says most of the centena-
rians in America are from Ireland,
though there are many among the col
ored people,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

There are seven native-born Ohioans
in the Senate, and thirty one members of
the house first saw light in that State,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-09-19

The compensation of the postmasters
in the United States amounts to over
S11. 900, 900 per year.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-29

If you need any
thing in the Monu-
mental line, call on
me. I have a good
stock of finished work
on hand from which
you can make your
own selection.
ANDREW HALL.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-29


Horace Swansburn, booH-keeper
for J. w. Moore II CO., flour and
grain merchants, of New York, falsi-
fed his accounts and left that city,
Aug. %, it is thought, for The West.
eve have not seon him since last
Saturday week ago. said John w,
Moore, senior member of the firm
"At that time he gave me his account
My first glance at it showed me thele
was something wrong. lie confessed
to the defalcation of $1,000 and prom.
ised if / wouldn't have him arrested
he would straighten the books fol
me-"
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-29
Cedar Bluff Female College.
A T'ne Kentucky Home school for TOunD
Lula. L..L.. L,..L..LL.. LII l..

a THUG HtHTUfHV TOWe ScN00ITOf IOUllD
Ladies' OHID. EsidbIiShed IN 1862,
HAS beautiful and hehlthful country location
IL three miles from town; removed from all
gossip and temptations Of u town or city; adj
mits no day pupils; is under the most efficient
organization; religious influences strictly Pro-
tcstant. The table is abundantly supplied with
the fresh products Of the farm. II combines at
Il very moderate cost home-l comforts with
the hest advantages of n superior education.
Total expenses in literary department, mclud-
lls Board, Tuition Washing, Fires, and Lights
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY DOLLARS
for ten months. Endorsed by Coy. J. Proctor
Knott, Bishop McTyerc, Rev. .. p Fitzgerald
D. H., aud Lieut., Gov Ilindnan. Full partic-
ulars aud catalogue sent to any one applying
for them. Address ~ :
Roy. H. +. CABELI., Pres,
NV. r. WlllTESlDES, Treas
Woodblrn, Warren county, nv.
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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-29

Mr.. Zeno Young, editor of the Mad
isonville Times, walked up town for
the first time last Monday.
First term 35th year of South Ken
lucky College begins next Monday,
Sept. |, 1891.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-29

Take care of your Liver A great
number of tic diseases 10 which
mankind are liable arise from a disor-
dcred condition of this organ. Keep
it in sound and healthy condition
and you can defy disease. PRcKLY
ASH Buffers are especially adopted
for this purpose, being composed OF
drugs which act on the Liver, giving
it tone and strength to withstand
malaria.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-29

The'board of Trustees of the South
Kentucky College after rigid ex-
animation of the handsome and com
modious new building have formally
accepted it. Every dollar has been
paid the contractors. The prospects
for most ilourishing school are most
Aattering. A stronger Faculty and
handsomcr building can not be found
In Kentucky.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-29

So far no indictments have been
found against any of the parties en-
gagged in the mob in Daviess county
which resulted in the death Of jailcr
LUCAS. 5
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-29

Capt. James ii. Fits, ofthe Engin-
Ger corps, United States Navy, Pro-
lessor of Engineering Physics and
Commerce in South Kentucky Col
legc has arrived. Capt. Fits win be
commanlant of Cadets. A better
selection could not have been made.
The Professor and his wife have TIA
ken rooms at Mrs. Nat Gathers.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-29

There will BIO another game OF
base ball between the Asylum and
Hopkinsvillc teams, played OH the
Asylum grounds this evening. Game
will bo.callcd at o'clock.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-29

The Colorcd Public Schools win
, open Monday, Sept. l. The follow
Ing teachers have been elected VIM.
L. Cansler, b. s., Principal, Miss Nora
Norman, Miss Jennie L. Brewer
and Mrs. |. N. Campbell assistants.