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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-01-30
Beauties of Madagascar.

Lieutenant Shufeldt, of the United
States navy, who recently crossed
Madagascar from cast to west, accom-
plishing what few white men and no
American had done before, said in a re-
cent lecture about the island and his ex-
plorations there:
"Madagascar is the third largest island
on the globe. Its area covers $50, 900
square miles; being 1000 miles long,
and averaging in breadth 230 to 400
miles. 1t is four times the size of Great
Britain. The interior gives the observer
potent sense or silent and majestic
vastness. 1t exhibits some of the grand
est specimens of natures handiwork,
consisting of mountain peaks, plains and
forest cataracts and waterfalls. Around
the area coast stretches a dense belt of
tropical forest, the home of malarias and
deadly fever; the abiding place of saw
age and barbarous people, and of richly
plumed birds. The chief river, the
Sizebouge, is the size of the Ohio, and
shows some of the most magnificent
scenery in the world, thunderous water
falls and cataracts bordered by primeval
forests"
The speaker said he thought this river
would prove navigable and might be
made the highway for the products of
the interior, ebony, sngar, rice, and
other articles of commerce, in quantities
sufficient to make it "the El Dorado of
the Eastern seas" The climate he de-
scribed as variable. In the interior it is
equable and temperate, frequently re-
minding one of New England autumn,
but about the sea coast it is always warm
and unwholesome. He estimated the
population at $500, 900, embracing many
races of men varying in color, physique
and civilization. The principal tribe,
the Hovas, are men of Malay origin,
with fair complexion, bright and spark
ling eyes, aquiline noses, numbering
about 900, 900, and far in advance of the
rest of the inhabitants In intelligence
and the arts of civilization. The women
are often handsome. Some of these adj
vantages can be attributed to climate,
the region inhabited by them averaging
1850 feet above the sea level, and af-
fording bracing atmosphere. Next in
importance and intelligence he placed
the Betsileo tribe, the men possessing
1.-THE and active frames, but the women,
unlike the Hova women, are seldom or
never handsome. The Barra people, in
the southern part of the island, are dis,
tinguished by their lack of ennobling
qualities. The morality of the Barra,
said Lieutenant Shuieldt, might thus be
summed up: "Give me my gun and my
spear, my rum and my wives, and my
oxen; let me steal, plunder and destroy
everybody; let nobody molest me, and
care not who is nv king
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-01-30
WISE WORDS.

Do not speak OF your happiness to
q less fortunate man than yourself.
There is a class of men ever ready to
pump you to any extent, if you only
give them q handle.
Independence and self-respect are es-
sential to happiness, and these are never
to be attained together without work.
You may safely commit the child's
clothes to the servant, but the rest of
the little one you had better take care of
yourself.
Smiles are the higher and better re.
sponses of nature to the emotions of the
soul. Let the children have the benefit
of them.
1t is little troubles that wear the
heart out. 1t is easier to thlow o boulb
shell mile than feather-even with
artillery.
Nothing is so dangerous as that self
sufficiency which comes from comparing
ourselves with companions who are in
ferior to us.
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike
those of the body, they are increased by
repetition, approved by reflection, and
strengthened by enjoyment.
The world deals good naturedly with
good-natured people; and we never
knew sulky misanthropist who quar-
relied with it, but it was he, and not it,
that was in the wrong.
Good manners declare that their pos
SCISSOR is person of superior quality, no
matter what his garb, or however slender
his purse. They prove his respect for
himself, and also prove his respect for
those whom he addresses.
When we become exclusively alb
sorbed in one pursuit, however legiti-
mate it may be in itself, it draws the
mind and interests away from all other
things, and causes us to neglect them,
though some of them may be distinctly
defined duties as itse,f.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-01-30
A Bean Feat.

The following story of bean feat, or
of feet and beans, appropriately enough
comes from Boston and the columns of
the Journal
A Florida youth who bought pair of
shoes without trying them on found on
reaching home that they were just an
eighth Of an inch too small all around.
He thought, however, that he would en-
large them sufficiently by the "bean"
process, so he filled each shoe to the top
with large white beans-the variety that
swell nearly double their sze-gave
them all the water they would hold, and
left them over night to the mercy of the
beans. In the morning he found that
they had increased in size from No. 8 to
apparently No. 8, and that the uppers
had raised up on one side, exposing
huge crevasse and allowing the beans to
escape for several feet around. The next
tmc he will pare down his feet,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-01-30
Turkish and Other Baths.

A reporter talking with the famous Or.
Hammond, of New York, asked him if
Turkish baths were a good thing for
everybody. He sensibly answered that
it was another version of the very old
proverb that what is one mans meat is
another's poison-a universal rule cannot
be made to apply to every case. He
also disposed of the cranky idea that
frequent and thorough washing with
soap is injurious:
THUS the laymen might say that
Strawberries were always healthfuI, but
the physician knows that the generally
harmless strawberry, when eaten by GER
tain persons. will produce a most violent
eruption of the skin, I am justified in
saying, then, that the Turkish bath is
generally beneficial, although l have
known cases in which serious derange-
ment of the body's functions has resulted
from single bath" Gin what cases are
the baths most injurious2" SIN all cases
where there is tendency to heart dis
ease. Men have died in the bath from
the aggravation of this trouble produced
by it. No one should enter the hot room
for the first time without having had
his heart examined by a physl-
cian." care you patron of the
Turkish bath2" was the next ques-
ton. II used to frequent them," was
the reply; ''but of late have contented
myself with cold bath every morning.
| find that the best both for health and
cleanliness" "Would you recommend
that for a person of slight. physique?"
asked the reporter with glance at the
doctors stalwart figure. 81 would rec
ommend it for every one with whom it
agrees. That is the test of common
sense and medical science. If you re-
main blue and cold after q bath, don't
take it again while in the same state of
health. If, on the other hand, your sys-
TEN reacts, the effect is entirely bene-
fetal. If you pin me down to generali-
zation, should say that the tepid bath
is the most beneficial to the majority of
people, The hot bath should never be
taken in ones house" When handed a
long newspaper clipping in which it was
laboriously proven that the curse of this
age was a too free use of soap and water,
the people of the temperate regions
growing weak and short-lived under its
application, while the natives of the
north lived to a good old age, encased
in dirt and train oil, the doctor char
acterized it as ''an elaborate argument
built upon false premises" "a person
should wash once day." he continued,
with soap; for without soap the skin
will shed water like the plumage of a
duck. Indulgence in Turkish bath
should not be as frequent, owing to its
weakening tendencies. 1t is preposter-
GUS to say that the inhabitants of the
North outlive those of the South. The
EsQuimaux are very short-lived race,
while the negroes are at the other ex-
treme. Witness the number of colored
nurses who handled the father of his
county on their knees, and still live to
tell the tale"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-01-30
A Mans Frame Reduced to Solid
Rome

nUnb.
A peculiar case, and one of great in
terest to the medical profession, is de.
sdribed herewith. 1t is that of Jona>
than Bass, of Lewiston, about fifty years
old, who has been afflicted with anchy-
losis for thirty-six years, and whose
joints are now all immovablo and his
frame reduced to solid bone. For twenty
seven years he has reclined upon an in
valids bed, without the ability to move,
and has been blind since 1859 from con-
slant use of his eyes to read during his
enforced confinement. His disease
started in 1S48, when he was q young
lad eighteen years of age, living in Lock
port. He did more or less work until
1851, constantly growing worse, until
that year he was placed upon an inva-
lids bed, where he now lies, and,
in fact, which he has never
left since that time. He fed himself,
however, until 1865, when his jaws like
his other joints, became set and immov-
able, and he has since been fed with a
spoon. He has very hearty appetite,
eats almost everything, and has good
digestion. He also converses easily and
intelligently upon all subjects with which
he is acquainted.
Every point is now perfectly anchy-
losed, or grown into solid bone, and his
backbone is rigidly fixed, his arms are
set at his side, and only five inches
round at their largest part, while his
legs are solid bone, eight and one
half inches round at the thigh. The
bones of his fingers and toes have bo-
come absorbed, however, and have dis
appeared leaving the flesh soft and plas y
tic. He only weighs seventy pounds.
His vital organs arc in good order, and
he may live for several years to come.
Doctors say this is case without COM
parson in this or any other country
Lockport On " Journal.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-01-30
RULES FOR A HArP4 LIFE.

Wouldst thou be happy liver,
Happy and studious to enhance
The glory of the great Life-Giver,
Launch not thy boat to drift at chance
Where strong floods roll and wild wave
dance
On life's broad rushing river.
Live as a man and count it treason =
To man to live divorced from reason;
Prove your ground and know your game,
and ply your task with stout endeavor,
Nor courting praise, nor fearing blame.
Know your own worth and know not less
Your neighbor's weight and worthiness;
And where he works well let him do
The work that might be spoiled by you.
Make good friend where'er you can;
Not wise is he who hath no eyes
To know how fools may help the wise;
With loving deeds bind man to man,
But never shrink with blinking eyes
From what they only learn who try;
And though you stand alone in sight
Of God be bold to hold the right.
March bravely on and if you stumble
Never groan and never grumble;
Rise again with wise forgetting;
Wounds were never salved by fretting;
Watch your chance and know your hour
And let the moment feel your power;
Shape your path and keep your rules
With deaf ear turned to meddling fools.
IT'S dull to wait and hard to stand
But Gods time comes with high command,
That claims the service of your hand.
Let the wise farmer teach you knowledge,
Oft sought for at school AMI college;
! Split the rock and turn the sod, -,
With busy hands cast honest seed,
Stoutly uproot each harmful weed
And let the seasons wait on God
John Ste,Uart Blachie, in Leisure Hour
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-01-30
VOL. XIII.
fHE SNOWFLAKE.

fHE SNOWFLAKE.
Would you like poem
On the snowl
can never write one.
You must go
With the best Of microscopes
Where the flake,
Lies in sparkling beauty
On the lake.
Ger the crystal waters
As you go,
Read with glass the poem
OF the Snow.
William Hosea Bdllou, in Home Journal
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1885-10-31
GNERAL NEW S.

The Seniahmoo sawmill is rum
hing.
Swazey is now Inspector Of Gus,
toms at Semiahmoo.
!. Rell's death Sentence has been
Committed to imprisonment for life,
The Colony mill at Whatcom has
again started up under tho manage
ment Of l.. w. Stcnger.
The Servian army has crossed the
eonodary line into Belgarla, and
sas war has commenced.
The coal mine at lake Whatcom
mas passed. into The hands Of new
management, the former claimants
aaYing forfcitc d their claims.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1885-10-31

Five bundled Chihamen took pass
sage from Victoria for China on the
bark Alden Bessie last week. They
pay SIS. passage money each, and
board themselves.
The atmosphere at Semiahmoo
and NOoksack is laden with scan
dals, and Satan is up there making
mischief among the innocent
and unsuspecting ranchers.
AN iron bar fell from a roof at
Waterloo Ontario, on the llth. inst.
and struck Samuel Weaver, a well
to do farmer and Mennonite preach
or, fracturing his skull ana leaving
little hope of his recovery.
The Irish National Lea que will
meet ia Convention in Central Mu-
sic Hall. Prof Swings Church.
Chicago, on Jan 20, 1886, at which
Parnell and Hon, /, ID. sullivan ,
Lord Mayor Of Dublin, have ed
their intention to be be present,
Twenty one indictments for
murder in the first degree
have grown out OF the Chinese mas
sacro at Sqauk. Geo. W, Tlbbets,
a leading citizen, storekeeper and
present postmaster at That place, Is
one of the men indicted Tor COM
plIcty III the affair.
A two year old Child Of j. b.
RomiIle, residing ten miles from
Toronto, Ontario, WAS taken up by
IL bald eagle, and carried the dis
lance of m. le. where the bird al>
lghted with i,s proy on Il barn, and
was frightened away by It's pursnere
leaving the chiId dead.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1885-10-31
BRIEF M ENTlON.

A Lynx WINS ca ught at lake
Whatcom.
Adams, the photographer, is OPP
erating at Scmish.
O. Graham and family who have
been visiting friends ia Oregon, re-
turned home on Friday.
D1ED-Mrs, Carrie Baber, wife of
James NJ. Baber, at Whatcom, w.
r. on Monday, Oct, 26, 1885.
Pat Connolly is now the Ma il
Aren't on board the Rustler running
through the San Juan islands.
Amos Bowman has removed his
family to Sumas, b g., where they
will remain during part of the wills
ter,
The steamer Washington landed
some lumber. on Wednesday, for
DR.. Bow mans house, at Mt. Hygeia,
outside of Deception Pass.
Eight fine deer were shipped from
the Gueme wharf by Mondays
steamcy to Seattle They were cap
tured on Cypress and Orcas islands.
G. r. Mitchell, proprietor OF
MitcheIl's cove on Burrows island
came down on Wednesday, and will |
spend some tme on his ranch on
that island.
Mr.. Graham's, Of Deception Pass
moved over 80 the SwiuOmish Flats
near Laconner last Friday, whore
they expect to stay during the win"
ter.
Wendell Bowman, one of the
typographers of this off ce, age ID,
has sketched and Autographed u view
Of at. Baker, all for boys play.
The sketch is accurate and in view
OF tho fact that he has had no assist
ance in starting up his Office, or in
breaking in his rollers and new
materials, the result is here record
ed to his credit
Capt. Gilbert and his crow of
Hydro gaphic surveyors have brok-
Gu up their camp on Allen island,
and put their camping outfit into
Amos Bowman store rooms at Ana
cortes, The barge and boats will
remain anchored during the winter
ut Anacortes, at which point work
will be resumed in the spring.
The survey steamer Fuca Will pro-
coed to Seattle, where the men will
be discharged and the steamer put
into winter quarters.
To all who wish to prepare them-
selves for the work OF teaching in
the public schools, Alden Academy
offers opportunity for special props
aration. IF any wish to prepare fof
college or university co rse
can do 80 at this academy. The
object aimed at is to give to the
children and youth who wish it,
thorough and careful christian train.
ing, that they may fully master the
branches they take up, and be pre-
pared for their lite work whatever
it may be. No pains will be spared
to gain this end. Many ought TO
avail themselves of this oppor tunity
for study and training.-H:
T.
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Address
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DISSOLUTION NOTICE.

Notice is h rely given that the par'-
nership heretofore existing between An
ME g. Bowman and Il, b. Chids, d0lng
a mercautile business at Anacor'es, is
by mutual consent dissolved. L. Is.
ChildS will collect all accOunts md pay
all s.-Anacortes, Ska4il Co W. 1
Annie G. Bowmau.
L. B. Clnlds.
Oct. 22nd, 1885.
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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-01
Boston Girls.

II WISH" says writer in the Kansas
City Times, II could trust my pen to
picture for you some one or more of the
Boston girls one sees on Commonwealth
Avenue or Beacon Street of pleasant
afternoon. They are not to be equaled.
And remember that I am impartial
enough, for Boston girls are not my
preference as D rule Not Frisco, with
its women Of beautiful Drawn; not Bal
tlmore, with it's women of rounded fig
ures and dark eyes and hair; not New
York. with its women of graceful car
riage and easy unconsciousness- one
of these can show you the type Of a
beautiful Boston girl. She has hair
that looks as though it were sand and
sunbeams interwovon-th clear COM
plexion tinged with red that makes one
think Of berry buried in lily; we'll
cut nose and mouth; the low, Greek
forehead with the hair brushed off it;
the fiat back and well turned shoulders
of an English girl, and the nervous,
plant movement in action of an athlete.
She rides and plays tennis, swims and
shoots sometimes. and carries about
with her fresh ar kind Of atmosphere
that makes ones eyes brighten and
nerves tingle at the sight of health SO
charmingly housed.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-01
Don't Hurry to Get Married.

Girls don't be in q hurry to get mar
rjed. If you are but Is, don't allow
such an idea to get into your head for
at least four years. Don't even run
the risk of it by permitting any young
man to get so far as proposing the
point. Fight them off, and make them
wait Or 60 to somebody who is ready.
Don't live under the impression that
you must accept the first lovesick
youth who proposes. Be patient, de-
liberate, and sagacions. There is
world Of happiness for you between 16
and 20. The world would be drcary
old world if it were not for the sweet
faces of the young girls with their
piquant sayings and melting smiles.
After you have reached 20 it would be
we'll to consider the matrimonial prob
lem with some seriousness. Then If
you have learned to think and DELHI
crate you will probably make suita-
BILE selection, and marriage with a
worthy man is not only a woman's,
privilege, but, unless married too.
young, her best and highest Develop.
ment, mental and physical, can be at
tanned in this state. Men and woman
were made for each other, and a very
old but nevertheless true truism is that
a happy marriage is the Garden OF
Eden. An unhappy marriage is the
reverse and the greatest of all calam>
tiles that can befall pure, aHec>
tionate, and noble woman. Detroik
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