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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05
professional Amusers."

The professional amuser" is an insti.
tuition in New York society. Blakely
Hall SAYS of him:
The life of professional amuser must
be a curious one. There are great many
men in New York now who devote them
selves to the task of amusing others. The
best of them all is Frank Lincoln.
Jimmy Burdette, as he is affectionately
called, pushes Mr.. Lincoln very close.
They are both of them young men,
clever and original. Lincoln is the
fashion. Night after night all through
the season he is at a dinner, concert,
club banquet or children's party, and
he is perpetually on the go. The stupid
half hour after the coffee is served,
which usually falls on party of diners,
and which was formerly filled with te-
dious or tiresome speeches, is now admi.
rably utilized by the professional amuscr.
But wonder what the amuser himself
thinks of it2 Probably Mr.. Lincoln went
to hundred dinner parties during the
winter, and in most instances he goes in
as one of the guests, dimes, is profess
Sionally jolly for an hour after the din
ner is finished, pockets $50 fee--if it
happens to be that sort of dinner party
waves his hand gracefully and with
draws. The diners loll back in their
chairs and discuss Mr.. Lincoln. l wonder
if he discusses them2 If he has brains
enough to write his memoirs, and they
are truthful, they ought to be very in
teresting. The jester's estimate of the
king. How often is the jester greater
than the kingl
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05
ARomantie Painter.

Like most romantic characters, Ian
tara has inspired romance NOT only in
playwrights, but in poets and talemakern
The STOKES told of hiin are curious. They
night even be true, but there are nd
acts to show they are. One says that,
having received a hundred crowns
rom that "most heartless of amateurs
the Comte de Caylus, for moonlight,
Lantara was utterly miserable till he and
the money parted company. All day he
wandered in passion Of suspicion; at,
light, in his garnet by t he Louvre, he
,ould not sleep for thinking of his gold i,
md when he did sleep he was led
through such dance of dreams as made
dim wish himself poor again. To be rid
If it was easy enough in the Paris Of
Louis XV.-aVery paradise of knaves.
de went to the cabaret and told his
troubles to his roistering friends. There
was plenty of sympathy. 1t took the
form of bumpers and dice; and before
long the money troubled Lantara nc
more.
There is, too, touching story of q
love affair. On the basement of the old
house in whose attic Lantara slept lived
young fruiterer-a girl from Plcardy
named Jacqueline. Her voice 1t was
that first attracted him; it was sweet and
strong and clear; and It rose like a sky
ark's to his open window at dawn; the
first and only sound in the humming city
that brought back to him the memory Of
woods and fields. He had passed the
fruit-shop daily, needless of its tenant.
Now he fingered on the stairs; hung
about the door. Painter and fruit-sellel
soon became friends, then lovers. Many
time is she said to have lured him from
the wine-shop home; and in his sorest
straits to have shared with him her pool
little earnings. Some of his best pictures
seem to have been painted under the in
auence of her presence; and we can wei
believe it. But these love- passages were
brief. Jacqueline died; and Lantara
oppressed with grief, sought solace il
his old haunts. 1t is told that year.
afterward he would weep at the mention
of her name. To get picture from him
produced in the days of Jacqueline, wa
impossible; and when asked why h,
priced a certain canvas more than Others
he asked: "Then you don't hear JAG
queline singing in the landscapel"--
| MAGAZINE Of Art.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05
Garden Herbs.

Few things add more to the pleasure
of thoroughly good cook than to have
a full supply of kitchen herbs ready to
hand, saws the Garden. A little of one
thing or another in this line often makes
all the difference between successful
dish and one of mediocre quality. Every
garden should have few, and where
they are wanting should be looked after
at this season. Perhaps the most useful
is parsley. That has to be raised from
seed, although if the flower stalks are
cut off as they come up in the summer
the same lants may be prolonged several
seasons. 1t does not go to seed, how
ever, the first season of sowing; so that
if it is sown early and gets strong be-
fore summer comes we can get a pretty
good supply of leaves the first season.
The SEEDS, however, take several weeks
to terminate, and should be put
IN as early as possible. Another herb
of great service to the best cooks IN the
leek; kind of onion which is no onion,
as it makes all tops and little roots. It
is not so strong as the ordinary onion,
and gives delicate flavor to certain
soups and sauces which nothing of the
tribe will do. This has also to be sown
early and on very rich ground. But,
if possible, the richness should be given
to the ground the previous year. Fresh
and rank manure is unfavorable to good
leek culture. Many make good use in
winter of majoram and summer savory.
These are raised from seed sown at the
usual time in the spring. Sage and
thyme are perennias; but they require
an occasional pruning or repianting to
get them in the best condition. If left
to themselves they become woody, scaly,
and somewhat barren of leaves, if they
are not entirely killed by the severity of
the winter. Thyme can be kept in good
condition by being simply sheared down
to the ground or cut back with knife
every spring. This induces good healthy
growth, which is in excellent condition fol-
use at any time. Sage is often kept many
years in good condition by simply cut
ting back; but often it needs starting
quite anew. This may be done by taking
cuttings of the old plant and burying
them deep down in the ground so that
the tops of the shoots are barely above
the surface. These root we'll and soon
make good plants. There are other
herbs useful on some occasions; but these
are essential to every good GARDEN
Farm, Field and StOckman.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05

The roofing out of polygamy under
ihe Edmunds' law, which began in
Utah last summer, and which has re.
mlted in the conviction of several prom
nent Mormons, is carrying CONSERVATION
.mong the followers of Brigham Young.
The Edmunds' law, passed by both
houses of Congress three years ago, pro.
rines a penalty of $500 fine and impris
onment for not more than five years for
my man entering into a polygamous
marriage after the date of its adoption.
For the purpose of reaching all those
who had been plurally married the law
provided penalty of $500 fine and six
months Imprisonment for men living
with more than one woman. These two
sections are the groundwork Of the law,
but in order to enforce them, as expert.
.nce with other laws in the Territory had
Ihown, extraordinary measures were
accessory. The greater part of the Ed
nunds law is devoted to the rearrange.
nent of the jury and political system
here. 1t makes polygamy or belief in il
ground for challenging any grand OF
petit juror and DISTINGUISHES all poly.
gamists as we'll as women who may be
married to polygamists.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05
Household Hints and Recipes.

Anything mixed with water requires
a hotter oven than anything mixed with
milk.
Beef for roasting should not be sailed
as it extracts the juices. Simply sprinkle
with flour.
Old tea leaves may be utilized by
stepping, straining and washing var
nished paint with the water.
Wall paper may be cleaned by cover
ing the top of a broom with a cloth ano
gently sweeping over the paper.
Knives and forks with ivory, bone, OF
wooden handles should not be put into
hot water. But we suggest that wher
our readers buy knives for the table
they get those with silver plated handles
and blades. They need no bath brick
to keep them bright, but only an oc
casional rub with whiting, and save
'lots of trouble"
/ Cream mullins are delicious. Per
haps only those who keep cows will feel
inclined to be extravagant enough to
indulge in them. Beat six eggs, pint
of cream and pint of milk well to.
gether; add an ounce of lard and an
ounce of butter, a teaspoonful of salt
and quart of flour stirred in lightly.
Half fill the rings, and bake in sound
oven.
If you wish to have potatoes mealy do
not let them stop boiling for an instant;
and when they are done, pour the water
off and let them steam for ten or twelve
minutes over the fire. In the spring of
the year it is better to boil the potatoes
in two waters, pouring off the first as
soon as it comes to the boil, and then
cover the potatoes a second time With
cold water, adding little salt.
To make grape jelly, strip from the
stalk some fine, ripe, black grapes, stir
them with wooden spoon over gentle
fire until all have burst and the juice
flows freely from them; strain off, being
on your guard that no pressure is applied
to the bag; pass it through and through
the bag until quite clear; simmer gently
for twenty minutes, when draw it from
the fire and stir in until well dissolved
fourteen ounces of well-refned sugar
(roughly powderedl; boil the jelly quick
ly for fifteen minutes longer, taking care
constantly to stir and skim.
Apples with rice form an appetizing
dish. Boil rice very soft, and line with
it a well-buttered pudding dish. Lay
over it layer of sliced apple, using an
easily cooked variety, alternate layers Of
rice and apples until the dish is full
Add little water to keep the rice from
becoming dry on top, and bake until the
apples are done. Another way is to pare
some apples and remove the cores, and
fill and cover them with boiled rice,
allowing cupful of uncooked rice fol-
each half-dozen apples; cook in steam.
er. Eat with cream and sugar.
After tea has been stepped in boiling
water for three minutes, over fve-sixths
OF the valuable constituents are ex-
tracted. At the end of ten minutes the
leaves are almost entirely exhausted.
Prolonged infusion gives no additional
strength to the liquid, but it does cause
the loss by volatilazation, of the flavor.
ing principles. Hard waters are to be
preferred to soft waters in the teapot, as
the hard waters dissolve less of the tan
min out of the leaves The bearing of
these laboratory results on the art of
making good cup of tea is obvious.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05

The White House covers about one.
third of an acre, and it has cost up te
this time about 81, 900, 900. 1t is modelled
after castle in Dublin, and the architect,
who was South Carolina man named
Hoban, got $500 for drawing the plans.
When it was first built, away back in the
nineties, it cost $500, 900, but the British
burned out its insides, and its cost ha,
since added to that sum about 81, 700,
600. In it all the presidents since Wash.
ington have lived, and each has added
to its beauties and its expense. Johr
Quincy Adams brought the first billiard
table which was used in it. But in Jobr
Adams time it was only half furnished,
and Abigail Adams used to dry he
clothes in the big east room. Year by
year, however, the furnishing has gone
on, until now it is sort of museum Of
art and beauty.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05
Dairy and Stock Notes.

Gentleness will help fill the milk pail.
Oil meal and roots make sleek rattle.
The pig is no exception to the rule
that all domestic animals require salt.
A cream thermometer will save back
ache; sixty-four degrees is the correct
thing.
More butter is spoiled by being over
worked than by not being worked
enough.
Cows become very fond of beanstalks,
after a little use of them, and prefer
them to good hay.
The Farm Journal advises that we keep
cribbing horses loose in stables without
managers. Let them eat off the floor.
When the cream gets too thick in the
churn, add some warm water (not hot)
float the butter, and it will come
sooner.
When cornstalks are fed, clover should
be fed with them, or cotton-seed meal.
Timothy and clover mixed is better than
clear clover.
Sheep should not be allowed to run in
muddy yards or be driven Though the
mud to and from the field. Such treat
ment may engender foot rot
The best butter ever produced from a
churn would have been wretched stuff if
the cream had been allowed to absorb
odors from the cellar or kitchen.
Most people feed horses too much hay.
Some horses will eat hay until they can
travel no better than cow. 1t costs
some men twice as much to keep horses
as others whose teams are equally well
cared for.
A good dip for young lambs infested
with ticks is made of mixture of one
gallon of soft soap, six pounds grease,
one pint crude carbolic acid, all boiled
in ten gallons of water, with nine gallons
of cold water added.
Horses that are troubled with worms
may be safely and speedily relieved by
giving them a small dose of turpentine
two or three times in their feed. 1t
nauseates the worms so that they lose
their grip on the intestincs and pass
through with the excretions of the stom-
ach.
Breeds of cows strongly predisposed
to milk production will sometimes give
milk before the heifers have had their
irst calf. The tendency is increased
where the young calves run together, in
which case, unless precautions are taken,
they are almost sure to learn to suck each
other.
A 1ecipe for small cream cheese is
given in the Irish Agricultural Gazette,
as follows: Take one pint thick cream,
mix little salt, according to taste; put
it into wet, scalded cheese cloth, tie it,
and hang up for day or two, and put
a weight on it, by which time it will be
ready for use.
Professor Caldwell says herd of COWS
having only very pure soft water to
drink were seriously affected with the
disease called there bone brittleness
when the herd was supplied with hard
water Qime) the disease disappeared, but
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05


No disorders, excepting tho most deadly
.orms of lung disease, involve such tremen-
aous destruction of organtic tissue as those
which fasten upon the Kidneys Such mala-
dies, when they become chronic-and none
are so liable to assume that phase-completely
wreck the system. 70 prevent this terrible
disease, recourse should be had upon the first
manifestation of trouble, to Hostelter's Stom-
ach Bitters, which experience has proved to be
highly effective as means of imparting tone
and regularity to the organs OF urination, MS
well as to the liver, stomach and bowels. An
other beneficial result OF this medicine, natur-
ally consequent upon its diuretic action, Is the
elimination from the blood of impurities which
oeget rheumatism, neuralgia govt, dropsy,
and other maladies. By increasing the
activity OF the kidneys, it augments the depura-
tive efficiency of these organs, which are most
important outlets for the escape of such i'm
purities
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05
Stimulants in Arctic Regions.

Lieutenant Greedy remarked thai
breathing air of such intense GOODNESS
had something of the effect produced by
breathing pure oxygen. AS for pulmon-
airy troubles, he heard no complaint of
them while the party was at Fort Con-
ger, in Lady Franklin bay at latitude
of 1913, where the first two years were
spent. Even simple catarrhs were un-
known, the only thing from which the
men suffered being occasional rheuma-
tlsms and stiffness of muscles and joints
The party had ferocious appetites during
all the long sojourn in the North, each
man eating with relish three meals of
animal food and two lunches every day,
and craving fat, though not to the ex-
tent which some arctic travellers report.
Not even when the thermometer regis
tered sixty degrees below zero did these
men indulge in crude blubber or tallow
candles, which tradition has designated
as the customary food of Arctic voy-
ayers nor was even pemmican regarded
as rare and dainty dish by them.
Canned meats, of which they had an
abundance during the first two years, and
a steak or ragout from the walrus, seal,
or polar BEAR were priced as the essen
tial conditions of well-being. AS for
spirituous liquors, they were used with
great moderation, and doled out to the
members of the expedition as occasion
seemed to demand, and only when some
unusual exertion or exposure brought
some extraordinary fatigue or prostra-
ton. AS means to fortify the system
against cold or brace it up for forced
marches, whisky, rum, and other alco-
holic stimulants were regarded as OF
little benefit. --MedicdJ Record.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05

clearing and scraping up the soil quite
close to the row. This cleans out all the
seeds excepting those which grow quite
close to each plant, and there will be
very few of these if the ground is only
in moderately. clean condition. Usually
no hand wedding is necessary, for the
roots soon overpower any stray weeds
that may show themselves. Thirty
tons per acre of mangels have been
grown in this way with no more cost
than a crop of corn, and all by the use
of the hand cultivator. The middles, of
course, are worked with the horse hoe.
Indeed the hand cultivator will almost
wholly dispense with the use of the COM
mon hoe, an implement fit only fol
Ind'-;ns and their primitive and slow
W, Of culture.-Ne1O York Times.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05

IS sometimes exhibited in our public oxhii
tons When We gnze Upon soiiiB Of thu pecu.
liar freaks dame ndttG5 occasionally INDUCES
in. our minds reTert back 10 the creation OF
man, who is so fearfuly and wonderfully
made" The mysteries Of BIS nature has been
unravglcd hy Dr. r. V. PIERCE. of Buffalo,
and through his knoWledge Of those myster
les he has been able to pref are his Golden
Medical Discovery" which is a specific for all
blood taints, poisons and humoTs, such a,
serofula, pimples, blotches, eruptions swell
ings, tufnors, ulcers and kindred affections
BY drupPisia.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05

Herat, the bone of contention between
England and Russia, is comparatively
small for place of such paramount i'm
oortance, containing barely $4,000 in
habitants. 1t is surrounded by wal,
which, measured from the base of the
sarthern mound ON which it stands, at.
;aius height of seventy-fve feet, which
is considerably exceeded by several OF
The $50 towers that strengthen it. But
these defences, though seemingly Gormida.
bic, are now, like most of those Afghan
fortresses, fast crumbling to decay from
long neglect The citadel, like that Of
Cairo, stands on a steep rock in the cen.
ire of the town.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Clean culture of che Root Crop.

Clean culture from the first is vital
necessity of the root crop For some
years past the writer has practiced an
easy way of securing this necessary cul-
ture without any hand wedding, and
merely by the use of little more seed.
Six pounds of seed per acre will give a
stand of plants which will admit of run
ming hand cultivator across the rows,
cutting out a strip ten inches wide and
leaving the plants thus ten inches apart in
the row. The cultivator, having two
scrapers, one on each side, can BE run
over the row of plants in this manner,
(the represent the plants, the
inclined lines the scrapers,) and thus
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05
$500 Not Called For.

1t seems strange that it is necessary to
persuade men that you can cure their diseas-
es by offering premium to the man who
fails to receive benefit. And vet DR.. Sage
undoubtedly cured thousands of cases of oh
stinate catarrh with his "Catarrh Remedy. -
who would never have applied to him, if it
had not been for his offer of the above sum
for an incurable case. Who is the next bid
der for cure or cashl
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05

For DYSPEPSIA, INDIGESTION, depression ofspir
its and general debility in their various forms
also as preventive against fever and ague anC
other intermittent revers, the "ferro-Phosphor
ated Elixir of Casaya," made by Caswell
Hazard & Co., New York, and sold by all Drug
gists, is the best tonic and for patients recover
ing from fever or other sickness it has no equal
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05

Ruptures, pile tumors, fstu1as,
and all diseases except cancer) of the lower
bowel radically cured. Book of particulars
two letter stamps. Worlds DispensaTy Med
ical Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05

Now is the time to prevent and cure Skin
Diseases, and to secure white, soft and beau
tlul complexion use "BEEsoN's AROMATIC
ALUM SULPHUR SOAP" 25 cents by Drug.
g.st, or by mail. VIM. Dreydoppel, Phila., Pa.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05

The Andrews Parlor Folding Beds receive the
highest commentator wherever used, in Ho
tells, IN Boarding Houses and Private Families.
Keeler's, SO to 81 Washington street, Boston.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05

Savage dogs ihat kill their masters are con-
d mned 10 a curious form OF nth in Jap m
They are shut up 10 box vi b a little food and
are thrown into the sea.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05

A Bridgeton, N. j., man has planted over
200, 600 cocoahuts Mt Biscayne Bay, Fla, and
will make tho number a million before be stops
opegutions.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05
Important.

When you visit leave New York city, save baggage,
txprcssage and So carriage hire and sop at the Grand
Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central depot.
GC0 elegant rooms fitted up at cost OF one million
dollars 81 and upward per day. European plan. Ele-
vatOr Restaurant supplied with the best. Horse cars
stages and elevated railroad TO all depots. Families
can 1--we better for less money at the Grand Union
Hotel than at any other irst-class hotel in the city
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05

though on Itch"
'Rough on Itch" care5 humors, eruptions,
ringworm, letter, salt rheum, frosted feet,
chilblains
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05

Ladies who would retain freshness and
vivacity Don't fail to try "Wells' Health
Renawar'
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-05

Cures Piles OF Hemorrhoids, Itching Protrud
ing, Bleeding, Internal or other. Internal and
External Remedy in each puckage. Sure cure,
Doc. Druggists.