davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-03
THE BOY SHOT A BURGLAR.
A 13-Year-Old Lad Plays Watchman
with Good Effect.

After firing four shots, Charlie Howard,
the 13-year-old son of j. c. Howard of
Chicago, ILL.,, captured a burglar on State
street, near Twelfth, who had just plundered
the residence of the lads father. The bur
glar is now il the county hospital with
dangerous wound in the thigh. He gives the
name of Joseph Riley, and he say he came
from Pittsburg. Tho Howard family have
suffered two or thre times recently from
burglars and Charlie, being alone in the
house, played watchman. Securing his
fathers revolver the lad secreted
himself near O window, where, after an
hours wait, he saw two men climbing in
with a bag. Either through fright or dis
cretion, the lad waitel until the bag had
been filled with valuables and the two burg
lars and their load were we'll outside the
premises. Then he pursued, revolver in
hand yelling "Po ice" No policeman ap-
peared and one Of the mea turnel upon the
boy menacingly, whoreupon Howard opened
fire. The fourth shot b. ought down one
burglar with shattered thigh bone. His
companion got away. A patrol wagon then
dashed up, secured the bag of plunder, the
wounded burglar and Master Charlie To
complete the youngsters adventure, he was
held at the station house several hours until
a certainty was reached that the burglars
wound was not fatal.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-03

The first Arbor Day was observed in
Nebraska several years ago, when 12,-
O00, trees were planted. There are
now growing in the State COS, 900, 000
trees. In other States many millions of
trees have been planted, and at the pres
ent time thirty -four States observe an
Arbor Day. A hundred thousand acres
of valucle dunes on the Bay of Biscay
were planted with trees by Bremontier,
which now yield France an annual in.
come of one hundred and thirty thou
sand francs.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-03

The way of the transgressor is hard.
A vagrant who died in New York hos
pital the other day turns out 10 have
been Ellery c. Daniels, who, in 1870,
was the cashier of Boston bank. He
stole $50, 900, served year in prison,
was pardoned, travelled for piano fac
tory, embezzlcd $4,000 and then went
to New York. He descended from
bookkeeping to clcrking during term,
and finally became a common vagrant.
Yet twenty years ago he was brilliant
;ocial star in Boston.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-03

The New York Commercial thus ar
raigns China and the Chinese: Gamer
lea has of late been called upon to send
relief to the starving people of China,
and has responded handsomely to the
call. The famine districts are readily
accessible to the government of China,
but the government has done nothing
whatever to diminish the suffering that
abounds there-nor 50 far as we have
heard, have the Celestials in this coun-
try sent anything at all to their helpless
compatriots at home. They have left
the five planets, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars,
Venus and Mercury, which, each in turn,
govern the stomach, liver, heart,
lungs and kidneys of all China.
men, TO look after the organs
of their starving brethren. They
have not even called upon the fox, the
weasel, the hedgehog, the dragon or the
centipedc to bring succor to their friend;
at home. Washing, fantan and hitting
the pipe have continued to be their chic
occupations, and would continue to b,
SO if there were not pound of rice il
all China. Meantime the Chinese ar,
spreading wherever they can and doing
no good to anybody. 1t was high tim
to prevent their further spread in thi
country, to which they did not COM
even of their own free will, but unde
the control of the Six Companies il
league with the home government"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-03

James W. R)meyn, our Consul at
Valparaiso, in reporting to the Depart
ment of State upon the trade and com
mercc of Chill, comments upon the fact
that while tho imports into Chill in 1887
amounted to $4S, $50, 900, only So, 200, =
900 came from the United States, and
that while $4,000 vessels entered and
cleared at Chilian ports, the American
Gag waved over only 221 of them.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-03
THE UNWISE BOOMERS.
Disguised with the Condition of AT
fairs in Oklahoma.

The rush from Oklahoma of disguised set
tlers is nearly as great as the rush the other
way few days ago A reasonable estimate
places the present population of Guthrie at
5000, but what it will be at the end of another
week is difficult 10 tell as the Oklahoma
fever is subsidipg Judged by the standard
of all western towns, Guthrie should be a
place of less than 500 peope, Gs the country
a larger number. Four-fifths of the land is
worthless. Oklahoma City is not as large as
Guthrie, but it stands good chance of being
larger in the future Its present population
is estimated to be from 1900 to 1000. Fewer
people are going away from Oklahoma than
from Guthrie. The Kingfsher people are
still waiting for supplies of various kinds, in
Guiding lumber for house building The pop
ulation is now thought to be about 1900.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-03

''It is curious coincidence" said a
New York detective to Sun young
man recently, "that nearly all the tcnc-
ment- house murders occur on the top
floor. In fifteen years. experience I
think I can count on my fingers all muir
ders in tenement houses that did not
sustain my statement. The most fruit
full cause of crime is poverty, and the
poorest people live in the cheapest rents,
whice are, of course, the top floors of
the big tenements." D."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-03

The net earnings Of the Metropolitan
Telephone Company of New York City
in six years on an original cash invest
ment of 5000, 600 have reached the in
credible sum of 80, S43, 454. Oac year
the profits amounted to 147 per cent.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-03
A CHILD MURDERER.
A Boy Eight Years Old Kills His
Cousin, Three Years Younger.

News of fearful tragedy, with children
as the principals, comes from Malvern, o.
Five-year-old Charley Diclman AMI his
oioht-vear.old cousin Johnny Hexamer,
ouarrelled over a playing ground. Hexamer,
becoming enraged seized a shotgun and shot
Charley in the head, inhicting a wound,
from which he died soon after. The Hexa-
mer boy was knocked down aud seriously
injured by the firing Of the shotgun,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-03

W. ]. Applegate and John Bryant, of
Chicago, have patent to make coal out
of the slack by means of chemical
composition and comprcssing machine.
They take the refuse coal and press it
into a brick, The patentees have al
ready sold their right in England for
$40. 900.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-03

The formal acceptance by Chill of the
Invitation of the United States to the
Congress of American nations soon to
be held in Washington, followed by
that of Ecuador, which has just been
received, and by that of Peru and Bo-
livia, which will undoubtedly follow,
completes the list of nations, and makes
certain the participation of them all in
the great American gathering.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-03
SHE ELOPED WITH A BUTCHER.
A Norwalk, Ct, Couple Leave Town
ana Under Cloudy Circumstances.

James L. Blake of Norwalk, Ct, married,
Georgetown butcher is said to have eloped
few days ago with Mrs. seeley, wife of W.
II. Seeley, neghbor and we'll known resi-
money, obtained on forged check.
Blake has been paying marked atten-
ton to Mrs See ey, and this fact had given
rise to considerable comment. Mr.. Seeley,
learning of the attention paid his wife, inter
fered, and then it was that the couple left
town. The details Of the affair are being
strictly guarded from the public and but
little can be learned Mrs. Blake claims
that her husband is away on business, and
Mr. Seeley is non-committ'l. The pair are
sunn sed To have gone west
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-03

"Millions for cotton bagging-not
one cent for jute." That, announces the
Atlanta Constitution, is to be the farm
ers' shibboleth in Georgia for the COM
ing campaign.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-03

There is apparently a pressing need
for more suitable cavalry horses than are
at present bred in the United States.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-03

The statement is made that Mon
mouth county, N. j., the richest farm
ing country in the world.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-03

California is added to the list of states
which have rejected municipal suffrage
for women this season.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-03

The Maine Shore railroad company have
given a notice of acceptance to the town of
Cherryfield Ne, accepting the SIS, 600 voted
in aid of the construction of the road.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-05-03
Essex County Herald.
Il. 4. BISHOP, Publisher.
Ar
ISLAND POND, VT.
TERMS, $3.50 Per Year, in Advance.
MASONIC DIRECTORY.

ISLAND POND LoDsE, No. a, F. & A. NJ.
Stated c. mmunications the second Mon
day in each month.
KEYSTONE CHAPTER, No. 16 r. A. NJ.
Stated Convocations the first Monday in
each month.
VERMONT COUNCIL, No 90 r. g. S. NJ.
Stated Assemblies first Monday in each
month.
NORTH STAR CHATTER, No 25. o. E. S.
Stated Meetings the third MCn1ay in each
month.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-05-24
YeIloxy Shoes Out of Style,

Although it is now about over, nothing
during the summer has quite equalled the
yellow shot craze. For several years the
wearing Of undressed or tan-colored shoes
has been quite common at some OF the
foreign watering places and mountain re-
sorts, especially in the Alps. Starting with
the men it very quickly extended to the
women. The ultra-fashionable women on
the continent were quick to seize the idea
and adopt shoes of tan kid for carriage and
general wear. Last year it struck this
country, and at Newport shoes Of alligator
skin and undressed leather were generally
worn by the swells, and their utility recon-
mended them for mountain wear, and many
of the Mount Desert girls adopted thom.
During the past summer, however, thousands
wore yellow shoes where only scores had
them before. Men wore them on the street,
and SO general were yellow shoes at the re-
sorts that few wore anything else. Big man
ufacturers turned them out cheap so that
everybody could get them, and the belle with
s12 undrcssed leather Oxford ties daintily
finished found them duplicated in the So ar
ticle worn by the factory girl off on an ex-
eursion. Yellow shoes are run into the
ground, and it remains to be seen what
fashion will bring out next.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-05-24
Changing to the Dairy.

There are frequent instances OF a locality
changing from grain growing to the dairy,
and sometimes there is disappointment and
temporary failure. The person who travels
over the country introducing the factory
system-as a drummer sells goods-of course
paints things in a pretty lively color. Per-
haps he does not exceed the truth as to the
possibility of the factory, but he greatly ex-
ceeds it so far as a community that has had
no experience in profitable dairying is con-
cerned. Upon a farm on which the COW has
never been regarded as a conspicuous source
of profit, to come to so regard her, and to
make her one of the principal sources OF
profit, and perhaps the only source, requires
a great revolution in ideas and practices.
1t becomes a question, not of getting the
routine crops into the ground, but it is a
question as to what crop is most needed to
make the dairy profitable; and men do not
change their systems readily. 1t is difficult
work to turn about short and adopt new
methods; and then when q farmer by a
supreme exercise Of will determines to do
this, and sets himself to do it he is without
experience, and nobody can do as well with
experience as he can with.
At first, therefore, when this change is made
we must be content to creep, and to cultivate
patience until we can get the new business in
hand. 1t is better to divide what the fellow
who wishes you to establish q factory repre-
sents by two. Then you will nave left
enough to strain you to accomplish. But
patience. perseverance and study will likely
bring you out all right.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-05-24
1GRICUL NOTES.

THERE'S Il report that the Louisiana rice
,rop will be 50 per cent short.
SPINAL MENINGITIS is epidemic among New
Bedford horses and many valuable animals
nave already died.
ARTHUR BRIGHAM, of Marlborough, Mass,
has been appointed professor of agriculture
In a college in Japan.
The Farm school on the experimental farm
at st. Anthony's park, Mnnesota's second
school Of agriculture, was opened Oct. IS.
THE Minnesota College of Agriculture, con-
nected with the University Of Minneapolis.
has been burned. Insured in full; will be
Immediately rebuilt.
PROFESSOR N. w. McCLAIN, of the Govern
ment Experiment station at Hinsdale, H.,
has been appointed superintendent of the
apiary exhibit of the Paris exposition, to be
neld in April, 1889.
NETTLEs are now being cultivated in many
parts of Europe, their fiber proving useful
Tor n variety of textile fabrics. IN Dresden
! thread is produced from it so fine that a
.ength of sixty miles weighs only two and a
1alt pounds
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-05-24
Two Kinds of Agriculture.

The agriculture of about every country
community is marked by two distinct pur-
poses. The main object of one class of farm
ers, is to keep up the fertility of the %soil.;or
to make it more and more productive.
Raising cash crops is a matter Of second i'm
portance to that of saving manure or the
practice OF a sound rotation. Such men farm
for the future as well as for the present.
This is farming on sound and business prin-
ciples.
Another class of farmers aim to get every
cen they can from their soil. The crops
that bring the most ready cash are raised,
whether they exhaust the soil or not. Man
ure, crop rotation and similar aids to sue
cessful husbandry, are put below the desire
TO make all the cash that can be made from
this seasons crop. This is speculative farm
ing, bound to fail in the end. There never
has been a time in the history of American
agriculture when it would prove moro profit
able TO pursue the first course indicated than
it will today,-Rural New Yorker.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-05-24
Onions in Plenty.

Onion growing as well as milk producing
has become an enormous industry in the
farmer district Immediately west of the Hud-
sou river. and is increasing in importance
from year 10 year. Formerly tho cultivation
OF the onionin these parts was confined 10 a
small district known as the Graycourt mead
ows. on the line of the Erie railroad, near
Chester, and u product of 200, 900 bushels was
considered an enormous crop. This year the
onion growing district extends in an irregu-
lar succession of fields from Madison county
down through Delaware, ~Chenango, and
Orange counties, and into northern New
Jersey; and the crop product OF the region
may be estimated at not less than 500, 00c
bushels.
OF this crop, Madison county, whore onion
growing on a large scale has only recently
been introduced, will turn out 800, 900 bush
els. Orange county 600, 900 bushels. and Sus-
sex and Warren counties, N. j., 800, 900 bush
els. On one New Jersey farm, that Of Swayze
& Bulgin at Independence, the yield will ex-
coed 10000 bushels. Onions are invariably
cultivated on what are known as "black dirt
meadows; y that is TO say on patches Of
owampy lowlands that have been ditched
aid reclaimed, and that afford the growing
bulb a warm spongy soil.
This has been an unusually favorable sea-
son for the crop by reason of the propitious
weather and of comparative exemption from
insect pests, and the crop is the largest ever
grown here, and the prices ~correspondingly
low. Last year, on a light crop, the growers
obtained from IS to $3.50 a barrel, delivered
at the nearest railroad station. Prices opened
this fall at Sis to 50 a barrel. Sales are
now being made at the fields at 90 cents to
81 a barrel, the lowest figures touched in
many years. Buyers are in the district re-
resenting New York, Philadelphia, Cinc!n-
natl and Chicago houses. The bigger part
OF the crop will be shipped to the West.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-05-24
F.fSHJON NOTES.

THE Directoire and wide-brimmad hats il
G-ainsborougli style, of dark velvet, are very
much worn.
IT is the reign Of the osiricll feather. Fans,
furs and hat trimmings are all beautiGed by
its graceful plumcs or flues.
P%INKED-oUT squares of lisht-colored cloth
with braidins or embroidery in gilt or silver
tinsel are used as crown pieces on velvet tur.
bans.
PRETTY and becoming way to arrange {
sash for a young girl is to take a very wide
rib5on-a span in width-and to tack one end
Of each ribbon-for the length must be cut in
two-under the arms, where it reaches from
waist to armhole Of the sleeve. This done
cross the ribbon in front. and carry it to tht
back Of the waist and tie in the usual way.
NEARLY all velvet bonnets have strings and
bows OF the velvet OF which they are made, OF
of velvet ribbon 10 match, evea il other rib
bon is used in the garniture; but upon hats
especially the wide-brimmed Directors
shapes, long steamers Of the ribbon used il
the trimming fall down the back, or ar,
brought round in front and fastened will
small fancy pins but not tied.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-05-24
Materials.

- EL EEF E AN
Plain yelgets, arniures, silk matelasse, and
brocatelle arc the materials employed fol
| dressy wraps, either for autumn or winter
and the elegance Of some of the heavier bro
| catches ana matoiasses Intended for winter
| cioaks surrasses TINT Of many seasons past.
| yeloutiae. q heavy reppe1 faille with soft
silky finish; satin prineesse aHd satin de
| Lyon, similar ~fahrics: %tricotin. an Old ne
eu,uatanee mere admired for its looks than
It's good wearing qualities; mascot silk, with
dull. soft finish; peau de Suede, a sta dniier
surfaced, heavy. cloaking silk; and gros de
! Venise. a new quality Of sicilenne, are the
plain silks which will be used. and trimmed
more or less lavishly with fur. Black III FUR
trimmings, as in other sarnitIlres, take the
| lead. and silk brocatellc cloabs. even OF dark
| colors, or of black with a color introduced,
are trimmed with bands in stolc-like borders
| collar and cuffs OF Russian. Alaska. or Hud-
son bay sable, black bear or lynx.
Brocatelle and matelasse silks are thus
| trimmed. and are lined with satin in rich
quiltings; and these garments, called douil-
lettes by the French manufacturers and i'm
porters, are 50 much lighter and easier to
wear thai the HEAVIER all-fur p~elisses. while
they are sufficiently warm for the coolest
weather. that there is no question of their
extensive popularity.
Smooth-faced beaver cloth in black, gray,
fawn, gobelin blue and volcano red, compose
some of the most stylish newmarkets worn
by young ladies. They are made up with
plain coat or bell sleeves, or with long,
pointed over-siceves, or angel-sleeves. and
trimmed either with black Hercules braid or
the beautifuI-lnd expensive black Persian
tamb skin.
English walking jackets Of the same ma
lerial are trimmed to correspond, but the fur
most liked on cloth IS this same Persian
amb skin, a fine, curly, black fur resembling
lie manufactured astrakan, hut much more
silky.
For opera cloaks, mantelets or long
'ronted visites of eolored, white or black
3rocade are trimmed with borders Of the
srllowish-white natural lynx fur, or with full
ringes Of white Llama. Find faced cloths,
icIily braided with gold and silver tinsel eff
ecfs, in fawn. wood-color, biscuit and white,
are trimmed with the same furs, aud richly
ned with quilted satin in pale evening
.i,ades, rose Bengale, apple green, ciel blue,
= gold color. CoIored pushes in light
,ales. such as gendarme and electric blue,
nj Yeronese red, terra Gotta and crushed
;rawberry will be used also for opera
2aks.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-05-24
Dairy Rations.

1t is not possible TO lay down q rule for
feeding the COW that under all circumstances
may be said to be absolutely the best rule.
We are sometimes so situated that we can
not do the best that could be done, and then
We must do the best we can. 1t is perhaps
always best to do a thing just right and there
fore, TO feed a perfect ration when it is posi-
bic for us to do SO; and yet the Rural and
Stockman always thinks when it says feed
corn meal, ground oats and bran in equal
quantities it has given a ration, which though
not perfect IS practically good enough. A
German ration is cotton seed meal two
pounds, corn fodder fifteen pounds, bran five
pound, malt sprouts five pounds, and corn
meal three pounds. 1t is to be observed that
the corn meal is much less in this ration than
in the one we have given, and unquestion-
ably that is in the right direction. Corn
meal is comparatively inferior milk-produc-
ing food. Professor Armsby gives as a ra-
ton, clover ten pounds, corn ensilage twenty
pounds, corn meal five pounds, oil meal two
pounds, bran five pounds. The roots are
always in order as a part IF a ration. Good
straw is not without its value. But the thing
for US to do is to study the question of scien-
tific feeding that we may at least get on the
right side of the line. We have seen people
feeding corr meal exclusively, when they had
oats, nice straw, and could without much
trouble get bran and oil meal. Now even
moderate understanding of the subject Of
feeding would have led to the feeding Of
everything but corn meal, if anything must
be left ont.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-05-24
Grapes.

{. p. Roe kept Catawba, Isabella, Diana and
Iona by picking on a clear day, using grape
scissors 50 as not to handle much, removing
all imperfect berries and placing in clean, dry
earthern jars, in layers a bunch deep, and
filing the jar in this way; Place a double
sheet Of paper over the top layer and put or
the lid. Strong, unbleached muslin is pasted
entirely over the lid or cover Of the jar when
the covering has fully dried and hardened this
jars buried on a dry knoll beyond the action
of the frost, a stake being placed over each
jar to locate II accurately.
Charles A. Green says: Il have kept Con
cords up to January by packing in dry saw.
dust in market or bushel baskets. A simple
method is 10 place grape leaves between
layers Of grapes as You pick themor sheets 0,
paper. Handsome clusters are preserved by
cutting a piece Of vine with them and placing
one end Of The vine in a bottle of water, also
by covering a stem OF the cluster Mt the poini
where cut with wax. Grapes should be KEEP
as near the freezing point as possible and ye
not freeze"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-05-24

and force the overflow to go over the waste
weir in the middle part Of the dam, as shown
in Fig. $50.
aThe crib is planked on the outside, and a
waste-gate may be made in the planking con-
nected with Il plank race-way from the front
of the dam for use in draining the pond at
any time; the gate is drawn open by an iron
rod and screw at the top of the dam. See
Fig. 357.
'sThe cribs are then filed with earth from
the banks-clean, solid subsoil, free from
all kinds Of decaying matter. The inner
slope should be two feet to one perpen dieu-
lar. One-horse power would raise 5000 gal
Ions of water per hour 40 feet, and it would
b. easier done in a 3-inch pipe than a pinch.
A two-horse tread-power would give enough
force to do the work, and III team is kept on
the place, this might be better than a steam
engine, A fve-horse power boiler and steam
pump can be procured for S200."