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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-05-01
HIDDEN WAYS.

One of the most subtle WAYS
of acquiring a love for alcohol is
through pudding sauces, wine
iellies and branded ices served
indiscriminately at large parties
or dinners. Ordinarily thought.
full people of temperance princi.
pies often eat the dish uncon.
cerned, or with a covert laugh
rather than run the risk of ridi.
cule. While others are actually
so innocent of the taste of liquor
that, unless the full name is on
the menu, they eat in serene igno-
rance, pleased or displeaSed, as
the flavor changes.
Another hidden way is by the
subterfuge of "bitters," tones"
and such taken under the name
of prescriptions" The Home
Guardian gives a case in point.
A church officer of all Eastern
church lately accused his pastor
of using intoxicants, and DR.. Day,
of Boston, was called, as an ex.
pert, in the trial, when a large
number of ginger bottles were
found in the clergyman's private
study, which with some other
evidence, went to show that he
was secretly addicted to this vice
In regard to Jamaica ginger Dr.
Day is reported as saying: 1T
takes the strongest kind of alco-
hol to preserve Jamaica ginger,
and the tincture ofthis substance
is extremely inebriating when
used even in small quantities. |
knew a patient who used to get
drunk on a spoonful or two ofthis
stuff, and there isn't any doubt
that a great many people use it
as an intoxicant."
-.
No less a man than Chauncey
Depew contributes the follow
ing to the temperance literature
of the day:
twenty-five years ago KNEW
every man, woman and child in
Peekskill. And it has been a
study with me to mark boys who
started in every grade oflite with
myself, to see what has become
of them. l was up last fall and
began to count them over, audit
was an instructive exhibit. Some
of them became clerks, merchants,
manufacturers, lawyers. 1t is
remarkable that everyone of
those that drank is dead not
one of my age. Barring a few
who were taken off by sickness,
everyone who proved a wreck and
wrecked his family did it from
rum and no othercauS OfthoSe
who were church-going people,
who were steady, industrious and
Woodworking men, who were
frugal and thrifty, every single
one of them, without an excep-
ton, OWNS the house in which he
lives and has something laid by,
the interest on which, with his
house, would carry him through
many a rainy day. When aman
becomes debased with gambling,
rum or drink he dosen t care, all
finer feelings are crowded out.
The poor women at home are
the ones who suffer-sutier in
their tenderest emotions; suffer
in affections for those whom they
love better than life. "
~. -.
Many Island Pond readers will
recognize the subject of the fol
lowing paragraph clipped froma
Boston paper:
The first member of the first
Christian Endeavor Society,
which Was organized at Port
land, Me, ten years ago, is now
about twenty-four years old,
and is a deacon in the Congrega-
tional Church in Arcadia, Neb,,
and superintendent of its Sunday
school.
rHR JOLLY FROG.
Winter is gone, with its skies so wan;
Its icy bands are broken.
Warm breezes blow, the rivers flow,
| And Tho ,uocda of i;E. ,r;ys token
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-12

The attempts to produce rain by con-
cussion of the atmosphere awaken the
| criticisms OF the non-believers. An illus
tration of the arguments against the sue
! cess Of the experiment is the following
from the Springfield Republicans:
Recently we pointed out the fact that
rain had followed heavy battles before the
invention of gunpowder-a fact that must
have escaped the attention of our Govern
ment rain compellers. Prof. "A. Hazen
now shows in Science that the Overwhelming
majority of the engagements great and
small in our Civil War were not followed by
showers within twenty-four hours. There
were fought in all about 1900 battles, but
only 15s of them afford any justification for
the dynamite and balloon theory of making
ii wet.
At first sight this looks to be so hard a
blow at the rain-producing idea that it
seems as if the Government experimenters
might as well make a pyrotechnic display
of their hydroge. gas and dynamite and
come home. But on more critical exam
inatiOn it is not quite so conclusive. The
correlation of the two facts would be
taken to indicate theory that, since rain
followed battles before the invention of
gunpowder, and did not follow the ma
jority of the battles in our Civil War, the
effect of gunpowder is to abolish rain
storms. But we do not think that our
cOtemporary intended to make any effort
to prove too much in that way Rain has
followed heavy battles befoSe gunpowder,
undoubtedly. It has followed The corona
tion Of Kings, the Inauguration of Presi-
dents, and last year in this city the tearing
up of numerous streets to grade them, re-
ducing them to a sea of unfathomable
mud.
As to the vital question whether rain
followed heavy battles as frequently be-
fore gunpowder was used. as after, that is
something that cannot be decided because
statistics are entirely lacking on one side
and are very sparse on the other. The at
tempt to supply them from our Civil War,
quoted above, places itself under suspi-
cion by the figures it gives 1t presents
total of 1900 conflicts. This, if we make
a fair allowance for the periods between
Bull Run and Appomatox, when HOSTILE
ties were suspended by winter, calls upon
us to contemplate an average of three and
one-6ighteenth. battles per diem. 1t is
plain that this total must have included
every skirmish between outpoSts; and that
the majority of them would have about as
much bearing on the subject as the cross
fire between couple of Billingsgate fish
wives. Such a statistical effort is calcu-
lated to provoke the inquiry whether 15S
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-12
A SIGNIFICANT ADMISSION.
Gladstone's Hour of Triumph Is Said to Be
Near at Hand.

Ne6f at 6anO.
Boston Traveller.l
Mr.. Edward Dicey, one of the best known
of the English Liberal Unionists, who, since
the home rule policy was adopted by the
English liberals, under the lead of Mr.
Gladstone, has warmly supported the Sails
bury Government, makes significant ad-
mission in the current number of the
Nineteenth Century," when he declares
that nothing except Mr. Gladstone's retire
ment from public life can prevent his re-
turn to power, unless the Conservatives do
certain things, which Mr.. Dicey is conf
dent they will never consent to do. Mr.
Dicey finds little In the achievements of the
Salisbury Government to enlist popular
sympathy in its support. Even the free
education act does not seem to have elected
enthusiasm. MIR. BalfOur's proposed scheme
for the local government of Ireland prom
ises nothing in the way of sa isfying Home
hope to retain power they must make vastly
stronger bids than they have heretofore
done for popular support.
The bids which Mr.. Dicey suggests how
ever, would transform the Conservatives
into the most radical of Radicals. He would
have the House of Lords purged and recon-
structed by expelling all the disreputable
and bankrupt peers and substituting life for
hereditary peerages. He would have the
Conservatives adopt as a party cry, zone
man, one vote" utterly repudiating the
theory that property should have rep
would also have the Conservatives
appeal to the British workingmen for sup
port by introducing at once the eight-hour
bill for which the Socialists have SO long
clamored. Such bids lie thinks, might
bring the Salisbury Government success;
but that the Salisbury Government will ever
make them borders on the impossible and
the inconceivable. Mr.. Dcey is doubtless
right. The hour of the triumph of the Glad
stonians is near at hand.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-12
THE SEA BREEZE AND THE SCARF,

Hung on the easement that looked o'er the main
Fluttered scarf of blue;
And gay, bold breeze paused to futter and tease
This trihe of delicate hue.
You are lovefier far than the proud skies are g"
He said with a voice that sighed;
''You are farer to me than the beautiful sea-
Oh why do you stay here and hide?
you are wasting your life in that dull, dark
room
(And he fondled her sllken folds).
Ger the easement lean but little, my Queen
And see what the great world holds.
How the wonderful blue of your matchless hue.
Cheapens both sea and sky
You are far too bright to be hidden from sight
Come. fly with me, darlng-hy.''
Tender his whisper and sweet his caress
Flattered and pleased was she,
The arIps of her lover lifted her over
The easement out to sea.
Close TO his breast she was fondly pressed
Kissed once by his laughing mouth;
Then dropped to her grave in the cruel wave,
While the wind went whistling south
Ella Wheeler WIlcor.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-12
OUR MAIL POUCH.
Cause of the Sepoy Mutiny.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Can you inform me as to what was the
cause OF the SeDoy mutiny in India?
MchEEsPoRT, September 10. S.A
IThe cause of the Sepoy mutiny of 1857 was
the restiveness of the native population
under the rule of a foreign commercial cor
porat1on. The occasion of the outbreak in
1857 was an incident which occurred in jan
uary OF that year. A man employed in
making cartridges for the Enfield rifles, just
given out TO the native army, asked Sepoy
OF a Grenadier regiment for sip of water
from his canteen. The soldier was q high
caste Hindoo, and at once angrily refused
since had the artisan touched his lips to the
caDteen that article would become forever
unclean and must have been thrown away.
The workman sneeringly rejoined that the
soldier need not be so particular, as the new
cartridges were creased with bullocks' fat
and every Sepoy had already defiled
himself by biting OFF the paper. The
story was falsehood. as the cart
ridge paper was fabricated with vegetable
oil, the East India Company having scrup-
ulously respected the religious principles of
the Hindoos; but being believed by the
Sepoy, 1t spread from mouth to mouth with
wonderful rapidity. 1t was caught up by
agitators and repeated with variations. The
HindoOs were assured that the cartridges
were creased with the fat of the sacred cows;
fat of pigs, an animal abhorrent to the fol-
lowers of Mohammed, had been employed,
while other tales declared the lubricant to
be drawn from the bodies of native children.
The issue of the obnoxious cartridges was
at once discontinued, but the mischief had
been done, and before June the larger part
OF the native army was in open mutiny.
The rebellion was virtually suppressed by
the end of that year, the mutineers being
everywhere defeated in the open field,
though military operations against the rebels
did not cease unfit May, 1851
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-12
An ECONOMIC FALsITY.

In noticing the fact that Belgium has
lately been successful in building up big
trade with Brazil, paying for coffee and
other Brazilian products with the cheap
manufactures of iron for which Belgium
| is noted, the Philadelphia Ledger says:
Reciprocity should divert some of this
trade to the United States, though we can
not and ought not to even try to compete
with Belgium in the cheapness Of some
goods made solely for export.
| 1t is true that we cannot and should not
try to compete with Belgium merely in
the cheapneSs of her products, but that
affords no reason for not trying to COM
pete in the South American trade. 1t is
getting common to hear it said that COM
petition forces the production and sale of
cheap ard worthless goods. But in regard
to the competition which this nation must
meet in trying to increase her trade with
South America, and with regard to the
general action of that economic force, it is
worth while to say that there is not
more shallow and groundless assertion
among all the economic heresies of the
day.
i
worthless articles, and drives genuine and
valuable goods out of the market, then the
work of this country must have been one
of deterioration. Every expansion of COM
merce, every industrial invention, every
new device in trade has been
stimulated and inspired by COM
petition But instead of the work
of the competitive era having been in the
direction of deterioration in the quality of
its products, it has had exactly the oppo-
site result The vast majority of the in
ventiOns which have revolutionized in
dustry have proceeded on the plan of
turning out something that costs more
than the article Supplanted, but which
was so much better that it was the cheaper
in the end Columns could be filled with
examples of this principle; but two eX-
amples are sufficient to show its range.
Steel rails when first introduced cost
twice as much as iron rails; and they
never cost as little until they had driven
the iron-rail making industry out of ex-
istence by their superior quality. Agri-
cultural machinery is an example in an
entirely remote field It costs farmer a
thousand dollars or more to buy the har-
vesters, mowers, threshing machines,
seeders, cultivatorS, etc, which have sup
planted the old tools, costing perhaps
twenty-five dollars, but fortunes are made
in manufacturing and selling these things
because they are worth more.
A man may under competition sell
worthless goods; but competitive forces
tirely absent when he has monopoly.
The reputation for manufacturing and
selling articles of firSt-class quality is of
the highest commercial value. If we can
send to Brazil manufactured articles
which are better worth the money for
Brazilian purposes, we need not fear the
competition of the cheap Belgian manu-
features.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-12
THEY DO NOT NEGLECT 1T.

As a deduction from the cases of certain
towns which have been left on one side by
railroad building with the result of decay
for them while new towns have sprung up
at the railway stations, the New York
Ere1ting San thinks il has discovered a
new source of railway wealth. 1t thinks
that railway builders can now see that
there were millions and millions of wealth
that ''they have lost through their own in
sufflciency of vision" It's idea of the way
to make money in this connection is given
as follows:
Had they but built their lines past the
towns instead of to them, they might them
selves have owned the town sites; might
have reserved to themselves alternate lots;
might now, from dizzy pinnacles of opu-
iCnce, have laughed monarchs TO scorn 1t
is not yet too late to repair this colossal
bluader A four-track road from the Bay of
Eundy to Puget Sound, avoiding by not less
than twenty miles every town on the line of
more than twenty thousand people, would
tGIn out the most brilliant operation ever
cUnsummatcd by human wit
In this commentary on the subject as
lost source Of profit for the railway build
ers the esteemed B0enSng Sun betrays a
shortage of knowledge both on the history
OF railroad building and on the ability of
railway promoters to see all chances of
profit. In the first place its darling scheme
has been tried with a dazzling result of
failure. Over twenty years ago the At
lantic and Great Western. railway
was built very nearly on thNt theory.
1t started from point as
near nowhere as it could find on the Erie
road, and ran to a point in Ohio which has
always succeeded in escaping the public
notice. In its route between those points
i successfully managed to avoid hitting
Gny towns larger than Meadville in this
State and Akron in Ohio. Before getting
into operation it was forced to absorb one
or two branches to connect it with the
large cities which have done fair busi-
ness; but the striking location of its main
line has register cd the result that it has
never quite earned the interest on its
bonds. The condition of perpetual bank
ruptcy which this enterprise attained has
since acted as sort of danger signal to
capitalists against putting their money in
railroad enterprises that are too magnif-
cent to go to the places where freight is
produced.
The shining EoenSng San is also in error
in suppoSing that railroad men have ne
elected the source of profit arising from
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-12
rITrsBURG, SATURDAY, SEPT. IL, 1871
TWELVE PAGES
coal NINE FATALITIES

There is a very impressive statement in
Il few dry figures published from The office
Of the Secretary OF Internal Affairs with
regard to the fatalities in the coal mining
industry of the State The total of 524
coal miners killed in the peaceful vocation
cf producing fuel, within single year, is
a solemn evidence of the hazards of that
labor. which when il is made the subject
of thought, is even more convincing than
the sensation caused by such wholesale
disasters as the Hill Farm or Mammoth
mine explosions.
If we are not mistaken this total covers
year which does not include the two
eases referred to. in which lives were lost
by scores; although it does comprise one or
IlOIe less sensational disasters of the sort
in the anthra cite field. The lesson Of the
figures is Therefore that the greater loss
of life in coal mining is produced by the
constant succession of the everyday
casualties, which are not enough out of the
common run to secure public notice. The
total tells us that, with allowance for the
days when work is suspended, the work Of
coal mining requires the average sacrifice
VI hNb ltNtH lbi NttNI Slldl biAt NOlh
goes on. Of each $50 men employed in
side the mines one must lose his life within
= wear. This story of constant slaughter
in addition TO the arduouS labor, scant
wages and frequent periods of enforced
idleness, put the dangers and hardships of
coal mining in very strong light.
1t is not comfortable TO reflect that, with
this statistical proof of the necessity of
the most complete safeguards against loss
of life in the mines, the legislation for that
purpose underwent the stereotyped pro-
cess of muddling and spelling in the last
Legislature The figures should make it
clear that no provisions can be too stria-
gent which will effect reduction iG this
total of fatalities and make years coal
mining somewhat less costly in the total
Of lives lost than pitched battle between
two large armies.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-12
RHYMELETs AND RHYNKLEs.

Hownow-What have you been doing?
You look trife light headed.
Jagley-S' think mi kht; just been where there
was greatest lot of corks you ever saw.-Bosto1
COt,rter-JO,rRnl.
If the years were as long as they are to
girl
'Twixt thirty and twenty-nine.
A man of sixty would be rs old
AS all of Methuselah's line.
-Phil1detphi1 Times.
He (on the back poreh)-There's mos
quito on your other arm. Shall remove it9
She-I couldn't allow you to put your arm around
my waist.-Nc1o York Herald.
The girl who hasn't yet "come out.
Her bathing suit begins to trim.
And though she's young without doubt
'''' '''H - - -Es,o FORK Press.
Thin passenger (after half an hours
torture)-I think il would De only talr IL people
were charged by weight.
stout nassenger-YOu may be thankful 1t isn't So
os mo conductor would think 1t worth his while 70
pick YOU up.-CInciannti Tirses-Sar.
Mrs. Brown-What makes that baby cry
So Benjamin?
Mr.. Brown (who is doing the perambulatIng aco
I'm Dinching him.
.sWhy, what in the world are you doing that
fOr?''
II can't keep awake long enough to get him 70
sleep unless he cries. Btn0hGmptOn Lender.
The fellow who goes summering
Has reason now and cause,
To find the application of
Some very ancient saws"
For when mine hosts encountered,
And they've had greeting drop,
He finds there's not room below
But plenty at the top.'' " T. Herald.
Young man-So Miss Ella is your Oldest
sister. Who comes after her.
Small brother-Nobody amt come as vet, but pa
says the first fellow that comes can have her.-De-
svit Free Press.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-12
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE
Rev. DR.. william Barrows.

Rev: DIR. William Barrows, prominent as
an author and clergyman in the Congregational de-
nomination, died In Boston Thursday, aged 76 years.
In 1915 he was ordained and installed in Norton.
In 1850 he was installed the church in Grant
viIle near Wellesley Hills. Thence he moved in
1856 to become pastor of the old South Church,
Reading. In 1859 he made Secretary of the
Congregational Sunday School Publishing Society.
and illed this office until 1873, when he elected
to the Secretaryship of the Home Missionary So
ciety. After Mr.. Barrows gave up this work, in
1880. he devoted himself mainly to the educational
and religious wants of the United States frontier
having made IL long tours on the border. He was
lecturer on prehistoric America and on the colo,
he wrote much on these subjects for periodicals.
In 1869 he published Twelve Nights in a Hunters
Camp:'; in 1875, The Church and Her Children;''
in 1852, .'Purgatory Doctrinally. Practically and
Historically 0pened:'' in 1883, Oregon. the
Struggle for POssessiOn:'' and in 1887, The In
diansF Side of the Indian Question. . and 1.-The
United States of Yesterday and of TO-mOrrow.n
He was founder and for seven years an editor of
the Congregational Reuie11.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-12
FINE ART IN WARFARE.
The New Weapons Not Only Kill Quickly
but Neatly.


Chicago News.l =
1t seems that the war authorities of Eu-
rope are deeply impressed by the perform
ance Of the Mannlicher rifles In the hands of
the insurgent Chileans, who, by their aid,
recently induced Dictator Balmaceda to go
elsewhere to do his debating. The Austrian
soldiers are armed with these handy weap-
ons, and the other nations are wondering
whether they would not do well to run up
bill at the gunsmith's for few million Man.
nlichers in order that they too may be ready
TO do their killing after the pleasing Chilean
fashion. What is particularly attractive to
connoisseurs in manslanghter about the
guns is that they not only destroy men
rapidly but that they do it neatly. The
wound caused by the bullet shows no Jagged
edges, but is round and tidy and bored in a
strictly workmnnttke manner. 1t is Il pleas
ure to kill your enemy easily and with pro-
fessional nicety of touch.
Nothing could be more annoying to per
son of refined feelings than to find that any
little piece of shooting performed by him
had been accomplished in a bungling fash
ion. To puncture your man is, of course,
something, but to puncture him in such a
way that he will feel proud of the mark and
will send you a note expressing his thanks,
provided he survives, is a really esthetic
triumph. Since the war authorities have re-
jected the plan OF an ingenius scientist, who
offered to show how an army might be
chloroformed at its guns and taken prisoner
before it knew what had struck it, perhaps
they could do nothing better than pronouce
in favor of guns that do their shooting with
great precision and yet pile up their slain
compactfy and decently. If the projectors
could manage also to pin bouquets on the
bosoms of the coats of those whom they
have "removed''-to use the gentle euphe-
mism so happily applied by Minister Fat
Egan TO gentlemen Suddenly taken else
where by Irish revolutionary methods
there would be nothing more to be desired