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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-06-22

Mrs. Cynthia Palmer died at the hom'
of her daughter. Mrs. Orvis Thayer, las
Wednesday. The remains were taken tc
Williston, where the funeral took place
on Friday.
Mrs. Charles Holden died last Monday
The funeral took place Wednesday al
the West Brookfield church, Rev. Mr.. Va
] ter officiating. She was buried in Rox-
! bury.
c. Brigham Co. are building refriger-
ator in addition to the creamery.
John M. Peavey is no better, and the
same is said of James Copeland.
Ed. Parker has rented and moved into
the tenement in Alex Jerd's house.
Eugene Chadwick recently shot a crow
at distance OF 20 rods.
J. C. Emerson and wife of Bristol and
George Parmalee, wife and daughter OF
Lincoln are visiting at j. G. Mclntyre's.
Mrs. JIG. Mcintyre had the annual fam
lily reunion at her home Tuesday. Twenty
six relatives, who live in different parts Of
the State, were present.
Mrs. G. NJ. Bass and Mrs. Bidwell Fer
ry have been in West Randolph the past
week, caring for their brother, Mr.. Still
man LOOMS, who is very sick with pneu-
monia.
Miss Ella Holman's,brother from Mass
achusetts is spending few days with
her.
CARD.-Orvis Thayer and family wish
to extend their heartfelt thanks to the
friends especially Mrs. William Blanch-
ard and friends up North who assisted
in the sickness and burial OF Mrs. Thay-
er's mother. Mrs. Cynthia Palmer.
Mrs. Celia Archer and son, Herbert, Wis
tied in Granville the first of the week.
Caleb Eddy, wife and little grandson
visited their son in East Bethel last week.
Several OF the farmers have begun this
month to carry their milk to the cream
cry so as to dispense with the care OF the
milk through the warm weather.
DR.. Emerson and wife of the Emerson
School of Elocution, Boston, have been
visiting in town recently, the guests OF
Miss Elsie Powers, former pupil.
Several Of the schools in town close this
week.
Chas. Laskey moved his family to Roy
alton, Monday, where he is engaged TO
work on the section.
Miss Georgia King sbury Of Warren has
been visiting friends in town recently.
Mrs. Nelson Scott is very sick with
pneumonia. She is attended by DR.. Stew
art.
Mrs. Lucinda Blanchard is in West Ran
dolph, assisting in the household cares OF
her brother law since the death OF her
sister, Mrs. Chas. Thurston.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-06-22
WANTED, FOR SALE, ETC.
Few parasols at E. A. Thomas.

New pdidsOiS ~ Il. "a lnoinaS.
New Spring Millinery at Mitchell's.
Great mark-down in millinery at Mrs.
Bickford's.
New stock of japanese Napkins and
Toilet Paper at Bucks.
For SALE.-An 'ss Victor in very good
condition. J. L. MANN.
PINE SHINGLES FOR SALE.-Small lot
nice shingles. c. 4. ABBOTT.
A desirable upstairs tenement to rent.
Situated on Highland avenue. Inquire of
+. |. CHURCH.
Cook WANTED.-A girl or middle-aged
woman to do plain cooking and general
kitchen work-a second girl being kept
to commence June 18th. Want to make
engagement Immediately. Good wages.
Cali on, or write to, VIM. II. DUBOIS.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-06-22
Notice.

A horse, two or three years old, sorrel,
with light name and tail, came into my
possession Saturday, June II. Owner
will please come for property, pay charges
and take the same away.
pd GEO. II. WIGHT, Bethel, VT.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-06-22
North RoyaltOn.

Samuel Mcintosh and wife visited at
Henry buttons recently.
Mrs. l.. H. Abbott is on the sick last.
John Slack is visiting his son, George.
Mrs. Midget is visiting her daughter,
Mrs. Dan Bliss.
Mr.. Faneuf is repairing and charging
his barn.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-06-22
Sherburne.

GTWANTED.-A live correspondent to
the HERALD from this town. We wish to
furnish our readers with local items of
interest. Write for particulars.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-06-22
South Tunbridge.

Ellie Woodwork is home from the
NJ. E. seminary at Montpelier.
Prof. Morrill, of Montpelier is at A. 2.
Woodworth's at present.
Mrs. Il. b. Kimball and daughter OF
Boston and Edith Wills OF Wakefield,
Mass, are at A. j. Wills for fortnight.
Several OF our young men went to
Standing Pond, Strafford, Saturday after
noon. Very few fish were caught, the
night not being propitious.
School finishes this week, with appro-
pirate exercises.
Mrs. Myrtle Shepard and little son OF
Barre are at L. A. Woodward's.
Those who attended the school picnic
last Saturday seemed well pleased with
the days enjoyment. Even the little
raindrops, that for a few minutes came
pattering down, failed to interrupt the
croquet games then in progress. SWING
ing inland out of-the hammocks SEEM
ed to be the favorite pastime. When
ready to leave the "Pines," all enjoyed a
boat ride across the river-this By the
kindness OF Mr.. Currier. ID.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-06-22

Ladies desiring hair work call on Mrs. Hiram
Bean, West Randolph; Vt. Write for prices.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-07
SUICIDE oE A COW.
serrible Effects of Long Drought in ART
IONA Territory.

serrible Effects of Long Drought in ArI-
IONA Territory.
A Phoenix "a. IT, dispatch says:
Every body knows Charlie Duchet, who
is a typical western character. He
knows every inch of ground between
Phoenix and the Navajo reservation,
and has had hairbreadth escapes by the
dozen. He returned recently from q
trip to the Mogollones and had quite a
rough time. He left Fort Mcdowell
and went up to the Gerde and through
quicksand. high water and other draw
backs; was three and half days with
out food himself and horse, and tlav-
eled in that time eighty-three miles.
He reports terrible condition of af-
fairs in the ranges of that section. 1t
is dryer than ever before known, and
cattle are perishing by hundreds At
one place he was in box canyon and
observed that cattle which came to
drink were SO weak and exhausted that
on coming'to the creek they fell into the
water, some of them drowning and 9th
ers drinking SO much that they could
not walk.
The country is utterly barren of feed,
and cattle walk lowing over the mesas,
cropping brush and anything that bears
signs of vegetable life. Mr.. Duehet
was near cliff at least three hundred
feet high over the Verde, on Murray's
ranch, and saw a cow walking slowly
toward the edge. He expected to see
it stop at a reasonable distance, but in
stead without s1aclxinO Ifs r,ooa -
walked right over the edge, striking
two or three times in the precipitous
descent and landing mangled and dead
1t was as clear a case of suicide as ever
occurred. Other cattle have been
known to walk into quicksand and be
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-07
CURLING IRONS AT SEA.
Women Often Risk Life Rather Than Ap
pear with Limp Locks.

pear with Limp Locks.
II is customary to say that modern
science has conquered all the dangers of
the open sea except that of fog. The
New York World declares that those
who say so are mistaken. We build
ships that can buffet any wave and out
ride the most furious gales. But every
one of them carries in her saloon a source
Of danger more threatening than any
that tempest brings or the forces of ma
turc create. There is always the woman
with bang which persists in getting
out of curl That woman provides in
advance for the emergency. She arms
herself against the danger of appear
ing at dinner with unkempt forelock.
She surreptitiously introduces a pair of
curling irons and a spirit lamp into her
cabin, and spite of placard warnings
and peremptory prohibitions she lights
the lamp every day before the altar of
her devotion. She knows, of course,
That every time she does it she imperils
The lives of hundreds of human beings.
But would you have little matter like
that interfere with the essential proc
esses of the toilet?. Is the woman with
bang to be expected to appear with
limp locks at the captains table merely |
that lot of people who are nothing to
her may feel safer against roasting? |
The purser, when he finds her out, tells
her that her act is criminal. But the
purser is only Il man, wholly incapable
of feminine points of view. The captain
may threaten her with irons if she re-
peats the offense, but how is the cap
tain to know if she closes her cabin
door? And so bangs are curled and
lives risl1ed aad ships set on fire occa~
as one ocean liner was recently
on the voyage from Liverpool.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-07
A prelate,s wicked brother.

1t is rumored that one of the brigands
who have been making havoc in the
Campagna is brother of the vicar gen
eral, says the Baltimore American. Not
long ago he headed party of despera--
does that attacked the vehicle of a
church dignitary on the outskirts of
Rome. The divine was horribly
frightened, but was treasured by the
highwayman, who declared that he
would not harm so well-meaning man
as himself In snort while monsig-
more and the masked man were in deep
conversation, the former having been
completely won over by the distin-
guished manners of the brigand. A
few days later monsignore received a
courteous note explaining that a fur
lined cloak was needed and stated that
it might be left at certain spot.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-07
ANTIQUITY OF FOOTBALL.
1t Yves Played by the Greeks and Roman
Centuries Ago.

It Yves Played by the Greeks and Roman
Centuries Ago.
In answer to query whether football
is modern game the Baltimore Ameri-
can says:
No; it was sport which highly de-
lighted both the Romans, and the
Greeks. 1t was known by the former
as harpastum, and by the latter as es-
piskuros. There is reference in Fitz
Stephen which is supposed to indicate
that the amusement was popular IN
England during the reign of Henry H.,
about 1160 This mention has . doubt
full meaning, and may refer only to ten
mis-. 1t is certain, however, that it was
familiar to the subjects of Edward Ill,
for he in 1341 felt compelled to issue an
ed;ct prohibiting it, not because of its
undesirability, but because it inpeded
the progress of archery. For a similar
reason James II. of Scotland also put
the ban on the game Sir Thomas Ell.
yot, writing in the time of Henry Will,
denounced the game as being moth
ynge but beastly fury and extreme
violence whereof proceedeth hurte, and
consequently rancor and malice do re-
main with them that be wounded,
wherefore it is to be put in perpetual
sylence'' James I. also shared this be-
lief in the brutality of the sport, and
wrote in his Basilicon Doron: From
this court debar all rough and violent
exercises as the football, meeter for lam
ing than making able the users there
Of" Barclay in his Fifth Eclogue, dated
1903, had these lines:
g The sturdie plowman, lustie, strong and bold
Overcometh the winter with driving the foot
bali,
Forgetting labour and many o grievous fall
The poet Waller scores it thus:
"As when sort of lust7 shepherds try
Their force atfootball: care OF victory
Makes them salute so rudely, breast to breast,
That their encounter seems too rough for
iest''
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-07
IN YELLOWSTONE PARK.
Changes Continually Going On in the
Wonderful Natural CuriosItles.

| Changes Comfortably Going On In the
Wonderful Natural Curiosities.
Visitors to the Yellowstone National
park in the United States who return
after an absence of a year or more are
generally surprised by finding that
many changes have occurred in the APP
pcarance of the colored terraces at the
mammoth hot springs. Indeed, such
alterations occur sometimes in a period
of a few weeks. The terraces. consist of
number of basins, each set being a
few feet lower than its predecessor, and
the hot water from the springs at the
top of the terraces flows from basin to
basin, depositing It's challsy sediment at
the rims, where evaporation is most
rapid, and thus slowly building them.
up. Wherever the flow of water con-
tinues constant for a considerable time
the Auted edges and side of the basin
become beautifully colored. The varie-
gated hues are mainly due to vegetable
matter, and so if the flow of water
ceases these bright colors rapidly fade,
leaving the terraces milk white. In a
little while the edges and walls of the
dry basins begin to crumble, and the
most beautiful forms disappear in white
dust and chall-like fragments.
One of the favorite terraces at the hot
springs, called the Minerva terrace, ex-s
hibits these changes in a marked degree
because of its conspicuous position.
Sometimes, owing to o failure of the
flow of water the Minerva terrace parts
with its splendid colors and resembles q
set of futed basins carved out of snow,
white marble, but when the water be-
gins to run freely again the colors re-,
turn with all their former vividness and
beauty. The changes in the flow of the
water seem to depend, in part at least,
upon conditions prevailing in the heated
rocks underlying the wonderful ter,
races.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-07
Out of Small Change.

The financial straits of Italy are grow
ing worse from day to day. Coin is de-
creasing at a rate as rapid as to cause
universal CONSERVATION and inconveni-
ence in trade. Storekeepers are issuing
notes payable at sight in their stores.
These notes vary in amounts from a
quarter dollar to few cents, some be-
ing as low as two cents. Instead of al
lowing this natural means for tiding
over the caiamitous period to proceed
unnoticed, the police have at some
places arrested tradesnen for infring-
ing upon the privilege of the crown by
making money. Public opinion is in
favor of allowing tradesmen to continue
in the course. But no one can say what
the end of the police prosecutions will
be, nor how and when the calamity viii
end
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-07
Napoleop,s cbai,e.

One of the attractions at an industrial
exhibition recently held il Metz was
the chaise in which Napoleon travelled
from Paris to Moscow in 1912. It was
bequeathcd to Baron de Hunolstein,
who sold it to a man in Metz upon the
condition that it should never be con
sidered as an article of commerce. The
purchaser, in fact, bound himself in
writing to destroy the vehicle IL he
should not wish TO preserve it. 1t at
tracted great attention at Metz and its
owner received several very advanta-
geous offers from persons who wished
to possess it. One of these he was on
the point of accepting when the heirs
Of Baron Hunolstein interfered and in
sisted that the contract must be lived
up to. The owner was 50 angercd al
losing chance to make nice sum Of
money that he threatened to fulfil the
contract, rot by preserving the historic
chaise, but by chopping it into kindling
wood.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-07
The yEisdom of a Child.

A dear little Philadelphia girl whose
parents have had her duly instructed in
Biblical lore, and who attends most
regularly the Sunday school attached to
an uptown church, has been very much
interested of late in the movements of
the comet and the possible result if it
were to strike the earth in its cratic
wanderings. The other evening, after
having asked many questions regarding
the heavenly stranger, she inquired,
with all childs naivete: "Well, NAM
ma, does the Lord look after all the
planets and the stars and everything
up in the skye" Eyes, DEAR" replied
her mother; why do you ask2" ''oh,
nothing, only I thought he only Just
cared for Philadelphia"
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-07
A NsveI FIST, Net

Sullivan county, where wild land may
be bought at less than five dollars an
acre and where many trout streams arc
unpreserved, has an extraordinary
story ofa Brooklyn sportsman who found
himself at the edge of trout hole lit
orally swalrning with fish when he was
unprovidcd with tackle. He gave de-
spairing glance at the fish and was
about to pass on when most unsports-
manlike idea came into his head, and
the next moment he yielded to the
temptation. The stream was narrow
and the sportsman was broad, SO talk
ing off his trousers he tied the legs into
sacks, and going to the narrowest part
of the trout hole down stream he
weighed down the waistband with
stones and propped wide the natural
entrance to the trousers with stout
sticks. Then wading into the stream
above the fish, he had the satisfaction
of driving the whole shoal into the
gaping mouth of his netted garments.
Approaching cautiously he snatched
the trousers from the water and laid
their writhing limbs upon the bank.
His conduct was most unsportsmanlil1e,
but those who ate the trout overlooked
this little matter of technique
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-07
JOHNNY WAS NO FARMER.
The Professor of Bumps Made the Big
gest Mistake OF His Life.


The Professor of Bumps Made the Big
gest Mistake of His Life.
Johnny is a bright lad of twelve win
tiers and summers, and if he keeps on at
the rate he is now travelling he is des-
tined to become a great man, says the
ST. Louis Republic. His mother gave
him quarter the other day, but instead
of investing in marbles or balls he de
termined to consult a phrenologist in
order, as he said, ''to find out what he
was good for" He visited a ncighbor-
ing expert in bumps and deposited his
quarter, with the remark:
Mister, please tell me ali you know
bout me. See?"
The phrenologist placed Johnny in
chair, and, beginning in very impress
sive voice, said:
young man, your forte in life lies in
the direction of the country. You
should be farmer"
There was moment of silence while
the expert felt his way through Johnny's
bristling hair. Finally the phrenologist
began again:
''Ah, young man, here is another and
more decided bump. This protuberance
denotes want of energy. You should
exert yourself to run about, play with
other boys, take more exercise, andn--
''Hully gee!'' shouted Johnny, wrig-
Cling out of the professors grasp.
Keep off'n that lump. 1 got it turnin'
somersets yesterday and faint gone
down yet See?"
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-07
LONGEVITY OF TREES.
The Forest Monarchs Live for Thousands
of Years.

The Forest Nonarchs Live for Thousand
of Years.
Prof. Abbott estimates the age of the
Woodbridge oak at about two thousand
years. During the revolutionary war
Lafayette and his army rested under
its limbs. Its remains are now in the
form Of seats for the Quinnipiac club. |
do not know that anybody in all the
world cares who the Quinnipiac club
may be, but we reverenced the Wood
bridge oak says a writer in the st.
Louis Globe Democrat. An oak in
Marion county, Fla, is reported as
measuring over ten feet diameter and
spreading its branches over a diameter
OF 13S feet.
A California sequoia felled in Gala
veras county had diameter of IS feet
at the height of 125 feet above the earth.
The German forestry report makes the
maximum age of European forest trees
to be not above 500 years, except in rare
cases. The pine is stated to reach 500
to 500 years; the silver fir attains an age
frequently of over 400 years; the birch
stops at 200 and the red birch at about
$50 years.
Oaks begin to decay at the heart
when about 800 years old, the holly oak
excepted, which goes on to above 400.
Scotch frs are known to live from 200
to 300 years. The sequoias, however,
are estimated to have covered 5000
years.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-07
INSANITY AND GENIUS.
The Fundamental Cause of Both Is Ex-
cessiye Nervous Energy.

The Fundamental Cause of Both Is Ex-
cessive Nervous Energy.
SIT is generally held in science that
the average man is the soundest man,
for it is upon him that nature relies for
the continuance of.the species, and not
upon extremes of variations" said Dr.
A. Macdonald the other evening before
the Washington Antllropological socie-
ty. according to the Post of that city.
Human abnormality might be divided
into three general forms, insanity,
genius and crime. The conclusion is
not that gcniuses are insane, but that
great talents are not given to men
without some cost to the healthy
be objected that these morbid symptoms
are very common among the billiards
and weak minded, this would indicate
that they are as far below the average
as the geniuscs are above.
In saying that genius manifests the
symptoms of a nervous or mental dis
ease we mean an excessive nervous or
brain action. Many forms of insanity
are also manifestations of similar ex-
cS9lolNS dSulOh' N0uCl4 dCblOh III OHC LII
dividral can give rise to most wonder
full, original and brilliant ideas, and we
call it genius. In another individual it
produces also wonderful and original
thoughts, bat often highly absurd, and
we call it insanity. But it appears that
in general the fundamental cause in
both genius and insanity is the same
that is, it is excessive mental or nerv-
olls energy
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-07
Bounds to Her Ambition.

With the fashionable craze for tailor
made get-ups, shirts, waistcoats and
scarfs, there is, nevertheless, an occas-
sional girl who cannot master four
in-hand, or tie black satin scarf as it
should be. One of these, says the New
York Sun, went into haberdasher's
the other day to buy a scarf to wear
with her boyish costume. After she
had looked at them she said:
''Oh, dear me, shall never be able to
tie this! Why can't 1 have one that is.
already tied, with hooks behind?" Very
firmly the answer came to her:
But, madam, no gentleman would
think OF wearing a ready-tied scarf
sob, but" said she, 81 am afraid 1
never shall be a perfect gentleman.
The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-07
REAL cHirDREN IN LITERATURE
They Arc Crowded Ont by the Eminently
Proper Children OF the Viseacres.

They Arc Crowded Ont by the Eminently
Proper Children OF the yFiseacres.
The wise mentors in conventional lit
arature virtually tell you that child
literature wants no real children in it;
that the real child's example of defect
i've grammar and lack of elegant de-
pertinent would furnish to its little pa
trician patrons suggestions very hurtful
indeed to their higher morals, tenden-e
cies and ambitions, writes James Whit
comb Riley in the Forum Then, al
though the general public couldn't for
the life Of it see why or how, and might
even be reminded that it was Just such
a rowdying child itself, and that it's
father-tile father of his country-was
just such child: that Abraham Lincoln
was just such a lovable, lawless childs
all-all this argument would not avail in
the least, since the elegantly-minded
purveyors of child literature cannot
possibly tolerate the presence of any
but the refined children the very
proper children = the stu d iously
thoughtful, poetic children-and these
must be kept safe from the contaminat-
ing touch of our rough-and-tumble little
fellows in holden gray with frowzly
heads, begrimed but laughing faces,
and such awful, awful vulgarities of
naturalness, and crimes of simplicity
and brazen faith and trust, and love of
life and everybody in it. All other real
people are getting into literature; and
without some real children along Will
they not soon be getting lonesome, too?