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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20
An Aged NimrOd.

An octogenarian farmer of Bluehill,
Me, felt his sporting blood stirred by
the tales of the big things the hunters
were doing in the woods this year,
and the other day tried to borrow his
sons rife, saying he WAS going deer
hunting. The young man tried to
dlssuade him from his purpose, fear
ing the old man would meet with some
mlshap. The old fellow got much
nettled at this, said some sharp things,
snatched up the gun, and started of
into the woods. Within three hours
be came out and sent his son after twc
hue deer which he had hunted up and
KILLED. New York Sun.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20
Christi. y N Peru.

A Christmas celebration in Peru he's
peculiar features. In the cities, and
more especially in Lima, there are be.
wiidering scenes of activity on Christ
mas Eve. The streets and square are
crowded with gayly dressed people.
Droves of asses are to be seen in every
direction, laden with fruits, boughs
from the mountains, liquors and other
merchandise. Ice stalls, provided
with chairs and benches, are crowded
by the persplring pleasure seekers,
who find ice necessary on sultry
Christmas.
As night approaches the streets are
packed with noisy people, and joke
and Jest and merry prank become the
rule. These are participated in mostly
by strangely attired persons in mask.
Music of guitars, Gathering castanets
and pebbles rafting in gouris fill the
air with mingled discordant sounds,
No door is closed. There is music
and dancing and the distribution OF
gifts IN every house. All are welcome
to enter. Strangers are sure OF n
hearty welcome, and tn be foreigner
is to have double claim on hospital
! ity and to receive double welcome.
/ All ceremony and restraint are absent.
IN many houses the love of the Christ
mas drama is shown by theatrical rep
reservations of the Nativity, with the
same characters as are seen the world
! over.
Suddenly the scene changes. The
curtain falls on toe play, the music
and dancing cease, and the people so
from their homes. The midnight bell
at the cathedral has summoned all to
mass. The houses and streets are
nearly deserted, while the churches,
with their decorations and blazing
tapers, are thronged. Worshipers are
kneeling before the many shrines that
line their walls, and wherever they
can find place where one of the many
waxen images OF the saints are dis
played. With the organs peal, and
the entering Of the richly vested priests
and plainly attired monks, begins the
celebration of the mass.
Again, on Christmas morning, the
streets are crowded and the markets
are thronged, but at 8 o'clock the
churches are again filled. After the
services come the feast and the games
and the sports. When night comes
there is grand procession headed by
the priests and monks, who are fol.
lowed by the soldiers and people. All
are gayiy dressed, and many in fan
tastic costumes and masks. Banners,
flags, streaming ribbons, and green
boughs are carried, and music fills the
air. In the midst OF the procession
there is held aloft the figure OF the
Madonna bearing in her arms the
holy chlld. After long march the
procession returns to the cathedral,
there disbands, and the Christmas Day
celebration is at an end.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20
What Trained Senses Can DO.

1t Is remarkable how we'll per-
fumer learns to recognize scent. In test
ing sweet smelling liquid he vets the
base OF his left thumb with little of
il. Then he rubs the place rapidly
with his right hand. The alcohol in
which the essence is dissolved, being
the more volatile, is at once evaporated
and the substance which emits the odor
remaining, he can smell it in its purity.
OF course, it is an easy thing to
recognize the principal odors which
are IN use, hut when several are
mixed, as Is common. his task becomes
more difficult. Yet skilled man can
not only tell you what three or four
perfumes enter into the composition
of the one he is testing, but also,
roughly, the relative proportions of
each.
1t is easy to tell the relative amount
OF wool and cotton in piece of col
ored underwear when you know how.
Men who have made the subject spec
ialty can do this by holding the cloth
in the light and looking along it.
! The cotton and wool can be distin-
guish ed by the difference in their col,
ors, used for both. The unframed eve
could hardly detect the fact that the
cloth had two shades, but the skill
that comes from long practice makes
the thing simple.
There are many men, too, who are
able to tell an English book from al
American book by the smell. The
books printed in England in nearly
every case have pleasanter odor thar
! those made in America. The kind OF
paste, ink, paper and binding used has
! probably something to do with it.
There are ways of telling who the
publishers of given book are besides
looking at the title page. Somehow
every firm gives certain character
istic look to every volume which it is
sues, and a skilled man, in nine cases
out of ten, merely by looking at the
binding and one Of the pages, can tell
from whose presses and bindery work
comes. This, of course, applies only
to the larger firms and to books print
ed comparatively recently. Parsons
Weekly.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20
CmRISTNAs EYERGREENS.
How They Were First Used In OIde n
Times.

Among the votaries OF the early
DTuids there was a superstition that
the houses should be decorated With
eyergreens in December, IN order
that the sylvan spirits might enter
them and thus he kept free from the
blast of the cold North wind and the
frost, until a milder season renew the
foliage of their usual haunts.
The Christmas tree Is really from
Egypt, where the palm tree puts forth
branch every month, and where a
spray OF this tree, with twelve shoots
on it, was used in Egypt at the time
OF the winter solstice, as symbol Of
the wear completed.
Who does not know the poem begin
ming
The mi>tlstoe hung in the castle hall.
The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.
Years ago over every mans door in
England hung sprig of mistletoe at
this season. There still hovers mys.
tic charm about the mistletoe, and
many a girl now, with thrill of ex.
pectancy, places branch OF 1t undes
the chandelier or over the door. Ac-
cording TO former belief, when Il
girl is caught and kissed under the
mistletoe a berry must be picked of
with each kiss, and when the berries
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20
The roy ami the Stuffed Bear.

Captain Martin Hyland, the hand
soonest member of the Indianapolis
po,ice force, SO the ladies of the North
Side affirm, has, or did have, favored
dog, which was household pet. To-
day the animal trudged down the
street for the first time at the heels of
his master. privilege heretofore not
allowed. and. as his dogship made him
self familiar with everything striking
his fancy. he suddenly found himself
confronted with a huge stuffed bear,
standing in front Of furrier's estab-
ishmeut.
VIII. "a ve1r If alarm, the doc took
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20

self, walking home from the old church
at Christmas time, under the stars.
"Wish me God-speed. will you not?"
he had asked her, and her gentle voice
had hidden him farewell quietly and
evenly, so that he never knew how
deep was the pain in the loving heart,
or how near the tears were to the
pretty eyes that strove so bravely to
smile on him for the last time. And
now, he thought to himself, how he
would tell her everything! He would
ask her to wait for him, to be his wife
when he came back again with fame
and fortune to lay at her feet. And
the stars shone down on them as they
went up the quiet lane, as if to bless
his plan.
But some one had joined them as
they went---an unwhoIesome third.
Ends little thoughtless cousin, who
little guessed, poor child, the sorrow
that her presence brought. And there
had only been time for "Good-by" at
the gate, for he would not come in,
he said---only "Good.by" and q trem-
ulous hand shake and---he was gone.
And Miss Ends love story had
never really begun---it had only been
dream, perhaps, who was to know?
So the long years had passed, TAX
ing one by one OF her loved ones
away, as the autumn takes the flowers
that are wearied with the long, long
summertime, until she was left alone
alone in the pretty old house where
the swallows built under the caves in
the spring, and where the garden was
ablaze with roses and syringa and
clematis all through the summer. And
the children of the village were her
friends, and the vicarage babies came
and grew up like flowers around her,
weaving themselves into her calm,
sweet life, so she had something to
love, and no one ever knew how some
times she longed and yearned until her
heart felt almost breaking-for what ?
Alb, dear hearts, cannot tell you.
You must picture for yourselves g
lonely woman one who could love
deeply, truly, passionately, one tc
whom little children turned as to &
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20

1t is NEST valuable to work up in com
bination with laurel, ivy and mlstletoe,
into wreaths, anchors, stars, crowns
and other ecclesiastical designs, while
for running decorations, that is long
festoons and great sweeps Of green, Il
few OF the bright red berries wound in
at regular intervals heightens the ef-
feet and relieves the eye.
The fayorite manner Of arranging
holly for sale is to make it mp into
some one of the numerous designs APP.
prouriate to the day and the season,
and thus most OF the plant offered
this wear is fashioned. Holly Is not
so expensive as the mistletoe, and is
more hardy and lasting. 1t has no
tradition connected with it, however,
and thus loses it's sentimental value.
But to the decorator, the artist, the
florist and the dealer it is one OF the
best, most ornate, and suggestive
plants for use at home or III puollc
places that can be selected at this sea-
SON
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20
The Bird OF DawninS.

A popular superstition is that on the
eve of Christmas the bird of dawnlng
singeth all night long to brighten off
any evil thing.
1t was from this belief that Shake
speare wrote:
'Some say that ever 'yainst that season
comes,
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated.
The bird of dawning sngeth all night long;
And then, they say, no spirit dares stir
abroad
The nights are wholesome, then no planets
strike.
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to
charm.
So hallowed and 50 gracious is the time"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20

what he says. Mothers love and ali of
ours, and oh !" forgetting all their de-
mureness and finging two pairs OF
arms around her neck at once, "we'll
bring it this minute. Promise that
you'll be pleased"
But Miss Ends promise was never
made, for at that instant the door
opened again, and some one, tired OF
waiting outside, came in
There was ashout from the children,
and cry, glad, startled, tender cry,
from Miss Enid and then everything
else was forgotten, and the astonished
BARNES saw their friends slender form
clasped closely in the arms of the
"present, who was usually called by
them "Uncle Edward"
Darling, darling" they heard him
say, and just then Angela, with wonder
full tact, discovered the pile of parcel:
addressed to each of them, and sug-
gested that they should carry them
into the kitchen to show to old Jennie,
which the children were nothing 10th
to do, leaving the lovers alone to theil
wonderful new-found bliss
"And I've forgetted to give er my
Kis'mas card, after all, and bootifu
money-box that | brought on pur.
pose," said Bobby just as he was going
to bed on Christmas night, very mucl
aggrieved.
"Give her the card tomorrow,
suggested Ronald, and Marjorie said,
"And the money-box would do for
wedding present, you know, Bobby.
Mother says It's to be soon"
And then she added, what every one
said that happy day when they hearc
OF the wanderers return, Dear Mis-:
Enid"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20

Now the Christmas time T. near,
And the stores ars bright. but dear
Little voices may We hear
L;spiag swee,
Al our feet
"San,a Claus
And the eheruhs are not dumb.
With their wish: Il want a drum,
Tell u. won't YOU. when he'll come?
Dear mama
Good papa
Santa Claus
81 want a dollyl' princess cries;
zone that opens and shuts its eyes,"
Another cherah, still. but wise,
Nutters. Bricks,
Lots %! tricks
Santa Claus
Chorus stiIl Of cheruh Joys:
MA. tell him TO bring rs boys
knives. ana skates. and lots Of Joys"
Baby sings:
me want 'ings-
Santa Claus
So they chatter as they play;
Curly head both grave and gay.
Bring them pleasure while you may:
Youth will fly.
Hone will die
Santa Claus.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20
HOLLY IN DECORATIONS.
It's Red Berries a Beautiful Feature
in Christmas Adjournment.

A picturesque shrub especially use
iul at this time Of the year * the holly
with its tough aud shining spinons
leaves aud its pretty little full, round
berries. II is the only plant appro-
pirate to this happy period that re-
lieyes the deal green and monotonou,s
white of the woodworking plants and
vines supposed to belong TO Christmas
and the days that follow Epiphany
Like the mi,tletoe, most OF the molly
exposed for sale IN American marts
comes from Great Britain, although
some species of the plant grow III the
Southern States.
The commercial holly, however, IS
cut in Scotland and sent mere IN bags.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20
JOKERS' CHRISTMAS BOX.

McSwatters RS" What are you going
to hang up for Christmas?" McSwit
ters-"My watch, probably. syria.
cuse Post.
Cobble-"Well, I suppose I'll hay {
to eat my Christmas turkey in board
ing house this year" Stone-"That's
tough. Life.
81 might say that ! feel drawn to
YOU" MS the turkey remarked to the
man who had won him in q rattle. -
Buffalo Courier,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20

aH'AAA' as HaH.Nf'-
IS an Offset for this enormous ox-
psnditure We have an income that
when compared with the rest of Eng
land j. simply gigantic. The assessed
rental value Of houses for London Is
upward of $50, 900. 900, nearly 80
per cent. OF the total for all England;
net profits of trades OF professions,
500, 600. 900, or over Al per cent. In
the schedules relating to particular
properties aud public companies, Lon
don represents nearly 60 per cent, or
"a total of SlI5, 600, 600, and in salaries
and fees nearly 10 per cent, or Sll5,-
100, 900. total annual income exceed
ing 81 600, 900, 900.
Perhaps these astoun ling totals rep.
resent.ng incomes may give American
readers some idea of the volume OF
earnings that pour annually into the
Golfers of this great centre of the
worlds wealth, trade and commerce.
The items of expense given in the
table above only represent the more
striking expenditures. 1t would be
safe to estimate the total cost in round
figures, say at 2l1O,000,000. Nearly
a quarter of this goes for furnishing
artificial light; another quarter for
pauperism and charities. London S
gas bill represents nearly one-third
the amount expended for gas by the
United Kingdom. Nor is the item
Of pauperism and charities large when
We bear in mind the appalling fact
that twenty-seven out of every
hundred deaths in this aggregation
OF humanity occur in public institu'
tlons. Every fourth person you meet
on the crowded, busting thorough
fares of living London dies a pauper,
an inmate of hospital or Of lunatic
asylum. North American Review.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20
MISS ENDS PRESENT,
BY AUGUSTA HANCOCK.

ISIS ENID sat by
the fire i'll the
oak parlor, and
gazed into the
bright flames as
j. she saw there
S o m e cry
lovely picture
of the past.
pretty Mis- 5
Enid" til e Y
S o IN e t i m e S
called her in
the parish, and
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20

Hobbles-"My wife's got me box
of cigars for a Christmas present.
But I'll get even with her." Pomas
WHAT will you do?" Hobbies
II m going to select her next hat my
self. "-Chicago Record.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20

We waited TO see what his fanN would pc,
And my heart went pit-a-pat-pa.
CANA Eveline said hers did the samrl,
Til we heard the miau Ola cA..
There were two little kittie,, \ lovely pes
ent
For Christmas, think. don't you?
And father says, We'll, it was Santa Claus.
And Evelne says 50 too
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20

Il suppose they will roast me and
then pull my leg for dinner" re-
marked the turkey as the oven door
hid him from view. Philadelphia
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20
L,nar.. En.r1naus EzrsnlIlures.

London's annual budget, as nearly
A. arm able % estimate IL. for taking
care OF between five aud SIX millions
IT people IL as follows:
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20

Unhappily the man who spells it
"Xmas" is doing it again this year. -
Boston Globe.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20

But when the morning began to break
suddenly woke up quite
And lookei TO see If dear Santa Claus
Had thought of US in the night
When, oh! how frightened I was! l heard
A noise by the foot Of the bed
/ whispered. 1T must he Santa Claus"
Eyes, it must be, Eveline said.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20
WHAT KRIS KRINGLE

We hung up our stockings on Christmas Eve
On the knobs at the foot OF the bed.
eve shall find them crammed with beautiful
things
When we wake in the morning. we said.
We tried very hard to keep awake
To see Santa Claus when he came.
But dropped asleep very quickly indeed,
And Eveline did the same
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20
THE
Atlantic Monthly
FOR 1896.

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.r.ls.-. aiI arrHlr several -harr .r.-...
ming through three ur ..Hr~ f--..- ..
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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-12-20

HENRY JAMES, MISS JEWET
hrs. WIGGIN, MRS. GPAEsv
and others.
The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-04-16
woman suSrare Convenr,vn.

The twenty seventh annual oonven
ton of the National American Woman
suffrage association will be held in At
lanta in De Gives Opera House Jan. 81
to Feb. 3. The official call for the con.
vention says:
The object of these conventions is to
educate women into knowledge of thei,
fights and duties as citizens Of repub-
lie, and through them to arouse the ma
ton to a sense of the national wrong
perpetrated by the disfranchisement of
half the people of the United States in
opposition to the principles of govern
ment declared by our laws and constitu.
tons.
While Colorado's full enfranehise.
ment of women in 1898 is encouraging,
the defeat of the suffrage amendments
in New York and Kansas in 1894 shows
how largely men still fail when called
upon to put in practice the principles
they enunciate.
Though &c states have granted some
slight concessions to women citizens, in
no states of the Union, save Wyoming
and Colorado are women yet admitted
to the dignity of equal rights in citizen
ship. In only six states of the Union are
mothers conceded to be legal owners Of
their own children.
Such being the sad and shameful state
Of affairs, it behooves all lovers of jus.
tice to rally at the call to speed the next
stem in human Dropress-the fu1I de-
velopment of the mother of the race, the
greatest factor in the coming oiviliza-
ton.
The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-04-16
A. Southern Need.

"If you will agitate it sufficiently.
before a year is over you will have the
movement on foot, =" said a new member
at the club the other night. "What
movement" asked half dozen voices,
and to their establishment they were
told, why, to have a woman's medical
college in Louisiana. " The speaker, a
new conner In New Orleans, went on to
explain the needs of such an institution
in the south. "Why should the women
of this state, Texas, Mississippi and
other southern states have to go across
the Ohio river to be instructed in medi-
cine? Your state grants a license to prac-
tice to a woman physician that will
come from abroad, but in no way pro-
yides for the entrance of her own wom-
en- into this profession. 1t seems to me,
continued the speaker, "that you wom-
en- would hate nightly to see a negress
the first Louisiana woman to enter the
medical profession. A colored woman
will graduate in medicine in very
short time at the New Orleans univer
sity, and so will enjoy the privilege of
earning living in a profession which
is virtually closed to white women.
This protest occasioned some earnest
talk of making an attempt to raise funds
for medical college for southern WON
en-. st, Louis Globe-Demoorat
The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-04-16
THE DENVER
AND
Rio GrapdG Railroad.
scenic Line OF THE WORLD.
The only line running two through
asst trains daily to
ASPEN,
LEADVILLE,
COLORADO SIPS.
PUEBLO & DENVER
Effective April 20, 1894


Train No. 2 leaves Provo 9:26 a. m.
Salt Lake 8:05 q, m. Arrive at Pueblo
6 80 a. m. Colorado Springs 7:51 a. m.
Denver 1890 a. m.
Train No. leaves Provo $50 D. m.
Arrive at Pueblo 5 :27 p. m. Colorado
Springs 6 :53 p. N, Denver 9:25 p. m.
Connections made at Pueblo, Colo
RADIO Springs and Denver with all lines
east, Elegant day Coaches, chair cars
and Pullman sleepers on all trains.
Take the D. & r. G.. and have COM
Portable train and enjoy the finest seen
cry on the continent. Shortest line to
Cripple Greek, ColOradO's Great Gold
Camp.
Train No. leaving Provo at 1926 a.
m. arrives at Cripple Greek next morn
ing $50.
A. 8. HUGHES, Traffic Manager, Denver, Col,
r. r. NEVINS. General Agent.
H. NJ. O GUSHING, Il. P. Abs W. End South st
g K HOOPER g. D b 2 A. Denver. 6oi.
The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-04-16
THE FALSE MUSCLE INDUSTRY.

shapely Caves Made to Order For b.
CYCLISTS IN welsh Factories.
There is one department of industry
which, by the general admission OF
those engaged in it, is exempt from the
stagnation which so Largely prevails.
Indeed it is in remarkably foGrishing
state, and the men and women employ
ed at it are kept busy from morning to
night. 1t is that which deals with the
supply of artificial sinews and muscles
in order to give to limbs the plumpness
and symmetry which nature has denied.
The great demand at tho present timt
is for we'll shaped calves for the legs
and for some time the purveyors OF
these embellishments could not max.
out why so many Of them were wanted,
because the requirements of the ladies
of the ballet and burlesque actresses are
patty much the same all the year
round. and there was nothing going on
to occasion an unusual request fNr the
articles
But they have now found out the rea.
son. They are required by lady cyclists
who wear kniCkerbockers, and who,
naturally enough, desire to exhibit to
mankind the limbs which are not GOV.
cred by these bulky garments in as
shapely and attractive form as posi-.
BILE The stuffing required for this pur.
pose must be of the best kind, and it is
also necessary that the mold should be
well fitting; otherwise the lady cyclist
would become kind Of scarecrow on
wheels instead Of thing of beauty
The articles, therefore, cost more than
the ordinary calves, and it may accord
ingiy be said that the latest fashion
among women not only encourages Cycle
making, but also aids the artistic up.
holstery of the human figure in the
highest form. Cardiff {Wales) Mail
In England there are 1 ii widows to ev.
cry "a widowers. In Italy their relative
numbers (per 1, 000 women and 1, 900
mem are 1856 and 60, in France 1870 and
70, in Germany 1905 and 90. in Aus,
t-aio Iot and ID