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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14
WeStulore.

Mr.. $. NJ. Cole of Island Pond has
moved into town and will take charge OF
The hobbin mill.
Capt. Averill has been under the
weather for Il few days but at this writ
ing is improving,
The Mill Brook school began Monday
the 10th inst, with Miss Laura Nelson
as teacher,
Mr.. Tnrnbull has nearly completed his
cottage and is painting it. The colors
blend finely. When he has his lake wall
completed he will be ready to receive his
friends.
Mr.. Arthur T. Vignolcs of Boston is
stopping for few weeks at II. T.. Lyon 5
with DR.. Lowell, wife and sou. All are
taking in" the famous Lithia spring
water.
Election passed off finely. W. c. Dan
ielS, a strong Grout man. was elected
representative.
Anyone wishing to procure one of the
''Beautful Willoughby" books, contain
ing - fine cuts of WilIoughby Lake.
should send - cents to Capt. Averil and
the book will he forwarded by return
mail.
Mr.. Webster of East Burke has hi,
cottage nearly ready for the painters. Ii
will he beauty when completed
Miss Alice Nelson is visiting her sis.
ters, Mrs. c. O. Gill and Miss Laura
Nelson.
Mrs. S. ID. Quint, daughter Cora and
Miss Clara Crowner have returned tc
their home at Manchester, y. II.
The bobbin mill has started with
nearly a full force of men and it sound,
good to hear the lathes again running
after a rest of two years. The splitter
a Mr.. Cochecha. took it into his head tc
give the man who runs the Kicker ma
chine sample of his knowledge of this
machine and in so doing left one of his
thumbs under the machine. lie vii
now take few weeks off for repairs.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14
Vermont.

Republicans have no need to feel
ashamed or discouraged because Yer
mont showed loss of a few thousand
votes in its majority this year over Sep
TENDER, 1896. The majority this year
is over 81 900, and as a matter Of fact
it is larger than any majority for gov
ernor since 1870 with the one exception.
Vermont did her full duty, and has re-
turned surprisingly good result. No
special effort was made this year in this
state as was made in 1896 and the re-
publican majority ought to be cheering
news to the lovers of patriotic and hon
est government.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14
/ CHINESE MECHANICAL SKILL
A Wonderful Example of Initiative
Excellence.


Whatever may be his lack OF moral
perception and originality OF idea, the
heather Chinee certainly excels in
initiative power, and is often very
much alive to the excellence Of
mechanical devices that he never saw
before In The American Machinist
Oberlin Smith affords an illustration OF
this fact.
Some years ago Mr.. Smith sent
Henry A. Janvier to China to assist in
the erection and operation Of coming
plants for brass and silver currency.
one of the tools which Mr.. Janvier
took with him was a micrometer call
per. made by Il well known firm In the
United States, and capable Of detecting
| differences OF a thousandth OF an inch
in the thickness OF piece of metal.
| The Superintendent OF one Of the shops
which Mr.. Janvier established was
named Wal. and he proved very in
4 telligent fellow. During an Interval OF
per almost daily, and was rather tardy
/ in returning II.
| Finally he exhibited TO the American
a reproduction Of the instrument which
was perfect except In one respect
| Certain tables OF figures stamped into
| the steel by the Yankee maker of the
original were omitted from the copy
and in their place were several Chinese
! characters. The imitation had been
made with the rudest of tools, but was
a marvel of accuracy. Mr.. Wal pro
posed an exchange to Mr. Janvier, and
the latter agreed to the proposition
| New York Tribune.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14
AMONG OUR NEIGHBORS.
Bloomfield.

Mrs. l.. r. Williams and Mrs. F. A.
Roby attended the w. c. +. L. conven-
ton at Berlin last week Thursday, visit
ing Mrs. Campbell in Crystal before re-
turning home.
Mrs. Charles Bartlett is boarding the
teacher, Mr. Marston.
The W. c. T. L. held their annual
meeting last Tuesday and these officers
were elected for the year ensuing Pres
ldent, Mrs. Kate Burbank; Vice Presi-
dents, Mrs. T. B. Moore and Mrs. c. f.
Clark; Rec. Sec'y., Miss Lucia Alger:
Cor. Sec'y., Mrs F. A. Roby; Treasurer,
Mrs. l.. T. Williams; Superintendent of
literature, Mrs. ID. o. Rowell. Delegates
to annual convention, Mrs. Kate Bur
bank, Mrs. ID. O. Rowell and Mrs. L. r.
Williams.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14

Whatever my style of writing may be,
it is the result of natural selection and
not of special design The first author
who interested me deeply after "Robin-
son Crusoe" and the usual children's
books of fifty or sixty years ago was
Washington Irving. Then came Walter
Scott and Charles Lamb, Keats, Shelley
and Wordsworth, then Bacon and Emer-
son, Burke and Carlyle, Thackeray and
Hawthorne. But rhetoric or compost
ton | have never studied. Ny long con-
nection with the press has been of the
utmost service to me as a writer For
many years have been the chief editor
ial writer upon Harper's Weekly, a
paper which takes part in political dis
cussion, and the necessity of making my
self Ineligible to the rapid reader in a
comparatively short space has been prob
ably the best training could have had
Fortunately | have no taste for what
seems to me the frequent extravaganza
of newspaper writing, and therefore
have easily avoided it. Every young
writer should remember that bigness is
not greatness, nor fury force. George
William Curtis.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14
TURN ON YOUR BACK.
yh-a exhausted SWIMMING faee
Inward ana You VIII Drift Ashore.

Uh.a exhausted Swimming. race
Inward ana You VIII Drift Ashore.
A guest at my summer place few
miles from Pablo while bathing was
carried out TO sea. and when almost
ont OF sight and all hope had fed, to
our surprise. We suddenly saw his
body impelled forcibly toward US.
Then We saw IL recede few feet. anu
then again. as IL We're. shoot 20 feet
toward the shore. This continued I'M
iii my son and myself. at last able to
reach him, bore him insensible 10 the
beach.
After recovery his story was that
after losing all hope. guided by some
mysterious impulse, he had turned
upon his back. when he felt himself
carried rapidly forward. He had then
turned over upon his face to get his
hearings, when he was carried out far-
ther from the land, aud ON again plac-
Ing himself upon his back the surface
waves brought him rapidly 10 the
shore. a rescued man.
Ii is an error that the drowning man
il attacked by cramp except In very
cold weather. He browns from heart
failure, induced by the violent exertion
and the upward pressure Of the water
upon the abdomen diminishing the
space and impeding the action Of the
heart. BY turning over on the back
this pressure Is removed, the back be-
ing almost entirely a strong wall OF
bone and muscle: also when on the
back the entire body is nearer the sur
face, and the surface waves tend TO-
ward the shore. the undercurrent out
to sea. even the legs when upon the
back being less expos 10 the current
that tends toward tn, sta. by floating
gently upon the back the heart, re-
! lieved OF its pressure, becomes calm
and quiet. and the swimmer can re-
gain his strength and float for hours.
| The bather whose heart Is weak should
always present, when standing erect
| the right side OF the body to the waves
and thus avoid the Sulliyanllke blows
of the incoming waves upon crippled
heart. In every bathhOuse should be
posted the injunction. "ln case Of ex'
| haustion or accident turn upon the
back. Jack Metropolis.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14

The correct stroke OF the legs Is ex-
actly like that of a frogs hind legs.
Watch one of these frogs and copy his
style. You cannot do better. The legs
are drawn up together slowly, not with
jerk, until they are gathered In
close under the body. Then with a
sudden, quick spring they are shot out
behind, the ankles being turned so
that the soles Of the fee present as fat
surface as possible to the water and
so offer more resistance from which
to make progress. AS the kick Is
made the legs should be spread out in
the shape of Il letter V, but not allowed
to sink far down under the surface of
the water. If they kick downward at
an angle instead Of out straight be.
hind much of their energy Is wasted In
unnecessarily forcing the body out OF
the water instead of forward through
lt.-Harper's Bazaar.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14

Calm reflections after exciting pro-
ceedimgs are sometimes profitable. In
any view they are preferable to heated
and passionate language used before the
excitement has passed away. y man
smarting under the defeat of his party
or his friends. or intoxicated with sue
cess. or any other undue influence. is
not in fit condition to do justice neither
10 his friends nor to those in the oppo-
sitium. Under our system of voting one
does not know how every other person
has acted or voted, aud a hasty speaker
is very apt to wound others with the
expression of unjust and mfomndrd sus-
picions. Motives are apt to he miScon-
strued and bitterness engeudered which
will run with other relations in life and
last perhaps for years, and disturb the
happiness and friendship Of individuals
who deeply regret what they have said
when the excitement passes off and they
'see themscl's as ithcrS see them" Be
sides all diguilied and honest freemen
should regard the enjoyment and eXer-
else of their privileges as sacred. Each
should regard with charity one who en-
tertains views contrary to his own and
should accord to an opponent the same
consideration that he would demand for
himself. There is nothing in the eXer.
else of this highest privilege in life that
justlies any gentleman in insolent, eX
ulting or coutemptuous expressions on
demonstrations towards another oven
whom he may have obtained Temporal
ry advantage or OF bitter and vindictivc
expressions 10y one disappointed in re-
spect to others And probably most
worthy of criticism is the eXultant APP
proval of some sinister or reyengeful OF
treacherouS conduct in the opposite party
out of which an advantage to the speak
er's party might have been derived
while if it occurred in his own party he
would treat it with angry contempt. |
a man defeats his party by concealmen
of his methods, by lying in ambush anc
surprising his friends, or if he acts from
personal and sinister motives, or is in
duced by selfish considerations to pursu,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14

Good soda should be slipped Quickly
drinking off the etfervescence, which is
merely foam. an interval of a minute or
two should be allowed before the last
half Of the glass is taken Clerks should
know this, and give customers time
without warming by looks or actions that
they are expected to leave in the shortest
possible order after boiling their soda
and paying for it. A glass of soda so
taken is IA refreshing stimulus, better
than food in very hot noon, but tossed
off as most people take it is a recipe for
cramps or indigestion.
If it is poor soda, tasting of metal with
the silver worn off, or standing in silver
too long, favored with sirups made from
oranges or lemons whose musty taste is
plain to all refined palates, the less one
takes the better for life and health
Girls who serve the cheap soda fountains
a. fancy stores well know this from ex-
perience, and the old hands rarely touch
soda themselves. The girls behind the
counters who depend on soda to keep up
their strength through the close days in
jure their digestion by it, and perhaps
owe more of their sudden indispositions
to it than they imagine. Dare
in New York Herald.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14

Pruf. Chester Chapman l. teaching
the primary school ia East Siuiford OF
Boy Brook.
Joseph l.omhsnl and Frr'l Rphy made
a diving trip To Brunswick. Ne. thr first
of the week.
Miss Grace johnson of Gnoyeiou is
loarling with Mrs. Harvey B"ukrr and
attending sch"ol.
q. Il. Masonn aud family have r.turn-
81 from their ouiiug ou Magog Lake.
Geo. II. Naupykc has taken Tia" place
OF the late Ahurr Bean ia the employ of
the Lewis Lumber TO.
The village schools commenced last
Monday. Mrs. Lou Stevens teacher in
the primary aud Mr.. Marstou in the
grammar.
Rev, 4 ;. Brown. wife and son arr
taking carriage drive down through
the mountains aud will attend the Bap
fist convention before returning home.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14
Vote of Essex County Compared

The vote of Essex County for Gov
ernor this year was Republican S23 ;
Democratic 403. As compared witt, the
vote OF four years ago the republicans
show falling off of no votes and the
democrats gain 80. The vote four years
ago was: Republican 9G3; Democratic
36l. That year as now three towns
elected democratic representatives.
Brighton and Lexington were the only
towns to increase their republican vote
over 1896, while the democrats made
gains in Brighton, Brunswick, East
Haven, Guildhall, Lunenburg and Maid
stone.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14

Farming has this popularity, that 1t
can absorb and supply all knowledge
Not one Of the sciences but Is related,
or may be related, to agriculture.
Botany, rightly understood, is the art
of growing better potatoes, beans and
corn. Entomology Is that economic
science that discusses what bugs are
Of use to man and what are injurious.
Geology Is an analysis of the soils and
rocks that underlie the soils for the
purpose Of making them more avail.
able for human warfare.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14

STATE OF NERMONT( In Probate Court
DISTRICT OF ESSEN So. ! holden at Guildhall
in and for said District on the 9TH day OF
September A. D., 1900. George IL. Vallee.
administrator on the estate ot Walter c..
Vallee, late of Brighton, in said district,
deceased, makes application to said Court
to extend the time heretofore allowed him to
pay the debts due from said estate, and to
render his administration account until some
future day.
Whereupon it is ordered by said Court
that said application be heard at the Probate
office in Guildhal on the Goth day of Septem-
Der, 1900; and it is further ordered that
notice be given to all persons concerned,
by the publication of this order in the Essex
County Herald, printed at Island Pond, three
weeks SUCCESSFULLY, before said hearing.
BY the Court.-AtteSt,
Sept. IA ROBERT CHASE, JUICE.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14

Present indications do not suggest
that much will be heard about "British
gold" in the campaign funds of any
party this year. The British are rather
shy of gold for their own use and may
have to come to the United States for
more loans before the year is out
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14

The Proper Function of IA Newspaper.
In its ambition to be everything and
to have everything the newspaper has
travelled far beyond its legitimate bounds.
The complaint of the magazines indi.
Gates the outgrowth on one side of those
bounds; the more excited protests of an
invaded privacy point to another over
flow, and other burstings Of limits are
heard from in other directions. The
original functions of daily newspaper
appear to have been forgotten. Keen
competition among themselves has final
'ly brought newspaper people to condi-
ton of feverish anxiety i'll which every
thing within reach must be theirs.
Everything printable is printed. Moth
ing is so small that it cannot be stopped
to- nothing too remote and abstruse for
-aaehing aftar.-Noah Brooks in Forum
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14
Did Not have to Kill him,

1--WE had one of our horses come up
dead lame with spike in its foot Vet
Urinary surgeon did what he could but
said we would have to kill him. Instead
OF doing so | went to using Morrison's
English Liniment. In short time the
horse came out o. X, and we sold him
at a round price. have used this lini,
ment many years. 1t is the best lini-
ment ever put on horse. can cure
any case of thrush with it in a short
time. ii. G.. KNAPP,
twenty-five years manager in the sta
bles for Geo. II. Fitzgerald Lumber Co.
Morrison's English Veterinary rene
dies are manufactured by the James W.
Foster Co., Bath, n. ii. Sold 10y }. W.
Thurston, p. }. Flaherty and all drug
giStS.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14

u = the private opinion at William
Jennings Bryan. publicly aud prumi>cu-
ously expressed. that if he i defeated
aud William Mckinley elected To the
presidency the country i pre'lrsiinei Ia
the eternal how-wows. That Was Mr..
Bryau'S opinion ia ls9d. aud his prophc-
ries for that year were quite as dreadful
as those Of his present lamentations.
Now prophecy must stand or fall lay its
truth or falsity. Mr.. Bryan was not
elected ia 1896. and if his prophecies
were Of an inspired origin or promised
IN the elements uf the eternal truths of
philosophy. that is established in their
fuiillnent. Ii they were the vapid vap-
orimgS of visionary their failure in fact
is evidence Of their vicious vacuity. And
in the truth or falsity of these past fore
holdings must his present proguostica-
tionS of veal or woe Ice weighed. So it
is well to compare his predictions with
history.
In 1896, summing up the disasters
that would attend republican success,
Mr.. Bryan declared
If Mckinley and the republican party
are successful and put in power for the
next four years, wages will he decreased.
Hard times Will come upon us and over
the land. The price of wheat will go
down and the price of gold will so up.
closed 10y the money-lenders. Shops and
factories will close. We will export no
goods and We will import from foreign
lands all the goods We use. Thus will
want and misery be with us"
Now let us see how that worked out.
Wages will be decreased said the
prophet. To the contrary wages have
increased and multiplied.
"llard times will come upon us and
over the land" Times were never bet
ter. As individuals and us a nation We
are prosperous.
The price of wheat viii so down."
The price of wheat has gone up.
The price of gold will go up" The
price of gold has not gone up. Gold
dollars and their equivalents are within
far easier reach OF the masses than they
were in 1896.
mortgages on our homes will be fore
closed 10y the money-lenders." The farm
ers of the west who suffered most from
the burden of mortgages, have become
enabled to cast off much of the burden.
"Shops and factories will close" There
are more shops and factories open ant
in operation than ever before.
1--WE will export no goods, and we vii
import from foreign lands all the good,
we use. Our exports increased unit
the record was broken. They are far il
excess of our imports.
"Thus will want and misery be Will
us" Thus are abundance and happl
ness with us.
These are Mr.. Bryan's predictions
made in 1896, together with the eyidenc,
of their utter faIsity adduced in the de
velopment of events. What is the fore
cast of so fallacious seer worth, anC
how much attention will an inteligen
people pay to the calamitous walls Of 81
false prophet of Woe?
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14

+. NJ. Higgins, editor Seneca (Ill.,)
News, was afflicted for years with piles
that no doctor or remedy helped until he
tried Bucklen's Arnica Salve, the best in
the world. lie writes. two boxes wholly
cured him. lnfallible for piles. Cure
guaranteed. Only 2jc. Sold by John
w. Thurston, druggist.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14
Elaine.

Maine has spoken with a republican
plurality of almost $4,000. The election
in this State and Maine are significant
pointers, but they do not guarantee sac.
cess in the national contest. We must
do more than defeat Bryan. We must
not only win victory; we must make it
not a Chickamauga, but an Appomattox.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14

Let us deal this Ii to l iallacy blow
that will remove it from the arena II
p"litirs forever. Nothing but a sweet
ing. decisive victory in November will do
it. Make it an AppomattoN.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14

1t is becoming evident that Mr.. Bryan
does not want much said about free sill
yer before the election. The American
people. however, are not so much con-
cerned in what may be said before cleo
ton as in what will be done after the
election.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14
ESTATE OF GEORGE w. RIcHARi'Sohf

ESTATE OF GEORGE w. RICHAk''' ',r,,
The undersigned, having been aPp';a,Irict Of
the Hon. Probate Court for the clnn,ine
Essex, Commissioners, to ieeclNt,d of all
nee an ara as the estate OF Gsqrf M
Richardson late of Concord, in sa" ~ onset
deceased. and all claims eXhhiten viii meet
thereto hereby give notice that we house of
for the purposes aforesaid AZ 'n IN the 10th
day of October 1900 and the 2ot' "" GIntil
Februar, next from nine O'Clock y laws avs and
five o'clock p. M. each of sa nnt I"S day Of
that six months from the limited by
said curt for said creditors to pr@IGI'w, vance.
Claims to us for examination ana ,a H'o of Aug,
Dated at Concord this 2oth u"S 10
A. ID. 1900
John Pratt, ! Commissioners
Moses A. Parker. !
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14
The SiliceOus GrayeIs

sillceous gravels have always been
regarded as one of the best kinds Of
foadmaking materials. They have this
considerable advantage over prepared
macadam, that they need no crushing
and are therefore cheaper, while they
nave been partially sorted by the wa.
ters which transported them to where
they are found. When macadam costs
from $4,000 to $500 per mile, gravel
costs from $4,000 to $1,000 per mile.
NPavements and Roads," page 1871 In
many of the northern states the gravel
beds OF the glacial drift have furnished
excellent roadmaking materials for en-.
tire states.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14
OregOu.

In the date Of admission Oregon is
one of the Oldest states beyond the
Mississippi. entering the Union In 1859.
1t was the first new state to have the
political honor of naming the vice
presidential candidate Goseph Lane)
Tor one of the great parties in the first
year of its statehood.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14
ESTATE OF WILLIAM II. DARLING.

The undersigned having been appoiiIttu ~
the ii on. Probate Court for the lh>ul'i VI
Essex Commissioners, to receive, eNamilT
and adjust all claims and demands oil ~
persons against the estate of William a.
Darling, late of Concord, i'll said lhNtaNr,
deceased, and all claims exhibited IN "uN'tt
thereto hereby give notice that We VIII NEE =
for the purposes aforesaid at the dWelIr55
house of the late VIM, II. Darling i'll S"l'' o,J
aforesaid. on the st day OF octohcf o"'
5th dav of March next from 10 u'cioek A.
NJ, until 3 p. NJ, each of said days, and tnaI
six months from the 9th day of Septemottii
A. d. 1900, is the time limited by H"
Court for said creditors to present tn,"
claims to us for ex examination and alloWanuI
pateu a. ",,En,o' '''' ~
Harry Blodgett. Commissioners
VIM. Howard,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1900-09-14

you've sent your boy to college,
hear remarked the neighbor. well,
hope he will acquit himself with
credit"
"He won't need to, begoshw said Mr..
Gaswell, somewhat irritated. I'm able
to supply him with the cash right
straight along. Chicago Tribune.