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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1901-01-25

After leaving Vermont Rudyard Kip
ling bought place In the little Eng
lish village of Rockingham. and in his
garden were some beautiful trees On,
of these trees, branching over the
road. threatened daily injury to the
driver of the local bus. Therefore he
and his conductor waged destructive
war on all the vulnerable twigs within
reach from the bus roof. Result: A
vigorous letter of complaint from Mr.
kipling TO the bus owner, who is also
landlord of one of the local inns.
That evening the landlord laid the
letter before the select company of the
bar parlor. They advised an attitude
of calm indifference. Also a Crrsus
among them offered $3.50 In cash fol
the autograph letter Both advice and
cash We're accepted.
The nuisance continuing, in due
course second and stronger letter
followed the first. The landlord con.
vened another bar parliament. and the
second letter also found buyer. this
time at 81. as befitted its increased
violence. And Boniface again ''sai
tight To hin. next asH ,esplt"r"d en- My
didn't answer your letters. sir? Why,
! was hoping you'd send me fresh
one every day. They pay a deal better
than bus driving."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1901-01-25

In Smyrna. Turkey and Egypt the
bargaining language is about the same
What YOU give. LADY,
81 won't give anything. | don't
want it. What! DO you think
would carry that back to American
But you take hold Of him. You fee
him silk. ! think you want TO buy
Yer cheap. Only four pound"'
-Four pounds | say in French
''Oh. You don't want to sell You want
to keep it. And at that price you
will keep it,
Keep it," in shrill scream. "NoI
want to sell: Ne? here to sell.
sell you everything you see. sell yor
the shop. More wheedlingly, "Ior
give me 40 francs?".
NO" in English again. "I'll give
you ST."
America. Liberty" he cries, hav
ing cunningly established my nationali
ty and tiattering my country will
oriental guile. How much you give
for him: Last price, now. Six dol
lars"
We haggle over last prices" for {
quarter of an hour more. and aftel
two cups of coffee amiably taken to
gether and some general conversation
| buy the thing for $3.--Lilan Bell il
| Woman's Home Companion.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1901-01-25

Iron for the blood has evidently been
prescribed for the quails of Florida; at
least, these birds are eating steel rails
on the tracks of the sugar belt near
Runnymede. The report, which is well
authenticated, does not charge the
quails with actually swallowing the
rails. but it does say that they pick
away their particles wherever they find
a rusty spot where they are loosened.
From several points in the state
comes the report of holes found in steel
rails, and in cases they are large
enough to seriously weaken the ma
terial. Where rusty spot starts and
is picked out, it naturally holds mois-
ture, continues to rust. to be again
picked out, and so the work of destruc-
tion goes on.
Railway engineers really believe that
the quails take the iron tonic because
they are not well and find that ii re-
lieves their distress.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1901-01-25

William II. Elliot. commissioner Of
the interior for Porto Rico, in his annu-
al report to the secretary Of the interi-
or says that the first'great crying need
of Porto Rico is good roads.
At the time of the American occupa-
ton there was only one really good
road. that from San Juan to Ponce. and
most of the island was and practically
remains without other means of reach
ing market or communication be-
tween towns than over dllapldated and
dangerous trails. often impossible for
days, as all streams there are torren-
tial. The productiveness Of the soil Is
SO great and the necessities for exist
ence so inexpensive that people live
and multiply in mountain districts, but
remain forever poor and ignorant
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1901-01-25
WISCONSIN CORDUROY ROAD.

from Harper's Weekly. Copyright. I9OO by
Harper & Brothefsl
represents several million people d.
rectly and many other millions indi-
rectly. The wheelmen are not so MI
mrrous as formerly perhaps, and it
may be that the automobilists have not
yet grown sufficiently in numbers to
make good the deficiency due TO the
falling off in the wheels popularity.
But the two factors are earnest and
will in the aggregate increase in the
near future. Meanwhile the farmers
have attained to a better understand
ing of their own interests than ever be-
fore and are rapidly learning the value
of smooth, hard highway and OF
broad tires State laws are being en-
acted. and although federal laws may
be impossible of adequate enforcement
even if passed the national influence is
being increasingly eyerted toward the
attainment of system of highways In
all PARTS of the country which will bear
comparison with those of Europe.
1t is easy to understand why the good
roads movement has been so slow in
this country. Only few score OF
years ago much of the land was in will
derness. and many of the cities We're
on the frontier. and the farms were
mere clearings in the forest. Even lat
er came the period when the railroads
were a novelty, competing with stage
coaches rumbling and laboring through
the mire of the pioneers dilapidated
turnpike.
When the railroad was perfected and
the stagecoach was abandoned in the
main. the thought of the people was
turned for a time from the subject OF
roads. 1t was necessary only to get
goods to the railroad station to insure a
sppedier journey than ever before. 1t
required another evolution to point the
moral that there was perhaps even
greater economy in the perfection or
the comparatively short haul from the
farm to the railroad. The civil war did
much to retard appreciation Of this
truth. and meanwhile the farmer be-
came accustomed to his surroundings
and was slow to adopt new methods.
The function of this new organiZa-
ton is to accelerate the sentiment
which has been produced out of these
untoward conditions. With all our me-
chanical advancement during the CEN
fury now closing there remains for the
twentieth century this fundamental
work of providing decent pathways for
| Internal commerce.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1901-01-25
A FAMOUS BANK NOTE.
The One That CruikshanL Drew and
the Crowds It Drew.

One day about the year 1918 George
Cruikshank was passing Newgate ON
his way 10 the exchange. when, seeing
crowd collected. he went forward TO
learn what was the matter and saw
that 1t was the execution of several
men and women. lie was horr;lied at
the spectacle and on inquiring learned
that the woman was being hanged for
passing counterfeit I'll notes. He learn
ed also that this punishment was quite
a common thing, even though the poor
wretches often sinned in ignorance. be-
Ing the dupes of men who sent them to
buy some tritie and return the change
TO them. Wrung with pity and with
shame. Crulllshank went home and i'm
mediately. under the inspiration of his
feeling. sketched a grotesque carica-
ture of a bank note He called il n
bank restriction note-not to he imi-
tated. He represented on IL place of
execution. with spaces about filed in
with halters and manacles. "A figure of
britannia devourinl her children and
transport ships bearing the lucky or
unlucky ones who had escaped death
to Van Diemen's Land or Australia.
while in place of the well known sigma
ture of Abra ham Newland was that of
u. Ketch.'
He had just finished this. when his
publisher Hone entered, and seeing it,
begged TO have it for publication. So
Crulkshank etched il and gave il to
Hone. who exhibited it for sale in his
window with startling effect. Crowds
quickly began TO gather and purchased
so eagerly that the issue was soon ex-
hausted.
Cruikshank was kept hard at work
making more etchings. the crowds
grew so great that the street was block
ed. and the mayor had to send soldiers
to clear IT, Hone realized over 900 in
few days.-Good Words.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1901-01-25
Tried 60 Raise the Dead.

A remarkable attempt was made In
Denmark recently 10 bring hack TO life
q man who had died In a hospital. The
experiment was measurably successful.
as rcsuscitation was effected several
hours after the man was pronounced
dead. nr Mag. who was In charge.
was unable To maintain life. however.
The patient had died from typhoidl
fever. and Dr. Maag decided tu try an
experiment Respiration had ceased
completely and the body wGs cold. hi.
rect massage of the heart WAS resorted
10. The chest was cut open directly
over the heart, and through the In.
cision the physician passed his hand
aud seized the heart. lie commenced
series of cOmpressions. and in short
time the heart commenced To work Of
its own accord. The action Of the
heart gradually became stronger. but
the man had not commenced to
breathe. Only after the heart had
been acting half an hour did the first
gasp for air come
The patient was then assisted in
this for ahout an hour until finally he
was able to breathe quite freely. At
the same time his cheeks began to as
sumo natural color. He lay in this
condition another half hour, but with.
out regaining consciousness or appear.
ing TO feel the effects of the incision.
Then there was n reaction and respi-
ration ceased, although the heart con-
tinued To act eight hours longer. A
second effort was made to induce heart
action. but without result.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1901-01-25
FOR BETTER ROADS.
NATIONAL GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION
FORMED.

various Factors in the Movement
For Improved Highways Console
dhted-New Organization VIII Pu.h
the Reform aud spread the GospeI
The desire for better American high.
ways has expressed itself more or less
vigorously for many years. says the
Washington Star. \ general sentiment
that the roads should be materially i'm
proved has long prevailed In the north
ana east, and in some of the states. as
In New Jersey. there has been contin
nous and In some degree successful ef-
fort on the part of associations and Off
elals To bring the farmers to an under
standing of the value of good roads.
Not until the League of American
Nheelmen formed subordinate or
ganiZation. however. did the work as
sllne definite national character. and
even then the cycling interests were
exclusively represented by this move
ment.
y little later the department of agrl.
'''N - lHt
education of the farmers into full ap.
probation of the economy of better
highways. Then good roads organiza.
tions began to appear here and there
without particular reference TO either
the agricultural or the cycling inter
ests. and the movement received an ad-
ditional impetus when the automobile
began to be adopted for general use.
Now for the first time all these fac
tors for road Improvement have been
assembled into single organization
capable If rightly directed of concen-
tratinS the sentiment in favor of this
reform and producing practical results.
II was formed in Chicago under the
name of the National Good Roads as.
soclation. and it is designed to repre-.
sent the various national. state. agri.
cultural, Industrial transportation.
wheelmen's and automobile associa-
tions of the country which are working
10 the end of better roads.
This list Indicates what force Is
available for the reform. 1t doubtless
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1901-01-25
Fatal GIuttony.

A messenger employed at the railway
station in Praga, Warsaw, made Il bet
that he would eat at one meal five
fowls, jar of sour cabbage, two mel.
ons, ten pounds Of fruit, six cucum-
bers, with bread, and, besides, he
would drink gallon of vodki tnative
spirit, six bottles Of beer and three
siphons of soda water. A numerous
company assembled to witness the
feat. which was successfully accom-
plished. and the bet was paid. The
man, however. was found dead in bed
next morning. London Standard.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1901-01-25

A Rochester organization which may
have many imitatorS is the Home Pro-
tective league. 1t is organized along
the lines OF the many law enforcement
leagues. but with a broader scope. Its
objects are to protect its members
against the invasion of private rights.
both as citizens and property owners,
by telephone. telegraph, street rail-
way and other corporations. WHO
without right or consent use property
as though the owner were not factor
to be considered" to cooperate with
the municipal government to bring
about the enforcement Of ordinances.
to look after the public health by in
sisting. for instance, that garbage be
collected regularly and to protect the
morality of the home by its surround
ings. 1t is also hoped to bring about
better street car service, better light
inc on some of the streets. the abate-
ment of nusances. and so on. An at
torney is to be employed, and each case
of invasion of rights is to be litigated.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1901-01-25
BRITISH BANK CLERKS.
Sumptuary Laws Trying on Those
with slim Purses

Bank clerks generally look so sleek
and comfortable and are almost in
variably so well groomed that their
grievances rarely receive patient hear
ing.
One who was recently dismissed for
the terrible crime Of smoking a pipe
in a city cafe during one of the hours
sacred to what IS called by city courte-
sy lunch writes, giving list of re-
strictions which he declares are alb
surd.
No clerk is allowed to smoke a pipe
Ia a,suevts u1rlng uauhiIru bnu,s ar
at lunch.
The average clerks salary Is not so
very high. but nevertheless he must
wear a silk hat and cane TO the office,
dressed as one with double the salary.
Wearing a cap TO business is not TO be
thought Of. as 1t is an objectionable
offense in the eyes of the bank officials.
The salary of the average bank clerk
ranges from about 80 shillings,a week.
but In many banks the salary is much
lower and the chances Of promotion
very small.
A clerks money is greatly diminished
by his having to subscribe to numerous
funds, such as n sports fund, to keep
the cricket or football grounds in order,
which he himself is never able to see.
Saturday is no holiday for him. as he
does not leave the office on those days
until about or ) o'clock.
1t must not be supposed that the
days work of bank clerk ends with
the closing of the bank to customers.
In fact, it only begins at that time
London Express.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1901-01-25
Even RuLs Grow Old.

According to Professor Adam Sedg-
wick. says The Youths Companion.
there Is reason to believe that buds
share In the growing old of the parent
plant. He illustrates his meaning in
this way: Suppose the average life of
an individual plant-say ,tree-to be
100 years, then bud removed when
the parent plant is 80 years old will
also be virtually 80 years Of age. and If
transplanted by grating will be able
to live on the graft only so years more.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1901-01-25
Her New TOY.

Hetty recently engaged)-Oh mother,
you ought not to ask me to make the
bread now. The dough gets into the
setting of my diamond ring awfully!
AIother-Then why not take the ring
off when you begin to make the bread?
Hetty- Mercy! Suppose somebody
should come in!-Boston Transcript.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1901-01-25
The Cardinal Fault.

The cardinal fault in most advertise
ments is that they say nothing. they
are like a traveller walking into place
of business, laying his card down and
walking out again. Why cannot an
advertisement be made to talk to the
reader of a newspaper as traveller or
a shopman talks to his customers?-
Newspaper and Poster Advertising.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1901-01-25
Euouub For a swallow

nYou must keep your mouth shut
when you are in the water said the
nurse, as she gave Bessie bath. "lf
YOU don't, you'll swallow some of it."
"What IL | do?" asked Bessie inno-
Gently. "There's plenty more in the
pipes, isn't there"-Exchange.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1901-01-25

Bragg tells me he got mix
ed up in n scrap last night.
Thingumbob Did he get the best OF
it?
McJigger--Of course If he hadn't hf
wouldn't have said anything about it,
Exchange.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1901-01-25

When a merchant stops advertising,
people get the idea into their heads
that his business is 'going down."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1901-01-25
How to Get Wealth.

Early to bed,
Also to rise,
May make a man both healthy and wise,
But il OF wealth
He'd gain the prize
He mustn't forget to advertise.
-Printsrs' Iak
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1901-01-25
VOL. XXVIIl.
Essex Di.trlct rrohnte Court.

Sessions OF said Court viii be held at
brighton the second Tuesday ut October aud
April. Canaan the second Tuesday nf No-
,riuber and May. West concord the second
tuesday of neceuths- aud June. luncuhurr
the second Tuesday ot january and July.
special sessions viii ~ held At anN place Ia
the District bN agreement.
ROBERT CHASE. Judge.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-03
Appointment Held Up.

Information comes from Washington that President Roosevelt has decided to hold up for few days the matter of ap- pointing a United States District Attor- ner for the northern portion of Alabama It was given out last week that he would not appoint Hon. William Vaughn. the chairman of the State Republican Exec utive Committee and present incumbent of the office, on the ground that the latter had disobeyed civil service rules. Some pressure was brought to bear on the President in behalf of Chairman Vaughan and the intention to appoint some one else is now held up pending further investigation. Chairman Vaughan has someS very staunch friends in this State, not only among Republicans, but among Democrats and newspapers. Con gressman Richardson of the Eighth Ala bama district is pushing Chairman Vaughan's interests with the President Judge Thomas Roulhac of Sheffield, l. a strong second to Chairman Vaughan The former is a Democrat.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-03
s,mmarv of Cron Couditions.

Washington. Dec. 2.-The Weather Bureau today issued the following sum mary of crop conditions for the month of November: The month as whole was very dry. with temperatures aVerag- ing above the normal west of the Mlssls- sippi River, while to the eastward of the Mississippi it was colder than usual. The whole winter wheat area has suffered to a greater or less extent from insuinclent moisture during November Winter wheat is. however. reported in promising condition in Kansas, western Missouri and generally in Illinois In central and eastern Missouri and generally throughout the Ohio Valley and Middle Atlantic States the conditions of the crop IS not nromising although it-was somewhat inn proved by rains in the latter part of the month.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-03
MONTGOMERY READY FOR
 GOOD ROADS CONVENTION
Special Train With the Road Working Machinery Arrived Sunday and Delegates are Ex-
 pected to Arrive Tomorrow

ceedihgs.
 Mir. Moore said the people are due thanks to Mir Spencer, President of the Southern Railway, for the enterprise or that great railway system. They are fur nfshing absolutely free the train service and it is thought this feature will cost that road nearly $5a0O0
 Mir Moore left Montgomery at APO o'clock for Macon where he goes to see the citizens of that city about the Good Roads convention. He will return to Montgomery tonight. s
 The following is the official program for the State Good Roads Convention:
 Wednesday, Dec. 4.
 12 m.-Call to order. Colonel R. R. Poole, chairman Executive Committee; invoca- tion; Rabbi A. J. Messing. Jr.; address of welcome, Hon. w., .sJelks. Governor; address of welcome, Hon. J. B. Gaston, Judge of Probate; address of welcome. Hon. E. B. Joseph. Mayor; response on behalf of National Good Roads Associa- tion, w. H. Moore, President; response on behalf of Southern Railway, M ". Richards. L. and I. A; response on be- half of convention, Judge P. H. Pitts. Selma; appointment Committee on Gre dentlals appointment Committe on Per- manent Officers of Convention; adjourn ment- to ,iaw demonstration by Good Roads train on Sayre Street.
 Thursday Morning.
 10, a. fn.-Opening prayer. Rev. W. G. Patterson; report Committee on Creden- tials: report Committee on Officers for Conventions: address, Hon, Justin Dodge, Di.ector Off1ce of Road Inquiries, United States government; address Hon. John w. Abercrombie. State Superintendent of Education. Montgomery, Ala; address, Hon. M. L.. Drennen, Birmingham; ad- dress. Professor Frederick Dugger Au- burn; address. c. w. Hare, Tuskegee; general discussions appointment Com mittee on Resolutions; appointment Com mittee. on Plans for Permanent Organiza- ton State Good Roads Association; ad- jornment to view road construction, Showdown, Ala, train leaves Union Depot 2:30 p; m. Thursday and Friday, return ing ~ 6:3o p. m. Thursday night.
 (. Thursday Night
 Hall of House of Representatives.
 7:3o p. m.--Address. Henry Fonde, Mo bile. Ala, address. G. R. Fsrnham. Ever green~ Ala; address. 'The Roads of the World" Illustrated by stereopticon Office of Road Inquiry, United States Government.
 z Friday Morning.
 10 a. m.-Opening prayer. Rev. w. A. Kerrigan: address. Colonel J. M. Falkner, Montgomery; address, Lewis Mayer. De- mopolis; address, Rev A. F. Dix, Mont gomery: address, C.%W. Buckley, Mont gomery; address, J. Thomas Heflin, La- fayette; report Committee on Plan for Permanent Organization State Good Roads Association; report Committee on Resolptions; general business and discus sion-adjournment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-03
BUYS SOME ISLANDS.
United States Purchases the Danish
 West Indies.

Copenhagen. Dec "A full agreement has been reached between Denmark and the United States for the sal of teh Dan ish West Indies. The treaty will probably be signed this week at Washington. The price fixed is between four and five mil lion dollars The question of free trade an dcitzenship will be decided by Con- gress. which it is believed here will grant these concessions.
 The negotiations have from the first aroused the keenest interest through Denmark. Public meetings have been been held and remonstrances have been sent to the government and Rigsdag The newspapers have all been against the sale. Petitions have also been received from the inhabitants of the island. Many large business houses and shipping inter- ests have offered to contribute to the bet terment of th eisland's conditions if the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-03
Negro Probably Lynched.

It developed today that the negro Charley Hardy. miner. who was found shot to death on the side of public road near Brazil in the western part of the county few days ago, wrote very in- sulting letter to prominent young white woman of Cardiff a week or ten days ago. The negro professed in the note to the young woman his admira- ton for her and begged of her to allow a meeting Who killed the negro has never been ascertained and the probabili- ties are 1t never will he known. Since the announcement of the note incident further inquiry as to who killed him or the part of the public around Brazil Brookside and Cardiff has suosided.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-03
R. L. Courtney Dies.

Robert l.. Courtney. section master on the Frisco System, near Carbon Hill, in Walker County. is dead. the result of a pistol shot wound inflicted. it is charg- ed, by City Marshal Burton of Carbon Hill. Several days ago Courtney was brought here for treatment in the hos pital The bullet entered his body about the same place that President Mckinley received the assassin's bullet. The diff ficulty which resulted in Courtney being shot was a trivial one. It seems that Courtney was attempting to take one of his laborers home. the said laborer being intoxicated. Burton came up and the shooting followed. The exact account of the shooting never was told here, Courtney desiring to make no public statements. Burton denies all charges of premediated killing. He has a good renuta ation.