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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-07-31
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} BY Howard Fielding

n AR. WESTC0TT'S white hal
NH had the effect of wig tia
H has not been put on straight
The parting was twiste,
around over his left ear: there was |
tangled mass across his forehead, an,
In the region Of the right ear the hal
came down smoothly, as ii usually doe
on the back OF mans head.
He was tall, thin and angular; hi
face was long and narrow. hut be- had I
way of shutting 1t up like an accordion
when he compressed his lips. Yet h
was a kindly man. and most people il
the little city of Millbridge did hin
Justice In this particular. lie was pres
ident Of the Westcott Manufacturing
company, which made all sorts oi
things out of aluminium.
To him in his office entered Frank
Miller, just off the train from New
York. He was twenty-eight years old
of good height and figure and handsome
In somewhat melancholy, light blond
fashion. He had been boy In Mill
bridge, and his father had been long
time friend of old Sam Westcott.
The instant that Miller appeared Mr.
Westcott began to get out of his chaii
awkwardly, like figure made of strips
Of wood Jointed with pegs.
He made quite a business of taking
the young mans overcoat and hanging
II up on one Of line of pegs, remark
ing as he did so that the strap which
was upon the garment for that purpose
looked as If 1t might break at any mo-
ment.
1T will hold" said Miller with a
quick downward glance. 1.-The floors
clean"
Westcott had turned and was about
to sit down. He stopped suddenly as if
the pegs in his wooden joints had
stuck, and thus he remained for some
seconds suspended over the chair in a
seemingly impossible attitude. Then
he gently subsidized, laughing silently.
That's your father all over again."
said he. "The strap Is waiting until 1t
finds dirty place to drop the coat
then 1t will break. Well, he was right
he was right. His luck was just as
bad as he said 1t was. l knew him fifty
years"
ut passed on to me-" rejoined Miller.
Il wish l might have inherited his vir-
tues also"
There was long silence, during
which the lean old man stared steadily,
though dreamily, at his visitor.
swell, WELL" said he at last. Lets
get down to business. You have looked
into this patent? You've seen the thing
work, Ell? You've investigated the
men"
"Yes, sir" replied Miller firmly, land
I'm prepared to say that it's a good
thing"
II think so myself" said Westcott,
with his elbows on the arms of his big
chair and the tips of his fingers pressed
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-07-31
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To andtrom Quebec C oebrook North STRAIT
ford, Lapcaster, North Conway, Boston
Portland, and all points in the State
OF Maine and Maritime Provinces.
In effect June Is. 1903.
TRAINS LEAVE North Stratford as fol
lows: For Colebrook and Beecher Falls AT
10 80 a. m, 2 OF. 5.33 and 9.33 p. m.
For Cooksllire, Dudw Junction and Lime
Ridge at 10. 40 a. m. and OF D. m
FOR Quebec and all points on the Quebec
Central Ry. 2.O7 p. m
For Lancaster 400. 6.55 and II 80 a. m.
and 3.O7 d. m. " "
For Quebec Junction, Portland and East.
ern points 655 / 90 a. m. and 3 OF u. m.
for Boston, via Portland, 6.55 IL so a.
m. and 3.O7 p. m.
GEO F. EVANS,
Vice President and Gen. Manager.
F. E. BOOTHBY, G.P. & Ia.
PORTLAND. Me.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-07-31

The Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad
mas received a conscience contribution
from somebody who says he once stole
ride on one of the company's trains.
A man who is sorry he succeeded in
beating railroad might make big mon.
ey as the star feature of dime
museum.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-07-31

1t was announced recently from Wen
ma that cure of cancer in malignant
form had been effected by the use Of
radium, and now experiments with this
new substance are to be made by
New York physician who has had
some success in curing cancer with
X rays. If X rays will cure this dis
ease radium rays should bring quicker
and more satisfactory results.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-07-31

There has lately been completed in
New York an apartment house which
contains 2,70O rooms and will give shell
ter to 1000 families. Just think of the
widespread distress the girl with the
untuned piano can create In that one
roof town!
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-07-31

we are now told that the cranberry
crop Will be painfully deficient This
10 10 De regretted. But never mind: n
IL the noble bird that makes Tho
thanksgiving feast, though the Gran.
perry adds an element of joyousness
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-07-31

The New York millionaire who. sued
Tor $25O,OO0 by broken hearted wild
ow, declares that he will impoverish
himself fighting her claim sooner than
give dollar for damages exhibits a
sort of tenacity of purpose that is high.
~ approved by the legal profession.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-07-31

!" Is due to Governor Durbin of In
uiaha 10 say that when he took hold
OF arairs at Evansville he set an ex-
ample or the vigorous and reasonable
use OF power which might profitably be
studied by many other state governors.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-07-31

Wireless telegraphy might elicit an
answer from the lamented Mr.. McGin-
" as to whether the ship combine Ia
anywhere in his immediate neighbor-
hood. ...t
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-07-31

1t is claimed that the parrot that
charmed aristocratic Newport has sud.
denly ceased to talk. Possibly it listen
ed to the silly chatter about its CONVEX.
sauonal powers until it became asbam-
ed of its own accomplishment.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-07-31

1t is said that Germany is now get
ung ready to present claims" against
cuba. 1t is safe to wager that they
VIII not be presented q la Venezuela
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-07-31

~ was reported in New York the
o'ner DAY that Lillian Russell was mar
r'eu again. Apparently Lillian begins
!" 'eei the need Of little judicious ad-
vertising,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-07-31

A New York clergyman predicts that
In hfty years Canada will have become
annexed to the United States. Why
put the time so far in the future?
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-07-31

~ is about time for the weather man
~ nave q heart to heart talk with the
thermometer and warn 1t of the folly
o. touching only the high places.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-07-31

bulgaria's preparations for war arc
evidently born Of conviction that
servia has held the center Of the stage
quite long enough.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-07-31

n AR. wEsTCoTT's white hair
NH had the effect of wig that
IV has not been put ON straight.
The nnrflnr n.ns twisted
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27
WOMEN'S CLUBS THRIVE.
Pessirnists Say They Are n End, But
They Go On Increasing in


The latest edition of the official d.
rectory of the woman's clubs of Chi
cago shows that the pessimists who
say that women's clubs are a fad, and
that they die 500 after they are ere
ated because of the members being
extremely tickle in their allegiance to
their clubs, are entirely and totally
wrong, says the Chicago Tribune.
There have been four editions of
the official directory. The first one
printed, which covered the years 1899
1900, reveals that there were &c clubs
at that time. The next years di-
rectory shows that the number of
clubs had leaped to 112. Then the
pessimist would naturally expect that
the directory of the following year
would indicate a slump back to some
thing like the number of clubs given
in the first directory. But the book
for the year 19O1-19o2 reports 81 clubs
in< existence, and the new directory
for the year 19o2-19o3 gives the names
of 95 clubs.
A comparison of the book just is
sued with the one first published
shows that almost all the clubs given
in the first volume are alive and pros
porous. The biggest change was be-
tween the years 1900 and 1901 and 1901
and 1902, when the number of clubs
slumped from 112 to 81.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27
E L OF REVOLUTION
another Mary" 133 Years of Age, Re
members Gen. Washington and
Valley Forge.

New Years day of 1909 was al event
of great importance to Mother
Mary Mcdonald at the Home for
Aged and Infirm Colored People in
West Philadelphia, for ii was the one
hundred and thirty-third New Years
day that she has seen.
Mother Mary" is the Oldest woman
in the country and possesses the use
of her faculties to a remarkable ex-
tent. She is always ready to tell of
the stirring times of the revolutionary
war and of the bitter winter when
Washington and his troops were en-
camped near her home at Valley
Forge.
This bright, cheerful little woman
ais a familiar figure in the home. She
thinks that smoking tobacco has
heightened her life, and is perfectly
happy with her old short-stemmed
pipe in her mouth. She says that
she could not do without it. She clings
to this old-time custom which was
common in her young days, and ever
while she was i'll some time ago the
doctors would not allow her pipe to
be taken from her.
With her pipe in her mouth-for
she declares she cannot remember
without it-'Mother Mary" tells of
the days when Washington and JEFF
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27
TIMELY O NOTES.

A feed lot is too small that compels
animals to eat in filth.
Variety in feeding belongs to profit
able stock-growing with all animals.
In selling mixed lots of stock the
best always suffers by being sold with
the inferior.
Stock farms don't wear out, but be-
come more and more fertile, and more
and more profitable.
Feed generally is high priced, and.
as far as possible, everything that can
be used to advantage should be stored
under shelter.
In northwestern Colorado thousands
of cattle are reported to be starving.
The cattle are showed in on the high
range in Routt and Rio Grande coun-
ties without pasture or water, and it
is impossible to get feed to them.
Salt is a good thing for stock, and
it is almost as necessary as food. 1t
aids digestion, and by sc doing it pre-
vents disease. 1t destroys germs of
fermentation, and renders them harm
less. Large doses act as a poison;
smaller doses a laxative; minute doses
a tonic. Experiments have shown it
to be beneficial.-Midland Farmer.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27

ferson. with other men, were work.
ing for the freedom of the 13
colonies.
She vas born in F~rogtown, near
Valley Forge, five years before the
revolutionary war begun, and in
spite of her youth can remember
many events connected with those stir
ring times. She was bound out to
Reese Howell. a wealthy farmer living
at Valley Forge. when she was four
or five years of age. She is very proud
of the part she played in the war
while the soldiers were stationed in
that neighborhood.
The horrors of that winter at Val
ley Forge were SO dreadful that they
were indelibly impressed on her child
ish mind. Indeed, she recalls how she
pilfered potatoes, nuts and apples and
saved from her own small store when
she was only seven years old in order
to help the poor, ragged soldiers who
encamped near the Howell farm.
Many a time she trudged through
the snow to the encampment with the
sinai tOlCS lluuC1l III HtI apron ullNtT
her coat. But her master was as much
in sympathy with the sufferings of
the soldiers as his little maid servant,
and, discovering her desire to help,
very often sent her to carry his gen
erous contributions.
Mother Mary" says she will never
forget the cheers thai greeted the
welcome sight of those overlooking
baskets, nor how the soldiers lifted
her down and carried her around
amid the almost crazy delight of the
men.
at was enough to make your heart
SICK she exclaimed. ito see the poor
men in their rags and bare feet, cut
and bleeding from the cruel ice and
cold, go wild over those baskets of
food. They cried and laughed At once
and petted me till | was as proud as
a princess.
"And l remember very well that
they took me into Gen. Washington
and he patted me on the head and
smiled. He was so grave and dignifed
that | felt afraid at first, but after he
smiled and spoke to me 1 did not feel
at all afraid.
81 guess our soldiers have never suf-
fered since as they did that winter,
and | never saw more patient and
hopeful men than those who made up
the continental army. / used to think
the American soldiers were the
bravest in the world, and / think so
still, though it has been nearly 1875
years since | was right among them.
"The rest of the time that they were
stationed in Il neighborhood they
made me welcome to their headquar-
tiers, and ever the highest officers
would raise their three-cornered hats
and bow with much courtesy whenever
they met me-"
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27
Bees in Winter Flight.

When the bees take a winter flight,
there should be a shallow basin with
floating sticks or other arrange
ments, so that the bees can alight
there and get the water they will
need, and if the water is sailed at the
rate of about one teaspoonful of salt
to a gallon of water they will like
it all the better. This may save
them from taking too long a fight,
and thus from the loss that follows
when they go out, if they fly far for
water. The water should be placed
near enough to the hive so that they
will have no difficulty in finding it.
and if one is carried to it, it will soon
show the way to the others.--Mid-
land Farmer.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27

Aching backs are eased. Hip, back, and
loin pains overcome. Swelling Of the
limbs and dropsy signs vanish.
They correct urine with brick dust sedi-
ment, high colored, excessive, pain in pass
ing, dribbling, frequency, bed wetting.
Doan's Kidney Pills dissolve and remove
calculi and gravel. Relieve heart palpita-
ton, sleeplessness, headache, nervousness.
SALEM, IND, Feb. 5, 1003.-"I received
the trial package of Doan's Kidney Pills
and ! must confess they did me wonderful
good. 1t seems strange to say that / had
tried several kinds of kidney medicines
without doing me any good. had back
ache, pain in my bladder and scalding
urine, and the sample package sent me
stopped it all in a few days, and with the
package am now using from our drug
store expect to be cured permanently. 1t
is wonderful, but sure and certain the med
icine does its work. l was in constant
misery until l commenced the use of
Doan's Kidney Pills. "-CHAs. r. Cook,
+. y. Box 80, Salem, Washington Co., Ill.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27

some also having bright and choice
flowers. The latter include genan-
iums, fuchias, primrose, etc. A palm.
or two, fern, rubber plant, etc, add
greatly to the ornamentation of a
window filed with plants, or to the
living room
There are many styles of shelves
that may be used. A plain, smooth
board is often handy. Above it, on
the other side, brackets may be
screwed to the window casing, each
containing arms with a fat, round
top, for plants. A stand or table in
a bay window, may often be used to
advantage. Things of this kind are
very m in city homes as well
as in numberless cheerful farm
homes. But there are, as a rule,
none too many plants in u homes.
AS flowers bring refinement and
~elevating thoughts, let us have more
of them.-Farm and Home.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27
BERRIES UNDER CLOTH.
SO Protected Than When Grown
in the Open.

The Experiment Station Record thus
reviews some experiments by o. w.
Blacknall. He has. successfully used
thin muslin, known as tobacco plant
bed cloth. as a protection for straw
berries. In his experience the berries
grow larger. the blossoms are better
pollenized, and the plants more pro-
ductive under cloth than when grown
in the open. He considers also that the
slight increase of warmth obtained by
lessening the radiation at night was
very beneficial to the growth of the
strawberries. Taking one year with
another, he estimates that this kind of
protection adds from so to 100 percent.
to. the yield of berries. makes them
larger and more reliable. and ripens
them earlier. Care should be taken
not to use a cloth too thick and i'm
pervious to sunlight. The fabricated
kind such as is used in large quanti-
ties for tobacco-plant beds is consid-
cred just right. The cloth is fastened
down over the bed by driving 1S-inch
stakes into the ground about one foot
deep. \ wire hook is attached to the
tops of the stakes, by which the plant
cloth is held in place. The stakes are
set the width of the cloth apart, in
straight rows and "a inches apart in the
row. The original cost of a protection
of this kind is estimated at $3.50 per
acre. The cloth lasts about three years,
and the stakes, if carefully protected,
from five to ten years.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27
vi adEA1S141M
s. N}SSs
BASTED THE CHICKEN.
of a Dear Woman Who Knew
Little of Cooking.

Said a woman who knows how 10
cook nearly everything: Il was very
nocr and %unworldly when | first mar
ried. and had a lot of things to learn
about the simplest affairs of house
keeping. 1t was shocking, | know, not
to know how long to cook an egg. for
instance. | let the first cooked stay
on 20 minutes, | believe. Walter was
uwfully considerable, and hated to hurt
my feelings. When the first batch of
bread ! made could not be sliced l
concluded that / had better get a cook
book and learn it in earnest.
The first thing ! wanted to do, of
course. was something wildly ambi-
tious. | had no mother to go to for
advice, and as Walter and were miles
from his family, it wasn't much better
that way.
~ am going to have a chicken l
told my husband.
Don't YOU want ne to select it"?
my husband asked.
But / said no, and stubbornly start
ed out to get it.
ut was a round and plump-looking
creature. and | fancied the surprise
i would have in it for Wally.
Then | took the book and gave it
a thorough examination for how-to-
coo~k-a-chicken recipes. There seemed
to be numberless confusing ways, and
/ had difficulty in selecting one that
looked simple.
81 had scalded the hen and in taking
off the feathers had tori the skin
somewhat. | was wondering what to
do with it, when | saw those never to
be forgotten words: Basic WELL
certainly would haste well. Had
] not seen, in my grandfather's kitchen
once. the very needle and thread they
evidently meant? She had used it, |
found out later. for sewing up the stuff
ing in a turkey. But, never pausing to
consider what reason she might have
had. l leaped to the first conclusion
that entered my mind.
Il obtained a large darning needle
and a stout thread, and carefully sewed
and darned the wrinkled skin of that
fowl. 1t was a sight for gods when /
got through-so knit and knoted that
Wally's knife and carving fork caught
in the charred stitches when l had
it cooked after four hours.
whats the matter?' asked my hus-
band. looking up at my t~ear-stained
face as he probed and sawed and got
tangled up IN the basting.
I'm sure | don't know | said. and
broke down completely. L basted it
WE'LL managed to blurt out between
sCbs.
"'Basted it,'said my husband. well,
I should say you did, and when 1
quoted down he told me what 'bast-
ing meant. | laughed, TOO, but it was
horrible, nevertheless" = Milwaukee
Sentinel.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27
TESTING q SEEDS.
gate Their Vitality and Ger
minnting Power.

1t is now time to procure and pre-.
pare seed for this springs sowing
II put off until late, because of the
delays that arise during the rush OF
spring shipments and spring work,
the seed may not be on hand at the
proper time, the seeding will be late
and smaller yields will be the result
This is the proper time to investi-
gate the vitality and terminating
power of seeds. This should always
be done unless there is no question
about the matter, and there usually
is; and the cost of a test is but a
trife.
Purchased seed should always be
tested. Seed may have been put
away in storage, in proper condition,
but it may have absorbed moisture
from the air, the ventilation may
have been poor and the seed may
have been injured by molding or heat
ing or freezing. If such seed is used
and the usual amount is sown. the
stand is poor and irregular, and u
low yield is the result.
The weather during the fall OF
1902 was hard on the vitality OF
seeds, and even where the best OF
care has been taken, the per cent. OF
termination may be low. Where the
seed has been neglected the per cent,
of termination may fall below so.
Much poor seed will be sem out this
season and it is very necessary that
all seed be tested before planting.
A simple apparatus for testing
seeds can be made from two ordinary
plates and a piece of flannel cloth.
Fold the cloth and lay it in one plate,
placing the seeds between folds OF
the cloth, which should be moist, but
not dripping. Cover the whole with
another plate inverted and stand in a
warm place. If the test is made dur.
ing cold weather, care must be taken
to stand the plates where the TEN.
perature will not fall much below Sc
degrees Fahrenheit at night and will
be about 65 or 70 degrees during the
daytime.
The seeds that have sprouted
should be removed every day and the
number recorded. When the test is
completed the number of seeds
sprouted o be compared with the
number put in the test and the per-
centage of termination determined,
Cereals and alfalfa should be tested
for about ten days. while grass seeds
need Ia to 80 days.-Farmers' Voice.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27
~HOG-HoUSES.
One Here Described Is Ahead
of Most others.

We made ours six feet square and
about the same pitch as shown in the
cut, and it required less than $50 feet
of lumber to make Don't put
floor in them, but if a floor is need
ed lay down some boards on the
ground and place the pen over them.
Then when you wish to clean out the
pen. tip it over and do the cleaning.
A railing can be placed around the
outer edge on the inside, to protect
young pigs from being crushed by
their mother. l have seen the life of
more than one pig saved by this rail
ing in our pens. A hole about six
inches in diameter is put close to the
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27
Chicks from Incuhators.

The man who has always used hens
as hatchers will appreciate %incubators
when they begin to use them. He will
find the chicks from incubators when
Matched have no head lice; the incu-
bator won't get fussy and tramp on
and kill a lot of chicks while they
are Matching; it will not break a lot
of eggs and spoil a lot of others dur
ing incubation; it won't desert a batch
of eggs for another batch; it won't
fight another incubator; it won't get
SO lousy that it will die. And there
are many other things a correctly
managed incubator will not do that
sitting hens are apt to do.-Commer-
cial Poultry.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-02-27

top of the opposite gable end for venti-
lation.
They can be built on runners so
they can be moved anywhere by a
horse. We put no runners under ours,
but tipped them onto a stone boat
when we wished to move them. We
found six feet square large enough for
u purpose, but you can make them
as large as you wish. Ours will ac-
commodate four or five hogs weigh
ing 200 pounds each. In feeding time
we moved them out in the feeding lot,
and at narrowing time back to the ac-
customed place.
The principal improvement in these
pens is the door. One first doors were
hung at the top and when a hog went
out, it would drop back with'a bang
that might often injure or kill a pig,
besides wearing the hair off from the
hogs backs. Notice, this\door is hung
on gudgeons or bowels placed just a
little above the center, so the door will
drop back gently and will always be
shut. If, for any reason, you want to
keep it open, it can be done by a rope,
or any other means that may suggest
itself to your mind.
Ny man and | made our eight pens
in two days, but we are both carpen-
ters and can do much more work of
this kind than one who is not a work
mani. n. Cowdrey, in Ohio Farmer.