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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-13

AS u rule busy men do not like to
serve on trial juries, and usually they
take every reasonable means to escape
this duty imposed by citizenship. In
the late municipal campaign in New
York, when an unusually strong effort
was made to secure full registration,
one Of the inducements for registration
which were frequently emphasized was
the fact that registered voters are ex-
empted-not entirely, but to large
degree-from jury service.
Under the New York law which was
adopted last year the jury commission
er is required to make up two lists of
persons liable to jury service, one to
be marked the 'nonvoters' list and
the other the voters list" The for
mer is made up of eligible Jurors who
have not registered, the latter of those
who have registered. When names are
drawn for jury service the "nonvoters'
list is to be exhausted before the
voters list" is taken up.
The curious contrast between the
New York law and the Illinois law of
1897, applying to Cook county, is noted
by the Chicago Record Herald, which
says that 1t is the duty of our Jury
commissioners to prepare list of all
electors between the ages of twenty
one and sixty years possessing the nee
essary legal qualifications for Jury
duty, to be known as the jury list"
The commissioners interpret electors"
to include only persons whose names
are on the registration lists. and they
make up their jury list accordingly.
Thus in New York the voter has an
excellent chance to escape jury service,
while in Chicago the nonvoter Is sure
to escape 1t. The New York voter is
rewarded for voting. The Chicago
voter Is, in sense, penaized.
Ideally both jury service and the bal
lot should be regarded as privileges of
though frequently the for
mer Is considered heavy burden.
while the latter is often regarded, If
not burden, at least as an ANNOYANCE.
In view of the great Importance TO the
community of the full exercise of the
franchise by the entire electorate if il
worth serious consideration whether
the New York idea of the proper rela-
lion of jury service to the ballot or
the Chicago idea Is the better.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-13
SMOKE INSPECTORS WOES,
Fair st. LOuisan Now Adds Poetry
to His Troubles.

Many and various are the complaints
which come to the office of Smoke L.
Jones in regard to the abatement OF
the smoke nuisance, says the st. Louis
Republic.
One of the letters charges the in
spector with being an Obstructionist
and tells him that IL he could have his
way everybody would be burning wood
and st. Louis would be signal sta
ton only for river traffic. Another
writer vents his wrath by stating that
his plant is situated so near the city
limits that the only persons the smoke
could possibly annoy are those buried
In some nearby cemeteries.
What Inspector Jones considers a
gem was received the other day. 1t Is
poetry" written on tinted paper in q
delicately feminine hand. In the up
per right hand corner on the back Of
the sheet is the address of a West
Pine boulevard residence, near Kings
highway. The verses are as follows:
Oh, Mr.. Jones. we pray of you
Please stop that smoke, oh, do, oh. do,
Our walls and curtains all are black
From that horrid Monticello stack
We've called you up on the telephone,
ana always In your sweetest tone
You said, "We'll fix 1t up at oncei'
The summer time has come and gone,
Yet volumes greet US night and morn.
Please give IN the relief We ask:
1t really isn't such a task
To please the folks across the way
From the Monticello hostel-r-a-y.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-13
SCHOOL LIFE IN TENTS
Scheme In Arizona to Build Up
Health of Delicate Boys.
OUTDOOR WoRR MIXED WITH STUDY

Steer Tying, Branding Contests,
Hunting and Camping Some Of the
Features Of an Institution which
Is Called q "Prep" school In the
Open.
Prep" school in the open-each
young fellow possessing his own tent,
horse, seven dogs, if so inclined; study
punctuated with hunting and camping
Trips to the mountains, mines, Indian
reservations, steer tying and branding
contests, prehistoric ruins and the big
horse ranches, almond orchards and
orange groves that are marked features
OF the Salt river valley, Arizona-this
Is the latest addendum to the popular
desert camp life which is proving such
a boon to people who need the outdoor
living to build them up, says dispatch
from Tucson to the St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
Boys temporarily disabled by over
zeal in study or athletics; pale, weak
and an@mic, yet anxious to keep I'D
their class work, have found an al
fresco school life where development of
Drawn goes on with that of the brain
an attractive and delightful prescrip-
tlon for how to get strong and be
contented while getting so.
One of the young fellows, Just out Of
high school, who went last year from
the east profited so we'll by his years
experience in self reliance and the abil-
ity to fend for himself that at the close
of the school year in May last he started.
with only his saddle and pack horses
Tor company, for the long overland trip
across the desert, through the range"
country and over the Rockies to Den
yer. cooking and caring for himself on
the way. He returns this fall-browp.
robust, keen witted-ready for another
year that will fully re-establish his
health and at the same time finish his
preparation for one of the eastern COL
leges.
Inc mise en- scene of this queerest of
schools Is an interesting one. 1t ia
on the very edge of the desert.
near the little city of Mesa, which was
nrst reclaimed from purely desert
about twenty-five years ago by the
Mormons, who were the pioneers in |
opening up these pleasant lands to CIV
llZatlon. On the east are the Super
sutton hillss around which cluster so
many Indian legends and so many tales
mi
Use the Mogollon and San Francisco
anges, and In the distance Four Peaks
ooms up, whose snow clad SUBMITS
re the rancher's weather bureau.
which he consults to ascertain wheth-
r the valley is to have plentiful sup.
ly Of water. Nearer by is the red |
fountain Of Mcdowell, where General.
rock and his followers fought and
nally oyercame the wild Apaches, AMI.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-13
JERRY SIMPSON OUTCOME,
A Kansas Statesman Discards Socks
and Takes Red Hair as Issue.

A Kansas Statesman Discards Socks
and Takes Red Hair as Issue.
Representative Victor Murdoch, the
newly elected member of congress from
"Sockless" Jerry Simpsons district in
Kansas, Is attracting much attention
at Washington, says the Chicago Inter
Ocean.
Mr. Simpson is supposed to have
gained many votes on the sockless is
sue, but Mr.. Murdoch made his cam
paign chiefly on the red hair issue.
Mr.. Murdock's hair is very red. Pri-
or to the holding of the district con-
vention that nominated him for con-
gress to succeed Mr.. Long there was a
big field Of candidates, Murdoch and
one other having red hair. The other
red haired candidate entered into an
alliance with Murdoch by which 1t
was agreed that after the preconven-
ton campaign had progressed long
enough to determine which red haired
man was the more popular the losing
candidate before the public should
withdraw in favor of the other
Murdoch won. He told the people of
Kansas from the stump that the red
haired men were a considerable part
OF the population and that they should
be represented in congress. He was
nominated and elected.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-13
CHAMPION OF A RIVER.
ClubwOmss Would Restore the Chi
cage to Its Former beauty.


cage to Its Former beauty.
1T was born of the wide western
plain, reared In the freedom of tn,
endless prairie and flowed peacefully
and with dignity by the tide of tn,
aborigine, who admitted its beauty an,
let that beauty develop.
ut truly is Cinderella of rivers-o
noble birth. now made TO drudge anG
slave in the dust and ashes of the city,
No one may recognize it from the de
scription, but the Chicago river is
meant. The characterization is that OF
Chicago clubwoman, Mrs. Kate s
Woods, says the Chicago Tribune.
The river has been abused. There is
no doubt of that in Mrs. Woods mind
for she declares the city has been un.
grateful and has chided where the abo.
rigine lauded.
For almost thirty years after his
coming" she says, "the white man
found that the natural course of the
river did not run counter to his. Soon,
however, the new city became a harsh
stepmother, and the Cinderella of rivers
was sent to work in the dirt and SCOT
Of manufacturing hearth"
1t Is sad for even river to have TO
work, Mrs. Woods cOntended. But
worse than that is the ingratitude of
Chicago. So appealing was the plea
for the river and SO harsh was the ar
raignment Of the city that an auditor
proposed the organization of a society
Tor the prevention of cruelty to the
Chicago river. The city is cruel, for:
I'VE never gave this Cinderella a
chance to put on new or bright raj
ment We never gave her a chance
even to wash her face until the drain
age canal went through, and that was
merely for the sake of ourselves, not to
enhance the beauty of the river.
How good the river has been to all
of US and how little we appreciate it!
1t Is despised, neglected and over
worked. 1t is used as a dump, a ditch
and even as an open sewer. Men stop
Its current with big. cumbersome tun-
nels below and span it with unsightly
bridges above; they stick ugly piles
and piers in it; they make it mathe-
mathically straight and inartistic and
then throw up their hands in astonish.
ment crying, How ugly, what an
abomination!
There Is hope for the future" Mrs.
Woods held. Let us each be fairy to
bring Cinderella back to her own, the
Cinderella which has drudged for us
for seventy years."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-13
Congress and Cuban Reciprocity

/ 1t is wholly improbable that the eX
traordinary session of congress will &C
complish anything more than the work
for which il was convened, the adop
ton of the Cuban reciprocity treaty
/ if indeed it does so much as that. II
/ Is announced that Mr.. Cannon. who
has already been determined upon by
the Republican caucus of the house as
speaker, will appoint only one or two
of the committees at the opening of the
session, thus preventing the cOnsidera
ton of general legislation and requir-
ing congress to devote itself exclusive.
ly to the matter directly in hand
The treaty for reciprocal trade with
Cuba, which was defeated AT the last
session of congress. provides for a 20
per cent reduction of duty on Cuban
sugar, tobacco and other products of
the Cuban soil imported into the Unit
ed States and for reduction of from
% to 10 per cent on articles of Amer.
lean manufacture imported into Cuba
1t was signed by the representatives OF
the two governments on Dec. II, 1902
and when ratified by the senate was
amended by that body by the require.
ment that II should not take effect un.
til 1t had been approved by congress-"
This amendment was adopted in order
to meet the constitutional objection
that changes in the tariff could not be.
accomplished by treaty. but must orig
mate in the house of representatives.
1t is vigorously maintained by prom
lnent members of the house. and more
particularly by Mr. Littlefield of Maine
in an article in a recent issue of the
American Economist, that this amend
ment is of no effect, that the house has
no constitutional power to approve a
treaty any more than to disprove one.
and that in this case there is no treaty.
Tor what purports to be such is an
unconstitutional, although, of course,
unattended, usurpation by the presi-
dent and the senate of the power DOS
sessed by the house alone of original
ing all bills for raising revenue, which
include all measures in any way mod
flying the tariff.
II Mr.. Littletield and those who SUD-
port his contention are correct and per
slst In maintaining their position the
treaty is likely to become involved in
a question Of procedure which NAV
prevent its approval at this session.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-13
Consul Skinner's Romance

Robert p. Skinner, United States con.
sui at Marseilles, France, who has gone
TO confer with King Menelek of Abys-
sinla In regard TO better trade relations
with the United States, figured In TO-
nance during President McKinley's
hrst administration. says the Cleveland
Rain Dealer. Skinner was then pub
fishing paper in Ohio, and the presi.
dent, who knew him very well. asked
him one day why he did not marry the
girl to whom he had been paying at
tention for some time. The young man
candidly said he was not in a position
to do so. Nov, Bob" answered the
president you 60 and get married.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-13
A MIIIIoNAIRE's PLIGHT.
Rev sim Dunfee suffered when He
Raised the socks Issue.

sim Duntee Of Syracuse. \. l.. RAISED
tie socks Issue. He has no one else Il
blame for what happened 10 him at the
Yates House the other day. says the
New York World. Nevertheless he is
angry.
Sim, once a bootblaek. Is now a mil
lionaire and member OF the Democratic
state committee. When his friend Fred
Thompson was seeking the Democratic
nomination for mayor the cry was
raised that he was silk stocking
and wouldn't do.
Hes no silk stocking" was Dun
fees reply. Twenty cents a pair Is all
any gentleman should pay for socks.
Fred's cost no more" After that the
politicians took TO examining one an
others socks TO see II they came under
Dunfee's rules.
Dunfee met Alan c. Fobs, Republic
an candidate for mayor; Ralph 5. Bow
en- and some more Republicans in the
Yates House lobby.
Hello. SIM" said Bowen. 81 don't
believe you practice what you preach.
I'm going to look at the ones you've got
on"
He seized Dunfee's trousers leg and
tried 10 pull il up. Dunfee squirmed TO
get away. The side seam OF the trou-
sers ripped TO the knee. There was
plain black above the shoe tops. The
socks could have been bought at 30
cents for three pairs.
But between them and the knee was
a pale blue fabric.
Sim" said Fobs sternly, "you are
hypocrite. Twenty cents for socks, but
$50 suit for the other things"
In the rush the other men made to
Inspect the other things" the oracle of
Democratic simplicity in clothes ran
great risk OF having to wear a barrel
home.
You'll wish you had bathing suit
handy next time | meet you. Bowen"
said Dunfee. 81 won't leave rag on
your back"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-13
Pictorial Designs on Railway Cars.

The Western Railway company of
Paris has put in service its first train
of new cars, with special pictorial de-
signs invented by NJ. Edouard eros.
says the New York Herald. Each car
has a distinctive blaZon, consisting of
some animal, flower or other object.
which helps passengers TO remember
easily their cars. The devices used on
the train already running are a wind
mill, lion a balloon. guitar, grape
vine, n woman on beer barrel. rose,
ship and cock. The train runs
from Paris TO Cherbourg.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-13

All Portage county. O.. is admiring
Senator NJ. A. Hanna for what he re-
Gently said to street car conductor
while in that county. says a dispatch
from Kent. 1t was on the trip from
Ravenna to Kent. The car was spe-
cial one. ordered by the committee, and
there were no women aboard. Every
body started to smoke. The conductor
apparently seeking notoriety, picked
out the senator and. tapping him on the
shoulder. said, you can't smoke in
herev'
isn't this a special carr" queried the
senator.
Yes, sir" answered the conductor.
And it's paid for. isn't itY' contin.
ued Mr.. Hanna.
u suppose So" was the reply.
"Ihen," said the senator, 81 puess
We'll smoke"
The conductor hastily retired.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-13
Novelty In Gloves For Men.

quite the smartest things In new fall
gloves for men are the white and tan
driving gloves. These have, in the first
place. special cut-an anatomical cut
1t is called-to fit the lines of the hand.
Ihey fasten at the wrist - which is
loose. to give full play to the muscles
with single button. The glove is of
white and tan combined. The back
ana wrist are Of the white, and the
palm Of the hand and inside and be-
tween the fingers are Of the dark skin.
Inc gloves are called the four-in-hand
and cost $2nJ.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-13
Crusade Against "Immoraln Tunes

Professor Penny, the teacher of mn
sic In Washburn college of Tona,, i.
han., who is making crusade agains
what he terms immoral music in III,
churches, apparently takes no stock II
the good old principle that pleasan
tunes had better be devoted to tht
Lords service than the DEVILS. He
nhds In the tunes that are used in
the churches and Sunday schools siv
"altZes, two twosteps and nearly q
score or polkas, all of which, he in.
slsts' are immoral and should be ex.
purgated from the hymn books,
Apparently it is a question of tine
WIN the professor-that is, If time
Is constructed in such time that #
could be employed in dancing if ia i'm.
moral. This classification would bon.
ISL all three-four hymns and sacred
songs. 1t would put under the ban the
soou oid hymn Come, Ye Disconso.
late" as it makes an excellent waltz
tune. The once popular and always
beautiful song my God, How Endless
IS my Love-" would also have to 90
PROFESSOR Penny himself puts down &c
olstlnctly immoral the music of "Sbou
we Gather at the River?, Doubtless
'hough not for its terpsichorean meas.
ure' he would condemn "There Is .
Happy Land" the melody of which
was once Hindoo love song and
which Is Still thoroughly oriental in its
musical sentiment. :
IN these good old tunes many a de-
won't soul has found joy and insnira.
.lon' win never thought that there
could be anything wrong in tbem ana
80 'hey will probably continue 70 he
sung uesplte Professor Penny's some.
"hat hypercritical objections
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-13
CockrOnch Killer to the NAVY

The American navy has engaged the
services of an expert cockroach killer.
VINO will attempt to eradicate these in
sects from all the vessels in the navy
IN Atlantic waters as well as in the va
rious buildings at the Atlantic coast
navy yards. This man has been Of
work on some Of the vessels of the
north Atlantic squadron, with excel
lent results. He received 500 shin
but 1t is understood that special ar
rangement has been made with him by
the navy department under the terms
OF which he will receive in the future
only $50 ship.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-13
RICE AND ROSES.
Practical and Sentimental Side of a
Wedding Innovation.


The following editorial on an innova-
ton at recent English wedding ap-
peared In the Chicago Tribune:
Brides come and go, and when they
go 1t has been the custom from time
immemorial to throw rice after them.
The fashion of going away gowns
changes from year to year, but the
nuptial cereal that finds its way into
the creases Of these gowns remains
ever the same. But at a recent Eng
lish wedding in high life deviation
was made from this time honored Gus
tom, and the departing pair were pelt-
ed with dried rose leaves. OF course
this innovation has it's practical and
sentimental side.
On the practical side 1t will appeal
to those thrifty housewives who have
deplored the number of possible pud-
dings that have gone to waste at we'd
dngs and have sadly estimated the
number of hungry mouths that they
might have fed. OF course rose leaves
have something Of a sentimental sug-
gestion, but the fact that dried rose
leaves are used would seem to imply
that romance had entered the scar and
yellow leaf stage, and then again the
question arises. How is it possible to
throw thing of such airiness and
unsubstantiality as rose leaf? Yet
no doubt If this custom is permanent
ly adopted In England it will soon find
Its way to American wedding cele-
brations.
Hereafter 1t will be the scent of
dried rose leaves rather than the pres
ence of rice that will betray bridal
couples, and do what these interest
ing individuals will to hide their iden-
tity and newly marrledness the scent
of the roses will cling to them still.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-13
JOHNSONS TOO NUMEROUS,
One Member of Clan Asks Court to
Change CoGnomen.


Change CoRnomen.
A superabundance of people bearing
the name of Johnson having caused
serious confusion in his home street,
Erick Leander johnson of Pittsburg
now wants new name. He has made
application in common pleas court No.
l to be allowed to adopt hereafter the
name Of Erick Leander Newbert
In his application the proposed Mr..
Newbert sets forth that his wife, his
father and five or six other divisions
of the johnson family reside in the
same street. Consequently great con-
fusion Is caused, one Mr.. johnson re-
ceiving another Mr.. Johnson's guests
and sometimes mail. The petitioner
AYERS he is suffering from an aggra-
waited case of too much Johnson"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-13
Church That Likes Rautfme Musf.

Church That Likes RaEtime Music.
Ragtime Is now played in the Forty
eighth Street Baptist church in Chica.
go. You can also play chess, checkers or
dominos In the church at any hour of
the day and at almost any hour of the
night. The pastors parlor and dining
room are as open as the church, and
each evening the young people gather
there at piano and play and sing
How much wood would woodchuck
chuck If a woodchuck could chuck
woodr' my Kongo Lady" and other
ragtime songs. The pastor. Homer M.
Cook. likes the music of the piano, and
he encourages the young people to use
It He lives in the church with his
wife.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-13

III decision just given in the United
states circuit court at Chicago tbo
yuuse says There was simply -. n
httle Judicious jollying by tho oor,
plaihant." Upon such eminent .rtnou
i'y the verb ''to jolly" may now he in
corporated into the language as cor
rect English as "she is spoke"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-13
4.ZgKHIzI!!syIly,!..lj,

To andfrom Quebec. C oleLrook N.-,t ...-
ford, Lancaster, North Conva, H.. ''a'
Portland, and all points i'm tbrS
of Maine and Maritime ra.iu,,,
In effect June 10. 1903.
TRAINS LEAVE North Stratf.rf,. cd.
ows: For Colebrook and Brtrh,r III, o
10 30 a. m, o., 5.33 and 80 p. ~. III
For Cookshire, Dudvell Junction .n.rrt-
Ridge at 1910 a. m. and 9u- f. mn '''Ll'
For Quebec and all points an Nh. n,..,
central Ry. 2.07 p. m ~U't,
For Lancaster 400, 6.55 and II -p.,
md 3aj7 p. m. '' '4
For QueDec Junction. Portland and p...
I'm points O.55 1 l 90 a m. and az ''a,'
FOR Boston, via Portland, u >. d. II -'.
n. and 3.O7 u. m. ''''
GEO +. EVANS,
Vice President and Gen MANAGE,
F. Is. BOOTHBY, 6. p. & ia.
PORTLAND, Nh.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-13
GEEI!IIiIIITEqyE
ONE WAY and Glass
COLONlST FARES

From September 9UtuN...
1905, CoionIst fares from I,.-.Ir .
Seattle, Victoria, Nanrur o.
Rossland, Nelson, Eul,,m
Benson, Calgary. DmmoD. r..
Angeles, New Wcstmii g. L.
cisco, san Diego aud mar. ..- '--
tions, c. -
Spokane, Dayton, Elleaslar n W.
don, Shoshone, Walla VA. .-
Anaconda, Helena, Butte. s,.I>..,
City, ..i.-
TOURIST SLEErlNCr1r>
Leave Montreal every N.r.
Wednesday, 1880 =. NJ. forth. 90
dation of passengers huau.. s..
second class tickets 10 Chican, ..l t
thereof as far as the Parifrr..,
rnal charge is made for h.n..
may he reserved in advaurr.
For all information aud I...t....,
to Station Ticket office or 'iiF
JOHN REEVE, AGryLG.Tp
ISLAND POND. W.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1903-11-13

hostility between the employer and the
employed. Capital and labor will al
ways remain rivals, but they need not
be enemies, each bent on the destruc-
ton Of the other.