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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14

The practice of having beds made
in the early morning, though ex-
ceedingly tidy, is one which should
be discouraged, for it is bad. Con
stantly We see bed made half an
hour after the sleeper has left the
room, wherefore all the exhalations
from the skin during the night are
confined beneath the sheets and are
inhaled again when the bed is next
used. 1t is an excellent practice,
and one which ought TO he encour-
aged in all Young people, to turn off
the clothes of the bed immediately
on rising. The mattress, too, should
be turned back SO that all may be
properly aired and quite cold be-
fore being remade.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14
ALL OVER THE HOUSE.
Information ss to the Use Of Sweet
Herbs In Flavorins.

When soup, sauce or vegetable
is to be favored with an herb or
another vegetable the flavor should
be added toward the end of the
cooking period. Since the oils and
other bodies which give seasoning
vegetables and herbs their flavor
are volatile they are either driven
off by long continued cooking or
rendered much less delicate in
flavor, Herbs that are TO be left
IN the dish or served with the dish
must be added just before the food
is served. The herbs generally
served with the dish are chervil,
parsley, tarragon and chives.
Burnet, thyme, summer savory,
sage and sweet basil are cooked with
the dish short time, not over
twenty minutes, and are then re-
moved.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14
Paperins q Room.

When repaperlng a room 1t is
well understood that for sanitary
reasons all the old paper should be
removed. If this is not done it
should be remembered that grease
spots in the old paper may keep
the new from sticking well. If
there is little break in the plaster
do not think that the damage is re-
paired by papering over it, for the
paper drawn tight like drunhead
will break easily. Mix some plaster
of paris with water and fill the
places where furniture has gouged
out a hole in the wall or nail has
been driven. Right preparation Of
surface means much in both paper
ing and painting.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14
TIME FOR STUDY AND SLEEP
Number Of Hours by Which the ses.
Results Are Obtained.

Mothers know that the newborn
infant must sleep about twenty-five
hours, and that this amount is so
slowly lessened that the child still
demands twelve hours when it is
about twelve years old. 1t is quite
likely that the normal amount is
not reduced to ten hours until about
eighteen years of age or perhaps
until twenty-one years. Nine hours
may be required until well along in
years.
To let boys of fourteen sit up
until 10 o'clock and then rout them
out at 6 is nothing short of criminal,
but it is long established custom.
Lower animals can be quickly killed
by depriving them Of sleep-the boy
is not killed, but perhaps he is so
exhausted that he loses resistance to
disease. Medical students not in
frequently make the same mistake,
forgetting that a tired brain never
absorbs anything. The midnight oil
frequently represents wasted tir
and money and the student sleeps
during next days lectures when ne
should be wide awake. A good te.t
of exhaustion is the tendency to
sleep during dry lecture-and this
is no joke.
Experience has proved that those
who retire in time to sleep at least
nine hours, and occasionally ten, get
far more out of their course than
the "grinds." Some of the best
men habitually take ten hours.
Theoretically student should he
as fresh at the end of the term as
at the beginning-the vacation is
for another purpose than sleep. The
whole subject, though very old, is
so new to the laymen who do the
damage to schoolboys, particularly
in boarding schools, that there is
urgent need of wider publicity and
luuCll uloCusSlOll loI tAllSllttllllCIit.
Not only will proper sleep permit
more to be gained for less effort,
but it will prevent the exhaustions
which so frequently follow school
courses.
Physicians might teach mothers
that it is harmful to waken children
of any age-they should waken in
the morning naturally. If they are
not in time for school they do not
retire early enough. If they are
sleepy heads it is either the fault
of the parent or the result of ocular
defects. There is much comment
upon the large number of midship-
men who fail at the Naval academy
in a course not worse than in many
colleges. 1t is suspected that they
would do better if they had ten
hours sleep daily.-American Medi-
| cine
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14
Conversation Ceased.

1t was a moonlight evening and
Jenkins was smoking fine favored
Havana, when he met a friend.
"Have a cigar:' he inquired.
"Thanks," said the other CRATE
fully, taking and lighting the prof
fered weed.
After few experimental puffs,
however, the friend removed the ci-
gar from his lips, looked at it doubt
fully, and, with a very evident
abatement of gratitude in his tone,
asked:
"What do you pay for these ci-
gars?"
1.-TWO for 80 cents" replied the
original proprietor of both weeds,
taking his own cigar out of his
mouth and looking at it with con-
siderable satisfaction. "Ihis cost
me a quarter and that 5 cents"
The conversation stopped at this
point, and cloud conveniently shut
off the moonlight.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14
Fancy liable WaYs.

We are getting dead swell in this
good town. We eat ice cream with
a fork. Some time ago we learned
to make salad at the dinner table.
Then we served coffee in the library
after dinner. We have had finger
bowls some dozen years, We are be-
ginning to use them even when
there is no company. One family
has finger bowls at breakfast, after
fruit and before bacon, even when
there is 10 guest at the house.
That's dead swell. We have drunk
soup out of a teacup and put grass
on the fried chicken, and now we
eat ice cream with "a fork. Why
not? These little evidences of So
cial progress are commendable.-
Columbia Herald.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14
A Substitute.

Little Helen, aged four, was IN
frightful predicament The nurse,
carrying the cherished two-weeks-
old baby up and down before the
house, had paused to show the new
infant to the bishop, who had asked
to look at it. And then the tall,
grave bishop, of whom Helen stood
greatly in awe, had Unexpectedly
asked the little girl to give him the
baby. How in the world to refuse
a request made by such an awe in
spring person as the bishop the
child did not know. But presently
she wrinkled her small countenance
shrewdly, moved closer to the petit
toner, and said, ingratiatingly, "I'll
let you have the next.AHarper's
Weekly,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14

A brakeman retired to farm and
started to lead the simple life. Hav-
ing a piece of new land to break,
he hitched up a, team of mules,
wrapped the lines around his waist
in farmer fashion and started to
work. He had gone but a short
distance when he saw stump ahead
and Immediately began giving the
railroad stop" signal with both
hands. The plow struck The stump,
and the brakeman went head first
over the plow, Picking himself up,
he ran angrily to the mules and
roared, "You flop cared scoundrels,
don't you ever look back for a sig
nal p-Atchison Globe.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14
FOR THE LITTLE ONES.
Spiders Are intelligent Insects-How
They Spin Webs.

Spiders are not only among the
most poisonous insects, but they are
seemingly the most intelligent.
There are very many varieties of
them. They have eight legs and
generally eight eyes. Some say they
can he educated. They display
wonderful strategy in trapping and
carving off their prey and in build
ing their nests The silk they spin
is formed b, DIN apparatus situated
in the back part of the undersurface
of their bodies, which consists of
several vessels twisted together and
ending in very little openings $50
small they have to be seen with a
MICROSCOPIC at the end of the tail.
The gluey matter thrown out by
these pores hardens in the air, form
ing threads of the finest description.
1t takes many of these to form a
single strand of a spiders web. Diff
ferent spiders have different colored
webs. \ Mexican spider has a beau
tiful web of red, yellow and black
threads. 1t is said that 10000
threads of common garden spider
would not be as thick as a single
human hair. while others form
threads so strong they will catch
birds.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14
Relic of the Constitution.

A valuable relic of the historic
old frigate Constitution has been
dug from the river bed of the Della
ware by the crew of clam dredger
off New Castle, Del. 1t is a china
water urn presented to the famous
old fighting ship of the American
navy by the city of Philadelphia in
1897 and long ago lost and forgot
ten. How the urn came to be at
the bottom of the river is mystery.
On one side Of the receptacle is the
coat of arms of the state of Penn
sylvania, while on the other side is
the inscription, presented by the
City Of Philadelphia to the Consti-
tution-1797." philadelphia Press.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14
Doubtful Commitment.

A clergyman was about to leave
his church one evening when he en-
countcred an old lady examining
the carving on the font. Finding
her dcsirons Of seeing the beauties
of the church, he volunteered to
show her over. and the flustered old
lady, much gratified at this mex-
pected offer of a personally conduct
ed tour, shyly accepted it. BY and
by they came to a handsome tablet
on the right of the pulpit. This"
explained the good man, 'is a me-
mortal tablet erected to the memory
of the late vicar" "There, now.
Amt it beautiful" exclaimed the
admiring old lady, still fustered and
anxious to please. "And I'm sure,
sir, | ,ope it won't be long afore we
tee one erected to YOU on t'other
side !"-Scotch- American.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14
FRANCE AS A WORLD BANKER

Among other results of the Alge-
ciras conference France has come to
a consciousness Of her real power in
tho world at large. An English
fnancier had already said that if
the French people continue to live
on the principle, "Where YOU have
four sous spend only two," they will
end by having in their possession all
the coined gold in the world. The
great portion of it, which they al
ready possess, and the distress
caused to German finance and in
dustry by the patriotic refusal of
the united French banks To allow
their gold to be drawn until peace
was secure had a great and prob
ably decisive influence in the happy
termination of this entangled affair
of Morocco. The iloatIng of the
latest Russian loan has since come
to show vet further the riches of
France, to which tourists alone, it
is estimated, add 2,OOO,000,O0O
francs in gold each year. This
money power and money need should
tend to the keeping of European
peace more than all the theories Of
the pacihsts who clamor for a dis
armament impossible to obtain. H.
favor Of France should also be adde0
the unwicldiness of parliamentar,
government in case Of sudden war
-Stoddard Dewey in Atlantic.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14
CelIuioid Not Explosive.

There is a widespread belief that
celluloid is explosive, but it is not,
in spite Of the fact that it is made
largely of gun cotton. The material
is the cellulose of cotton cloth, or
raw cotton, which is treated to a
weak solution of nitric acid. This
has the effect of making a cotton
pulp much like paper pulp. The
acid is then washed out by a water
bath, and after the pulp has been
partially dried gum camphor is
mixed with it. The final step is to
roll it into sheets and dry it on hot
cylinders, when it is ready for the
market. Steam softens it, but it
hardens again when dry. Ii fame
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14
Camping Out.
Last summer we went
IT, ftr.n l., , ,-,,.

Last summer we went
To live in a tent,
My father and mother and |,
And when l would choose
To take of my shoes
I could wade in the stream close by.
At night in the dark
l would lie still and bark
To the frogs that were croaking so near,
And all the day long
| could hear the sweet song
OF the birds singing out their good cheer.
Our breakfast we ate
At half after eight
On cloth spread out on the ground.
We had little fishes
In birch bark Dishes
And wild sweet berries found.
One evening l heard
A remarkable bird
Singing high in hickory tree
And its song was, "Whoo, whoo."
And l said: II know you.
I am Tommy X. Jinks. Don't you know
me?"
Washington Star,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14
Utilizing Stale Bread.

Those who are trying to cut table
expenses should never throw away
bread. When it is too dry put it
in an iron skillet with plenty of
water. When it softens add a big
chunk of butter and little salt,
sprinkled over, and let it remain
covered for awhile. 1t will stick
and brown. Loosen with a sharp
knife and turn. Every one likes it
with sirup or sauce for breakfast
or luncheon. 1t should be soft, but
not soggy, brown, not black, and
hot.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14
Pickle Test.

If you suspect that pickles have
been colored with copper you can
satisfy yourself with very simple
test. Put some piece of the pickle
into vial containing mixture of
equal parts of ammonia and water,
says the Portland Express. If there
is any copper present the liquid will
become blue in color.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14

To keep dress skirts from wrinkles,
if there are no patent hangers con-
venient, they should be folded down
the center front, then the doubled
skirt folded in thirds and a large
safety pin thrust through the folds.
The safety pin, when fastened, is
used as hanger, and in this way
the skirt hangs straight, with no
strain on any part of the waistband.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14
A Wonderful Lock.

Nincty-siN million years is the
time given to unlock a safe which
is fastened with the wonderful new
lock invented in Jamaica. The COM
bination consists of four sets Of
twenty-four letters of the al phabet,
which can be set to a sentence in
most modern languages. When one
letter is used in one alphabet and
another in the second set, and so
on, 1t becomes a most complicated
matter. Then there is the initial
problem Of which language it has
been KEYED in to be solved bv the
man that attempts to open the safe.
Furthermore. instead of letters the
inventor, one Neuman Tobias, has
employed four sets of numerals. As
suming that the lock has been set to
a figure in the number Of 5000, ,303,-
030, ,303,030, il would take any one
who undertook to unlock the safe
9G,O9O,21S years 269 DAYS 30 min
utes and 80 seconds, working at tie
rate of 60 numbers a minute, to ar
rive at tae proper combination.
During thi; time he would have no
time for food and sleep.-St. Louis
Post Dispatch.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14

Boys and girls may not know that
it is impossible to stand sideways
against a wall with the left cheek,
left heel and left leg touching it
and then raise the right leg, Try
this, and YOU will have a good deal
of amusement out Of it.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14
Egg Shampoo.

Beat the yolk of an egg into a
pint of soft. warm water and use
the whole as a shampoo. rubbing
into the scalp well. Rinse in half
a dozen waters to remove all traces
of the egg. Use every fortnight. We
do not know that this hghtens the
hair any more than other cleaning.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14

moved. rinse well in clean water.
dry with a soft cloth and polish
with chamois leather. Paint
cleaned in this way looks Ike new.
and even the most delicate colors
sre not injured.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14
Who Are the Real Owners Of a Cit

VINO are tne neal owners OF SItyf
1t has been predicted that the
task Of rebuilding the city Of San
Francisco would be hindered and
made difficult by labor union re-
strictions. 1t has been remarked as
unfortunate that organized labor
now has control Of the city's govern
ment. Emphatically dissent from
these pesSimistic opinions | regard
it as in the highest degree fortu-
nate, for the masses Of the toilers
who must supply the labor that Will
rebuild san Francisco, that their
representatives. will have something
to say about how the work is to be
done.
| look to them to prevent the du-
plicatIon OF many miseries inflicted
upon the poor Of the city, as upon
the poor of all great cities, through
huddIcd and insanitarv housing in
narrow, dark. neglected back streets.
There is a dawning general con-
sciousncss in this world that city
belongs not TO the few who take
its revenues. but to the many who
build and inhabit it; that. at anv
rate, the few who take the revenues
are not solely to be considered: that
tho ,,,.,,,. l,,.. conn, r;,,b = Va h l.,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14

The pond is a portion of the table
bounded by a slip moose. and the
fishes are the fingers of the players.
The moose is fastened to a rod held
by the fisherman. At an unexpected
moment the fisherman cries. Out
of the pond" and at the same IN
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14
Cleaning Chamois.

Never wash chamois skins in hot
water. Use cold water and avoid
soap, if possible. The skins clean
very easily. as matter of fact. This
applies also TO chamois skin gloves,
which are so popular in summer
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14

White gloves that have got be
yond cleaning can be painted over
with saffron water two or three
times and transformed into tan. Let
them get thoroughly dry between
each application and don't wet them
much
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14

slant raises the rod quickly. thus
drawing up the moose and catching
such fish as have not been nimble
enough to escape to dry land.
The captured fish must pay for
feits to be released.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14
To CIean Paint.

To clean paint damp clean cloth
in hot water, dip it in whiting and
rub the paint until the dirt is re-
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14

be applied to it it will burn about
like sealing wax.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14
VOL. XXNlN
Probate Court.

r..rN District Probate Court.
.- rt said Court will he held at
rH. second Tuesday Of Octoher aud
...t lhr second Tuesday of No.
... .I4N. Wyrt Concord the second
... t,,cruhrs and lane. LunenburE
. rft,lay ot1auuary and July.
.... -.,-.au> viii 'v held at any place ~
...r... Dos i.ruvmCut.
RuBERT CHASE. Judge.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-09-14
WHAT

you buy is important, but not so
important as what you get.
shop at the
CROSS STREET PHARMACY
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-07-06
Rird'S Long. Journeys. y

From the Pail Mali Gazette9-
That birds Of the family termed surf
birds in the Hawaiian Islands should
leave that paradise of the Pacific to go
and rear their young in the tundas OF
Alaska would seem to many an tx
traordinary proceeding. Yet 1t IS so:
the turnstone and the b~lack-bellled
plover and the Pacific golden plover
make the long journey Of o 4,ooO
miles thither annually, leaving the s.
lands in May, when the SHOWS OF the
Artic regions, in melting leave the
cranberries and other low growing
fruitS of the great SwampS or the
tundras. which stretch across the boS-
ON of the Arctic circle, as fresh as
when they were first ripened by the
nerpetual sunshine of the Attic sum
mer.
Under the deep covering Of the
immense quantity OF food mas peeh ~
ing during the winter months, TOT lhe
. SHOWS froze it before the pros mao
time to gather it all, and they pre-,
served it both from the ef1ects OF frost
and decomposition, fresh ana pure as
when il first ripened, t0Ward inc cue
of the Attic summer. In ne
| birds beginning their migration III
ward have to leave much
Millions of our OWE European plroS
90 to the tundras Of Siberia, n 70
Iceland and Greenland and otner north-
ern resorts, rearing their young there
under the same conditions. The oiIns
that leave the warm islands OF the "a,
cifc in May go in good condition ano
in their bravest nuptial plumage, across
to California, to strike nerthWard u
Alaska. They return about the ,mlo'
die of August, old and young allKe II
very poor condition, exhausted by 'he''
long voyage.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-07-06
To Get Bid Of the Fly.
From the New York Tmes.)

It loi11 klIC
To Natin of Paris has offered a prize
for the best method of getting rid VI
honse flies. The offer has drawn o1rtn
an essay entitled "Deienda Musca.
which processes TO give a me'hou ~
which the pest may be destroyed. ne
remedy is not sought in fly paper Oh
a tran of any kind The breedlnS
nlaces Of the insect must be soughI
ont and the evil dealt with there
The writer Of the essay tried a nix
ture of soda and chloride OF inc using
eleven pounds to thirty-hve CUBIC lsel
Of material. This was found enectiNe
and IS recommended for closed tanhS'
h1t not for places where the poisonous
solution could drain away.
ar the rate of about a quart 10 e'ClS
eleven square feet OF SURFACE was as
-r;ad hnr the effect was found 0 10 oe
SUFFICIENTLY lasting. Goa tar was 1ounh
~ give better results. Raw petroleum
If raw schiet oil-the residue IN "ls~
: til,ation-was found 10 give the pes
results. About two quarts or this HIN
cd with water were used for ever
tvelve SQUARE feet of surface. lhiS
forms a stratum Of oil n the dram .:
ovar the surface Of the solid. when
efectuallv prevents the Development VI
the egg or grub. And this proeectt'e
coat of oil. It is further pointed out
; facilitates the development OF anaeIo'
. bic bacteria which ifuuefy the sonos
and So render them mt oreeu'As
/ o1oces. ...-,, .--
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-07-06

rally. However. shen Te~consxEus@iCp
began in n these distinctions
we're erased almost iu-as~1 y4afw and
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