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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1908-08-07
Quite Natural.

well, how does II feel to have a
niche IN the Temple of Fame?"
Quite natural" replied the now GEL
ebrated poet. I've always lived Ia a
hall bedroom. kansas City Journal
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1908-08-07
What Did ha Mani

Wife lat dinner)-Cook left ns this
morning. Husband-Who cooked the
dinner? Wife, did Husband-Real
~; Well. we'll have to get new cook
right away.-Lippincotts.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1908-08-07
On Papa's Side Only.

Mamma. our teacher says I'm de
scended from d monkey"
His mother tglancing severely at her
husbandI-Not on my side. darling.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1908-08-07
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TIME TABLE
In effect June 81 1908

Passenger service at Island Pond
EAST BOUND LFA''
Mail aud passenger t - d. n'.
Mixed Gas a. m. Express ~ /. IL
Night express Lao a. III,
ARRIVE FROM FAsI
Night express lao a,
Mixed 2.45 p. m. Express .l' J. O."
Mail and passenger $50 T. sa.
WEST BOUND LKAvh
Mali and passenger 7.45 a -3.
Express LOOP. IN. Night eA '' i. "'
ARRIVE FROM wEsI
Night Elk. lao a. IN. Expres, j. J. "'
Mail aud passenger 9 - D. OIL.
"a Express trains run da'''' ''",
trains daily except Sunday
For all information and Tickets apr!
to Station Ticket Office or
w. A. GLEESON, AGENh
ISLAND POND, VI.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1908-08-07

T may have teen about a week
since Richard Clavering and Mu-
riel Deane became engaged. Upon
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1908-08-07


| he might not. So much as he had
seen on the envelope was far more
suggestive of Mortimer than Jones.
Certainly there seemed to be an NJ.
But Clavering was quite willing to
leave all this aside He was willing to
admit that Muriel might be perfectly
| within her rights In sending a photo.
graph Of herself to Curtis Mortimer
rascal though he was. He said to him.
self that he must refuse to entertain
a doubt Of Muriel's ability to explain
her conduct In manner which would
be satisfactory to the most censorious
critic, the most jealous worshiper.
But this he knew-thHt IL be should
again become involved in any maze OF
faisehood which should destroy his
faith in some one whom he loved and
trusted he must 60 mad and die
There was no strength in him for such
an ordeal.
"Muriel might better shoot me than
lie to me-" he repeated frantically
aloud in the empty streets.
At dawn he stood upon height tina,
overlooked the town. The eastern sky
blazed with color, and he had no pleas
ure In 1t. he to whom the face Of ma
ture had once been perpetual 10y
He laughed bitterly
Even the sunrise is wrong" be said
"lt'H not what 1t used to be. The
world and Its blue ceiling are ashes
mud have just foundeit out. Let m,
think this over There is something II
It."
In the middle OF the afternoon b.
called upon Muriel. The gentlema,
with whom he had played billiards O.
l the previous evening was just lesyir
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
GAME BIRDS HUNTERS VICTIMS

birds for at least four years Then
there might be some chance that the
coverts of the future would hold their
quota OF the noble quarry.
do not wish to dismiss this wood.
cock subject without quoting from
an article written by Arthur T. Wayne
for the AUX, the organ of the Amer.
ican Ornithologists' union. 1t tells in
a few words some OF the things with
which the woodcock have to contend
in their losing fight for life. Mr..
Wayne writes of the effect on the birds
of a cold wave which struck the coast
of South Carolina. He says: THE
woodcock arrived I'm countless thou.
sands. Prior to their arriva had
seen but two birds the entire winter.
Tens of thousands were killed by
would-be sportsmen. and thousands
were frozen to death. The great ma.
jority were so emaciated that they
were practically nothing but feathers.
One man killed 200 pairs In few
hours. Late Tuesday afternoon cas-.
lily caught several of the birds on the
snow and put them into thawed spot
on the edge Of swift running stream
in order that they should not perish.
but upon going to the place the next
morning saw one frozen. 1t will be
many years before this fine bird can
re-establish itself even under the most
favorable conditions"
The wood duck is our summer duck
II nests in hollow trees along the
streams In nearly every state east of
the Mississippi river. II is the most
beautiful of the duck tribe. It lacks
the shyne5s of the rest OF the family
and frequently builds its nest near our
houses. Man repays its friendliness
with charges OF shot. The fact that
the wood duck breeds as 1t does within
the United States, instead of going
to the far north, as do many members
Of its family, makes the season for it's
shooting so much the longer For many
ducks man has to wait until the migra-
ton is at its height in November. He
finds the wood duck along the streams
while he is hunting grouse in Sep
tember.
Duck shooting is allowed in the
spring in nearly every state in the
union. The birds at that season are
hurrying to the nesting grounds. They
are in poor condition for the table
and the only excuse for their shooting
is the seemingly Unsuitable lust of man
for slaughter The language is none
too strong. There is a crying need
for more wisdom in game legislation.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
Curious Indian Custom.

The following curious custom is re-
corded by J. Owen Dorsey in his
monograph on the sociology Of the
Omaha Indians:
In the spring when the grass comes
up there is council or tribal ass a.
bly, held to which feast is given by
the head OF the Hanga geno. After
they decide that planting time has
come and at command Of the Hanga
man a crier is sent thrcIgh the vii.
lagos. He wears a robe with hair out
side and cries as he goes. They do.
indeed, say that you will dig the
ground! Hallo!' He carries sacred
corn, which has been shelled and to
each household he gives two or three
grains, which are mixed with the seed
corn Of the household"
After this 1t is lawful for the peo.
pie to dig up the soil and plant their
crops.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
MAKE 1T GRADUAL.
Changing from Whole to Skim Milk
in Feeding the Calf.

The change from whole to skim milk
in feeding the calf should be made
by Withholding a small amount of milk
the first day, more the second, and so
on. The amount withheld is thus grad
ually increased from day to day. An
amount of skim milk must be added,
at least equal in quantity of new milk
withheld, until the change has been
completed.
Some substance should be added as
soon as the change begins that will
supply an equivalent IN the fat con-
tanned in the new milk withheld. No
substance has been found superior for
such use to linseed meal, that is,
ground flaXseed Oil meal will answer
the same purpose, and is far more
frequently fed than ground flax, for
the reason probably that it is relative
ly cheaper When the latter is used
1t is necessary TO feed larger guam
tity than the former.
In some instances the meal thus
added is stirred in the milk, but in
other instances, as when the calves
nave W luht tut
change from new to skim milk has
begun, it is simply added to the meal.
Sometimes the flaxseed is made into
jelly, and this fed along with the
milk.
This practice was common years
ago, but 1t is not so much practiced
now, since separator milk has come to
be so extensively available. The
jelly was usually warmed before 1t
was put into the milk, and this helped
to warm the latter when cold. The
amount to be fed may be regulated for
time, at least, by the influence that
the meal or the jelly exercise on the
digestion. IL too much is fed the di.
gestion will be unduly lax. - Prof
Thomas Shaw.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
TORTURED SIX MONTHS
BY Terrible Itching Eczems-Baby's
Suffering Was Terrible - Soon
Entirely Cured by Cuticura.

Eczema appeared on my sons face.
We went to doctor who treated him
for three months. Then he was SO bad
that his face and head were nothing
but one sore and his ears looked as IL
they were going to fall off, so we tried
another doctor for four months, the
baby never getting any better. His
hand and legs had big sores on them
and the poor little fellow suffered so
terribly that he could not sleep. After
he had suffered six months we tried
a set of the Cuticura Remedies and
the first treatment let him sleep and
rest well; I'm one week the sores were
gone and in two months he had a clear
face. Now he is two years and has
never bad eczema again. Mrs. Louis
Beck. r. F. d. 3, San Antonio, Tex,
Apr. 15, 1907"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09

any OF the other game birds which
from their fecundity and from their
habits of life stand less in need of the
guard of the law.
The woodcock (phllohela minor) un.
less something DO done, and done
quickly. will soon be classed with the
extinct aux and the "proverblally ex.
tinct" dodo. This is no idle statement
made by n protectionist from princi.
pie for the sake of stopping the sport
of the multitude. The plea for the pro-
lection of the woodcock. and the state.
ment that unless protected quickly
and adequately II will soon be bird
of the past. have the sanction of the
United States government. DR. A. X
Fisher, an ornithologist of the biolog.
cal survey, recently investigated the
her of woodcock and wood duck--an
other bird that Is rapidly vanishing
and on ending his work said: "Un.
less strong protective measures are
soon adopted the woodcock and wood
duck. two popular ana valuable game
birds, will become extinct-the wood.
cock absolutely. the wood duck over
large part of its range"
The woodcock is n migratory bird.
II winters in the southern states and
comes to the north In summer to rear
Vs young. Some of the birds, how.
ever. 1t must be said. are practically
resident throughout the year In some 10.
calities of the south
Disdaining the wanderers life, they
build their homes in neighborhoods to
which they cling throughout their
short lives. In winter the woodcock is
in the southern states. II is sold for
food in every winter resort In the
southland. and II is shipped northward
to supply the winter markets OF the
great cities.
Harassed all winter through with
dog and gun. the woodcocK takes up Its
northern flight early in the spring, pos.
sibly hoping that far away IL may get
rest from persecution. 1t is an idle
hope, Though there are laws in many
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09

northern states seem to have read
somewhere the statements of scien.
lists that the woodcock nests In March.
This apparently was enough for the
lawmakers, and they at once took the
woodcock out of the class in which
they placed other game birds and said
that II 1t nested in March the young
of the year must be big enough for
broiling by July 4. Therefore In many
states II is made legal to shoot wood
cock in the early summer. The wood
cock rarely nests in March north of the
Mason and Dixon line. II the wealth.
er conditions be unfavorable the birds
will nest late. The young are not al
ways able to take care of themselves
by July 4. Assassination Is not too
strong n word-for believer In pro-
lection at least-to use In characteriz-
ing the summer shooting of the wood.
cock Happily some few of the states
have advanced the date of the opening
of the shooting season until August.
What they should do is to prohibit
both the shooting and the sale OF the
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
Romans Established the Earliest In
stitutions OF the Kind.

Among the expenditures by states
and cities, those for the maintenance
Of hospitals always meet with the
hearty approval of the public.
The WORK accomplished in hospitals
by boards of trustees and expert prac'
titioners of medicine and surgery
cannot be too highly praised. In
populous cities thousands of individu'
ais are cared for annually. and a very
large percentage OF the cases are
handled successfully. Without these
admirable establishments thousands
OF the sick and unfortunate might
very easily cease to eXsist.
Since the earliest times there has
been some sort of places which were
designed for hospital work, although
at first they were little more than
shelters or cheaply built almshouses
In the Roman camps there was med
icai STAFF to look after the wounded.
Among the earliest hospitals or rec
ord Is that said to have been founded
yalens in Caesarea S70-s0 A. d.. and
the one built In Rome by Fabiola, O
Roman lady. although. like most 9th
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
SHORT DAIRY TALKS.

A money-making combination Is the
COW and the sow. Give the latter
warm skim milk.
Avoid feeding hay or dusty rough
age just previous to milking. There
is too much dust to drop into the milk
pail.
Dairying is a ready money business,
and no other branch of live stock
keeping can compare with 1t for en-
riching the farm.
Three common faults in butter max
ing are over-ripe cream, overchurning
and over.working. The first means
strong butter, the second and third
soft butter.
One New York uairyman sells his
milk for seven cents per quart the
year round, and with good Jersey and
Holstein cows his herd produces on an
average of SIS worth of milk per
month. 1t requires So pounds out Of
avery 100 pounds TO pay expenses.
The Jersey COW is n highly devel-
oped milk-making machine. She has
been bred so long for this purpose
tndt HeT CHalactcliSliSs nave DccoiHe
fixed, and the descendants of we'll
bred dairy COW can be depended upon.
The amount of milk that she will
make depends largely on the amount
Of food that you can get her to use
To separate butter from the butter
milk I get yard of cheesecloth, wet
II in cold water and spread over the
top of a crock. then pour the but.
termilk and butter into the cloth from
the churn. Taking 1t up by the cor
ners and working 1t back and forth
easily am soon able to drain out all
ready TO put into crock and salt.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
THE ORIGIN OF HOSPITALS

er of that and even later times. both
institutions probably were almshouses
as well.
The origin OF our present hospitals
is traced to the monastic arrange.
ments for the care of the sick and In.
digent. Every monastery once
housed the sick and convaiescent.
Almost the earliest record of the
building of n hospital in England is In
the life of Lanfranc, archbishop of Can.
terbury. who in 1850 founded two. one
for leprosy and one for ordinary dis.
eases, In the eighteenth century Lon.
don, between 1919 and l747. estab-
lisned five public and five special hos.
pitfalls. In Ireland, between 1926 and
IVA, there were five public and three
special ones established in Dublin.
one in Cork, one in Limerick and, In
1891, one in Belfast,
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09

Unless the wisdom develops and &C.
tion follows its development. the chill
dren of a generation not far down
the road of posterity will know the
woodcock and the wood duck and per
chance many other of our finest game
birds only by the pictures which they
see in their natural history text books
The ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbel.
lus) called also pheasant and part
ridge in different sections of the coun.
try, is rapidly diminishing in nun.
bers. 1t is eagerly sought for by the
sportsman and the pot hunter, but
the bird has characteristics which VIII
enable 1t to keep up its fight for life
longer than can the woodcock. II has
bolt'like fight, and 1t dwells ordi.
narily In the thickest cover. Its
broods are large, from 13 to 15 nest
lings being not unusual number. II
her first nestful of eggs meet with
disaster Mother Grouse will build an
other nest and soon have another doz-
en- or so buff-shelled beauties In
the shadow of some woodland log
hN iuaii. "ilNh1 bl Nht way, 10 tuc
real partridge, is firmly opposed to
race suicide. Its family idea is strong.
ly developed. 1t nests early. and II
flood comes. or II some thieving crow
harry the home. the quail spends little
time in lamenting, but goes busily
about seeking another home site. Fre-
quently the birds will raise two broods
in season. and as the second brood
is usually late in cracking its way
from the shell into the world, the law.
makers-this time showing real wis
dom-have set forward the open sea-
son for the shooting of Bob White"
l have seen young quail in October
that were barely able to fly. The birds
are killed by the hundreds of thou.
sands every year for the markets. but
their fecundity is such that when they
have nearly entirely disappeared their
ranks may be recruited rapidly by the
prohibition c. their shooting for year
or two.
II may not be out OF place to end
this plea for the game birds by stat.
Ing a simple fact In the far west
they have been killing of the sage
grouse rapidly, The grouse are near.
Il all gone. and now the farmers and
ranchmen don't know what to do with
the grasshoppers which formed the
birds favorito food.
Not much searching is necessary to
find the moral in this bit o, fact from
the far west
EDWARD u. CLARK.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
WoODCOcK AND WOOD DUCK
RAPIDLY NEARING DANGER
OF EXTINCTION.
RELIEF NEEDED AT ONCE
Shooting OF Former Should Be Pro.
hibited for Four Years, According
to investigators--Grou
and Quail.
BY EDWARD B. CLARK.
associate Member American Ornithol-
ogists' Union)
Copyright. Joseph B. Bowlcs)

OF the northern states which prohibit
the spring shooting of woodcock. the
birds are killed in great numbers ly
men who go out ostensibly to hunt
'nipe and plover which the wisdom"
of the law makers allows to be killed
1T a time when they most need protec.
tion. The woodcock often nests early,
so early that spring floods frequently
drown out its low lying habitation.
The bird is not persevering. Its heart
falls 1t In the face of difficulties. I'm
like the quail, which is bound to raise
brood IF 1t takes all summer" 1t
frequently will make no attempt at
a second nesting after the first has
proved a failure. This fact In itself
wars against rapid increase in the
ranks of the birds.
Members of the legislatures OF the
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
Eattenina Calves for Veal.

AS result Of some London expert
ments it was decided that about a
month is as long as 1t is advisable
to feed calves on whole milk on a
dairy farm, or until they have reached
about 160 pounds live weight, or SO
pounds Of veal. This weight may be
attained in month. provided the
calves are fattened as quickly as pos.
sible, but one cannot expect to do It
unless the calves are fed three times
a day. An effort should also be made
to have the calves fat at the time
veal commands a high price; other.
wise the returns from vealing calves
on whole milk may not be at all salts
factory.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09

7S the season of shooting the
Y time TO ask the sportsman To
L stay his hand? The Sep
@ tember fields and woodlands
are thronged with men bent
2A1 on killing. 1T is well
,nough,' they say; there are plenty
of birds, and those that are left will
nest next year"
II is true that in one sense there
are plenty of birds. plenty yet for a
fair days sport, but what of the past
and the future? IL is only the older
sportsmen who can Judge of numbers
by comparison. The graybeard who
goes afield to-day misses the quail
2ovey multitudes of his youth. The
stripping sportsman finds four coveys
in day. deals out death in each and
In the absence of experience. repeats:
There are plenty OF birds"
The game birds OF the United States
are disappearing. They are going into
the pot The epicure cats. has his
hour Of delight. and II the growing
scarcity of the game finally be forced
upon IA. orders another bird and
says: Let posterity eat beef"
Consider the woodcock, one OF the
noblest IL not the noblest OF our game
birds II Is the table delicacy par ex.
ccllence. and its shotriddled body is
worth dollar to the pot hunter Is
not this enough in itself to show why
the woodcock is vanishing? If this
be not enough let It be known that for
some inscrutable reason this bird. val
liable from the economic standpoint of
food supply, is mere poorly protected
by law throughout the country than
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09
WHY The cows YELL OFF.
Hired Mans Boot and Sharp Fork
Quickly Reduced Milk Yield.

A farmer Of my town owns herd
of Is fine dairy cows, of which he Is
Justly proud, and he treats them with
great care and consideration, for
which he Is amply repaid by an abun,
dant flow of the richest milk.
He was taken very i'll last summer.
and a man was hired to take care oil
the cows for a month. At the end Of
that time the owner was able to go
to the barn and make call on his IA
vorites.
He was very much annoyed to see
that they had grown poor and that
their hair was ruffed up as though
they had not been well fed or cared
for. He questioned the man, who as
sured him that the cows had been fed
and milked regularly, and he knew nc
reason for the change except on ac
count of flies.
The farmer went to the house and
told his wife about It. She said that
there had not been so much milk late
ly, but that she had said nothing for
fear of worrying him.
The farmer made up his mind that
something was wrong, goes on this
writer in the Farm Journal, and de-
termined TO find out what II was. Ac-
cordngly he followed the man to the
barn the next morning, and, hiding
himself where he could see, without
being seen, watched the proceedings.
First, the cows were fed, and he
noticed that they were given their
full allowance. Then the man took up
the fork and began scraping the drop
pings into the box.
Immediately the first COW in the
row stopped eating and stood switch
ing her tail nervously from side TO
side, as though expecting something,
to happen. And something did, right
off, for the next moment the tines of
the fork were thrust into her ankle,
and she bounded to one side. as
though she were on n spring, which
had suddenly been touched off, and
stood trembling with pain and fright
The work of clearing away the
droppings went on; each COW in turn
being helped out of the way by the
same means, and following the exam.
pie of the first, until the end of the
row was reached.
The stable cleaned, the man picked
up the pail and stool, and walking
up to the first COW, with Get over
there" gave her kick in the flank
She jumped with such violence that
her hind feet slipped backward and
she fell sprawling and trembling on
the barn floor; two more kicks helped
her back on her feet. Just as the man
was about to seat himself upon the
stool the farmer, no longer able to con
troll his wrath, sprang forward and
gave him kick that sent him head.
long under the COW, with the words,
Take dose of your own treat
ment!"
Taken by surprise the fellow could
not utter word; but grabbing the
ten-dollar bill, which was one-half the
months wages, he skulked away with
out further inducement.
The shortage in the milk and the
appearance of the cows were fully ex
planned.
The farmer and his wife did the
milking that morning; and the same
day another man was hired who was
of the right sort. The cows were soon
in their usual order, and giving their
regular amount of milk.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1908-07-09

pull up all of the pipes every time
that he finds 1t necessary to repair the
pipes and pump.
1t is constructed of concrete,
says the Farm and Home. The
top is REINFORCED with one-half-inch
steel rods placed one foot apart each
way and the concrete is about six
inches thick. The sides are made by
using form and the stairs are also
made of concrete and are REINFORCED
By small steel rods. The cost. includ-
ing the labor, amounted to about $50
In the west and southwest it will also
answer the purpose of storm cave
which is considered a fixture on all
farms.