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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1908-09-26
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times called omega. In shape it re-
turned over the head. 1t is gathered
in on one side and kept in place bye
an arched whalebone. This is operated
very skillfully by the women, and
gives them the nun-like effect re-
marked by the visitor.
The ovens of the knights still sup
ply the garrison. The present postof-
flee on Strada Mercani, formerly the
Palazzo Parisio, was occupied by Ma
poleon |. as his headquarters when he
was at Valletta A tablet marks the
spot for the tourist.
Strada Santa Lucia, or, as it is
known by the tourists, the street of
steps" is a decided novelty. 1t leads
from the lower town along the bay
to the main street of Valletta, Strada
Reale. This climb is lined with shops,
and here also are found at the corners
the saints shrines, before which burn
the candles placed there by the de.
vout people.
The governors palace is all that one
could picture as typical. Here is the
room hung in rich tapestry in which
the house of assembly for the local
parliament meets. Here Italian rs
spoken, this language also being used
in the courts OF justice on the island
1t is declared by the commercial
classes that the use of English as a
supplement to Maltese and Italian
would be desirable.
st. Johns Conventual church is next
in Importance to the palace. Within,
from floor to ceiling, it is one blaze
OF memorial antiquity. The floor is
paved with tombstones of more than
400 chevaliers. With the heraldic en-
blazonment in marble mosaic, and the
sculpture, bronze and paintings. a
wealth of history is unfolded. This
wonderful church has its chapels. each
devoted to the nationality of men who
have figured in the stirring history of
the island, each chapel having art in
oil and marble.
No visitor to Malta ever leaves with
out first visiting the Chapel of Bones,
beneath the Hospital of Incurables,,
which adjoins the burial place of the
knights who died in hospital and who
were buried in mantels bee with
their white cross. This chapels archi-
lecture is rendered in every detail by
the bleached bones of humanity. At
the base of the altar is tablet bear
ing an inscription. The following is q
translation:
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1908-09-26
TIED TO HORSES TAIL
FOR REVENGE ON GIRL
ITALIAN is DRAGGED TO DEATH
FOR TEARING OUT FORMER
SWEETHEART'S TONGUE.

Rome.-For tearing out his former
sweetheart's tongue because she had
broken her promise to remain faithful
while he saved enough to support her.
Francesca Vergani has been dragged
TO death at the village of Monselice,
near Padua. by horse, to which he
was tied by the bystanders.
Vergani, when a youth of 10, fell in
love with Eloise Ferrari, girl a
year his junior, and the daughter of a
but her parents objected that he was
too young and poor to wed.
Hoping &C. make fortune in Ameri.
"a, the young man took passage for
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1908-09-26

The mortuary connected with the
hospital has singular relic. 1t is a
place where the body is left "a hours
after death, with straps fastened to
the hands and feet. The slightest mo-
ton would set bell ringing and thus
prevent any likelihood of being buried
alive.
Both the islands of Coco and Malt,
are honeycombed with caves which
date from the period of Phoenician
occupation. These catacombs are at
tractive in their gruesomeness. One
enters them at Citta Vecchia. where
native guides are always waiting to
earn a few pennies for the privilege
of escorting you through the mazelike
corroidors extending in all directions.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1908-09-26

accent must be uniform and IDENTICAL word and line should be
factor and not filler.
In these readily and understand the
difficulties of keeping superuous and meaningless words vital
of attack by the critics? Even with their skill and learning Wesley
Watts Kee other of old writer's made these and
most cherished church hymns spotted with them
Next to the hymn if not equal ground with it, the
gospel will succeed unless has distinctive melody Especially
this songs children and young people, and the meo
dious they the popular they become and consequently the
good they accomplish.
The music should be written the words and not the words to the
music know few woudbe writers who grind out melodies for which
they employ wordnkers furnish rhymes of suitable meter much
tinker knew such become popular If there
dividing line between the sacred and secular think these hold
that distinction The distinctive of sacred and secular music
clearly defined and well understood How fills the soul with and
and the other fills the with fire and enthusiasm AS
illustration of the first mentioned fact let tell this incident In
certain party of people Waiting when the orchestra
moduated into he Glory Song Presently couple took their
then another another until the
music and solemn hush fell the asembage This reported to
eyewitness / truthfulness.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1908-09-26
Evil of
UnWiSe
Law
Making
By J. N. DICKINSON.
President Of the American Bar Asso.
citation.

Our work will in the main be constructive We accomplish practically
nothing in the way of restraint.
From the least people the world becom-
the most people the world
for almost department of public affairs making government
and national the comprehensive system bureaucracy
Known The complex conditions of times each Of their
forms given special and administration a
of legislation much of it fragrant disregard of the
TONED ard most venerated doctrines
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1908-09-26

Most of us take our period of leisure.
time, and enjoy it, without giving much
or any thought to the best method of en-
ploying the period set apart for bodily re-
cuperation. If there exists science of
holidaying at all, its terms are sealed
book to the bulk of mankind Yet it would
be strange indeed if the proper enjoyment
of well-earned rest formed a topic or con-
dition which lies completely outside that
reign and domain of law whose influence
is so marked in all other affairs connected
with our health and well-being. For ex-
ample, the enjoyment of holiday must
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1908-09-26

Some one has discovered that it is
very foolish to become angry, as every
time a person loses his temper his
supply of vitality is lowered. This is
doubtless very true, but there are few
who will stop to remember it when
there is the temptation to get mad.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1908-09-26

: ID. q. NJ.
: THE WORLD IS A STAGE.
: OUR LIFE A TRAGEDY.
: ALL is ILLUSION: ALL A FIC-
: TION.
: DEATH THE CLOSE OF ALL
+: THINGS.
I: IT UNMASKS AND SOLVES
ALL.
{: THOU, WHO LIVEST, PONDER
ON THIS.
: PRAY THAT PERPETUAL,
|: LIGHT MAY SHINE ON
: THOSE WHO REST HEREIN.
/: GO IN PEACE: REMEMBER
THAT THOU SHALT DIE.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1908-09-26

Some people predict that the dirigi.
BILE balloons will be made useful in
smuggling goods past customs Dor
ders. Possibly, when 400-foot gas
bag can be made so invisible that Gus
toms officials cannot see IL.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1908-09-26

While youth, inexperience and ignor.
ance constitute no legal bar to political
prefcrment, while manhood suffrage is the
source of all governmental power, while
so many of those capable of ruling prefer
selfishly their personal pleasures and pri-
vate interests to the general welfare, so
long will we suffer the maximum of bur
dens that come from unwse and unskillcd
legislation.
The best that we can hope to accom-
plish is to bring about, as we have been
doing with marked success, the enactment
of uniform legislation in the several STATES
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1908-09-26
Common.

They are quite ordinary people.
aren't they?"
"Yes-keep their engagements. ca.
plain foo>., pay their bills, and all that
sort of thing. Life
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1908-09-26

Japan May Build Locomotives.
An attempt at locomotive construc
ton is to w made In Japan.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1908-09-26
Gospel
Songs
They Must Be In
teileCtual and
Spiritual
BY CHARLES ii. GABRIEL.
Author of the Now Famous 'Glory SonG."

The requisites of gospel song are: First the
hymn must be constructed intellectually and spirtu-
ally; second, it must not be mere rhyme of one
thought; it should begin with declaration of sub
ect which it should dissect, segregate and present
ntelligenty consecutively and with continuity, each
and every thought incorporated from start to finish
There usually three stanzas of four or more
lines EACH The corresponding lines in these stanzas
must have the same number of syllables, and the
Blue-grass blade., 1908-02-02
THE CRANK


The practically of new idea is not
guaranteed by specious theory but by popular
acceptance The fruit won't fall until it il
ripe and no matter how good a thing is, it
waits on the verdict of the majority. N,ny
of our socalled inventions were repudst91 by
our ancestors; as many of those We repudiate
will be accepted by our posterity. Every
thing is failure until it dovetails with the
age. Even a lunatic must fit the public idea
of insanity, or be voted a misGt. Conserva-
tism accepts under protest AMI nothing sur
wives that prejudice can ki,l The steam en-
CINE appeared and disappeared before Watts
appeared Philosophers believed in Darwin
ism" when telling what they kn,w meant
more than ridicule it is only of late that
difference of opinion has been punished with
only Indifference. The crank If yore got all
the attention he was thirsting for. he ma
jority shapes the customs end from the ty-
rant custom there is no sudden appeal The
majority may be wrong but disciplined and
veteran error has ever withstoo1 the onset
of divided truth, until undermined by evo-
luton. And what is evolution hut lageard
spurred by cranks?
Urged on py headlong enthusiasm and set
tied conviction, our friend assails all this
with ruthless vehemence, then marvels that he
lays up sorrow unto his own soul Who
wants to be convinced in an hour that he
has been fool all his life? How many are
DESTROYS to trade off an ancestral blunder for
a strange truth? Some? yes but some are
a very few. Reforming a mans faults rarely
gets beyond convincing him that he has faults.
And when you assail somebody's false judg-
ment he generally forgets every thing but
the assault. 1t is human to err; equally hui
man to keep tab on the other fellows err
ing. Everybody is tinctured with missionary
enterprise and the man who can stumble on
something new without desire to rejuven-
ate his fellow man is unborn so far. The
crank not only has this desire but he ad-
vertises it.. He is blind to his own faults
because, to him, nothing is faulty but the
old; all new peccadilloes are necessarily
gilded by the sun rise.
Yet is the crank useful, though we do not
relish his spasmodic methods But divest him
of what we disapprove of and we subject him
to normal conditions. We must take him as
he is for, in truth, he is often the uncompro-
missing foe of stagnation; the very essence 81
healthy and progressive discomfort. We hate
Blue-grass blade., 1908-02-02
(By M. Grier Kidder).

The crank is either wise man or a fool;
wisdom, equipped with moral courage or folly
supplemented with insolence. Even then few
can tell which he was until he is dead. Such
an outlook would daunt any body who was
not wound up to mind other folks business.
But reforming offers unique features and reg
ulating your neighbours affairs provides its
own stimulus. People oppose novelty be-
cause they are welded to the old and shrink
from the ridicule inseparabe from the new.
Nothing new is comfortable and an old fogy
advocating change would be as great an ano-
maly as an automobile hearse leading
old time funeral procession. He is brave or
foolish who wakes sleeping conservatism; it is
light thing to irritate an old mistake
with a new correction To the average man,
what is unknown is unknowable. Every gen
Grafton considers itself the high water mark
of "'know it all"
Concet is our most marked inheritance
and, combined with officousness, is the source
of half our trouble. 1t is a hard thing to
think you know everything and at the same
time doubt that you are loaded to the muzze
with tidings. of great joy. The country is
overrun with messiahs lodging crucifxion and
martyrs shying at martyrdom.
The crank is born, not made and the artifi-
cial article would be a contradiction. He is
intensified positivism and a negative crank
would be equivalent to a stagnant mountain
torrent or conventional genius. His one
ambition is to oppose the majority, he is an
eternal affirmation to the worlds negation,
an everlasting MOI to everybody else's Yes!
He thrives on strife, he smeeth the battle
afar off; and is as quick to find a fight and
as slow to find out he is whipped. He poses
as the under dog" and to do him justice,
he never tires of that monotonous role. So
much has been said of the crank being
'ahead of his time" that every crazy wind
spouter whose tongue keeps pace with his
imagination considers himself an inspired an
ticipator of the tagging future, heaven
helped herald of the coming dawn.
Blue-grass blade., 1908-02-02


officious and vulgar zeal; but we must ap-
plaud his persistency while condemning his
inconsistency. And inconsistent he is; never
displaying more intolerance than when COM
batting intolerance; never more vicious than
when fighting vice; never attempting to re-
form abuse without lending additional terror
to reformation. Nor does he take into ac-
count that an unsound opinion, like an un
sound tooth, while bad thing to own, is
worse thing to lose suddenly.
The crank infests all departments and
there is nothing old whose antiquity is not
ventilated by some blatant, disheveled, wild
eyed apostle of abrupt change. Columbus is
the Crank's ideal; but I believe if Columbus
had it to do over, again, he would forget
his own discovery to go for some other
mans discovery. I am yet to hear of any
body testing the problematical new who has
not failed in the certain old. man never
aims at the stars until he has missed all
the home targets. No one prophesies FOR the
future who is an authority on the present
In short, the reformer suffers from that type
of mental strabismus that overlooks domestic
faults for foreign missions.
Spencer says: Every reformer believes in
his own infalibility." And he does. Convince
the crank he is wrong in one detail and you
Ut gear his entire reformatory machinery.
comes as often from conceit rs
from reason; bogotry may not be born of
truth. or fanaticsm of proof. Loud talk is
the ally of fiimsy logic; wind is cheap.
The pioneer is generally a ne'er- well either
in the physical or mental beaten track. Fail
ures migrate to where they are untrammeled
with conventional restraints After all, the
crank says only what millions of moral cow
ards dare more than think. He is the
irresponsible mouthpece of thousands of his
detractors. Few men think; fewer tell their
thoughts; the man who has aught to lose
prefers to lose it through some other chan
mel than talk. OF course he ridcules the
talker but rdcule may be as hypocritical as
praise; abuse is not necessarily sincere. To
find a great truth is great; to satisfy people
of your find is greater; and these are the
crank's mission. Do you wonder at his fateY
The crank is generally necessary nuis-
ance an Objectionable essential. crucifed by
the present to be gloriied by the future.
He is not pleasant companion. no hobby
rider is. Who wants to listen to an endless
dirge on his own ignorance played on fiddle
with one string' Most of us should rather
remain wrong than be yanked into right
II is true we owe much to the crank; so we
do to experiences but remedy may be as
disagreeable as beneficial; medicine rarely
tickles the palate.
The cranks thought has worn a grove
Blue-grass blade., 1908-02-02

CALVARY DID NOT MONOPOLIZE THE
CROWN OF THORNS AND AMERICA
is FULL OF MESSIAHS DODGING
CRUCIFIXION-THE PEOPLES
INDIFFERENCE is THE TY-
RANTS OPPORTUNITY.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1908-01-09
DIR. F. L. WELLS.

osos with DIR. fARNswoRTH.
Ta,lle Block. RUTLAND. VT.
hours " u AN, 70 s Pm.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1908-01-09
Closing Out Sale at rs per
cent discount.

On account of continued i'll health compelled the final
closing of my ENTIRE STOCK in order wind up my business
To do this will offer special discount above which will make
object for every buyer anticipate his for the coming year. AS well
known the stock the largest all this vicinity and every fresh and
desirable and has been kept with and desirable goods de-
parmen SO that it way down shop Think what this dis
count you You every $500 item for S35 SOO one for &c.
YOUR purchases and article desirable condition and
son will often be sold ONE HALF regular price This fake sale but
an absolute wind up the mercantile business long conducted by Burton
& Co. and myself
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1908-01-09

The annual village meeting Was
held Ia the Court House Monday eve
ming last at 5'45 .. m., with President
u. G. oryis in the chair. After the
reading Of the warning by the clerk
the reports Of the various officers were
read aud accepted. The officers for
the ensuing year were then chosen aud
follow; u. G. Oryis president, ID. X.
Simonds clerk. q. q, Felt treasurer.
Frank Regain collector. John Mcclure
chief engineer. Geo. l.. Woodcoek lst
assistant aud John Mcbride Ind assist.
ant. Hiram Egglestop. George Smith
and W. B. Edgerton auditors. The
terms Of NJ. J. Convey and Geo. l..
Woodeoek n trustees having expired
Chas. l.. Randall aud George Smith
were chosen for the term Of two years
each. The finances Of the village we're
found 10 be 10 good shape and tax OF
s)c on The dollar of the grand list was
voted AS enough TO carry ON the affairs
d the village for the next year. The
need Of additional lights being appar'
emf one or two were authorized and the
matter Of additional ones left 10 the dis
,relion Of the trustees with power
MANCHESTER DEPOT.
Miss Mary 4. Ameden of East
Dorset, spent Sunday with friends and
'elniivcs in town. q
There will be n regular meeting OF
skinner Corps and annual installation |
Il officers on Friday at 2 p. m. Mem
,ers please come prepared TO furnish |
ms we are 10 have invited
,uests.
LANCESA BLACKMER, Pres.
EMMA A. LiNsLEy, Secy.
ARLINGTON.
Ernest Dennison was in Manches.
err Friday.
e. e. Woodwork was in Albany
Mrs. Celia Deming left Monday for
lew York.
Mrs. s. h. Viaull has returned from
Manchester.
ID. ]. conroy has been i'll the past
ew days with the grip.
Marble Seymour left Monday TO en-
er the Albany Business college.
Mrs. j. X. Batchelier is quite i'll.
he is under the care OF trained
urse.
II. X. Pell after visiting his sister,
frs. Hayes, has returned To his home
4 East Dorset.
Eli Lathrop after spending the hol.
lays in town has returned TO his work
! Schenectady.
james Nelson having been danger
usly i'll with pneumonia is now able To
ONE 10 the village.
Miss Nell Wilson was in Benning-
IN Saturday 10 see her friend, Miss
ma Welsh who is critically i'll with
neumonia.
DIR. w. y. Phillips has been unable
attend 10 his practice for the past
eek being confined TO bis home with
hard cold.
Miss Florence Holden after spend.
* the holidays with her brother, T..
/. Holden and family OF Bennington,
as returned home.
II. :. Wilson is changing his place
business, moving his Office which
AS been over Adams and Towards
10 the rooms recently vacated by the
|asons.
Schools opened Monday after
iree weeks vacation. Miss Florence
olden OF this village and Miss Mary
ong Of East Clarendon teach in our
llage aud Miss Mary l.oughlin Of Ben
ngton and Miss Margaret Thompson
this place teach in East Arlington.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-08-01
0BLlGlNG PEOPLE.
Quaint Methods Of the Early Days Of
New England.

view England
In the early days of the settlement OF
New England the custom Of sending
packages by neighhorS who iourneyed
to different parts of the country was
an established one The notebook of
Schoolmaster Joseph liawley Of North.
ampton. Mass. when lie started on a
trip o Boston was Tiled with such
varied items ms: captain Partridge. a
dial aud dish kettle: son Joseph.
spccklcd red ribbon. whistles. buckles
and hshhooks:" ~ shilling worth Of
plumb and spice" Two psalters. ba-
son and quart pot" In odd Paths
and Legends Of the New England Bor-
der" Katherine NJ Abbott says that II
was the same even as late as Judge
Lyman's day Ills daughter. Mrs
Lesley. writes OF It in "Rccollcctions Of
My Mother
There were no expresses then. aud
so when II was known IN the village
Of Northampton that Judge and Mrs.
Lyman were going TO Boston and they
always took pains TO make II known
Il throng of neighhors were coming In
the whole evening before not only TO
take an affectionate leave. but 10 bring
parcels of every size and shape and
commissions OF every variety.
One came with II dress she wanted
to send {" daughter az school: one
brought patterns of dry goods. with
request that Mrs Lyman would pur-
chase and bring home dresses for
family ~ five And would she 20 TO
the orphan asylum and see II a good
child ~ ten could hc bound ont 10 an
other neighbour Would Mrs Lyman
bring the child back with her:
The ncighbors walked into the H.
brary. where the packing was going
on and when all the family trunks
were filled my father called out heart
lily. Here. Hiram. bring down another
trunk from the garrett the largest YOU
can iind to hold all these parcels
\ little boy came timidly in with a
bundle nearly as large as himself. and
Would this be too large for Mrs Ly-
man to carry 10 grandmotherf'
"No. indeed Tell your mother I'll
carry anything short Of cooking
stove
Another trunk. Hiram" said my IA
ther. and ask the driver 10 wait five
minutes
Those were the times when people
could walt five minutes for a family so
we'll known aud beloved. Our driver
had only to whip mp his horses little
faster
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-08-01
Delaware Briefs.

From 20 acres of land, County Clerk
John w. Green. of Bridgeville. har-
vested 500 bushels of wheat.
While working on thresher. Martin
Cahall. of Harrington. was caught in
the machinery and had leg badly
crushed.
As a result of mad dog scare in
Delaware City. the Town Council will
pass an ordinance requiring dogs run
ming at large to be muzzled.
Two mad dogs drove the family OF
Edward Short away from their home
at Piney Neck Monday. The dogs were
afterward killed
In order to better the fire service
conditions at the public school in New
Castle. carpenters are changing the
doors to swing outwardly.
For the second time within month,
burglars were foiled in an attempt to
enter the Nathan Britton residence at
Rising Sun Friday night.
Elwood Mckee. farmer living near
Newark. was viciously attacked by a
dehorned bull this week. rendered I'M
conscious and considerably bruised.