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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31
Minister When Cornered by Savage
Animals Starts Singing and
Is Spared.

New York.-The Rev. John Daniel
McEwen, explorer and missionary,
who has just returned to civilization
after II years spent in the Brazilian
wilderness of the state of Bahia. has
uncovered new use for Moody and
Sankey hymns. Said Mr.. McEwen:
Tis wonderful how those Moody
and Sankey hymns will stand a man
in good stead when he is roaming
about a wild country.
why, one day | was riding through
the deep wood on my horse. when |
heard the howl of savage wolves, and
| saw a pack of them dashin'g down
on me to devour me. was unarmed.
First | bethought me to dismount and
get club but then says l to myself:
What earthly good would the club
be against all those rapacious wives
They would eat me up, horse, stick
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31
Geisha Driven to 1t by Monotony
of Life.
Girl Says She Doesn't Want to Die
Now, but May Later If She Is
Seized With Another Melan-
choly Fit

Tokio-A sensation was created in
Toxic by the recent attempt at sui
eide of one of the most famous Of the
Shimbashi geisha, who are in their
turn the most famous OF all the thou
sands Of geishas in Toxic.
The first reports stated that the I'M
fortunate lady had been driven to her
attempted death by mountains of debt
contracted as the result of passion
ate attachment to a certain popular
actor The Toxic Asahi, indeed, con-
sidered the matter of such Importance
that after the recovery of the would
be suicide the editor induced her to
write the history of the incident and
her own feelings during the attempt
for the benefit of its readers. Here it
is:
1.-THE mere idea of debt of 1000
or 1000 yen could never drive me to
suicide. am subject to fits of melan-
choly, and when in the grip of one of
these | want to get out of the world
Why? Simply and solely because
am tired of life, its monotony and
quietness, A geisha's life contains
no excitement. 1t is always the same
day in and day out.
'Publcans sell drink, cats catch
mice, dogs watch burglars and -ner
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31
Mrs. Gregory Is Best Man in
Maine Camp.
Mere Female Chops, Splits and Piles
More Wood Than Most of Them,
and as Much as Any of Them,
According to Employer.
|'@sIg ll~0f<'s's9 : ss~A1Ff S|ea'9 41H

Manchester, N. H.-Woodbury Bach
elder of this city, engaged in the lum-
Der business at Damariscotta, Me-. has
In his employ a most remarkable wom-
an as regards strength and endur-
ance. She is Mary Gregory, wife Of
Frank Gregory.
Mrs. Gregory first entered the en-
ploy of Mr.. Bachelor to provide meals
for the IA men in the camp. This she
was able to do and have half day left,
and she asked permission of Mr.. Bach
elder to take her place with the chop
pers.
Mr.. Bachelor gave his consent, and
was astonished to see her perform.
She welded an Ak as expertly as any
man in the crew, and made a record
one day of chopping, splitting and
piling three cords of wood, a task
that most men hardened to the serv-
ice of the woods are incapable of
equaling.
She is the strongest woman l ever
saw" Bachelor says. mo sooner
uoes she Tell tree than she Is on
top of it limbing it out, and in every
line of work she is the equal of the
men in camp. She handles crosscut
saw with all the skill of man, and
not laborer in the camp can sur
pass her in the amount of work &C
complished"
Mrs. Gregory is 35 years old, weighs
about 175, stands feet inches, and
Is as quick as a fash. She Is fond
of sport and expert as wrestler. Mr.
Bachelor says he has yet to see a
man in camp who can match her at
wrestling. She is not afraid to try
conclusions with any of them. She
has put every man who has been will
ing to wrestle her on his back and yet
is modest in speech and manner, the
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31
BOY SAVES CHILD'S LIFE
John crumIish, Aged IA, Rescues Un.
conscious Four-Year-OId From
Drowning.

Wilmington, Del. - John Crumlish,
aged IA, of No $40 West Fourteenth
street, proved himself a hero by say.
ing Clark Vernon, aged four. No. 1929
Tatnall street, from what seemed GER
tain death by drowning in the south
race in Brandywine Park. Vernon,
with several small boys and girls,
wandered from home and into the
park, and while playing near the wa
ter Vernon fell from the retaining
wall. The swift current was carry
ing him away when Crumlish was at.
tracted by the cries of the drowning
boys companions.
Crumlish ran to the wall, saw the
drowning boy and plunged into the wa.
tetr He caught Vernon and had a
hard struggle to get back to land Yer.
non was unconscious, so Crumlish car
ried him home. where physician re-
vived him.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31
STOLE RIBBONS FROM GRAVES
Girls Arrest Reveals Shocking Prac-
tice in English Pottery District
Used Them for Hair

London-Arnold Bennett has given
in his books some curious glimpses
of the life and character Of the in
habitants of the pottery districts, but
he told nothing so extraordinary as
that which was revealed by police
court case heard at Fenton, Stafford
shire.
Two young girls were charged with
stealing ribbons from wreaths which
had been placed on a new grave in
the cemetery. The prosecuting so
licitor said that there had been so
many complaints of offenses of this
kind that these cases had been
brought as a deterrent. The two
girls, who were caught in the act of
taking the ribbons from the wreaths,
were discharged with caution.
Inquiries show that ribbons are
stolen regularly from the potteries
cemeteries by girls, who use them to
tie up their hair or to decorate their
dresses.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31
WIRELESS FOR ARMY FLIERS
instruments for AeropIane Use In
vented by Officer Weighs Only
25 Pounds.

Washington.-Pro the smallest
wireless telegraph set ever made has
just been perfected by the officers in
the army signal corps laboratory here,
and has been sent to New York for
the aeronautical show which is to be
held there. The receiving and trans
uniting apparatus weighs only 251s
pounds, and is confined within a box
Is inches square and 16 inches deep.
The generator from which the appar-
atus derives its power adds an add.
tional 26 pounds.
The machine Is the result of the eff.
forts of the army signal officers un.
der the direction of Maj. Charles
Mex. Saltzman, to perfect the lightest
machine possible for use in the fifth
military arm" or the aeronautical di.
vision.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31
Saws Off Arm. but Lives.

York, Pa.-Falling upon the sliding
carriage of the circular saw he was
operating near Gatchelville, this coun.
ty, Elmer Pentz Of Harrisburg had
his right arm cleally severed at the
elbow, and barely escaped horrible
death.
Pentz was hit by the log upon the
carriage and his body in some manner
became wedged in front of 1t. He noted
his peril and in the short time given
him he managed to shift his body out
of the course of the revolving blade;
but 10 do so he had to sacrifice the
arm.
Other workmen saved him from
bleeding to death by making a tournl
auet from a handkerchief.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31
WHY BABIES DIE
Woman Charges Kindness Kills
Many of Them.
Mrs. L. S. 3. Robinson In Address De-
eiares Infants Mould Thrive on
Care Given TO High Breed
Of Puppies.

St Paul.-"If we thought half as
much of our babies as the breeders of
thoroughbred puppies do of their
animals We would not tolerate the
shaking. fondling and cuddling with
which We seek to quiet and amuse
them" said Mrs. L. s B. Robinson OF
the Baby Welfare association. at a
meeting of the Bethel Woman's club.
mo man who has high grade pup
pies will allow any one to fondle or
fuss with them. The father who losses
his baby up to the ceiling and makes
him laugh until he gets fairly hyster-
cal is responsible for much Of the
chronic EOrvousness which develops
as the child grows up.
1t is a crime to bounce and toss
baby until the food in its stomach
S so shaken up it cannot be digested
rhe tendency to shake our babies
S due to American nervousness. The
labies cry and we do not know what
o do for them. 1t is far better to
put them on the bed and let them
cry. If they are comfortable and are
not hungry, it will do them no harm,
whatever, and it will be better for
them. Babies are very easily trained.
1T is often sacrilegious statement
to say when a baby dies that God
took it, it died through the fault of
the mother, who will not do what she
should for the baby More babies are
killed by kindness than anything else.
The mother does everything the neigh
bors, friends and relatives tell her.
America has the highest infant NOR
tality rate of all the better governed
countries. One bab.- in every five
dies before it reaches the age Of one
year. Food is the most important
thing to the young baby, and it
should not be fed too much or too
often. We need a city ice company
which would furnish the poor fam
lilies with a few cents worth of ice
each day, for Ice is an absolute neces-
sity. Milk which has been exposed to
the warm air becomes poisonous
Then flies are the cause of much
sickness to babies and to adults. If
the fly does not fall into the milk
and drown, to be fished out it crawls
along the edge of the pitcher, and then
the milk is poured out over the germs
it leaves. If we cannot afford screens
we can at least afford netting, and
this will keep out the flies. Better go
without a new hat and let the chill.
dren go without new clothes and get
some screens.
Don't wait for your babies to get
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31
Newfoundland Man Suggests Way of
Keeping Steamer Lanes Safe
From Monsters.

London.-Among the mass Of sug-
gestions that have been made in CON
sequence of the loss of the Titanic,
one of the most curious comes from
resident in ST Johns, Newfound-
land, James E. Grant. who has had
extensive acquaintance with icebergs
along the coast of his own country.
In an interview he said:
Il would suggest that an Iceberg
destroying service should be estab'
lished without delay, under the con-
troll of an international board. My
proposal is not that you should wait
for the icebergs until they make their
appearance in navigable waters. but
that you should attack them at their
source, just as they break away and
drift into the gulf stream, and that
you should blow them to pieces with
powerful explosives Icebergs are
formed by the overflow of fresh water
from the high banks on the coast OF
Greenland. The water freezes, the
ice is added to the snow, and the
spray of the sea- and the bergs becom'
ing detached sail down into the gulf
stream, and up to the present have
been allowed to come into the North
Atlantic, where they are an obvious
danger to all vessels plying there.
"Lloyds and other insurance or
CARNATIONS would, l am sure, welcome
the formation of service such as
indicate, and would be likely to sup
port it financially, Besides, II such a
thing were in full swing, an appre-
cable reduction might be claimed In
insurance rates on some routes.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31
Girl Tries to- Commit Suicide

have their constant varying, selfish
pastimes and occupations. But the
geisha has nothing to do but continue
always in the same tiresome groove,
dancing and singing, singing and dam
cling. l thought if died that might
one day be reborn in the shape of one
of those creatures, men, mice or dogs.
Therefore, resolved to die.
81 finished the bottle in one wild
gulp. Then the pain began In my
chest, and at once the utter stupidity
and madness of my wish to die came
upon me. All wish of dying vanished
| coughed and coughed. and here am
quite well again. If l get another At
of melancholy ! may want to die
again. and | may commit suicide at
any time, but I don't want to at pres.
ent; but, in case, / always carry my
will about with me in my dress
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31
Child lnhaIes a Nail.

London.-At an inquest at Hammer
smith on the two-and -one-half-year-old
son of laundryman, who died in the
West London hospital, the doctor pro-
1uced two-inch nail which he said
ne had found in the child's lung. The
lail, he said must have been inhaled,
nd not swallowed 1t had caused ir-
itation, and blood poisoning had set
causing death The father of the
oy was unable to explain how the
all came to be in the child's lung and
re jury returned verdict of acct
entail death.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31
PLAN HUGE OFFICE BUILDING
New York Skycraper In Park Row
Rises $50 Feet in Air viii Cost
$13,50o,0o0.

New York. The tallest habita-
BILE building in the world is GO
ing up on Broadway, between Bar
clay street and Park row. 1t will
weigh 250,000OO0 tons. 1t rests on
sixty-nine pillars of cement, reaching
down to solid rock from the street
level.
This building. the tower light of
which, $50 feet in the air, will be
seen ninety-six miles out at sea, has
in it 10000 tons of structural steel.
Forty-fve thousand dollars worth of
glass has already been ordered for
windows and doors and skylights In
the walls and floors are to be more
than 10000 square feet of hollow til
ing and terra Gotta. The cement or
der will run into the tens of thousands
of bags.
On the weekly pay roll is a regi-
ment of men from mere lifting and
carrying laborers to the circus per-
forming iron workers who play around
at 700 feet in the air on slender steel
beams like orioles on an elm Dough.
Their wages run from $3.50 a day for
the laborers to $3.50 and upward, and
the pay roll is $4,000 a day. This has
been going on for two years
The 10000 square feet of land on
which the building stands cost about
$4,500,000. 1t cost $1,000,00O to dig
out the foundations and the basement
and endorsements. The cost of con.
struction will be nearly $4,000, 900
making the whole pile an investment
of approximately $13,50O,0OO The
mere knowledge that such a building
was to be erected on the spot caused
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31
JUDGE STRETCHES THE LAW
Former Business Man of Boston,.
Mass, Robber, but Is Given
His Freedom.

Kansas City.-'I'll have to stretch
the law to give you chance, but I
feel inclined to take long shot this,
time, believing you will make good
Go and be a good man"
A prisoner who had pleaded guilty
to robbery and who gave his name
as Fred Helmer, formerly of Boston,
was thus paroled by Judge Ralph s.
Latshaw in the criminal court here.
The prisoner, who had the appear
ance of a well-to-do business man,
said he formerly was wealthy, but had
lost his money in a western project.
He attempted robbery when hungry
and was captured after being shot.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31
Dlsmembered by Plane Rope.

Mahanoy City, Pa.-Caught up by a
swirling rope while at play on the
dirt plane of the Buck Mountain col
liery, Annie and Sabina Socket, aged
eight and twelve years, respectively,
were crushed and dragged half the
distance of the plane.
The elder of the two children had
her right hand and left leg torn off,
and the other lost both legs, Both
will die.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31
BABY WEIGHS 1870 POUNDS
But It's an Elephant, Born in Cali
fornia-Mother Tries to
Xiii It.

Salinas, Cal.-The heaviest baby
ever born in America saw the light
here in a circus tent. He is baby
elephant, two feet tall, three feet long
and weighs 1870 pounds. His god-par-
ents say that nothing like him was
ever born in captivity on this CONT
nent. Alice, the mother, tried to kill
her baby. Her trainer, in saving the
calf was hurled twenty feet and a
panic was caused among the other ami
mails. Unless Alice relents, her baby
will have to be brought up on the
demiiohn He Is unhurt, pink and
healthy.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31
BEARD CUT BETRAYS CONVICl
Promoter, in Seattle Federal Prison.
Proved to Be an Old
Offender.

Seattle, Wash.-Clarence Dayton
Hillman, millionaire townsite pro-
moter, serving 80 months in the fed
eral prison for using the mails to de-
fraud, has been revealed by the shears
of the prison barber as No. 11715, San
Francisco rogues' gallery. produce
dealer, sentenced in 1895 for swindling
farmers. Special agents of the de-
partment of justice, the two years
since his Indictment, have searched
for his identification with previous
crime. His identity was hidden Ivy hta
whiskers.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31

sick before you seek advice. Weigh
them once a week, and if they lose
weight you may know that some
thing is wrong. The baby welfare
clinics are held for the purpose of
givinl mothers advice and furnishing
them with formulas for proper food"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31

have discovered $375,00O worth of
precious stones and much jewelry. in,
an old iron safe. The suicide theory
was at once abandoned.
DR., Liebe, who was formerly an,
army chaplain, was previously a Cath.
Ole missionary in India, China and
Japan, and it is believed he acquired
his passion for jewels while in the,
east. He became a Protestant ten
years ago and was about to marry. He
died after taking a drink from bot.
tie labelled "anisette."
Among the gems were 230 sap
phires, 21S diamonds, 1914 turquoises,.
SO rubies and a number of pearls.
The gem of the collection was a
magnificent golden communion chalice,
richly studded with precious stones,
AIS in all. So -.-..
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31
WIFE is LUMBERJACK

mother of seven children, a native of
Nova Scotia, and prior to making her
home in the Maine woods lived in
Massachusetts.
Her husband works in the woods
with her, but is far from being her
equal in strength.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31

the tax assessments on the property
to be raised from $2,25O,OOO to $3,200.-
900.
There will be a floor space of %
acres and 1000 offices, and it is fig
ured that the daily population of the
building will be 10000 and the tran
silent population about as many more.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31
EX-PRIEST HAD MANY GEMS
Theory of Suicide by Poison Aban.
doned and Now Believed to Have
Been a Case of Murder.

Berlin.-In the rooms of DR.. Liebe,
an ex-Roman Catholic priest, who died
of poison recently in his dingy fiat,
thought to have committed suicide on
account of financial straits, the police
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31

Usually when the man in trouble be-
gins to feel that he has about reached
the limit of his misunderstanding
worse happens.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1912-05-31

, soldiers. They had flung up their
hands in establishment and. believe
me or not, as you like, even the mules
ears were up in the air.
The daily sentinel., 1912-06-12
SENATOR De lONG SEES A LIGHT.

Quite number of people will be know that it'll
possible classify good friend Senator Deong nl
this struggle between and insurgency 1t had
problem that worrying of the senator's friends
and had been the source of much guesswork
AT times the genial gentleman had talked like blue
standpatter again he sang like Roosevele and follower
Vincent Costigan, Ben Lindsey, ct al.
To mind appeared Senator DeLong had fully
made up his mind just what camp the desirable
this neck o the woods who might be chershng political
ambitions
But the doubt brushed away; the clouds have lifted The
has evidently the conclusion that the
going the republican band wagon this part of Colorado
and so he is with the crowd
The other night, at the Water Users Association meeting
the house Senator Dong made speech and by the
under the impression that politics and partisan speeches
order such meengs) and this speech he praised
Teddy the skies and referred Teddy the upon whom
a third about to be thrust The thustng feature
that makes laugh. The idea of anyone trying make
anyone else believe that the republican nomination trying be
forced Roosevelt when he has engaged the est fight and
the dsreputabe campaign made the
nomination for the presidency
But anyhow, Senator DeIong is caaogued. He has
gotten off the fence Merle d. Vincent F. p Cosga Ben Lind
zone of u.s. although the has expressed frequently opn
ions these gentlemen that the complimentary
tributes heard.
Have noticed that there lot republican candidates
and probable candidates this section who have been nicely bal
ancing themselves the political fence These gentlemen
the other and, if they think the
sugcnts will control the republican organizations here
this district they will be shouting insurgency pretty
i. d, b
With them, it is the old game of get the winning side
However, the winning side, the final analysis this fall, will
The daily sentinel., 1912-06-12
GOVERNMENT SOIL EXPERTS
EXAMINE TREES FOR
DISEASE.

After three days of investigation
OF the relation of soil troubles to the
growth of fruit trees, l.. j. Briggs.
r. II. kearney and F. H. Shantz,
government experts of the bureau of
soil investigation of the department
OF agriculture. will leave tonight for
washington to report their findings
IN this section to the chief of their
department. The gentlemen have
taken soil tests and drainage tests
IN various orchards, and have locat-
ed number of new problems which
they Will report to the bureau.
We cannot give out the results
OF our meagre investigations and
VIII have to await action on the part
OF the department" said Mr.. Shantz.
one of the investigators, this morn
ing. 1t is very probable that an
other corps of men will be dispatch
ed here this summer to probe deep
er into the troubles we have To-
Gated"
A number of ranches were visited
by the investigators swho were ac-
companied by Professor Headden of
the state agricultural college, and
Prof. NJ. S. Herrick of the local In
dian school experiment station. The
visitors did not. however, probe into
the nitrogen soil" theory of dete-
rioration. They will leave that for
the other corps of experts.
The daily sentinel., 1912-06-12
CHICAGO, MERCHANT
MAKES Statement.
After Spending Thousands of Dollars
and Consulting the Most Eminent
Physicians, He Was Desperate.

CHICAGO, lLLS.-Mr. J. G.
Becker, of 1874 Van Buren, ST..
well-known wholesale dry soods
dealer, states as follows:
4 have had catarrh for more
than thirty years. Have tried
everything on earth and spent
thousands Of dollars for other
medicines and with physicians,
without getting any lasting re-
lief, and can say to you that ]
have found Peruna the only rem
edy that has cured me Perma-
nently.
"Peruna has also cured my wife
of catarrh. She always keeps it
in the house for an attack of
cold. which It invariably cures in
a very short time"
Ask Your Druggist for Free Perun
Almanac for 1912.
The daily sentinel., 1912-06-12
SprinkIes Streets.

In these days when the water sup
ply is too low TO justify regular street
sprinkling the enterprise of citizens
like l.. S. Doutt is appreciated. Mr..
Doutt regularly turns the hose on
the pavement in front of the Mesa
Dry Goods company store to lay the
dust
The daily sentinel., 1912-06-12

A one-piese, eneMeIed sink addr
to the appearance of any kitchen. II
3 durable, easily cleaned and whom
installed BY eur workmen you may be
surs t&a4 It win give the top-notoh
Of efficient service. J. =. Mckenzie
The Plu0bsf.
The daily sentinel., 1912-06-12
Andrews COminp

j. B. Andrews, one of the best
known of the officials of the Denver
4 Rio Grande, is expected in the city
tonight from Denver to look over the
Ruby Lee reservoir project in which
he is interested with the Hustled syn
dicate
The daily sentinel., 1912-06-12
Return Home.

Return Home.
Misses Teddie and Lillian Good
man, daughters of well known
Utah sheepman. returned to their
home in Thompsons Sunday, after
three-weeks' visit with X. H..
Faulkner and family.