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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-11-21
NOTICE
PERSONALS

Mrs.. H. B. Amey and daughter
were recent visitors in West Charles.
ton.
N. B. Lougee is home from his
work in Lewiston, Me-, for a few
days.
Mrs. Thos. Butler entertained sew
eral of her lady friends at 900" and
luncheon Wednesday afterno on. The
gentlemen attended in the evening
j. w. Campell, travelling engineer
of the second district, has moved to
Island Pond.
Joe St. Pierre, who has been i'll for
some time with appendicitis, is now
able to be about.
AS has been the custom in past
years, there will be no paper issued
next week.
Ernest Langmaid, of Brooklyn, N.
Y, is visiting friends in town.
Allan Phillips and Roy Wilson
were in Montreal the former part of
the week, writing their examination
to going to work for
the Grand Trunk as brakemen. Ed.
Falley of Portland, an old railroad
man, formerly running out of Island
Pond, was also there taking his ex-
animation.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-11-21
THE DAY BEFORE THANKSGIVING

feast general gathering e friends season Of fest1uiy
good deal be thankful business kave done
we'll as WE'LL for ourselves That's
business every profitable
much for When sell a of
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-11-21
Pain in Back and Rheumatism

Torment thousands of people
daily Don't be one of these suffer.
ers when for so little cost you can
get we'll rid of the cause. Foley
Kidney Pills begin their good work
from the very first dose. They ex-
ert so direct an action on the kidneys
and bladder that the pain and tor
ment of backache, rheumatism and
kidney trouble is soon dispelled.
They are worthy trial, as a trial is
the only sure test. They contain no
habit forming drugs. For sale by
J. w. Thurston. Adv.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-11-21
Christ, Church

Service next Sunday morning at IL
0 clock. Subject of the Sermon
The Judgment Seats of Life" Sun
day School at IL o'clock.
The Woman's Guild will meet with
Miss Rebecca StratherH on Tuesday
afternoon.
The Junior Auxiliary will meet
with Miss Ultruds Cilley on Tuesday
evening.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-11-21

The local hardware stores were the
centre .of attraction last Saturday
evening. The handsome buck shot
by Ray Bailey was on exhibition at
Foss & Co.'s and another beauty
brought down by Fred Paquette was
IN the Bosworth Store Co.'s window
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-11-21
Met,hodist. Church

The pastor, Rev. w. C. Christie,
will preach next Sunday morning.
Sunday School at the usual hour.
No evening service.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-11-21

Macknaw exceptionally low prices Our ladies Misses nd CHI
talk dont fail see the
these things everything else eese from
largest At the leading Dry Goods andCothing Store
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-11-21

f. H. Pierce Of Orleans, secured
an excellent buck at Wenlock last
week.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-11-21

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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-19
The Postmaster General and the Office.
seekers.

The administration scores heavily in
moral courage through Postmaster
General Burleson's stand in the matter
of filling the places of postmasters in
forty-eight States, despite the power
full pressure brought to bear upon him.
1t must have been a sad disappoint-
ment to the army of office-seekers, his
announcement that all incunbents who
had given satisfactory service are to
be retained at the expiration of their
official terms; furthermore, that none
would be removed without cause, mere
ly to create vacancies, as has been an
ticipated in certain quarters.
This may have been actuated by the
placing of all of these men upon the civil
service list There was a good chance
for Democratic administration to try
to upset this order of a Republican
President, which it had been claimed
was given for the sole purpose of re-
tanning Republicans in office. Had the
new administration given heed to the
clamor of the army of office-seekers, it
would have impugned the profession of
President Wilson favorable to a civil
service system, based on merit alone.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-19
1A~7L-~ N~e~<<
By GEORGE FITCH,
Author of AT Good Old Sfwash.''
HISTORY

History is the record of the past
compiled for the benefit of the future and
the installment book houses
History is written usually hundred
years or so after events have transpired
and mankind has cooled off about them
to some extent. 1t takes good scholar
to write history, and a great man to
make it.
Most of our leading manufacturers are
now manufacturing history. In another
hundred years they will be totally dead,
while some pale, unadvertised chap will
have reformed nation or blown UP a
navy or swiped a throne and will be rum
bling ponderously down the corridors
of fame.
When the world first began to be in
tested with men there were no books
and few records were left. The scholar
had to write history by translatfng in
scriptions on pyramids and preserved
kings. Nowadays nobody takes the
trouble to carve history on granite slabs.
1t is all printed in the newspapers. We
would not care to be a historian Of the
year 1000 and be compelled to read
eleven newspaper accounts of the war
in the Balkans and guess which one is
true.
History is very useful, serving both as
an Inspiration and a horrible example.
From the fall of Babylon, and Joe Can
non, we should learn that We should not
disregard handwriting on the wall. From
the fate of Columbus, We should learn
that 1t is of no use to discover new
continent unless you stake out few coal
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-19
Transatlantic Flight.

When Lord Northcliffe's offer of a
prize of $4,000 for the first flight
across the Atlantic first appeared in
one of the American dailies it was
sneered at, and people said that there
was no harm in making such an offer,
as it never would be claimed The
story, in fact, provoked merriment on
all sides. Still it was within reason
able expectations of the visions of
twentieth century man. Lord North
rliffe pointed out that the distance be-
tween Newfoundland and the west
coast of Ireland, which is less than
LOO miles, has been covered in a con-
tinuous fight by an aeroplane. We
quote one of his arguments
] am not fond of prophecy, but look
forward with confidence to the day
when oversee travel will be achieved
almost entirely in the air. The devel-
opment of the waterplane on the lines
of size is taking place rapidly. We, al
ready, in England are building one of
300 horsepower. Comte de Lambert
believes that within ten years these
machines will travel from New York
to England between daylight and dark
on summers day.
Germany and France now are run
ming race in air fleets, and England
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-19

not so democratic in another. I grew
into manhood thoroughly imbued with
the feeling that man must be respect
ed for what he made of himself. But !
had also, consciously or unconsciously,
been taught that socially and industrially
pretty much the whole duty of the man
lay in thus making the best of himself;
that he should be honest in his dealings
with others and charitable in the old
fashioned way to the unfortunate: but
that it was no part of his business 20
join with others in trying to make things
better for the many by curbing the alb
normal and excessive development Of IN
dividualism in a few.
Now, I do not mean that this training
was by any means all bad. On the con-
trary, the insistence upon individual re-
sponbility was. and is. and always viii
be, prime necessity. Teaching Of the
kind / absorbed from both my tent
books and my surroundings Is healthy
anti-scorbutic to the sentimentaIity
which by complacently excusing the in
dividual for all his shortcomings weuIi
finally hopelessly weaken the spring OF
moral purpose. It also keeps alive that
virile vigor for the lack OF which in
the average individual no possible per-
lection Of law or of community action
can ever atone. But such teaching. il
not corrected Dy otner teacn1flg, means
acquiescence in q riot Of lawless busi-
ness individualism which would be qui,e
as destructive to real civilization as the
lawless military individualsm of the
Dark Ages. I left college and entered
the big world owing more than 1 can
express to the training / had received.
especially in my own home; but WITH
much else also to learn il / were u
become really fitted to do my part in the
work that lay ahead for the generation
of Americans to which ] belonged
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-19


As regards political economy. was. of
course. while in college taught the
doctirnes-one of them be-
ing free trade-then accepted as canon
icaL Most American boys of my age
were taughte both by their surroundings
and by their studies certain principles
which were very valuable from the
standpoint OF national interest, and GER
tain others which were very much the
reverse. The political economists were
not especially to blame for this; 1t was
the general attitude of the writer's who
wrote for US Of that generation. Take
my beloved "Our Young Folks the
magazine Of which / have already
spoken, and which taught me much more
than an yof my textbooks. Everything
in this magazine instilled the individual
and the necessity of character
a teaching in which 1 now believe as sin
cerely as ever, for all the laws that the
wit OF man can devise will never make
a man a worthy citizen unless he has
within himself the right stuff, unless he
has self-reliance, energy, courage, the
power of insisting on his own rights. and
the sympathy that makes him regardful
of the rights of others
All this individual morality I was
taught by the books 1 read at home and
the books I studied at Harvard. But
there was almost no teaching Of the need
for collective action, and Of the fact
that in addition to, not. as a substitute
for, individual responsibility. there is a
collective responsibility. Books such as
Herbert Croly's Promise of American
Life and Walter E. Weyfs New De-
would generally at that time
have been treated either as unintelligible
Or else as pure heresy
The teaching which I received was
genuinely democratic In one way. 1t was
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-19

is even testing new invention to pro-
tect her ships from bombs dropped
from aeroplanes. Germany leads in diri-
gible balloons to such an extent that
France, with GOO aeroplanes, and de-
spite her sneers at the unwieldly dirigi-
bic, has decided to build quite num-
Der of them. America is behind in
the race. Lord Northcliffe's offer pro-
vides the possibility of the largest
thrill, for flight from one hemisphere
to the other would make all previous
performances seem very tame affairs.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-19
Senator Bacon and Our Diplomats.

The bill introduced by Senator Bacon
of Georgia, which provides for the
leasing and furnishing of embassies
in foreign capitals at government ex-
pense, pending the time when perma-
nent quarters could be purchased, was
the immediate result of the difficulties
encountered by the President in his
efforts to secure men he most desired
for our diplomatic service abroad.
The purpose of the Bacon bill is to
tighten the burdens of our ENJOYS. The
Senator proposes a graded scale and
divides the capitals of the world into
five classes For the first class, Lon
don, Paris, Berlin and St. Petersburg,
the allowances are to be $4,000 in each
case for furnishing, and $4,000 for an
nual rent. For the second class,
Vienna, Rome, Mexico, and Tokyo, the
expenditures are set at, respectively,
$4,000 and $1,000, with gradual
tapering down to fifth class, which is
composed largely of South and Central
American republics, where 5000 for
furnishing and $1,000 for rental is the
limit
This would enable the government
to make such terms as would prevent
the expense and inconvenience of an
eviction at the pleasure of an Am
bassador's landlord, something that has
actually happened at Berlin and at
Paris. Also it would place our nation
on higher plane of dignity and re-
spect While we do not ask for prodi-
gality at foreign courts, which is
against our principles as republic, we
desire that the men who represent us
in the capitals of the world shall con-
form to the standards which prevail
there We have the right TO demand
the same things of the foreign diplo-
mats accredited here.
For half a century the compensation
of our leading representatives abroad
has remained the same, but the cost of
living has scared together with our
position as world power.
Twice during this period we have
increased the compensation of our
Presidents.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-19
Who Killed Caesar.

Who killed julius Caesar seems to
have been as great mystery as who
struck Billy Patterson.
A correspondent of The Washington
Herald inquired yesterday for the name
of Caesars slayer. Authoritative books
on Caesar say that his death was due
to a conspiracy.
Cassius is said by one authority to
have first struck Caesar, stabbing him in
the neck. Shakespeare makes Brutus
appear as the first to strike Caesar.
Froude, in his history of Caesar, does
not state which of the conspirators actu-
ally struck the first blow.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-19
Capt. Hood Is Pessimistic.

According to Capt Hood, OF the
Dreadnought Delaware, not single
one of our thirty-one battleships and
twenty-four destroyers is ready for
war, despite the fact that the nation
is spending something like $I3o,ooo,ooo q
year on the navy. The men are drilled
constantly, target practice is frequent
Our ships have the reputation of being
the best in the world, And yet comes
this statement by man who ought to
know whereof he is speaking.
Capt. Hood. of course, argues for a
larger navy. He says that the general
board is correct in asking for total
of forty-eight ships. 1t may take years
to get them, especially under an admin
istration that got into power on a
platform of economy. But suppose we
have those forty-eight battleships and
they also be pronounced by experts I'm
fit for war?
No one questions the need of an ade-
quate navy The difficulty lies in sat
isfying those whose ideas on the SUBJ
ject are extreme. The captain weakens
his case by intimating that the grow
ing German and Japanese fleets are a
menace to us. Yet, according to his
own theory, Germany at least has need
for a large feet that we do not have
He does not count the British feet a
possible foe, as "a conflict with Eng
land need never be feared" If this
is So there is no reason why we should
allow our ship-building policy to be
influenced by Germany, since that coun-
try has reached full understanding as
to naval supremacy with Downing
Street.
Only the other day it was suggested
by German authority that the United
States ought to take the lead in the
matter of limiting ornaments, "as it is
the only power whose disinterestedness
is not questioned" Just the same. we
have to continue building ships for the
present, but it seems that we could
answer Europe's challenge great deal
better by Urging limitation on naval
expenditures, than by building battle
ships on the theory that the present
struggle for supremacy is to continue.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-19
Public Duties.

We have submitted to the au-
thorities that be. our own list Of
Candidates for the Excise Board.
This is q matter which interests
us deeply. Our candidates are Big
Stickers. and have assured Us will
accept the job as soon as it is Of
fered them and Congress makes an
appropriation for the monthly pay
envelope. Our candidates: Walter
B. Wilcox. David L. Selke, Adolph
Levy. Robert G. Smith, Jesse @.
Suter, Lewis NJ. Thayer, James +.
Kelly. William Warwick Corcoran,
John Quinn, John NJ. Milky, Au-
gust Schwarz, John d. Clarke, e.
A. Fuller. Fred. s. Swindell, John
Shields, Albert A. Shoemaker,
Martin d. McQuade, A. G.. Belt,
Albert C. Murdaugh, VILLA F.
Meyers. F. 8. K Smith, and
others.
p. S.-Of course. if Congress
fails to provide the necessary
emcluments, it is to be expected
that 3 Of our candidates will re-
tire from the competition.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-19

The attempt to justify the crimes of
violence and incendiarism committed
by some of England's militant suffra-
gists is usually accompanied by COM
parison with the historical episode
of the throwing of a cargo of
tea into Boston Harbor. The ma
jority of thinking people will, how
ever, be able to see very little like
ness between the latter demonstration
and the wanton destruction of inoffen-
sive peoples property that is now
astonishing the civilized world.
There ought surely to be no logical
connection between this episode in
American history and the deeds of
violence and criminal destruction that
are turning England into a veritable
scene of carnage. 1t is illogical to the
point of absurdity to attempt to justify
the hysterical forms of a certain class
of woman's revolution in order to OBJ
tain the right to vote.
The leaders of this cause who have
melted their followers to riot and de-
struction and every phase of disor-
derby conduct evidently consider them
selves heroines and martyrs and pose
for the gallery by every means in their
power, from political propaganda t.
protests against being forcibly fed.
Some of these preposterous indi-
viduals claim in one and the same
breath the emancipation of their sex
from bondage and the immunity of
however hysterical women from the
same punishment of misdeeds that they
themselves would view with equanirn-
ity if melted out to equally lawless men.
They seem unable to understand that
they can combine in their persons the
freedom and privileges of man and
"the baby act" that is usually the ex,
cuse of a certain kind of woman.
When they are punished for setting
the law at defiance, they either burst
into tears or observe that they ought
to do whatever they please, because
they happen to have been born
woman; in short, they claim the privi-
leges of lawbreakers and the right to
cast the vote in one and the same
breath.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-19
Printers Errors.

English. teacher desires to teach
japanese puppies, four or five 10
form . class. = fs
7,',She was attended by three
bridemaids, who had wreaths Of
oranges in their hair."
Eleven sheep. destined to be
veal this afternoon, were being
driven along Bladensburg Road"
"a large crowd OF men gathered
round police station No. /. and
many threatening epitaphs were
hurled ct the poiice."
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-19
NY Life.

Fst chapter-Once, when the
front door bell rang, I almost col
lapsed A dozen times started
toward the telephone. but always
turned back with a sad look and
sigh that indicated utter de-
spair. As the moments passed, my
dependency deepened. At 3
O'Clock the night before I was
told that the deal was OF. It was
nearly II O'Clock. All, tho tele-
phone bell. Disappointed again.
With hopeless wall l buried my
handsome face, including blue eyes,
blond locks, &C., among the sofa
pillows. JACK MAURY.
P. S.-The second chapter, which
will be quite cheerful, will appear
next Salty O. m. at 4 O'Clock.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-19

Hardly President Wilson cracked his first limerick to his
Of State the floor
MI. President young friends tell
Daniels made of the
Navy" There and Mr. Bryan had give the
Daniels another
editorial down n Raleigh somebody
copied said ID The Big Stick the
of craft "some of you
polishing up
the handle Of the big front become the
-
Sec S alleged atmosphere The Big
Hall perfect development good
surgeons had nhaling
for a few minutes.
May shooting inch guns
since he got into berth.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-19
Fashions.

Fashion paper says skirts will be
made to fit tighter this spring.
Must be going to paint them on.
A noted women's tailor proposes
that man and his wife shall here
after dress in the same material.
But which one is to choose the
material is what bothes me.
ROBERT PLUYM.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-19
: The Dudes Progress.

Green lids. yellow shoes. chamois
gloves. bamboo canes, and now the
very latest scream is the Bulgarian
necktie. With some uching in bis
collar and Nell Rose piping on his
vest and cuffs. man would BE-
thing Of beauty. and q JOY for
ever. No wonder US poor wimmen
are wearing question marks on our
hats
GEN. RosALIE JONES.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-19
EVERY SATURDAY.
Our Motto llyou see it in Ihs Big
Stick. it ism necessarily so.
There's a Silver Lining,
&c,

We are in a retrospective mood.
and while in that blissful mentality
our editorial mind is making OBJ
servations on the pleasant days and
evenings we enjoyed while attend
ing the annual congress Of the d.
A. Rs, not As Q delegate or MEM
Der, If you please las We arc q
mere mani, but as representative
of The Big Stick. We confess,
and do so with dutiful alacrity.
that for ready wit, sparkling re-
partee, brilliancy Of intellect.
splendid tact, unmatched states
manship, uneIcelled diplomacy. and
profound knowledge Of practical
politics, the Daughters (capitd d.
put it all over the Chicago Reps.
and Bull Moosers and Baltic
Dems not to mention the dem
onstration of the Marching Sis
terhood on the Sd Of March, Of
archaeological memory. Nor
was that all
All that is earthly Of Jacques
Worth, NJ. Pacquin. Baron de
Fouquieres, and other propagan-
dists of Paris styles and fashions.
may now retire from the fashion
field in ignominy, for the D. A.
RS know more about gowning.
dressing, and millinering than the
best Of 'em, whether they're from
gay Paree or from Mrs Anthony's
home town. Muncie. Ind, on the
map.
Why. even we were staggered,
and we gasped as we were permit
ted to look at the beauty show
which presented itself to our eye,
scattered all over the floor Of the
house, in the lobby, in the library,
in the museum, in the dining-room,
in the boudoirs and studios, offices,
and other hooks and crannies OF
the big marble palace.
One more word and we're done.
Mai. Sylvester fully indorses our
views, and wishes to add that he
commends the d. A. RS for
emitting from their annual pro-
gramme a hike up Pa. Ave. to the
Capitol and back to the Treasury
for . dance and tableau on the
Treas'y steps.
This observation Is heartily con-
Cured In By william NJ. Conrad,
Henry P. Holden. Jack Davidge,
John Fenwick, Fred Owen. and
others.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-19
WIRELESS ACT EFFECTIVE.
Secretary of Commerce RedAeld
ISsBes Statement.

bsues Ssateeht'
A statement, issued by Secretary Of
Commerce Redfeld, shows that during
the four months of the effectiveness Of
the act to regulate radio communication
the Bureau of Navigation has issued 3,4G7
licenses to wireless operators, and sta
tons in the United States OF these. LIS
were issued to amateurs
The Bureau of Standards has designed
special testing instruments to measure
wave length and to reduce interference
by determining courses of waves. The
report says that forty-six ship stations
and eighteen coast stations have been
licensed and progress in wireless COM
munication at sea is being made. Wire
less apparatus aboard passenger steam
ers has been inspected before 1,500 sail
ings during the past four months.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-19
A Blessing.

Jimmy Weir says that one thing
he likes abcnt his present boarding
house Is that his room is 50 large
he can sit on the floor to put ON
his shoes without humping his
knees against the bed post.