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Mrs. Middleton Barnwell and her sister,
Miss Zayde L.ighthall of Buffalo, N. Y,
are guests for few days of Mr.. and
Mrs. r. A. Terrell and the Misses Ter
rell.
Miss Lucy Lyman Howell went to An
niston this week to take part in the pre-
liminary festivities incident to Miss Mary
Weatherly's wedding. She is a guest at
Miss Weatherlys house party and will
not return home until Saturday.
Judge James l.. Webb OF Shelby, N. c.,
Is the guest of his brother, Mr.. George
M Webb, and Mrs. Webb at Mountain
Terrace
Miss Florence Hodges plans to leave
in few days for an eastern trip. She will
witness the Harvard-Princeton game and
will be the guest of a friend in New York.
Miss Edith Bowron expects to go to ST.
Louis in few days to visit friends
Mrs. ]. r. Collins of Galleon, Ala, is
the guest of Mrs. E. III. r. Floyd.
Mrs. Lethe Gregory of Livingston, who
has spent the last weekend visiting Miss
Ciarista Alice Painter has returned home
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05
Mrs. T. NJ. Mcclellan Hostess At
Tea For Bride And Bride-elect

Mr. and Mrs A Terrell and Miss Terrell Entertain Honor
of Miss McDavid and Mr. Smith-Nrs. E. C. Grow Gives
Large Bridge Party For Miss Ellen Linn Motion.
Other Entertainments For November
Brides Announcement
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05
Do You Consider the Woman Who
NeUer Talks An Irritating Person?
BY DOLLY pAIRYMPLE


on peg top skirt? Now what do you
think of that, and she is 60 If she's a
day., and at least IS times grand
mother"
You don't say said Anne's mother
quite Interested, for Mrs. Perkins is one
of her best friends-although they are
such entirely different types.
Now, I've told you all l can think
Of said Anne, as she arises to go to
her room. IF you want to know any
thing else, you'll have to ask questions
while | get ready for bed, for / am so
tired, and my feet hurt so in these new
satin slippers that | can't scarcely iye!s
My dear, I'm afraid you've tired your
self out" said her fond mother
"Oh, no. l don't mind getting tired
having fun" she replied in her young,
sweet girlish way, and with that leads
off the procession to her room-for they
are all following in her wake, eager to
hear more about the party.
Questions are propounded to her like a
rapid fire gun, and she answers each
of them with an enthusiasm and in a
spirit of fun that is delciously refresh
ing and amusing.
"And did they play Too Much Mus
tard, and who did you dance WITH
asks Dorothy.
And did the orchestra play Beautiful
Lady?' You know that's my favorlte,f
Big Brother Tom calls out as he passes
Anne's door whistling his favorite tune.
What joy Anne is to her family, to be
sure
Everywhere she goes, it's always The
same thing, and she never seems to tire
of telling over and over, about the diff
ferent parties and the people and the
dancers and the refreshments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-05

N. B.-Wrlte tos Ladies' Advisory
Dept, Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chat
anooga, Tenn, for Special Instructions,
and 61-page book, Home Treatment for
Women" sent in plain wrapper. on re-
quest.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-11
WELL PAID FOR IMAGINATION
Mind Produce Results That
Should Satisfy.

What's in a name? A mere 800 II
you are employed by a company to
christen its sleeping cars. Some one
has TO think OF suitable names for
cars-Blauvelt. Silver Lake. Eutoria,
and so on.
When sleeping cars first came into
vogue most any old name answered
the purpose. Then the spirit of ro-
nance entered the business and 1t be-
came necessary to engage some one
with a propensity for thinking up I'M
usual names.
The company employs man to do
nothing else but name the product Of
its factories. II he can do it no other
way he can cut up an alphabet and fit
letters together until something I'M
usual forms. For every name that is
adopted this man gets 800. so you can
imagine how much money has been
spent for names since the sleeper
came into general use.
No two cars bear the same name.
Every car is registered under it's name
and with the number far up into the
thousands it is not surprising that,
even at 500 per, inspirations come
few and far between.
When car is wrecked beyond re-
pair its successor can take its name,
but in this case only is a name re-
peated.
Why names for sleeping cars?
For Identification purposes, first, and
for appearances, second. No other rea-
sons.
Every large city is represented by
one sleeping car now on the road
Chicago Tribune.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-11
HAS A VAST RESPONSIBILITY
Locomotive Engineer is Called
On to Endure.

Dean R. Wood, who runs one Of the
flying through trains, was recently
asked at a public hearing what his
running time was between Syracuse
and Albany, N. Y:
1.-TWO hours and forty-two minutes.
That's 148 miles in 1862 minutes. We
are allowed to make up twelve min
utes for lost time, which we might
drop. We can only go through SYRIA
cuse at eight miles an hour, and there
are nine other slow-downs, so that we
have to run about seventy to seventy
five miles an hour to get in on time.
In 148 miles we meet ISL stop-signals,
which l must locate in all kinds OF
weather, and If any Of them are out
of order | report the number of the
signal when we get in"
Imagine the dangers and RESPONSE
bilities which this man meets in fair
or foul weather. in snow, in rain, in
billiards, In fogs, throughout the year.
His vision must be geared for star
light, for moonlight or for black dark
ness or driving storm to locate, as he
dashes by those ISL signals in 14S
miles. the loss of any one of which
might mean death in the ditch
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hundred and eighty dollars from this
source. The fifty hens ought to pro-
duce what eggs and poultry the farmer
needs and furnish fifty dollars worth
of material for sale. Adding these
sums together gives us one thousand
three hundred and five dollars as a
possible income from such system Of
farming.
From this income all the expenses
of running the farm and of the family
living must be paid; but with half an
acre of garden, an acre and a half OF
orchard, and with all the potatoes,
cabbage and onions the family can
consume, with hogs for meat, and
with the eggs and poultry the family
living ought not to cost more than
two or three hundred dollars for things
bought
The city man must not get the idea
that he can start in system of this
kind without experience and make
success o. it from the start. 1t will
mean lot of very hard work, hard
living and hard study for two or three
years, and Of these three things study
is the most important. On the other
hand, the man who thoroughly under
stands his business can increase the
income here estimated very materially.
One other very important consider
alton in connection with a farm of
this kind: 1t is assumed that it is
near enough to town or city to per-
NIT the farmer when he is carrying
his potatoes, cabbage and onions to
market, to bring back with him on
each trip load of manure for use on
the farm
Where this can be done such farm
could be made highly fertile. The
places to put manure in such a sys-
tenn would be just after the potatoes,
just before either of the corn crops,
aRd in the fall of the year manure
could be put on the clover field which
was used for pasture during the sum-
mer This field should then be plowed
late in the fall in preparation for po-
tatoes the next year.
Copyright, 1913. by C. NJ. Shultz.)
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-11
Old German Station Given Up.

The Oldest German railroad station
is the Dresden railroad station at
Leipzig. Recently it was used for the
last time. The morning express for
Dresden, the last train to leave the
station, was gaily decorated in celebra-
ton of the occasion. The point is one
Of some consequence for travellers, as
Leipzig, one of the three or four most
important traffic centers in Europe,
was hitherto probably the worst served
city in the matter of railway stations
in the whole Of Europe. The disap-
pearance of the Dresden station. bow
ever, marks the ultimate completion of
the unification of the whole of the
railway service of the city beneath the
roof of the new Central station, which
now claims to be the largest station in
Europe. The defunct Dresden station,
on the line from Dresden to Leipzig,
was built between 1886 and 1889.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-11
Giant Fossil Bird.

While conducting an expedition in
Wyoming and New Mexico in the in
terests of the American Museum Of
Natural History. Walter Granger, a
noted fossil hunter, recently discov-
cred in the Wasatch formation parts
Of the skeleton of monster bird
which roamed through that region
millions of years ago. according to
scientists 1t is known as the -diatry-
ma having been described by Profess
sor cope in 1876.
Mr. Granger says that unquestion-
ably his find is the largest specimen
ever found in North America. and 1t Is
the first example of the kind in the
possession of the Museum of Natural
History. At first he thought it was a
dinosaur. The fragments were found
imbedded in hard shale.
Scientists say that the great bird
thrived in Patagonia during the CO.
Gene period of the tertiary era.
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date and his corps of private speakers
rode an day coach to kinder balance
the thing
Engines are peculiar things an I
guess 326 didn't like the Gubernatorial
candidates political notions or else
she got tired of listenin' to his ha-
rangue, for the second day out at the
first stop we'd no sooner drawn up at
little hamlet and the candidate tax.
en- his stand on the back platform,
openin' up with: Friends an fellow
citizens, the time has come for us to
assert ourselves and throw off this I'M
bearable yoke with which the boss
ridden party of our opponents has en-
comprised our ranks when p-z-z-t,
326 began to blow off steam with all
the exuberance of young an healthy
safety valve. In those days they
hadn't patented the new pop-valves
that blow off with the soft pedal, and
when an engine let off steam it was
with no soto voce. If | wanted to say
anything to my fireman when 1926 was
takin' the pressure off the boiler the
best way for me to do it would be to
send him a telegram from the near
est station.
1T was impossible for the political
candidate to make himself heard while
this steam was exhaustin', an she
kept it up till accordin' to our itin-
erary it was time for us to be off, An
would you believe it, that tarnal To-
connective just cut up that way at ev-
cry station. couldn't shut off the
top valve or change it so it wouldn't
blow off, as didn't want to take
chance of goin' to the locomotive hap
py huntin grounds with the 1876, as
would have happened if she got too
much steam pressure on her boiler.
An the schedule wouldn't permit of
our losin' time enough to cut the en-
CINE off an run her down the track
till the spellbinder got through.
"Natchully, the candidate got good
and mad. All of the speeches he'd
prepared went for nothin He made
kick to the railroad about the in
suit he had been handed by one Of
its locomotives. The complaint made
the master mechanic sore an he in
terview me about the boisterous To-
comitive. After hearin the particu-
lars, he says to me:
well, II that dinged fool engine
don't know when she's got a snap,
totin' aroun' political party, why
we'll just about give her somethin' to
do where she won't have chance to
blow off steam. I'll just put her down
the branch with the work train. That's
what I'll do to her."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-11
STRANGE FACTS
ABOUT FLOWERS
Every Single Plant Has Some Pc
culiarity-Some of Them
Can Be Seen.

Violets open at three or four g. M,
closing about eleven or twelve; some
wild roses about four and five a. m;
night shade, about six in the morning;
buttercups and lilies are open by
seven a. m. Early openers close at
noon. Among others. the evening
moth flowers open about six p. m.
Cactus grandifiora begins opening at
nine or ten in the evening, closing at
midnight. The majority of flowers,
however. are open from nine in the
morning until six in the evening.
Wheat flowers last only about fif-
teen or twenty minutes-just long
enough for their pollen to be carried
by the passing wind-then their day
is past. The hibiscus and calandrinia
remain open for only three or four
hours; but foxgloves last six days and
some orchids from thirty to eighty
days.
Every single flower we look at has
some little popularity of it's own. Some
of them we can see, but not under
stand, even by thorough examination.
There are orchids which throw their
insect visitors into shower bath of
water. SO they have to get out, by rea-
son of their wet wings, up a certain
path, where they touch the pollen
masses and stigma. There are other
orchids which throw the pollen masses
at the insect
The yucca is lily-lihe plant, resem-
bling the aloe, and particular sort
of moth lives wholly upon it.
When the flower opens, this moth
proceeds to knead up ball of pollen
and inside places an egg, then thrusts
the ball down into the ovary of the
flower
There a grub develops from the egg
and eats the pollen, and some of the
pollen fertilizes the young seed. If
yuccas died out the moth would be ex-
terminated, and If the moths were de.
stroyed no yuccas would ever set their
seed.
Copyright, 1913, by C. M. Shultz)
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-11
Use Love and Patience.

A great deal of time and unlimited
patience are needed il we would make
of our children anything approximate
ing the ideal we have in mind. Few
mothers are willing to exercise that
patience; many think they cannot
spare the time, and SO they resort
to whipping as the easiest and
quickest way to accomplish their pur.
pose. No greater mistake than this
can be made. We mothers forget that
we are training immortal souls for
eternity, and the few hours of time
taken from our other tasks can very
we'll be spared for so stupendous ar
undertaking. 1t is refreshing to find
mothers fully alive to these RESPONSE
bilities, and their methods will be a
help to others who are struggling
along the same path. -McCalrs Maya
zina
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-11

By w. ]. SPILLMAN. Chief OF United
States Bureau OF Farm Management
Near the larger cities it would prob
ably be better to grow some of the
more perishable truck crops and to
keep one horse for marketing pur-
poses, but in most country places the
system as outlined here would be more
satisfactory and would require only
two horses.
In addition to four cows and two
horses the owner of such farm could
keep one or two brood sows and fifty
hens
Assuming that the farmer under
stands his business and is on a soil
and in a region adapted to the type
of farming here outlined, it ought to
be possible on such farm to secure
an income somewhat as follows The
five acres of potatoes ought to pro-
duce five hundred bushels at least, and
If the man is a good potato grower
the field can be made to average more
than two hundred bushels.
One ought to average at least fifty
cents bushel for the potatoes. This
would make $3.50 for this field. The
three acres of cabbage ought to pro-
duce $500, and the two acres of
onions ought to produce $500. The
onions require a good deal more work
than the other crops, hence, the
smaller acreage Of them. After the
farm Is started the farmer must be
guided by his experience, and it
might prove wise to put the entile
five acres in onions, provided labor is
available.
If the four cows kept are good ones
and the farmer is not justified in
keeping any other kind-one of them
ought to furnish dairy produce for the
family, and the other three, If prop
erly managed, ought to produce sew
enty-five dollars worth Of dairy prod
ucts apiece year, making two hun
dred and twenty-five dollars income
from the dairy.
1t ought to be possible to produce
twelve pigs to sell at an average price
of fifteen dollars each, making one
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doctors and none of them could do more
than relieve me for time.
"Y saw your advertisement in pa
per and decided to try Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. / took
seven boxes of it and used two bottles
of the Sanative Wash, and l am COM
pletely cured of my trouble. When I
began taking the Compound l only
weighed ninety-six pounds and now I
weigh one hundred and twenty-six
pounds. If anyone wishes to address
me in person I will cheerfulty answer
all letters, as I cannot speak too highly
of the Pinkham remedies. Miss JEs-
SIZE MARSH, Adrian, Texas.
Hundreds of such letters expressing
gratitude for the good Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has accom-
plished are constantly being received,
proving the reliability of this grand old
remedy. e
All our testimonials are guaranteed
genuine and truthful. The original of each
came to US entirely unsolicited. They arc
sincere expressions of gratitude for actual
benefits received from the medicine.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-11
POISONS FOUND
IN SOME PLANTS
Bundles of 0xaIate Crystals Are
Offensive to Rabbits and
SnaiIS.
(Ry MYRLE IRONS.l

The part played by the powerful
chemical substances secreted In the
various parts of many plants Is i'm
perfectly understood. Free prussic
acid in some plants was the remark
able discovery made not long ago,
and now Professor Peche has con-
cluded that in the cherry laurel this
poison is stored in various tissues as
a reserve plant food. Other German
biologists have been seeking to prove
that various plant poisons give pro-
lection against enemies. Results
have been obtained by Prof. w. Pey-
er tending to show that the various
acids, oils, alkaloids, glucosides, and
other chemicals Of plants are poison
Gus or offensive to rabbits, snails,
insects. and other creatures. In the
pastures the plants yielding medicinal
oils are avoided by both grazing and
wild animals The acid bearing plants
such as are used for human food as
salads, are poisonous to snails and
slugs and are protected nearly as
effectually against rabbits. Beans.
peas and lentils contain some I'M
known poison that causes rabbits and
mice to refuse the seeds until the
active principle has been removed by
several washings. An acid product of
Seeding roots-such as maize, oats
and rye-repels snails, as do hairy
stalks and sticky surfaces, and plants
30 1of, To- IN
crystals are offensive or poisonous not
only to rabbits and snails but even to
man
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-11
LARGEST Steamer for Australia.

The White Star liner Ceramic has
been launched at Belfast. The steam
err measures CTS feet in length. with
beam of SO feet, and has tonnage
of 10000 There are accommodations
for 600 passengers. all of one class,
and a crew of 500. The vessel has
- bulkheads and eight steel decks.
The appointments on board include a
gymnasium. This steamer is the
largest yet built for the Australian
trade. In order to meet the require
ments of the new liner, the Sydney
harbor trust commissioners have
widened the berth by 20 feet and
deepened it to 81 feet, so that the
Ceramic will be able to load to its
full depth of "a feet inches.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-11
"Down Brakes"

In newspaper accounts Of railroad
collisions one frequently encounters
this statement:
"On seeing the danger, the engineer
whistled down brakes and reversed
the lever"
AS a matter of fact, the expression
down brakes" has been obsolete for
a long time. What the engineer real
ly does when collision seems i'm
pending is to shut off steam, apply the
air-brake, and open the sand valves.
All this takes about five seconds, and
in that time all that human effort is
able to accomplish for the train and
passengers may be done. Railway en-
gineers are instructed never to re-
verse the engine after the air-brake
has been applied, because the reversal
reduces the resisting power of the
brakes.-Harper's Weekly.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-11
CANADA WINS AGAIN
THE COLORADO SILVER TROPHY
FOR OATS WON A SECOND
TIME BY CANADA.

The most recent achievement of
Canada's West is winning for the sec
ond time the magnificent $500 silver
trophy awarded by the State OF Colo
RADIO for the best peck OF oats. At
Columbus, Ohio, in 1911, ]. c. Hill G
Sons of Lloydminster, Saskatchewan,
placed a peck of oats grown on their
farm in competition, with oats from
every part of the world. The judges
had no difficulty in deciding, and the
award was given to the Saskatchewan
grown oats. In 1912, the Corn Expo.
sition had no exhibition, and our Ca
madam friends, although ready for
second contest had no opportunity.
In 1913, the exhibition of the Society
was held at Columbus, S. c., and it is
said of it that it was one of the best
yet held. At this exhibition, which
comprised corn and all the smaller
grains, Hill &c Sons of Lloydminster
had on exhibition for the contest an.
other peck Of oats grown on their
Saskatchewan farm, in 1919. There
was no trouble for the judges, no time
necessarily lost in reaching a decision,
Hill & Sons won, and for the second
time their name will appear on the
crest of the cup. The third space will
doubtless be occupied by their name,
and then this splendid trophy will be
theirs.
During the past few years Western
Canada grains-wheat, oats, barley and
fax-have been in competition with
grains from all other countries, and in
every case their superiority has been
shown. 1t is not only in oats, but 1t
is in wheat, in barley and in fax, that
Canada more than holds its own, when
placed side by side with grains from
other parts.
Mixed farming is taking a strong
hold not only in those parts of Mani.
toba, Saskatchewan and Alberta,
which up to the present have been de-
voted solely to grain growing, but also
In the districts contiguous, where the
conditions Of climate, shelter, water,
grass and hay make farming of this
hluu, easy W prosecute anu large IN
profits. 1t was in the Province of
Manitoba that the steer was raised
that carried off the Championship of
the steer class, at Chicago last De-
cember. This beast had been fattened
on the grass and hay Of the Province
and the only finishing grain it had was
barley; not an ounce Of corn.
Western Canada presents innumer-
able opportunities for the big farmer
who wants to cultivate his thousands
of acres, the medium man satisfied
with a few hundred acres, the man
who is content to farm his free home
stead of one hundred and sixty acres;
it has opportunities for the investor,
the capitalist, the business man, the
manufacturer and the laborer.
Agents of the Canadian Government
located at different points in the Unit.
ed States will be pleased on applica-
ton, to give any desired information.
free of Observation-Disclosures.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-11
InoDortant Industry.

Few people realize how many thou
sands of people are engaged in the
raising of pigeons, both for the market
and the show room. 1t is an impor-
tant branch of the poultry industry,
and is becoming more and more popu-
lar each year
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1913-04-11
Sustained the Judue.

The courts of Mississippi had the
case of judge who told petit jury
when 1t was impaneled that he intend
ed to make the term of court bust
ness term and also intended to make
the court self-sustaining. The case of
Butler VS.. State was appealed because
of error by the court in lecturing the
Jury. on the ground that he advised
the jury to convict those charged with
crime in order to raise revenue for
the county. The supreme court holds
that although the judge exceeded his
power, his statements did not justify
q reveiral Of the judgment.