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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28
HOME IN THE ENGINE CAB
messengers" in Charge Of New Lo-
eomotives Have Lonely Life
for Few Weeks.

Long before the engine driver takes
charge Of new locomotive and starts
II on its first run, another man occu-
pies the cab and makes it his home.
often for weeks at a time. This man
Is the messenger sent out by the
manufacturer to look after the locomo-
tive and see that 1t is delivered in
good condition to the purchasing rail-
road at the point specified in the con-
Tract. After a locomotive is finished
1t is first given a trial run by the
maker, and If this proves satisfactory
the machine is stripped" which
means simply that the driving rods
and some of the other moving parts
are removed and stored in the tender,
and the engine is then ready for ship
ment. Often it has to be hauled for
hundreds of miles over other roads
before it reaches the purchasing road,
and on this, its first trip, it goes as
freight in a slow freight train, on it's
own wheels but not under its own
power. With the bearings all new,
bliCiS do COHSlduJ udlS6T that IHcy W III
run hot and it is the principal duty
of the messenger to watch out for this
danger and prevent it, but there are
many other troubles that may develop
and the messenger must be on watch
every minute his charge is moving.
The cab is boarded up, provided with
a door, and is equipped with small
cook stove, table and bunk Here the
messenger cooks and eats his meals,
and sleeps when he has a chance. Pro-
visions are carried in the tender It
takes a new locomotive about eight
cen days to get from Philadelphia to
Kansas City and As days to get to
California, much of this time being
taken up by delays at division points
where the locomotive must be taken
from one train and placed in another.
One messenger usually looks after two
locomotives when more than one are
shipped in the same train.-Popular
Mechanics.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28
GOVERNMENT TO OWN ROADS
Consider Scheme FarReaching
In Its Effects.

The movement for naturalization
of British railroads has taken definite
shape in a bill which will shortly be
laid before parliament.
1t proposes to set up a ministry
for posts and railroads, the minister
to have an official salary of $4,000
per annnum. The minister would abb
sorb the powers, duties and property
vested in the postmaster general,
whose office would be abolished.
Power is to be given to the min
lister to purchase any railroad on Civ
ing three months notice Of such in
tention. The purchase price is fixed
at 20 times the average annual profits,
as determined by the board Of trade in
its annual return during the three
years preceding such purchase.
The purchase price is to be paid in
state railroad stock, guaranteed at
81 per cent. The stock is to be re-
deemable at par by annual drawings,
commencing three months after issue,
by means Of sinking fund sufficient
to redeem the entire loan within sixty
three years.
Provision is made for a railroad
board, to consist, in the first instance,
of two members appointed by the min
lister and one each by the board of
trade and the treasury. The board Is
to hold office for five years. There is
also to be an unpaid council, whose
members are to be elected for three
year terms. 1t would consider and ad-
wise upon all questions of general i'm
provements, reductions or increases of
rates and fares, wages, the creation
and amendment of bylaws and regula-
tons
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28
FEW WRECKS IN INDIA
RAILROADS MADE REMARKABLE
RECORD DURING 1918.
Only Three Passengers Met Death,
From Causes Which Were Beyond
the Control of the Managers
of the Lines.

The Indian railroads carried some
thing over 4OO,OOO,OOO passengers in
the year 1913, considering which their
record of but three passengers killed
from causes beyond their own control
is very remarkable. This figures out
at less than 0.01 per million pGsseB-
gers carried, an average of one in,
5000, 100000 miles travelled. The real
ly serious wrecks in all the history of
Indian railroading may be numbered
on ones fingers, and it is a remark
able fact that most of these have been
due to natural causes rather than neg
licence. One of the worst troubles to
guard against in India is from the eT-
pansion of the rails due to the intense
heat. This is, of course, as elsewhere,
allowed for in construction, but it is
not always practicable to leave a suf-
ficient interval between the rails. The
accompanying photograph shows what
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28
BLOSSOMS ALONG THE LINE
English Railroad Encourages Its EN-
poyes to Cultivate Gardens and
the Men Are Enthusiastic.

Flower gardens, from Whitechapel
to Walham Green, on the District rail-
road, will shortly burst into blossom
wherever there is a space open to the
air and sun, reports the London Daily
News. At the ends of platforms, out
side the mouths of tunnels, in sidings,
under signal boxes, on every available
inch of space along the line where the
sun can penetrate, the District railroad
servants, from inspectors to plate-lay-
ers, have cultivated among them be-
tween eighty and a hundred little
flower gardens, for the best among
which the directors are this year offer
ing $185 in prizes, 1--WE encourage
these railroad track gardens" said Mr..
w. E. Blake, superintendent of the
line, because we want to cultivate
tidiness among our men and make~our
line as attractive to passengers as pos
sible. Each amateur gardener is given
$1.25 and the necessary mold, with the
stipulation that he grows flowers only
and no vegetables, as the idea of the
gardens is purely decorative. Some of
the gardens thrive amidst most I'M
promising surroundings. There is a
brilliant little flower garden at White
chapel, another at Aldgate, while sew
eral well-tended plots provide pleas
ant spot Of color at the Mansion House
station. Between the ends of the plat
forms and the mouths of the tunnels
at South Kensington, there is a most
ambitious example of landscape gar
dening. The gardens are inspected at
the end of July, when the directors
spend six hours in a tour of inspection
in special train"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28

"Metchnikoff, the Metchnikoff of
sour milk fame, is soon to celebrate in
Paris" said Paris correspondent on
furlough in New York, his SEVENTEEN
birthday.
Since his sixtieth birthday, when he
began his sour-milk regime, Metchni-
koff has not aged. On the contrary, he
has become rejuvenated.
ITO the committee that has in
charge the splendid honors of his
birthday celebration Metchnikoff gave
some advice on the benefits of frugal
eating-the benefits of taking no alco-
hol, very little meat and an abundance
of we'll cooked green vegetables. And
he ended his lecture with this crystal
of wisdom:
"'Good eating makes more pessi-
mists than bad luck"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28
Goes on the Honor Roll,

Dennis J. Cassin, seventy years old
inscribe his name on the roll of fame
has been an engineer of the New
York Central railroad for so years
and has never had an accident. He is
about to retire because he is eligible
and because, as he puts it, he would
not give up his throttle to be a motor
man for $1,000 a week on an electric
road. Be sure, also, that it was not
an accident that Cassin spent so years
of his career as an engineer without
an accident. Write it down also that
his work was not supervised by an eff
ficiency expert.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28
ECZEMA BLOTCHES lTCHED

SO Gooding ST., Pawtucket, R. l.
my face broke out in eczema blotches
which itched severely. They were
deep red and could not keep from
scratching it at night. 1t seemed as
If would scratch my face to pieces
and they itched so at night l could
hardly sleep. l tried different creams
and ointments but instead Of get
ting better it seemed worse. After
a month l used Cuticura Soap and
Ointment. The itching was so much
relieved that l kept on and after two
weeks the trouble was gone" (Signed)
Miss Ellen S. Whitaker, Jan. 81, 1914.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston."-Adv.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28

instance. Cancer is on a steady IN
crease and no man has yet been able
to demonstrate the cause; but when
the cause is located it will, undoubted-
ly. prove to be closely related to some
slight form of starvation. as is our
other scourge-tuberculos
The future field of medicine lies
along the lines not of determining how
many organs may be removed from
mankind without immediate destruc.
ton of life. not in discovering the par.
ticular remedy required to overcome
the distress resulting from some dis.
eased condition, but in determining
and teaching men so to live that they
may prevent the lowered resistance
that makes them subject to disease
how to maintain normal resistance to
disease.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28
Well Meant.

On one occasion when the king and
queen Of Great Britain visited togeth-
er very elaborate preparations were
made for their reception.
The city was lavishly decorated and
one enterprising tradesman, desiring
to display his loyalty, has the words,
Heaven bless them BOTH" outlined in
paper flowers across the front Of his
shop. Unfortunately he forgot to re-
move a large business sign that was
just above.
The result read:
Ham and beef sandwiches"
Heaven bless them both!"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28
WOULD MAKE A POLITICIAN
Little wlllIe's Capacity for Sticking to
One Idea sinsularly Like Way
of Rabid Partisan.

"The late Adlai E. Stevenson" said
a Republican leader OF Bloomington,
hadn't. after all, much use for poll
tics. He once explained to me why
this was.
He said that party politicians be-
lieved their side to be always right,
and the other side to be always wrong.
Whatever the other side advocated, 1t
was horrible and Internal; whatever
their own side advocated was holy.
He said the partisan couldn't I'M
derstand that you might arrive at the
right thing by more ways than one
and thus the partisan was like the ur-
chin whose teacher said:
Willie, what does six plus four
make?
Eleven
mo. Try again
Twelve
"'No.'
Thirteen
No, no, no. You're Just guessing.
But why couldn't you have guessed
that six plus four makes ten?'
Because it don't make ten,' said
Willie. Five and five makes ten I
remember that"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28

Moisture and the diastase cause the
catalyzers to work and digest or de-
compose the -four 1t is in just this
difference between the contents of the
whole wheat berry and the -four from
which the staff of life" is made that
undoubtedly will be found the key to
much of our trouble. 1t is admitted
that neurasthenia-"Am as
it is jokingly called by the rest of the
worlds due to some type of NAL
nutrition" meaning, in plain English,
starvation-a lack of balance betvee
the energy expended and that devel-
oped. How much of this is due to our
devitalized food? Hunt reports in bull
letin 50, hygienic laboratory, United
States treasury department: In ex-
treme cases mice after having been
fed upon certain diets recovered from
forty times the dose of acetonitrile
fatal to mice kept on other diets. 1t
Is, moreover, possible to alter the re-
sistance of these animals at will. and
to overcome the effects of one diet by
combining it with another"-the point
he was working to establish being that
unnatural diets lower resistance and
restoring the diet balance raises re-
sistance.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28
Scrap Material Gathered Uu.

According to the Railway Gazette,
an American railroad recently sent a
train over its system to collect scrap
material and odds and ends of every
kind, the train carrying a divisional
superintendent and his staff Scrap
and obsolete material were collected
to the amount of lat carloads, valued
at $4,000, and after deducting the
cost of labor, train expenses, etc.,
there was a net gain of $4,000. AS
showing the conditions, - bottles of
ink were found at small station
where one bottle would suffice for a
year, and at another point so non
insulated bride rods were found at a
station on territory which was track
circuited throughout. Useless at such
points these materials were service
able elsewhere.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28
Like the w. X. Collar Button.

81 had been chosen as best man at
my pals wedding and had to hand
the wedding ring to the minister, who
in turn was to place it on the brides
finger" writes a correspondent OF the
Chicago Tribune. "On the eventful
day when it was time for me to per.
form my part of the ceremony, I
fumbled the ring and it never stopped
until it had rolled under the benches.
There was nothing else for me to do
but get down and crawl under the
seats for that elusive circle, much to
the amusement e the spectators and
TO my great embarrassment"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28
PAPER Shows Broken Rails.

Joseph H. Gardside of Philadelphia
has patented device which attaches
strips of paper to railroad rails
throughout their lengths. These strips
will be broken by passing train If
he rail be detective and thus plainly
Indicate to the track-walker the de-
,ects In the rail
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28
copyright. 1914. by A. S. Cray
WHEAT FLOUR.

OF the protein substances used for
food none is of more Importance than
those contained in wheat Next to
rice. it is today the most largely used
grain.
The wheat berry is fruit and not
seed. The actual wheat seed is the
germ or embryo, a kidney-shaped body
which is found at the base of the ber-
ry and connected with the root
through the placenta, which is in eff
feet cord joining the berry with its
stalk. Botanists distinguish six skins
on the wheat berry-epicarp, meso-
carp, endocarp, episperm, tegmen and
periapern.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28
Let's Be Charitable.

The inventor of the first player pi-
ano is dead at eighty-flve. Peace to his
ashes. Let US forgive him. He never
knew what his device would do to
nervous folk in our noise-ridden Amer
lean cities.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28
Amazing Case.

rs there anything special in the
caseH" asked the reporter Of the bank
president whose cashier had stolen
SIT.
YES" unused the president, you
may say that we did not trust him
implicitly"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28
Distortion of Rails Caused by Intense
Heat-This often Results in Serious
Train Wrecks.

may happen in such a case. In this
instance the trouble was discovered
IN time to prevent disaster-Popular
Electricity.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28

The patent roller process brushes
the berry in such manner as to chip
off the woody skins and fiatten the
germ. Thus their removal by me-
chanical means is made easily posi-
BILE. In this way Is removed from the
doury starch granules the bulk Of the
mineral matter and the digestive fer
ments. This makes a better keeping
-four and gives clear, white bread and
cakes of fine SEIZURE, very attractive
to the eye. Patent process sflour is
graded as follows: First patent, Sec
ond patent, first clear or straight, Sec
ond clear and red dog. Ordinary or
straight -four" Is the third; the fifth
is chiefly used in the arts and for feed
ing animals The rest of the wheat
berry constitutes several grades of
bran and shorts. The United States
department of agriculture standard"
permits not less than 8.5 per cent pro-
tein, or four per cent ash, and not
more than 1876 per cent moisture.
The two per cent of mineral salts
IN wheat makes the ash" While the
mineral contents of whole wheat are
two per cent, the mineral contents Of
fine white -four are about one-half of
one per cent. The more thoroughly
the mineral matter and the digestive
elements are eliminated from flour,
the whittier bread it makes and the
better the flour keeps under all con-
ditions of climate,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28
More Eads-

Silas-What's your son studying at
college?7
Hiram-Pharmacy.
Silas-Some new-fangled farming,
ehf-Judge.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28

The average woman can do anything
with hairpin except sharpen a pen
cdl-and she can do that with her
teeth
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28
INERT FOOD.

Life in the furnace giving out life
conserving heat into the house means
that something has to be contih
uously dying" in the furnace. For
to maintain that heat some form
Of potential energy has got to be
continuously released in the furnace,
and this is achieved by digesting, or
decomposing, or in plain English, by
burning coal or some other form of
carbon in the firebox. Whether it be
in your furnace or in your own body,
in the wheat plant or in the single.
celled amoeba, life is a continuous
process of dying.
All organic life exists in a state Of
continuous decomposition and rebuild
ing, perpetual state of mutation.
What is true of the fire is equally
true of ourselves, the principles being
identical. AS soon as decomposition
ceases, reconstruction ceases; as soon
as we cease dying, we cease living,
Life in man, plant, amoeba or the fur.
mace is merely vibration, an individ
ual transformation of potential ener
gy that varies only in degree.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28

Fame never blows her trumpet for
man who is too lazy to raise the
wind.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28

Not From the Burns Collection.
Where did golf originate, Sandy"
1T wass furrst spoken in Scotia,
lad. "-Philadelph Public Ledger.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28

It's fortunate thing for some men
that they never married.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28

BY painting a white border about
the green target on switches, the Penn
sylvania railroad is promoting the
safety-first movement, as the target is
much more readily seen against the
background of trees and bushes when
painted in this manner. The red target
is not changed, as it is easily seen
without the addition of border
Popular Mechanics.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28

Wrapped up and thoroughly sealed
within these many skins lies the
foury kernel, the endosperm, in init
mate contact with the inner skin. The
epdosperm consists of starch gran.
ules held in a network of minute fibers
of gluten. This glutinous portion is
of great Importance to tie baker, be-
cause on its quantity and quality de-
ponds the strength" or raising power
of the -four
The placenta serves to filter the
food which the plant sucks up from
the ground. First the mineral and
gluten skeleton is formed and then
the berry fattens by extracting out OF
the air under action of sunlight the
carbon necessary to build up the
starches and sugar. A good deal of
the matter filtered by the placenta is
mineral in nature and such portions
as are not digested remain in the
crease. A grain of wheat is CON-
posed approximately as follows: Wa
ter, IL per cent; protein, 19 per cent;
fat, two per cent; carbohydrates, II
per cent; mineral salts, two per cent.
These mineral salts consist of potas-
SUM, sodium, calcium, magnesium,
iron, phosphorus, sulphur, silicon,
chlorine, iodine and manganese.
Until recent years the whole berry
was broken up and triturated in one
operation, and the flour necessarily
contained large proportion of branny
particles, in which cerealin, an active
digestive constituent, was present in
very sensible proportions. Unless the
wheat was thoroughly matured and
dry it was difficult to produce good
keeping -four.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28

Bore Eyes, GrAnulated Eyelids and Sites
promptly healed with Roman Eye Bal
ham- Adv.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28

Bradford, England, is to have an
electrical exposition in October.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28

We do not know much about diges-
ton; we do not know much about the
cause of many diseases--cancer, for
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28
The Drawback.

'T see where the women abroad are
offering to fight at the front, but
women will never make soldiers
And why not?"
For one thing, each one would stop
in hot engagement to powder her
nose"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-28

1t Is no more possible for us to
maintain our bodies in health without
generous supply of these inorganic
elements than 1t would be for us to
keep a gasoline engine running for an
indefinite period of years by merely
feeding 1t gasoline. Common sense
tells us that the engine must be taken
to the shop every so often and the
worn parts renewed If we are to Sc
cure continuous action or any sort OF
efficiency from the oil consumed.
All organic life rests on one funda-
mental and vital fact, which Is that
the seed bearing plants have, with
few known exceptions, the exclu.
sive power of absorbing energy di.
rect from the inorganic under the
stimulus Of sunlight. In the action OF
chlorophyl (the green coloring matter
of plant life analogous to the red col.
oring matter in human blood in sun.
light undoubtedly lies the key to the
mystery of life. But with the sublime
assurance of ignorance we step In and
deliberately break this cycle of life
by discarding elements that offend our
color sense or that interfere with our
business.
If, for instance, wheat flour will not
keep, we remove the bran, the woody
matter and the mineral salts, together
with a portion of the protein matter
and the germ; 1t makes a much whittier
and lighter bread, anyway, and the
experts tell us that 1t is more digesti.
BILE, too; and besides, the "insoluble
by-products" make fine food for stock.
Cattle, chickens and other forms of
life grow fat and sleek on a diet to
which these waste by-products" are
added
Evidently these waste products"
have a very profound influence on the
metabolism of the lower forms of life,
but it is argued that that has nothing
to do with man. We are still hitched
to the idea that man is thing apart
from all the rest of creation and that
IL anything becomes the matter with
his machine it is because an evil spirit
gets in and he must pour some vile
tasting combination down his throat
to drive the evil thing out. Meantime
the fact that some fifteen millions Of
our nineteen-odd million children en-.
rolled in the schools are shown to be
more or less physically defective from
insufficient building material supplied
in their food, and the fact that we are
experiencing a constantly increasing
economic loss through the premature
death of our matured lives, do not ap
pear to be so important to us as that
we shall have nice white foods tina,
will keep