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Fergus County Democrat., 1915-10-21
AMERICA FIRST.

The president Of the United States spoke with the voice Of
nation of 95OO0OOO people when he said his address the
daughters OF the American Revolutions Il look forward the
necessity political agitation the years which mme
aey at hand OF calling upon every declare himself where
ne stands Is America first, or it noa | believe
that the glory OF America that she great spiritual conception
This the spirit that animated Abraham Lincoln when he stood
the field Of Gettysburg and said Fourscoe and seven years
fathers brought forth upon this continent new nation
conceived IN liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all
created equal Now engaged great civil testing
whether that nation Or nation conceived and dedicated
can long endure
These words of President Lincoln were uttered when the United
States alone the nations Of the world by The
words of President Wilson uttered hour when the United
States alone of the great nations Of the world peace with all
mankind But the and the Both Abraham
Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson spoke moved by overpowering
conviction that the United States of America custodian of an
ideal to mankind and that the guarding of that ideal the
first and supreme duty Of every true American Lincoln saw the
ideal for which America stands endangered by home; Wilson
sees mpeled by world war which America alone among the
worlds great powers preserves udlmmed Both fe with all
the deep devotion statesman who lives for the larger
OF humanity and makes decisions of the slow working
OF the purposes of Almighty God through the Of men, that the
ideal inheritance of this nation its ches treasure that beside
nothing else consweat military power the
lives OF the states choicest young Lincoln so years ago.
as Wilson sees today that the question of all questions the politics
OF the hour the question Of the relation of the individual
to the American IDEAL
America first. Not-thank God-in the miitaristc sense
We desire not put foot the neck of subject peoples or
humble our enemies IN the dust before US.
We chant no Of hate We send hostile fleet devas
ShoIes we oief sacrifice to MoloCh the
sack OF villages and the killing of young men before the
mouth America to the American mind stands for liberty for
equality OF opportunity for by the consent of the
erned for freedom of speech of education of aemblage of
ship What foreign nations and foreign kings and emperors
us' We guard the altar reared to the American IDEAL
Our fathers God to thee
Author of liberty
10 thee sing.
Long may land be bright
With Freedoms holy light
Protect by Thy might
Great God our King!
Fergus County Democrat., 1915-10-21

Robert Burns covered the a.64O
miles between San Francisco and
New York in eighty days, which is
thlrty-two days less than it took Ed
Mafd Payson Weston, thereby estab-
iishihg new worlds record for
long distance walking. He has start.
ed on his return trip and he expects
10 be IN San Francisco in January.
ana later in the month back in Eur.
eka, Cal.
some public spirited citizens of
eureka thought it a good ADVERTISE
ment for Eureka to have one of her
sons attempting such feat, so thew
toid burns he would be given $500 if
ne got back before next January.
he is also allowed $1.5O a day for his
meals and lodging.
Fergus County Democrat., 1915-10-21
COMPANY BUILDING LARGE
GARAGE FILES ARTICLES

The Northwestern Investment com
pany, which is erecting the big gar
age on Broadway back of the Bright
hotel, has filed articles of incOrpOra-
ton. The company is capitalized for
$4,000, the directors being G. NJ.
Stone, w. ]. Johnson, David Hilger,
3. E. Stack and William H. Fergus
Fergus County Democrat., 1915-10-21
EXHIBITS BIG POTATOES.

The Big Bear saloon has placed on
exhibit large potato, three pounds
in weight and eleven inches in length,
raised by A. E. Crawford in the Cat
Creek basin. Good sized samples of
Northwestern and Yellow Dent corn
are also on exhibition, showing the
productiveness Of the land in that vi
Cinity.
Fergus County Democrat., 1915-10-21
WAS ALL A MISTAKE

A sum OF money was missed at a
residence in the city Friday under
circumstances leading to suspicion
that it might have been taken by a
person in the house and this led to an
official investigation. 1t appears tina,
the money had only been mislaid. be
ing discovered later, thus terminating
an incident that caused some unpleas
antness all around
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08
Paintings That Last.

One Of the great problems that pre-
sents itself to the modern painter is to
keep his canvas from cracking when it
nges. Many of tn: most priced of the
old masterpieces have been marred be
cause their creators did not understand
the art of insuring them against time
and weathering. A careful investiga-
ton of those that have come down in
tact shows that in some cases the
sheet of paint is remarkably thin, so
thin, iced, that the texture of the
canvas can &c clearly seen through the
face of the picture. Further expert
menting shows that the life of n pic
turn is inVersc,y proportional to the
thiClLes5 I. is cO.o- laye2S. Canvas
cor 'HGcts with moisture and cold, and
paLIt generally is affected i'll the same
way. If the paint layer is too thick II
gives way, and the cracking is the re-
suit All Uf the old paintings that have
col4c 10 us uncldcHed are painted very
Thu. lis was tle method of such
early l.,oe-""f @ Ven Del. Raphael
AMI his pupi!s.-,tlanta Constitution.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08
A Glimpse of Lisbon.

Lisbon leaves the definite impression
Of a gay, bright capital, II not Of
truly beautiful city. Beautiful 1t GER
tainly is by nature, seated on its lofty
bills overlooking the Tagus and inter-
spersed everywhere with semitropic
gardens and largos, but its newer
houses are too rectangular, too lack
ing in imagination, to make anything
but rather msnotonous streets. Even
the Praca do Commerce., though laid
out upon truly magnificent scale,
fails to arouse enthusiasm.
This is the city's aspect to the casual
visitor who devotes but day or two to
its sights But to one who is willing to
give it a week or more it holds many
attractions.
The seeker for the picturesque will
delight in the water front in the morn
ing hours and in the fisher fOlk-the
men in black bag caps and knee
breeches; the women, barefoot, setting
out with basket on head to trot the
city streets. These fishwives are the
most picturesque of the Lisbon types,
and most of them are really beautiful,
the fine Ovals of their faces, their
smooth compilations and lustrous, al
mond shaped eyes recalling the Maui
resques and clearly bespeaking their
oriental origin. Ernest Peixotto in
Scribner's
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08
Garlic,

Garlic Is one of the most wholesome
herbs that can be eaten.
1t stimulates all secretions, and its
effect is strong upon the liver and kid
neys.
A teaspoonful of garlic juice and sug-
ar will generally ward off an oncoming
cold.
Garlic eaters have good skins, for
garlic is excellent in treating eruptions
Of all sorts.
Those races that use much garlic in
their food are those that are least sus-
ceptible to tuberculosis. Many doctors
in Europe treat tuberculosis with gar
lie. giving it internally in the form Of a
strip. externally in the form Of poul-
tees or making their patients inhale
an infusion.
The essential principle of garlic, that
which acts upon the system, is allyl
sulphide. This also causes the charac-
teristic and TO many persons disagree
able smell.-New York World.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08
Locust Eaters,

While the locust Is essentially a
plant devourer and famine breeder,
says the Christian Herald, there are
many we'll authenticated cases in his
tory showing that populations reduced
to the last extremity have utilized the
destructive insect as food Diodorus
Siculus relates that an Ethiopian tribe
was known as AcrdOphagi C'eaters Of
locusts'), while Aristotle writes of a
certain part of Greece where the peo-
pie regarded them as delicacies. Lay
ard, the explorer, found ON the en-
graved monuments pictures of dried
and preserved lOcusts on rods, presum-
ably indicating their use as food. 1t is
not believed that any race today eats
them. They are regarded everywhere
in the east as an abhOrrent calamity
and the presence of vast swarms in
Palestine is held to be forerunner of
complete crop failure, both of fruits
and cereals.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08
HAnAHts Of MaAer

In the New York Medical Record DR..
8. A. Knopf OF New York advocates
liberal use of water In the prevention
and cure of tuberculosis. He advances
plea for public baths for old and
young and also for swimming pools in
connection with the schools. He holds
that a glass of clear, cool water taken
half an hour before meals is the best
appetizer and stimulant for the gastric
secretions and that this is a gospel to
be spread and practiced a little more
freely by the medical profession. He
says: 1.-THE money a municipality in
vests in public baths, floating baths,
seaside baths and swimming pools will
give splendid returns in the saving Of
lives, directly and indirectly-indirect
ly, by making people clean physically
and morally, by preventing disease
through the cultivation of cleanliness
and by making the people more vigor-
Gus and thus resistant to the invasion
of disease; directly, by teaching every
future citizen, man or woman, how to
swim and to save his life in the event
of accident"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08
Sickness In Metals.

Metals, like human beings, suffer a
condition which may be termed dds
ease" Morbid changes, so to speak
occur in the pieces of metal once IN
awhile, and frequently these conditions
are beyond control. Scientists are at a
loss to explain exactly what 1t is that
causes a perfectly sound appearing
piece OF metal to change its structural
strength when not under apparent
pres sure or acton of either mechanical,
physical or chemical character. Def
ciencies in metal are often overcome
by getting a happy medium between
sufficient pressure to cause the metal
to flow uniformly and pressure not
so great that it will cause complete
rupture. But these are mechanical
changes. The other changes might be
called pathological. The illness of a
piece of metal often continues progress
sively and ends seriously.-New York
World.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08

Presumably the walrus and the car
penter never did settle the discussion
as to whether pigs had wings, and
there are persons who seriously think
it was foolish theme for an argu-
ment.
And yet is it any stranger than the
undisputed fact that in Morocco pigs
climb trees in search of nuts-not
only pigs, but goats too? The puzzle
Is not in the pigs and the goats, how
ever. They are of the common variety
that we see in the back lots in our own
communities. 1t is the tree that Is
strange. 1t is called the argan nut
tree and grows near Agadir. Usual
ly it shoots out from a steep hillside.
The trunk is broad and fiat and almost
horizontal, and so are the main branch
es forming ample and solid foOthold
for any animal which may be tempted
by the olive shaped nuts growing with
in easy reach of the main branches
New York Sun.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08
Strindberq and Mauic,

Georges Brandes, writing In Vanity
Fair about August Strindberg. declares
that the famous Swedish writer's be-
lief M magic was deep rooted and cites
the following conversation in proof.
Strindberg once said to Brandes:
You have an enemy. A newspaper
enemy. / want to do something for
you. Let me kill your enemy"
YOU'RE very kind. But l should pre-
fer not"
But no one would know about it"
so all criminals think. Besides
don't you feel it would be rather I'M
Just to kill a man on account of an un.
Kind newspaper article?"
"Well, let's not kill him. Wen sim.
ply blind him"
Il still have my doubts. However,
how would you go about it,"
IF you will give me the mans pho.
tograph l will, with my magic, blind
him by driving a needle through his
eyes"
In that case you could easily de-
pIlNe LIE Oh my eyeSlSnt, too, II you
wishedY
Hardly. 1t must be done with ha-
tired"
Granted. But if man who hates
me tears my picture into pieces will
fall to the ground in bleeding bits?"
This remark seemed to put him out,
and he did not answer me.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08
Verdi and His Admirer.

Verdi was once travelling in the same
railway carriage with General Tour
non. They got into conversation,
which soon turned on the subject of
music, and the general, who did not
know his companion, expressed en-
thusiastic preference for that of Italy
81 can hardly go 50 far with YOU"
replied the other. For me, art has
no frontiers and l give German music
the preference over Italian"
Indeed, sir" said the general testi-
Iy. For my part, l would give all
the German operas in the world for
one act of 'Rigoletto,' "
you really must excuse me from
following you any further on this
ground" replied the composer, blush
ing a little. 81 am Verdi"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08
Judged by Appearances.

In Twenty Years of My Life" Doug
las Sladen recalls a story told at the
Authors club long ago by Sir j. NJ.
Barrie against himself and in broad
Doric:
81 expect it was just a ben trovato,
but it was none the less amusing He
apologized for being late. He had
been to the wrong club. He had never
been to the Authors club before, he
said Though he was a member of the
committee, so he asked a policeman
the way. From the way in which he
pronounced the word the policeman
thought he meant ArthurS, which was
quite near the Authors club when it
was in it's temporary premises. in Park
place. When he got there he found it
a very grand place, he said. The club
porter looked him up and down and
said, The servants entrance is round
the corner"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08
Mouths on the Bias.

"Of course it's nice to have a beau
tiful vo.ca. but IN sad don't sing"
said a pretty woman as she appauded
after the soprano solo at Broadway
restaurant. Yes, I'm fond of music,
but that is sufficient. If I could be
tempted to sing, what would happen
to my good looks? | think 1t is not
silly for woman to wish to look well
all the time. A woman never looks
pretty or beautiful when she sings.
She invariably twists her mouth to one
side and makes her face appear crook
ed. l have keenly observed the last
ten singers l have heard, and every
one of them opened her mouth ON
bias. haven't the slightest idea why
they do it unless the muscles of one
side of the face are stronger than the
other. There is something disturbing
about a pretty woman deliberately
making herself fright by stretching
her mouth in song."-New York Letter
in Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08
The "Basin" of an Apple.

One end of the apple bears the name
of basin and contains the remnants
of the blossom, sometimes called the
eye of the fruit. This part of the APP
pie is deep in some varieties and shall
low and open in others. This is the
weakest point in the whole apple as
concerns the question of the keeping
quality of the fruit. If the basin is
shallow and the canal to the core firm.
ly closed there is much less likelihood
Of the fruit decaying than when it is
deep, and the evident opening connects
the center of the fruit with the sur
face
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08
The Dinner Horn.

Details i'll regard to the manner in
which meals We're served during the
dark ages do not abound. 1t is only
toward the twelfth century that we
begin to have "A little light on this in
tCresting subject. When a meal was
ready in the thirteenth century the
guests of castle, with the vassals,
were assembled to the sound of horn,
a method Of summoning that appears
to have been the privilege only of the
greatest lords. Some hundreds of years
later a bell was used for the purpose.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08


He looked, l thought, the prophet.
His clothes loose and careless, for
comfort, now show; the shaggy, I'M
kempt gray thatch of hair the long
head, the bony, almost feshless face
Of one who has tasted and suffered;
the tyrannOus overhanging cliff fore
head; the firm, heavy mouth and out
thrust challenging chin-the face of a
fighter; force everywhere, brains and
will dominant; strength redeemed by
the deepset eyes, most human, beauti-
full; by turns piercing, luminous, ten
der, cleaning; pathetic, too, for the
lights were usually yelled In brooding
sadness, broken oftenest by look of
dumb despair and regret; a strong
sad face, the saddest face | ever studi
ed-all petrifed, so to speak, in tear
less misery as of one who had come
to wreck by his own fault and was
tortured by remorse-the worm that
dieth not.-From Contemporary Por
traits" by Frank Harris.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08
The Historical BIuebeard.

Bluebeard was a historical parsonage
whose name was Giles de Retz. He
was nicknamed "Barbe Bleue," from
having a beard of a blue black shade
Persuaded by an Italian alchemist that
his strength could be restored by bath
ing in the blood of infants, he had
many children entrapped for this
hideOus purpose into his castle of
Chamtoce, on the Loire, the ruins of
which are still to he seen. At last the
horrible suspicious of the country folk
as to what was going on were proved,
and the monster was burned at the
stake at Nantes in 1440.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08
The r-on<ev's Trek,

The culatcr OF the Now York 700
was praiSing the hDc,,,-en T. ri mon
keys.
a Philadelphia man." he said, was
hulIyiuG out powcIton avenue one aft
ernoon when all of a sudden an organ
grinders little monkey dropped dead.
The poor grinders grief WaS pitiful.
The PhiIadelphiau. touched, gave him
a half dollar ana FASTENED away. An
hour later, returning through Market
street, he saw the same organ grinder,
and Just as he passed the monkey again
dropped dead, and the grinders grief
was even more pitiful than before. The
Philadelphian gave a loud laugh. The
grinder, recognizing him, also laughed,
but made no motion to return the half
dollar"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08
The Mattress,

Some one has been hunting up the
history of the mattress. Its beginning
was the collection of rags, husks or
reeds which were bound together and
thrown anywhere to form a resting
place for the kinds and serfs Of the
rich. 1t is suggested that their names
of shakedown and makeshift were de-
rived originally from the Arabic word
"matrah.' In the middle ages feather
beds found favor with the wealthy
and the mattress was not used by
them. Inventories of estates owned
by the American cOlonists show that
mattresses were then worth 5000 each,
being made of hair. In England mat
tresses Of rabbits hair were once used,
and vegetable fibers of various kinds
have served their turn.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08
The First Telegraph Line.

After the formal opening of the first
telegraph line built for commercial
purposes between Washington and Bal
timOre Professor Morse and his asso-
ciates offered to sell the invention to the
United States government for 100000,
but the price was considered too high.
The government had appropriated $780,
600 toward the construction of the
Washington-B Baltimore line, but after a
short period of operation the postmas-
ter general, to whom President Polk
had referred the matter, wrote, al
though the invention is an agent vastly
superior to any other devised by the
genius of man, yet the opera ton De
tween Washington and Balti115Tg has
not satisfied me that under any rate of
postage that can be adopted its reve-
nues can be made to cover its expendi-
lures"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08
Americas First Lighthouse,

The first lighthouse built on this con-
tlnent was at st. Augustine, Fla. Its
chief use was as lookout, whence the
Spanish people of the town could see
vessels approaching from Spain or get
notice of the coming of foes in time to
run away. The tower attracted the at
tention of Francis Drake as he was
sailing along the coast with his fleet
of high popped ships on his way home
from pillaging the cities of the Spanish
main, so he stopped long enough to
loot the town and destroy what he
could not take away.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08
The Sound of Shrapnel.

Have you ever heard shrapnel by any
chance? No? Well, it sounds as much
as anything else like a winter gale
bowling through the branches of pine
tree. 1t is a moan, groan, a shrek
and a wall rolled into one, and when
the explosion comes it sounds as
though some one had touched off a
stick of dynamite under a grand piano,
and it is not particularly cheering to
know that the ones you hear do not
harm you and that it is the ones you
do not have time to hear that send
you to the cemetery.-E. Alexander
Powell in Scribners.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08

While Halley's comet has been iden-
titled as member Of our system for
over 1000 years, certain characteriS-
tics of its orbit lead Us to believe that
It has been with us at least ten or
a hundred times as long as that.
According to all accounts, it was a
magnificent object at the time of the
Norman conquest in 1866. Its head
was equal to the full moon in size.
and its tail increased to a wonderful
ength.-Century.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08
Sunshine and Air.

Sun bathing and outdoor life are the
best means for making red blood,
writes DR.. ]. II. Kellogg in Good Health.
When one goes out into the sun the
skin gets tanned u brown color. This
influence of sunlight is not seen simply
upon the surface of the skin. The col
oring matter is formed and developed
deeper in. The suns rays strike down
in and penetrate perhaps for an inoh or
two into the soft tissues, so that the
influence of the sun is felt on the inte-
rior of the body as well as on the out
side.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08
Perfumes In Ancient DAYS.

Old as the history of the world itself
Is that of the queen of flowers. The
ancient Greeks and Romans reveled in
roses. They were used lavishly ut their
feasts. In the time of the republic the
people had their cups Of Falernian
wine swimming with blooms, and the
Spartan soldiers after the battle of
Cirrha refused to drink any wine that
was not perfumed with roses, while at
the regatta of Baiac the whole surface
of the Lucrine lake was strewn with
flowers
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08
Tho Color of the Eve,

The color of the iris is not uniform
in any eye. Some eyes have spots,
others stripes, still others blotches of
white, green blue, yellow and black,
and the eye takes its color from the
predominance of one hue. An eye
that is considered gray will often be
composed Of black and yellow. An
eye that is thought to be brown will
be very dark red with spots of yellow
or blue.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-10-08
Brief is sorrow, and endless is joy
Schiller
Acquitted.
said the young woman, with

"Sir!" said the young woman, with
what seemed to be indignation.
The young man looked embarrassed.
Eyes, I did kiss you" he admitted,
"but was impulsively insane"
"That means that man would be a
lunatic to kiss me?"
well, any man Of discretion would
be just crazy to kiss you"
This seemed to end the strain, and,
no jury being present to muddle af-
fairs, a satisfactory verdict was
reached.